82 Replies to “December 27, 2019: Reader Tips”

  3. “What are some cuisine offerings that are unique to Canada?”

    I was asked that very question about 20 years ago from someone who had recently arrived from China. I replied that this country was a multicultural country and our cuisine was more or less an international one.

    To answer the question, typical Canadian cuisine would be something that would feature our North American salmon and North American maple sugar, as one example. With a nod to the French for Dijon Mustard and the Chinese for soy sauce, here is a typically “Canadian” recipe:

    “Maple Mustard Salmon”:
    1 lb salmon fillet cut into 4 pieces, 1/4 Cup melted butter, 1/4 Cup pure maple syrup, 4 tsp Dijon mustard, and 1 tsp low sodium soy sauce. Mix last 4 ingredients in a bowl. Pour on fish in baking dish. Bake at 425°F for ~ 12 minutes or until salmon flakes with a fork.

    FYI From the web:

    • Salmon are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus Salmo) and Pacific Ocean (genus Oncorhynchus) and…

    • Maple syrup was first made and used by the indigenous peoples of North America, and the European settlers, gradually refined production methods.

    Re: piece about New York pizza vs Italian Pizza:
    I rarely eat it anymore however if I do, I make it from scratch at home.

    P. S. the Manhattan skyline is magnificent! Thanks for post.

    1. Cranberry, corn, cod, seal flipper pie, caribou steak … Happy New Year Nancy. we had relatives from Holland over once who had never eaten corn. They thought it was animal feed.

      1. Happy New Year to you too, sfr…

        Good examples of Canadian fare! Yes, there must be more!

        My family told me that people who arrived in Montreal after the War from France thought Canadians were an odd sort to eat corn, a.k.a: animal feed! Imagine that, right from on the cob! Ha ha!

        When they tried it, buttered with salt, they loved it!

      2. You wrote that cranberries were typically from our part of the world. In Canada most commercial production is in BC and Quebec. This interesting short video shows how they are harvested:
        https://youtu.be/YZOvzjGAyM4

        I generally buy them to make …

        *Cranberry Bread* as follows:

        1 cup fresh cranberries, coarsely chopped, set aside.
        Then, sift together: 1 & 3/4 Cups flour, 1 Cup sugar, 1& 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt. Stir in the cranberries. In another bowl, beat together 1 egg, 3/4 Cup Orange juice, 1/4 Cup vegetable oil. Add liquid to dry ingredients and beat 30 seconds. Turn into greased loaf pan. Bake @ 350°F 60 to 65 minutes.

        Note: The bread is served with a small pat of butter, optionally. It’s so lovely, this time of year. The color inside of this (brown loaf, when cooked) is beige with red/ burgundy specs. Ah, so pretty!

        Also, hand mix the darn thing. Electric mix-master garbage is for the birds, makes everything overprocessed, imo. Never use It!

        P.S. I double checked the ingredient amounts, they are accurate; I have this recipe since 1979 and generally make and bake two loaves simultaneously.

        Cranberries:
        Family: ERICACEAE
        Genus: VACCINIUM
        Kingdom: PLANTAE

      3. Sfr,
        Being a Naturalized Canadian – Dutchman m’self…I can relate to that…lol My mom had said more than once…”corn..??”..Pah, zijn for het varken. (that’s for pigs).

        I dont eat it either, just can’t handle the smell or taste…My kids.? they’ll go right to town on it.
        for me its Popcorn only…

        Now talk about smoked horsemeat and I get the same reaction from near everyone. Sliced thin on toast with some gouda – its awesome..!!

        1. They offered raw herring (straight from Holland) and onions. I mentioned that we cooked our fish first. Heathens … you could see it in their rolling eyes. The Canadians on one side eating cooked fish and buttered corn, the Dutch on the other side eating raw fish and onions, covered in milk chocolate (which they wouldn’t share because it wasn’t my letter w[ever]tf that means).

          1. I’m Canadian and I grew up on and occasionally still enjoy pickled herring and raw onions. They are delicious!

  4. True North reports on a muslim terrorist being arrested for the second time in Blackie’s Canada, after being released the first time. Post Millennial reports on how Blackie’s CBC has lied about the refugee stats in Blackie’s Toronto. And most of Blackie’s media is responding this morning to Trump trolling the CBC. Another day in Blackie’s Canada. But I’m sure he is having a great time in Costa Rica.

    1. John , we are just going to have to wait until Canada is taken over by someone other than white Christian Canadians, at that time we will look like the middle east, damaged beyond repair only covered with snow.

  5. – Possibly BIG, BIG news. Two new groupings of sunspots have just broken out – and they’re reverse polarity. The reverse-polarity is really good, because it means the next solar cycle is starting; maybe, we aren’t sinking into a Maunder Minimum after all.

    I’m conflicted on this, TBH – half of me wants a couple years of really deep solar minimums with widespread freezing temp’s making an obvious mockery of GWAlarmists’ nonsense hyperventilations – but I hate being cold.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/12/24/reverse-polarity-sunspots-appear-on-the-sun-ending-a-39-day-stretch-of-spotless-days/

    And in other solar news, Betelgeuse, a monster red-giant star, is rapidly dimming – a supernova might be in the offing. It’s 550 light-years away so no danger to us, it’s the top left star in Orion, and if it lets-go it’ll be as bright as the moon. Watch the stars, traveller!

