Chef Paul: Tourtiere!
January 06 2011
Once January 1st rolled around, my wife and I got busy making l
unch items for our freezer.
Both of us insist on bringing our lunches to work. So on days where I’m not cooking here at MealEasy, I always have a homemade meal. It saves money and I know it’ll be good for me.
My wife made her wonderful lasagna recipe which was passed along to her from her mom and I made a couple of tourtieres…that’s what us frenchies call meat pie. I got my recipe from a friend who had us over to her place for Christmas dinner. She served both tourtiere and roast wild turkey…a turkey that she and her husband not only raised themselves but butchered as well! Talk about farm fresh!!! It was excellent. Us cooks LOVE it when people cook for us.
As for the tourtiere, even though I’ve used my own recipes in the past, I decided to give hers a try because it tasted sooooo good. It called for equal parts ground pork and ground beef both of which I got from our local farmer’s market (grass fed beef and pasture raised pork) as well as an assortment of spices such as allspice, bay leaves, cloves and fresh sage. EXCELLENT. I love tourtiere.
There are probably as many recipes out there for tourtiere as there are cooks but this one was great. I made it before with ground venison which adds a nice gamey flavor or even with ground chicken or turkey…I’ve even made salmon tourtiere. It’s definitely a comfort food favourite around our house; served with creamy mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli… I’m salivating just thinking about it.
If you want this recipe just shoot us an email (talk@mealeasy.com) and I’ll send it off to you.
