RECIPES: SPANISH TORTILLA 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil 4 medium red potatoes, thinly sliced 1 large yellow onion, halved, thinly sliced 2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided 1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper, divided 8 eggs 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped parsley 12 slices prosciutto 1. In a nonstick skillet on medium heat, add oil, potatoes, onions, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Cook potatoes just until tender, do not let them break. 2. In a large bowl, whisk eggs, parsley, remaining salt and pepper. Remove potatoes from skillet into egg mixture and gently toss. Pour mixture back into skillet. 3. With a rubber spatula pull the eggs away from the sides of the pan, moving the egg mixture around. Let cook for 5 to 7 minutes on medium heat, then flip tortilla over to cook underside. Push sides of tortilla into itself, this will lift the tortilla slightly. Cook for another 5 minutes on low heat. 4. Slide onto cutting board. Top with prosciutto. Cut into 6 pieces. Serve immediately. POTATO & LEEK SOUP WITH BACON 1/2 pound bacon, cut into 1/2-inch strips 4 large leeks, white and light green parts only, fine diced and soaked in water 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces 3 sprigs fresh thyme 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 cup water 6 cups chicken stock Crispy toast: 1/2 baguette 4 packets (4 tablespoons) butter 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese Pepper 1. In a stock pot on medium heat, saute bacon until crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon to a towel-lined plate. 2. To the bacon fat, add the leeks. Saute until soft and wilted, about 8 to 10 minutes. Stir in garlic and saute for 30 seconds. Add the potatoes, thyme, salt, pepper, water and stock. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, until the potatoes are soft. 3. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. 4. Thinly slice baguette. Lay bread in a single layer on sheet tray. Drizzle with melted butter. Sprinkle with cheese and pepper. Toast in oven for 3 to 5 minutes, until crispy. Remove and let cool. 5. To serve soup, ladle into a bowl. Top with crispy bacon, black pepper and toast. POTATO PANCAKES WITH APPLE ONION COMPOTE 2 large russet potatoes (1 1/2 pounds), peeled 1 carrot 1 small yellow onion 1 large egg 2 tablespoons chopped chives 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 3 to 5 tablespoons canola oil Compote: 3 large apples, peeled, cored and cubed in 1/4-inch dice 1 small white onion, cubed in 1/4-inch dice 3 sprigs thyme 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/3 cup sour cream, to serve Salad: Zest and juice of 1/2 lemon 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1 packet (1 teaspoon) honey 4 cups arugula 2 green onions, chopped 1. Grate potatoes, carrot and onion on a box grater. Place in a clean kitchen towel and squeeze any excess liquid. Add to a large bowl, along with chives, salt, pepper, eggs and flour. Stir together until fully combined. 2. In a large cast-iron skillet over medium heat, add oil. Scoop about 1/4 cup of potato mixture onto hot oil and slightly flatten. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes on each side. Keep warm in a low oven until ready to serve. 3. In another cast-iron on medium heat, add butter, onions and salt. Saute until onion are soft, about 5 minutes. Add apples, thyme, salt, pepper and cinnamon. Saute until apples are cooked, about 5 minutes. 4. In a large bowl, add the zest and juice of 1/2 lemon, Dijon, olive oil, salt, pepper and honey. Add arugula and green onion, toss until coated with dressing. 5. To serve, top potato pancakes with compote and sour cream, and serve salad on the side.
lol, i was watching this eating tortilla de patatas and it brought back memories of all the times i made a mess. whatever you do don't flip it over the stove, like he did. practice makes perfect, but edible mistakes are good too.
@@Gee-xb7rt making mistakes when preparing food is so much better than making normal mistakes because you can just eat your mistakes. Happens to my first 1-2 pancakes every time 😌🤤
Have watched all Frankie’s shows over the years. No matter what he’s teaching, he makes it accessible and presents it all with such great attitude! Love him!
Hate to say it Frankie~but ditch any future plans to do other things~you MUST do these until you're old and gray or I'm dead (I'm 63,so it's no threat really.) Whichever comes first! I cook every dish and only one or two have needed a "bit" of enrichment to suit our tastes. Do you know how unusual that is? Out of dozens of recipes we've Loved. Them. All! The curry dishes? O. M. G! To lie down and die for! So yes~you simply are not allowed not to do these Struggle Meals. Thank you. From a fifty year really good cook (I'm not shy. I'm a great cook. My mum was a "professional cook". She refused to be called Chef but she really, really was. I learned at her elbow from the age of 4) Still miss her cooking. Jenn 💖 in Canada 🍁
Frankie is a total package. A man who can cook and make you laugh at the same time? That's a catch right there, his wife is truly lucky. I am pretty jealous 😂😂😂
When I was a little boy we had about a year before my Fathers's construction company took off and good times returned to Our Family. Twice a week we ate potato sandwiches. Easy meal cutting Potato's into slightly thick chips and frying. Salt and pepper and placed between 2 slices of bread. I am in my 50's will eat this 2 times a month as a reminder of my childhood. My grand Children love potato sandwiches as did my Children.
