While visiting Montreal last week RB and I stayed at our friend Jeff's house, just a few blocks away from the wonderful Jean-Talon outdoor market. The Marche Jean-Talon is a paradise of fresh, local foods: seasonal fruits and vegetables, artisanal cheeses, cured meats, live lobster, maple syrup, sugar pie, flowers, herbs and plants, ice cream, olives, nuts and savory middle eastern pastries. Stalls selling fresh wares are set up outside and surrounded by small specialty fruit shops, fromageries, Mexican taquerias, bakeries, fishmongers and Romanian butchers. Guess who was in heaven?
For under $10 we made a delicious dinner of sauteed baby potatoes, grilled asparagus with fresh garlic, homemade basil pesto, and a sweet salad of baby greens. Oh, and I bought a just-baked sugar maple pie which we then decimated in short order. Yummy, yummy Montreal.
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