Maple Syrup & Poutine 100 Canadian Foods to Consume

Here's a little food game I stumble upon on a post from Maple Syrup and Poutine Blog. The concept is simple: checklist as many must eat Canadian foods as you can.

The rules are simple and go as follow:

1) Copy the list below into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Post a comment here linking to your results.

1. Arctic Char
2. Ketchup flavoured chips
3. Wild Rice Pilaf
4. Caribou Steak
5. Gourmet Poutine
6. Screech
7. Beaver Tails
8. Maple Baked Beans
9. Bison Burger
10. Bumbleberry pie
11. Nanaimo bar
12. Butter Tarts
13. Cedar Planked B.C. Salmon
14. Wild Blueberries
15. Pure Local Cranberry Juice
16. Chocolate from Ganong or Purdy’s
17. A cup of warm cider from your local orchard
18. Caesar
19. 4 of the following types of apples (Cortland, Empire, Golden Delicious, McIntosh, Spartan, Greensleeves, Liberty, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Honeycrisp, Golden Russet, Idared, Gala)
20. Freshly foraged mushrooms
21. Dinner cooked by Michael Smith, Susur Lee or Rob Feenie
22. Fondue Chinoise
23. Dish created from a Canadian Living Magazine recipe
24. Peameal Bacon Sandwich from St. Lawrence Market in Toronto
25. Lobster bought directly from a boat in a Maritime harbour
26. Handmade perogies from your local church or market
27. Alberta Beef at an Alberta Steakhouse
28. Leamington Tomatoes
29. Roasted Pheasant
30. Wild Game hunted by someone you know
31. Ice Wine
32. Habitant Pea Soup – entire can
33. Any Canadian Artisinal Cheese
34. Bannock
35. Tourtiere
36. Flapper Pie
37. Jellied Moose Nose
38. Saskatoon Berries
39. Fish and Brewis
40. Screech Pie
41. Fiddleheads
42. Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich
43. Flipper Pie
44. Montreal Bagels with Smoked Salmon
45. Toutins
46. Jam Busters
47. Bakeapple Pie
48. Bridge Mixture
49. Canadian Style Pizza (bacon, pepperoni. Mushrooms)
50. Shreddies
51. A cone from Cow’s Ice Cream
52. Lumberjack or Logger’s Breakfast
53. Jigg’s Dinner
54. Rappie Pie
55. Pemmican
56. Lake Erie Sturgeon Caviar
57. Belon Oysters
58. Brome Lake Duck
59. Beer from a stubby bottle
60. A beer from Unibroue or Phillips Brewery
61. Salt Spring Island Lamb
62. Fry’s Cocoa
63. A bag of Old Dutch Potato Chips
64. Every Flavour of Laura Secord Suckers
65. Chicken Dinner from St Hubert’s or Swiss Chalet
66. Hickory Sticks
67. An entire box of Kraft Dinner
68. Candy Apples (NOT caramel apples)
69. Corn from a roadside stand
70. A meal at Eigensenn Farm
71. Okanogan Peaches
72. Berkshire Pork
73. PEI Potatoes
74. Something cooked in Canola oil
75. Figgy Duff
76. Blueberry Grunt
77. High Tea at the Empress Hotel
78. Fresh maple syrup hardened on the snow
79. Oreilles de Christ
80. Nova Scotia Beer Warmer
81. A cheese plate containing Bleu Bénédictin, Friulano, St. Maure and Oka.
82. Black or red currant jam
83. Maple glazed Doughnut from Tim Horton’s with a Large “Double Double”
84. A glass of Mission Hill’s “Oculus”
85. Alberta Pure Vodka
86. Chokecherries
87. Canada Day Cake
88. Boulettes
89. Canadian Iced Tea
90. Mead
91. Fricot
92. Grandperes
93. Local honey
94. Creton on toast
95. Glen Breton Rare
96. A whole box of Smarties, where the empty box is then used as a kazoo
97. Grilled cheese made with Canadian Cheddar
98. A meal from Harvey’s
99. Lake Erie Perch
100. Red Rose Tea

Enjoy !

Fine Canadian Cheese Wins 19 International Awards

19 fine Canadian cheeses and 2 dairy products (butter, yogourt) were selected by a panel of 30 independent expert judges to receive international awards and special recognition for their excellence at the 2008 American Cheese Society Competition.

