Anyone reading my blog for awhile has heard me practically write poetry about a Quebec delicacy, poutine. When I was pregnant with Breanna I made my own for “snacks” and ate about triple my weight in poutine during that first trimester when it was one of the few things that didn’t make me want to hurl.
Tonight, since we all still felt a little less than enthused about anything, George suggested poutine for supper. Easy, fast, and tasty. Plus it’s not exactly nutritious so that makes it fun too. Unfortunately, our grocery store was out of cheese curds which is really important for making it, but mozzarella cheese sticks that we buy for the kids can work in a pinch so that’s what we did. And because I’m a huge dork I thought I’d bring you all into my kitchen for the prep work.
Step one: Bake some fries. Any fries. Crinkle cut work well but I prefer the straight cut.
Step two: Open a can or two of poutine sauce. Yes, you can actually buy it here. If you can’t find it, BBQ chicken sauce works quite well too. Just avoid brown gravy because… no.
Step three: While everything is heating, chop up a bunch of cheese sticks into tiny pieces.
Step four: Make a mountain of fries on your plate.
Step five: Dump a good load of cheese pieces all over the fries.
Step six: Drown the cheese and fries in the heated sauce.
The sauce HAS to be hot because it needs to melt the cheese so that by the time you start to eat it, it’s basically a big gooey mess on top of the fries. I like to cover mine liberally in black pepper. Goes well with beer, even the Heineken that I had tonight.
It looks disgusting, but I swear to you, it is so damn good.
Okay…I know what those are! They call them “Disco Fries” here in CT, USA. They are quite good 😀
What does poutine taste like? I am dying to try some.
I love poutine! I put vinegar on mine!
Thanks, Sherry! =P
You’ve made me hungry for a midnight snack now… fortunately, I don’t have any sauce to use, so I’ll behave. But I’ll give you one guess as to what I’ll be having for lunch tomorrow…
Ok, I can not wait to try some when I visit Montreal in September.
*drools*
You NEED squeeky curd cheese, but the mozz was very creative. Perhaps harvarti or monteray jack…
what is poutine exactly??? that looks icky lmfao! but if u say it looks good i believe ya :O)
I remember when I could barely even *look* at poutine because I thought it looked so disgusting. Now I LOVE it, though i’ve been surprisingly good and haven’t eaten any since before I moved to the east coast. Of course, we have Donairs here as our guilty pleasure 🙂
that makes me so hungry. yum.
I look forward to getting dairy back even more now. swoon.
Amanda, you can’t pay me enough to eat a Donair. Blargh.
BBQ chicken sauce seems to be a Montreal thing…. travel around the Abitibi and such and you’ll find that the best poutine places use brown sauce. The best i’ve found are the ones who use the “Hot Chicken” sauce. When i ask for poutine in Montreal i always ask if they use BBQ sauce… if they do i just stick with the fries.
I’m just saying…
P.S. My sister asked for poutine in northern ontario when she saw it on the menu… they asked how many slices she wanted… i guess they used those kraft slices or something… she told them to forget about it.
Unreal, those pictures make me want to go and whip a batch up right now. We use the same sauce and it rocks.
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