Anthony Lombardi

My beautiful girlfriend Lisa and I are now engaged! As you can see in the picture below, I made a pretty crazy ice cream cake for her and wrote the proposal on top in funny spelling, with the ring in the middle. We jokingly talk like that sometimes. She laughed out loud when she saw it.

The ice cream cake consists of two layers of chocolate cake with ice cream in between. The ice cream between the layers is a layer of coffee ice cream on top of a layer of chocolate ice cream, with a bit of almond buttercrunch toffee in between. I served it with hot fudge sauce, caramel, whipped cream (which is missing from the photo below taken the next day since I ran out of it), and more almond buttercrunch toffee sprinkled around. I’m glad to report it was very tasty. The hot fudge sauce in particular is the best recipe I’ve tried so far. I will certainly be making it again. I made all of the components of the dessert from scratch, and though it took a while it was well worth it.

Earlier in the day we ate our favorite pizza at Giorgio’s in San Jose. We usually get the half Giorgio’s Special and half Johnny’s Favorite. It’s one of the things I eat again and again and always think “just as good as I remember”. Then we came home and watched a movie called Visioneers. We both thought it was good up until the end where of all things that could happen, the main character cheats on his wife! What a great thing to lead into a marriage proposal…haha. We both thought the situation was pretty funny in hindsight.