Delicious & Cheap Village Food - Potatoes & Eggs - Inspired by My Mother
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- Hearth cooking the most affordable yet tastiest of dishes. Food as it has been for 100s of years. Potatoes are a new world crop yet they have kept many in poverty fed around the world. Rice, potatoes, corn, and grain built this world as we know it.
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Potato & Egg:
Potatoes
Eggs
Canola oil or lard for frying
Salt
Lemon Juice, a teaspoon's worth
Peel and cube your desired amount of potatoes. Carefully cook in very hot oil or lard until your potatoes have turned a golden brown. Make sure that the oil is so hot that it is bubbling strongly. Strain your potatoes and drain the excess grease on a rag. I recommend saving the oil for using again but this is your choice. In my family we also keep the oil for using in oil lamps. Return your cooked potatoes to your now cleaned out pot and crack in your desired number of eggs, more or less depending on how many mouths you have to feed. I used 4 potatoes and 3 eggs, for reference. Add salt to taste and stir constantly until your eggs are done, which shouldn't take more than 1 minute tops. Remove from your pan and squeeze in your lemon juice. Serve with an onion salad.
Onion Salad:
1 large sweet onion
Lemon juice, just under the juice from half of a lemon
Dill, a heaping teaspoon
Salt
Thinly slice up your peeled, raw onion. Once done to this add your dill, lemon juice and salt to taste. Mix and serve with potato and eggs. This keeps very well and can be eaten the next day if desired. This will not burn your stomach like regular raw onion tends to do, especially if you are using a sweet onion.
I didnt know cooking oil was used in lamps, I thought it was a different inedible oil. Great vid!
Thank you for the video and the receipt.
I thought the onions were going to be Fried also was surprised when you added them raw!
Thank you.
Looks delish.
@@agirly1503 You can use all sorts of oil but if you are using it after frying potatoes your room might smell faintly of french fries...speaking from experience.
I loved hearing your Mom's story. You look so much like your mother and aunt. Absolutely beautiful family 💕
Yeah, except for the 12 Apostles the Assyrians were the first Christians and probably direct descendants of those Christians.
Justine, you might get a kick out of this story.
I am hispanic, and every Sunday, my father would get up early and make potatoes and eggs. We would fry the diced potatoes in diced bacon, and serve the fired potatoes and bacon mix with fried eggs, refried beans and fresh tortillas. I always assumed this was a Mexican dish, until we had a couple of old Up With People kids come back to visit.
We used to host Up With People kids when the kids would come to Tucson from all over the world to learn the show. We have kept in touch with a number of these kids, including two girls, who are now grown women, with kids of their own. Shelly is from the midwest, but Marie is from Switzerland.
About a year ago, Shelly and Marie came to Tucson for a reunion, and Shelly brought her daughter. They stayed in Tucson for about a week, and the last day, before they flew home, they stayed with us. We were supposed to go to dinner, but for some reason, we did not, and by the time they made it to out house, it was getting late. I asked Shelly if they wanted to eat, as her daughter was hungry, and they asked me what I could make. I told them that I could make a Mexican breakfast, potatoes and eggs, with refried beans and tortillas. shelly made me laugh, she told me that potatoes eggs were very popular in the mid-west, that it was not just a Mexican dish, and that they ate it all the time back in OH. But then Marie told me that her and her husband were very fond of it too, and that it was very popular in Switzerland!
It just goes to show, food is food, and your version is similar to the one I have eaten all of my life. I am unfamiliar with the onion salad, but it looked very good, and I will give it a try.
Thanks for sharing,
Mark
What a lovely story! Thank you for sharing. Yes, oftentimes.." Food is food ", .. being Irish and English , many foods have the same ingredients, with a few variations. I love how good that sounds, the food you spoke of! I must try it. 🙂😊
@@texasstardust6010, like Justine says, one of my favorites!
No because Americans eat fried potatoes and eggs it a staple in all cultures just made differently !!!!!! Why say that maybe you need to study American History being you are Mexican. All cultures use eggs and potatoes in dishes and they have different names
@@jacquelinedryden8346 , I think you missed the point of my story…
Love Tucson!! I have many friends and family there. Such a cute little city with beautiful sunsets! And some of the best Mexica Food I've ever had!
Your cooking and impression of 1800s is so soothing to my mind in a world like today. Thank you
Seriously I can just sit here for hours and watch these videos.
