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Why mike is a former egg cook; or, cooks be cray-cray.
I can cook eggs. A lot of them, and really quickly too. I can cook more eggs in 10 minutes than the average person eats in two weeks. I can feed 20 people a full breakfast in as many minutes, and...
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The Beer Brat
German food. Meat in tube form. Fermented cabbage. Beer. Those are four of my favorite things in the whole world. As such, it fell to the Church of Poutine to do that which needed to be done: make a...
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No Cooks in the Kitchen
By Mike Church I am a member of a declining profession. You wouldn’t know it by the way chefs are portrayed in the media, but there is a serious problem facing restaurants around the world.Nobody wants...
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Vegan Frito pie Poutine(?)
When you first think of poutine, what comes to mind? It’s probably fries, gravy, and cheese. That’s not what we do in these parts. We take poutine & mess with it. We tweak it. We ruin your...
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Mike STays at home: Week two
By Mike Church I’ve been in the stay at home dad game, completely unsupervised (who’s bright idea was it to leave me alone with a helpless, tiny human being!?) for about a week now. So far, so good. At...
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S'mores Poutine
It's not August 10th, which is National S'mores Day, but here at the Church of Poutine, we are still celebrating with our S'mores Poutine. Did you know that the term "S'mores" is just a contraction...
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Knives, and why mike loves them.
This is a new feature. In this series, I will be discussing, at some length, the tools of my trade and how I’ve come to choose them. I am a gear nerd through and through, so I get really excited when I...
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Our first party.
Sometimes, google does funny things. Sometimes, google doing these funny things results in losing entire (nearly) finished drafts that were about to get posted.Tiny rant aside, let’s talk about the...
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Mike & Jenny: How we eat together.
I eat meat.I also married a vegan. This aspect of our lives is not without it’s own share of complications. We have both had to make accommodations for one another’s dietary doctrine. However, neither...
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Mike stays at home: Weeks 3 and 4.
I missed a week on this feature, and for that, I apologize. We threw the poutine party last weekend, and it kept us pretty busy, so we’ve been a bit slow on the content lately. But enough about that....
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The cheeseburger.
The cheeseburger. An American institution. A humble dish that brings together both the young and the old. We’re spanning the generations here at Church of Poutine. Cheeseburgers are more American than...
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Lux's Chia Seed Pudding.
I love to eat bread… like, a lot of bread. Not only do I eat an inhuman amount of bread but almost any kind of carbs in my sight, it got to a point where my mom would yell at me [mama here : oh,...
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Vegan Hot Dog Poutine.
You know what is great about America? Food, Freedom, & Healthcare. Oh wait, that last one? Nevermind. So food, like hamburgers, hot dogs, deep fried butter, donuts, beer, apple pie, fried...
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Mike explains his taste in cutlery.
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The Quebec Roll.
As a "professional" cook, I always enjoy pushing the limits and trying to plate or discover the douchiest dish possible. As a former sous chef pointed out, "Throw kohlrabi on anything, and people go...
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We like cookbooks.
Cookbooks.Jenny and I have a lot of them. An outsider’s perspective could find that we have too many. But we didn’t ask for that outsider’s opinion, and we would appreciate it if they could keep their...
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Mike Stays at home, and now the fun begins.
Babies. We make them. This is a fact that is known by everyone, and it might just be the most obvious statement a person is capable of uttering. And yet, when you make one of your own, the whole...
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"raw food" AKA don't judge me.
You already know that I've been a vegan for like "forever."Seriously, I have not eaten meat in 22 years, but I do remember what scrambled eggs with cheese, a McDonald's cheeseburger, and fried shrimp...
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the country poutine breakfast.
To quote Hank Williams, Jr. “Country boys can survive.” This statement rings true for all of America’s hard-working, blue collar folk. But what makes a “country boy” so likely to survive in the first...
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Potato Chip Poutine.
A very wise man once said, "If you ain't first, you're last." Now, let's think about this for just a moment; what it really means to be a true winner. Is it fast cars, hot women, money, & fame?...
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