May 28th

Today was the Great Glebe Garage Sale day. It’s a huge neighbourhood garage sale that goes on for block after block and thousands of people go to score great deals. Dom and I go every year, usually with a general idea of what we’re looking for so we don’t come back with loads of purchases that maybe seemed ridiculously cool at the time and now we look at and wonder what we could possibly have been thinking. On today’s list: gardening stuff like pots and edging, LP’s for Dom and any cool art books for me. We only found one out of the three, so maybe not the most successful year for us, but Dom got some cool Reggae records from a Jamaican guy for 25 cents. It’s always better to re-use someone else’s stuff than to buy it new. Keeping stuff out of landfills feels good. We spent about 4 hours at the sale, strolling up and down and across and back the streets, dodging bikes and cars and people and dogs and by the end we were both so hungry. We were very close to The Table and after our great experience there the other day, we decided to go back. Even more awesome food this time! Everyone MUST try this restaurant. I had a fantastic tofu stew in a yummy gravy. Usually I’m not a huge fan of tofu but this dish made me reconsider. With some steamed local asparagus and another slice of the tomato-olive tart, it was perfect. But then we added to that perfection by getting a gigantic piece of raspberry-chocolate cake. It was so moist and delicious. I’m so happy we found a place where I can eat desserts out since almost all restaurant desserts have eggs or cream cheese or milk in them. This was only my second time eating dessert out this month, the first being the first time we came to eat at The Table. Thank goodness we found this place!

After such a huge lupper (that’s right, lupper) we weren’t very hungry come our usual dinner time. We ended up making a chunky almond-basil pesto to spread on flax seed bread for tiny pesto-cucumber sandwiches. They are the new cream cheese-cucumber sandwiches. They would be perfect for a tea party! We each only ate half and we’ll keep the rest for lunch tomorrow.