Canada Day - Canadian Inspired Recipes

Happy Canada Day!

Wherever and however you’re celebrating today, I’m sure it includes food.

It’s not often we consider Canadian cuisine here in Canada, but I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some traditional indigenous recipes, alongside some Canadian classics and some fun red and white treats.

Pemmican

This First Nations way of preserving meat and berries in fat provides a nutrient rich addition to meals or snacks. Many first peoples subsisted off pemmican alone over hard winters.

Bannock

Before the arrival of wheat flour, Indigenous peoples would use the bulb of the Camus Flower to bake and grind into flour to make traditional bannock.

Three Sisters Casserole

“This recipe uses squash, corn and beans—a trio known as the “Three Sisters” because they grow together as a unit, with the cornstalks holding up the beans while the squash protects the roots at the base.”