friends and wine.

i've just gotten around to posting some pictures from a dinner we had over the week-end with good friends. i made ina garten's cesar salad (minus the pancetta) as well as her lasagna (substituting the sweet italian sausage for portabello mushrooms and spinach) - a completely vegetarian meal with fresh produce from the west side market. we spent the afternoon tidying up and cooking together after getting home from the market where we had coffee and wandered the various stalls ticking of the items on our grocery list. our dinner was filled with fun conversation and lots of red wine. the fire was blazing and the dessert (brought by our guests) was scrumptious!!! what more could you ask for on a saturday night? dinner with friends ranks among my favorite things in life... especially when we're giggling and sipping drinks on a chilly february night. xo