Salted pork always reminds me of my great grandmother and I’m 63. She was from Poland and I learned this recipe before she left this world, many years ago. She would take diced salt pork and fry it up until crisp. Add boiled cabbage which was squeezed to remove all the water. Then she would chop and add to the salt pork and a whole load of ground black pepper. I mean if you think you have enough, add more! No salt. That was her filling for perogies. Over 120 year old recipes if not longer. Thank you for the memory ❤
I imagine that the salted pork would remedy the need for any added salt. And all that pepper is probably a good balance for the relative lack of flavor of the cabbage
Hard Times episodes always make me think of my grandparents. They grew up during the Depression and as I get older I realize how many of their recipes were born from the necessity of cooking inexpensive meals for 7 people.
My grandparents always had a spreadno matter when you showed up. Dish after dish put on the table. It was always homey food they had grown out of their garden. The meat they raised or hunted for. The bread she made 3 times a week. My grandparents only "eating out" indulgence at home was KFC. Lol
@@gigidodson People were healthier back then too. Not eating processed foods and a ton of sugar. My grandmother was from the Great Depression, and she had her own garden and raised cows and sheep. She made everything from scratch, and it was the best food I have ever had.
Likewise the women who had to cook for a family during WWII. They really had to economize because so much food was sent to Europe and other foods could not be landed from overseas. Took me years to realize where so many of the weird recipes came from.
My grandma was the youngest child and orphaned by 12, but had an older brother and sister and aunt & uncle to help out, but even with all of that, she was the one who took up cooking. She grew up in a small town where you could go up to any house and knock on the door to ask for a cookie. She was an amazing baker, and she would always make one cake, cut it in half, and then frost it with two different flavors of frosting, so when company came over they could have their choice of “two” cakes.
My parents were Depression era kids, who were teens during WWII and faced rationing of food. I grew up in the 50s and 60s with many of these budget, but filling meals!
Oh man , this makes me miss my Daddy 😭 we ate a lot of meals like this - red beans and rice with smoked sausage and cornbread... or fried cabbage with pork of some kind.. always raw onions on the table for snacking on while eating dinner.... I thought everyone ate raw onions, but apparently not 🤣
We always had a plate of chopped fresh onion on a plate to sprinkle over the food if we wanted to. And vinegar, too. I'm 63 now and my whole life I've eaten cooked green leafy veg with raw onion & vinegar sprinkled over it. Like you, I thought everybody did that.
@@syrophenikanx in the Southern US it is a poor man's meal. You can get quite a bit of beans and rice for only a couple dollars. I remember growing up my grandfather would make "soup beans" which is basically what it sounds like. Beans stewed for a long time with water and a little of whatever pork was on hand. There would be cornbread and fried potatoes with it. He made it for the grandkids because it's his favorite, but made it for my mom and her siblings when they were children because they were dirt poor. It's funny how certain things are considered "poor" in different places. Haha. What are some struggle foods that you grew up with?
They make the same thing in Suriname, the Netherlands and most of Europe. It's just a classic recipe from hundreds of years ago that became popular in Europe because the ingredients store for winter so well. The ingredients travel well too so its very popular with areas of migration. This is also very similar to making pea soup, dried peas cook faster then dried beans though.
I grew up eating this but with red beans. We also ate pork n beans too, but with franks. Both dishes were served with white rice. 😋. I didn't know this was a poor man's meal, lol.
I never heard of poor people rice and beans style meals until long after I was an adult. We actually has little money growing up when I was very young but a big garden. I had meals that were often very produce heavy and salads were a constant in the summers. Soup and stews and stir fry meals were common from canned and frozen items.
Hi, Emmy! In Brazil, it would be "Everyday Avarage Man's Meal" 😄 The combination of rice and beans is in the base of our food. We have feijoada, a bean stew with several diferent parts of pork, but this is something for special days, because takes a lot more work to do. On the daily basis, brazilian people make beans in a similiar way to the video, but we cook the bean from raw, put garlic and bayleaf (in addition to the onions), sausage and/or salted pork. Usually, we eat with rice, some kind of filet (chicken, pork, beaf...what you want or can buy) and some salad (normally lettuce and tomatos salad).
