Shrimp Foo Yung

Makes 4

Who doesn't like a good Egg Foo Yung? And this one with shrimp is...stupid good.

Ingredients

• 1 jar chicken gravy
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 6 eggs, beaten
• 1/3 cup green onions, finely chopped (plus a little extra to add as a garnish at the end)
• 3/4 cup fresh bean sprouts
• 1 cup cooked baby shrimp
• Vegetable oil

Directions

1. Pour the gravy into a pot, stir in the soy sauce and heat over low heat until bubbly and hot
2. Preheat a skillet or griddle over medium heat
3. Beat the eggs really well in a bowl
4. Add the green onions, bean sprouts and baby shrimp to the beaten eggs and stir well
5. Add a bit of oil onto the pan and pour the egg mixture onto the hot pan making 4 pancake sized rounds
6. Cook for 2 - 3 minutes and flip to cook the other side
7. Once both sides are cooked put a pancake onto a plate and spoon some gravy over it
8. Garnish with a little chopped green onion and enjoy

Poutine

Serves 3 - 4

If there was a dish that could be called "Canadian" this would be it.

Ingredients

• 1 bag frozen french fries

• One 12 ounce jar beef gravy

• Freshly ground black pepper to taste

• 1 tablespoon Maggi, soy or Worcestershire sauce

• 1 cup cheese curds, broken up or fresh mozzarella, diced fairly small

Directions

1. Preheat oven per french fry package instructions

2. Spread the fries evenly onto a baking sheet and bake as package instructs - until browned and crunchy

3. In a small pot mix the gravy with some freshly ground black pepper to taste and the Maggi/soy/Worcestershire sauce and heat over low heat until hot and bubbly

4. Break up the cheese curds or dice the mozzarella

5. On a plate layer as follows: french fries, cheese, gravy/sauce mix

6. Add a little more freshly ground black pepper to taste

7. Be sure to get a little of everything in each bite

8. Oh Canada!

Loco Moco

Makes 4

Perhaps the epitome of Hawaiian comfort food. Only food snobs wouldn't like this. Oh and my wife, but not because she's a food snob. Because she'd just find this whole combo disgusting.

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground beef
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper
• Olive oil
• 1 medium yellow onion, sliced
• 1.5 cups beef gravy
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups cooked rice

Directions

1. Mix ground beef with soy sauce, season well with salt and pepper & shape into 4 patties
2. Heat your grill, pan or whatever to medium high
3. Brush patties with olive oil and and ccok burgers until done - and by done I mean medium rare
4. While burgers cook, put onions and 1 tablespoon olive oil in a pan over medium heat and cook until nicely softened, about 5 minutes
5. Heat gravy with Worcestershire in a small pot
6. Cook eggs, ideally maintaining a runny yolk
7. Serve like this from the bottom up: rice, hamburger, onions, egg, gravy
8. Oh my

Hot Chicken Sandwich

Makes one sandwich

Not 'hot chicken' as in hot chicken. But 'hot chicken' as in hot chicken...sandwich. Think open faced turkey sandwich but with chicken instead of turkey, not open faced and topped with peas. Not all that sophisticated, but just good, comfort food.

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup peas, thawed
• 1/3 cup chicken gravy, warmed
• 1/2 - 3/4 cup cooked chicken, shredded or diced - and
• 2 slices whole wheat bread
• Kosher salt & fresh ground pepper to taste

Directions

1. Warm peas in microwave or small pot
2. Put chicken on one slice of bread, add second slice, top with warm peas and then gravy
3. Add salt & pepper to taste