On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:21 PM, eckinator <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/3/19 Adam Maas <[email protected]>: >> >> One thing the Quebecois got right was a reasonable name for the >> Potato, they call them Patates (and French Fries are Patates Frites, >> or just Frites) > > IIRC their forefathers brought that term with them; it originally > describes the Indian potato Convolvulus Batatas and it is again IIRC > 17-1800s French. > > One other thing they got right and that I miss much is Poutine, you > don't get it here and I have no "real" recipe to make it myself and no > PX plus eligible person etc. around to get canned gravy. If anyone can > fill me in on how to make that stuff from the ground up, I will be a > gratefual and happy man > Cheers > Ecke
Poutine is nothing more than cheese curds and gravy on top of french fries. Generally the non-accurate version is better (as it uses cheese rather than cheese curds). The gravy is standard gravy, you can find a dozen recipes in any good cookbook. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
