For the potato salad, it is best to have your ingredients fridge température BEFORE adding the ingredients. If it is hot, the mayo breaks down and it is dry.
The skewers: could you not just put the chicken, pebers and pineapple in a bag pour the marinade over and shake it around so everything is coated. Then spread on a baking sheet in a single layer. The same taste none of the bother of using the skewers.
Natasha’s kitchen has some of the best recipes I’ve ever had and I always have the most success with hers. Her meatballs, hamburger sliders, chicken Marsala, chicken pot pie soup, apple pie (seriously to die for), pie crust, and fancy chicken salad are some of our faves. She’s also in Idaho and she’s super fun to watch. Highly recommend!
“Thank you, Walmart, for your crappy produce!” 🤣😂🤣 I’m dying! I LOVED this video. I always love when you cook and have Dave (or the kids), critique! Thank you again, Christine!! ❤️👏❤️
I did assemble-yourself skewers for a big family party (20+). I prepped beef, chicken, shrimp, tofu and a variety of veggies. It covered all preferences and tastes. It was a huge success!
When you said with excitement "oh, there is water chestnuts" true meaning, you are going to eat them all before it gets to the table. Ha ha Me too. WOW HEB gift box. How lucky are you!!! Dave is so funny as your food taster. I do like a just made warm potato salad. I add a large pat of butter (1/2 stick) and my seasonings when I start to mash. Potatoes absorb seasonings will be so good. Give it a try.
More Vanilla !!!! So many great laughs, you must have a comedian spirit. Fajita!!! XD MORE BACON!!!! I've got a golden ticket!, good to know i'm not the only one who sings it.
Great vid and recipes for sure!! First, let me say, those who have so much to say about how you don't follow recipes exactly need to back up & chill. Your kitchen, YOUR RULES!! That is part of the FUN of cooking, tweaking recipes to suit your family's tastes. There may simply be an ingredient(s) you don't like or you want to add more. I mean, I hate eggs (esp hard boiled). My potato salad has NO eggs, pickles, pickle juice, mustard, bacon or celery. I cut my potatoes small, add mayo, ranch dressing, seasoning, apples, onions and peppers (all cut very small pieces). Simple, but SO DEEE-LICOUS!! So, YOU GO, KEEP IT REAL and make it YOUR OWN, like you always do. Hugz Arlene 😁
I made a version of the bread from part 1. My husband loved it. It wasn't exactly that recipe, I used what I had in my fridge to try to clean some stuff out. Husband thought it was yummy. I had left over french bread from a family party, the spread was butter, pepper jack cheese, garlic, pickled jalapeño from my garden, and spices. Thanks for the inspiration to use up my abundance of jalapeño from this summer.
I always add dill pickle juice to my mayo to thin it out slightly in both my potato & macaroni salads. Cooling the potatoes is key to keeping it moist. Also I add the slightly diluted mayo and let it set for a couple of hours before adding the rest of the ingredients. Can add some undiluted mayo at this time.
You can use the teriyaki marinade to boneless skinless chicken breast or flank steak for 12-24 hours then grill whole- delicious. I chop my onions and peppers and cook in aluminum foil with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Slice the meat thin and serve on Hawaiian rolls! YUM!! Also try egyptian koshari to eat your lentils. I serve it on rice, spaghetti and macaroni noodles all together. You will probably have all the ingredients in your pantry.
We have have the same issue with skewers. So my husband takes all the ingredients for skewers and cooks it in a cast iron skillet on the grill (or on the range if doing in doors). Just keep stirring it frequently while cooking till done. Taste just as good and now wasted time on putting together the skewers.
I like to add a little milk to my Mayo when making tater salad. It thins out the Mayo and makes more of a sauce. I also chill my taters before dressing them. Hot potatoes will absorb all of the liquid and make your potato salad dry. I also like to add some pickle or peppercini juice 😉
Real cooks improvise and change things up to suite their family. I'll never understand people who can't vary from a recipe! Even my kids can improvise while cooking. 🤣 Like you say "it's your kitchen, do what you want!"
I hate skewers for their time consuming issues as well, so my husband found these kabob grilling baskets, they are long and skinny you toss your vegetables, fruit, meat whatever in your sauce, then spray these baskets with oil, pop your food in them and grill...... best non skewer, way to grill, and when your done pop the baskets in a 5 gallon bucket with hot soapy water to soak, use a kitchen brush to clean......easy peasy....lemon squeasy!!!
Thank you for all your great videos! I have been watching for a few months now and just love them! My 6 year old daughter even loves them and always asks if we can watch Frugalfitmom! She really enjoys seeing your kids! ❤
That cheesecake topping is kind of a dulce de leche and I just don’t care for that flavor either. What I like about cheesecake is that it isn’t that sweet by itself and I usually prefer it plain.
16:58 you and your husband are holding the same exact posture. So sweet! I can just see you both on the sidelines of a soccer game or something looking exactly like this.
