First of all, happy 50th post everyone, it took much longer to get here than I thought. I know now that I have something really good to write about. Let's get started.
I've never really stressed on this blog my love of poutine, which for those of you who don't know is a French Canadian specialty mixing together fries, cheese curd, and brown gravy. It's really something you have to go to Quebec to get. There is one exception however: there is a deli in Brooklyn that has a "Montreal twist" on a Jewish Deli, serving up Canadian smoked meats and deli items and of course, poutine. The place is called "Mile End" and it's not what I'm writing about.
Today I was thinking to myself, I haven't been to Quebec in a long time (since last February), and having poutine once every few months is okay. I just felt the urge to get poutine and going to Brooklyn was too much of an effort and something to do when leaving the city. So, I went out to the farm to pick up some potatoes (I already had the cheese and the stuff to make the gravy), went home and started up the fryer.
I've done homemade fries before, though when making something like poutine, you have more elements than just the fries, it's a balancing act with the other ingredients, the mozzarella being the easiest. I had worked for a good half an hour and my end result was great.
I sat down with my fresh poutine and a coke that I picked up at the store on the way home and was quite satisfied, knowing that I won't have to be craving that again for a few months. My portions were huge... it was really good though, and healthy.
This is my result!
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