Abuela's Comfort Foods | Jenny Lorenzo 

I'm Chinese and my Yeh-Yeh (grandpa) would always make eggs in the morning and Nai-Nai (grandma) would always give me sparkling apple juice, brownies, and tea cake. She would also make chinese spinach and lobster for dinner at least once when we visited.

I’m 60 years old and Jewish and still remember my grandma making me French toast when I stayed at her house. She used to let me eat it in bed and watch TV. Jenny, I love your videos and wish you much success. Everyone can relate to Abuela across cultures. You go girl!!

i saw arroz con pollo in the thumbnail and i clicked so fast why am i like this

I'm half Colombian and half Panamanian and we eat the guava and cheese, but instead of cheddar, we use queso blanco .

my mom always said milk helped me grow...I had faith in that milk until I was 25. I'm 5'2...... -_-

We do eat Pisicorre in Brazil!! But we use white cheese instead of cheddar! We call it "Romeu e Julieta"

Im not Spanish, but my born-and-raised Québécois mémére (mémére = french version of abuela/grandma) would also make awesome after school snacks as we watched the Price is Right or as she calls it ''Le Price is Right''.

You cracked me up throughout the whole video!! Love your personality and storytelling :) I´m Honduran and my grandma used to give me spoonfuls of olive oil every day, among other million food/remedies :P ¡Vivan las abuelas! ¡un abrazo!

i'm mexican and my comfort food was sopa de fideo ._. It is cheap to make, yummy, and a wonderful thing to eat when it is chilly (btw i say "awuela/o" quite often lol. My spanish is lazy)

Salvadoreña here! Grew up on platanos Fritos con crema y frijoles. And of course, let's not forget pupusas.

I related to pretty much EVERY thing you mentioned. Even my 18 year son likes "arroz con huevo frito". I haven't had "arroz con salchicha" in ages. I still love "harina con un huevo". To this day, I still love dipping Cuban bread into my black beans. That's heaven right there. Some of the Cuban comfort foods is the little sandwiches at birthday parties known as "bocaditos". My grandma's "carne con papa", "fricase de pollo", "ropa vieja', and more. Just like you, I drank from a bottle until maybe 6 and because of my grandma, my son too even though my wife (who's just a plain 'ol white girl) at the time hated it. lol "He's Cuban damn it, and that's how we roll!", I would tell her. And yes, we both had "cafe con leche" in a bottle as a baby. Like I said, we're Cuban and that's how we roll. Oh...what about Coke and Leche Condensada? Or Malta con Leche Condensada? Yum!! Damn...maybe that's why I'm fat? :( I can go on and on, but I"ll stop. lol

I'm watching this eating eggs while my Grandma watches the Price is Right. This is too real y'all.

My mom used to make us ham, guava, and cream cheese sandwiches when we were sick. When I got to college and was eating fried eggs with a banana (broke college student maduros) everybody looked at me like I was insane. Nothing like pan cubano with your cafe con leche though, especially if someone took the time to boil the milk instead of microwaving it.

OMG JENNY! The pisicorre!!!! I LIVED ON THIS. Now I get goya guayaba in a jar and slather it directly onto a piece of cheese. I'm so glad I've stumbled onto you. I moved from Miami to the Northeast and am sooo deprived of Cubans around me and Cuban food. I actually make arroz con sarchicha for my boyfriend for a quick dinner every once in a while! Thank you for making me feel like I'm not so alone up here.

We Puertoricans and Cubans are literally the same. I LOVE IT 🇵🇷🇨🇺😂😂

I never understood the issue with representation until I was introduced to latino content. I find it so AMAZING that I can relate to someone as much as I do with you. LOVING THISSSSS!!!!!!!!

I'm Mexican-American and my comfort food was and still are "empuretadas" which are tortillas de maiz filled with queso fresco and topped with tomato sauce (pure de tomate). Sorry for the spanglish, the ingedients just sound tastier to me in Spanish 😅.

As a high school senior taking Spanish, I like watching your videos because the mix of Spanish and English allows me to easily understand what little Spanish I know while still understanding the story as a whole. I've found that after watching your videos I've gotten better at quickly recognizing words without having to stop and think about it.

Comfort food made by my abuela (we too pronounced it "awela)- quesadilla made with fresh torillas (she had that crispy toriilla without burning it down!), fideo soup, and my abuelo made the BEST menudo!!!!

I can relate to the Vienna Sausages, usually with grits. And I’ve been hooked on pan cubano since forever thanks to my neighbors from when I was a kid.

