Canadian Recipes

• Poutine - One of Canada's most famous dishes. Poutine originated in the French Canadian kitchens of from Québec, but has become popular throughout the country. Poutine is simply French fries topped with cheese curds and covered with gravy.
  
  
• Lumberjack's breakfast - A traditional Canadian breakfast containing eggs, ham, bacon, sausage and pancakes.
  
  
• Pâté chinois - A French Canadian dish somewhat similar to Shepherd's pie: a layer of ground beef (usually mixed with chopped onions and peppers), covered with a layer of corn (a mix of whole kernel and creamed corn is usually used) and then covered with a layer of mashed potatoes. The dish may be sprinkled with paprika, and is often served accompanied with pickled beets. The name of the dish means "Chinese pie", and there are various as to the origin of this name, the most common being that Chinese cooks serving railroad workers were taught how to make the dish.
  
  
• Montreal bagels - Montreal bagels are the Canadian version of bagels. These bagels are prepared by boiling in honey-sweetened water and then cooked in a wood-fired oven. The bagels commonly come into two varieties: black-seed (sprinkled with poppy seeds) or white-seed (sprinkled with sesame seeds).
  
  
  
• Tourtière - A traditional meat pie from Québec meat pie, made using ground pork, beef, veal or even game, and sometimes also containing potatoes. These pies are particular popular during the Christmas season.
  
  
• Oreilles de crisse - Deep-fried pork jowls served with maple syrup.
  
  
• Fish and brewis - A traditional meal from Newfoundland, made using salted cod and hardtack (a savory cracker-like biscuit). Both the main ingredients are soaked over night (to remove salt from the cod, and soften both cod and hardtack) and then boiled separately before being put together. Scrunchions (pork rind) or butter with chopped onions and flower, is then drizzled over the mixture.
  
  
• Jigg's dinner - Another traditional meal of Newfoundland: salt beef, cabbage, and potatoes, as well as, optionally carrots and turnips. Traditionally jigg's dinner is served with pease pudding (a paste made from peas).
  
  
• Toutin - A Newfoundland pancake-like dish. dough fried in fat.
  
  
• Flipper pie - Seal flipper in a pie.
  
  
• Ginger beef - This Chinese-inspired dish has become popular in western Canada. Strips of beef are deep-fried and coated with a sweet sauce (ginger is one of the ingredients in the sauce).
  
  
• Nanaimo bar - A traditional Canadian dessert consisting of three layers, from bottom to top: a crumb layer (made using coconut, nut and wafer crumbs), a layer of vanilla custard, and a layer of chocolate.
  
  
• Butter tarts - A dessert made from butter, sugar and eggs in a pastry shell. Butterscotch, chocolate chips, coconut or dates may optionally be added.
  
  
• Figgy duff - A boiled dessert from Newfoundland. Figgy duff is a mixture o of butter, sugar, eggs and raisins, all boiled togetherin a bag.

• Canadian Recipes & Cookbooks
  
  
• Recipes and Cookbooks

Apples, Peaches and Pears: Great Canadian Recipes By Elizabeth Baird Lorimer Released: 2002-08-26 Paperback (96 pages) List Price: $18.73* Lowest New Price: $99.95* Lowest Used Price: $20.50* *(As of 03:05 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: This classic, award-winning cookbook offers an array of recipes, from the traditional to the inventive and unusual, for three of Canada's favourite summer fruits. Apples, Peaches & Pears features 125 recipes for a remarkable range of dishes including cakes, pies, puddings, salads, preserves and pickles. Along with the best traditional recipes--apple pie, peach ice cream, oven-baked pears--there are tempting new recipes--cranberry nut apple pie, baked peaches with almond slivers, and peach and red pepper relish, to name a few. Incorporating treasured family recipes gathered from across the country and extensively tested, Apples, Peaches & Pears is a favourite collection with cooks across Canada. After a tough international competition, Apples, Peaches & Pears received a 2002 World Gourmand Cookbook Award as an ingredient cookbook.

Ogilvies Book for a Cook: Old Canadian Recipes Creative Cookbooks Paperback (128 pages) List Price: $24.95* Lowest New Price: $24.95* Lowest Used Price: $13.99* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 03:05 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: A quote from "Ogilvies Book for a Cook" (originally published in 1905) holds true today: "Bad bread can be made from good flour, just as bad flour can be made from good wheat; but good bread cannot be made from bad flour, or good flour from bad wheat."

Summer Berries: Great Canadian Recipes By Elizabeth Baird Lorimer Released: 2002-08-26 Paperback (128 pages) Lowest Used Price: $22.00* *(As of 03:05 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, gooseberries--summer berries are Canada's favourite natural treats. In this classic cookbook, Elizabeth Baird offers a diverse sampling of the best berry recipes, traditional favourites and creative innovations alike. Among the classics included here are Strawberry Cream Pie, Blueberry Buckle, Blackcurrant Jelly; new recipes include Gingery Elderberry and Peach Pie, Tangerine and Cranberry Sherbet, and Raspberry Filbert Meringue Torte. Recipes featuring regional favourites such as saskatoons, elderberries, blackberries and partridgeberries are also featured. Fresh and delicious, the delightful recipes in this book have made Summer Berries a classic, cherished by cooks across Canada.

Canadian Recipes of The Great White North By Chef Bari Demers Trafford Publishing Spiral-bound (124 pages) List Price: $14.57* Lowest New Price: $7.88* Lowest Used Price: $11.20* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 03:05 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Theme Cookbook that represents the vast Canadian Northwest Adventure of The Great Gold Rush & N.W.M.P. (Northwest Mounted Police) Tales of Moose charges Tantalizing Recipes of Outdoor Wild Game which have substitutions at the end of each recipe. Inspiration illustrations by Children Artist Diane Lucas of Nova Scotia This is not just a cookbook, it is also a book for the whole family, including your children A Note from the Author: My Goal for 2007 is to raise $15,000.00 towards the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation by contributing 50% of my proceeds from the sale of my book Canadian Recipes of the Great White North.