One of my Dutch readers asked about poutine. I was surprised I’d never mentioned it before but that’s actually not too strange: I usually don’t eat it.
Poutine is more or less Québec’s national dish: It consist of fries (often made of unpeeled potatoes and much softer than European (Belgian) fries, with cheese curds topped with beef gravy. It’s a very heavy dish and not at all suited for vegetarians. But tonight, before Alison and I went to the monthly Montréal web-loggers meeting, we went to “La banquise”, the restaurant next door of the web-loggers venue. They serve only poutine and but in 22 varieties. Poutine with lobster, with Foie Gras and also a vegetarian poutine, which we both took. The gravy is replaced by a vegetable sauce with mushrooms and red bell peppers and it tastes quite good. The only problem is that my stomach can’t digest potatoes very well so I tend to become very gassy afterwards.
Sep 6 2006
Poutine
One of my Dutch readers asked about poutine. I was surprised I’d never mentioned it before but that’s actually not too strange: I usually don’t eat it.
Poutine is more or less Québec’s national dish: It consist of fries (often made of unpeeled potatoes and much softer than European (Belgian) fries, with cheese curds topped with beef gravy. It’s a very heavy dish and not at all suited for vegetarians. But tonight, before Alison and I went to the monthly Montréal web-loggers meeting, we went to “La banquise”, the restaurant next door of the web-loggers venue. They serve only poutine and but in 22 varieties. Poutine with lobster, with Foie Gras and also a vegetarian poutine, which we both took. The gravy is replaced by a vegetable sauce with mushrooms and red bell peppers and it tastes quite good. The only problem is that my stomach can’t digest potatoes very well so I tend to become very gassy afterwards.
By mare • english •