Not that nothing has been happening. But it's been a busy time. That's why this is the first blog entry for 6 months....
Here is some news though. Today we had a wonderfully relaxed end of the school year morning coffee-time (though the kids had iced tea), at this lovely coffee shop in Inglewood.
I hope they get good publicity from the Calgary branch of the celiac association, but if not here is my two penneth-worth.
I didn't know it was a GF friendly place, but asked if by chance they had any GF snack to go with the iced teas and morning coffee. And they 'do' the GF patisserie's (Cochrane) lemon and coffee cakes... (that is lemon cake to have with a coffee and likewise cinnamon cake, not a lemon with coffee flavour cake no, that would just be strange) so even the non-celiacs amongst us had one of those each. Young man decided the cinnamon was better than the lemon for him... smart kid, I am a devotee of the cinammon myself.
We chatted away the rest of the morning and soon needed lunch. They did Al a toasted sandwich and Boccocini salad (my mistake not to ask them to leave off the pesto (she is allergic to pine nuts too). No problem at all to make a new one up for her. We felt relaxed the whole time - the staff encouraged us to enjoy our stay and we did.
On leaving we were told that if we let them know ahead the chef will prepare something even more special - amazingly kind. I know that Nectar Desserts is Delicious and just Down the road... (and they also want to help Celiacs) but we will certainly be giving the Dream Cafe our business again, especially if lunch is involved.
