Restaurant food goodness

So, Monday my darling husband Eric asked me if I felt up for an "adventure." Now, in Eric-speak, an "adventure" means "I want to take you someplace, but I'm not entirely sure where it is, so we'll probably get lost on the way, but don't worry, I've always managed to get us home! :)", but it is a great way of finding places we wouldn't have found otherwise. So I said sure.

Twenty minutes later, we came upon a little Italian place that looked intriguing, so we decided to stop. Whether or not this was the place he meant to take me has yet to be determined. On the menu, we saw something...interesting.



I was still feeling adventurous, so I figured, why not?

Eric, feeling slightly less adventurous, ordered his standby of chicken parmagiana. First came the salads:


Caesar for him,


garden for me (or, as my mother likes to refer to them, a "weed salad"). Look at all the parmesan! It was beautiful. We also got mozzarella sticks that were devoured too quickly for pictures.

Onto the main course! Eric's chicken parmagiana had marinara on the chicken, and a tomato cream sauce on the pasta:


(by the by, the cheesy garlic bread was FANTASTIC).

Mine didn't look like much on the plate:


but it certainly tasted wonderful! The sweet-tartness of the strawberries were an interesting foil against the garlic cream and the red onions. It's a combination I never would have thought of, but now that I have, it's one I'd love to try again and perhaps replicate in my own kitchen.


For those in the Seattle-ish area, the restaurant was Galliano's Cucina, with two locations - Tukwila and SeaTac. Completely worth getting lost. :) Also, the leftovers reheated very nicely.