Curious about a Breakfast with Cattail Pancakes?

Breakfast Brunch Recipes, Evelyne's Unusuals, Gluten Free Recipes

Pretty cattail, fluffy cattail, flour cattail! What flour? Turns out flour can be extracted from cattails from which you can make mighty fine Cattail Pancakes. I have been way overdue for an unusual ingredient post! If you are a regular reader you know how I like...

Labrador Tea

Evelyne's Unusuals, Exotic World Recipes

Labrador tea, named after the swamps of Labrador where it loves to grow, was the herbal drink of choice by the indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of North America. Here is a sneak peak at one of the most popular requests from the survey I published a...

Pick your own Squash in the Pumpkin Patch at La Courgerie

Evelyne's Unusuals, Food Trends & Gadgets, Instructions 101, Montreal Buzz

This past weekend in Canada was Thanksgiving and I was at La Courgerie . Many families and friends gather around a wonderful meal, celebrating the bounty of the summer. In my family we throw in hard labor work: we close the cottage down for the winter. Thankfully we...

Exotic Dragon Fruit Flan

Dessert Recipes, Evelyne's Unusuals, Exotic World Recipes, Food Trends & Gadgets, Fruit Recipes

Funny how a recipe can travel around the world and take different shapes, take the crême caramel for example. Of European origin, crême caramel was found in most European restaurant’s menus during the 20th century. Sometimes a crême caramel is...

Thai Garlic Scape Soup and Garlic Scape Pesto

Evelyne's Unusuals, Food Trends & Gadgets, Salad and Soup Recipes, Sauce and Condiment Recipes

I am away for a little bit to frolic in the country…..enjoy this scheduled post and I look forward to posting upon my return. Recently I was invited over for dinner at a friend’s place. She had gone to a farmer’s market that day and her purchased...

Shopping Spree at Rube’s Rice, Toronto

Evelyne's Unusuals, Travel Guides

If you ever go to Toronto the main Farmer’s Market in the city is held Thu, Fri and Sat at St Lawrence Market. Plan to give yourself a lot of time to explore the market if you are a foodie, it is huge. I first visited this market about 7 years ago and I fell in...