❤ the condiment packet drawer!! Got a collection for lunch bag-salad dressings, jelly, bbq sauce, mayo, mustard, ketchup, salt, pepper, mrs dash, etc. And very entertaining!!
I flip the Tortilla by sliding it onto the plate then flipping it into the pan... that way, you can use the plate to eat on. Until this video, I totally thought I was cheating. Also, totally delicious. Everyone should try it.
At first I thought you were going to make a galette, but when there was no cheese I knew you were thinking tortilla! I loved how in Spain they had tortilla shops like pizza joints with your choice of add ons like chorizo or Manchego cheese. I liked it best with just the onion. We would go to class with a slab of it inside a baguette 🥖 as a sandwich. So simple and dreamy!
I'm grateful for your ideas. Food is expensive, and I'm doing my best to continue to share food with those living on the streets. I hope mind come out well. Thanks again.
O.m.f.g. these recipes sound SO FRIGGIN GOOD!!😍😍 I CANT WAIT til I finally get money to go to the grocery store so I can make these goodies for my hubby and kiddos! They'll LOVE it!
1:02 -- FUN FACT: This myth was spread by the Brits during WWII to hide their advancement in radar. This myth was used to explain why their pilots and artillery was so good at attacking the German planes at night.
This is partially true. The beta-carotene that makes carrots/squash etc orange, helps you to absorb Vit A which is essential for vision. Whether that was a fact discovered after WWII, or was intentional during WWII I'm not sure. Here's the link. yoursightmatters.com/carrots-really-improve-eyesight/
This might have been more about the general public in Britain. After all it's not like Germany had good access to british media at the time - and whatever they had access to they'd assume to be doctored to support the british war effort. During the war carrots were one of the foods that was so plentyful they never had to be rationed. Making it fashionable to eat them by turning them into a hero's food would have helped with morale because the more people fill their stomach with carrots, the less obvious shortages with the supply of other foods would appear.
@@MrAranton (apologies in advance for length) Thank you for this. I'm old enough that my father was a WWII vet. Husband's father too. One in the Royal Navy, (my dad), his dad was in the Royal Air Force in England. Neither talked much of what they went through, but both were haunted. My dad became an alcoholic. As did my mum's 5 brothers, my uncles, who served. We are simply incapable of understanding what the world went through during that war. I believe it was the last "principled" war we had. There was a definite "evil" they were trying to vanquish. My mother in law travelled to England to be with my FIL. In 1943, pretty much the height of the war, she and my SIL, who was an infant, crossed the Atlantic to be with him because she was sure without her there~he'd be killed. One of the ships in that convoy was sunk by a torpedo. Imagine! She spoke of the rationing, literally 1K (or less) of meat/week and it was usually offal (innard meat from cows, sheep etc) for a family of 6 adults. The bread they knew had sawdust in it, the veggies (if they could get them) that were next to useless. If you were caught with even a small chicken that wasn't part of your ration, you could be jailed. ALL of the best food went to the soldiers. My FIL was a firefighter on the base outside of London (can't remember the name)~he got to peel the dead from their planes. My dad was on the corvette escort boats that were the "armed guards" for supply convoys. His boat was destroyed once~they survived only because they were picked up immediately. This was close to the N. Atlantic Sea. It was a time we cannot fathom, especially given it started during the last throws of the depression! This is what we should not forget. It's the innocent who suffer most during war.
@@rhijulbec1 WW2 rationing in Britain needs to be put in perspective. Don't get me wrong: I'm glad I don't have to put up with it, but it should be acknowledged: The British goverment did actually a quite decent job at keeping the population fed. They put a lot of effort into designing a ration system that would get people as healthy and fit as possible - and they succeeded; there were few periods during which the people in Britain had as healthy diets or were as physically fit as during WW2. The problem was not that there wasn't enough food to go around. People weren't starving, they just hated the food they had. Which - compared to actually being unable to get calories they need - is a mere inconvenience and does not qualify as suffering. The issue was that the rationing took away choice and forced people out of their comfort zones. Just like today the most healthy option is usually also the most unpopular one. And people tend to say nasty things about foods they hate. But those aren't necessarily true. That the National loaf contained sawdust is an example of that - at least as long as the individual loaf in question was made according to government regulations. But it was a dense, wholemeal bread forced on a population in love with fluffy white bread. The flour for modern wholemeal bread is milled several times to break the bran down to the same size as the rest of the flour; but during WW2 that wasn't done and the bran - being harder than the other parts of the grain - remained larger and could be felt as gritty bits in the bread. If people who are not used to wholemeal bread and hate it on principle are told those gritty bits are sawdust the government put there to skimp on wheat, they'd believe that - even if it's not true.
