Have you ever considered doing a video where you make the same recipe using high quality ingredients and one using sale, clearance and store brand ingredients and seeing if there is a big difference in taste?
THIS!!! Almost any recipe would taste really good if you use the highest quality foods! The **real** test is how it tastes on the same budget ingredients!
I came to ask the exact same thing! Please do a video comparing the fettuccine dish using high quality ingredients and store brand ingredients. And other meals too!
Hell, I've had different results using two different bargain brands (dark brown sugar in cc cookies). It was literally the only thing different between the batches and the cookies were night and day.
I just made the Fettucini. SO EASY!! I added chicken breast and mushrooms, because that's how I roll. I am the Mom of four adopted children, a 1, 3, 5 and 7 year old. Three have special needs and special diets. This will feed all who will eat it for a few days!! You funny lady!! I love watching your videos!!
don’t skimp and use the shaky parm cheese! The additive to keep it from clumping doesn’t melt and you will get a lumpy sauce. Freshly grated is the only option for a quality sauce!
Giada's Lentil Soup recipe is one of my all time faves! Every time I make it people lose their minds. You can absolutely make it cheaply, and it has a ton of left overs. So worth the time it takes
I usually double all the recipe except the amount of lentils. It does taste even better with decent patmesan and olive oil. Also, the left overs are amazing!
1 package Italian sausage chopped onions, 1/2stick-1stick of butter, 1 can diced tomatoes, 1 can tomatoes sauce, 1/2 can water....sauté onions in butter, add sausage, chop up and cook, add tomatoes and water, simmer , add a pinch of salt, simmer some more, when thickened to your liking put over pasta, add cheese if desired also can add garlic to sauce if desired, freaking delicious every time!!
Made the fettuccine Alfredo tonight adjusting slightly with recommendations of commenters. This included 2 squeezes of squeezy garlic-if you know, you know! Opened the freezer and said WWCD (what would Christine do)? So I added in broccoli and shrimp that needed to get out of my freezer. So good!
Adding the Parmesan to the Alfredo after it comes off the heat! That’s the secret. When I dump it in the pot, it seriously clumps together in a giant weird ball.
I’ve always been an Ina girl myself, her recipes have never let me down. Would love to see this become a series! Also blue bell is so overrated,. Braum’s ice cream is the GOAT.
We haven't had television in over a decade but back when we did I watched a LOT of Food Network! When my daughter was a toddler she would legit refuse to go to bed until she had watched Emeril LOL. Bam!
I grew up eating that Fettucine Alfredo recipe minus the lemon. My family loved to add grilled chicken and roasted broccoli on the side with some toasty garlic bread as well.
That Alfredo (minus the lemon) is the traditional way to make it. The thick cheese sauce is american Alfredo. My grandparents are Italian and this is how we always make our Alfredo
I married into an Italian family where all 3 Aunties and MIL were AMAZING cooks that should have opened their own Italian restaurant. When hubby and I temporarily moved in with his parents I gained 10 lbs in 1 month having MIL DELISH dinners! My son ALWAYS wanted his Nona's food... Giada does have some killer dish's too. Thanks for sharing..
@@nicolebrandt1571 Yes, my MIL DID, BUT I wished I payed more attention to some other recipes and baking. I was truly blessed having her for a MIL she was an amazing woman and I miss her so much. She was also a great Nona and was in the delivery room with me to see both of her grandkids born, what a gift that was!!
I really like it when you do these types of videos. There is so much content and recipe ideas out there it's hard to know which ones to try and no one wants to make something new and it's not good so Thank You!
I hate them. I try to ‘de plastic’ my life as much as possible. Why generate more unneeded trash in this world that really isn’t easily recyclable? I think its immature and irresponsible.
@@MittenPrepperVet While that is good we have a society have really learned that the majority of ‘recycling’ is really our recycling companies sending it overseas for someone else to deal with. Very very little plastic in the bigger picture is actually ‘recycled’ as believed by many customers. Moved to 3rd world country for storage isn’t what most would view as ‘recycling’. To stop the somewhat farce that is ‘recycling’ its FAR better to just remove as much plastic from your life as possible. I think as a GenX adult the younger generations do this a lot better. I have grown to love my different choices in shampoo bars and things like chew paste on auto delivery from etee. Also a lot of ‘squeeze’ tube phalate type plastics aren’t really recyclable at all.
Good Morning Christine.!!!! I have been watching some of your older videos, because, obviously I just can not get enough of you!! hahaha In an older video you were talking about someone needing to go to ballroom class.....Who was taking ballroom dance classes.??? That was something that I always wanted to take but could never afford. Was it as fun as I want it to be??? Did y'all enjoy it? Keep up the great work. With every video I watch, you inspire me more and more. Thank you for that. Much Love to the you and the family!!
A few years ago our church offered a series of Ballroom dance classes as a winter exercise option. As expected, most of the people who showed up for it were middle aged. Surprisingly though there were 4 high school senior couples who came. They said they wanted to look good at Prom and be ready for sorority dances at college. It was so much fun sharing the class with them.
I was listening while cooking and had to rewind because I thought I heard Kim from The Wads’ voice when you were straining the hot water from the first pasta! I’m always watching you, the Wads’ Kim or See Mindy Mom the whole time. I usually don’t cook, but slowly I’m warming up to the idea! I’m cooking very easy things now.
