I was “today” years old when I discovered poutine. I’d had fries with gravy before but poutine is much better! Where has this been all of my life?

Actually a bit of a fusion: birria poutine at the local Biergarten, SO GOOD!

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Birria poutine

Oh shit that sounds fire as hell.

It's been in Quebec, where it's made with squeaky cheese. I had some from a roadside poutine stand there one time. The first time I ever had poutine was in Timmins, Ontario, about 40 years ago. Blew my mind it was so good.

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Growing up in New Mexico we have green chile cheese fries instead of poutine. And chile here is not meat and spices, it is a vegetable.

Where has this been all of my life?

Quebec.

Its so good. And good for a heart attack!

I'm curious where you live that you have just discovered poutine

And that's the problem :-[

Green chili is the best chili

Probably somewhere in Canada. It’s rare there, but common elsewhere.

Rare in Canada? Quebec is like the home of poutine! You can find it in many restaurants, Costco, A&W come to mind immediately

Did you forget /s

Did everyone forget their sense of humour today?

It's literally everything the caveman lizard brain craves in food. Salt, fat, carbs, yummy texture and flavour.

That would be amazing I'll need to try that. I would be tempted to add dollops of sour cream to that too.

That’s the weird part: New England. So near to Quebec.
I’ve met so many visitors from Montreal especially. Ive read so many mentions online.

Heck, my ex-grandmother-in-Law was French Canadian

I have to admit my first choice was the Korma, but this was late on a Sunday and they ran out of rice. They actually offered to serve the Korma over fries, but that’s just wrong

Closer than you’d think. I grew up in upstate New York and have since lived in new England. Quebec is practically next door

I’ve heard so much about hatch green chilies, but can’t get them here

Canada, not just Quebec, poutine is everywhere in every city and town.

Cheese curds to be more specific and all of Canada, not just Quebec.

Squeaky cheese

This style of cheese originated in the province of Québec in the 1960’s. At the time, local dairy farms had surplus milk, and they needed to use it for something. Cheese-making, it turned out, was the ideal solution.

All cheese is made from curdled milk, and Squeaky Cheese is no different. The main difference between cheese curds and the traditional blocks of cheddar you see in the grocery store is age and whey content.

https://squeakycheese.ca/index.html

See of you can find Crema (Mexican sour cream) - it's much better than regular sour cream (for Mexican dishes). It's thinner, a little salty.

Not the cheapest route: https://www.hatch-green-chile.com/products/roasted

Maybe you can find Young Guns chile: https://www.yghatchchile.com/

Or Bueno: https://buenofoods.com/store-locator/

Also, keep in mind, not only is Hatch a place, it is also a brand. The brand does not use 100% New Mexico Chile, much less chile grown in Hatch. The Hatch Chile company is a different brand than the one I linked above.

Mmm, I bet that was delicious!

I mean I know about it but have never had it.

That sounds delicious! Now I need to find an Indian place that also serves fries.

Just make 2 stops…

I have never been interested in Poutine but this looks so damn goood, I would dig into that so fast !

None in my state, but 50 miles, across to the next state

You guys call it squeaky cheese in your part of Canada?

The standard fare poutine around here is made with curd-like mozzerella I think, its kinda mushy like the fries themselves, its just called "poutine". I've never had poutine with cheese so squeaky like I had that one time in Quebec, it was firm, chewy, and loud. Probably about 15 years ago now. Never had anything like it since.

I live in Saskatchewan, and we are pretty big into poutines here. We even have a guy here that goes to each place and rates their poutines lol.

We ( in my household) love to judge the quality of the cheese used. Curds vs mozza is quite noticeable.

It's my favourite cheese to just eat chunks of, quite satisfying texture.

it looks like salsa verde, is it at all similar?

Not at all similar, this is fries, cheese, and chopped New Mexico Green Chile.

yeah I just meant the green chile, how hot is it? they're not pickled or anything just raw peppers chopped up?

how hot is it?

That varies from farm to farm, and how it is grown. Many sell mild, or hot.

they're not pickled or anything just raw peppers chopped up?

Typically they are fire roasted when purchased, then peeled at home.

So obviously this is sacrilege and I would never suggest this to a Canadian IRL, but there are so many ways to make a poutine-inspired dish. Roast potatoes (cut into smaller cubes), onion gravy, some kind of sausage and brie (or your cheese of choice). I make it with roast dinner leftovers and it slaps.

ooo they sound good!

i usually prefer a little hotter but if those were around everywhere they would definitely go on just about everything I ate lol.

what's the weirdest thing youve had them in? ice cream or anything of that sort? :)

if those were around everywhere they would definitely go on just about everything I ate lol.

Anaheim chile is a close analog for NM chiles. They are not the same, but work when the latter is not available (I lived in PA and Maryland without access to green chile for 19 long years).

what's the weirdest thing youve had them in? ice cream or anything of that sort? :)

Green chile peanut brittle might be the weirdest sweet. I have also had green chile lollipops, with and without a scorpion. Most of that kind of stuff is only sold at the tourist traps, so I never really see it unless I am giving someone a tour. I cannot recall ever having green chile ice cream, I would try it though.

Savory-wise green chile fettuccine Alfredo, or a domino's thin crust pizza with white sauce, feta, spinach, and green chile. It is something my Pathfinder group's coworker came up while they were trying to order a vegetarian pizza.

Here in New Mexico basically all of the restaurants have green chile (some have red) on the menu. You can have it added to just about anything.

That's not poutine. It has cheese curds. What you're making is cheese on French fries.

Oh you, who art so wise in the ways of poutine, please enlighten me!

I've heard praise of that stuff, but you can't get it here in Germany, so I'd have to make it myself. What would be your advice/recipe for a decent DIY poutine?

I suppose the hardest part will be finding an acceptable type of cheese. Afaik cheese curds aren't even produced here. Do you know anything that's similar enough to be passable? What even are cheese curds?
It's not that we lack variety in dairy products in general, but I've never encountered them, or maybe there's something getting lost in translation. My dairy vocabulary might not be up to the task.

Yes that's why I said poutine-inspired. I'm aware of what poutine is.

My recipe

Wait are you talking about Lagoon Biergarten?!?! Birria Poutine you say?!

That looks really cool, but very far away.

I went to a small local one in New England run by my local brewer. These guys have some great ideas so I really hope they succeed. They just started running it at a local historical estate.

Unfortunately the day I was there did not have as many customers as they were probably hoping. Maybe sundays are light, I don’t know. It appeared to be the family day as we were the only ones without little kids, so that’s fantastic, but less the half the tables were in use

Oh I see you live in a cool State haha