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Re: Huh. Spinach, potatoes and lardons? That's a classic? Legolas Send a noteboard - 06/04/2015 06:35:07 PM

View original postMontréal style (meat pie, a British-inspired dish) or Lac-St-Jean style (a French - Renaissance-eral - inspired dish)?

It had minced meat in it, so I guess Montréal style then? Wasn't really aware of the different styles.

View original postAh.. it may well have been a kind of family dish derived from that, but I think he says it was a Wallon classic (the French and Italians have a similar habit of upgrading family dishes to classic status! The next village usually never heard of it!). I recall he was pretty adamant that it required fresh spinach and a specific type of potato (a kind also used a lot in Alsace), which at the time (20 years ago) was easier said than done in the middle of february. He's from the Bruxelles area, and wallon. I also remember Jean-Luc telling me the Belgian dishes I knew to cook were all of Flemish origin, and that he rarely ate those at home as a kid and never cooked them.

Which is it, the Bruxelles area or Wallonia?

Not that those two are so far apart (a couple hundred meters, at one point...), but generally people identify pretty strongly as either one or the other. But yeah, if it's a regional thing, quite possible it's more widely known and I just don't know it.

View original postI think it was gaufres de Liège as I'm pretty sure Julien's family and his wife's are from that area. It was heavier than what gets sold frozen as "gaufres de Bruxelles" here. and it got a special kind of sugar in it - that gets sort of crunchy under the tooth rather than powered sugar being dusted over it as it's done in Belgian restaurants around here.

Yeah, that sounds like Liègeois alright. I'm not even sure the Brussels kind with the powered sugar is made in a real waffle iron.

View original postWe told him we often pour maple syrup over waffles here, but he wanted nothing to do with that (but a local chef, French-born, toured Belgium on a TV show last year and he was teaching Belgian cooks how to use maple syrup in innovative ways in cooking and baking. One of the Belgian chefs did try to incorporate it in a classic Bruxelles gaufre mix and he loved the result. He was saying it would be too expensive in Belgium, though.

No kidding. You don't want to know what I paid for the maple syrup I found in my local supermarket to put on my pancakes.

View original postWe do have a street food car (those are new-ish, at the time you came here there were none as street food was forbidden) operated by a Belgian selling gaufres in winter, but I've never got the chance to catch it. We have less Belgian immigrants than French ones (the French are really everywhere - you rarely go long in Montréal without overhearing one of the French accents these days), but there's still quite a few.

Don't recall any street food car, indeed, just the one Belgian friterie. But the car selling waffles in NYC has gotten quite some press around here, so not surprised there's one in Montréal as well. Anyway, do try it when you get a chance. With or without chocolate (it's even better with chocolate, but fairly difficult to avoid making a huge mess).

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Alright, Paul. Where is that gumbo review? nossy - 28/03/2015 09:46:44 AM 844 Views

So what you're saying is, if I liked it that means it's awful?

Legolas - 28/03/2015 08:31:05 PM 673 Views

+1 *NM* Ghavrel - 29/03/2015 07:21:19 AM 256 Views

lol, approximately. Maybe 35? nossy - 29/03/2015 02:14:29 PM 698 Views

What is Belgium food? *NM* random thoughts - 30/03/2015 01:00:21 AM 286 Views

French fries ruined by being smothered in the most digusting condiment of all time, mayonnaise. *NM* Tom - 30/03/2015 03:21:05 AM 321 Views

There's many kinds of mayonnaise - the good kind's pretty good. The bad kinds are indeed dire. *NM* Legolas - 30/03/2015 07:05:59 PM 275 Views

Mayonnaise is awesome. And goes well with fries. *NM* Bergioyn - 31/03/2015 01:14:05 PM 344 Views

Agreed. Mayonnaise is lovely. Especially with fries. *NM* The Shrike - 31/03/2015 01:32:13 PM 269 Views

mayonnaise has it's place but french fries are not one of those places random thoughts - 31/03/2015 04:25:51 PM 576 Views

Re: mayonnaise has it's place but french fries are not one of those places DomA - 06/04/2015 02:56:02 AM 766 Views

Agreed! LiterateDog - 31/03/2015 04:08:19 PM 462 Views

I liked the imagery in that response...I think *NM* Tom - 31/03/2015 10:14:20 PM 247 Views

You is wack, yo. nossy - 01/04/2015 08:36:22 AM 543 Views

Mayonnaise is awesome. Too bad it'll kill me *NM* AgentApple - 31/03/2015 05:18:02 PM 260 Views

only if you eat the kind with sugar and chemicals! *NM* nossy - 01/04/2015 08:33:58 AM 252 Views

Try to get a restraining order against it, or have yourself put in protective custody. Stephen - 20/04/2015 11:40:45 PM 426 Views

I take it you mean besides beer, chocolate, waffles and "French" fries?