@@MrAranton Wonderful perspective. A couple things I'd like to point out though. My MIL-FIL did, of course, qualify that they were not hungry per say~but caloric intake was a set thing and that's all you got. Infants/children/tenns/adults were all given a caloric number. So, if you were a five foot tall/thin man or a six foot two/heavier man~you still got the same rations as a male adult. Because my FIL was a big man 6'2, very muscular and fit, he said there were a lot of times he was still going hungry because of what was his ration. As did many. It was a survival diet. Now~as for the bread. I'm sorry but I have to disagree. My FIL was a cockney, raised in "not the best area in London", his words. He certainly didn't grow up eating "fluffy white bread". He was born in the mid-teens of the 20th cent. He didn't have an easy life. At all. And he said, very frequently, he went hungry as a child. What they ate then, was years apart from the WWII era rations. And fluffy white bread, at that time, was a luxury food, not available to the vast majority of citizens. Now to explain the "sawdust". One of the ingredients in wartime bread was "cellulose". Now cellulose was and still is actually, from trees and it's used in hundreds of foods today. Although not sawdust exactly, they still interpreted it as such due to its origins. In theory, you're correct. There was no shortage of food. But rationing was, in no way, a "good" diet. People who didn't cheat/buy black market goods did find it hard to feed everyone in the family with allowed rations and, yes, people did go hungry, though perhaps not totally nutritionally comprimised. Jenn
The Robin Williams of cooking! (No disrespect meant). You are funny and bring laughter and hope! Thank you for your channel. You really are a blessing. Do you have a cookbook yet?
I never thought I'd be watching a cooking video and laugh at the same time.😂 The recipes are great. I love the potato pancake! Crispy then with apple sauce and salad nom nom nom😋
Seriously going to make those potato 🥔 pancakes! Also you can wrap some aluminum foil around the handle of that pan and stick it in the oven as long as the heat isn’t too high! 😃 Have done it lots of times with no problems or handle melting.
Hi there. I just found you while searching for cheap meals. I'm neither a chef nor a novice cook. I loved your recipes here and infectious sense of humor (you're a great performer and I bet you've got a ton of friends!). My only criticism is that some of the recipes have ingredients that aren't terribly cheap (thyme, prosciutto) and this would've been stronger if you would've organized the meals in fashion to show how all the potato recipes could use up the same ingredients (apples, thyme, baguette, sour cream, proscuitto). Lots of people might have these around or on hand, but if they're on a shoestring budget, it would help to show how to use them all up without the chance of any waste if one were about to embark on the potato diet (and I know I am) and shell out the clams for the pricier items. Most importantly, thank you -- I'm a new subscriber and looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Cheers!
P.S. Leek and potato soup is one of the easiest, cheapest meals with high payoff for what you get -- thank you for featuring it (it's one of my faves).
Which looks best? Well, for me it would be the potato pancakes. Not like i grew up eating, but the browned bits on these are calling to me. Well done again. Your Struggle Meals are serving a need in today's world!!
Love this series! Could you consider using cloth towels instead of paper ones? More environmentally friendly AND cheaper... :) PS I *love* it when you speak Italian. More please!
These all look tasty! I made Frankie's struggle ceaser dressing last week, and it's amazing!!! I love it and was so surprised it emulated the actual dressing so well!
“You can see the middle is still raw, and this is where the Italians with their famous frittata stick the whole thing in the oven.” That’s SO NOT TRUE: we flip the frittata in the exact same way you showed here! No oven. Recipes are fun and helpful, but half of the times, the comments on Italian style of cooking and habits are very wrong, I’m sorry
Watching S5 E10 on potatoes and when I was in 6th grade(*whispers* back in the 80s) I had the best baked potato. It came out wrapped in brown paper and looked like it had course salt speckled on the outside but it tasted a little sweet, like they had soaked the potato in sugar was first. To this day, it is still the best baked potato I have ever had. Wondering if they poked holes and soaked it in sugar water. Would really like to recreate them. 😋🥰
You are a great chef...and funny!! Add good looking.... . What more could you ask for?? From New subscriber Debbie and Dexter-Dog her rescued chihuahua in S. California!!👩🐾😁👍
I have a fridge drawer kind of like your kitchen drawer but I like to keep butter and other items cold. I'm afraid the items might spoil or melt. Honey doesn't need to be in the fridge but I just keep everything in separate plastic bags in a neat fashion in the bottom drawer. I always get extra of some things even things I don't use that often when I get fast foods. That way I don't have to buy a huge bottle of something I rarely use.
