Tonight for dinner we ate Hodge Podge. Until we moved to Nova Scotia this dish was unknown to me. I understand it is also made in New Brunswick and Newfoundland but in Nova Scotia it is popular snd not at all in Ontario or British Columbia. Years ago, the dish was made with the first harvest from the garden. Now most folks here only make in early summer, thus the caterer sent us Hodge Podge for dinner tonight.
You use a variety of new vegetables: snow peas, new potatoes, green beans, yellow beans and small carrots. The first time I ate it at a friends home I was given the old time recipe, which was a quart of cream, a pound of butter and seasonings to taste. Now people use milk for the broth and a small amount of butter. No meat at all. You heat the milk, add the vegetables to cook slightly, season, then eat. It is delicious, a true Nova Scotia delicacy.
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