Imho, Beryl is one of the creators on this platform that really works the extra mile to shorten the gap between creators and viewers. I really love the audience and creator interaction. It's such a feel-good content and I always look forward to new videos.
Your videos are life changing , so many real recipes that people actually eat, love the format and your approach to food is totally refreshing , keep em coming !
Iam hungry now, My mom when her lazy, just mix Rice, Anchovy Sambal(Chili paste), Kecap Manis and Some fried Protein (Fried Egg or Fried Fish)..... But I love it so much.
Okey, now beryl have that ABC sweet soy sauce. This sauce the perfect "kecap" for Nasi Goreng in Indonesia. U can make Nasi Goreng for breakfast or on the night. And u can add to alot dish with that sweet soy sauce. We called that magic sauce. 🤤
If you ask for ketchup in Indonesia, you will get that kecap manis. If you really want the ketchup, you ask for tomato sauce. Historically kecap came from chinese immigrant in Indonesia. Fermented from various ingredients, but the most common in Indonesia is soy bean. Mostly savoury soy bean. But the mix culture in Java Island of Indonesia resulted in one more variant of kecap, the kecap manis or sweet soy sauce. The dutch adopted the kecap, and made it with tomato. So it become ketchup and spread all over europe, and finally America.
Wow I've never seen anyone but my Mema and I make Cheerios and eggs until today. It's totally wild that someone else's Grandmother made this! We put salsa on top of it and eat them with fresh tortillas. I think she ran out of chips for migas once and just tossed toasted Cheerios in there instead and it stuck. Now we make it weekly. It's super filling and delicious.
Is it a New Mexico thing? I mean, I grew up in the 505 and we never ate this (that I remember). Then again, there are a lot of foods my mom had as a kid that she never fed us! 😂 I totally need to know if this is something she grew up eating.
Love what you said about having less food in our houses and being resourceful with what we have. Thanks for your awesome Miso Butter pasta idea Laurence.
Edit: Y'all have told me now that Beryl did an episode on leftover food already, but I would love to see another one! I love what Laurence said about having too much food in our house that we don't use. There's so many sauces, jars, condiments and half-eaten packages of stuff sitting in my fridge and pantry that are perfectly good to eat, but I maybe used them once and then abandoned. Maybe that could be a cool episode for Beryl "Using up things that I have leftover from other episodes"!
I think she's already done an episode like that before... but it would always be fun to do again! I think this is what stops me from trying certain things is because I dont like accumulating lots of stuff. Pork floss was one of those things. I'd love to try it, but the container I found in the supermarket was masssssssive. I wish I had a 'spice/ingredient' share group where we could swap or offer portions to people who also wanted to try these things. That way buying a container or packet that had too much would go to good use.
@@Kay_Watermelon That sounds like such a nice idea! If you have roommates, you could maybe agree to buy certain things together that everybody has access to and can use up. Or you could join a local facebook group for foodsaving (I don't know if that's a thing in your country)
That kecap manis (sweet soy) is the same thing that’s in the Indo Mie Mi Goreng noodles flavour packet (the soy bit in the little tri-pack thingie) so you have had it before without realising!
Beryl, I love my slow cooker. I almost didn’t. When we were first married my husband owned a crock pot / slow cooker that came with him when we moved in together. I had no idea what it was and it sat in the back of one of our kitchen cupboards unused for the first two-three of our life together. One day I decided to clear out unused kitchen items. As soon as he saw I was planning to get rid of it he said you can’t do that it’s a slow cooker. I asked what he meant and thought Ok I’d give it a try. Back then there weren’t many slow cooker resources so I kind of just experimented with it. Flavour combos we enjoy. I kept checking it during the cook process as I was worried due to its age I might have an electrical fire or something. When we finally sat down to eat that evening what can I say … GAME CHANGER. I told him off for not telling me what it was and explaining how to use it when we first moved in together. Let’s just say 20+ years later I can’t live without one. Yes it is an original from the 70’s. I use it year round weekly. There is always a casserole or curry cooking in it. I love that it is “Set and forget” and we get delicious home cooked meals at the end of the day without huge effort on my part, which suits me perfectly as I work long hours and there are days where I am too tired to cook from scratch, yet putting 5-10 minutes of prep in the morning yields fantastic outcome and beats take away meals. I also started using it to steam Christmas puddings. Saved constantly checking the boiling pot. PS long time subscriber, rare commenter. Love your channel and have loved watching you grow out on your own. You took a risk and I am glad it has worked out, as like so many others have commented, I love how you unite the world through food. The world wants peace and unity … not wars.
