An Excuse for Gluttony
As I sit here, gauze jammed into my left cheek after oral surgery, my thoughts turn to all the solid food that I won’t be eating for the next few days and all the delectable goodies that I consumed over the weekend. This year Valentine’s Day — and my impending trip to the oral surgeon — served as the ideal reason to go out and indulge. The gorging began on Friday the 13th with dinner at the organic, seasonal, artisanal restaurant Telepan. I jumped headlong into the feasting with an appetizer of house-smoked brook trout on a buckwheat-potato blini while Sean sensibly began his meal with a winter salad. For entrees there was polenta souffle with wild mushrooms and corn hominy for me and roasted chicken with chicken liver dumplings and Brussels sprouts for Sean. The best part of any meal, and particularly this meal, was dessert — sticky toffee cake with creme fraiche ice cream and candied cranberries. Wow! Sweets stayed on the menu for Saturday. After a healthful breakfast of yogurt, granola, bananas and berries Sean and I eventually made our way …