Every year, May through September, Roanoke is enlivened by a season of festivals and one of the most delicious occurs the weekend after Memorial Day, the Lebanese Festival. This year Ryan and I went with our friends Martin and Mollie, and since they like food as much as we do it made our pigging out seem less pathetic.
We chowed down on traditional fare like kafta, spinach rolls, tabouleh, falafel, and hummus. Add a heap of homemade pita and you've got the picture. After dinner we picked up some dessert, and headed out to the patio to enjoy a beautiful sunset.
Ryan and I split a piece of walnut baklawa, while Mollie and Martin had Lebanese cheesecake and a roasted pistachio roll. We ended up running into other friends and talked for a long while before leaving with full bellies and a happy memories fully in place. big kiss, bekuh