@@Whimswirl It is from the 70's. A model 3300 if you want to look it up. It is bright orange. Original lid was a type of plastic and that broke approximately 5 years ago but I use another lid that fits. Yes it still works amazingly well. They don't make them like they used to.
Miso butter! I always have some in my refrigerator. Simply mix a tablespoon or so of miso into a stick (1/2cup) softened (not melted just soft) butter. Store in refrigerator. Spread on toast, use in oatmeal, mix into rice. So many uses. It’s addictive.
I made the fried chicken rice because honestly it sounded like an amazing one ricecooker meal. I added an egg, and then corn kernels and chili flakes and honestly this is absolutely amazing. (My fried chicken was a spicy one, so the corn gave it this slightly sweet fresh offset) I think I too will end up buying fried chicken just to have leftovers in the future to make this with! The rice gets so infused with flavour and there's something so nostalgic and cosy about it. Thankyou so much for introducing me to this!
@@trooperpompeu my go to simple meal with miso would just be simplified kind of ramen, i just boil some water, add soy sauce and veggie brot, and then the miso, then add whatever veggie you have in it, you can add some noodle, i like udon because they’re very fast to cook.. and then why not adding an egg! Every ingredient is optional, it’s simple, fast, little dishes , obsviously it works if you re a fan of soup like me hihi
Also can I just say that I’m Catholic so we are now currently in the period of time called Lent, so we don’t eat meat on Fridays during Lent, and you have given me so many meatless easy meals! ❤️
The thicken soy sauce comes from Indonesia, its called Kecap. I’m so glad that we, Indonesian, Malaysian, and Singaporean share the same dishes with this Kecap. Sweet soy sauce sweeten things up….
May we declare... Indonesia is the best maker for sweet black soy bean ketchup in the world. These product names ( Bango, ABC, Sedaap, Indofood) are highly recommended. 😃
Speaking of slow cooker meals - I recently heard an episode of a podcast called Utopia that detailed how the Crock Pot was originally meant for orthodox Jewish families observing Shabbat who still wanted a hot meal without “working” and breaking Shabbat. They’d put together this stew in the Crock Pot just before it began, and since they weren’t flipping any switches during the actual day, they had this nice, hot, slow-cooked meal even on a day that no work could be done.
We still do this every week. Jews all around the world put up this stew since it’s customary to have a hot meal on Shabbat even though you can’t cook on Shabbat itself. Some call it chulent, some call it chamim. The spices and what you put in it can vary depending on your family’s tradition. But most versions contain meat.
Yeah it’s called cholent. Back when I was an Orthodox Jew I had it every shabbat morning. Now that I’m less religious I’ll occasionally make it in the crockpot
Laurence coming through for me again. lol I also have leftover miso and currently having extreme joint pain so don't have the ability to cook so good. These "lazy meals" are a godsend for me. I think they should be called efficient meals, or, something else with a less negative connotation cause there's no shame in quick and delicious food!
Miso butter is amazing on lots of things. Toss on steamed veggies, sauce up chicken or fish, and it's delicious on carbs in general. I like it on mashed potatoes and rice as well as pasta.
the eggs and cheerios seems to have the same idea as matzo brie, frying together a wheat-based cracker/cereal with eggs and spices. very good warm lazy food!