@@jhowblackman Como brasileira que não viveu fora, eu não me atrevo a dar detalhes da cultura alimentar de outros países. Releia o que eu escrevi. Em nenhum momento eu disse que era exclusividade do brasileiro, só falei sobre como comemos arroz e feijão aqui. É você quem tá se achando muito inteligente por ter pensado algo óbvio
You are using the magical ingredient - the lowly bay leaf. Its amazing for what it does for a recipe, and you don't notice it until you make the recipie without the lowly bay leaf.
When you mentioned the part about the gardens, it reminded me of my favorite childhood story, Stone Soup.. Where a stranger comes to town and is hungry, but no one wants to help him. so he puts a huge pot of water on a fire and adds a stone. He lovingly stirs it and tastes it... He says how it is so good, but would be better if it had onions... then someone comes out and adds onions, and the story keeps going till everyone in the village comes out and keeps adding ingredients and everyone eats and loves what was cooked. Thank you Emmy for the lost memory..
My mom was born in the late sixties. She told me had there not been the garden her mom planted they would have starved. She told me how she’d be hungry and sneak into the garden with a salt shaker and eat tomatoes. My momaw had a hard life. Here in the Appalachian mountains people were really poor. To hear all the stories from my mom, momaw and my great aunts and uncles you really would have a hard time believing people were so poor and struggled in more modern times. It makes me feel extremely grateful to have all that I do.
Being raised by depression era grandparents, I can so relate to these hard times meals ..quite a few of them Emmy has done were actual routine meals in in our home. Emmy quite often brings me back to my childhood and those wholesome filling meals we made. (Grandma had us girls cooking at very a young age..l was around 7 when I first pulled the chair up to the stove)
Funnily enough, when I had covid earlier this year and had to get groceries delivered to me by my mom, I asked her to bring me rice, beans, and sausage and this is pretty much what I made that entire week and a half...
Glad you had an appetite with covid and had such a nice meal! me and my brother had no appetite along with no sense of taste, he ate the same beef and vegetable soup every day and I had scrambled egg burritos. Glad we got over it
When I was growing up, my mom would always serve rice with chili to extend the meal. My sister and I carried on the tradition. When my niece went to college, her friends were making chili, and she said “I’ll bring the rice!“ and all of her friends looked at her in dismay. She had no idea. Lol
Who doesn't serve chili with rice? Or pasta. Or crusty bread. Or baked potato. Ok it's actually pretty versatile. Although as someone going low-carb, I mostly just have it without any of those and it's still awesome (although I pack it full of beans).
We made the same with thing with hotdogs, onions and pork n beans. Also called beanie weanies! It's nice to see we weren't the only ones who used this name! My husband just laughed at me when I told him what we called it. Now I have to make it for him!
For a Saturday "poor mans meal" this looks delicious. Sausage and onions will ALWAYS be my favorite thing to eat no matter how much money I have. When we didn't have much money, my mom would make a big pot of chicken cacciatore!
I make a big batch of this Sundays and it's what I have for lunch at work a few days a week. Nutrient rich, food groups are represented, economical. One of the many ways I save for my child's college education. Thanks!
So yes we were poor and we had this often, it was a dad made meal. Kielbasa, rice and sweet baked beans, mix it up on the plate and it was fantastic. But at the time, never called it a poor mans meal, but guess it was :) Thanks for sharing
I made Saturday roast dinner for my Mum and her partner yesterday. I made a roast lamb leg! It was so so good! I ended up making soup with the left over meat and giving my Mum a big container of it today when I went over to walk her dog.
