Tuesdays are official

Tuesdays on 15 Buenos Aires will never be the same again, we have made it official that every Tuesday we will cook dinner, drink wine, invite friends over and talk all night. This started two Tuesdays ago when I decided to make dinner for them. The boys had a momentary moment of enlightment and realized that Tuesdays would be perfect because A) we are all home B)It's a good way to start the week and C) the cleaning lady comes on Wednesdays so after eating like Kings and Queens we can leave the dishes! Life really doesn't get better than this folks. And so every Tuesday we will gather at the table and one of the roomies will have to cook. Each week it is someone else's turn and each week the other roommates bring dessert, wine, whatever else might add to the dinner.

This week's menu consisted of a variety of cheeses, fresh figs, walnuts, fruit, a four cheese tortellini with almonds made by Jordi, along with bacon wrapped-melted swiss cheese, fresh bread, semi sweet white wine and a bottle of dry red wine. We ended dinner with a cocktail known as Agua de Valencia, a yummy concotion of orange juice, champagne, and Martini blanco with a dash of sugar. YUM!And this is living folks. I have managed to bring the Sunday night dinner traditions from San Francisco to Tuesday nights in Barcelona and I love it. We not only cook together but we have begun to unfold our stories and ourselves, getting to know each other more and more and building a comfortable home. We've even added a new plant, a new life to our little house. All I can say is that it is comforting to know that you can still find amazing people with the same hopes as mine, to make a home out of a house and to enjoy good food with the pleasure of sharing. The question is, how will we keep our shapely figures with all this decadence?