Food for thought....and a cold

I have been home sick with a cold since Sunday night.  I spent the day with my God children.  Laurel warned me "we have all been sick you know, I haven't left the couch in a week".  "It's cool I said, I'm not worried about it".  I am healthy, I eat right (sometimes), I take vitamins, I excersize regularly and I am happy....not worried about it at all.

Around 8p.m., I feel that hard to swallow, sore, itchy feeling in my throught.  "No way", I thought. Monday morning, yup, I'm sick.

So I have been thinking.  Amongst the madness in my head has been my favorite foods

Papa Lennon's in Meiners Oaks has FANTASTIC pizza!  I love the Margharetia pizza, the house salad, the ceaser salad, the tomatoe, basil, garlic pizza and the peperoni pizza.  They also have one of my favorite wines Opollo.....yum!  Oh if your going to have wine, make sure you have a driver : )

Azu used to make a portabelo mushroom that was out of this world!  They also used to make the best grilled artichoke, it's still there, just not as good.  They have a great candied walnut salad and a decnent Caprese Salad.  They too have one of my favorite wines, I can't remember off the top of my sick head but it's from the Marlborough region of New Zealand.

Farmer and The Cook has EVERYTHING I want!  I could go on forever but I'll just mention the Creamy Feta salad dressing (OH MY GOD) and their Scones are super bomb!

Los Copareles makes the very best Original Margarita on the rocks, a delicious Nector De Los Dioses and they are the only place around that I know of that makes a fresh Chili Relleno with out the egg batter(I don't like the fluffy egg stuff).

Palermo in Ventura makes the best Vanilla Latte 

World Flavor cafe has the most perfectly concocted orange lemonade!!!!!!

Cafe Fiore has a pumpkin squash ravioli that literally makes your eyes close when you taste it!

There are lots more but I'm getting full.