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Friday, July 31, 2016.
Impastato Cellars Again?[/title]
I stay home for the day, hoping that we don't get the tropical afternoon rainstorms that have made walking around outside impossible all this week. But the deluge does come. If I can't take my daily walks, my weight adjustment program hits a snag.
The Marys and I go to dinner at Impastato Cellars. Well, it's been a whole nine days since our last visit! The joke is on me: going to that frequent Eat Club venue tonight is my idea. I have in mind the superb crabmeat au gratin they prepared for the dinner last week. It was easy on the cream and cheese, heavy on the crabmeat, and made unique by its inclusion of broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, mushrooms, and some harder-to-identify vegetables. The dish is not on the menu, and the shrimp au gratin is a good deal different. But the chef says he has all the ingredients he needs and , after a salad and a half-order of the nonpareil fettuccine Alfredo, the masterful crabmeat dish is before me. It is exactly as it was last week, down to the tiny details. I guess Joe Impastato has found the chef he has been seeking for his daughter Mica's Madisonville outpost. It's a good thing, too. The dining room is nearly full.
