Was reading over at Carmen's today
Mom to the Screaming Masses about her 100foods list. I remember doing a similar post in 2009. So I'm updating and relisting it. The CANADIAN 100Foods list.
Strikes for foods I'll never try, and Bold for foods I've tried.
Maple Syrup & Poutine's 100 Canadian Foods to Consume
1.
Arctic Char
2.
Ketchup flavoured chips
3.
Wild Rice Pilaf
4.
Caribou Steak
5.
Gourmet Poutine
6. Screech
7.
Beaver Tails
8.
Maple Baked Beans
9. Bison Burger
10.
Bumbleberry pie
11.
Nanaimo bar
12.
Butter Tarts (I used to work for a bakery, and ate too many of these weekly)
13. Cedar Planked B.C. Salmon
14.
Wild Blueberries (we had these in the field behind our house)
15.
Pure Local Cranberry Juice (I've had pure Cranberry juice, but I can't say if it was local or not)
16.
Chocolate from Ganong or Purdy’s (I live in Ganong world)
17.
A cup of warm cider from your local orchard (every fall... one of my favourite treats)
18. Caesar
19.
4 of the following types of apples
(Cortland, Empire, Golden Delicious, McIntosh, Spartan, Greensleeves,
Liberty, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Honeycrisp, Golden Russet, Idared,
Gala)
20.
Freshly foraged mushrooms
21. Dinner cooked by Michael Smith, Susur Lee or Rob Feenie
22. Fondue Chinoise
23.
Dish created from a Canadian Living Magazine recipe (my Aunt gave me a subscription for a wedding gift, great idea!)
24.
Peameal Bacon Sandwich from St. Lawrence Market in Toronto (we used to buy it from the grocerystore in ON)
25.
Lobster bought directly from a boat in a Maritime harbour (yep, I'm from CB)
26.
Handmade perogies from your local church or market (My husband's Polish Aunt makes them the best!)
27.
Alberta Beef at an Alberta Steakhouse ( I was 9!)
28.
Leamington Tomatoes
29. Roasted Pheasant
30.
Wild Game hunted by someone you know
31.
Ice Wine (YES! did a whole marketing report for College on this stuff and that means we needed research materials...) :)
32.
Habitant Pea Soup – entire can
33.
Any Canadian Artisinal Cheese
34.
Bannock (my mom's)
35.
Tourtiere (didn't like it)
36. Flapper Pie
37.
Jellied Moose Nose
38. Saskatoon Berries
39. Fish and Brewis
40. Screech Pie
41.
Fiddleheads(found in the back yard, didnt' like them..)
42. Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich
43.
Flipper Pie
44. Montreal Bagels with Smoked Salmon
45. Toutins
46.
Jam Busters
47.
Bakeapple Pie
48.
Bridge Mixture (sold this in Primary (that's K for the rest of Canada) for a fundraiser and was instantly addicted)
49.
Canadian Style Pizza (bacon, pepperoni. Mushrooms)
50.
Shreddies
51.
A cone from Cow’s Ice Cream
52
. Lumberjack or Logger’s Breakfast
53.
Jigg’s Dinner
54. Rappie Pie
55. Pemmican
56. Lake Erie Sturgeon Caviar
57. Belon Oysters
58. Brome Lake Duck
59.
Beer from a stubby bottle.
60. A beer from Unibroue or Phillips Brewery.
61. Salt Spring Island Lamb
62.
Fry’s Cocoa (do not eat this dry...oops, I was 5!)
63.
A bag of Old Dutch Potato Chips (they re not as good at Humpty Dumpty and even though there seems to be some kind of "togetherness" I still prefer the HD,)
64.
Every Flavour of Laura Secord Suckers
65.
Chicken Dinner from St Hubert’s or Swiss Chalet
66. Hickory Sticks
67. An entire box of Kraft Dinner
68. Candy Apples (NOT caramel apples)
69. Corn from a roadside stand
70. A meal at Eigensenn Farm (where?)
71.
Okanogan Peaches
72. Berkshire Pork
73.
PEI Potatoes
74. Something cooked in Canola oil
75. Figgy Duff
76.
Blueberry Grunt
77. High Tea at the Empress Hotel
78.
Fresh maple syrup hardened on the snow
79. Oreilles de Christ(is that ears of christ?)
80.
Nova Scotia Beer Warmer
81. A cheese plate containing Bleu Bénédictin, Friulano, St. Maure and Oka.
82.
Black or red currant jam
83.
Maple glazed Doughnut from Tim
Horton’s with a Large “Double Double”(this is only recent, I never order
coffee out and now coffee and I no longer speak)
84. A glass of Mission Hill’s “Oculus”
85. Alberta Pure Vodka
86.
Chokecherries
87. Canada Day Cake
88. Boulettes
89.
Canadian Iced Tea
90. Mead
91.
Fricot
92.
Grandperes
93.
Local honey
94.
Creton on toast
95. Glen Breton Rare
96.
A whole box of Smarties, where the
empty box is then used as a kazoo(before I was all holy breasted mother,
I used to ask relatives to bring smarties to us in the USA, )
97. Grilled cheese made with Canadian Cheddar
98. A meal from Harvey’s
99. Lake Erie Perch (not big fish fan)
100.
Red Rose Tea
If you are unsure of what the item is, look it up! Please pass the list
on to your friends and fellow bloggers - whether they are Canadian or
not.
Good morning, yep it's Tuesday morning and I'm actually here. Yep joining the Random Tuesday Rebel Stacy She's Stacy Uncorked
Today well it the Tuesday back to the usual go go go... If you remember my Tuesday's from the last 2 yrs, guess where I'm going today?? come on you'll never guess. hahaha yep the dentist. Small filling. Seems fitting after Chocolate weekend.
Speaking of all that chocolate. I did well not eating it all this weekend, my situation was the chocolate I ate "before" the bunny got here. There is plenty of proof now attached to my chair. Speaking of Chairs...
