Good evening: I am a senior lady who lives alone up here in northwestern Ontario out in the bush (with hydro and internet )..... your channel is gorgeous, just discovered it..... I heat with wood and used to have a wood cook stove.... the land gets into your blood..... thank you for sharing... much appreciated.....
Thank you for watching. Feel free to share any of your stories in any videos that you can relate with. It's always great hearing stories from people experiences.
The closest I've ever made was corned beef and cabbage and veggies. I have never seen the puddings but it all looked good. It's great seeing you cook together. I love the peeling with the knife instead of the peeler because my mom always did that too and then she would eat a few slices of the potatoes raw (nasty). Great video.
Brings back so many memories. We had the same traditions in NB. I remember smelling salted cod, my mother was boiling to remove the salt Hamburger stew with doughboys(dumplings), fried Cod and potatoes cakes, Cod cheeks, fish stew, homemade bread, pigs feet, rabbit stew, blueberry grunt( field berries with dumplings), old tea with milk and brown sugar as a very rare treat to dip your bread in. Dear Lord, we were poor, but never hungry. Funny as a child, i could not wait to leave home. Retired now, married 30 plus years, very happy. but I want to go home and be able to enjoy that time again. Say a few weeks. This time, have the memory to truly enjoy it.
It's strange that we have to get a lot older before we appreciate what we had when we were younger and how time is so valuable. Simple things in life are the most important things.
We learned a version of this from a wonderful lady in Cape Breton. We called it boil up dinner. My Dad would make it for us for a good week end dinner. Then, he would fry up the leftovers for a good breakfast. Oh, I miss it.
I hated meal time on Sundays, growing up because it was either a jiggs dinner or what we call cooked dinner or potato salads. Now that I'm older, I wish I could have it every Sunday. It's strange how we change as we get older.
@@NewfieLifestyle I retired from working in a long term care home, they'd have a sweet bread pudding as a breakfast choice, I chose it on my first morning break, it was so good especially on cold, January mornings.
I grew in in Bonavista Newfoundland and jigs was my favourite super and and favourite fry up for dinner the next day. Another favourite was fish n bru with drawing butter, cod tongue, cod cheeks, puffins,and flipper pies.😘😘😘😘😘
All great newfie foods. We had deep fry cod yesterday, so that video will be out on Wednesday. We had a bunch of different cod parts that we deep fried as well, and it was better than pan fried.
Then you use some of the pot liquid or pot liquor as we call it to make your gravy better than any broth. We usually make the gravy in the roaster that the meat was cooked in for even more extra flavor.
First time here as this just happened to show up. Everything looks so delicious and what an incredible feast 😋. Nothing beats cooking on an old cook stove. I can almost smell all them veggies. Wonder if im too old to be adopted 😂 Take care and look forward to watching more of your channel. Ontario Canada here :)
i've had jiggs dinner a couple of times before and it was fantastic, but my uncle who'd really only learned how to do it for a few years had nothing whatsoever on your mom. i'm here to say right now that that is one of the best looking meals i've ever seen.
I heard of jiggs dinner and I knew it was a Newfoundland specialty but I have never seen it made or what exactly was in it. I am not familiar with puddings except that in the UK it's considered a dessert. But this is a whole new take on new England boiled dinner which I had a lot growing up in Massachusetts. It was a delight to learn about jiggs dinner and your mom showing us how it is cooked and what goes in the pot for the dinner. Thanks for a lovely video.
Thank you so much for watching and giving us feedback. It's truly appreciated. This is our traditional jiggs, it might be a little different around the island, most people don't make the puddings, some never had these puddings. When we have boiled dinner, which we call Cook dinner or cook supper, depending on the time of day. We call noon dinner time and 5pm supper time. We will have gravy, other meats like chicken or a roast, or moose meat haha. We will do a video this fall with fresh vegetables as Cook Supper.
I'm the same way, I didn't like it as a child, but I could eat it today. I don't like the dry texture but love pea soup, so it's not the taste for me, it's was the texture.
@@NewfieLifestyle yes, it was the texture....i also didnt like pea soup growing up but i found a recipe and mafe it myself, now i make it all the time.:)
It's a typical Newfoundland Sunday dinner, and it's delicious. It's basically our Christmas dinner as well, with the turkey, stuffing, and gravy, maybe a roast was well.
Great old-time dish. Your mom peels veggies with a small knife like my mom did, so skilled. Love all the veggies. The bread pudding looks a lot like the Eastern European bread dumplings. I've had that but never had peas pudding.
The salt beef we get now isn't prime cut. It's a lot of fat and bone. I pretty sure the corned beef you're referring to is a better cut of meat. it's cured the same way, I'm sure. It was a way years ago to keep meat for long periods of time. It's traditional to use salt meat for our jiggs as a source of salt in our water when boiling vegetables. It gives better rates than using table salt.
