Atlantic Xpat

Here it is called Jiggs Dinner and is accompanied by cabbage, turnip and carrot boiled for many hours with salt beef until it is salty mush. I'm not a fan...

MillieF

I miss the diversity of 'foreign' foody bits that I don't get here. Those lovely jars of lotus flowers in syrup that you can pop in the bottom of white wine, those amazing smoked fishy things, that are great for canapes, the IKEA fish pastes (not enough population here for an IKEA). I miss Lakeland and all the special little gifts they do. I want to be able to eat 'strange' foods that I've never had before, because that's what I do at Christmas. I want more than "Duck Pate" and I want to buy Brik pastry, not filo..... I should have moved somewhere with a bigger populace...my bad!

Atlantic Xpat

Well yes, it's the cross we all bear for not living within spitting distance of the St Lawrence market or similar. I get a similar feeling when reading a cookbook - from Delia to Jamie - suggesting one should use free range chicken & locally reared pork etc etc. I still make the recipes but the chicken comes from Canadas largest battery hen farm which is just up the road and pork from god knows where. In the boonies local, high quality food and produce is something you learn to live without.

Howefamily

I bought the plum pudding from Loblaws to try, it was "on sale" for $9.99. It had better be good!

Oink

Why do people call it "plum pudding" when there's never any naffing plums in it?

Cookie

Every year I go to a local Christmas craft fair where an English lady sells excellent traditional Christmas pudding (with rum and stout) and chocolate rum fruitcake. I hand over my cash and joyfully head home with my goodies. Job done

Teaandtoday5

These sound great, the sort of thing my Mum would enjoy while she is here. I've never heard of this before. I've found hibiscus flowers online, which I'm hoping will be similar. Ordinary white wine or sparkling?

BristolUK

Chocolate fruit cake? Never heard of that before, but I see plenty of google results.

Howefamily

There arnt any plums in it??!!!!!

BristolUK

From wiki
From a recipe
So they don't have plums unless they do.

Piff Poff

Thats what I want to start doing, rather than working crappy retail, I want to start feeding people yummy foods.

mandymoochops

Whydon't you start making pasties / scotch eggs / plum pudding with or without plums) and other cool baked offerings for us starving brits. You know theres a ton of us in Red Deer and area and I'd sure as shit travel to come get some decent home cooked food

BEVS

Oh gawd . A decent scotch egg & a proper pasty or pastry for that matter.

BristolUK

Ha...very clever.

Oink

They actually used to do a nice scotch egg at the British pub in the Epcot Center in Disney World.