O, Canada

[cheztom]

The Canucks around here will appreciate this.

Our assistant service manager came up with a lunch time pace changer for our students...a Poutine bar. Right now he's getting swamped. Once the kids figured out that poutine was a combo of three of their favorite foods (cheese, fries and gravy) it was all over. Score another blow for education of the future palates of america.


And oh yes, I am full of poutine right now. Ow. My heart. I need a nap.

[jeanmarie]

You're killing me. I am starved and craving grease......

[chefelle]

YES!!!!!

[jeanmarie]

best I could come up with in my neck of the woods was chili cheese fries - can I blame someone here for driving me off of my diet today? 'cause I was good until someone mention poutine.....

[Lorraine]

ROFL I love it!!!! What kind of sauce did he use, Tom?

I am starved and craving grease

Not me, I made poutine last week. Friends had brought curds from Quebec.

[cheztom]

I made him a plain jane beef gravy from some roast drippings and a blond roux.

Funny, he got about 10 pounds of curds from the farm market, and I told him he was going to need more like 30 pounds to get through lunch. He said, "No way - we won't get much traffic on this." Famous last words. So he runs out of curds and we set him up with some fresh mozz I had left from catering. They ate that so then I had some provolone. They ate that. Then I was down to draining and then salad spinning curds out of cottage cheese. Oh and he also started with hand cut pommes frites, but only 20 pounds. Those were gone in 20 minutes. These kids can throw down the chow.

[justwingit]

We ran gourmet poutine last year on our patio menu.

Yukon gold french fries, demi and the bestest curds.

we got away with calling them gourmet, is that round our way all the chip wagons use the crappy ol canned gravy..eeeuuukkkk (vomit)

Wanted to do fat chips cooed in duck fat with St Augr blue cheese and truffled demi!!!!

Tom

[mark1]

LOL tom, I'd get that biz plan for the Poutine Bar Franchise done now, you've stumbled onto the next new American craze and it's only right that you exploit it and get into the Trump income category!

[cheztom]

Hmmmm, names, names...lessee...


Wang Dang Sweet Poutine

Cheztom's Poutine Salon

[Fincher]

In Ottawa we made poutine with duck confit, stilton blue cheese, and hand made gravy. HMM good.

I got a twenty dollar tip one night from a french guy. I only understood the word poutine and the fact that he was handing me 20 bucks. A waiter translated for me, but I already knew.... money talks!

I can't take too much credit though, Its hard to make fries, confit, blue cheese, and gravy taste bad

[Lorraine]

I made him a plain jane beef gravy from some roast drippings and a blond roux

Sounds good! Chef Picard ( From Au Pied de Cochon..the DVD guy) has a great recipe in the book. ) If anyone want it, let me know.