French Recipes

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by elston

I get the Mailhot products in my local (Gorham) Hannaford store....you dont have to go to Lewiston where the company is....and certainly not all the way to Bangor. They also make a great breakfast sausage that is a little different from Jimmy Dean etc. I dont know if it is traditional French Canadian...but it is good.

Poutine is a french dish also.......(very fattening) frenchfries, cheese curds and brown gravy! I bet your memiere remembers it. When people worked hard out doors in freezing weather.....the extra calories were a good thing.

They used to sell poutine at a little diner in Washburn. The locals would eat it for lunch. These guys would come in from the spud fields just covered with yellow insecticide and eat poutine for lunch! Without washing at all!

[tcrackly]

I knew a woman originally from Gardiner, MA that spend a month looking for fresh poutines. When she did find some , or maybe she made them, she brought them to work for us to sample. She grew up on them, I was not that impressed. I love tourtieres. sometimes I make them in the winter. The previous recipes are pretty much like mine.

[CoastalMaine]

Originally Posted by Maineah

How about Coq Au Vin?? Hey I know poulet is chicken!!! That's about it!

Au Gratin is basically cheese or not (as you wish-and I wish cheese) scalloped potatoes:

Creamy Au Gratin Potatoes - Allrecipes

Lyonnaise Potatoes is carmalized onion potatoes:

Lyonnaise Potatoes - Allrecipes

Steak au Poivre is peppered steak:

Steak au Poivre by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin

Steak Au Poivre Recipe at Epicurious.com

and Poulet Dijon is Chicken Dijon:

Dijon Chicken with Tarragon - Chicken Dijon Recipe with Tarragon