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I feel like this recipe is so fitting for today.
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It’s the perfect hangover food… or maybe I should say, the best possible food to eat after a really fun St. Patrick’s Day?
I really would not know though since one, I have never been hung over (wow, I am one seriously boring person) and two, I spent my St. Patrick’s day photographing spring veggies and tons of mangos. Which, dorky me of course thought was so much fun. Yep, I live for COLOR these days!
On a random note, my oldest brother Creighton text me on Monday asking where the heck all the corn beef was. Corn beef is probably one of Creighton’s favorite foods. The kid loves it, and I sadly had to respond and say that I made ZERO corned beef this year. He was obviously appalled. He also thought my use of Guinness this March was a little obsessive. UGH.
I totally disagree with him on the whole too much Guinness thing though (I mean, it makes for such good chocolate… and cheese sauce.), but now I am regretting not making any corned beef. Thinking I may just need to run to the store today and buy whatever is left over. Then I can make up for my lack of the sacred “March Meat” with a nice corned beef dinner. Too bad Creigh lives in Cleveland…while, I guess that’s what he gets for dissing my recipes….he should have seen what I made today. He would have DIED. No meat and all colorful things – AKA his most hated foods.
So anyway, let’s move onto another brother. The brother who inspired me to make this poutine. A dish that I will not lie, I never thought I’d make or that he would eat, but I guess there are new surprises every day. Cool!
So the brother just below me, Kai, took a month-long road trip with a few friends to Ohio, Massachusetts, Vermont and Canada. Why? To snowboard and film of course. What else would they be doing? Looking at colleges? Right. My dad wishes SOwishes that were the case, but no, they where snowboarding and apparently eating the best poutine. EVER.
I remember the day I got the text saying, “you should really make some poutine” and texting back, “isn’t that gravy covered fries?”. Then thinking, how the hell am I supposed to take photos of that, poutine is quite possibly the ugliest food around! YEAH. Those were my thoughts, how do I take pictures of THAT?
Well, despite my scared thoughts of even attempting to photograph poutine, I of course said I’d make it when they all got home because basically, anything Kai asks for I agree too. He’s just about the only brother I can’t say no to, but then again, it seems he has this effect on most people. I blame it all on his blue eyes and dark hair, that I am beyond jealous of. I’m the girl, I should have gotten the prettiest eyes in the family.
It’s totally not fair. JUST SAYIN’.
Bottom line is I made the poutine, the pictures where actually not difficult at all, and the poutine was soo good. Kai said it was amazing, BUT, not quite as good as the Canadians make it. I think their’s just tasted better after a day out in the cold filming and snowboarding. A couple of beers may have may have added to the flavor as well, since Kai could legally drink there.
So here’s the deal with this recipe. It is really just real deal, fried french fries, some cheddar cheese curds (THE BEST PART) and piping hot gravy. You see, the best hangover food. Once the piping hot gravy hits those cheese curds, they start to melt just slightly and create the most amazing dish. It’s pure goodness and totally what you need today. DUH. It’s Wednesday. We all need something to get us through the hump.
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Authentic Canadian Poutine will do that for ya!
Not all poutine are equal. When fast food establishments put it on the menus in B.C. I became convinced of this. This recipe looks like one of the tastier ones. I was able to obtain cheese curds cheaply in the past from the local fromager because it was considered a byproduct. Poutine and other cheese curd dishes have gained popularity making this a more expensive ingredient. Sadly some of the pubs economize on the cheese. Oh well, I can purchase it wherever food is sold just about anywhere now.
Thank you so much! I hope you love this!
Can you bake the fries instead of frying them? I love this recipe and I have made it so many times because it is now my 18 year old daughter’s favorite. I was just looking for a faster alternative to frying because it takes forever to do them in batches.
Yes, of course you can bake the fries! That will be great! Please let me know if you have other questions. Hope you love this recipe! Thanks! 🙂
I loved this recipe, it seems to be a delight, thanks for sharing
Thank you so much Bruna!
i want this, please. It’s delicious..:)
Thank you!
Not sure where the dark gravy comes from. Mine was 10 times lighter.
HI, did you use beef stock and a dark beer?
It gave me water in my mouth…rsrs
Lol! I hope you love it!
Hi! This recipe looks delicious! I was wondering, however, what kind of beer you used to soak the potatoes in. You said you used a Canadian beer, but there are so many different types of beer. Did you use a lager? Would a bock make it taste way different? What is the purpose of soaking the potatoes in beer? I’m sorry about all of the questions, by the way. I just want to make some really good poutine, I’ve been craving it recently.
I used a Labatt Blue! Honestly, I would use any beer you drink at home. Soaking the fries in beer allows them to soften and prepares the for frying while adding flavor at the same time. Hope that helps! Let me know if you have other questions. Hope you love this!
I can’t trust a cook who says ‘fried french fries’.
I often bake fries, so I like to specify how I cooked them. Hopefully you can understand, thanks Pinky!
This recipe should be very tasty, I’ll see if I can find some of these ingredients here in my city, to make this wonderful recipe.
Hope you love it, thank you!
This is an interesting Poutine recipe considering the recipe made by a French Canadian Chef from Quebec Canada is plain and simple. I will try yours after I get back from the store where as luck would have it poutine cheese curds are on sale this week $2.00 off. Still expensive though. Just gives me an excuse to buy beer and consume the extra in the am…Huh ha!
This is a link to Ricardo’s recipe and not my property (I hope it is not illegal to post without his permission)
https://www.ricardocuisine.com/en/recipes/4854-brown-gravy-sauce-for-poutine-and-hot-chicken
Ah it looks amazing!! I have to say I really love all poutine recipes, whether they are very original or trying a bunch of new stuff they’re so fun! Thanks for the link. I hope you love mine!
We have been wanting some homemade poutine for a little while do today was the day. I must say this recipie dose have a nice twist with the beer. I had to make some changes because of what we had… And I just can’t follow a recipie I just gather ideas. I used chicken stock and “salted” it with beef bullion. Also more garlic, paprika and oregano. As well as a bit more flour because it wasn’t as thick as I like. And I used kokanee instead of a stout beer just because I didn’t have any stout.
And it turned out quite nice!!!
Sounds awesome! I am so glad you liked this recipe, Marita! Thanks!
Otimo hahahaha
Obrigado!
For those asking about cheese curds …
Cheese curds are a fresher=better proposition. So what each person needs to do is find a store that carries locally produced cheese curds if at all possible. The best cheese curds from Quebec, shipped to you. would be worse most likely by the time they get to you.
Wow! We can’t even begin to tell you how wonderful this meal was for us – now, I added pork and fried some fresh vidalia onions to put on top! Amazing. Great recipe and easy to follow! Thanks for sharing.
So happy you liked it and it was easy!! Thanks for making it!!
I’m from Montreal too and poutine is so huge here we have a week of Poutine Festival! Thank you for the recipe it looks YUMMY and I love love the pictures and the Gifs 😉
P.S I also loved the stories!
Haha! Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy this poutine as well! ?