Legolas - 30/03/2015 07:16:33 PM 586 Views

Not a whole lot of American mayonnaise is edible. No wonder so many here find it disgusting. *NM* DomA - 30/03/2015 07:41:28 PM 406 Views

Re: Not a whole lot of American mayonnaise is edible. No wonder so many here find it disgusting. DomA - 30/03/2015 07:46:33 PM 719 Views

Huh. Spinach, potatoes and lardons? That's a classic? Legolas - 31/03/2015 09:39:59 PM 656 Views

Re: Huh. Spinach, potatoes and lardons? That's a classic? DomA - 06/04/2015 02:28:05 AM 722 Views

Re: Huh. Spinach, potatoes and lardons? That's a classic? Legolas - 06/04/2015 06:35:07 PM 590 Views

stop being silly, that is all American food

random thoughts - 31/03/2015 04:29:47 PM 525 Views

tomato syrup.

*NM* nossy - 31/03/2015 08:47:04 PM 256 Views

Well, sure, there's a small difference though. Legolas - 31/03/2015 09:25:42 PM 826 Views

That looks really good and I think I amy try it random thoughts - 01/04/2015 02:09:43 PM 440 Views

Good to hear! Legolas - 06/04/2015 06:25:29 PM 634 Views

You didn't invent French fries Tom - 31/03/2015 10:06:13 PM 519 Views

If by "the modern French fry" you mean the McDonalds one, then sure. Legolas - 31/03/2015 10:27:33 PM 497 Views

Not sure where you got that notion... DomA - 06/04/2015 01:55:42 AM 724 Views

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<quote id="287270">Montréal style (meat pie, a British-inspired dish) or Lac-St-Jean style (a French - Renaissance-eral - inspired dish)?</quote>
It had minced meat in it, so I guess Montréal style then? Wasn't really aware of the different styles. 
<quote id="287270">Ah.. it may well have been a kind of family dish derived from that, but I think he says it was a Wallon classic (the French and Italians have a similar habit of upgrading family dishes to classic status! The next village usually never heard of it!). I recall he was pretty adamant that it required fresh spinach and a specific type of potato (a kind also used a lot in Alsace), which at the time (20 years ago) was easier said than done in the middle of february.  He's from the Bruxelles area, and wallon.  I also remember Jean-Luc telling me the Belgian dishes I knew to cook were all of Flemish origin, and that he rarely ate those at home as a kid and never cooked them.</quote>
Which is it, the Bruxelles area or Wallonia? :P Not that those two are so far apart (a couple hundred meters, at one point...), but generally people identify pretty strongly as either one or the other. But yeah, if it's a regional thing, quite possible it's more widely known and I just don't know it.

<quote id="287270">I think it was gaufres de Liège as I'm pretty sure Julien's family and his wife's are from that area.  It was heavier than what gets sold frozen as "gaufres de Bruxelles" here. and it got a special kind of sugar in it - that gets sort of crunchy under the tooth rather than powered sugar being dusted over it as it's done in Belgian restaurants around here.</quote>
Yeah, that sounds like Liègeois alright. I'm not even sure the Brussels kind with the powered sugar is made in a real waffle iron. 
<quote id="287270">We told him we often pour maple syrup over waffles here, but he wanted nothing to do with that (but a local chef, French-born, toured Belgium on a TV show last year and he was teaching Belgian cooks how to use maple syrup in innovative ways in cooking and baking. One of the Belgian chefs did try to incorporate it in a classic Bruxelles gaufre mix and he loved the result.  He was saying it would be too expensive in Belgium, though.</quote>
No kidding. You don't want to know what I paid for the maple syrup I found in my local supermarket to put on my pancakes. 
<quote id="287270">We do have a street food car (those are new-ish, at the time you came here there were none as street food was forbidden) operated by a Belgian selling gaufres in winter, but I've never got the chance to catch it.  We have less Belgian immigrants than French ones (the French are really everywhere - you rarely go long in Montréal without overhearing one of the French accents these days), but there's still quite a few.  </quote>
Don't recall any street food car, indeed, just the one Belgian friterie. But the car selling waffles in NYC has gotten quite some press around here, so not surprised there's one in Montréal as well. Anyway, do try it when you get a chance. With or without chocolate (it's even better with chocolate, but fairly difficult to avoid making a huge mess). 
</quote>

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