I just watched Willie Wonka. I had a lot to say about Gpa Joe and how he pops out of bed and walks just fine the next day for a factory tour! Lol One of my favorite movies for sure. I want a golden ticket as well!
Agree with you on topping for cheesecake--would rather have a strawberry or raspberry topping. Agree that making kabobs very time-consuming and a pain, solution may be stir-fry. The sauce looks fantastic. Would try the pork chop recipe for sure.
YES!!! My two favourite ladies! What I love about Pioneer Woman recipes is that they are so clearly made with love, and no matter how you’re feeling, eating some of that food just plain makes you feel better. Comfort food at its finest! Thanks for sharing, Christine!
I love your celebrity recipe videos, and your other cooking videos too. The biggest reason I hesitate to make celeb recipes is because I think they ask for more money and time and higher calories. Would you be able to do a comparison on celeb verses your frugal fit versions? I would love to see the price and calorie breakdowns. Also let’s be real, cheesecake calories don’t count and pork chops were a fabulously easy and normal recipe. Thanks and keep being amazing.
I always mix potato salad when the potatoes are hot. It allows them to soak up all the flavors. I would definitely make the skewers into a sheet pan dinner. Great video. Again!!
So she's not on tv but you should totally try ❤️SIMPLY MAMA COOKS ❤️ recipes. She's from Houston, is Hispanic and married a Korean man, she has amazing recipes!!! You'll love her 🙌!!
You know how calories don't count at Christmas? Raw eggs don't count when they're in batter of the cookie/cake/muffin kind. "Life is short. Lick the spoon." You have my permission to put that on a T-shirt. ;)
Maybe just spoon a can of pie filling over the cheesecake. Also very impressed you found cream cheese at the store. I'm still feeling the shortage in upstate NY.
My thoughts on following recipes. How many of us have had to come up with recipe measurements for friends and family for recipes we just make, without measuring. I think measurements are mostly suggestions. Even In baking there is some margin of variation for some ingredients. I think this is how pioneer woman cooks. She makes a recipe and comes up with the best measurements she can. Just my few cents. 😁 🥔🥗AND since I missed the potato salad portion of the video, I need to go back and watch that now. For potato salad, I make mine from a America’s Test Kitchen episode I saw years ago. I sprinkle yellow mustard and dill pickle juice over the hot, drained potato pieces on a cookie sheet (I cut mine smaller before cooking). I put the sheet in the fridge to chill. Then I make the rest of the sauce mayo, onion, chopped dill pickle, celery, salt pepper, etc. some times add sour cream if I’m feeling it. Add the sauce to the cooked potatoes, maybe some chopped boiled eggs. The hot potatoes marinating and soaking up the mustard and pickle flavor is awesome.
I feel a recipe is a guideline. I never make a recipe the same ever. It depends on what is in the fridge and pantry as what goes in a recipe. It’s my kitchen - I make the rules.
I love potato salad and I am very picky about it. I’ve never put bacon in mine, but I am not mad at putting some in next time. I was terrified that she was going to add something weird like grapes or raisins. Pork chops any time, any where. Dave is so cool and you are always so funny, Christine. Love your videos!
I am new to you and leaving comments. I was watching one of your videos where you were cutting lemon cheese cake and complaining your knife was getting messy. I would like to suggest using skinny, cheap, dental floss instead. Take enough to wrap around your fingers when at the longest sides of your cake and hold firmly cutting downwards then turn loose on one end and gently pull it out one side while still at the bottom of the cake. Get clean floss or, as I do, clean the floss between your gloved thumb and forefinger and make the next cut, repeating until completely cut. The cake should come out neatly cut.
I'm surprised that the garden cream cheese spread isn't on there. I altered her recipe just slightly to accommodate our tastes (we use dill seed instead of dill weed and a little less onion), but you totally need to try Rie's garden cream cheese recipe. It is great on fresh bread / toast. My husband eats it on bagels, but I prefer the fresh homemade bread (or fresh bakery bread if you're feeling lazy) option.
For making shishka bobs on the grill.. I line a basket or just put foil across your grates of the grill. And cook them like that if the juices build-up too much then then just poke a few holes and let the juice pour through the foil. Much simpler than putting on skewers.
I’m from the Houston area, and H‑E‑B is a destination for me when I go back. Last time we went we stocked up in whataburger condiments and of course HEB products. We find that the store brand is most of the time superior to national brands. Love when you where the shirt.
While I do try to follow a recipe exactly, sometimes I do make substitutes b/c I lack a specific ingredient or I don't care for a particular food item... keep up the great videos, Christine 🤗🌻
It seems like potato salad is one of a few dishes that we each have “our” recipe and no other recipe quite stands up to our standards. I make the same recipe as my mother used and she in turn used her mother’s recipe. If we are invited to a summer party I always offer to bring my potato salad because I know that I won’t eat what is being served, lol!
My mother use to make warm mashed potato salad and it was delicious. It was not dry but I don’t remember her recipe or the potatoes she used. Hers had some regular yellow mustard in it too, onions, bell peppers, sweet pickles and juice, and Mayo.
