Tomorrow is my birthday. However, I have to go to a wedding so my friend is throwing me a little birthday slumber party tonight. The gals and I are getting together and watching "Magic Mike" a really awful film except for the dance sequences, which I hear are extended on the Blue Ray combo pack. Woohoo! But awful films are a long standing ritual at slumber parties, so I think it will be perfect. Many of my friends had birthdays this month as well, including my hubby. I'm pretty caked out. So instead of the traditional birthday dessert, I've decided to make the butterscotch budino from Mozza. A few years ago I took a boyfriend out for his birthday. Word on the street is that Mozza has the best pizza in LA and so that is where he wanted to go. $12 for parking and a pre-tip bill of $123. Now, I have been known to thrown down some ridiculous money for dinner-- Daniel in New York, the late and great Charlie Trotter's in Chicago, Melisse in Santa Monica--but I will never be able to justify $150 for a night of pretty good pizza. NEVER! I will say though, that the butterscotch budino dessert was divine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/091mrex.html?_r=0
This dish is salty and sweet, creamy and rich. I am not and have never been a chocolate girl. Cathy cartoons confounded me when i was a child. (For her love of chocolate, her clear eating disorder and her insistence on staying with a man who never loved her--but I digress). But anything salty and sweet can have a place at my table anytime.
The girls are in for quite a treat tonight!
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