Kecap manis!!! I used to mix it with sambal and put it on literally EVERYTHING. Eve. Ry. Thing. It makes such a godtier sweet/salty/spicy/umami sauce. I got it when I went to Indonesia very briefly for work once in 2018 and the day I ran out of kecap manis and sambal I was so crushed because we don't have anything like it in my home country 😔
Woah! This randomly popped up in my suggestions, and I'm so happy it did! I'm a mum of a toddler, living thousands of miles from family, with a husband who works a lot. These recipes are exactly what we need in our home! What an enjoyable watch with some easy yet amazing recipes. Thank you Beryl and all the amazing ladies who shared these recipes!
Hi Beryl, I'm so glad you enjoyed the Nasi Kicap Telur dish (Shareffa from Singapore) ❤️ It's extremely comforting and easy to make, and I hope others give it a try too 😄 The combination of flavours creates a delicious umami taste! If you like spicy food, I would definitely recommend adding sambal to the dish as well. Kicap Manis is such a versatile sauce and can be used in loads of dishes, so I'm definitely looking forward to a series on that in the future! I love Miso, so I'm definitely going to try the Miso Butter Pasta dish 😋 It looks and sounds delicious! (Maybe a miso series too?)^^ Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to share my dish. I always look forward to your videos and they've really expanded my knowledge of food from around the world. It's really interesting to see the differences and similarities between dishes across different countries. Thank you for connecting us all together 💕
Hey we usually make nasi kecap here too! a little advice, adding fried chopped shallot will be a game changer.. Adding sambal and kerupuk will add another level of taste also😁✌🏽
Living in Australia I love all the south east asian foods we get being such close neighbours. ABC make some awesome sauces, my favourite is their extra hot sambal chilli sauce. I use my slow cooker all the time in winter. I love cooking lamb stew. I get lamb neck, tomatoes, beef stock, onions, carrots, celery, garlic and it turns out amazing... be careful to check for bones when you're eating.
Sweet soy is a staple in my kitchen. I use it in my marinades as well and as a condiment. In salad dressings or even drizzled over strawberries kinda like reduced balsamic. 👍🥰
@@GirlLovesFairytale i think it's kinda different, kecap manis usually used gula jawa (it's similar to palm sugar but also different 😂) so it has unique tone of sweetness
@@GirlLovesFairytale I think ketjap manis is just the old spelling of kecap manis. Indonesian language used to spell words in similar fashion to Dutch like 'u' --> 'oe' or 'c' --> 'tj' in the past. If you're thinking about the taste, each brands might have slight differences but it should taste sweet and a bit savory or umami with thick consistency :)
I have been eating the ABC sweet soy sauce most of my life as my dad learnt asian cooking and always uses that as his soy sauce. When I couldn't get it recently and had to use "normal" soy sauce, I couldn't believe the difference in the taste. Glad you enjoyed it.
You're channel is helping me get creative and buy ingredients to try other countries foods. My 3 boys are loving international dinner nights at our house. ❤thanks!
Beryl, we do know each other. Social media is still relatively new. Our ways of making connections with people, and the bonds that are emerging from these relatively new ways of communication, change things such as how friendships form, and and what it means to know someone. We are a community here, those who never comment, but simply watch, or people like me, who leave occasional comments, right up to those who send you videos, and of course, you Beryl, we are part of a community that you started. Thank you for that.
Absolutely this. Thanks to the internet I have not only acquaintances around the world, but even deep friendships with people I will likely never get to "meet." I share in their joys, I mourn with them, I love on their pets, and I watch their kids grow. It is every bit as real and meaningful as if they lived next door.
@@takinastabatit , I have a very close friend who I've never met. Our entire relationship has been conducted either online, or over the phone. I've mourned with her when her grandmother-in-law died, been pissed off at her husband with her, and watched Supernatural with her, over the phone, lol. There are a couple of provinces and 30 years separating us, I'm the old one, and it doesn't matter. I really hope we can meet someday.
