Thanksgiving at the Market

Since it was just the 4 of us for Thanksgiving this year, we decided not to do a turkey. It would have been a lot of work with lots of leftovers. We decided to do something different. Eric created the weekend menu and our holiday weekend started off with a trip to the market.

We love going to St. Lawrence Market. We went last year only to discover it is closed on Sundays! Luckily the Buskerfest was on that weekend so it wasn’t a wasted trip. (Funny, the girls still talk about the Fireguy!) Late this summer, we started going back every couple of weekends. It’s always fun to go early Saturday morning to buy our breakfast pastries and coffee. There are always tons of people and every week, there is something new to see!

This weekend, some musicians were playing at the tables were we usually eat our breakfast, just next to the bakery and Italian coffee shop! Since there was no place to sit and eat, we walked a little further and found a small table tucked into a corner just outside the Ukrainian deli!

Ukranian fruit juice! Yum!!

We bought some coffee, vegetables for supper and went upstairs to the meat market and cheese store. There were a lot of people there (but we were also there a little later than usual). We bought bagels at St. Urbain Bagels. But the only thing they have in common is the wood stove. They don’t taste like Montreal bagels (not even close). The only thing going for them is that any baked item tastes good warm and fresh out of an oven. But they are definitely not Montreal bagels!

Raspberry danish

Usually we would take a walk across the street, the north building, were they have more farmers and produce vendors. We didn’t go this week since we found everything we were looking for in the south building.

Eric’s dinner menu for this weekend:

Pork tenderloin with port/hazelnut/blue cheese sauce, sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts. Homemade crème brulée for dessert.

The view from the DVP!

Chicken Paprika with fresh pasta, fresh yellow beans and homemade chocolate pudding for dessert.