Tourtière: A French-Canadian meat pie | English Listening
What do the winter holidays smell like to you?
Do you eat something special over the holidays?
I just spent last weekend making latkes with a friend who celebrates Hanukkah. I also recently made tourtière. Have you ever heard of it? It's a French word that means meat pie in English.
Listen here to learn more about this French-Canadian specialty, and when you’re done, send me a message about the foods you eat during the holidays. You can contact me on my website: English with Catherine.
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Here is a link to the recipe I use: tourtière.
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Cinnamon sticks and ground cinnamon
Allspice, from Jamaica, looks a lot like black pepper.
A ginger root. I love ginger cookies and ginger tea. What about you?
When you listen to the podcast, you will learn that my brother and I argue about who will make the Christmas Eve tourtière. He made it last year and wants to make it again this year! I wanted to make it too, so I made this one a week early and brought it to my father-in-law. It was delicious!
Nutmeg. The nutmeg is the hard pit inside the fruit. It is dried and grated, and we add it to foods like tourtière.