I so so agree. Listen, if you have a time machine, or know where one is, can we step back together?
@MyronW Trust me I would relish getting the eggs from the chickens milking the cow getting up earlier for chores, etc, etc, in order to escape this terrible modern world.
@@tlims6401 ME TOO !
@@tlims6401 sounds good!
I'm an immigrant to the US myself, so I found this very moving, thank you. I brought some customs from my own country, and learned new ones to blend with them. Thanksgiving for example - we don't have that, so I had to look up the traditional US dishes, and how to cook them, but now we celebrate it every year. But I add an extra side dish from my homeland, just because we like it and it goes well with the meal!
I am curious about your side dish.
@@sandramays795 Thanks! Roast potatoes, done the British way, (I rarely see them in the US, when I do they tend to be cut into small chunks.)
British roast potatoes - use russet potatoes. If the potatoes are small, don't cut them at all, larger potatoes may be halved, or into thirds if they're really big). The idea is you want something about 2/3 of the size of your palm. Peel them, then boil them in water with a little salt for about 10-15 minutes, so they are very slightly soft, but not cooked through. Should still be moderately hard. Test with a fork - it should go very slightly into them, but not right in.
Scratch them all over with a fork very lightly, then put them in a pan with cooking oil, (traditionally you'd use goose fat, but I tend to just use regular oil like canola). Roll them in the oil so they're coated, then bake them for about one and a half hours at 375F. Turn them every half hour or so. They're done when the outside is golden brown. Goes great with turkey, or any roast meat.
Good to khow that you can relate🤔
@@user-pv5mw9lw4m Thanks. It's true, I do relate as an immigrant, (a love of potatoes can bring cultures together), but I admit I have it a lot easier with modern cooking facilities than this lady does here! And my immigrant story was certainly much easier than her mother's - no hardship or persecution for me.
@@Silver_Owl That dish sounds amazing and may just end up on my table soon. Thank you.
My dad used to make a version of this for us when we were kids. I can smell what you're cooking through the computer, I swear. Sometimes it's the simplest ingredients that make the most delicious dishes. Thanks for sharing!
Sometimes I make this too (without the lemon), although I add herbs, and sometimes diced up sausage or whatever leftover meat I have. Nobody taught me how I just kinda figured it would work and it does. I'm hungry now! :D
My father in law used to make this for me when I would work on his home I'm an old Carpenter now but the I see him every time I go back to our family town & of course he makes it.
@@The_Gallowglass Yum that sounds amazing!
@@hospitalcakewalk thanks for the insight Karen 🙄
Reading your mother’s story touched my heart and brought a tear to my eye. As a Syrian myself with some distant Assyrian ancestry, it’s so heart-warming to hear stories of our peoples and ancestors; how they persevered through hardship, persecution, colonisation, cultural erasure, and poverty, and yet somehow managed to hold onto their identity and not let go of the love they had for each other and for our homeland Syria ♥️
Your comment touched me. Blessings and be well ⭐️
So you can relate🤔
I am an Assyrian too. Basma ganakh (well done) on this amazing channel. I was so surprised to see that you're an Assyrian, let alone Juliana Jendo's niece. Keep it up! 👍😘
I'm Dutch and my ancestors brought over many baked dishes that our community carry on making. Banket is one that we make at Christmas. It's a pastry filled with almond paste. Olie Bolen is almost like a donut. They are dough balls with raisins usually that are deep fried. Those are just a few things. When my parents were young, church service was still in Dutch in our church in South Holland, IL.
Oileballen translates to oil Ball in case anyone is wondering
@@snoozegrunthypna In Belgium they are called smoutebollen, and are eaten without currants.
🤣 Je kunt ook een oliebol ZIJN .. maar, ooh wat lekker! From which country did your ancestors hail from?
I watched a video about Christmas food and they were in it
@JennyMack
Same here except I lived in Palos Park, IL. Every Christmas my best friend from HS and I would get together and bake. We did this even after she and her husband moved to Wisc. for several years. We added Jan Hagels and thin almond cookies to that list as they were her grandmother's recipes. I still buy almond paste by the pound at Trinity Chr College fall festival every year.
Like everyone else in the comments, I have great memories of potatoes, onions, and eggs when I was a kid. My Dad fried the potatoes separate from the eggs, with diced onion into the potatoes toward the end of the cook time. As an adult, I started keeping the potato skins on, if the skins are good enough (easier with red potatoes), for extra fiber/vitamins/minerals!