Oh man for some reason this reminds me of a meal we eat on my island in the Caribbean. It was also considered a poor man's meal at the time but now we all eat it like normal because it's just great and delicious and hearty. Instead of the beans we'd have lentils or red beans, and instead of rice we'd have basically cooked "flour balls". You precook the meat/seafood beforehands and you mix it with a can of cooked lentils/red beans and flour balls, which are exactly what you imagine (flour + water). Add some water (it's like a stew but the sauce gotta be a bit thick and not watery). Season it the way you like. You let the whole thing cook in a big pot until the flour balls get tender and chewy, and then it's ready to eat. My mom often makes it on Sunday, it's delicious and so filling too🥺 I'm considering getting that book, all the recipes look so delicious!! Definitely gonna try this one, thanks Emmy!
If you change the beans from the brown ones to the black ones, you're gonna be doing Feijoada, a delicacy from Brazil. We serve with rice, kale sliced and fried, orange and farofa (no idea how to translate). It's said that the enslaved did eat a lot of it since beans are very easy to cultivate in the plantations.
My family is from Newfoundland Canada and we use salt pork often. It is is great to flavour roasts and we use it to flavour the turnip, cabbage, carrots and potatoes that go along with the roast. It is divine!
I'm from Brazil and this is everyday food over here (lol). We normally serve this dish with some type of protein whichever way you like it (grilled, stewed, fried, dredged and fried, you name it) and some type of salad.
I came to the comments to say exactly that. Even though not all families can afford to have pork and sausage with their beans everyday, we put it in as often as we can. And other than that, no brazilian would consider this plate of food a full meal lol Maybe it's what we can afford for today, but definitely not a complete meal
Yeah. When I was young (in the 70s) we were very poor but ate fairly healthy because we had a very large garden (100' by 200') with a great variety of vegetables. Late winter was annoying as we could not afford good veggies and all our stock from the harvest was gone so it was cheap canned veggies (frozen veggies were way too expensive) and some pickled veggies.
Okra gumbo is redundant. Part of what makes gumbo not jambalaya is okra in the recipe. It's like saying baby puppy. Puppy means "baby dog," so saying baby puppy is the same as saying baby baby dog. Anyway, I make something very similar. However, instead of pork & beans, I use the Kroger version of Bush's Baked Beans. I usually use hamburger instead of smoked sausage, but I made this last night with the sausage. I also add a small can (drained) of mushroom bits & pieces; I feel the mushrooms add a little something to the dish. I usually serve it plain (no rice), or I serve it with biscuits or toast or toasted English muffins. I also make it in my slow cooker, as I did yesterday. I noticed you tossed your onion ends and skins into a bucket-thing. Since you have a garden, you're not going to throw those onion bits away, are you? Do you compost your veggie trimmings/peels? Such "throwaways" are very good soil ammendment for your garden once they've reduced down.
My dad grew up during the Great Depression in South Dakota. And his Poor Man’s Meal was Macaroni & Tomatoes. Just cook the pasta & when it’s done add in a jar of home-canned tomatoes from his mother’s garden. He’d have some Colby cheese with that. And that was dinner!
I LOVE macaroni and tomatoes. My mom made it often. Once I started making for myself I "upgraded" to stewed tomatoes and Always add a hunk of butter. One of my favorite comfort foods. Miss you mom.
@@Birdbike719 my grandma used her home canned tomatoes, but I can’t seem to garden. So I use a can of diced & make sure I put Parmesan or Romana cheese on the table. My kids love it!
My parents went through the depression and my father declared bankruptcy when I was about one year old. Because my mother had to eat so much rice when she was going through the depression (she was about 10 yrs. old) we never had rice in our house while I was growing up. We ate plenty of beans and frank type meals and lots of potatoes. We never had cheese in the house and never ate fast food or went out to eat. We never had soda in the house unless we were sick and then it was ginger ale. My parents had a garden and my mother would can tomatoes, pickles and also can tomato juice, jam and preserves. My mother raised chickens and had an egg route. We always had chicken every which way she could think of and chicken soup and plenty of eggs. I brought my children up in the 60s and 70s and they never had candy or soda in the house unless it was a holiday and then we had candy. I didn't realize we were poor as it was just a way of eating that I grew up with.
