Our last holiday visitors

We were happy to have Josh and Amy (Bartel) Lingenfelser in town this past Wednesday night before they returned home to North Carolina on Thursday! We enjoyed dinner at Lidia's before returning home to open Christmas presents and relax while watching Top Chef!

We all had Lidia's specialty, the pasta sampler which featured a mushroom ravioli, a pork ragu fettucini, and, pasta putanesca. A bit of trivia--pasta putanesca literally means "harlot's pasta". Some say this dish was originally made by ladies of the night in Italy, and placed in the window to attract customers. Another version is that the name is only descriptive - "it's a rough and ready concoction".