Arthur Avenue

This is mushroom risotto as a first course and grilled meat and lettuce as a second.

I sent my husband to the shops on Arthur Avenue today. It's an Italian neighborhood in the Bronx. The food there is authentic and out of this world! Last time I sent him there I said, "I need eggplant." I meant one but he bought a whole big bag. What am I going to do with a whole big bag of eggplants? That's why I give him visual lists now.