Expedient Soup (and Opportune Bread) - Using What I Have
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Published 2023-01-21
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All Comments (21)
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I call this Grandma cooking. Grandma could make unbelievable meals out of dust bunnies and wilted lettuce.
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I remember as a child my mother making “bone soup” from the butchers unwanted bits. A favourite then. She was 101 last week!!!
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I really love these type of videos. In a similar style to this, I think it would be really interesting to see a series where you use Too Good To Go bags from somewhere like Morrisons to make a meal from. In my experience they can vary from perfect meal ingredients to "10 candied apples, a pack of gingerbread cookies, and some celery" - it can be tricky to find a good way to use it all up! An interesting alternative to budget meals perhaps :)
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By the way.I have a suggestion for a challenge. Potato week. One week of meals, No strict money limit but your main ingredient of the week has to be the potato. I would love to see how far you could push it.
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The best soup my grandmother ever made was created upon returning home late from vacation, with whatever she found on hand. We fondly recall how much we liked it, all these decades later. It was never replicated, as there was no recipe nor intention to remember one. This is lovely, and so nostalgic. I think most people would order delivery, or eat a frozen dinner, or just snack. But to make a hearty meal, from scratch, using the senses of ingenuity and experience…really lovely.
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Since I don't pay for these videos, I think a thank you is in order. Thanks for providing me with hours of educational and entertaining content free of charge.
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I was ready to eat something garbage for lunch and then this video popped up. Now I sit at home, cutting vegetables for a throw-all-in-rice pan. Thanks for the motivation!
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When I heard the words " we'll just have to make a meal with what we've got in the house", my thoughts flew to " oh god, not Eva !!!"
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Every time I see you nonchallantly put together a loaf of bread it feels like I'm watching black magic.
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It’s fascinating how 1 man cooking his lunch can be so entertaining! Good job again Mr Shrimp👍
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It's not even my old house, and I feel a pang of nostalgia that the herbs are dwindling. ❤ Thanks for sharing how you have re-invented your dwelling space!
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Like how you mentioned about NOT skimming off the fat - natural fats are an important part of a regular diet (facilitates the absorption of some nutrients) plus it IS flavor. Soup looks great!
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We're so glad you were able to make stuff with stuff you had since you can't make stuff with stuff you don't have.
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My Polish aunt Kate used to call what you've made gozinta soup, because whatever is in the kitchen gozinta the soup!
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I really like how your videos have encouraged me to make up my own recipes and not worry so much about the directions!
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I like your cooking because you explain the process rather than just demonstrating it. It's so much more educational and allows someone to experiment or adapt to different ingredients and situations. Well done.
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I have been having a really crap week and then I get the notification that Atomic Shrimp has posted a video and all of a sudden things just get so much better. Great video.
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Scrounge cooking is something I grew up with being on the low end of poor, making something tasty out of whatever is on hand has always been something I find oddly fun. It's amazing what you can come up with using only a handful of odds and ends, a bit like your "dice directed cooking" video, it forces one to be creative. It's snowing here and I'll be throwing together a beef pot roast and veggies in the pressure cooker, perfect video to accompany my meal prep. Hope you, Jenny and Eva are warm and happy.
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Really love these videos, unlike a lot of other Youtubers your voice is actually calm and relaxing to listen to
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When my husband was getting more and more an alcoholic and was forgetting that me and our toddlers needed to eat, I had to make something the children could eat from a shriveled carrot, chicken boullion cubes, an egg, about a cup of flour and seasonings. In the middle of winter in a uninsulated house that was bitterly cold. I made them chicken noodle soup. The children remembered that soup for years later. They also remembered that house. They called it the rotten house.