Reed's Dairy is AMAZING! We had the ice cream and/or grilled cheese 14 times over the 18 days we were in Idaho Falls last year. We still talk about making the drive from Phoenix just for Reed's.
I thought you had to use bottled lemon juice because you didn't have a lemon, but I suppose with the grated bits it was fresh tasting. I so loved seeing Chris Katan!!
Wait… I literally was just thinking this. I’ve set a steak to defrost yesterday and I was thinking what side do I want to do and I thought that fettuccine would be great. I’m doing a ribeye
@@kaelynnmartin6521 Oh wow! That is awesome… I paid full price and the steak was like $20 😅 I am happy either way but it’s always nice to find a great deal
Thank you enjoying your Food network experiments videos! I can never get The Pioneer Woman’s recipes to turn out. Love watching her, but my favorite Rachael Ray 30 minute meals! Thanks!!!
Trick for adding spinach to a dish, stack leaves together like basil and roll it and then chiffonade it. Add it in towards the end like basil. Smaller leaves it's not slimy and everyone eats it because its small.
Fresh lemon juice would taste so much better. I know you said you looked for the block of cheese, but that to taste so much better than the shredded stuff with all the added chemicals so it doesn't stick in the bag. You did a real good job.
The lemon Alfredo! Wow! I’m going shopping and putting this on our menu! I don’t have a fancy dairy close by, but I’ll get the best quality I can find. I may add a protein. I know my family will love it.
I buy a jar of classico Alfredo, add shredded parmesan, frozen cooked salad shrimp and mix with (I prefer) linguini noodles. Inexpensive and too easy. Dollar tree sells Prego Alfredo.
Lemon chicken pasta is great. I think your family would like that too. Also, lemon, spinach, garlic pasta with za'atar spice is very very good. I bet your family would like that too
These all look really good! And I got to say, I like the music that you chose during the montage sections. It reminded me of the opening theme song to Buffy the Vampire Slayer! 🤘🏻💙💙💙
We just moved to McKinney, TX from Boise…I don’t know if I can agree with the Reed’s vs Blue Bell ice cream statement…Blue Bell is CRAZY good 😂, but that Reed’s heavy cream is LIFE!
Next time you go to Costco pick up a chunk of parm then when you get home cut into smaller pieces and I seal in my food saver and then I have fresh to grate parm when I want it .
The pasta with clam juice is like a depression-era meal of my Mom's. Here's how I make it. So much easier and less expensive. Cook six ounces of linguine while sauce is being made. Sautee 1 TBSP. olive oil, 2 cloves garlic, 1/2 tsp. oregano. Add 1 can of chopped clams with clam juice, one 8 oz. can of tomato sauce. Cook until clams are completely cooked, about 5 minutes. Add a sprinkling of red pepper flakes. Combine linguine with sauce in pan and stir. Top with Romano cheese. Serves 2 to 3 people. Thanks for all the good information on your channel!
Next time you're at Walmart purchase a basil plant. Repot it. Fresh basil leaves are so good, and they smell wonderful when you're pinching them off the stem. You can also pinch larger leaves off, and place them in a ziplock bag, and then place them in the freezer. Do not wash them before freezing.
Reeds Dairy is the absolute best, whenever i visit Idaho I have to stop there. I still have dreams about their chocolate milk, its like heaven in your mouth.
Here's what I add to mine. I use coconut cream as the cream base, a bit of aged cheese then a smoked meat with probably MORE butter than what you use! Looks delish!
I've learned that Italians all do things differently. Some add sugar to the sauce. Others don't. Some are ok with parm and the shrimp and other aren't. Depends on the demographics.
All looks so delicious!! I liked the Alfredo. I buy 3-4 rotisserie chickens at Sam's, shred them up, put it in ziplocks, then into the freezer. Point is, love it in the Alfredo!! Sooo quick and easy having the chicken seasoned and cooked already. Can be used in other recipes too. ❤️
You gotta try Laura in the Kitchen’s Shrimp Scampi. We love it and I make it when we have company because it is that good and it all cooks in 10 minutes.
I LOVE these videos! I made the Rachael Ray tomato fennel soup and grilled cheese from your other video. We agreed, soup was ok, grilled cheese was AMAZING!!
Giada has some seriously delicious food. I made her fresh basil and olive pasta one time and it was one of the best things I've ever eaten. It was so simple yet so good. In fact, might make that for my 50th birthday-assuming I can find fresh basil in the winter.
I just love your videos! I'm hooked! You are so fun, smart, and all around entertaining. I love that you give your honest opinions, great & frugal tips and your pronunciation of some words remind me of my high school days! LOL! Keep up the good work! BB from AL
In southeast Pennsylvania, we have Longacre's dairy barn. I don't live in the area any more so things may have changed but growing up you could get a cone weighed down with the equivalent of a pint of ice cream -- that was a small. The texture was incredible. We'd stop there on our way home from vacation; we knew we were almost home and it was vacations last hurrah.
Giada taught me my skills a few years back. Before that I was a Food Network experimenter and made many fails. Laughing at myself that I still use recipes from 2000, why mess with perfection? Oh yeah!
I love your videos! So relatable, and I love the cut scenes you add! These are the things that play in my brain when people speak 🤣 and I transfer to you my karma BOOM
I look forward to that opening EVERY TIME! I have no idea what you are saying, but when you just go "bleh bleh bleh bleh" *sticks out tongue* I know that we would be friends in real life. 😂
