My mom’s strawberry and pastry cream tart… Those words alone evoke an idyllic lazy summer day to me. It’s the perfect tart to make especially now that the Quebec strawberries are in season and oh so sweet. I don’t know how you feel about pastry cream but it’s one of my all-time favourite things to …

I blame my mother for my impeccable and insatiable taste for all things sweet. You see when all my friends were eating store-bought desserts, my house was always filled with my mom’s home-made desserts. When all my friends were enjoying “simple”, unpretentious Lebanese sweets, I was turning my nose up at them because my mother …

This post was originally written for Honest Cooking. It was very hot in Montreal today and I spent the afternoon poolside basking in the sun and heat. It was the absolute perfect day for this refreshing drink! I grew up in Lebanon where, as a kid, I spent almost every day of every summer frolicking …

Note: Damas has since relocated to a new address at 1201 Van Horne Avenue. Two Jews and a Lebanese walk into a Syrian restaurant (thanks to Lori for that starter sentence!) … and yes that story ends with the usual fireworks but they’re happy fireworks this time, I promise! I had dinner at Damas Restaurant for …

A few weeks ago, I saw the intriguing sign of “Le Pourvoyeur: Pub festif et gourmand” go up a couple of blocks from my apartment. I’ve been living here for 5 years now and for 5 years I’ve been saying that we need a fun pub in the neighbourhood. To have a pub “gourmand” open …