Meet Canada’s Coziest Comfort Food—and It's Not Poutine

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I’ve never heard of this dish before.

CANADIAN MARITIMES recipes and NEWFOUNDLAND recipes
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Tourtiere, chicken pot pie, and perogies are probably Canada’s coziest comfort foods, if one was to poll all Canadians.

Serious Eats should have titled the article One of Newfoundland’s Comfort Foods.

What do Hungry Onions consider Canada’s Coziest Comfort Foods?

  • Tourtière
  • chicken pot pie
  • pierogis
  • poutine
  • butter chicken
  • Newfie fries
  • butter tarts
  • Nanaimo bars
  • Maritime Clam Chowder
  • Pouding Chomeur
  • Sugar Pie
  • Saskatoon Pie
  • Thunder Bay Persian
  • Hawaiian Pizza
  • Halifax Donair
  • Pemmican
  • Indian Tacos
  • Dry Ribs
  • Peameal Bacon on a Bun
  • Beavertails
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The Arcadian Court Chicken Pot Pie served in the Arcadian Court on the 8th floor of the Simpsons Department Store, which became the Hudson Bay Company flagship was considered one of the best Chicken Pot Pies in Toronto for decades.

Oliver and Bonacini restaurant group served a version of the pot pie at Bannock, a restaurant at street level of the Bay department store. Bannock is another word for Indian Fry Bread, and it’s a comfort food in many First Nations and Métis communities.

Bannock, the restaurant, closed 5 or 6 years ago, and the Bay closed all its locations in the spring of 2025.

Battle of the Chicken Pot Pie podcast.

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my votes would be for tourtiere and the great quebecois yellow pea soup which is not listed. The latter is particularly good when made with herbes salees - I have made this seasoning when there is fresh savory in the market, but it keeps forever in the fridge or freezer. https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/herbes-salees-388931

I did not see the chip/stuffing dish on a run up the north west coast of Newfoundland last year. No question their food is a little bit different.

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I need to ask my Newfie friends about this one. I’ve never heard of chips and stuffing before; however, the Mt. Scio Farm Savoury that’s used in it, is excellent and readily available in Sobeys stores.

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That split pea soup is often called Habitant Pea Soup in English.

Here is Ricardo’s recipe (a popular Quebec tv chef)

Chuck Hughes’ recipe.

There is also a common brand called Habitant that cans it and sells it, now owned by Campbell’s, but still pretty good.

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I’ll send you a recipe from one of my Newfie cookbooks

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That would be fun. I’ll have to invite the friends from the Rock over for that. :slight_smile:

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