Traditional Canadian food
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Traditional Canadian food
What can I cook other than poutine, to feel all Canadian and homely. What are traditional Canadian meals? I tried google but for once google didn't know!
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Re: Traditional Canadian food
kill it , prepare it, then eat it without help. Canadian a la carte.
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I'm not Canadian and I only know Quebec, but I did the whole sugar shack thing recently and was assured that pea soup, omlette, pork scratchings, ham and beans rounded off with apple cake was the distillation of all that was good about Quebec cuisine.
Naturally, all of that had a healthy dose of maple syrup allll over it.
Naturally, all of that had a healthy dose of maple syrup allll over it.
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Re: Traditional Canadian food
Take various tins of different types of vegetables and soups. Add something fresh such as potatoes or ground meat stick in the oven and call it a casserole or scalloped potatoes.
Or add jelly and marshmallows to a salad.
Or add jelly and marshmallows to a salad.
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Re: Traditional Canadian food
Funny isn't it then any thread started to do with food always ends up talking about chocolate!! LOL We just can't get enough of the stuff! Still, it is Easter weekend so chocolate all around!!!
Anyway, I agree with a previous post re the tinned veg etc. It seems the Canadians are very big on usuing their crock pots or slow cookers. Have to say, I do use mine quite a bit too. However, it's true, whenever you look in recipie books, a lot of the ingredients seem to be things like tinned veg or dry soup mixes etc. I'm trying to adapt some of them as I prefer to add fresh veg etc.
Also, BBQs! I really don't know, is it just here in Alberta or is it country wide in that the Canadians love their BBQs? Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it. We are just as bad too now and seem to be forever having them. As I look around, there isn't a single back deck that hasn't got a large gas BBQ sitting on it and our neighbour continues to have them all through winter.
Also, have you noticed that so much of what you can buy seems to come in maple syrup or cinnamon varieties? Also loads of stuff with peanut butter!
So, in short, anything in a slow cooker, BBQ, or with maple syrup or cinnamon or even peanut butter!
Anyway, I agree with a previous post re the tinned veg etc. It seems the Canadians are very big on usuing their crock pots or slow cookers. Have to say, I do use mine quite a bit too. However, it's true, whenever you look in recipie books, a lot of the ingredients seem to be things like tinned veg or dry soup mixes etc. I'm trying to adapt some of them as I prefer to add fresh veg etc.
Also, BBQs! I really don't know, is it just here in Alberta or is it country wide in that the Canadians love their BBQs? Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it. We are just as bad too now and seem to be forever having them. As I look around, there isn't a single back deck that hasn't got a large gas BBQ sitting on it and our neighbour continues to have them all through winter.
Also, have you noticed that so much of what you can buy seems to come in maple syrup or cinnamon varieties? Also loads of stuff with peanut butter!
So, in short, anything in a slow cooker, BBQ, or with maple syrup or cinnamon or even peanut butter!
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Re: Traditional Canadian food
Still, something like cedar planked salmon is tasty and I think of that as being canadian.
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Re: Traditional Canadian food
Canadian cuisine is regional, typically, so it will depend on where you are in Canada.
Here on the BC coast, having a sockeye salmon BBQ (or cedar plank salmon as mentioned) with potato salad, corn on the cob, and fresh tomatos/basil from the garden, and a blackberry crisp for dessert, or a strawberry/rhubarb pie would be a very "Canadian" meal (in the summer months, at least!).
BBQ steak and Ukrainian food would be a more common "Canadian" meal in Alberta.
Poutine originates in Quebec, and it's only been the past 10-15 years or so that its popularity has spread outside of Quebec.
I have no idea what would be considered regional Ontario food.
Here on the BC coast, having a sockeye salmon BBQ (or cedar plank salmon as mentioned) with potato salad, corn on the cob, and fresh tomatos/basil from the garden, and a blackberry crisp for dessert, or a strawberry/rhubarb pie would be a very "Canadian" meal (in the summer months, at least!).
BBQ steak and Ukrainian food would be a more common "Canadian" meal in Alberta.
Poutine originates in Quebec, and it's only been the past 10-15 years or so that its popularity has spread outside of Quebec.
I have no idea what would be considered regional Ontario food.
Last edited by Lychee; Apr 2nd 2010 at 6:12 pm.
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Re: Traditional Canadian food
Don't know what you put into Google, I got 1.27m hits.
Here's two
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_cuisine
http://www.foodbycountry.com/Algeria...ce/Canada.html