Chocolate cake & a Friday night dinner menu

...and a fantastic vintage Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore

Dear reader,

I hope you’ve had a great week wherever you are. My past weeks have been full of MBA classes, group projects, events from birthday parties, to pizza with classmates, restaurant visits and having local Italian guests over for dinner. As the week was so intense and exhausting, it was necessary to dive into life’s simple pleasures: good food, w…