The perfect Canada Day feast from Appetizer to Dessert #recipe #CanadaDay
Canada Day is a time to celebrate with friends, family and neighbours. In our house, celebrating our nation’s birthday usually includes food. Planning a themed party is great but coming up with menu items….not so much. No need to worry, here is your COMPLETE Canada Day menu with recipes from some of my favourite Canadian blogs.
APPETIZERS:
I love having simple finger foods on hand for my guests to munch on while others arrive, I put the final details on the meal or simply when working the room. Here are some great appetizer ideas to help whet your guests’ palettes.
1. Canadian Barbecue Nachos from Mommy Moment.
2. Roasted Cauliflower Dip from The Bewitchin Kitchen
3. Gluten Free Homemade Gravlax from Frugal Mom Eh
4. Best Ever Meatballs from Ninjamommers
5. Polenta Crostini from Frugal Mom Eh
MAINS:
The crowd’s arrived, cups are filled and it’s time to dig in. Canada Day…what to serve? Something patriotic? Something red and white? How about food to reflect our nation’s diversity? Here are some delicious mains that will leave your mouth watering.
1. Spiced Chilli Fries from My Organized Chaos
2. Cheesy Chicken Rice Casserole from Country Fit Family
3. Poutine Dog from Mommy Moment
4. Jerk Chicken with Pineapple Salsa and Spicy Aioli
5. Sweet & Spicy Turkey Burger with Pineapple Sriracha Sauce
DESSERTS:
What’s a party without some sinfully sweet indulgence to cap off a delicious feast? Looking for that perfect decadent dessert to commemorate our beautiful nation’s birthday? You have GOT to check out some of these killer recipes below:
1. Strawberry, Blood Orange and Cream Cheese Turnovers from Ninjamommers
2. Blueberry Cake from My Organized Chaos
3. Easy Lemon Tarts from My 3 Little Kittens
4. Maple Syrup Bread Pudding in a Jar from Echoes of Laughter
5. Mango Lassi Ice Pops from This Westcoast Mommy
6. Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp from This Lil Piglet
7. Maple Apple Crisp from My Organized Chaos
8. Dairy Free Strawberry Banana Ice Cream from Life Love Liz
9. Ambrosia Fruit Salad from Tales of a Ranting Ginger
10. Pineapple Citrus Fruit Dip from The Bewitchin Kitchen
11. Strawberry Cheesecake Popsicles from This Lil Piglet
12. Strawberry No-Bake Cheesecake from Simply Stacie
13. Kit Kat Canada Day Cake from Lil Miss Kate
As the fireworks light up the evening sky this Canada Day and the local parks fill with seas of red and white; be sure to whet your appetite with these mouth watering menu ideas that are as delicious as our nation is proud.
Whoa! That is an incredible list of ideas for a Canada Day menu, thanks for all this inspiration! We’ve just picked our first batch of strawberries from the backyard today, so am bookmarking some of those yummy desserts to enjoy the fresh berries with! 😀
Thanks Aeryn 🙂 Enjoy the recipes! I am sure your desserts will turn out fabulous.
Wow – so much there I’m not even sure where to start! I’ll definitely be trying some of these out!
Oh wow, there are some amazing selections here! I think I could eat for a week of Canada Days and not try them all. 🙂
They all look delicious. The only hard part is going to be deciding which ones to make.
Oh that roasted cauliflower dip sounds awesome. Thanks for putting together such a great list.
My pleasure 🙂 I agree that roasted cauliflower dip does look amazing eh?
The Canadian Barbeque Nachos look so delicious! I want to try them right away!
That is a great compilation! You certainly gave us a lot of choice! I think the jerk chicken recipe looks delicious as do most of the rest!!
Everything looks so good! I especially love the desserts!
This is an awesome list of goodies for Canada Day that you’ve put together. Great food always make themed parties a huge success and memorable.
Canada day menu that you have put together sound very interesting. Especially love the video and Canadian Pride.
Yum! So many amazing ideas. I love all the desserts because the colors. All so Canadian! So many I need to think about making!
Everything looks delicious. I would like to try all of these, but I don’t know where to start. May I should go for the cold ones first.
I love and I want them all. So delicious eh! 🙂
What a great list of yummy doods, I love eating different foods I want to grab it from my screen lol. These are really yummy.
I wish Canada Day was a bigger thing here. Independence Day in the US always seems so much more important to Americans than Canada Day does to Canadians.
You have a lot of great ideas Here.we do a lot of apps in our family. They always go over.
Love the look of those desserts. I never really got into poutine, but Chicago now has some poutine restaurants.
Wow, so many great recipes in this post! Man, I am hungry now and have so many things to try!! YUM
The Barbecue Nachos look so good and I know it would be a huge hit around here! Everything looks great, though, I’m not sure where to start!
These are great ideas! They all sound so good!
I don’t know very much about Canada Day, but based on this post I’d say it sounds yummy:)
The Canada Day cake looks amazing! I’d love to try that recipe out for sure.
I could use some of these for Fourth of July. These recipes look amazing. Thanks for sharing.
This is my first time hearing of Canada Day. I am not in Canada but these recipes definitely look delicious.
Love thos foods looks really yummy and tasty!! I love to try it and grab it from my screen1
I really shouldn’t read posts about food late at night! I’m so hungry now. Those nachos look ridiculously yummy!
All of these snacks look so delicious! I definitely want to give the chili fries a try, like tonight! 🙂