Unusual meal last night at the Riverside, RI home of gifted daughter Lesley R. and her brilliant, extraordinary husband, Massimo R. Meal consisted of two dishes: soup and pizza. The soup was a riff on Marcella Hazan’s classic chickpea soup (get the recipe online). Creative BSK made some modifications and it is so good that SJ serves it at his (and wife Maiko’s) Freeman Shokudo izakaya restaurant in Tokyo. Lesley added cannellini to the chickpea mix and the addition gave the soup a creamy, velvety texture. A treat on a rainy night. The other dish was pizza from Flatbread Pizzeria. Crisp, flavorful pizza. We ate the pizza because the pizzeria was doing a charity night with much of the night’s proceeds going to, in Lesley and Massimo’s opinion, a very worthy cause. HG felt happily philanthropic as he devoured the tasty pizza with many, many glasses of red wine. All for a good cause.
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