last night i went with susan and jennifer to two amy's for delizioso pizza, and it was everything i'd been promised. yum! we had a margherita pizza with mozzarella di bufalo and a norcia pizza, with mozzarella, roasted peppers and salami. the norcia was especially good - the margherita i liked, but wasn't blown away by it, especially since it was one of three DOC pizzas - denominazione di origine controllata, which is basically a quality assurance for food - and i expected something really amazing. anyway, two amy's is a member of the associazione verace pizza napoletana, which means association of real napolean pizza. so some of their pizzas have been certified and meet all the standards of napoletano pizza making! which is pretty awesome.

we only had the pizza, but i kept staring greedily at other people's tables and noticed that lots of the appetizers and other dishes looked really amazing as well. so i'll definitely be headed back.

post-dinner we went to jennifer's apartment across the street where she served us this delicious dome cake of awesomeness, which was filled with cream and almond slivers and chocolate and looked very pretty. it made me feel nostalgic for cooking, which i haven't really done in a long time. tommy and i used to make good dinners together all the time, but we haven't really in a while, mostly because we're terribly lazy, i suspect. the last thing i baked was some banana bread (which turned out well; however, in the banana bread i had made before that, i totally left out ALL THE SUGAR until it had been in the oven for five minutes and i stirred it in frantically. it did not turn out so great, as you might imagine).

anyway, i think it's ridiculous that i don't cook more, especially when i live in walking distance of two grocery stores (even if one of them is the obnoxious whole foods and the other is the ghetto giant). so, i wanted to beg some recipes off you all. do you have a particularly good lasanga? some butter squash soup? umm..meatloaf? or sites where you can get recipes from? really, anything. part of the reason i don't cook anymore, i think, is that i have nothing interesting to make. so let me mine your little food brains for ideas!

update: oh god. think i will have to make this.

update 2.0: when susan was driving me home last night we saw that they had begun preparations for a huge greek festival at st. sophia (i think?) so i think we should all go there on saturday and eat large quantities of greek food. (apple picking has more or less been decided for sunday.)