Culinary adventure weekend
This one will be exceptionally in English, as requested my dear friend Eva and also since it contains some references to good old times in Scotland.
This week’s objective was to find authentic Canadian cuisine. Too bad that even Canadians seem sort of confused what that might be. Wikipedia suggests number of things, including ketchup chips (yes, really, they are just ketchup tasting chips) and even California roll, where the name sort of already tells you it is not Canadian.
But the most frequent suggestion that we got was poutine. Poutine is actually a French Canadian innovation consisting of french fries, cheese curds and gravy. I’m still not sure what would be the national dish (if there is any) elsewhere in Canada. I guess it reflects the county’s history rich in immigration, whereas Finns have had centuries and centuries to be just with each other to refine delicacies like mämmi.
But we got a local guide for this one. Apparently you want your gravy to be tasty, cheese curds to be sqeezy and fries crispy. I was rather apprehensive, not a huge fan of french fry meals.
So here it goes. Poutine traditional style in La Belle Poutine.
You can get it with a variety of meats as well. I don’t know whould would get all you can eat, since portions were pretty huge…
So how was it? Not as bad as I feared it might be. I could really imagine it would hit the right spot 3 am or the day after. Rather salty though, I think I had like a liter of water straight after…
Our culinary adveture continued when we went to a pub to watch the Canucks game. On the dessert menu we found this little surprise all the way from Scotland…
It sort of looks gross…
Deep-fried Mars bar! We seriously tried to find some once upon a time in Edinburgh, but apparently I had to come all the way to Vancouver to find it. Again, like poutine, not as bad as imagined! Ice cream nicely balanced the Mars bar.
So would I have either one of them again? Not sure. Not so much because of the taste but rather the overall trans fat amount…