Hosted by The American Cheese Society - a non profit trade organization that encourages the understanding, appreciation, and promotion of farmstead and natural specialty cheeses produced in the Americas and Canada - this annual competition was establish to reward and give positive recognition to those cheeses that are of the highest quality in their aesthetic evaluation (i.e. flavor, aroma, and texture), as well as their technical evaluation.

Canadian winners stood out from 1,149 cheeses and dairy product entries submitted by 181 producers from 30 states and 3 Canadian provinces. The award winners were announced at ceremony held last July at the Merle Resking Theatre in Chicago.

21 Canadian cheeses and dairy products won awards in 16 categories. Medal count for Canada goes as follows: 8 Gold, 8 Silver and 4 bronze.

Winning Canadian dairy products include:


GOLD MEDALS (8)

Cheese: Snow Goat - Brie Triple Crème
Category: Triple Crème Soft Ripened - All Milks (cream added blue cheeses excluded)
Producer: Saputo / Fromagerie Alexis de Portneuf

Cheese: Fleurs des Monts
Category: Open Category Sheep's Milk and Mixed Milk Cheeses (aged 60 days or more)
Producer: La Moutonnière Inc

Cheese: Sentinelle
Category: Open Category Made from Goat’s Milk
Producer: Fromagerie Le Détour

Cheese: Fin Renard
Category: Open Category Made from Cow’s Milk
Producer: Fromagerie Bergeron Inc.

Cheese: Feta dans l'huile aux herbes
Category: Flavor Added: Spices, Herbs, Seasoning, Fruits - All Milks
Producer: La Moutonnière Inc

Cheese: Feta
Category: Feta Made from Sheep’s Milk
Producer: La Moutonnière Inc

Cheese: Saputo Feta (plain)
Category: Feta Made from Cow’s Milk
Producer: Saputo Cheese GP

Butter: Goat Butter
Category: Butter Made from Goat Milk
Producer: Liberte


SILVER MEDALS (8)

Cheese: Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar
Category: Cheddars Wrapped in Cloth, Linen (aged over 12 months)
Producer: Cows Inc.

Cheese: Neige de Brebis
Category: Cheeses Made from Sheep’s Milk and/or Mixed Milks
Producer: La Moutonnière Inc

Cheese: Lotbinière
Category: Emmentaler Style Made from Cow's Milk with Eyed Formation (Swiss, Baby Swiss, etc. Excluded: Gruyere, Swiss style and Mountain style cheese)
Producer: Fromagerie Bergeron Inc.

Cheese: La Sauvagine
Category: Open Category Made from Cow’s Milk
Producer: Saputo / Fromagerie Alexis de Portneuf

Cheese: Patte Blanche
Category: Open Category Made from Goat’s Milk
Producer: Fromagerie Bergeron Inc.

Cheese: Le Clandestin
Category: Open Category Made from Sheep’s Milk
Producer: Fromagerie Le Détour

Cheese: Saputo Provolone
Category: Pasta Filata Types - Provolone, Caciocavallo - All Milks
Producer: Saputo Cheese GP

Cheese: Woolwich Dairy Triple Crème Goat Brie
Category: Triple Crème Soft Ripened - All Milks (cream added blue cheeses excluded)
Producer: Woolwich Dairy Inc.


BRONZE MEDALS (5)

Cheese: La Dame du Lac
Category: Fat Free and Low Fat Cheeses (Limited to cheeses with 3 grams or less total fat per serving size)
Producer: Fromagerie Le Détour

Cheese: Yogurt-Style Goat Fresh Cheese, Honey
Category: Fresh Goat Cheese - Flavor Added (Cheeses flavored with floral, fruits, liquors, citrus, berries, cacao.)
Producer: Liberte

Cheese: Le Coeur du Nectar (Pomegranate & Raspberries)
Category: Open Category Made from Goat’s Milk
Producer: Saputo / Fromagerie Alexis de Portneuf

Cheese: St-Honoré
Category: Triple Crème Soft Ripened - All Milks (cream added blue cheeses excluded)
Producer: Saputo / Fromagerie Alexis de Portneuf

Yogourt: Plain 2% Yogourt
Category: Yogurts (made from all milk sources)
Producer: Liberte

The All You Need is Cheese Podcast wants to congratulate all winners who work daily to bring dairy excellence to our dinning tables here and around the World.

We also want to take this opportunity to thanks Christy Rhodes and her team at the American Cheese Society for helping us produce this post.

For more details about this competition please visit the American Cheese Society's website at www.cheesesociety.org

Or simply send us a shout via our Facebook Fan Page!


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