Well, I'm really afraid of drawing the wrath of the Quebecois here 😅 But this year, I wanted to share a recipe from this region during the holiday season, the good old tourtière. To put you in the context, I am a French woman who moved to Quebec a little over three years ago. And I have one foot in each world... my whole daily life, my colleagues, my friends, my entire life is in Quebec; but three-quarters of the people reading this blog are French, since this blog predates our move here.
So I write everything for the French readers here, Celsius degrees, nutritional yeast, shallots, baking powder... there are a lot of things that we don't have the same words for in Quebec 😅 And during Christmas, I share vegan menus that remind me of my cultural concept of a holiday meal with blinis, roasts, "smoked salmon", mushroom ravioli... Which doesn't really resemble the idea of a holiday meal here in Quebec.
So this year, I cooked one of the greatest classics from here: this famous tourtière. It's a kind of meat pie (originally...) with pieces of potato and Christmas spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves...