But first I wanted to mention that I took our pup on an hour and a half walk pre-supper, and it still didn’t tire him out. We went to the park to visit all the animals. The male turkey really didn’t like Alfie and had his feathers puffed up SUPER huge, like scary to me huge. It was half funny, half scary. The peacock also made some quirky noises.
I wasn’t planning on making the supper so huge, but it turned out so. I didn’t mind. Supper is my favorite meal of the day.First up, a summer salad in my favorite anthropologie bowls. Consisting of tomatoes, croutons, marble cheese, bacon bits, parmesan cheese, pine nuts, and bell peppers. Ranch dressing on top. I love a good crunch.
I dies for a bit of garlic bread during an outdoor meal like this. Crunch. Yes, we devoured a whole baguette. It was small. From President’s Choice. Devoured none the less.
Since the Boyfriend doesn’t exactly favor corn on the cob, I made some brocc for him. That’s his food on the left. Pay no mind to the butter slathered on my fork. I like my corn butter-soaked. I slapped on some Honey Garlic (or maybe it’s Honey BBQ) Diana Sauce, along with some seasoning from some jar I found in the cupboard. I just grab random ingredients. It usually works out for the most part! If not, we still eat it regardless.
Looks good, doesn’t it? I should pat myself on the back. har har!
Before, and after. Ha ha!!
Just like that, it was done. That’s my plate in the foreground. I never eat the fatty bits that surrounds the meat, never have. It makes me literally want to spit it out if I get it in my mouth by accident. It just gives me the heebie jeebies to chew on jelly-meat-fat. Ehugh…
I made this cheesecake on Sunday night but it had to cool in the fridge, so the first time we dug in was last night after supper — on the balcony! So hot outside lately, loving this weather so much. Recipe from Kraft Canada that I’ll be linking on my recipe page. It was perfect. Not too sour at all, in fact it was just a mild hint of key lime. Just what I wanted.
I finally got a birthday weekend! My boyfriend was away the past two weeks and we didn’t get a chance to go out and celebrate. Saturday night we drove to Burlington and shopped around at Ikea and went out to dinner! I have to ask before I write anymore in this blog post. Is my dress too short for work? Answer honestly! A few people have said it’s okay, but maybe since I’m asking it is too short. What do you think? Not to worry, no hgh supplements were taken to wear this dress.
At Ikea I purchased a few random things for the house but I’m most proud of the bed linens. Ugh, so gorg.
New duvet cover, soft white blanket, and the back pillows — they’re velvety feeling, and so big!
We ended up eating dinner at my co-workers recommendation: The Big Tomato. The restaurant is located in downtown Burlington downstairs of another restaurant called La something or other. The upstairs one looked elegant and fancy.
The atmosphere when you first walked in was very nice and cozy. The music they were playing was definitely a hit with me, since I was humming along to it all. Fats Domino, Ella Fitzerald, Sinatra. All the oldies but goodies in my books!
I wasn’t really feeling like an alquie drink so I stuck to ol’ faithful a diet coke.
Scott got the same. A rare photo of him on my blog. He likes to remain anonymous. Not this time buddy – it’s my BIRTHDAYYYYY!
We glanced at the menu and being a Graphic Designer I notice certain things about fonts. Mainly, how you should never ever use the font Comic Sans as it gets a bad rep for being so ugly, juvy, and unprofessional in the greatest (there’s even a documentary about banning comic sans). Comic Sans was used everywhere. Menu fail on their part. I felt so bad. lol.
I think the same person who designed the menu using comic sans ended up clearly making the dessert menu. Why is New York spelled as just one word? So weird. Not a fan in that sense either.
While the looks of the place was nice, and it was quite empty when we arrived at 9pm, we couldn’t help but think that it’d get quite loud if we were there at an early / normal supper hour. The acoustics were lacking as we could very clearly hear the other customers talking and we felt as if we had to whisper.
It seems as though I’m making fun of the restaurant quite a bit. But it made up for it with the food, and the service that we received. I thought the mini pizza cutters on the table were a nice little touch that you don’t really see at every Italian place.
I ended up ordering a two course dinner where you chose a salad and a pizza or whatever else was on that red block on the menu shown above. I chose the pizza, and got some hot pepperonis on one side for Scott. Burn the mouth right off yass they would.
Chomp chomp, I took a few bites out of the pizza before I remembered to take a photo. Scott got a pasta. It was tasty. I have to say the crust on the pizza was incredible. Very thin crust, and didn’t flop down when I picked it up. Right sturdy it was. Such a nice crunch to it too. The plate was SO oily though, I’m glad I had a bunch of napkins. However the pizza was not oily or greasy at all.
I’m glad we went somewhere completely different for supper. Usually we’d stick around in our tri-city area. But we traveled a good distance to shop at Ikea and eat out at this place. We were really lucky with the weather too, as it was a really warm evening out and I didn’t feel chilly at all with my dress on! I had a nice Birthday evening, even if it was 2 weeks late :)
I ended up filming a YouTube video of my outfit that evening as well. Watch it below!
First up, a summer salad in my favorite anthropologie bowls. Consisting of tomatoes, croutons, marble cheese, bacon bits, parmesan cheese, pine nuts, and bell peppers. Ranch dressing on top. I love a good crunch.
I dies for a bit of garlic bread during an outdoor meal like this. Crunch. Yes, we devoured a whole baguette. It was small. From President’s Choice. Devoured none the less.
Since the Boyfriend doesn’t exactly favor corn on the cob, I made some brocc for him. That’s his food on the left. Pay no mind to the butter slathered on my fork. I like my corn butter-soaked. I slapped on some Honey Garlic (or maybe it’s Honey BBQ) Diana Sauce, along with some seasoning from some jar I found in the cupboard. I just grab random ingredients. It usually works out for the most part! If not, we still eat it regardless. 
Looks good, doesn’t it? I should pat myself on the back. har har!
Before, and after. Ha ha!!