RECIPES:
SPANISH TORTILLA
1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
4 medium red potatoes, thinly sliced
1 large yellow onion, halved, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided
1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper, divided
8 eggs
2 tablespoons coarsely chopped parsley
12 slices prosciutto
1. In a nonstick skillet on medium heat, add oil, potatoes, onions, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Cook potatoes just until tender, do not let them break.
2. In a large bowl, whisk eggs, parsley, remaining salt and pepper. Remove potatoes from skillet into egg mixture and gently toss. Pour mixture back into skillet.
3. With a rubber spatula pull the eggs away from the sides of the pan, moving the egg mixture around. Let cook for 5 to 7 minutes on medium heat, then flip tortilla over to cook underside. Push sides of tortilla into itself, this will lift the tortilla slightly. Cook for another 5 minutes on low heat.
4. Slide onto cutting board. Top with prosciutto. Cut into 6 pieces. Serve immediately.
POTATO & LEEK SOUP WITH BACON
1/2 pound bacon, cut into 1/2-inch strips
4 large leeks, white and light green parts only, fine diced and soaked in water
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
3 sprigs fresh thyme
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 cup water
6 cups chicken stock
Crispy toast:
1/2 baguette
4 packets (4 tablespoons) butter
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
Pepper
1. In a stock pot on medium heat, saute bacon until crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon to a towel-lined plate.
2. To the bacon fat, add the leeks. Saute until soft and wilted, about 8 to 10 minutes. Stir in garlic and saute for 30 seconds. Add the potatoes, thyme, salt, pepper, water and stock. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, until the potatoes are soft.
3. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
4. Thinly slice baguette. Lay bread in a single layer on sheet tray. Drizzle with melted butter. Sprinkle with cheese and pepper. Toast in oven for 3 to 5 minutes, until crispy. Remove and let cool.
5. To serve soup, ladle into a bowl. Top with crispy bacon, black pepper and toast.
POTATO PANCAKES WITH APPLE ONION COMPOTE
2 large russet potatoes (1 1/2 pounds), peeled
1 carrot
1 small yellow onion
1 large egg
2 tablespoons chopped chives
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
3 to 5 tablespoons canola oil
Compote:
3 large apples, peeled, cored and cubed in 1/4-inch dice
1 small white onion, cubed in 1/4-inch dice
3 sprigs thyme
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup sour cream, to serve
Salad:
Zest and juice of 1/2 lemon
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 packet (1 teaspoon) honey
4 cups arugula
2 green onions, chopped
1. Grate potatoes, carrot and onion on a box grater. Place in a clean kitchen towel and squeeze any excess liquid. Add to a large bowl, along with chives, salt, pepper, eggs and flour. Stir together until fully combined.
2. In a large cast-iron skillet over medium heat, add oil. Scoop about 1/4 cup of potato mixture onto hot oil and slightly flatten. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes on each side. Keep warm in a low oven until ready to serve.
3. In another cast-iron on medium heat, add butter, onions and salt. Saute until onion are soft, about 5 minutes. Add apples, thyme, salt, pepper and cinnamon. Saute until apples are cooked, about 5 minutes.
4. In a large bowl, add the zest and juice of 1/2 lemon, Dijon, olive oil, salt, pepper and honey. Add arugula and green onion, toss until coated with dressing.
5. To serve, top potato pancakes with compote and sour cream, and serve salad on the side.
Thankyou!
Omg hi
Potatos, cute guy, recipes from said guy...😍
Do you have a website you can upload these to?
Tastemade more Frankie, Julie and Jen please
I really wish this series had its own channel. I don't watch any of the other videos and they kind of clutter up my subscriptions section. 🤷♀️
agreed
Frankie Celenza has his own channel called Frankie Cooks, it's so good!
@@AaronsMusic1000 Thank you! This may solve my problem. I appreciate the info! 🙂
Agreed, I unsubscribed recently because not a single one of the other videos was of interest.
I wish so as well.
I love how Frankie also shows that he sometimes messes up too 👍
Skedda it’s true. I do
lol, i was watching this eating tortilla de patatas and it brought back memories of all the times i made a mess. whatever you do don't flip it over the stove, like he did. practice makes perfect, but edible mistakes are good too.
@@Gee-xb7rt making mistakes when preparing food is so much better than making normal mistakes because you can just eat your mistakes. Happens to my first 1-2 pancakes every time 😌🤤
@@derSkedda
Mistakes lead to new recipes..lol
Po-ta-toes! Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.
