We went to Carmela's for dinner tonight, and I had the meal that I've been craving for three days now.

You start with caprese - tomatoes and fresh mozarella, sprinkled with salt and pepper and olive oil. And you have fresh-baked bread with butter, or with olive oil and parmesan cheese.

And then for dinner, you take some nice mixed greens - not lettuce, mind you, but fancy greens - and top it with tomatoes and cucumbers and sundried tomato bits and olives and red onions and mushrooms (though I got mine with no mushrooms) and pine nuts and soft goat cheese, and you pour balsamic vinagrette on it...

And then for dessert you have a scoop of raspberry sorbet that's been coated with a white chocolate shell...

Ah... My taste buds are in heaven.