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I am presently on vacation in Ireland, and within the week, will be in Poland where I have been requested to prepare some food and/or drink from my "culture" for local consumption.
When I think of Canadian food, my mind draws a complete blank. If you have any recommendations, please list them here. Furthermore, if you can think of any Canadian "drinks," you are welcome to brainstorm with me.
There is the obvious maple syrup, but what to serve it with?
Your recommendations should be easy to make (or buy) by inhospitable hands.
Failing success, I suppose I could impersonate as a German, but it would be a tough sell to the Poles.
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The only specifically canadian food I know of is poutine. :D
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On August 25 2009 19:07 Alsar wrote: The only specifically canadian food I know of is poutine. :D
Not precisely representative, but I'll take it. Can it be prepared at home?
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Eh, I thought Maple Syrup was Vermont which is in the US. Never knew Canadians were "famous" for their Maple Syrup, though I knew Vermont was. o.O
Off the top of my head though....Moose?
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Get some GOOD red wine, that should be a good start.
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Poutine is definitely something you can call strictly 'Canadian' (or 'Quebecer'), but it's not a very elegant dish. You can certainly prepare it at home - just make some good fries (from scratch, with potatoes; try this a few times beforehand so you have a good feel for it), get gravy, and try to find some cheese curds (this might be hard). I suppose you can make it look good by adding basil leaves all around and other superficial things. Probably the easiest meal to make, especially if you buy frozen fries. You just dump stuff together with hot enough gravy so that it melts the cheese.
I think something better (though not necessarily Canadian, but North American) would be something with pancakes/crepes (whatever you call the thin ones). This works well for breakfast:
Pancakes with shrimp and broccoli. Marinade shrimp in some garlic/olive oil/basil/lemon/spice/soy sauce concoction. Make thin crepes. Boil, then saute broccoli. Make Alfredo sauce. (I haven't seen it anywhere in Europe - and I've looked. No one has heard of this kind of sauce). On a crepe, combine sauteed shrimp and broccoli, pour with sauce, fold over pancake. Nothing hard here as long as you know how to make crepes.
This has turned out ridiculously good every time I've made it. It's a good, light breakfast, and if you want to be truly Canadian, you can serve it with coffee with maple syrup (which adds as a good substitute for sugar and makes it tastes mmm... add nutmeg for best results).
I was going to post this recipe once on TL but I never got around to it, though I did it and took pictures of the process, so lemme know if you're interested and I'll try to get them for you.
Where will you be in Ireland? When and where will you be staying in Poland?
EDIT: Canadian whiskey? Dr. Pepper? ... no such thing as a Canadian drink, I think.
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hahahaha, canadian food, that's a good one. all I can really think of is like, tim hortons and timbits. but that's not exactly revolutionary, is it?
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Wait poutine is strictly canadian?
First ketchup chips now this.
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On August 25 2009 19:51 genwar wrote: First ketchup chips now this.
England had these yearsss ago, they were the best. No idea why they died out though.
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lol you really should google this stuff
but off the top of my head... what about BC smoked salmon? prbly will be hella expensive to make or even impossible in poland though
you could also try to get some raw moose/whale/seal i forget what that inuits actually eat up north haha that will be great to present, and also prbly impossible to get
oh right, also ginger beef lol, which like fortune cookies and other stuff, is actually not real chinese cuisine, but food made by chinese restaurants way back in north america and marketed as chinese food. if i remember correctly ginger beef originated from alberta you could prbly make ginger beef, to my knowledge it's just a strip of beef covered in some kind of thick fried starchy shit
EDIT: oh man, even the canadian cuisine shouts out the multinational country that is canada... smoked salmon and raw seafood from natives, poutine from french ppl, ginger beef from chinese ppl... lol...
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Norway28267 Posts
On August 25 2009 19:23 Aegraen wrote:Eh, I thought Maple Syrup was Vermont which is in the US. Never knew Canadians were "famous" for their Maple Syrup, though I knew Vermont was. o.O Off the top of my head though....Moose?
to people outside the US, maple syrup is most definitely considered canadian rather than ameircan
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On August 25 2009 19:23 Aegraen wrote:Eh, I thought Maple Syrup was Vermont which is in the US. Never knew Canadians were "famous" for their Maple Syrup, though I knew Vermont was. o.O Off the top of my head though....Moose?
yeah it's not like we have a maple leaf on our flag or anything
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poutine is good, also if you're on the east coast, lobster rolls? you can even get them at mcdonald's. but that might be an east coast thing more than a canadian thing.
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only truly canadian food i know is Poutine.
