Yesterday I met my stickydate, Trili.  How we started calling each other stickydate was really interesting.  It was Christmas @ Berrima’s last year and I made Sticky Date Pudding.  She liked it.  And hence the sweet nickname!

In some freaky ways, we are really similar, like how we would be thinking of something at the same time.  Like how we want to do something while not actually talking to each other.  Like how we tend to attract drama in our lives.  In other ways, we are different like how she  dislikes squid while I absolutely love it.

Anyhoos, back to my date with stickydate.  The day started with coffee with Trili in the city.  We were supposed to go to Babka’s at Brunswick but I had to leave the city about 2 so we decided against it and went to Journal Cafe instead.  Journal is a cosy little cafe located in the ground floor of City Library along Flinders Lane.  My stickydate and I had bruschetta and soy chai.  As mentioned to me before, the chai there is really elaborate.  Our chais were served in a huge silver teapot with a strainer on the side, a small pot of honey and two glasses.  The silver teapot reminds me of the teko that Malays use for teh.  I like…old school!  That one pot was enough to go for 2 1/2 glasses each!  I had pumpkin and feta bruschetta which was awesome.  It’s like roasted pumpkin to the point of puree which was spread on a piece of sourdough bread like butter topped with crumbled feta.  Stickydate had proscuitto and roasted tomato and it looked absolutely delish!

Our date ended with us heading back to Clayton together in a train.