Every year, I get really excited for Gabe's birthday, possibly because I've basically treated him every year since I met him. When he turned 20, I got him a chocolate cake from Jubilee the night he threw a party at Water St, which was on the eve of his birthday. It wasn't even a birthday party. In fact, none of us even knew it was his birthday except for one person who convinced me that it was and that I should buy Gabe a cake. Turned out he was right. When Gabe turned 21, I took him to Sushi Park. I know, so lame and so cheapy cheapy of me, but I just wanted to be low key and figured I'd pay wherever we decided to eat this one night when we hung out a few days before his birthday. The following year, I finally stepped it up and took him to a quality dinner he deserved at Babbo. When he turned 23, we went to Po. 24, I dropped mad money for a gluttonous omakase meal at Sushi Yasuda.
Today, Gabe turns 25, and I'm sad I cannot be in NY to celebrate with him. However, in honor of his birthday, I decided to cook a nice dinner (by Dominica standards) for myself tonight. It's hard to get a lot of ingredients in my area here, so I had to work with what I've got. I meant to buy a couple of veggies at the Shacks today but didn't see any that I wanted to use to make pasta, so I decided to just deal with what I have at home.
I used fully cooked Tyson chicken - the type of chicken that typically comes in cans to make chicken salad, except I bought bagged ones - it's much lighter and more packable than cans. I also used a strip of fully cooked bacon (thank God for fully cooked bacon!), and packaged pesto mix that I just had to mix with water and olive oil over the stove. All these ingredients made a pretty good pasta meal even though no components were made from scratch.
Anyways, I'm happy I cooked a worthy dinner in honor of Gabe's birthday even though we could not spend the day together. The next celebration apart will be Valentine's Day, and I'm even sadder to not be able to spend that day together. In honor of that, I plan on making some amatriciana (the guanciale pasta) - so excited!
HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY, B!
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Pretty helpful information on arranging this birthday party. Couple of months ago, I arranged my best friend’s birthday party at an excellent Chicago event space. Ordered a birthday cake and enjoyed this party with all my friends.
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