When I saw Walter Mercado laughed harder than I ever had in my life

Girl!!!! you killed this!!! being Cuban growing up partially in Miami every video I see of yours takes me back to my childhood!!! keep doing it girl!!

Arroz con huevo is still one of my favorites! I even introduced my hubby to it. Other favorites are harina con huevo, and pan con timba. Btw, my grandfather was "awelito." I am so excited to see content created by a smart and funny Cuban woman :)

Because of you and watching "Chef" (amazing movie) a billion times, I convinced my my parents, aunt and uncle to try Cuban food when we went to Florida this summer. It was flippin amazing and the sandwich cubano was so delicious. Thank you for allowing us to find a new type of food :)

Here in Brazil we have something very similar to Pisicorre called Romeu e Julieta (literally Romeo and Juliet). It's goiabada (guava paste just like you said, holy crap this thing is a gift) with cream cheese or Minas cheese, which is white and the taste is a lot more subtle than cheddar. I'm not a fan of mixing sweet and savory things, but most people love it.

I love your videos!!! this video almost made me cry, I use to watch THE PRICE IS RIGHT every morning with mi Abuela❤️👵🏽, your videos are so relatable to the latino community and for those who want to get to know what the Latino community is about. Your videos are so awesome mainly because your 100% yourself!!!

Whenever I go to my Nana and Tata's house I'll always be offered Migas, Carne con Nopales or a bowl of Pozole and for dessert: traditional Mexican Buñuelos with melted down Piloncillo. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

Jenny, I am also cuban and from Miami! You hit the nail on the best cuban comfort food. I resonate with everything you mentioned. :) Thank you for being so funny and for showing the world how great and funny cuban americans are. You're amazing and i'm excited to see where you go. Congratulations!

"Leche life" hahaha

Every time I watch one of your videos it's like stepping back into my childhood...and there are YEARS of age between us. I guess those tried and true Cuban experiences don't change with age. My Ita's (Abuelita's) favorites where trozos de perco con raspita and slices of olive! Empandas and of course, Bacalao!!!

Holaaaaa... half Mexicana, half Salvadorean here! Gracias for the representation, Jenny 😘

I am a Cuban "WUELA" and the things your Awuela gave you is part of what it means to be Cuban. My favorite comfort food is yellow rice with Vienna sausage and a fried egg on top and if you have platanos maduros put some of those in the plate. As far as you drinking milk in a bottle till you were 14, that too is so Cuban. To Cuban grandmothers milk is the elixir of life. I still give my grand kids milk in a bottle. THey like it warm and with strawberry syrup. My husband being an American does not quite understand what Cuban grandmothers will do not only to take care of their grandkids and how much we will spoil them. Keep up with the videos they are funny.

Jenny please post a recipe for one of those dishes! Looks really good!

Here in Spain we eat "arroz a la cubana" which is just like the rice with fried eggs, fried banana and tomato sauce! i was so happy to see you actually cook that in Cuba!

arroz morros con platano frito or tostadas....even now my abuela invites us over to eat congri 😂😂

One of my favorite comfort foods has always been frijoles recien cosidos con queso fresco! Give me a steaming bowl of beans and that delicious crumbly cheese and I will be cured of any ailment! As a Mexican, these were obviously not my comfort foods, but girl, you got wanting to try every single one! The pisicorre especially since for me cheese is life!

You are amazing! Thank you for always reminding me of home and my beautiful Cuban culture!

Arroz con huevos to this day its my favorite food. También arroz amarillo con salchichas....

Arroz con huevo sigue siendo mi desayuno favorito ❤. Saludos desde Costa Rica :)

Wow, so great! Make more videos! You make being Cuban a celebration!!

perate! the best bread ever is pan sobao from Puerto Rico! still love you jenny lol

As a fellow Cubana, Ropa Vieja is always what my Abuela made for me. It takes a while to make, and it's not as cheap as the others, pero it was worth it and more common in our household. Also Guava y Cheese pastelitos were everywhere

can I just say that I loooooove your aguacate necklace? I'm getting one so I can remember my roots anywhere I go after I graduate XD

I'm Puerto Rican born and raised in the USA but the similarities between my experiences and yours are so on point I think Cubans and PR's are cut from the same cloth. My mami made me all those same foods. Because I was a picky eater she also used to stir up an egg yolk with a teaspoon of sugar and fresh squeezed orange juice for me every morning (to get my alimentos!). It tasted like an Orange Julius. She slso would make me meatballs with white rice.

