For all intents and purposes I am now on the four meal a day plan. This plan was not a conscious decision like the five small meal a day plan that is touted by many a starlet, it is more the result of me deluding myself into thinking that I can eat a meal at 5pm and then not eat for the rest of the evening. I have never--except the first 6 years or so of my life which I don't really even remember--eaten dinner regularly before 8pm, so why do I think now that it will be possible? (I will keep this as a rhetorical question because the answer is that I have no willpower and that is not something I like to admit outside of parentheses)
I'll start with my two "dinnners" on Sunday because both places deserve to be mentioned. My first dinner (roughly 6pm) was the special from BALUCHI'S which includes, an appetizer, a main course, and sides of naan, chutney and raita all for roughly $14. The amount of food is a damn good deal and the chicken curry is tender, delicious and plentiful. Mix it with the basmati rice and dip your naan into the sauce and you will feel as though you are eating a home-cooked meal from which should follow some good tv and a nap. Note: Skip the chutney because it looks like marmalade but tastes like gelatin mixed with a mango rind and assaulted with cumin, however, don't shun all sides because the raita isn't bad.
Second dinner (10:30pm) was a Grandma Slice from BLEECKER STREET PIZZA. Their grandma slices, with San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozzerella and spices are surprisingly light and I highly recommend them to anyone in the neighborhood..with the exception of cheesy pizza lovers who may be disappointed by its favoritism of sauce over cheese.
Monday night was a Mets game, so I'll leave the amount of dinners out because who counts vending stand visits as legitimate meals anyway?
Tuesday night: #1 "I'm on a healthkick dinner" (5:30pm) consisted of Luna Bar and fruit #2 "I am watching copious amounts of television and the applebees commercial is making me hungry dinner"(10pm) was flour tortillas with melted cheese and Haagen Daz chocolate sorbet--which, by the way, is rich and excellent.
Tonight I actually did have two dinners out at restaurants which, I hope, will be the climax of the four meal trend. First was a group dinner to FUSHA (6pm) a truly fushion place consisting of Japanese, Chinese and Indian food (with french music playing in the bathroom). I had the Sashimi Salsa (I know, I know..Mexico too?) which was a ceviche of sorts--crabmeat, yellowtail, octopus,shrimp and lots of peppers--which would have been a success had it not been for the overspicy sauce which numbed my tastebuds to the fresh fish, an assumption I am willing to make based on the side order of tuna sashimi which was superb.
The second stop was AOC (on Bleecker) where I tucked into a delicious PMT (prosciutto,mozzerella, tomato and basil--which was cruelly ignored in the acronym) sandwich. In my mind's eye I was envisiong a pannini but my mind's eye is not in charge of the bread supply and therefore the sandwich came on a baguette--a delicious warm on the inside crunchy on the outside baguette-- that sprayed crumbs into my literal eye in retribution for second guessing its supremacy. What I love about AOC is that no butter is spared in the creation of its dishes and this sandwich was no exception. The butter and the basil mingled to make a more lardy version of pesto, which melted into the warm bread and smothered the delectable PMT in the sandwich. The fries there are also top notch, salty, big but not too big--think the size of what Nicole Kidman's pinky looks like-and with the proper ratio of crunchy and a bit soggy. I'm more of a soggy fan myself, but I appreciate the equal opportunism of textures.
Tomorrow is a new day and my heart as well as my waistline believe that it will mark my return to the 3 meal a day plan, let's hope my appetite agrees.
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