Scrambled Eggs and Ketchup

[Land-O-LakesGal]

Hi

I've never seen or heard of Poutine before. From my limited experience, cheese curds are what's in cottage cheese. I find cottage cheese disgusting. How much like cottage cheese are cheese curds? I'm only grossed out by a few things, and cottage cheese is one.

Gag, I made my 1,000th post on Cottage Cheese. Blah.

Later

Cheese curds are to cottage cheese as blue cheese is to cheddar. Similar family but very different. Cheese curds should squeak in your mouth when eaten or they are not fresh. They are like salty chunks of cheese is the best I can describe them.

 

[lolly_loisides]

Poutine is yummy, here's the evidence

Before

After

Mom's Cafe. Sooke, Vancouver Island.

 

[LizzieMaine]

If you have a cheesemaking dairy near you, cheese curds shouldn't be too hard to find -- they're the raw form of cheese before it's pressed into blocks/wheels and put aside to age. Some supermarkets carry them, but these usually aren't fresh -- the ideal curds are eaten the same day they're packed. The best place to get *authentic* poutine curds is in the small towns near Sherbrooke, Quebec -- Drummondville, Warwick, and such places as that.

All this poutine talk has put me in the mood, forcing me to order a case of St. Hubert poutine sauce from one of those online dealers in Canadian goods. And with the US/Canadian exchange rate what it now is, this was not a cheap transaction. *But good poutine is worth it!*

 

[Tomasso]

I'm sorry but these plates ain't clean enough for a proper testimonial.................

 

[Flipped Lid]

Agreed. You could make short work of that with a nice piece of crusty bread.

For anyone who doesn't have local access to cheese curds and would like to give poutine a try, here is a place where you can order them. You might want to wait until the weather cools off a little if you're in a warm climate although you can pay for overnight shipping. They have both yellow and white curds. All of their cheese is just fantastic. I drive right by it every year on my way to a Canadian fishing trip and we load up on cheese on the way up. I've never had anything that wasn't excellent. The seven-year-aged cheddar is out of this world. Just for the record, I have no financial interest in this shop. I'm just a very pleased customer who has been going there for over twenty-five years.

http://ehlenbachscheese.com/

I'm sorry but these plates ain't clean enough for a proper testimonial.................

 

[lolly_loisides]

I'm sorry but these plates ain't clean enough for a proper testimonial.................

Oh Tomasso, we'd each ordered Monte Cristo sandwiches (that were enormous) & the poutine as a side. We were all as full as googs......

 

[olive bleu]

If you have a cheesemaking dairy near you, cheese curds shouldn't be too hard to find -- they're the raw form of cheese before it's pressed into blocks/wheels and put aside to age. Some supermarkets carry them, but these usually aren't fresh -- the ideal curds are eaten the same day they're packed. The best place to get *authentic* poutine curds is in the small towns near Sherbrooke, Quebec -- Drummondville, Warwick, and such places as that.

All this poutine talk has put me in the mood, forcing me to order a case of St. Hubert poutine sauce from one of those online dealers in Canadian goods. And with the US/Canadian exchange rate what it now is, this was not a cheap transaction. *But good poutine is worth it!*

MMM..St. Hubert Poutine Sauce..for a while there we were making poutine nearly every weekend ..you can pick up poutine sauce and cheese curds in any supermarket..which is a blessing or a curse depending on how you look at it...some places are now also coming up with variations of poutine, such as Greek poutine which involves feta cheese and meat sauce..and some other pretty weird concoctions, although i've never actually tried them. Why mess with perfection?

 

[MisterCairo]

Oh my gawd, you've been to Mom's in Sooke?! Isn't it great! We lived in Victoria for three years (air force officer), and lots of the locals had never been there! It is a small world!

Poutine is yummy, here's the evidence

Before

After

Mom's Cafe. Sooke, Vancouver Island.

 

[MisterCairo]

When I was a kid I put ketchup on fried egg sandwiches, but for a long time now I eat my eggs with Worchestershire Sauce.

Brad

I like that too! A local breakfast-based greasy spoon in Stratford, Ontario called Features does what they call the "Bosswich", three eggs scrambled, ham, turkey, cheese and HP sauce (like A1 sauce). Sweet and bitter at the same time!

 

[1961MJS]

Cheese curds are to cottage cheese as blue cheese is to cheddar. Similar family but very different. Cheese curds should squeak in your mouth when eaten or they are not fresh. They are like salty chunks of cheese is the best I can describe them.

Thanks, if I find poutine on the menu, I'll definitely try it.

Mike

 

[dnjan]

Cheese curds are to cottage cheese as blue cheese is to cheddar. Similar family but very different. Cheese curds should squeak in your mouth when eaten or they are not fresh. They are like salty chunks of cheese is the best I can describe them.

Do they still sell them deep-fried at the state fairs around you?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

To me curds was the stuff Little Miss Muffett used to eat. And I never did figure out what whey was. lol
But then again, I'm not sure I really want to know

 

[HoosierDaddy]

'Whey or milk plasma is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained'.
There ya go! Now that wasn't so bad was it.....? *yucky*

 

[rue]

'Whey or milk plasma is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained'.
There ya go! Now that wasn't so bad was it.....? *yucky*

*yucky*.... is right..... I don't think she was running away from that spider after all :eeek:

 

[lolly_loisides]

Oh my gawd, you've been to Mom's in Sooke?! Isn't it great! We lived in Victoria for three years (air force officer), and lots of the locals had never been there! It is a small world!

My sister lives in Langford, even though the flight to Vancouver is 14 and a half hours I try to get over there at least once a year.
BTW The eggs benedict at Mom's are to die for.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Eh, their hot dogs are pedestrian at best. But then once you've had a Vienna beef dog in natural casing anything else pales in comparison.

I will not eat at a hot dog joint that doesn't display this sign.....

No kidding. The "Pink's" hot dog stand on La Brea Blvd. is a living exhibit of the lemming mentality. Long lines nearly all the time, day and night, for a so-so product that's famous for being famous.


Meanwhile, the recently-demolished "All-American Burger" fast food joint, which had graced Sunset Blvd. since the early '70s, sold awful burgers but OUTSTANDING Vienna Beef hot dogs ... and without any lemming lines.

 

[TCMfan25]

Vinager on French Fries, and HP Fruity on eggs YUM!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

No kidding. The "Pink's" hot dog stand on La Brea Blvd. is a living exhibit of the lemming mentality. Long lines nearly all the time, day and night, for a so-so product that's famous for being famous.


Meanwhile, the recently-demolished "All-American Burger" fast food joint, which had graced Sunset Blvd. since the early '70s, sold awful burgers but OUTSTANDING Vienna Beef hot dogs ... and without any lemming lines.

I'd like an opinion about Nathan's hot dogs. The food court at the Sam's Club near me has Nathan's. Speaking for myself, I like them, but that might just be me.

 

[Tomasso]

I'd like an opinion about Nathan's hot dogs.

*yucky*

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

*yucky*

That good, huh? lol