Montreal!

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

One activity I can think of that would suck in the rain it trying to build a house of playing cards. Or trying to draw faces on coffee filters with a que-tip and some sort of ochre - tehy would be ruined! mon deiu!

tabarnouche! now i really hope it doesn't rain

Ta Bouche est tabarnouche!

I guess I could plan a trip myself, someday, instead of sending Mr. Green

You have no need for worry - I do not travel. Ever.

Montreal all is probably not that far from you!

err no "all"

Montreal-all is what we call the city as a whole

it's like "galactica actual" on BSG

s1ocki recommend to me brunch places near mile end

other people can recommend places too but i want that gourmand seal of approval

Boston -all includes Newton I guess and Peabody - seems like some sort of linux command with a dash liek that

ipconfig -all

it's ifconfig on linux

really? shit I suck at linux! The Official Distro of Montreal is Eggplantware

lol galactica montreal actual

???
http://www.worldsfairphotos.com/expo67/battlestar-galactica.htm

"Actors Dirk Benedict (as fighter pilot Starbuck) and Bobby Van (as Hector, the android), traveled to Montreal for these scenes. Benedict has been quoted as saying it was an uncomfortable experience - not all that surprising in that the scenes were shot in winter in buildings that had not been heated in years."

plus he was with an Eggplant man

yeah perhaps in order to post itt, one has to at least have an intention of visiting Montreal in the near future, give or take a year. we will soon grow tired of yr wistfulness for what we got. we all know that all this eggplant talk is but a thin veneer.

Did anyone ever see that Altman movie shot in some place related to Expo 67 -- maybe Habitat, maybe something else... was it called Quintet? That looked COLD

Is that why6 the baseball team was called the expos? Tim Raines> ( NOt Gaines)

http://www.notinhalloffame.com/UserFiles/Image/article_images/Baseball/Tim%20Raines.jpg

i had to watch Quintet in an undergrad film class for a section about auteurs
it's a pretty boring movie! or at least it was to 20-yr-old me

You are wiser now - and taking it all in - the sights, the sounds...you still remember your earlier trembling moments. Now you are the Regis. Meanwhile, I am still the fool, fallin gover in tide pools

yep, expos named after the 67 expo. i don't think i finished watched quintet afaik. pretty cool buildings tho.

man i was jsut thinknig about mile end brunches and realized i probably havent had a nice civil mile end sunday brunch in like a year, only st-henri janko brunches at greenspot etc.

i think senzala closed? i kinda remember sparrow's brunch being good. does lawrence or lemeac or one of those places that start with an L have a brunch?

i'm so shitty @ being from this city

Will M please love yoruself despite yoru failings.

anyway if a movie is boring just skip ahead - thta's what I do when I watch Dark SHadows - I love it but its the most boring show ever

many of these posts lack brunch recommendations i have noticed

Le Cartet
(514) 871-8887

Old Montréal
106 Rue McGill
Montreal, QC H2Y2E5
lecartet.com

"nous servons un âne mort des baleines sur une plaque pour vous"

cafe cherrier on cherrier/st-denis is p great brunch spot

ah, brunch... i used to eschew it but i'm getting over that. i guess it depends on what you're looking for - i tend to go middle-of-the-road, not a straight-up diner but not a gourmet place either. and i like a certain comfy and not-too-loud environment. that said, i don't go out for brunch very often, so...
in mile-end-ish:

i like
cafe souvenir on bernard, esp because terrasse
velo cafe on beaubien
boite gourmand on laurier

and screw it, i will plug the site i write for: http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/blog/where-to-eat/the-mile-ends-best-brunches/

i used to get tuna sandwiches from le cartet for lunch