    1. Freeland’s grandfather has been noted here before but here is some good history on him and the Ukraine and in the comments. A couple of years old but interesting.

      https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/06/john-helmer-chrystia-freelands-family-lie-grows-bigger-blacker-michael-chomiak-volunteered-hitler-ukraine-invaded-hunted-polish-police-19.html

      Comment:
      John Gilberts
      June 24, 2017 at 3:01 am

      ” a Kiev official tweeted that Ukraine now had ‘ our woman in the Canadian cabinet.’ ”

      “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQWPQqtF86A “I really believe this is the best government that Ukraine has had in its entire history,” says Freeland.”

  8. Nobody else has mentioned poutine as a cuisine offering unique to Canada, so I will, even though I’ve never encountered it (probably because I’ve never been in Canada).

    1. IMHO you aren’t missing anything. I had poutine once. Fries with gravy? Oh yeah. Cheese curds? Yes! Put them together? Nope. Its as dumb as putting lettuce on a peanut butter sandwich.

      1. Oh foo. Crisp iceberg lettuce on peanut butter sandwich? The perfect combination of crispness and moisture to allay the PB’s adhesive qualities. And a good Quebecois poutine – not one of those assembly line concoctions at Tim’s with week old curds and plastic gravy – is a delicious mixture of hot, just slightly-so-greasy fries, squeaky fresh curds, and rich, salty gravy that I savour in the half-century I’ve enjoyed them.

    1. I knew that was going to come up! The ingredients of poutine are not native to Canada, though. All these are imported from Peru/Bolivia (potatoes), France (gravy), cheese curds (probably Middle East)

      A French Canadian, Fernand Lachance, gets the credit for the naming of the dish made from combining the 3 foods. The word “poutine” means “mess” so some say that poutine is typically Canadian, see link:

      https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57508/brief-history-poutine

      The traditional story is that poutine originated in the 1950s in Warwick, Quebec, at a restaurant called Le Lutin Qui Rit. Upon being asked to add cheese curds to a customer’s fries, owner Fernand Lachance responded, “Ça va faire une maudite poutine,” or, “That’s going to make a dreadful mess.”

      Lachance is right about one thing, this combination can cause a mess — to your health, ie: it’s a ‘coronary’ on a plate!

  13. Who to cheer for??

    https://clarionproject.org/taqwa-mosque-member-beaten-by-bloods-retaliation/

    “The conflict between the Bloods and Muslim Patrol erupted December 10 after a Muslim Patrol “officer” patrolling around the Taqwa mosque claimed he heard a boy, estimated to be about 16, say something “disrespectful” to a Muslim woman.”

    ““The Bloods don’t know who they are dealing with,” Ali Karim reportedly stated at the meeting.”

    Rriiiiiight. Aren’t you the guys that beat women for showing their ankles?

    1. Interesting situation. Hoping for a lot of casualties on both sides.
      Also quite ironic that the muslim beating victim was treated at a Jewish hospital.

      1. I’ll side with the Bloods on this one….Take em out…every last Fkn one of them.

        I shall shed zero tears over Dead islamics.

  14. Our taxpayer-supported CBC is pushing genderless dolls on the public:
    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-you-or-a-gender-neutral-doll-perhaps-from-a-self-checkout-1.5401258/mattel-s-gender-neutral-dolls-hit-canadian-store-shelves-ahead-of-global-retail-expansion-1.5401260

    The above posted article is at the top of the CBC main page, so the corporate suits at the moribund agency think that this is super-important for us to care about.

    1. It used to be that all the dolls were genderless — anatomically anyways, but hair-wise they were mostly girl dolls. You could get a few boy dolls. Then you used them to play out roles — mommy, teacher, girl chums. What kind of play do they want kids to do with genderless dolls? Maybe they come with instruction books.

  18. While Blackie’s media whines about muslims in India, ISIS beheads 12 Christians in Nigeria on Christmas Day.

  19. Blackie’s Toronto Star takes a break from its Ford is Hitler stories, to report that some ancient indian arrowheads could be on the path of the new gas pipeline in B.C. Obviously the pipeline must be cancelled.

  22. Rex Murphy has another story at the National Post. And the Post has a series on free speech.

  24. And now your Diversity Is Our Strength news for today. The Toronto Sun reports that currently a diverse suspect is holed up in a private residence. The incident started when he shot at police five times as he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop. Toronto is so exciting during the “Holidays”.

  25. Canadian food:
    Wild Rice: (Ojibwe: manoomin; also called Canada rice, Indian rice, and water oats)
    A North American delicacy.
    Cook it like the other rice.

