{"id":439,"date":"2008-06-20T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/surprise\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:16:17","slug":"surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a wonderful surprise to happen on something that pops out at you.<\/p>\n

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We just moved into this new office, and in a fit of lunchtime hunger, I went foraging along the street for somewhere to eat. I had always overlooked the next door Mediterranean Tapas bar (WHY!!??), but finally decided to dip a toe in.<\/div>\n
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The food was decent — I can’t remember what I had, which tells you something — but I loved the oil\/vinegar that was served with the bread. The bread was unremarkable as well, but the balsamic was a reduction, served with olive oil and pesto.<\/div>\n

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The vinegar had cast off its acidic bite for a deeper kind of love. It was almost syrupy, and in perfect synergy with the pesto oil. I am now back at work fantasizing about reducing my balsamic in a pan, throwing some pesto in my oil, and making a night of it.<\/div>\n

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