Drinks? For beer we have Molson and Sleeman (Honey Brown mmm... awesome beer). I could say Granville Island Brewing but they seem more local than national to me...
BC is also known for its Okanagan Ice Wine (nice gift to give to the boss after vacation)
and there's a ton of maple syrup in our tourist shops so im willing to say it's one of the foods Canada's known for.
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man... the day canada is no longer associated with maple syrup... gg =(
that's like how some ppl think polar bears roam canadian streets, while other people don't even know polar bears lived in canada; of course you could go one more level and have ppl who dont know what canada is or what polar bears are. unfortuantely not all of them are children =p
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aegraen is too busy associating them with socialism is all, our neighbors up north are still the syrup kings
as a side note, i've always found grade b maple syrup to be much better
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Osaka26967 Posts
French toast. Beat eggs, add a little milk, sprinkle cinnamon. Dip both sides of bread in mixture and fry in pan. Serve with maple syrup on top.
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From Quebec, we have the "Pâté chinois" (there is no real english name I think, even though it can be translated to "Chinese pie", but it's very similar to shepherd's pie). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pâté_chinois
Personally, I love it.
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Isnt cajun cuisine canadian? Its very easy and cheap too.
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You totally need to do a huge Poutine. Nothing else can represent more the .... Quebec
Easy stuff to do (sorry.. name in french )
Tourtière Ragout de patte de cochon Six Patte ... not sure of spelling (that is pure awesome) Pate Chinois
.. Could had more but im at work currently
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Do a Tourtiere :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourtière
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On August 25 2009 20:01 Pads wrote:England had these yearsss ago, they were the best. No idea why they died out though. I'm sure they still sell them but they're pretty rare I believe
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Montreal smoked meat? Delicious.
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hmmm....maple bacon? since you want something with maple syrup.. Im here in Canada for the 4th year now, and i still don't know what they mean when restraunts have "Canadian Foods". But then again, living in New Zealand, there wasn't much either other than various sea foods
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Mostly just vegetables/potatoes, typical harvest cornicoppia stuff makes up "canadian" food.
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I don't like poutine much, but it is very Canadian.
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On August 25 2009 21:43 Manifesto7 wrote: French toast. Beat eggs, add a little milk, sprinkle cinnamon. Dip both sides of bread in mixture and fry in pan. Serve with maple syrup on top.
Oh man, thanks! I was just thinking of how boring it is to eat your 2 slices of bread the same way every morning. I will definately try this out.
What should you fry the bread in?
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Canada9720 Posts
i don't know if it's strictly canadian, but maple curry chicken is a very popular dish here
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On August 25 2009 20:19 Divinek wrote:Show nested quote +On August 25 2009 19:23 Aegraen wrote:Eh, I thought Maple Syrup was Vermont which is in the US. Never knew Canadians were "famous" for their Maple Syrup, though I knew Vermont was. o.O Off the top of my head though....Moose? yeah it's not like we have a maple leaf on our flag or anything
lol
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what's with maple syrup on everything though lol.
curry chicken is fine without maple syrup =)
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Pancakes with shrimp and broccoli
I will not make something I personally would not eat.
I suppose I'll look into making poutine, although I have never made fries except by oven, and have no clue how to make them out of potatoes.
Does anyone know know the word(s) for cheese curds in Polish? I might have to ask for it.
French toast. Beat eggs, add a little milk, sprinkle cinnamon. Dip both sides of bread in mixture and fry in pan. Serve with maple syrup on top.
Definitely making this one. Should you not spinkle cinnamon on the toast rather than in the mix though?
Also, I've done the following at home, although I don't know if you'd consider it Canadian:
Hot milk + maple syrup.
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Steak, Bacon and potatoes along with a pint of Alexander Keiths.
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alternate recipes for French Toast:
pro style (2 servings, or 1 angry nerd): 1 cup of milk, 3 eggs, 4 tablespoons of maple syrup, 1 tablespoon of cinnamon. Mix VERY WELL (especially if you kept your maple syrup in the fridge, it'll tend to stay rigid at the bottom and you won't taste it at all), dip your bread in it and just before it feels like it's going to crumble dump it in a frying pan with 1 tablespoon of butter.
"like grandma used to make 'em" (2-3 servings, or 1 mega angry nerd): basically the same recipe as above, except instead of cinnamon and maple syrup put 4 to 5 tablespoons of brown sugar and mix VERY WELL (in milk and eggs it'll be hard to do as if there was any clumps to begin with it'll harden them even more). *Note: when I do the 2nd recipe I tend to not dip the bread as much as it's very sugary, twice on each side should be good enough, but it all depends on the thickness of your bread yo.
