Tag Archives: montreal food

SAUCISSESSION WITH SZEF BARTEK!

Along with Dépanneur Le Pick-Up, I am thrilled to announce our first workshop of 2011, featuring Montreal food writer and Pork Club founder Bartek Komorowski! Bartek, a restaurant critic for the Montreal Mirror, also runs the food blog Culinary Propaganda. He is both the creator of Pork Club — and has hosted its infamous pork-oriented feasts right here at the Pick-Up — and its secretive offshoot, Pork Underground.

Saucissession with Szef Bartek is the convergence of Pork Club with Culinary Propaganda — a pork-oriented event aimed ultimately to inspire participants to craft their own sausages. Please join us on Saturday, February 12 as we explore the methods and techniques for creating your own sausages from scratch: preparing the meat and stuffing it into casings. The workshop will include a presentation by Bartek, as well as the opportunity to make your own links.

The workshop will begin promptly at 8pm, with doors opening at 7:30pm. Each participant will be making his or her own sausages to take home, with guidance and instruction from Szef Bartek. The registration fee is $35 and will cover all costs for the sausages presented.

The Pick-Up is located 7032 rue Waverly. It’s a cozy, intimate space — please register soon as there are a very limited number of spots. Cash only, please, and payable on the night of the event. To register, email natasha DOT pickowicz AT gmail DOT com.

Bring a bottle of wine* if you like, as we’ll also be frying up some of our finished sausages to enjoy right on the spot!

*To accompany pork sausages, Szef Bartek recommends aromatic, off-dry whites, such as gewurztraminers and dry rieslings, as well as dry ciders.

KEEPING IT REAL

Like many other people I know, I have sworn to give (mostly) give homemade gifts for the holidays this year.

At the Dep, we are currently featuring lots of wonderful DIY things — jams by Camilla of Preservation Society (I bought a jar of the strawberry jam and it is outrageously good, like eat with a spoon out of the jar good), oignons confit by Anthony of …An Endless Banquet (man, so excited to see what they cook up for their annual holiday party!), lovely hand-painted cards by March Hutchinson, and pickles (including pickled milkweed! and bacon corn!) by Sunny Stone of Comptoire… and my granola and shortbread! So excited to be lumped in with all of these talented folks.

Right now we have two kinds of granola: ‘naughty’ granola (pumpkin seeds, dark chocolate, dried blueberries, cardamom, orange zest) and ‘dejeuner’ granola (almonds, dried raisins, cinnamon, flax seeds, sesame, applesauce, and maple syrup). We also have two kinds of shortbread: espresso with cacao nibs, and toasted coconut. I love them both! So for an affordable present idea in a pinch, please come by the Dep! [More photos and information at the Depanneur Le Pick Up blog]