Excessively Long and Sinfully Decadent.

Last week's snowstorm postponed a twice yearly tradition: Fancy Birthday dinner with Debbie. Our birthdays are about six months apart, which allows us to indulge ourselves twice a year by dressing up, hauling out the pearls and going out to a restaurant that we'd normally never go to. So far, we've been to the Jamie Kennedy restaurant at the Gardiner ceramics museum, C5 in the ROM crystal, and now Kaiseki Sakura.
We had a five-course tasting menu with different sake-based drinks to compliment the food. Some of the highlights included Tongue in red miso broth, mashed Ginkgo nuts, sweet shrimp with yuzu foam, and whole fresh wasabi root with a sharkskin grater.
The waitress complimented my palate, brought free birthday champagne and strawberry-adzuki cheesecake.
I think it's hilarious that Blogger does not recognize most of the ingredients listed above as words. Titillating sights, scents, and flavours, giddy indulgence and good company made this a wonderful birthday. I'll focus on charity and thriftiness, sensibility and restraint the other 364 days of the year