T Stands for a Newfoundland Food Tour

Hi ladies. Happy Tuesday and Happy T day. Today for T I am going to take you on a culinary tour of some foods which I discovered in Newfoundland .

Hopefully this won't be too long or overwhelming.

 I am going to first start with this beer my husband had with dinner one night. I took a couple of sips. It was light and refreshing.

And I actually wanted to try this  Vinland Martini cocktail when we stopped for lunch one day, but I also didn't want  an alcoholic drink at lunchtime as I would be down for the count for the rest of the day. I am a lightweight as I have been constantly reminded from my daughter when I had 2 margaritas on the 4th of July and then needed to go take a nap. :)

So I had water instead.

And one day my husband and I had to try another local specialty for lunch

 I actually once had moose many years ago when I visiting relatives in Sweden. But that time is was in a roast form. I guess I found the burger a little strong tasting compared to plain old beef burger, but my husband enjoyed his. But now I can say I have had one.

And a local berry called Bakeapple is found  in Newfoundland. It is also known as cloudberry, which I had all those years ago in Sweden also.  But since I couldn't remember what it tasted like, I tried it in this pie.

 To me if was like a mix of apple and orange together. I liked it, but with a little ice cream on it it would have been even better.

 Then we tried a local meat that is popular in a sandwich. It is  lightly sweetened beef concoction called a donair. The sweet tasted like maple syrup but I am not sure about that. When I looked up the recipe on how to make donair I don't see anything sweet in the ingredients at all. This local pizza chain had created a donair pizza that wee tried.

I enjoyed the cool veggies on the top of the warm meet and cheese, but no tomato sauce.

 I'm not sure the husband cared for the Donair.

 We also tried a seafood pizza. We ordered the small pizzas which was six inches in size, so even though my photos might make them look big, they were not. We each ordered a different pizza and shared with each other.

 One  night for dinner I wasn't very hungry so I ordered an egg and one of these local fried breads called a touton. It was served with cranberry sauce and molasses. I don't think you were suppose to mix the 2 sauces together but you could use one or other. I prefered the cranberry sauce over the molasses, and this touton was so big I couldn't finish it. It was tasty, and from what I read about its history, it was created as a way not to waste  left over bread dough.

And since Newfoundland was partly settled because of it's rich fishing in the Grand Banks, there was lots of cod on the menu. (And sadly, cod fishing is very limited now because of overfishing from all the big trawlers that came from all over the world for cod but there is  still have enough for it to be popular on the menu everywhere  we went.)

 One day  I had delicious seafood chowder (and a diet coke).

 I would have tried these cod tongues actually, but it seemed like a lot of cash just for a taste. And there was no way my husband was going to split an order with me.

 And a couple of times I had fish and chips.

Fish and chips is one of my favorites anyhow. But I liked how in Newfoundland they used the fluffier British style batter on the fish than we have here in the US. Just no mushy peas (which I wish we had here). Instead the fish was served with coleslaw like we get in the US.
And one my other best meals was this lunch. A beef brisket, provolone cheese and shrimp sandwich. Who knew the 2 flavors of beef  and shrimp worked so well together? It was really cold that particular day (I even bought a winter hat as the wind was whipping and bitingly cold) and the warm sandwich hit the spot.

Of course water and a diet coke to drink for me.

And lastly, I have 2 other sweets bites to share with you.

First of all, another local berry. This is partridgeberry pie-with ice cream this time. Partridgeberry is slightly tart and related to cranberries here in the US.

Later when I looked it up I found out it is also called lingonberry, which is very common in Swedish cooking and I've had many times. But never in pie, and I really liked it that way.

And finally, no trip to Canada would be complete without a stop at this Canadian Institution:

Tim Horton's. We got a mini box of donut holes, mainly because I do like a good donut or donut hole for a snack on occasion. It made good junk food while on the road. :)
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