I think it derives from the idea of what to have when the fresh meat and veg get scarce. You go to the root cellar and scavenge whatever's there. Then you go to the pickled meat barrel. Turnip, potatoes, cabbage, onions, carrots, some sort of preserved meat. A very big pot. A fire. Cape Breton boil up dinner, as taught by the late, great Agnes Johnson. And her blueberry pie could make angels weep.
Ohhhh my God, does your mother want to adopt another son. This is the third video the wife and I have watched tonight and I got about ten pounds put on and loving it. My wife is checking all the recipes for different ways that we do it and want to try it your way. I'm going up a size in pants pretty soon I knows it lol.
😂 newfie grub is the best. You can never go wrong with jiggs. Like mom said in the video, one place when dad was working in the U.S. that had a guy from NB living with them, and he gained 50lbs. It's hard to only have 1 plate when it comes to newfie cooking.
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe with us, and all the stories to go with it! I'll try to find out what cut salt beef is from a butcher. Not familiar with it in the lower 48 down here in USA! Man, does that look delicious and all the trimmings. And the pease pudding, too! Yummy. Thank you. Great channel.
Thanks. When dad wrapped it for Christmas, he placed it in a box and added pieces of board. Whenever mom would try and figure out what it was, it would be heavy and made a strange sound when she would shake it. Dad was known for doing these things. Dad put a ring in a large box and weighed it down one time, too.
July is probably the best time. We get a lot of tourists from all over the world, come to Newfoundland, and they book guided tours. You travel with the same group by bus the entire week and tour different parts of Newfoundland. They have package deals.
I’ve heard of the Jiggs dinner. I wonder if it came from the Portuguese sailors. In Portugal we have a traditional famous dish called Cozido. Which means boiled dinner. It’s a poor man’s dish. Not anymore but before poor people ate it a lot. Everything boiled. Salt pork, vegetables, sausage, chicken anything you had. Cabbage and collard greens were also added.
even though our island has a long history of peoples from Portugal Jiggs dinner came from irish and english settlers. its started from the end of winter season where they would boil up everything left over before spoils. its all the crops we grew on the island. you should look up the history of the Portuguese in newfoundland. we still have towns and streets named after them.
Hi, omg that looks amazing, I tried turnip greens once when young, didn't like them, haven't tried since lol But....in this dish they look like they be good love all the other stuff.. keep them coming, thanks
My late Mom made the best Jigg’s Dinner. We do have a Newfoundland restaurant here in Ottawa. Some grocery stores do sell Newfoundland products. Looks amazing.
Thank you. A newfie jiggs dinner is one that you will never forget. Especially if you're there when it's being made, there's usually lots of stories being told
Really enjoyed this video. Mom was from Cape Breton and used to make a similar dish. I was wondering where you get the bags nowadays to make your peas pudding? Cheers from Ontario.
The dollar store usually has these bags. Cape Breton and Newfoundland share a lot of very similar recipes as our past history is very similar. It's great having you part of our community
Great looking jigs dinner. My mouth is watering, I just wish I was close to your place. I might get a feed ha,ha. Nice video. Take care and tell your mom I said Hi.
The peas pudding is basically the peas boiled in the pudding bag, which is a cotton bag, and it's just a side dish as it is, for jiggs dinner. I'm not crazy about it, but mom loves it, and so did her mother.
Never had the bread pudding that way, bread pudding in my family was always a sweet dessert.... not onions.I think I would prefer the more savory version.
I perfer without onions, so she always does one without onions, and there's a spice one she does too. When we cook our Christmas dinner, I'll show you how we make those puddings. I can make a meal just on the pudding, I love it.
Traditional seafaring stuff. Preserving meat with salt brine lets it keep a lot longer, so sailors would always bring salted meats on board. Then it translates to all us East Coast families who grew up on it because it's what the sailors got used to!
Mom always wanted a little take-out. We never had a restaurant, but whenever we cook up a big feast, we always deliver plates to family and friends. We're always giving away food we cook. There's been many people who we knew personally that were battling serious illnesses, and mom would take a day and make a big pot of soup or a bunch of cold plates ( another well-known Newfoundland meal) and send to the family. Mom did this a lot for families and not when others were doing it, but just a day that was unexpected, especially if she knew they were feeling really miserable that week or gotten a bad report. We don't announce these things. We don't normally donate when people are asking. We usually send our own cards with some helping funds. This way, it's kept between us and their family. We believe that when helping others, it should be kept more private and not announced to the world what you gave and how much. Do good things in private. The rewards from the one upstairs are much greater.
@NewfieLifestyle thanks for your response. That is awesome that your family does things like that. That is what it means to be part of a community. If we could only back to those ways again. You don't have to be wealthy to help a neighbor or friend in need. And totally agree with doing it in a private manor because the reward we will receive from the good man above is greater than any on earth. Great videos, and may God bless your family.
Pease pudding hot. Pease pudding cold. Pease pudding in the pot nine days old! ❤❤❤ These aren’t green peas though-what are they?I’m learning new stuff!
Yeah, mom doesn't know why people do it either. Same with mom's beans, I believe I said in the bean video that she soaked her beans, but she never does.
