Week 4- Off to Canada!

Off to Canada! Thank you go.hrw.com for the picture!

 Hello everyone! I am so excited to begin my week in a neighbor of my own- Canada! This week, I will be focusing of the cuisine of this country. Because they do not have staples to the extent that the Congo did, I will not be eating only their food, but will instead be eating at least something of their culture in each meal and snack of mine all week. Because Canada has an indigenous culture as well as a French-inspired culture, I will be eating some traditional foods from each of these two pieces of their culture. Thanks to two very helpful websites (listed at the end of this post), I have found 3-4 recipes of both pieces. Yesterday I bought all ingredients and cooked until I dropped. Here are the recipes I will be making this week and eating with each and every snack and meal:

Non-aboriginal food-
-Pea Soup
-Apple Pancakes
-Cauliflower Souffle
-Cabbage Salad

Aboriginal Food-
-Three Sisters Soup- a soup of butternut squash, green beans and corn
-Bannock- a bread that resembles a biscuit made of sugar, flour and water

-Wild Rice Cakes wild rice, cornmeal and some butter

Throughout the week, you will get in-depth descriptions of what some of these dishes are as well as pictures of myself making and eating them. I will have made them all by the end of my journey in this country. For now though, homework awaits me. I will mention quickly though, that today I ate Bannock, Three Sisters Soup and Apple Pancakes, all of which I really enjoyed. Check back throughout the week- I won't leave you all hanging!

P.S- I have had to modify a few things because of my vegetarian diet, but not enough to make large differences in anything. Most of the recipes I have chosen though never had meat products to begin with.

The very helpful websites I have used- Thanks!!:
http://www.foodbycountry.com/Algeria-to-France/Canada-Aboriginals.html
http://www.cajuncookingrecipes.com/canadian/ (it's not just Cajun-promise)