Our Apartment...

...has neither chairs nor a proper dining table. 250 square feet shared between two people - it's lucky we get along so well, having gone to both middle and high school together. On the rare occasion that we dine in, we sit on plushy square pillows and place food on two feet high Ikea tables. When the weather is nice, we'll sit on the fire escape and watch people passing by down below. And on some nights, we use Shann's windowsill as a makeshift dining table, and her bed as one long bench.

Our last dinner took place on a particularly warm night this summer...

�we don't have an air-conditioner (and recently learned that we are the only apartment in the entire complex without air-conditioning), so we responded to the heat by spinning together ice cold seltzer water with a summery splash of Red Jacket Orchards's cherry-apple juice and a squeeze of lime.

And then out came a duo of tomatoes...

...followed by supple and creamy sweet burrata from the nearby DiPalo's.

And because one type of cheese is never enough when you can have two, we carried on with a pound of fresh ricotta.

For a bit of colour, we threw in pints of Greenmarket blueberries and assembled little creations of toasted baguettes, creamed honey, generous spoonfuls of ricotta and a sprinkle of berries...

...tadah! ^_^

On the savoury end of the spectrum, we chopped fresh basil from the windowsill in my room (yes the apartment is tiny, but we get excellent sunlight!)...

...and paired that with the tomatoes, pesto, and burrata, doing a rather thorough job of cleaning out the addictively creamy innards.

And there you have it, Monday Night Dinner. Two girls, a street facing window with most interesting passerbys, quality food, and good conversation. I'd say it was a pretty nice start to the week :)