Montreal!

thanks thread now i have to get falafel for dinner

been really depressed by all montreal lebanese etc. food tho since going to berlin & basically living off sandwiches there, no comparison ito middle eastern sandwich scene

wow, my riding actually went Quebec Solidaire!
i guess i'm not totally surprised, but still, wow

trying to keep that in mind as PQ seems to be headed towards a majority? srsly?

i'm pretty pleased with these results so far

yeah i guess i am too, kind of. my previous post was written when a PQ majority was being considered a reality. i figured PQ minority would happen though, so hey, here we go!

well, "pleased" is not exactly the word tbh

pq coalition majority w/ qs (provided they give them a cabinet seat) still possible tho?

sometimes seems like being an anglo in quebec is liked being consigned to vote for the same party for your entire life it's pretty pathetic, like as soon as there's a pq alternative standing across the stage no amount of corruption arrogance is too great to be swallowed & forgotten, ppl should be relieved the party they've spent the last 4 years cursing is being held accountable

oh i'm certainly glad to see the liberals go! or go-ish!
i don't know if the QS would want to be in a coalition with PQ? seems weird

Based on the current seat projections, I don't see how a PQ-QS coalition could form a majority?: http://www.cbc.ca/news/live/2012/09/quebec-votes-2012.html

Are there more updated numbers?

i think that was just speculation from earlier in the night when PQ was much closer to a majority

Ah, cool.

Ha, a Lib-CAQ coalition is theoretically possible!

without charest having won his seat?

I didn't say it's likely but constitutionally, that's not a problem at all.

Afaik, there's nothing that says a PM or premier needs to be a sitting member. (Just double-checked with a constitution nerd.)

Seriously, in general, I wish people were more open to the possibilities offered within parliamentarianism. It's so unimaginative that the sitting leader of the party with a plurality of seats always becomes PM/premier and I think it actually undermines parliamentary democracy a little.

That's more of a post for the Cdn politics thread though.

this is awful. this is...i can't even.

have you ever had some delicious food ethic or otherwise out somwhere and then you are punished badly in the restroom and you feel as if "why did they do it? "

his is awful. this is...i can't even.

― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:18 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

as a smaller aside ty for all the recommendations. i'm gonna go to jean talon soon, they sell aubergines in hypnotic configurations, so i'm sold.

as for me I find the Plant of Egg to be most unpalatable

awwwww really? i was never crazy about them before. i don't want to suggest user error but i have been detailing my eggplant wiles here if you feel like giving that little guy a second chance, the hell am i gonna do with this eggplant

You may as well toss that Solanaceae in the rubbish bin. It would do as well there as anywhere. In fact I am suspicious of the entire Nightshade family, including the Tobbaco plant and Tomato as well. Only the potato has my permission to love itself.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/OriginalPoutineLaBanquise.jpg

now we're talkin

i do like the small japanese eggplants tho

I like eggplant but it has to be cooked correctly, which isn't as intuitive as it should be, so maybe I hate eggplant.

eggplant is def a harsh mistress

when not done well its gross, but it can be so sublime

i went to the fall apple-themed menu at cabane à sucre au pied de cochon last week and one of the dishes was this aubergine pancake... impossible to describe but fuckin cuhrazypants

WHat of the seeds, the seeds? are they not an offense to the mouth?

i think i have never noticed aubergine seeds

http://siteware.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/eggplant-seed-harvest.jpg

BEHOLD!

ha ha. are you sitting at your keyboard running knives over unwanted aubergines getting mad about subpar vegetables? no i mean i'm aware they exist, but like i have never texturally tasted them or felt them interfere with the eating of an aubergine. they just seem fine.

It seesm to me thy tongue is not as sharp and precise as this steel blade or you too would quiver in horror at the granulations!

lol

i am quiverin

i just think you need to grill one of these guys, throw it in a sandwich or eat it on toast with mustard, let the good times roll

The only thing that is rolling is my eyes and my bowels!

I bought some of those marinated, grilled eggplant slices you can get at any deli (in this case La Maison des Pâtes Fraîches). I made a basic tomato sauce then threw the eggplant slices in the food processor. Dumped them into the sauce. It was the richest, tastiest pasta sauce I've made in a long time.

I've been trying to replicate this at home by roasting eggplants in the oven. I can't seem to do it. I can't seem to do much of anything with eggplant at the moment.

if you have a grill, you can grill them until they totally collapse (err on the side of overcooking), then let them cool a bit, peel them and get rid of the juice that leaks out, then chop em up like crazy or blend them, add lemon juice salt pepper tahini, and you got yourself a baba ghanouj.

I guess we should make a newthread "HELLISH EGGPLANTS COME ALIVE"

you know just to justify derailing the mtl thread into aubergine territory, i cooked w/a few of the little (japanese? i think they're canadian but i think i've heard the lil baby aubergines called japanese before (maybe itt)) aubs yesterday, grilling them, & they were kind of a little bitter. just putting it out there that, factoring in regional supply variety, ymmv.

would def grill instead of roast, if i were you, fields of salmon; roasted aubergines are amazing to make into sauces but more as a weird smulchy disappearing ingredient than as a solid eggplant component. i slice; salt; sweat for awhile; brush w/olive oil & some spices (smoked paprika/sumac/i haven't found smoked paprika in montreal yet/what is up w that); & then grill for ten minutes, turn over & grill for ten more. getting tahini involved sounds like a real good idea too.

Making eggplant for lunch!

"Montreal, where Eggplants are Revered"

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/466970

Janice Lawandi, Montreal Cooking Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/article/mini-eggplants-are-perfect-for-stuffing

she can go stuff her eggplants

Aw man, I want to go back to Montreal. I really loved it.

quite a resume M'lady

http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/janice-lawandi-phd/7/711/471

Lawandi awaits you E-to -the-NBB

I am considering sending Latham Green in my stead

i hope the forecast rain this weekend doesn't happen. there's a lot of good outdoor stuff i want to do (that wld suck in the rain)

uh
xp

tho i do like his not-necessarily-Montreal contributions to this thread