Why is Poutine the only truly Canadian dish? Please, readers, do not comment on this post with descriptions of seal blubber or something like that. Evan kept promising our friends the Serranos, that we would feed them "Canadian food" because they have been kind enough to introduce us to a lot of Galician food. On Friday evening we finally kept that promise. There are many problems here and they all stem from the fact that 'poutine' is the only Canadian food that we could come up with. Oh, and also the fact that neither of us are accomplished in the Kitchen. So... first... Poutine is kind of a lone dish... it goes best with a pop and a crowded skip lodge in the middle of a long day of snowboarding. Or as 'desert' after a gruelling hour of walking the isles of costco, eating a supper of free samples. It isn't the most complete 'meal'. This resulted in the most american main course ever; hamburgers. Oh, PS. Evan thought he bought dill pickles, turns out they were anchovy flavoured. This brings us to problem number 2: The most important part of poutine... what makes or brakes it... the gravy. I kind of bombed the gravy. In my defence... it is hard to make! Picture it if you will.... the lumps of flour and corn starch (i tried both) in a stubbornly runny solution of water and beef flavour. Luckily we have a siv (i don't know how to spell this word). It ended up ok. I don't think the poutine was a hit but despite the runny gravy, I think it tasted pretty good.
Im trying really hard to think of something that would be interesting to write about. Absolutely nothing interesting has happened lately. Oh wait! I finally have my guitar! That is one good thing that has been helping to keep me sane... But seriously my days consist of sleeping, cleaning, video games, walks when it isn't rainy, studying spanish, and watching seasons of downloaded TV shows (Im on season two of the Mentalist which is awesome btw (thanks for the recommendation mom)). All of the days run together into one big blob in my mind and the only way I know what day it is, is because of my Aerobics classes. Our weekly trips to Pontevedra for church are the most exciting events of my life. It is kind of strange but I only go crazy for a couple of days a month (...guess why...) and the rest of the time I am perfectly content if slightly bored.
Anyway, I do have some pictures for you to check out:
This is a 'graveyard'. It kind of looks like the bodies each have their own cubby hole in the little buildings.
It is hard to see but here in Galicia 75% of the fence posts I see are made out of stone
These large structures on the water are to grow "mejillones" (muscles) They can't touch the sea floor because then the crabs will be able to get them
Our sea-shell collection :)
That is so funny. It's true though that we don't really have much canadian food. We just eat everything here. By the way, another good TV show to check out is Eureka. I love it!!
ReplyDeleteLet's see, Canadian food. How about bannock? Butter tarts (yum)? Clamato juice (not so yum)? Nanaimo bars (my personal fave)? Ginger beef (yes, Canadian - I used to work a couple of blocks from the restaurant that first served ginger beef)? Macintosh toffee? Shreddies? Smarties? Aero chocolate bars? Salt & vinegar chips? Tim Horton's donuts?
ReplyDeleteOr you could do like the neighbour in Better Off Dead who made french toast, french fries & french beans for the exchange student from France, and make Canadian pizza.
Oh, and a little birdie told me you need a "break a leg" for Sunday.