We booked dinner on Saturday of the Formula One race weekend in Montreal. Yup, four years in a row. Au Pied de Cochon. In an article I found from 2008, the chef Martin Picard apparently imports 70 kg of foie gras per week! That was six years ago, so it may have increased since then…the chef himself […]
Month: June 2014
Pretty Window Box Ideas
Travelling around New England, I saw so many houses with lovely shuttered windows…and window boxes! Since we were there in springtime, the boxes were full of beautiful flowers. Here are some photos of what I found around Rhode Island, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Boston: Here are some lovely white boxes with ornate brackets.
Our Mother’s Garden
Take a peek at our mother’s garden! Her flowers are clearly the most lush on the street, perhaps in the neighbourhood! Hyacinths are by far my favourite spring flower, so colourful and fragrant. I wasn’t so sure about these parrot tulips at first, but they are striking once they are fully opened!
Preppy Style: Vineyard Vines
1. Churchill Downs Scene Dress 2. Rose Print Dress 3. Sealife Patchwork Print Dress 4. Eyelet Gathered Dress Vineyard Vines is a clothing company founded on Martha’s Vineyard and sells preppy, seaside clothes and accessories. The colours are bright and happy, and it seems like the clothes have an easy fit. On their website, they […]
Happy Hour: Cape Cod Cocktail
Having just come back from road tripping through Cape Cod, I found out that one of my favourite drinks, the vodka cranberry, is also called a Cape Cod, or Cape Codder! The cape is riddled with cranberry bogs, so it is fitting that its namesake cocktail incorporates the juice of this ruby red fruit. […]