Your videos have become my comfort place. I love the space you’ve created here and getting introduced to new things and people from all over the world. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I know Canada isn’t that far but slow cooker meals are definitely staple meals for our long cold winters. There’s something special about being outside all afternoon tobogganing and coming home to a hot meal that’s been cooking all morning, especially with homemade buns.
My dad used to make a version of that beef potato stew with a bunch of cabbage (and sometimes chili peppers). Perfect rainy day meal. BTW, the sweet soy sauce wouldv'e been a good condiment for that.
I make it with cabbage, elk and bacon 1# because elk is so lean 2# Because BACON!!!! By the second or third day the potatoes and cabbage have soaked up the liquid and it isn't really stew anymore, so you cook the leftovers like hash and add chili flakes or cover in salsa.
My intro to kecap manis was my daughter's best friend who is Indonesian and gifted me with a jar for my birthday a couple years ago. Her mother had made it. I didn't know what to do with it for a while but now I don't know what I did without it.
I live in Belgium (deep countryside, in a farm) and slow cooker meals are really a thing at home! During winter I made a lot of those and when the wooden stove is on I often cook recipes from my grand-grand-mother on it (there is a stew that can litteraly cook for weeks!!! You eat some, refill, leave it cook again on the side of the stove, then eat-refill-cook again and again and again! So there is ALWAYS hot comforting food ready), the smell in the house brings me back directly to good memories!
I want to immediately try all of these. This is a happy side effect of all of Beryl's videos. I started making the Sour Ukrainian Mushroom Soup (from another video) and it's now a go-to comfort food for me.
I am Bengali...our community exist both in India and Bangladesh....one of the most hard working and dedicated people about cooking..but we have a lazy dish also 'Fena bhaat' small grain aromatic rice , keeping its extra boiled water and add ghee+salt in it !!! And with smashed potato or just bolied potato in same pot...or boiled egg sometime..just one pot menu..yum yum
I grew up with toasted Cheerios (we called them buttered Cheerios) but we always had them plain without the eggs or salt or hot sauce etc - it was a more common snack in our house than popcorn, and my favorite breakfast my dad would make for me!
We had “fried cereal”. Cheerios plus every other unsweet cereal in the pantry (grape nuts, rice crispies, crispex). Still reminds me of childhood. Yum!
Beryl, I just made the rice and egg dish for breakfast. I didn’t have all of the same ingredients so I used jasmine rice, two eggs, and topped with balsamic reduction, chopped red onions and a touch of sirachi. I seasoned with salt, pepper, and onion/garlic seasoning mix. Delish! Very versatile dish.
Thank you for sharing my Cheerios dish! I noticed you have Cholula which goes great with it! Also from reading the comments I am going to try a red Chile and curry version of my dish. Thanks so much everyone!
You’ve built a beautiful community Beryl! I spend as much time in the comment section as I do in the videos, reading what everyone has to say about the theme and the food
Beryl, I’ve been watching your videos since “great big story” and you are such a gem here on RU-vid. Thank you for sharing so many different cuisines, cultures, art, & stories - especially ones that many of us may not get the chance to become exposed to otherwise. Love your work! Always looking forward to the next video! :)
I am from Turkey and there are exact same dish with the Israel potato and beef stew here too. But i use as a game changer in this recipe is bay leaf... If you try it with bay leaf and you will see how the all of the flavour is fits to each other perfectly.
