A Sweet, Sweet Valentine's Day

 

Thursday, February 14, 2013 – A Sweet, Sweet Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine's Day (photo by Elliott Thompson)

My blood sugar level is probably in the stratosphere after our two-day Valentine’s celebration.  For the first time in our nearly 30-year relationship, we went out to eat for the holiday.  In fact, we got a head start by going out to eat yesterday as well.  Actually, yesterday’s meal was a lunch-a-trois with our friend Millicent at the Tysons Corner Seasons 52.  Elliott ventured into new culinary territory by ordering a buffalo burger and all of us indulged by sampling the mini-desserts.   

Mini-desserts at Seasons 52 - hardly any calories!

 

Since restaurants are usually mobbed on the evening of Valentine’s, I took Elliott out for lunch today at Casa Italia, a new Italian restaurant right here in Fairfax City.  The food was excellent (fried calamari, vegetable lasagna, and veal Francese) and we couldn’t finish our meal without sharing a freshly-filled cannolo – that’s the singular of cannoli.  There’s something so romantic about Italian food.  

A wonderful end to lunch at Casa Italia

 Earlier in the day, I’d stopped by the Dulce’s, the local Peruvian bakery, and picked up some sweet treats to have at home after dinner:  guava and apple turnovers, strawberry empanada, and two alfajores (creamy dulce de leche sandwiched between tender, crumbly cookies).  Yes, it was sugar overload, but it’s only once a year.