Bonjour guys 🙋🏾♂️ Awe I was almost in tears watching this! I literally came from absolutely nothing and for me to see myself and my son in this episode really made me emotional. I am so grateful for this opportunity 🥹🇨🇮 I always wanted to represent West African culture through- What an awesome amazing episode! Thanks PBS for allowing me and my family to share some of my African roots with y’all! Feel free to give me a follow as well 😇 Love, Gbelay!
I nearly cried too! I love both jollof rice and kimchi fried rice--I've lived in French-immersion educational settings for many years with wonderful folks from Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Mali, Togo, Burkina Faso, eating recipes they got from their parents and grandparents, and I lived for over a year in Korea getting fed by Korean moms until my eyeballs popped out. I could practically smell this video--the unmistakable tang of hot kimchi, the mouthwatering promise of fresh-pureed ginger and peppers. In Korea, I learned that Rice Is Love. It seems the same is true in Cote d'Ivoire, and all the places around the world where families have taken these rich culinary traditions. Thanks for sharing with us.
When I was living in Korea and my birthday was coming up, my housemates asked me my favorite food. Mashed potatoes, I said. With gravy. They asked me to explain these foreign dishes--they followed along just fine on the mashed potatoes, but I totally lost them on the gravy. So they went to consult with some of the American guys who were working with us. We want to make her mashed potatoes and gravy for her birthday, they said, but we don't have a clue what gravy is or how to make it. Oh, said the guys, it's easy, you can make it from instant powder in a packet. We'll bring you some from the Army base. Alas, they got the timing wrong. It had never crossed their minds that these women wanted to serve mashed potatoes for my birthday BREAKFAST. When I woke up on the morning of my birthday, I was treated to a simply glorious breakfast: pancakes, bacon, asian pear, mashed potatoes, and a can of chicken noodle soup from the back of a cupboard in lieu of gravy. I've never felt so loved in all my life. (And I had a good laugh several hours later when we met up with the guys, who triumphantly presented their gravy packets, only to get whacked with them by my housemates: WE *whack* NEEDED *whack* THOSE *whack* YESTERDAY!!!)
I was introduced to Jollof rice when I was working in DC with a lot of Nigerian nurses. I fell in love with it, and when my travel contract was coming to an end, they asked me what I wanted for my last day and that’s what I asked for. Their presentation had whole pieces of chicken in it.
It's gives a Brightness that when it's missing you can tell. It's almost citrusy and herby a mellower lemon grass like flavor if you will. The more leaves you use the more you can taste it. If you steep it in hot water like a tea, just enough to cover a leaf or 2 and let it sit for a minute or even simmer it for awhile you can then actually taste the flavor of bay leaf, wouldn't recommend it as a tea drink, but you can actually get the bay leaf flavor.
@@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames soz, spam is just luncheon meat and there's tons of different brands that make it with halal poultry available in the middle east :) i.e robert luncheon meat
As a Korean, I love jollof rice but it's hard to find where I currently live so I've looked up the recipe before. In the end I found it too intimidating to go through with it, but if it's as easy as they say in this video I will give it a shot. Oh, and kimchi fried rice is definitely a quick easy meal if you already have leftover rice and kimchi, which is often the case for many Korean households. Frying the kimchi is definitely a good way to go when it has gone a bit too sour to eat as is, and it can also be used as a stew ingredient to make kimchi jjigae.
Loved the episode. Watching both fathers cooking and instructing their children is an act of love, which the kids might forget as they turn teenage but in the adult years, they will savor the memory of their dad's cooking their favorite dishes. Most grow up with their mom's cooking, but when their dad cooks, it is special. It was interesting that Christopher's dad being Hawaiian introduced him to Kim Chee. In Hawaii, the blending of so many ethnic heritages have foods being shared by many, with fusions dishes of all. One day, maybe Christopher and Steve will have a fusion blended dish combining, West African, Korean and Hawaiian cuisine.
I love his comment on not changing the dish to make it more korean. i think blending cultures is great but I also think it's important to teach kids about foods from other cultures as they are and how to appreciate them as they are as well as how they can adjust the foods as well.
Christopher!!! So great to see you again, from our first days on The Great American Recipe S3 in Nashville!! Love seeing your version of Jollof Rice! 🙌
In Pakistan the #1 favorite food of all kids is Shami Kababs! It's a kabab/meat patty made with a mixture of cooked shredded beef, lentils, oats/grains, and spices. It's a favorite for parents because you can make a big batch of them and it stretches out meat, packs in a variety of proteins, and fry them, make sandwiches, eat with roti or paratha, or make a 'bun kabab' classic burger! Every house with kids has a stockpile of them in the freezer :)
I think many would be surprised at how the West African & Southeast Asian food kinds converge considerably in flavors & textures as well as prep ways (such as shito & sambal belacan being used similarly along with seafood based cooking stuff & condiments with similar functions, along with peanut/groundnut stuff & garden egg/brinjal/eggplant plus peppercorn kinds with rice or cassava as edible utensils, to name but a few). Ivorian food & culture has more in common with Moroccan stuff than one might at first think (a little like Moroccan with Southeast Asian such as Thai twists, using this reference point to give others an idea of what to expect), such as kedjenou is essentially the Ivorian version of tagine in both the technique & cookware & attieke is basically couscous made from manioc/yuca/cassava, to name but a few overlaps.