You can use kicap (sweet soy sauce) for "mi goreng" or "nasi goreng".. adding chilies and fried garlic into kecap.. and using it as dipping sauce for fried tempeh... also tastes good
Nasi kecap telur is my the meal I cook everytime I wake up late and I need to make my lunch (I usually cook my rice a night before) so I just need to make fried egg and put sweet soy sauce (kecap manis) on the top of the egg. Another lazy day food is nasi kepal garam. Just put salt on the hot cooked rice, mix it, then you make it as shape of ball. Then enjoy! For the kecap manis, you can make semur ayam (chicken version) or semur daging (beef version). It is a staple food from Indonesia. Damn good! Or you can make nasi goreng with that kecap manis. Kecap manis is a must in Indonesian kitchen 😁😁😁
Hi Beryl, fun episode , thank you. I live in Israel and , yes, I use my crock pot Mostly in the winter for stews and soups. My favorite recipe is coconut chicken Curry, served with rice. Dressed with mild Mrs Balls Chutney (from South Africa) Banana and toasted coconut. Have a great week. 💕dalia
I make miso butter noodles too!!!! I use whatever past or noodle I have and I sometimes will use a little bit of lemon zest and or squeeze a bit of lemon to brighten the dish. Sometimes I put more effort and use garlic and mushroom. Such a good base for anything!
May I just say how much I appreciate how everyone one your videos is so lovely and look like real people, not like plastic "RU-vidrs" . Your videos help me escape from this world, which lately has been dark and scary.
Love, love, love your videos, Beryl! I always try to comment because I've heard that helps boost you up the algorithm, plus I just really love this community! I love your reactions when you take that first bite of a dish you've never made before but I also really enjoyed the last vid where you accidentally deleted the footage and ranked the dishes instead. My mom was also raising her family in the 50s and would make us a snack of Cheerios sauted in butter then seasoned with celery salt or seasoned salt. Very good and cheap!
Egg + rice is such a good base, and it pretty much tastes wonderful with ANY sauce. Kecap Manis (a classic), sesame oil, lao gan ma, kim chi (not a sauce I know), go chu jang. Anything really! Egg MUST have a runny yoke though.
Congratulations on learning about kecap manis! I love using it as part of the sauces I use to make fried rice, slather on pork ribs or for chicken wings!
Beryl, I’m an average cook at best but by watching your channel, you have introduced me to so many recipes that I never would have come across. I have broadened my horizons and added so many of these recipes to my repertoire. Can’t thank you and all of your followers enough. ❤️
Kecap Manis of Sweet soy sauce is a multipurpose sauce, we can make any dish and It is an essential ingredient in almost every kitchen in Indonesia. (Eg: Nasi Goreng, Saté/ Satay, Any kind of Grills and many more
Omg, I love the woman from Belgium. I do practically the same thing, I always think you can be really creative with anything so long as you have an onion in the house. Beryl, I love your concept and content.
Slow cooked dishes have been around forever and everywhere. People made baked beans on the back of their wood burning stoves while they walked 2 hours to church, had service and walked 2 hours back home. That's where stews came from because things would just stew in the pot all day. My Dad's wife didn't have a slow cooker so she'd use the oven on low and cook soups and stuff for hours as she did her errands and things all day. True BBQ is a slow cooking method.
Heyyy beryl, was figuring out what to have for lunch tmrw and now that I saw your video gonna make the miso butter pasta 😄. Btw could you maybe do a video on school lunches across the world ?
Dear Belgian girl, I'm a Belgian girl who enjoys finishing every last bit of things I have in the house before grocery shopping too ! I'm so tired of waste !
The beef stew is exactly how I make my Japanese curry with the boxed roux. The ingredients and steps are all the same, except I do throw in some carrots too. And once it’s stewed up, I add the curry cubes and its a wonderful luxurious curry for rice. You can try that with the leftovers too!!
Nasi telur kecap is definitely my comfort-lazy-food. When I'm in hurry, sick, or just don't feel like eating, I'll just eat this. I remember I almost ate it everyday as breakfast when I was a student because I always in hurry lol. Will never go wrong with nasi kecap telur😋
Since you already have 2 of the ingredients, some easy marinated chicken: Sweet Soy Sauce + Sambal + rasped Garlic + diced Onions, in a bowl, add some diced chicken parts, let it stand for a night in the fridge. Bake the chicken in a pan for a bit to give it some color/body, use the leftover mix sauce from the bowl add some water and a bit of oil and cook the chicken in the sauce (we call it Jus like the French) on a lower temperature a bit longer and serve with rice/vegeteables and a fried egg for an easy dinner.
