Dinner on the patio

A perfect ending to a beautiful day. Our weather here this Columbus Day weekend has been just great. Clear skies, highs in the 70's, upper 40s at night. This dinner included grilled steak, pesto on pasta and tomatoes with fresh mozarella cheese and basil. I also continued my quest to find the perfect garden vege to dress-up a martini. Tonight's version had a very hot sweet banana pepper wrapped around a cocktail onion. I highly recommend it! Marinating the hot pepper in gin must have cooled it off because it didn't seem too hot at all - just right. (Or maybe it was more the gin numbing my taste buds... whatever....)