OMG!!! Growing up in the 1950s that was our Saturday night supper every week. But my mother made her own baked beans…and we had hot dogs instead of the larger sausage!!!
Kind of reminds me of frijoles borrachos from Mexico or Drunken beans in English. There are different varieties. Look them up! They are delicious!! We serve ours in bowls over a bed of Mexican rice. Perfect comfort food for the cold winter days coming up.
I literally made this last week! I've had this so much growing up, I was craving it only I use hotdog, and bush's country style beans which already contain salted pork, and I sweeten the beans a bit more with brown sugar and maple syrup. I never knew it was "hard times" eating it though. To me it was just "Tuesday" lol
(There are two different types of 'salt pork' - aka 'fat back', 'streak'ed meat' - one literally has salt crystals on it and the other kind, the type you used, does not. The type you used does NOT have to be rinsed off but the kind that has literal salt crystals on it and is mostly fat with only a little bit of meat, most definitely does. I bet you a quarter THAT is the kind the lady means when she says 'salt pork'. It is extremely flavorful and "gives the pan" a ton of rendered salty grease. After you fry the fat out of it - that fat is fantastic for greens, beans, frying 'flap jacks', greasing the pan for corn bread after pouring a little INTO the cornbread mix...THE LIST GOES ON... - you can eat the "pork rinds". The browned fried fat part is delicious but the actual rind part is really hard and tough but great to gnaw on, lol.)
I grew up and still make occasionally, "Cowboy's Breakfast." Ranch beans with sliced hotdogs or sausage and a couple slices of crumbled cooked bacon , hashbrowns and two fried eggs. Similar philosophy!
That reminded me of a dish my mom would make. Just good ole "Ranch style beans" over rice. The old cans used to say "husband pleasing" on the label, but sometime in the 70' they changed it to something else that wasn't so sexist. LOL. The beans are still great.
Cooking dried beans in a pressure cooker makes the process so much faster and the results are so much more tasty than canned. Especially with the addition of a bay leaf.
I live in SC and Edisto is on my bucket list to visit. We enjoy visiting Charleston and mount pleasant, folly beach. So much beautiful history around Charleston and great food.
your videos are so soothing to me. i used to struggle badly with severe anxiety and would throw your vids on and feel the worry slowly leave my chest and stomach. after being put on meds my anxiety got much better, but recently i’ve been struggling with it all again so i revisited your channel and was able to fall asleep within two videos! i don’t know what it is, but there’s something about your voice and your demeanor that bring me so much peace. 🤍
Wow Emmy!😲 That is one of my favorite comfort foods as a child. My mom would make that and add some hot pepper to give it some kick. Till this day, I would make it and it’s quick to make. Thanks for sharing this.😊
I would LOVE to see a “from scratch” version of this recipe, using dried beans. This is awesome, I can’t wait to make it. And I also LOVE that you grew your own onion, Emmy!! Eating food you grew (for free!) is the best feeling!
We have made this twice now and LOVE it!! Thank you Miss Emily for this delicious, easy, affordable meal-and thank you Ms. Emmy for sharing it with us.
We make something very similar here in Tennessee but we take the sausage you cut into rounds and then cut them into quarters so everything is small and roughly the same size. We do often used dried beans instead of canned.
My favorite poor meal was a single potatoe, an onion, some cabbage and whatever meat you’ve got usually pork being that my mother was making almost polish style food. She would sometimes serve it over egg noodles and call it “lazy pierogis” ugh so good some of my favorite memories and foods growing up were the “struggle” meals 🥰
I believe every culture has some variation of this dish. I’m from Brazil and we have feijoada. Which is a delicious black bean stew with lots of meats cooked inside. So good! 😋
I make something similar, but with baked beans and add spicy barbecue sauce to jazz it up. Super easy, fast and tasty. Great for potluck as well. With or without rice.