Where is this from? Its gonna bother me so much! I know this quote so well.
@@AspienPadda Silly hobbitses! She doesn't knows where's'it's from, Precious! Gollum, Gollum!
Oh yea @@johnthebull duh. I do feel like an idiot now... though I haven't watched the movies, only seen the meme so I suppose I could be excused.
Still pretty sad that it wasn’t written by dr. Suess
Dr Thunder Star bullied sneetches
Leeches
Parasites or blood letting?
Not ur job
this show is slowly becoming more about the memes
and I love it
I'm down with that love
Frankie seems in a silly, exhausted mood. Entertaining.
STRUGGLE MEALS needs it's OWN CHANNEL, and I'd love to see it DAILY. Really I like Frankie and his meals that much.
Making potatoes right now! I'm Irish, never met a potato I didn't like 🥔🥔🥔
Dana S Well Miss. Well put! Hahaha. I’m only 40% Irish and I haven’t met a potato I didn’t like either!!
Struggle tip: You can get flour sack tea towels for about $1 a piece online or most big Mart stores. Super handy in the kitchen and reusable.
That “Wellness Fuel” would be good in a veggie soup or homemade pasta sauce probably.
Like the soup he made next
And it's only $45
I'm 56 years old and I love this guy! I play him in the background when I'm in the kitchen just to hear his immature jokes lol
Search struggle meals...his new youtube channel ✌✌✌
Frankie was born to cook - the dude has passion for it. Great episode
Love his enthusiasm always. We need more Frankie
I just discovered him yesterday. So fun!
Search struggle meals...his new youtube channel😊😊😊
Have watched all Frankie’s shows over the years. No matter what he’s teaching, he makes it accessible and presents it all with such great attitude! Love him!
Hate to say it Frankie~but ditch any future plans to do other things~you MUST do these until you're old and gray or I'm dead (I'm 63,so it's no threat really.) Whichever comes first! I cook every dish and only one or two have needed a "bit" of enrichment to suit our tastes. Do you know how unusual that is? Out of dozens of recipes we've Loved. Them. All!
The curry dishes? O. M. G! To lie down and die for!
So yes~you simply are not allowed not to do these Struggle Meals. Thank you.
From a fifty year really good cook (I'm not shy. I'm a great cook. My mum was a "professional cook". She refused to be called Chef but she really, really was. I learned at her elbow from the age of 4) Still miss her cooking.
Jenn 💖 in Canada 🍁
@@FrankieCooks
Awwwww-bless your little struggle meal heart. You are just a sweetheart.
Frankie is a total package. A man who can cook and make you laugh at the same time? That's a catch right there, his wife is truly lucky. I am pretty jealous 😂😂😂
My husband knows if Frankie’s on, he’d have to be set afire for me to notice much anything else.
W.E.R.K. I'm hip with the kids 🙃
Werken
What is w.e.r.k?
Can you do a series of international episodes, where Frankie does struggle meals in different countries using the local currency in the local market?
Cheryl Dawson 😗🤞
OHHH
Oh... before covid... nostalgia
Potato pancakes were my favorite food growing up! So good with Apple sauce!
When I was a little boy we had about a year before my Fathers's construction company took off and good times returned to Our Family. Twice a week we ate potato sandwiches. Easy meal cutting Potato's into slightly thick chips and frying. Salt and pepper and placed between 2 slices of bread. I am in my 50's will eat this 2 times a month as a reminder of my childhood. My grand Children love potato sandwiches as did my Children.
Hands down the best star on you tube. Frankie is hysterical!!!! Thank you for the ideas for feeding the kids. Keep up the good work.
❤ the condiment packet drawer!! Got a collection for lunch bag-salad dressings, jelly, bbq sauce, mayo, mustard, ketchup, salt, pepper, mrs dash, etc.
And very entertaining!!
Love the packet drawer! I have one too :) My kids tease me for it, but many a meal has been saved by that drawer lol
Fun, affordable and delicious...what else can you ask for? Thank you!
Awesome recipes Frankie. There could easily a be a part two to this video!!!
Nooo, did you stop making this? I love Struggle Meals, I relate to the show so much.
Search struggle meals...his new youtube channel😂😂😂
I stayed home sick today. Watching this made me feel better. Thank you, Frankie
rosablackwell64 feel better!
Haven't laughed in a while and it all came out watching you !
Well done Bro
Loved this episode especially- chuckling the whole time and bonus! We got tasty potato forms!
I flip the Tortilla by sliding it onto the plate then flipping it into the pan... that way, you can use the plate to eat on.
Until this video, I totally thought I was cheating.
