Two Guys from Italy

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We try to give restaurants two chances before we say, “never again”.  

But……

Our first visit to Two Guys from Italy–over 10 years ago–was so bad we swore we’d never be back.  I’m not going into all the issues because I try to be positive.  It must have just been a bad moment in the universe because…

NOW I want you to go to Two Guys from Italy.

Two Guys from Italy is a restaurant on US-19 south of Homosassa Springs.  

Recently many of our local friends have been surprised about our past experience.  They keep telling us that it’s really good.

So we took their recommendation seriously. And tried it again.

It was FABULOUS!

Seriously.  Our very favorite Italian restaurant is Papa Joe’s in Brooksville.  But I gotta say, our lunches were equally good.  Maybe better because the price was MUCH lower.

Okay.  Let me tell you about our experience.

As we walked in we could smell fresh bread baking.  Turns out, they make all of their own bread plus bread for many other area restaurants, right there at the on-site bakery. 

We ate in the dining room.  There’s also a bar and an outside deck.  I ordered eggplant parmigiana and Terry had Alfredo Linguine with Chicken. The dinners came with salad and garlic rolls. The rolls were wonderful.  Warm with a melted butter and garlic topping. The salad was a little wilted but came with lots of black olives.  A joy to me since Terry won’t eat the little slimy things, I get doubles!

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My eggplant parmigiana had to be one of the best I have ever had.  Not exaggerating.  It’s one of my favorite dishes and I usually order it at all Italian restaurants.  This was fresh.  And delicious.  And a huge portion.  This was easily enough for two meals.

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Terry loved the Alfredo Linguine with Chicken.  He said the chicken had a different and great flavor.  He cleaned his plate up–no leftovers for him. 

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It took a little longer than a normal lunch time service but everything was made fresh.  Totally delicious and as Terry told our server, “The food was worth the wait!”

Yum.

Oh yeah, and the prices were good! Did I already say that?  

I do think we will be back!

Friday Meanderings

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It’s Friday again!  

Yippee!

Time to party!

Right?

But I want to talk about insects.  In particular, YELLOW FLIES!  

OH MY GOD!

I have never NEVER had so much pain from an insect bite.  

Neither the real estate agents nor Coastal Living mention YELLOW FLIES or NO-SEE-UMS or ZIKA MOSQUITOS. 

Okay, we don’t have zika. (YET!)

But those damn yellow flies are the worst.  They sneak up on me and blood from their bites is flowing before I realize it and the damage is done.  The itching doesn’t start right away.  It takes awhile…..

The very first time I experienced yellow flies, I woke up in the middle of the night after a day working in the yard and was itching like a crazy person. I thought Maggie had fleas.  I was so miserable. I gave Maggie a bath. At 2 am. Poor Maggie.  Poor me.

Now I now what all that itching is about.

Yellow flies.

Fortunately, they are only here for about two months.  But by the time they leave, it’s too freaking hot to go outside!

Yeah, those realtors and life style magazines neglect to tell you about that!

But, 

with all that,

Still love living here in Perfect.

So what’s going on?

The weekend of May 21st, there’s a bunch of parties in Crystal River.  

Raft Race.

Pirate Invasion.

Sounds like fun, fun, fun, fun.

And then the Cobia tournament is on June 11th and 12th at MacRae’s in Old Homosassa.  

This is HUGE fun.  We like to go down and watch the boats head out in the wee hours.  And have a bloody Mary or two while watching.  It’s a tradition!

Oh yeah. Some people actually like to fish on those boats.

Highly over-rated.  Go for the BLOODY MARYS!

And the Old Homosassa Heritage Council will have a tent there.  We will have our new 2016 T-SHIRTS available for a $20 donation.  It will be way cool.

We will also have raffle tickets for a golf outing at Twisted Oaks.  A VERY NICE golf course.

And best of all.

drum roll right here…..

We will have raffle tickets for a GOLF CART!!!!!!

So cool.  Doug and Kim at Homosassa Golf Karts have once again come through with a golf cart for our raffle.  

And now that Old Homosassa is an official Golf Cart Community (Almost like the Villages but totally NOT), you probably really need to buy some raffle tickets.

FIVE BUCKS!

How much fun are we having?

If we could just get rid of those freaking yellow flies.

Have a great weekend!

Kathy