Your videos are great to watch. I started with your MRE reviews and haven't stopped since lol . A British classic poor man recipe using stale bread and fruit is " bread pudding". Keep up the great work 😃
We used to make something similar when I was a kid but it was with hotdogs. My mom also added mustard and brown sugar. If we had they she would also add tomatos
Good morning Emmy. That happens to be one of my absolute favorites - good old Poor Man's Meal, the ultimate comfort food. In fact, I think I'll make some tonight for supper. And what's more, it goes great with regular Coca Cola. TYFS and Happy Thursday. 😊😊
When I was young my Dad had to leave to go to an oil rig he would be about three hours away, so Mon - friday he was gone, and there was not much money, one meal my mom would fix was Campbell's baked beans and ground beef together, with some veggies from our tiny garden,
damn this looks good. same with my mom grew up on a farm and while they didnt have much money they ALWAYS had something to eat b/c the grew EVERYTHING and had smokehouse.
I make something similar, but I grate a carrot in it, and dice a green pepper and add whatever other veggies I may have on hand. I also try to use less sugary beans if possible. If you have any soup stock, it's even better than water to deglaze the pan.
Late to the party, but I just found Emmy's channel. If you really have to stretch this meal among several persons, cut the sausage slices into quarters. If you have some "mustgo" veggies in the fridge, like a tired celery stalk or carrot, you can chop it up really fine, and add it to the rice, or just chuck it into the beans. Either way, it will change it up just a bit.
This looks so yummy! I grew up watching Emmy even though I'm 23 right now haha and I still continue to watch and learn and grow. My mother is starting to love Emmy and I love the random bits she has at the end of the videos. 🤓 I hope you make a video on Cilbir or Turkish Eggs. Super simple, affordable, scrumptious, and goes way back to the 15th century I heard. It's amazing!! :)
When my son was little I made something similar , but instead of rice I made drop biscuits and dropped biscuit dough into the bean mixture then placed in the oven till the biscuits were done. The biscuits turn into a cross between a biscuit and a dumpling. This was my son's favorite once a month meal .
We have something similar in the Hispanic culture. Arroz y frijoles. I remember eating that as a child. Delicious and definitely keeps you full. I do make it for my family. I like it with charro beans. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Funny I was going to ask if you ever made a Brazilian Feijoada a couple of weeks ago, but never got to say it. If you're ever feeling like trying a feijoada you can serve it with white rice (cooked with onions and garlic, like they do in Brazil), Vinagrete and Farofa (make the farofa with cassava flour if you do, much superior to the corn flour version and much more common in Brazil). That's usually how they eat it (well, me too, but I don't live there anymore). Have a great Halloween! (damn, feijoada would be perfect for halloween if you felt like doing the exotic version, which is very uncomon nowadays, but tasty, they use things like pig's feet, tongue, ears etc, I usually only use salty pork loin or jerky beef and smoked sausages).
My grandma used to make something similar, but sometimes if she didn't have beans then she would add some cabbage or some leafy green that was in the garden. To help the grand-kids poop. lol
I had some friends from Nicaragua who used to make this; they called it "MQN" (mejor que nada), so now I make it and it's called "BTN" (better than nothing). 😁
My bf hates onions in anything and it makes it so difficult to make stuff it ends up having no flavor alot sometimes I sneak and use big pieces and take them out at the end for flavor or use onion powder a little bit and I tell him later like you didn't even notice! Lol
Being from south Carolina I knew immediately where this was goin 😁😍 had flashbacks of sitting on my grandmother floor with my cousins eating this for lunch. I love being gullah
Dear Emmy, I love your channel❤️ It's very inspiring! This meal is very similar to a meal that is often cooked in my country of origin (Suriname); Brown beans with rice. We only added chicken, pimento grains, a little bit of sugar (to taste) and garlic