I came across this series today with this episode. To be honest, it brought tears to my eyes. There is so much strife in the world now, that watching people with backgrounds from different countries swap recipes and say, effectively, 'Hi, this is some of the food I grew up with. I hope you like it.', is so powerful. Thank you!
My favorite food growing up and to this day is baleadas. A Honduran dish made of fresh flour tortillas with fried beans sour cream and dry or fresh cheese. However you can add whatever you want inside along with the beans
My favorite dish as a kid was chicken dumplings. I would get so excited when Mom fried chicken because I knew the next day she would take the uncooked leftover bits of the chicken and make dumplings. Yum!
I did not grow up with jollof rice, but I found it makes a great base for hoppin John. Even my grandmother, who has firm ideas of what makes proper southern food, enjoyed it.
My favorite dish when i was a kid was "stew and fufu" (egusi soup and pounded yam). It was a special food only my dad would make and loved eating with my hands. Still one of my all time favorite foods! Definitely my favorite Nigerian soup
Jallof rice with roast chicken...yum. I miss my work trips to ghana and cote d'ivoir. Don't change the recipe. Though I've had it with peas as well as the onions n carrots
A+ episode!!! I love this series, and this episode was the BEST. Both dads are hilarious. Featuring recipes kids would like and help with was genius, especially at back-to-school time. Seeing the kids was fun. Super well done. (P.S. Second episode with these specific families please!!! Follow up! Pen pals keep in touch right? Pen pals don’t just write one letter and then stop. Keep this awesome connection going, PAN Pals!)
I loved this. Since I don't have any kids, I've always wondered what kids around the world like to eat? My favorite dish as a kid was spaghetti w/ mushroom marinara sauce and it still is my favorite. I'm not sure why, but I've never really liked it w/ meat in the sauce.
My favorite food as a child, in Australia, was a roasted leg of lamb, with roasted potatoes and veggies (like onion, carrot, parsnips, sweet potatoes and so on). To this day, nothing can beat that.
I always loved beef stew even as a kid. Pizza is good, spaghetti is fantastic. I also loved chipped beef. My grandma used make it on cold Wisconsin winter days. That and a hot cocoa is perfection.
Go Queen Beryl! I love your watching videos so much and how infectious your joy is to everyone around you. My husband laughs at me because I watch your videos while I’m already cooking and eating 😂 I just tell him I’m planning for the next meal
favorite food as a kid was "pate chinois"' the french canadian version of sheppard pie, where the vegetables and brown gravy is switched to niblets corn and creamed corn and usually made with ground beef
number 1 favorite food when I was a kid has to be jjajangmyun.. Korean black bean noodles (basically the quintessential Korean Chinese food), along with its must-have accompaniment tangsooyook -- Korea's take on sweet and sour pork. Its still one of my absolute favorites to this day; if only I could find a place that makes it like the one in my memories.
My favorite dishes as a kid visiting my grandparents was either cornbread and milk, or chicken and dumplings. They lived and had a farm in Kentucky and both seem like delicacies when I get them where they are done right.
Frying kimchi before adding it to a recipe is something that I wish I learned about long, long ago. I always thought it was a condiment or a side. Then I found out about recipes with it and was intrigued, but after I fried it in the fried rice recipe it really popped as an ingredient for me. Sometimes I fry it, pop it in the fridge to cool and still use it as a condiment but with different things.
My favorite food as a kid is hard to say as my mom and grandma were great cooks. I think I remember requesting for my birthday meal many times is simple but so good. It was broiled thin cut pork chops, mashed potatoes with gravy and le’seur tiny peas 😂. It was so delicious and my mom seasoned everything to perfection. ❤
Mine was Bo Luc Lac- stir fried beef tips with tomato covered macaroni. Vietnamese dish my mom made that was simple, but when done right- you could eat it everyday.
My favorite dish was my grandmother's mac & cheese. It was stovetop and used rigattoni pasta, and was very liquidy. Loved-loved it. Sad I never figured out the ratio of ingredients she used, as it had some surprised stuff in it.
A part of my favorite food/meal growing up might have a cringe factor for some. Pork Chops, grilled or fried in a pan (no coating, just pork). Then Apple Sauce on the side. Pork and Apple Sauce is more-or-less a classic combination in many areas. Then, Lima Beans! Yes, Lima Beans. From the can, drain the water, simmer in butter to temp and then serve. Add salt to taste at the table. Don't judge, please. I like Lima Beans.
I was a strange kid, I liked bitter (most children do not), so I loved brussle sprouts, still do but since I was the only child who liked them, it was more for me :) If someone judges you for liking lima beans, shrug and say yuck my yum all you want, more for me!
Oh my goodness! I would love to make each recipe! Love rice, I would change up the amount of salt in recipes; as I have to be very careful of salt content. Love this channel. But I also love you making recipes!!
Both look so delicious! I've made kimchi fried rice before but never jollof rice (although I have tried it from restaurants) but I'm imspired to try making it myself!
