A traditional Newfie meal is the Jiggs dinner. It is a combination of cabbage, turnips, potatoes, carrots and salt beef. Yellow split peas are cooked until they become a creamy solid they call “pea pudding.” When we were in Elliston, which the Newfies call the “Root Cellar Capitol of the world,” we saw where they used to store the vegetables and salt beef in root cellars.
We were going to leave our friends, Gordon and Gertie last week but Gertie said that she wanted us to stay and have a Jiggs dinner with her and Gordon, daughter and son-in-law, Dale and Brian and her sister Edna. (Dale and Brian are the young couple in the photo and Edna is serving the food.)How could we say no to that? Gertie is a great cook. The meal was delicious!
We were going to leave our friends, Gordon and Gertie last week but Gertie said that she wanted us to stay and have a Jiggs dinner with her and Gordon, daughter and son-in-law, Dale and Brian and her sister Edna. (Dale and Brian are the young couple in the photo and Edna is serving the food.)How could we say no to that? Gertie is a great cook. The meal was delicious!
1 comment:
Somehow that doesn't sound like it would taste good, but how good does "sauerkraut" sound, and we like that.
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