Jenny, next time you're in a grocery store and buy some Cuban bread grab one of those plastic bags you put your wet umbrella in on the way out of the store. Put the Cuban bread (with it's paper bag so you can reuse the plastic one) in there and bam! It stays soft for days as long as you remember to keep it closed.

I totally feel you Jenny! I’m Mexican and for the longest time that it had a abuela/o had “w”, called my grandma, Welita. And I totally feel all the comfort food, especially with the “poor man’s pancake” lol

I drank out of a bottle until I was around 14 too! but not milk, I'd put some coke in there or some sweet tea 😂

I had guava with queso blanco and sometimes my grandma would give it to me as a sandwich with Maria cookies... Arroz with huevos Fritos was awesome and my grandma used to make a tortilla with eggs, onions and platanitos maduros :)

No picadillo come on chica! 😂💗🇨🇺

I'm Puerto Rican and our comfort food is exactly the same. Como decía la poetisa Lola Rodríguez de Tió: "Cuba y Puerto Rico son de un pájaro las dos alas". As I grew up I realized how similar we both are. Lots of love to my Cuban extended family.

Red bean soup, with a freshly cracked egg dumped after soup is pored into bowl. Then sliced a whole avocado into the soup!

Ta Loca, chica! With a Cuban mother and a Puerto Rican father, I share this with my sister and my wife and daughter and we all say the same thing: your Abuelita is my mother. Thank you for sharing this, Jenny. You're the best.

I'm dominican and my mom makes arroz con salami or arroz w hotdog all the time and I live off of white rice with fried eggs 😂

Jenny I love your humor and personality. Keep it up! I'm Dominican so not everything rang with me, but definitely las salchichas were everywhere! Also I called my abuela "wela" until I was about 12.

Avena, all day errday. But the Dominican avena that was blended up and sipped...mmm.

My Dad's Puerto Rican and he was the cook of the house when we were living together. Arroz con gandules y chorizo, tostones with rice and hotdogs or corned beef if available were the usual. They're still my comfort food and every time I make em' it reminds me of the times Dad makes em'. The occasional treat from my abuela from Puerto Rico was something to look forward to. Guava paste with leche was my favorite at the time.

omg pan cubano I die!!! my guilty pleasure with cafe con leche!!!

My Mexican comfort food growing up was made by my abuela Gracie and my bisabuela. It was always sopa de fideo with the tomate broth and chicken bullion and I always ate it with una quesadilla or una mante-tilla (our house name for a tortilla heated on the comal slathered in butter and rolled up), the two previous tortilla related foods I mentioned, red Spanish rice (to make us "grow up big and strong"), pancakes completely slathered in butter and syrup (always Log Cabin), and either Nesquik or hot chocolate of some kind. And never forget to say your prayers. Ever.

Leche, in Singapore / Malaysia means troublesome

My abuela used to give me guayaba con queso too. Also oreo ice cream all the time weirdly lol. Not so many salchichas, but plenty of arroz con frijoles negros and pan tostada con cafe con leche. Flan. Picadillo. Man, she fed me well 😊💜

Cafe con leche y tostada con mantequilla

Jenny, I found your channel today and from one Cuban 11 year old to an adult Cuban I can relate to this video so much, especially about the b getting replaced with that w. Now my Abuela did not raise me we go to her house and she starts cooking some bomb ass Arroz con Bistec and my mom also and they make some bomb ass Cuban dishes. Being Cuban is such a part of me, it makes most of me up. And I'm proud of being Cuban 👍

arroz con huevos frito was my dinner tonight lol

I'm not Latino but I thoroughly enjoyed this video. It gave me a glimpse into another culture and reminded me of aspects from my own culture that are similar. I watched another video of yours, the one where the brother brings his girlfriend over and disappoints abuela. It was hilarious. I mean, I obviously didn't understand exactly how funny it was because I have not been in that specific cultural situation, but it was still relatable, and by the end of the video I found myself wishing that I knew more about Latino culture and language. What you said about cultural representation is so true and important. And it makes different videos on RU-vid all the more enjoyable when you get to experience different cultures at the same time. Keep up the great work!

Jenny en PR arroz con salchichas es legit

I am Cuban American and I can relate to EVERYTHING YOU SAID!!!! I love you!!!

Harina de maíz omg 😂😂yes I'm Cuban and my mother used to do it all the time with huevos fritos...

Mac & Cheese from a box, ramen, mayonnaise and mustard sandwiches on white bread. Sponge cake and mini custard pies from the Chinese bakery. Bean and cheese burritos, homemade. Scrambled eggs with tomato.

