leahbobet | Return of the Foodporn

(I bemoaned at work yesterday that I haven't actually eaten myself a path across Toronto in a few years now. So now that it's getting on warm enough to leave the house regularly and there's sunshine? I am going to devote some of my spring and summer to doing that. And you will get the resultant foodporn. Aren't you happy people?)

Loffly craft/working lunch this afternoon (actually, almost all afternoon; I got home about twenty past five) with

bunnyhero,

shiroiko,

kats_kradle, and

ginny_t at Le Pain Quotidien. The Yorkville one is a really lovely space, all thick light wood and sunlight and preserves on the table, high tea style, for you to put on everything. We had to vulture a bit for a table, but once we got it and all drew out our knitting/quilting/laptops, there was:

Tartine with ricotta cheese, tomatoes, mission figs, and acacia honey on fresh artisan bread. This came on a nice little ceramic cutting-board style plate with sliced cucumbers and radishes and a tomato wedge and some greens, and it was light and springy and heavenly. Also something I can probably make at home, if I nip out for some ricotta cheese. Good presentation too; the bread was cut into wedges so you could pick it up like a pizza, and the sliced cucumber and radish were stood up like little fences between slices.

Organic mint lemonade. In a carafe. Om. Nom. I might have to get a random carafe just to put things in it and pour them before I drink them. It is extremely Civilised (tm).

Lapsang souchong, in silk teabag, with tea bowl for the drinking of the tea. Preheated tea bowl. I admit, if you are a cafe and you ever want to come a'courting, the way to win my heart is to preheat your tea bowl.

Sticky toffee pudding. I did have an issue with dessert, which we call The Omnivore's Dilemma. This is not the classic concept of the ethics of food, but the "oh crap, I want to eat all of these. How many desserts can I have again?" I picked this one because it was somewhat substantial and it was a special, whereas the other stuff will be there again next time. It had toffee on top. it was warm. I was happy.

There were also bits of

shiroiko's almond meringue in there somewhere.

So this was overall a success, and I got a respectable amount of knitting done too. I will be returning to the scene.

And now, speaking of scenes, I am going to make myself a pot of Stash herbal blueberry and revise some fiction. Hardcore.