  27. *Fiddleheads* (Mostly) Maritimers love this vitamin-rich food, in season, (Springtime) picked fresh, it is a true delicacy. Steamed and dotted with butter, the king of the Northwest ferns is a.k.a. the “Western Sword Fernaka” or as the East coasters never refer to it, it is known as:
    POLYSTICHUM MUNITUM. They call them “fiddleheads” for obvious reasons. See photo enclosed. I’ve actually seen them at Sobeys in the frozen food section of the grocery store.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead_fern

      1. The climate in some places in North America is good for the king of mushrooms!
        They are everywhere, yet hard to find:

        https://untamedfeast.com/morel-mushrooms/

        Has anyone found them out here? Best tasting apparently, cooked in butter and garlic, they are a delicacy. I’ve been missing something. Now — must get some!

        1. And ever since Prinz Dummkopf was in charge, all of Canada became good for mushrooms. After all, he keeps us in the dark and feeds us nothing but….. (gee, I forgot what I was going to say).

    1. (Made by an Ontario nurse I knew in NB) I’ve tasted fruit muffins made with sour dough starter and they were absolutely delicious — huge, moist, yet fairly light. If you can get some ‘starter’ you’ll keep it and pass some around! It somehow seems to be a huge secret amongst some cooks– it is healthier than yeast!

      1. Yes Nancy it is hard to beat the taste of bread made from sour dough starter.
        I just find it hard to imagine that the starter in that woman’s tupperware container is the same as the starter from the gold rush 120 years ago.

          1. Interesting. We’ve been making bread for thousands of years but using baker’s yeast to make it for less than 150 years.

    1. Is ‘he’ a pain or what? I don’t get it either.

      I currently want to see the “Irishman” a 3 hour plus Scorsese film, of course only available on Netsux. I refuse to get it now.
      B A , please do share if it comes out on CD. I don’t buy them either but sometimes anything good eventually comes out at the Calgary Library, a hop, skip and a jump — walking distance for me.

      1. Netsux lost its credibility with me when the O’Bummers got involved with it.

        1. The more I think about it, the more I believe that Prinz Dummkopf will abolish all TV networks in this country and replace it with a system that’s dedicated solely to him. Imagine: all Dummkopf, all the time, 24/7/365!

          There’ll be the channel devoted to his early childhood, how he was born like the goddess Athena, came down from Mount Olympus, and dwelt among us mere mortals.

          There’s the one in which we’re reminded of his most famous sayings, such as where the economy will grow from, and he mispronounces it as “heart” (I’ll let you figure out what he really meant to say).

          How about the one that’s nothing but his stutterings. Surely, the proles would love that.

          His Apology Channel will feature how he seeks to make amends for the misdeeds of (white) people, blubbering like a schoolgirl when he’s done.

          The channel dedicated to his accomplishments will include endless re-runs of his Bollywood boogying routine and Great Moments in Blackface.

          And, then, there’s the channel in which we will learn of his collective wisdom and knowledge, which will be nothing but dead air, of course.

          I’m sure you can’t wait to sign up for it…..

          1. HAHA! Funny stuff! I would cancel cable! Somehow a boogying old trudeaumandude is a real turn off!

          2. Ah, but you won’t be able to cancel your cable service. It will be required viewing. If you don’t want it, or like it, you’ll be arrested, taken off to Room 101, and continuously subjected to that channel. When released, you’ll be singing “I want Dummkopf TVeeeeeeeeeee….. I love Dummkopf TVeeeeeeeeeee…..”

          3. At 10:25 pm B A DR
            Nooòoòoòoooo!!!!!!
            I’d be in a Dire Straits Nightmare!!!!! In Poopineauville!!!!

        2. Of course, the Dummkopfized Netsux will feature a production of the Thornton Wilder play Our Town, making him the central character and setting it in Groper’s Corners. (Or will it a new production of the Orson Welles radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, with the landing site being Groper’s Mill?)

          2. That, of course, will become the Great Canadian Cinematic Epic, featuring Indiana Dummkopf searching for the Vanishing Shoelace Knot.

  31. Tortiere
    Beans and maple syrup
    Back bacon
    Montreal smoked meat
    Montreal bagels
    Poutine
    Chips and vinegar
    Chips and gravy
    Pate Chinoise
    Pea soup
    Feves au lard
    Maple cookies
    Butter tarts
    May West
    Jos Louis
    Ah Caramel!
    Oreilles de crisse
    Rhubarb pie
    Corned beef and cabbage (not eaten in Ireland, apparently)
    fiddleheads
    maple glazed donuts
    maple spread
    mac and cheese tuna casserole

      1. We get enough raw baloney every time Prinz Dummkopf or Lady Chrystia open their mouths.

    2. You forgot Nanaimo Bars. And my mother always said the one true Prairie food was carrot pudding. Everyone made some varient of this steamed pud; Ukranian, English, and all the other cultures. After all, they all grew essentially the same root veggies (carrots and potatoes in my recipe), and had the requisite flour, raisins, and spices. In the winter, the kitchen stove was the heat source for the whole house, so no problem to steam the pud for hours.

    1. Found in every greasy spoon and pool hall in Montreal:
      Steamed Hot dogs with mustard, relish and a raw onion-cabbage garnish. In 1960s price was: 2 for 25 cents! (Hamburgers: 20 cents, fries were 10 cents!)

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