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Canadian beer > any other beer, with the exception of maybe German imo. It's stronger than American beer, so be prepared to be drunk a little faster.
As said in the film "Big Daddy" featuring Adam Sandler, "I was drinking Canadian beer... that stuff's like moonshine to us!" Edit: That's the first thing I think of when I think Canadian drink. Bloody Caesars are also a viable option.
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On August 25 2009 19:51 genwar wrote: Wait poutine is strictly canadian?
First ketchup chips now this.
lol poutine was created in Quebec and honestly everywhere else in Canada I've eaten it it wasn't nearly as good as real poutine t_t
edit: lulz
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Make French cuisine, then English cuisine. Throw them in the same bowl, deep fry them (part American cuisine), and serve warm, and fried.
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It's pretty hard to come up with specific Canadian food since the country is so big and disparate in the types of food available and the different amounts/types of immigrants. Food is quite local. Poutine is indeed Canadian, but really it's more of a Quebec thing. Alberta would be known for steak and other types of beef. Vancouver would be fish dishes as well as Chinese dishes because of the large Chinese population.
It's sort of like trying to come up with a United States cuisine, other than, fat hamburger americon lol, there really isn't such a thing.
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On August 26 2009 00:46 MoltkeWarding wrote: Does anyone know know the word(s) for cheese curds in Polish? I might have to ask for it. I'm far from being any kind of kitchen pro, but from what I understood in wiki article, I would say there is no such thing here. You may try to use young cheese and crumble it yourself, I don't think you could get a better substitute in any normal (non-specialized) shop.
On August 26 2009 01:13 MutaDoom wrote: Canadian beer > any other beer, with the exception of maybe German imo. It's stronger than American beer, so be prepared to be drunk a little faster. As said in the film "Big Daddy" featuring Adam Sandler, "I was drinking Canadian beer... that stuff's like moonshine to us!" LOL He's going to Poland, you know.
Oh, and a question to you, Moltke - aren't you Chinese grown in Canada? It would really be easier to get typical Chinese food than Canadian. And just out of curiosity - where in Poland you plan to be?
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if anything you can use grated cheese, I know each time we make french fries in the oven my mom makes a ghetto poutine with bbq sauce and mozarella cheese in the microwave lol
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I can't believe no one has said bison. Bison burgers are fucking delicious.
As someone said, Canadians have many origins so there are really many options. You can make anything from the different backgrounds: Metis+Quebecers, First Nations, Inuit, and Acadians+seafood dishes.
If you can't get bison, I'd go with bannock.
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I am not making Hamburgers/Pizza/Minority foods. Quebecois is fine.
You may try to use young cheese and crumble it yourself, I don't think you could get a better substitute in any normal (non-specialized) shop.
I was afraid of this. Also I don't know what facilities will be made available to me in Poland. I also don't know if I can even get maple syrup in Poland, so I had better fetch some here.
And just out of curiosity - where in Poland you plan to be?
My provisional route is: Dublin-Szczecin-Torun-Warsaw (not sure about this yet)-Rzeszow-Sanok-Krakow-Wroclaw-Germany
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good handle of canadian whiskey. Windsor or canadian mist
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This is "Canadian cuisine"?
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Osaka26967 Posts
On August 26 2009 00:17 Foucault wrote:Show nested quote +On August 25 2009 21:43 Manifesto7 wrote: French toast. Beat eggs, add a little milk, sprinkle cinnamon. Dip both sides of bread in mixture and fry in pan. Serve with maple syrup on top. Oh man, thanks! I was just thinking of how boring it is to eat your 2 slices of bread the same way every morning. I will definately try this out. What should you fry the bread in?
If you have a non-stick pan, don't fry it in anything, the egg acts as batter. Otherwise just a dab of margerine / butter to grease the pan (this adds a nice touch of crisp too)
On August 26 2009 00:46 MoltkeWarding wrote:Show nested quote +French toast. Beat eggs, add a little milk, sprinkle cinnamon. Dip both sides of bread in mixture and fry in pan. Serve with maple syrup on top. Definitely making this one. Should you not spinkle cinnamon on the toast rather than in the mix though?
Nope, in the mix is fine. It will float, and coat the outside nicely when you dip.
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On August 25 2009 20:36 jello24 wrote: I could say Granville Island Brewing but they seem more local than national to me...
Granville Island Brewing is the absolute WORST beer I have ever had in my life.
Just make them a poutine. That shit is fucking good.
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