Feel free to post your tips and queries.
I ordered my Xmas Goose from Sanagan’s. 
Noctua makes a nice stollen and beautiful cookie boxes, available in the store.
Coco’s is offering Princess Cakes and other special cakes that can be ordered in advance.
Tourtiere hand pies!!! I’m going to make some of those!
Those look great! For some reason I only ever thought of making tourtiere in large format. That’s going to change.
I made a mini a few years ago in a small tart pan. Then regretted making it mini!
These are cute
For folks who eat their tourtiere with ketchup, yes. For me, no 
Oh, I don’t eat mine with ketchup, although it is a very common practice in Quebec.
I don’t eat anything with ketchup.
I would eat meatballs with cranberry sauce, or with cranberry chili sauce, or grape jelly chili sauce. LOL
I know you know, but for clarity, I meant what’s called ketchup in Quebec, not what I call ketchup ie tomato.
Both the home-made Quebec regional ketchups and regular tomato ketchup get put on tourtière in Quebec and other parts of Canada.
I’ve mostly seen people use garden variety tomato ketchup, the same kind the same kind of people use on their grilled cheese, Kraft Dinner, and scrambled eggs
Like this
I figure I should balance that with a Ricardo recipe for a French Cdn Ketchup.
Hehe, America’s Test Kitchen just put a video up on why homemade ketchup should be illegal 
Oooo… I need to do a taste test. Thus far PDC’s has topped every local rendition we’ve tried. Sanagan’s has been particularly disappointing given it’s high price. We picked up our PDC pie last week and I’ll try to get this for a comparison. Thanks.
I’m really happy with the APDC seasoning, where the allspice, clove and nutmeg (I think I taste all 3) is detectable, and I like that it’s a mix of ground pork and not-ground pork. The crust is so crispy, too.
Do you know if APDC frozen tourtiere are available year round or only now?
I’ll seek it out on my next trip.
(I bought savory last trip to Montreal to get the flavor closer, but the APDC recipe doesn’t use it — only thyme, bay leaves, cinnamon, and clove.)
I’ve made quite a few renditions of tourtiere, and PDC’s recipe has been the best so far. That combination of braised and ground pork really makes it.
In Toronto, the APDC tourtières are only brought in during December.
It was funny, last December, the shop was giving me a little trouble because I wasn’t able to pick up the frozen tourtière immediately, as soon as it came in, even though I had paid in full, online, several weeks in advance. I’m only in Toronto on weekends, and the employee wanted me to pick it up on a Tuesday, iirc. (I would never hassle a customer for 2 pies worth of freezer space )
I don’t think they’re available year-round in Montreal. I haven’t checked. There are other dishes sold through APDC year-round, but most are canned, not frozen.
It is available on the APDC site. https://www.aupieddecochon.ca/fc/tourtiere.html
Interestingly, APDC Tourtières is$29 in Quebec.
I realized there would be a mark-up for bringing an APDC tourtière to Toronto, but that’s quite a mark-up. $54.99 at Bottega Volo this year. LOL.
Sanagan’s is charging $28 for a Sanagan’s pie in Toronto. Seems fair. I recently paid $60 for a beef pie (not tourtière, also around 1 kg) at a place called The Flour Mill in St Mary’s, ON.
Volo always had really high markups. Even back in their Yonge St days their stuff was really expensive even though the place smelt like a dive bar. But it was the only place you could try certain beers so I was a frequent seat warmer.
Nowadays, more bars have expanded their variety so it seems that Volo decided to secure “exclusivity” with certain brands like PDC and Cantillion. So if you want to get it in Toronto, you will have to go through them and pay their markup. It may be backfiring as this is the first year I’ve seen the tourtiere not sold out in the pre-order phase.
What do you get for that high markup? Well actually, their staff are super knowledgeable on the products they sell. No other place has staff that well-versed. So I don’t mind paying their prices because in many cases, the staff knows more than me and I’m learn new stuff from.
I don’t like the Organic Meadow Eggnog in the glass bottle as much as I like Harmony. Organic Meadow is less sweet than Neilson’s carton eggnog or Farm Boy’s bottled egg nog.
Farm Boy’s bottled egg nog is too heavy on the vanilla and too light on the spices for my taste.
I think Kawartha Dairy’s carton eggnog ($$) is my favourite eggnog after Harmony’s bottled eggnog ($$$$).
I will check to see if Fiesta Farms is carrying Harmony Eggnog today.
I noticed Rhum Corner is selling Kremas, which sounds like the Haitian equivalent to Puerto Rican Coquito.
