I totally need to try poutine. Can't be hard to make, right?
not really hard at all. The key is the fries though, if you don't have your own fryer they won't taste right.
I have a large pan, a candy thermometer, and some oil.
I'm English, of course I can make chips! ;) My favourite way is triple-cooking them with a supplementary freezing step - parboil, fry at low temperature until cooked but not coloured, freeze overnight, then final fry from frozen. The ice crystals forming affects the structure of the potato and the final product is more crispy. Unnecessary, but good.
Curd cheese might be hard to source though, unless we call that something else over here.
Curd cheese is unpressed cheddar, I worked in a cheese factory when I was young that's why I know. Now that said it is considered an unfinished product in many places. But having the right sauce may be hard as the most common mistake I saw in my trip to the west was to use steak gravy, it doesn't look so bad but it doesn't do the job.
It's the curd of the cheese before they make it into the cheese.
I get Mozzerella cheese curd from the Strip here, any place that sells fresh mazzerella should have cheese curd.
I've done that with fries, it's how McDonalds does their fries, and the result is great, works fantastic with poutine.
The gravy is a 1/2 chicken 1/2 beef gravy, it is a bit wierd, but if you google poutine gravy you should find one.
The most important thing, and probably hardest to get is Cheese Curds. Don't sue shredded cheese, or slices, or powdered. The stuff is heavenly. It's great on a cold night, after a hockey game, or a day skiing, and goes great with beer too!
Am I the only one around here who doesn't even know what poutine is? Mind you, my idea of cooking is "bung it in the microwave, wait the required number of minutes, then take it out, peel the lid off, and eat it", so…
Essentially it's
1) Fries
2) Cheese Curds on top
3) Brown gravy (Usually beef) poured on top
https://www.google.ca/search?q=poutine&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=KZO1VMjeCaT7sASLlIDoCQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=1
It's deliciously-heart-attackingly-evil-goodness
Our favorite brewery, Urban Chestnut, always sells poutine in their beer hall, so we have regular access to it here in STL. It is delicious.
If any of you decide to come up ehre, I'll treat you to the palces that do it the best.
(Hint Hint, >G should totally come up here!)
That's how my boyfriend "cooks". He has no interest in doing anything more elaborate. Best he can do is a cheese omelette.
Needless to say, I'm the one in charge of food preparation in our house. I'm always horrified by how much unnecessary salt and sugar they have to put into ready meals to make them even half palatable, and besides I actually really like following recipes and creating my own dishes.
I heard Ukraine tried it. It felt forced to them.
That was beautiful.
I don't get it.
Funnily enough, I used to work for a company that were the largest supplier of ready meals in the UK. I had a visit to one of the factories and was amazed at all the beautiful fresh vegetables and herbs, thousands of trays of the stuff in every part of the building, and every room was filled with the most incredible aromas. And then I looked at the crappy processed end product pumped full of all the bad things and made a little sad face.
Poutine = Putin; Russia invades Ukraine.
*wipes away tear* So beautiful.
Edit: Oh gods. Putin's reaction? Crimea river.
There's a great little microbrewery/restaurant south of Dayton--Lock 27--that does a spectacular poutine: well-fried fries, great cheese curds, and beef braised in one of their own microbrews. So good!
Better yet? They're directly across the street from one of my favorite game stores, Epic Loot. Makes for a great night out!
There's a Poutine restaurant here that has different styles, different types of fries, sauces, adding all sorts of new stuff to it. Two of the most popular?
1) Montreal Smoked Meat Poutine
2) General Tao Poutine. Yes, GT Chicken in a Poutine. It's as delciious as it sounds.
That would also make me very sad.
What do they do with the vegetables? Practically every ready meal ever requires me to add supplementary vegetation of some kind.