The pears look perfect. There isn’t much I enjoy more than a perfectly ripe pear.

I agree. I also loved pears poached in wine with mascarpone cheese. And there are so many varieties out now....all of them delicious. Good with chocolate too!

Tonight, buffalo chicken salad.

Looks great. A local French place makes a pear salad with large roquefort crumbles, and it's my favorite salad.

other dim sum stuff... and a bowl of corn flakes :D

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Blackened mahi-mahi sandwich with fries.

Grilled cheese as comfort food given my foot and pain.

Too bad you don't live closer. I still have 4 5 gallon pails of refrigerated organic pears off our tree that I'm giving away to neighbors and friends, We can't eat 'em fast enough.

post-cross country meet
super duper carryout
spouse - cheeseburger and fries with chocolate chip milkshake
child - cheeseburger and half fries with chocolate milkshake
child’s friend - veggie burger with cheese and half fries with vanilla milkshake
child’s friend’s parent - veggie burger with cheese & avocado and fries

Once home, I had:
Toasted half sub sandwich with polish (pork & veal) sausage with added avocado and Kettle jalapeño chips

omg a pear tree! So awesome!

We've been hitting all of our favorite spots while back in Montreal. Last night was Liverpool House (oysters, fall salad, apple tart topped with ham and cheese, tomato stew, roast cabbage, halibut, filet prepared french onion soup style and topped with foie gras, semifredo, pumpkin pie and apple fritter), yesterday lunch was Lester's (medium smoked meat sandwich and fries), the night before was McKiernan's (can barely remember what we ate) and Snowden Deli for lunch.

Tonight is Pied Au Cuchon! Hoping we can squeeze in Beauty's for breakfast before we leave tomorrow but it will be tough.

so thrilled this worked out!! Did you order lesters for more mail order or do you still have some in the freezer? Super ace.

how was the roast cabbage? Any seasoning? I love Rotkohl and just sautéed green cabbage, partly because it’s cheaper than bok choy at a supermarket.

Oops, forgot the LH pasta dishes: lobster spaghetti and clam and sausage cannelloni.

No more Lester's at home since we can now get back to Montreal. Cabbage was roasted and butter sauteed with bacon on top.

I read your halibut with 4 toppings. It sounded a little over the top. Especially the pumpkin pie.

Agree, but I like the concept of the flavors of pumpkin and halibut. Maybe better as a pumpkin mash side, almost like a squash soup?

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ks smoked salmon
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such a cute dad joke :-)

Pappardelle with garlic, broccoli, lemon, grape tomatoes and goat cheese.
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Chicken pot pie. More comfort food for the weekend.

Wow, looks delicious!

That looks pretty darn tasty! Gonna have to Google where it’s at.

I got excited when I saw 2 pack BBQ for $20, free shipping on their website. Only BBQ sauce, though.

Thank you...it really was. When I have the leftovers tomorrow, I will add more lemon zest--needed a bit more.

Au Pied Au Cuchon, Montreal
Halibut tartare
Scallop ceviche
Pizza margarita
Pork tongue
Foie gras poutine
Okonomoyaki
A Quebecois roast dish with beef, chicken, duck and veggies
More halibut
Sugar pie with more foie gras
Berry chicken
Maple creme caramel
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Wow! I hope you were sharing that with a dozen others.

I used to love foie gras at Au Cheval, near Girl & the Goat in Chicago.
the sugar pie foie gras made me think of how the Au Cheval one was served with strawberry jam and toast. I never found a shop version of their strawberry jam.
and nice bone marrow in the roasted meats dish!

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LOL...for part of my childhood, I think I may have thought they were the 51st State.

so lucky about ease of travel there. I last drove into Canada in 2001 for a concert.

Yeah, my very first international trip was to Canada (Montreal, if I recall), and I didn't even have an ID yet. My Aunt just showed a copy of my birth cert, and that was it. Anyway, if that's what their serving there now, I need to revisit asap!

PS - would be perfect timing for that AC promo thing I signed up for.