A friend of mine has a slow cooker - he brought it over once and made some real delicious meat in it. I might get one once I have the funds, they are sooo useful for lazy cooks like me.
Mixing miso and butter for roasting veggies (I like carrots, onion, mushrooms, and broccoli) is absolutely amazing, I would imagine it's good on pasta too!
I did not grow up with a slow cooker, but as an adult I have adapted so many recipes to either a slow cooker or a pressure cooker. Most of the things I cook are Indian or southeast Asian, and adding these new techniques is absolutely life changing.
I recently made miso oatmeal! Just a savory oatmeal with green onions and you can add like an egg or bacon or whatever you like! Very good with steel cut oats 🙂
Nasi telur kicap is missing fresh cracked black pepper. It's my comfort food. And kicap manis is versatile. Season your fried rice, fried noodles. Mix kicap manis and sugar in 1:1 ratio by volume with finely chopped birds eye chili, it becomes a dip for sour mango, guava, water apple.
OMG…YAY! So happy to see another lazy day meals episode! I am ALL about easy cooking! They look soooo good! I will definitely try these!❤️ 👏😃 More lazy day meals!!! Thanks Beryl!
1:10 so interesting how differently we show numbers with our hands! I'd use 1-2-3, some are used to 2-3-4 - and here we have a, surprising for me, 3-4-5 version.
Beryl's video is some other genre, that doesn't have a name yet. It's not simple cooking video, or documentary, or recipe or talk show or interview. It's a whole series on it's own.
I LOVED this one! I'm originally from New Mexico and this made me cry tears of joy! I miss home! Lol! I made this for my roommate (I now live in Oklahoma), and she was both confused and pleasantly surprised (she's Swedish). I really enjoyed this video! Please do this again!
Sweet soy sauce IMMEDIATELY became my favorite condiment. My friends that grew up with it tease me a bit but I don’t think they appreciate just how different it is - so so good
I never heard of or saw a slow cooker before I moved v to the US. However, many old homes in Europe still have wood fired cook stoves in German known as Küchenhexe (kitchen witch) or AGAs or ESSEs. The latter are making their way to the US. These stoves are generally always on during the cold season and feature several ovens that run at different temperatures including a warming oven that does the same as a slow cooker.
I have seen those! Only pictures and videos, but they are amazing. I live in a teeny tiny cabin, though (approx 165 sq ft, or about 15.3 sq meters), so one would take up half my house, but a goblin can dream anyway hahaha
There are small ones, too. For a little cabin I love the La Nordica Americana or if I want to be bounce off grid get a smaller ESSE or AGA Rayburn with radiator and hot water. If you can run those on biogas (septic tank stink) you do the environment a favor and are fully fuel independent. Add a windmill water pump (ask the Amish) and a solar panel on the roof and you can weather whatever the universe might throw at the society you live in.
I love the rice cooker chicken and I like to toss other things in sometimes. Leftover veg, pork floss, ginger/garlic, various sauces, whatever you have lying around. I bet that sweet soy sauce would be nice.
That beef stew is similar to the beef stew my mum makes. We cook it in the slow cooker too. We are from Malaysia and we love using our slow cooker a lot. My mum makes roast beef with it too. She puts it on in the morning, goes to work and by lunch we have something to eat. Slow cookers are best for working mums.
Slow Cooker Meals. Up here in the North Woods of NH, there is nothing like opening the front door after a day of winter outdoor activity and being greeted by the aroma of whatever has be cooking all day. Always looking for new ideas
Today has been a very lazy Sunday and I tried the miso noodles from the lazy food video. Very delicious! Thanks for this recipe and greetings from Vienna, Austria.
I love miso butter pasta!! I like to brown the butter and add toasted black sesame seeds to mine. Minus the egg...but I'll have to add the egg next time.
When Oha (please correct me if I'm wrong) from Israel said the Garlic was the make or break I really felt that. I wish all the good in the world to you!
