Going Greek at Nikas

Our last dinner with the Cheap Ethnic Eatz group was at Nikas in NDG. This is my hood and I have seen this place for years and never went. Finally I did about 6 weeks ago…I have been back twice since then.

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Daring Cooks: Pâtés and Bread

Our hostesses this month, Evelyne of Cheap Ethnic Eatz, and Valerie of a The Chocolate Bunny, chose delicious pate with freshly baked bread as their June Daring Cook’s challenge! They’ve provided us with 4 different pate recipes to choose from and are allowing us to go wild with our homemade bread choice.

I Scream, You Scream..Win an Ice Cream Machine

Yay my very first big giveaway contest I am so excited. For details keep reading all the way to the end. I you have been following my blog for a while you probably have figured out I am big on ice cream. And with spring here and summer arriving…its ice cream season baby!

I have been working on less then traditional flavors too. If you recall my last one was Roasted Black Sesame Seeds ice cream. This time I am going Provencal on you. Today we will make Lavender Ice Cream. Recipe is below.

Lavender ice cream is actually the first less traditional flavor I have ever had. I remember it so well. I was at Meu Meu on St-Denis Street (my fave ice cream spot in town) and after ordering this unusual Lavender scoop I sat on one of the barstools of the ice cream bar and had my first bite.

I was in heaven. It was so good. I wanted more. I wanted to make my own. I wanted my very own ice cream maker. That was a few years back. I put in on my Christmas and birthday list (yes as an adult) for 2 years and I never got it. I asked my mom why and she said she did not think it would be something I would use very long. I was disappointed.

I could not financially excuse the personal expense either. But that dream was finally realized last summer while I was visiting a friend in Toronto. She was moving and cleaning her place. She had one and said she was going to sell it. SOLD! I screamed. She actually ended up offering it to me as a gift. I have been making ice cream every since. So when I was able to pick my prize I knew right away it was going to be an ice cream machine. I want to bring you the joy mine has brought me!

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Cheap Ethnic Eatz 3rd Anniversary Dinner

I don’t know why I always get so behind on the blog post following a Cheap Ethnic Eatz anniversary dinner.

March 11th 2007 is the official day the dinner group saw light. This year 47 members of the dinner group came out to the restaurant Plein Sud for our 3rd anniversary on March 12th. It was also the 75th event. 75 dinners or food related events! Wow

That was a month ago and I just don’t feel like I can justifiably review it anymore….except to say it is a great place to eat. So I will let the pictures speak themselves. I highly recommend trying this place. The owners are AMAZING and so ACCOMMODATING (you have no idea!!!). On the menu:

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Moineau/Sparrow and Dev

I have been so behind on restaurant reviews…I got two more and I am done.

A dinner we recently had with the CEE dinner group was a great Indian find on Victoria in CDN. This place is called Dev Restaurant. This area is very ethnic and there are tones of Indian, Pakistani and [...]

What an Honor

I was so honored when Liliana Tommasini, Montreal Food Examiner and author of My Cookbook Addiction, asked me to participate in her series of interviews about Montreal Foodies…. I would be the very first one published.

It was a fun process to be interviewed and to pic out my favorite food pics and [...]

Restaurant Atti

I have been so busy with the holidays and cleanig I am only writing now about our Chritsmas dinner that occured Dec 2th lol. We were 31 members of the dinner group rejoice in holiday spirit at the Korean Restaurant Atti.

All pics were taken by Bernard Reischl

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