Yesterday In Montreal

Yesterday, my mom and I went to a vintage bazaar. It's the same one I had gone to in January 2020. Since I'll be moving out soon and am looking for decoration from the 50s ↔ 70s, the event came at just the right time. ✨

Here are the items I bought:

Price of each item (in CAD):

• Set or marble bookends + grey x golden dish (seller gave a price for both items): 25 $
• Vintage Butterick pattern: 3 $
• Milou bookend: 5 $

I love the marble bookends. Their surface is glossy and they give chic mid-century modern vibes. For the little dish, I plan on putting it near my entryway for my keys. It looks so much prettier in real life. It is glossy as well and has golden speckles that shine when you look at it from different angles.

As for the pattern, I wasn't madly in love with it, but for such a price, it was surely worth it. Despite loving fit & flare dresses, I wasn't drawn to the design on the right... due to the chosen print. (I know fabric and design are two independent things, but I was still on the fence because of that.) Anyway, I also looked at the design on the left and found the brooch really cute on the collar. Despite never having made a sheath dress, maybe my first time could be with this pattern. Looking back, I don't regret buying the pattern.

Only thing I haven't checked yet is whether the envelope contains all pieces... oh well, if it's incomplete and unusable in any way for me, I'll be happy to reuse the two ladies on the pattern cover to decorate my Midori journal.

Now, for the Milou bookend; I was pretty sure it originally came in a set and would've loved to have the other one... I just looked up on the Internet and it is indeed a set, the other character being Tintin. But I'm not sure I want to spend time and money on reuniting the two bookends. I'm satisfied with having the Milou bookend only.

Dinner to La Grand-mère Poule

After visiting the bazaar, we went to eat. We really wanted to try Régine Café, but the lineup was huge, so we went to La Grand-mère Poule. It's still a nice place, but we had already been there about a month ago. That day, I had eaten the omelette "Chicago" with bacon, mushroom and cheddar cheese. I haven't eaten a lot of omelettes in my life, but that was probably the best one I had ever had, though I wasn't able to finish it entirely.

The omelette

Fast forward to today, I ordered poutine. I wanted something spicy, so I chose the "Punta San Carlos".

When I received my dish, I was taken aback; first, because the portion was much bigger than I anticipated, and second, because the sauce looked like spaghetti sauce? I was like wtf. Then I saw black beans and realized that it was chilli. I had a sudden flashback of summer 2018 when I ate so many times slow-cooked chilli that I grew almost disgusted with it. Up until now, I had never eaten chilli again.

On top of that, I didn't know that chilli was gonna be in the poutine and topping the usual poutine sauce. I had another bad recollection of ordering the St-Hubert poutine years ago and getting some sort of "oversweet" poutine because of the sweet BBQ sauce they had put with the usual salty sauce. (I never ordered that poutine again.)

For these reasons, I was a bit panicking because I didn't want to waste the dish (especially since my mom had invited me), but neither did I want to feel sick.

I started by tasting only the chilli first. It wasn't wow, but not ew either. It wasn't as sweet as the chilli I used to make, so I was relieved. A couple of bites later, I truly liked the poutine! I also got to bring home the leftover and ate it for supper. It tasted even better with both sauces all mixed up and I regretted not mixing them earlier.

I don't know why I didn't see the chilli coming. I just went to check the menu on the Internet, and in fact, they list "chilli" as the first component in the poutine. I guess I was distracted and didn't make the connection when reading the menu. Fortunately, I ended up liking the dish and nothing had to be thrown in the end.

So that was my day yesterday in Montreal. I almost forgot to mention that the weather was also perfect. It was very sunny, yet the sun wasn't too hot, there was zero humidity, and a slight, continuous breeze made walking in the city very comfortable.