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So many fantastic restaurants in Montreal -- we always eat well when we're in town.

That brings memories of a foie gras extravaganza in Budapest in 2018.

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I had the set degustation menu. This was the foie gras course; I don't remember which is which, I'll have to look up my old Facebook post.

Found it: "from left to right, traditional with chamomile jelly and apricot caviar; with mangalica ham, paprika and strawberry; with truffle, plum and dark chocolate; and lastly bruleed. I liked the traditional the best, unfortunately, at my waiter's advice, I ate it first."
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One of Next restaurant's early iterations was "childhood" and one dessert course was doughnuts with foie gras frosting served on a mixer beater so you could lick it off.

(I've also had Au Cheval's foie gras. We went to Liverpool House on Friday and I had to remind my husband that I do not eat cheval, lapin or any other animal that I've had as a pet.)

Takeout Chinese food for dinner tonight.
Egg drop and wonton soups
Beef and shrimp egg foo yungs
General Tso’s chicken

Veggie wraps with my grandkids. Nothing tastes better.

devil’s teeth baking:
doughnut muffin (sugar packed on outside)


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safeway:
cheddar bagel, toasted & buttered

any rice?

You just triggered a memory of our last MTL trip, where we finally made it to Joe Beef. But what I really miss is that oyster bar at Jean-Talon Market.

Definitely try Vin Papilion on your next trip. Locals will tell you that Joe Beef is for the tourists while Vin Papilion is for locals. (And LH attracts both.) During our wedding weekend our guests did something like 80 covers across all of Dave's restaurants.

Call me crazy but I'm not a raw oyster fan but I'll take them grilled or fried any day!

With all this discussion about oysters, I'm tempted to try to perfect the starch solution for oyster omlette (or luak) this coming weekend...I've made a few attempts in the past only to fail miserably.

Have you had raw oysters lately? I only knew them to be cooked as a child and served raw oysters in a tourist part of San Francisco when I was a teenager. I eventually tried them and now I’ll eat any raw oyster anywhere at a quality eatery. I love them solo with zero need or desire for lemon nor sauces. I just don’t shuck them nor will I buy them to take home. Eateries only.

Depending on where you are, it might not be the brightest idea to eat raw oysters. At least in the short term. If the supply chains are as backlogged as they say, you may not have "fresh" raw oysters to eat. In your case, being in SFO, very unlikely not to be fresh, but if you're pretty far inland, I'd be a tad concerned and would prefer to have them cooked.

I would expect a quality eatery that’s inland will have quality raw oysters. :-)
surely in ORD area, Rose akor (?) or Joes Seafood / Steaks or a similar quality steakhouse will have quality raw oysters. Even in Sfo area, i’m not going to get raw oysters at a food stand truck unless it’s branded like Hog Island type truck.

Absolutely! Need the rice to soak up the gravy.

Normally, I would agree. But early on in the pandemic and now, supply chains have gone to pot. As an example, I ordered a server frame from a supplier last Wednesday. I got the tracking number the same day. Still have not received it even though the depot is just on the other side of the city. I couldn't go pick it up as I was busy, but it's still sitting on a shelf somewhere in a shipping depot. And that's something that can't go bad. Oysters? If not eaten within a few hours, I'd be a tad concerned if I were going to eat them raw. I'd be more likely to cook them at that point.

You would have very much enjoyed the 5 days my wife and I spent in Hilton Head recently. Cooked oysters of every variety. My wife only eats them raw. I'm good with any preparation but also have fond memories of fried oyster po' boys in New Orleans.

I like a little lemon. Anything after that depends on my mood. I'm with you though on eating them only at reputable restaurants.

Any reputable seafood restaurant, including wayyyy inland here in Chicago, would take them off the menu if they can't get them fresh. I'm not ordering them anywhere else than a reputable restaurant, unless I'm eating a few miles from where they're farmed. The raw oysters we had in South Carolina were mainly local. Your point is well taken though, we have a place about 15 mins away that does a raw bar on weekends, but is not a seafood restaurant. I probably will think twice before ordering them there next time we go.