May 8, 2016 Travel to Montreal, Dinner – Raviolis, Rapini, onion, Mushrooms, and Sockeye Salmon

May 8, 2016 Travel to Montreal, Dinner – Raviolis, Rapini, onion, Mushrooms, and Sockeye Salmon

We got up at 6:00 and made it to the bus station by 7:00 for our 7:30 departure to Montreal.  We went to the top of the double decker bus and took the front left hand seats on the top level because an older gentleman was sitting in the right hand seat.  We began talking to him and found him to be fascinating.  He said he was from Saskachewan and had attended UBC from the age of 15.  He had a consulting business that advised businesses if proposed projects had merit and his main client was Exxon Mobil among other things.  We hit of, to say the least and he helped show us how to board the train to Montreal at the intermediate station where the bus met the lake side train and again in Toronto’ immense station.  He was 87 and as sharp as a tack mentally.

After boarding the train in Toronto we nibbled bread and goat cheese and prosciutto and grapes.  We also bought a 200 ml. bottle of East Dell Vineyards white and red from the cart passing through the train that were not very good for $7.00 each and drank the red and finished the wonderful bottle of Trius rose we had bought in Niagara on the Lake.

We arrived in Montreal around 5:00 and taxied to the Air BNB condo in a new building.  We decided to cook dinner, so we got directions to the nearest supermarket and walked the 8 or nine blocks.  We bought sliced ham, a baguette, coffee, about 1 lb. of sockeye salmon, a large container of ricotta and spinach filled fresh ravioli, mustard, blue berries, maple syrup flavored yogurt, butter, cream, an onion, white mushrooms, a beautiful bunch of Rapini, and croissants for breakfast for a total of $60 Canadian.

 

We returned to the condo and made a hardy dinner of ravioli and rapini with a mushroom, cream, onion, and wine sauce.  We drank the Wagner Winery Rose of Cabernet Franc we had bought in New York’s Finger Lakes.  We drank cognac and ate chocolates for dessert. After a great meal of fresh ingredients, we went to bed.

Bon Appetit