Date Night

Peter has been hounding me to write a blog post since I was the one to start this blog and I have so far written only one post. Here goes...

We try to have a date every week. Friday night we decided to use a gift card for Olive Garden to keep the cost down. We went to the Olive Garden on Brown Deer Road. While we were waiting for 20 min, Peter and I noticed we were definitely a minority in the group. So it was startling when we were seated around all caucasians. It felt like a totally different atmosphere.

I mentioned to Peter that a friend who works at Best Buy as a shopping assistant told me that each shopping assistant is hired to help a specific demographic of women: upper, middle, or lower. Was the same kind of discriminatory selection happening in our restaurant? I said to Peter, "did you notice how we completely felt like the minority when we were waiting to be seated and now......" I paused at this point to let him cautiously look around the room - it was funny to see how much I had opened his eyes. The shock was evident all over his face. There were a total of 3 people who weren't caucasian in the room. Then he said, "I'm totally blogging about this!"

But there was another surprise for me that night - the meal. Honesty I wasn't expecting much from Olive Garden, but I have to say I was blown away by what I ordered. The waitress said it is only going to be on the menu for a month. NOOO! They would be CRAZY to take this off their menu. Lasagna Rollatini with Chicken. I think it is my new all time favorite entree I've had at a restaurant. The sauce was unlike anything I have ever had; it was creamy and cheesy with a slightly smoky edge to it. Wow. So unexpected. The chicken was so tender and the lasagna noodles rolled around the cheese blend were.... all I can say is that it was perfection. Molto buon!

The picture does the flavor no justice