My experience with slow cooker poutine is a good example of why, when cooking, you should study the instructions before you get going. Sigh.
Slow cooker poutine
I should point out this Pork and Potato Poutine is a slow cooker ISH recipe. It’s the “ish” part I should’ve paid attention to.
For, you see, I had great plans. For poutine. I even went on one of my epic grocery shopping search-a-thons. Looking for weird ingredients I don’t normally care about. Like cheese curds. OK only cheese curds.
I had decided I didn’t want to make the “pork” part of the recipe because that’s not real poutine. Also I’m done with buying meat. I don’t want to buy any more meat. But I still have bacon in the freezer so, well, I thought I would do that part.
Anyway, so I couldn’t find cheese curds and after searching and searching I finally opted for a mozza and fake it cheese situation.
When I was checking out the cashier asked me if I had found everything alright. And I know they have to ask that but I still told her about the cheese curds and the cool looking slow cooker poutine recipe I had found online and we chatted for a while about it. And I learned they never have cheese curds. Well, sometimes, but only the orange kind (orange kind?) but nobody wants that.
By the time I was ready to start cooking my slow cooker poutine I decided it was time to look at the recipe instructions. And what did I learn? Well, it turns out the only part of the recipe that uses the slow cooker is the pork part.
So it’s not slow cooker poutine, it’s slow cooker pork. And I think slow cooker pork would taste so good on fries with cheese curds and gravy but considering I didn’t get actual cheese curds and I wasn’t planning on doing the pork part…well you can understand why this is a fail for me.
Other recipes
- Slow Cooker Mediterranean Red Potatoes
- Slow Cooker Chickpea Curry
- Super Triple Chocolaty Thing With Peanut Butter
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8 Responses
I cannot relate at all. I always pay very close and careful attention to all directions; just ask Adam.
Funny, just a couple weeks ago my brother was wanting to make poutine and couldn’t find cheese curds anywhere either. Just the “orange kind” you mention (cheddar, I’m guessing?). Maybe it’s the sort of specialty item you have to go to a dairy to find, or it’s a conspiracy by New York Fries to have a monopoly on the poutine market!
Hah. Yeah cheese curds must be a bit of a specialty. I had no idea!
Yeah Kinneyland, you always follow directions.
Birchwood Dairy has THE BEST cheese curds (the white ones, not the orange ones)!!!
THANK YOU LINNEA!!!