Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Quebec- Day 9

Last cooking day!

It seems like the time in Quebec City went so quickly! What an amazing trip!

For the last day, we had Greek Vegetables- note. this is not how Greek people do veggies, it is French- one of those weird things I guess.


Zucchini and Tomato Tian




Bison steaks with a cassis reduction, and the tian



Financiers and Ice Cream



Crossing the road Diagonally




Our adventure on Rue- St Jean

Oldest Grocery Store in N. America


Felix!

European Grocery Store


Fou-Bar

Neat sign!

Some of the other apps, I am not even sure what they all were!



Sweetbreads

Entrees

Skirt steak




Blood Sausage
Burger


Chicken burger- no bun, no dairy.

Creme Brulee



..until we got the bill!


Haahaa- No, but it was lovely :)

Quebec- Day 8



Day 8 we swapped menus, since we needed an ingredient for a dish, and we wouldn't procure that ingredient until
that afternoon.




Chef Eric doing a Demo of how to prep the Pissaladierre



Obviously thrilled to be working with Foie Gras



Lightly dredging the Foie Gras in Flour


Foie Gras topped with truffles and edible gold- we had it as an amuse bouche. Sadly, I didn't like it. I waited until Eric left the room and then asked someone else to eat it.



Chef Eric doing a demo of how to put the Coulis on the soup



Zucchini soup with pepper coulis and maple syrup



Pissaladiere





Spinach strawberry salads and fish with a sweet apricot ginger glaze ( I think, gotta check on that.)
Anyone remember the name of this fish?



Tart Tatin



Do for our adventure, we went to l'ile d'Orleans--a word I can obviously pronounce without flaw :P

First stop, Liz Ouellet. Cassis and more!



First we went and visited the asparagus.



There were a few small ones, so we snapped them, and ate them there- It was probably the best (and obviously freshest) I have had. I never really thought to eat it like that.


It was as tall as me...




...and as tall as Brenda



Raspberries.

Kid. Candystore



Cassis (Black Currants)







Chef Eric pondering the intricacies of the universe as he gazes over a field of Cassis



Self portrait entitled, A girl and her currant




The "class" tasting the berries


Field Trip




Our bus taking a nap in the field of sunflowers




Oh, Hello there!




Currant stock of beverages


Of course we had to sample!




Next Stop





Maple Syrup!




Making tire d'erable sur le neige




Yum! Its like a sweet sticky flower!




Our guide explaining how to make syrup.

Did you know a 4 liter pail will only boil down to 100ml of maple syrup?

More Cheese!



Girl cooking the cheese- It tasted like a salty Saganaki, sans flame. The place was actually out of it to purchase, but I managed to hunt some down.



Trying Birch Beer-





(I accidentally typed "Bitch Beer" before, freudian perhaps? haahaa )


Lovely view




Musee des Beaux Arts at night