OMG!!!! I just had arroz con huevo frito last week !!! Love when the eggs are still a bit runny in the center and I get to just mix it with the rice.

You are so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Me trajistes lindos recuerdos de mi mama cuando mi hija estaba creciendo. Gracia. You are one of a kind.

Arroz con tuna. Literally the same as arroz con salchicha.. but with a couple of cans of tuna mixed in. Pretty delicious, and pretty often LOL I love this!

Arroz con leche !!!! Is the bestest comfort food!!!!

Omg mi abuela prepare me arroz blanco y huevo fritos and maiz. I miss my abuela may she RIP.

I'm half Portuguese, (my moms side) and my mom has been making this dish since I was really little, with hot dogs and tomato sauce with bell peppers and onions, and then we would put it over white rice. Its a dish her mom made when she was little too. Your first dish reminded me of that, and I wonder if there is some kind of correlation between the two lol.

I'm Cuban from Miami and Pisaycorre is to familiar

Asopao! My favorite food of all time, with tostónes or mofongo.

Based off a lot of that stuff you ate, yall grew up hood' lol. Both black and brown' know bout that hot dawg n rice lol.

Omg you are amazing! You take me back to my childhhod growing up as a Cuban! Gracias chica!

Girl stop right there! I was like 8 or 9 when I stopped drinking milk out of a bottle. Only way I could ever drink it. I still to this day can’t drink milk any other way... so I don’t. I thought I was the only person in the world...

My grandmothers from Spain and my favourite comfort foods are tortilla and arroz con huevo frito. SOOOO GOOD!

You're so pretty l can't! Luh you!

I just had this discussion with my older brother. We're Dominican and my mama (aka abuela) would always make us pure de papa con un huevo hervido after school. The most simple thing but I swear it was her hands that made it amazingly awesome.

sopa de fideo or fresh harina tortillas con mantequilla

I'm Colombian but I still relate to a lot of these :) Pan Cubano is the most delicious bread out there, I love dipping it in cafe con leche omg

Jenny, did you ever deal with sofrito? (peppers, onions + recao) That is the flavor bomb for food.

I'm half Cuban and half Colombian and I have so many comfort foods! Arepas, white rice with black beans, arroz con pollo, pollo en salsa, picadillo with rice, jugo de mora, jugo de maracuya, platanos fritos and tostones... 3 weeks before I can go home from college and eat real food again!

is that an avocado on your necklace

Flour tortilla toasted over the range, with butter melted onto it and then honey drizzled. Roll it up, fold it in half, comfort food to go!

I don't really have comfort foods (since my mom was OBSESSED with making hamburger helper meals, and thought they were healthy somehow?????) so I never really had a chance to HAVE comfort foods growing up unless I was over at a friends house....which was rare cuz I never got invited to anything. (#nofriends) but my aunt made really good Egg-in-a-holes! It's basically just toast with a fried egg in the center :D

You are HILARIOUS!!!!!! You speak the truth on so many levels and cross sub-cultures( Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican,.........You name it.....You NAILED IT!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!! I have not laughed so much or hard

I AM SO SAD!! I REALLY WANTED A PIN!!!

My father would get up while we were still asleep & go to the tortilleria & panadería on a Sunday morning. Then we'd wake up to the smell of menudo and enjoy it with fresh tortillas & have pan dulce & orange juice. Pops would make us special breakfasts on Sunday mornings before going to church. This was one of them. :)

In Dominican Republic that type of chair is a mesedora

Pan tostado con mantequilla. Abuela would toast an oven-full of sliced bread overnight on really low temp then serve it up with a cortadito. So yummy!

I have to be the only person in all Latinoamerica that have two abuelas that don't know how to cook :'(

Also, there are three things I ate throughout my entire childhood that are still comfort food for me today. Ham and cheese sandwiches (preferrably in white bread with butter), mashed potatoes + vienna sausages + tomato sauce, and my grandma's wonderful orange cake.

Btw, I drank coke out of a baby bottle until I was like 12!

girl you always make me laugh. so funny. btw the baseball bat bread one is sooo relatable

El pisicorre, el pan cubano, arroz con huevo frito y plátanos maduros fritos...OMG!!!! Such awesome memories, so true, and making me hungry right now!!! LOL!!!

I'm Puerto Rican and we did something similar to the pisa y corre, we call it pasa palo. My fave things my abuela made was arroz con salchicha, sopa de salchicon and her budin. And YES harina de maiz. SOOOOO good.