Nuit Blanche is coming. The annual “white night” festival keeps people up all the way to dawn, but of course so do the sponsors stay open. This is part of the Montreal High Lights Festival. They even let the Penguins from the Biodome out for a walk! (Cancelled if the weather is bad for the …
Every morning we serve a full Montreal breakfast. The menu is different every morning and often alternates between sweet and savoury, but always chef’s choice. Today we served lemon & poppy seed pancakes with raspberry syrup and yesterday was a quiche made from the vegetables from the farm (we get a box of organic vegetables …
Pronounced: mah-kah-rowhn (aspirated n) Considered a confection, they are often thought of at the most difficult of pastries to make. Ours are homemade and come in many different flavours. We often have 12 different flavours in stock, but the flavours change from time to time. We also sometimes stock mini-macarcon (mini-macs) for breakfast. Some of …
One of the lovely parts of visiting a professional bed and breakfast is the homemade products. We are well known for our breakfasts but not everyone realizes that most of our jams are homemade. Of course, being homemade jams, they change from time to time. Today on the table we have Clementine-Vanilla Marmalade, Blueberry-Violet jam, …
From time to time we need to make changes to the B&B and sometimes we just need to paint and polish some of the aspects of the inn. And I’m sure that some of you are wondering what changes we have made to the Bed and Breakfast. Carleton had the balcony updated with a brand …
Canada has minted it’s last penny. The CBC even wrote an obituary for the penny. Why do I mention this? Because as visitors, you might not realize why you aren’t getting pennies in your change. As of today, while some stores will still have pennies, the number of pennies will begin to dwindle. Stores and …
As some people know, we bake our very own homemade macaron. Macaron are a confectionary that is made with almond flour, egg whites and sugar. They are often considered on of the most difficult of confectionaries to make, considering how tempermental they can be and the over 30 steps involved, just in making the shells. …
Over the last few months we have been working in the background here at Gingerbread Manor to set up our new website and of course, this new blog as well. And as you can now see, this is it. We will still post on our Facebook page about things to see, do and read about …
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