Food Trucks start rolling in Montreal, or do they!?
Posted: 28 June 2013 Filed under: Montreal related, Uncategorized | Tags: Food Truck, Montreal_summer, street food Montreal Leave a commentHow do you like buying a plate of salad and smoked meat sausage for $8.00 off a food truck right outside your workplace in downtown? What if you have to line up for it for an hour or so, and what if the sausage is not made on the spot? Would you still consider it “street food”? The way some of us have come to know taco trucks, pizza trucks, falafel and whoopee pies carts in New York, Seattle, and recently in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary?
Well, sometime in April 2013, Montreal’s Mayor announced that starting this summer, the 66-year ban on street food will be removed, allowing Montrealers to buy food off the street. …
Salmon on Cedar
Posted: 13 June 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cedar, salmon Leave a commentSalmon, oven baked on cedar plank is a delicious and heavenly smelling meal – and I mean both the food and the environment you cook in will smell like heaven! I recently saw this recipe here and followed it closely, only changed the seasoning:
Montreal Beer Festival
Posted: 5 June 2013 Filed under: Montreal related, Uncategorized | Tags: Montreal Beer Festival, Montreal_summer 2 CommentsI am sure you have heard and probably attended some of Montreal’s fabulous summer festivals: Jazz Fest, Just For Laugh, Les FrancoFolies, Gay Parade, etc. But did you know about Montreal’s Beer Festival?
Montreal Beer Fest, held since 1994, from 29 May to 02 June at “Palais de congress”, starts off the summer and its many colorful festivals. I went to it last weekend (for the first time) and found it quite different and interesting: Not much of “festivity” (i.e. music, dance) surrounds this event; but a LOT of good beers and ciders are there to taste, with a variety of snacks and appetizers: Read the rest of this entry »
My Caldron 