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...

Maritime Road Tripping and Lobster Overdosing

Travel Guides

A glorious pictorial Maritime Road Tripping tour of Nova Scotia & New Brunswick via fishing villages, spectacular coastlines, seafood galore and libatious finds! I know, my title is technically false. How can anyone overdose on lobster! I was so happy to devour...

Off to the Maritimes and LABARAKE, Doca and Bleu Lavande

Montreal Buzz, Restaurant reviews

I am taking a week off from regular posting this week. It’s summer vacation time and I am on a trip I have been dreaming off for years, the Maritimes. Silly enough I am not even that far from home, about 12 hours away. We are 2 friends on a road trip heading to...

The Montreal Bagel (or I should say the Only Real Bagel)

Bread Recipes, Breakfast Brunch Recipes, Exotic World Recipes, Montreal Buzz

Yes, you can make the iconic smaller, sweeter and denser real Montreal bagel with a larger hole at home. A bagel made any other way is just not a real bagel! Baking bread is so perfect. I keep saying I need to bake more bread and I am always intimidated at the though...

Lemon Cupcakes are just Beachy

Dessert Recipes, Events

Got a party in the works? How about serving up these adorable beach themed lemon cupcakes and cake! No special skills are required to prepare these sweets and your dessert just may steel the spotlight from the honored guest! As you get older you realize that one of...