Also, totally delicious. Everyone should try it.
i use a plate and do it the way he did it, but sailing it through the air looks dangerous. a slightly smaller pan makes it a lot easier.
Loved the animated delivery of these recipes! Loved the recipes, too!
At first I thought you were going to make a galette, but when there was no cheese I knew you were thinking tortilla! I loved how in Spain they had tortilla shops like pizza joints with your choice of add ons like chorizo or Manchego cheese. I liked it best with just the onion. We would go to class with a slab of it inside a baguette 🥖 as a sandwich. So simple and dreamy!
Me: replays the not so perfect flip with the bleep! Hahaha! Bravo 👏🏼. Great job on the potato 🥔 trios Frankie!
Love your crazy food talk. I’m inspired. Thanks for making food fun, easy, cheap, flavorful and nutritious..
💐
I think Frankie is going more and more insane with every video.
Yes, he is..
you act like he was ever sane to begin with
Fortunately we accept him for who he is no judgement.
This is honestly one of the funniest ones I’ve seen. Love these recipes, keep em coming and we’ll keep making em!
Checkout his new youtube channel...struggle meal✌✌✌
I absolutely love your videos, Frankie. What I love about this one is you prepared a potato three different ways culturally. Fantastic brother!
ok.. so I'm binge watching and now loving Frankies recipes xx
Just found your channel and I really love how everyone can afford these meals. Thank you!
I LOVE THIS MAN. I LOVE THIS SERIES. I watch on Snapchat but these are great. Please keep it around. Frankie you da homie!!!!
Omg I’m a foodie, how have I just now found you?!?! So funny and my style... yum
Thanks, new subbie 😊👍
I'm grateful for your ideas. Food is expensive, and I'm doing my best to continue to share food with those living on the streets. I hope mind come out well. Thanks again.
Hahaha!!! I laughed so hard watching this video. Where have you been hiding? Make more videos please. Your enthusiasm is contagious.
Love your little side salads! Thank you, they are delicious.
The meals all looked nice and affordable i had forgotten about the last meal i used to make similar thing years ago thank you
O.m.f.g. these recipes sound SO FRIGGIN GOOD!!😍😍
I CANT WAIT til I finally get money to go to the grocery store so I can make these goodies for my hubby and kiddos! They'll LOVE it!
1:02 -- FUN FACT: This myth was spread by the Brits during WWII to hide their advancement in radar. This myth was used to explain why their pilots and artillery was so good at attacking the German planes at night.
This is partially true. The beta-carotene that makes carrots/squash etc orange, helps you to absorb Vit A which is essential for vision. Whether that was a fact discovered after WWII, or was intentional during WWII I'm not sure. Here's the link.
yoursightmatters.com/carrots-really-improve-eyesight/
This might have been more about the general public in Britain. After all it's not like Germany had good access to british media at the time - and whatever they had access to they'd assume to be doctored to support the british war effort.
During the war carrots were one of the foods that was so plentyful they never had to be rationed. Making it fashionable to eat them by turning them into a hero's food would have helped with morale because the more people fill their stomach with carrots, the less obvious shortages with the supply of other foods would appear.
@@MrAranton
(apologies in advance for length)
Thank you for this. I'm old enough that my father was a WWII vet. Husband's father too. One in the Royal Navy, (my dad), his dad was in the Royal Air Force in England.
Neither talked much of what they went through, but both were haunted. My dad became an alcoholic. As did my mum's 5 brothers, my uncles, who served.
We are simply incapable of understanding what the world went through during that war. I believe it was the last "principled" war we had. There was a definite "evil" they were trying to vanquish.
My mother in law travelled to England to be with my FIL. In 1943, pretty much the height of the war, she and my SIL, who was an infant, crossed the Atlantic to be with him because she was sure without her there~he'd be killed. One of the ships in that convoy was sunk by a torpedo. Imagine!
She spoke of the rationing, literally 1K (or less) of meat/week and it was usually offal (innard meat from cows, sheep etc) for a family of 6 adults. The bread they knew had sawdust in it, the veggies (if they could get them) that were next to useless. If you were caught with even a small chicken that wasn't part of your ration, you could be jailed. ALL of the best food went to the soldiers. My FIL was a firefighter on the base outside of London (can't remember the name)~he got to peel the dead from their planes. My dad was on the corvette escort boats that were the "armed guards" for supply convoys. His boat was destroyed once~they survived only because they were picked up immediately. This was close to the N. Atlantic Sea.
It was a time we cannot fathom, especially given it started during the last throws of the depression!
This is what we should not forget. It's the innocent who suffer most during war.
