Dinner at Mark's

A while back (Feb 28th) Mark called late in the afternoon and in the most excited voice invited us over for a very last minute dinner. This is strange only because Mark is one of the busiest people I know and he is never just wandering around the city at 3 in the afternoon thinking about what to do for dinner. I learned very quickly that this was a special case indeed, for Mark just met Chen (see handsome Israeli boy below) , and he wanted us to be able to meet him before his trip to the states was over.
Mark, who by the way, among other things, specializes in the subtle differences of black shoes, was so kind to share Chen with us for one of his few days here. Not only is Chen an incredibly nice person I was glad I got to meet, but he made us all an entire Israeli meal.
What a spread! My favorite was this tomato and egg dish.
I'm starting to think that the majority of country's have a tomato and egg dish of some sort. One of my favorite Chinese Chinese foods is a dish that's really similar with fried tomatoes and eggs and in Turkey we had hard boiled eggs and fresh tomatoes for breakfast a lot of places. They make for some fine staples, that's for sure.
Anyway, it was a lovely evening, topped off with some of Mark's exotic teas
and Chen doing the dishes for all of us.
Now that's quite a house guest- first making a meal for 8, then cleaning up the dishes when the party was actually kinda in honor of him. :)