jmcquown wrote:
> Bowtie pasta tossed with grilled chicken strips, sundried tomatoes and
> mushrooms (just plain ol' button mushrooms!) in a garlic cream sauce.
> I'm pretty sure I can make this at home for *four* people at that
> price. And since I have to go back to class I can't even have a
> glass of wine with it! Definitely something for me to try at
> home, though. I have sundried tomatoes in the pantry.
>
> Jill

I went to the restaurant for lunch. The pasta was okay but I *know* I can
improve upon it. For one thing, the garlic cream sauce didn't really taste
of garlic; I'd add a LOT of garlic to the sauce. Secondly, the "green
stuff" Chris felt it needed was nothing more than chopped Italian flat-leaf
parsley which really didn't taste very good. I'll try it with freshly
chopped spinach.

Otherwise, it was a pretty decent meal. The soup (in lieu of salad) was a
very nice N.E. style clam chowder. LOTS of clams and I think they used
proscuitto rather than bacon. Oh, and the bread was really good. It's sort
of a rustic looking dense round loaf with herbs in the dough. The server
told me just buy standard dried "Italian herbs" at the grocery store and add
some to your dough.

It was a very large bowl of pasta and of course I didn't eat but a couple of
bites of the bread. When I asked for a to-go box, the server brought a
fresh loaf of the bread to take with me, too. She got a nice tip

Jill