@@rhijulbec1 WW2 rationing in Britain needs to be put in perspective. Don't get me wrong: I'm glad I don't have to put up with it, but it should be acknowledged: The British goverment did actually a quite decent job at keeping the population fed. They put a lot of effort into designing a ration system that would get people as healthy and fit as possible - and they succeeded; there were few periods during which the people in Britain had as healthy diets or were as physically fit as during WW2.
The problem was not that there wasn't enough food to go around. People weren't starving, they just hated the food they had. Which - compared to actually being unable to get calories they need - is a mere inconvenience and does not qualify as suffering. The issue was that the rationing took away choice and forced people out of their comfort zones. Just like today the most healthy option is usually also the most unpopular one. And people tend to say nasty things about foods they hate. But those aren't necessarily true. That the National loaf contained sawdust is an example of that - at least as long as the individual loaf in question was made according to government regulations. But it was a dense, wholemeal bread forced on a population in love with fluffy white bread. The flour for modern wholemeal bread is milled several times to break the bran down to the same size as the rest of the flour; but during WW2 that wasn't done and the bran - being harder than the other parts of the grain - remained larger and could be felt as gritty bits in the bread. If people who are not used to wholemeal bread and hate it on principle are told those gritty bits are sawdust the government put there to skimp on wheat, they'd believe that - even if it's not true.
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Wonderful perspective. A couple things I'd like to point out though.
My MIL-FIL did, of course, qualify that they were not hungry per say~but caloric intake was a set thing and that's all you got. Infants/children/tenns/adults were all given a caloric number. So, if you were a five foot tall/thin man or a six foot two/heavier man~you still got the same rations as a male adult. Because my FIL was a big man 6'2, very muscular and fit, he said there were a lot of times he was still going hungry because of what was his ration. As did many. It was a survival diet.
Now~as for the bread. I'm sorry but I have to disagree. My FIL was a cockney, raised in "not the best area in London", his words. He certainly didn't grow up eating "fluffy white bread". He was born in the mid-teens of the 20th cent. He didn't have an easy life. At all. And he said, very frequently, he went hungry as a child. What they ate then, was years apart from the WWII era rations. And fluffy white bread, at that time, was a luxury food, not available to the vast majority of citizens.
Now to explain the "sawdust". One of the ingredients in wartime bread was "cellulose". Now cellulose was and still is actually, from trees and it's used in hundreds of foods today. Although not sawdust exactly, they still interpreted it as such due to its origins.
In theory, you're correct. There was no shortage of food. But rationing was, in no way, a "good" diet. People who didn't cheat/buy black market goods did find it hard to feed everyone in the family with allowed rations and, yes, people did go hungry, though perhaps not totally nutritionally comprimised.
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I enjoy these so much, I've loved all the new episodes lately! And I always laugh when the stock *drops*
You know what else is free?
Blowing on your soup to cool it off before you eat it.
Goob.
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You know what else is free ? Not doing this comment :).
What fun! But then cooking is. Thanks for spreading the word!
I loved the outtake, but the real hero of this video (sorry spuds) was the vocal wobbly bass moment. It was like Skrillex meets The Mills Brothers.
The Robin Williams of cooking! (No disrespect meant). You are funny and bring laughter and hope! Thank you for your channel. You really are a blessing. Do you have a cookbook yet?
I can't imagine how many poor college kids this has helped
Thank you
I never thought I'd be watching a cooking video and laugh at the same time.😂 The recipes are great. I love the potato pancake! Crispy then with apple sauce and salad nom nom nom😋
Seriously going to make those potato 🥔 pancakes! Also you can wrap some aluminum foil around the handle of that pan and stick it in the oven as long as the heat isn’t too high! 😃 Have done it lots of times with no problems or handle melting.
The first recipe is called "rårakor" in sweden and its one of my favorite foods 😍😍
Hi there. I just found you while searching for cheap meals. I'm neither a chef nor a novice cook. I loved your recipes here and infectious sense of humor (you're a great performer and I bet you've got a ton of friends!). My only criticism is that some of the recipes have ingredients that aren't terribly cheap (thyme, prosciutto) and this would've been stronger if you would've organized the meals in fashion to show how all the potato recipes could use up the same ingredients (apples, thyme, baguette, sour cream, proscuitto). Lots of people might have these around or on hand, but if they're on a shoestring budget, it would help to show how to use them all up without the chance of any waste if one were about to embark on the potato diet (and I know I am) and shell out the clams for the pricier items. Most importantly, thank you -- I'm a new subscriber and looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Cheers!
P.S. Leek and potato soup is one of the easiest, cheapest meals with high payoff for what you get -- thank you for featuring it (it's one of my faves).
Even if I never made your recipes, it's just so enjoyable to watch you!
LIKE YOUR PRESENTATION!......SIMPLE BECOMES GREAT!!!!!!!!
