the replacement

A long time ago in a land far far away, before scandals of anti-Semitic career-enders and domestic abuse, Mel Gibson was the go-to man for a certain mother I know and love. But Mel fell out of grace a long time ago.

Mumsy references Chef Fabio Viviani so much that maybe he's the new dreamboat... or maybe she just likes clicking on his web show Chow Ciao! because it's property of Yahoo and Mumsy's homepage is Yahoo. Whatever the case, the emergence of Fabio in my mother's life has brought an abundance of even more delicious food, and I don't have to cook!

One delicious dinner:

Chicken piccata with marsala sauce
and Fabio's Italian mac 'n' cheese

I can see why Mumsy loves watching the web show... Fabio is talented, couples delicious food with simple explanations, and always has a funny anecdote or two about being Italian. For instance...

To be honest, I never had this [marsala sauce] in Italy, well not too often, 'cause my grandpa used to drink the marsala needed to make this recipe. So you can't do this when my grandpa's around 'cause he's gonna knock off the marsala.

Click on the chicken piccata link below the photo and skip to 4:20 to hear it yourself.

The accent isn't too heavy and Fabio is quite the looker, too!

"I know you like mac 'n' cheese," says Mumsy. "So I made two pans."

Genius!