Uncle Merlin has many fine and noble qualities but he also has a cruel streak when it comes to food. Way back when, when he was living in Boston working in the restaurant biz and I was way up north at the boondock college I was longing to transfer to Boston from, subsisting on pizza and the little cafeteria food I could choke down, he used to send me menus from the many fine dining establishments in and around the Hub. He told me he did it to encourage me to make the move, but I knew the truth.
People never change. The other day this turned up in my mailbox. My usual dessert these days is a bowl of oatmeal with a drop of maple syrup. He knows that. Probably he’d say he sent this to encourage me to beat the diabetes, but I know the truth.
I don’t know exactly what these are or where they’re from---petit fours? Some place on Newbury Street, I think.---and I don’t want to know. I’m happy with my oatmeal, thank you.
Lance, these can be made sugar free. But they were good just as they are. However no petite four can compare to Lunds-Byerly's in Minneapolis. We must now move to Minnesota- the next destination!!!
Posted by: Uncle Merlin | Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 06:41 AM
No one is really happy with their oatmeal in the face of petit fours.
Posted by: the blonde | Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 09:33 AM