Frankie is so freaking adorable.
the potato pancake and apple compote is a winner!
Your show helps me to 1) find a better job and 2) find a place to live where I can cook more. Thank you so much for the...life support ;)
Omg Frankie your jokes are 🔥🔥🔥 especially about the potato water! I KENNAT
I love his personality!
The blue screen was really cute and funny! Thank you for this awesome video!
Which looks best? Well, for me it would be the potato pancakes. Not like i grew up eating, but the browned bits on these are calling to me. Well done again. Your Struggle Meals are serving a need in today's world!!
Add cheese to that last recipe and that will be even better! Just found your channel and I love it.
Love this series! Could you consider using cloth towels instead of paper ones? More environmentally friendly AND cheaper... :) PS I *love* it when you speak Italian. More please!
Some things you don't want to use cloth on. Getting bacon grease out of cloth towels is gonna really gunk up your washing machine.
Your amazing. I love your videos. My favorite chef. Please keep em coming.
Some great ideas... would love to see you do a vegan series like this....
A whole video dedicated to cheap potato recipe's = new subscriber.
The pun in the thumbnail was so close to being perfect. It could've been "Taters gonna Tate"
Beef is going beef
Leek is going to leak.
Orange is going to
Aren't you glad I didn't said Orange you gonna
Exactly! Missed opportunity 😄
These all look tasty! I made Frankie's struggle ceaser dressing last week, and it's amazing!!! I love it and was so surprised it emulated the actual dressing so well!
This was entertaining and food I'll actually cook and eat. A++++++ Thank you!
You can use the 'wellness fuel ', in a soup stock.
Just freeze until needed😁
THE BLUE SCREEN OF DOOM MADE ME CACKLE!!!!!!!
Great recipes, great entertainment! Thank you, man!
Bravura performance!! Well produced.
I’m from Sicily and we always used to make our frittate like this not baked. Never knew it came from Spain!
Same in Corsica, we do this but call it potato omelette
Thanks for the bonus silliness lol!
It’s from 1:00 through the Santa Monica comment. Funny all day long. 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Oh yea love the toppings, I'm having that for breakfast tomorrow TY, lol
Thank you! I posted a request about potatoes on a past episode and im soooo glad you did one!!
Frankie! You're my favorite!
I feel like there is so much you can so with potatoes....there should be a part 2 in the future episodes!!!
Omg, I am so hungry now after only five minutes of the show :D
One of my faves. Potato! Great episode, Frankie!
The wellness bit killed me. 😂😂😂
“You can see the middle is still raw, and this is where the Italians with their famous frittata stick the whole thing in the oven.” That’s SO NOT TRUE: we flip the frittata in the exact same way you showed here! No oven. Recipes are fun and helpful, but half of the times, the comments on Italian style of cooking and habits are very wrong, I’m sorry
Don't be sorry for teaching the right thing x)
Why would you apologise for correcting an Italian's comments on Italian cooking? 😛
Watching S5 E10 on potatoes and when I was in 6th grade(*whispers* back in the 80s) I had the best baked potato. It came out wrapped in brown paper and looked like it had course salt speckled on the outside but it tasted a little sweet, like they had soaked the potato in sugar was first. To this day, it is still the best baked potato I have ever had. Wondering if they poked holes and soaked it in sugar water. Would really like to recreate them. 😋🥰
I paused it to read the blue screen...
3:13 made me choke on laughter and almost wake up my husband
Thanks guys 😂
This channel is absolute Magic!!!!! ❤❤❤
The Spanish frittata looks delicious!
These recipes are perfect for the potatoes I panic bought!
This is the first video I’ve ever seen from this guy. And I got cat in the hat cooking show vibes. Love it. Subscribed!
more coming soon!
You are a great chef...and funny!! Add good looking.... . What more could you ask for?? From New subscriber Debbie and Dexter-Dog her rescued chihuahua in S. California!!👩🐾😁👍
More. More. More potato recipes pleazzzzzzze 👍🏼 Thanks 🙏
OMG 3 yrs ago..love it...just ffg found you🥳
Oh my gawd.....Frankie, I don't as the young ones call it nowadays, "fangirling" hopefully that's right, but I just adore you. You're awesome! 🤟
Frankie......UR HILARIOUS !!! LOVE THE RECIPES !!!
I have a fridge drawer kind of like your kitchen drawer but I like to keep butter and other items cold. I'm afraid the items might spoil or melt. Honey doesn't need to be in the fridge but I just keep everything in separate plastic bags in a neat fashion in the bottom drawer. I always get extra of some things even things I don't use that often when I get fast foods. That way I don't have to buy a huge bottle of something I rarely use.