What an awesome story to share! We all should be proud of our heritage. I grew up mostly in Amish country. My heritage is Swedish, English, and mostly German. I remember my Grandma making her version of Snitz un knepp. She fried some bacon, and laid her soaked apple snitz on top in the frying pan, and added some of the liquid from the apples. She cheated, and mixed up some bisquick, and dropped the batter by spoonfuls into the liquid. Oh! I forgot the brown sugar over the apples. Put the lid on, and when the dumplings are done, it's ready to eat!
Schnitz un knepp…you are speaking my language. I’ll have to try it with bacon. We grew up with all of the Pa Dutch goodies ❤️
My Grandma made this in Southern Ohio for her church suppers. She was raised in Kentucky. I think her parents were French.
did she make hush puppies? They slapped the dough over their knee to shape them . Amish in the south did I believe
Bisquick is not cheating, it's smart when the cook has so much to do.
I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel! My grandparents fled Nazi Germany just prior to WWII and came to the US. My daughter recently convinced me to create a cookbook so she would have our family recipes (I mostly cook from memory). In creating the cookbook I realized that our family recipes are like a walk through history and culture - they not only reflect the various parts of Europe where my family originated, other recipes reflect the parts of the US they settled in, and also reflect the history of my own travels while serving in the military.
Thank you so much for this video. Cooking over open flame is legit a difficult skill to master, one that has nearly disappeared here in the modern West. I'm very glad to see people keeping these skills alive and honoring their own history.Good Day and God Bless.
I am Italian, my family is from Avellino, Campania outside Naples. A dish we would make on Christmas Eve, is angel hair pasta & anchovies. Spaghetti Aglio e Olio. My great grandmother made & I still make it today! :)
Please Can you give me the recipe of spaghetti Aglio e olio?
@@sansol3395 Heat oil brown a little garlic Add anchovies to oil. Stir until mostly dissolved. pour over hot spaghetti. Sing "Aglio e Olio" instead of "Alleluia" at church.
My dad used to make this when I was a kid. I still make it to this day. It's great with Louisiana Hot Sauce and toast. Love your channel.
Thank you so much for this marvelous episode. I loved learning about you mother and the rest of your family and about how they lived. My heart goes out to all the people who have been killed simply because of their religion, race or any "otherness". I, too, am a child of immigrants who left their country to escape genocide. I am so thankful the the United States welcomed them. The potatoes and eggs look delicious and the onion salad looks like something I must try.
I, too, loved hearing your mother's story. And seeing the photos! I'm of Sicilian descent and my mother used to make a similar mixture of eggs, potatoes and onions. Sometimes green peppers, too, if we had them. We called by it giambotta. I love to watch you cook, and am grateful you have taken the time to recreate this era and its food. I also think you are quite lovely and patient as you work. And everything you cook seems even more delicious because its made with your absolutely beautiful hands! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your mother's recipe and your family history.
YOUR mom did a beautiful job raising you Justine...Thanks so much for sharing.
Especially in this time of social tensions (understated), thank you for highlighting your family's own immigration journey, and the food that they love! We are a nation of immigrants - and because of it we are rich in foods, music, philosophies and culture! I enjoy your videos. My own family has early American roots and your videos allow me to think of ways they may have lived and dined.
yes humans forget how much Immigrants have brought; even rock n roll music, blues, fabrics, farming techniques, so many things and they work hard in our fields picking the fruit even though they are illegal they work for a living - enough said. cheers
..I'm sorry but current social tensions were mostly manufactured by the media. If people turned off the TV, everyone would still be getting along, like the 80s. Good times.
@@jackieblue787 : I agree for the most part. But there have been "tensions" all over the world, especially in Africa, that are never mentioned by mainstream media.
I've been to 47 States of America and 14 different countries in the past 30+ years. I can tell you, by experience, that nothing is like what they want you to believe.
@@mickeymousey1239 Rock n roll and blues was created by African Americans not immigrants.
True. Legal immigrants are welcome here.
My grandmother would always cut up and fry the skins for us kids add a little salt and pepper when she'd set them out to drain.
Isn't it wonderful the way food can bring people together?
Too bad we all in this world couldn't just enjoy a meal and live in peace...
Amen my friend, Amen.
My grandmother grew up in Polish, Irish, and Italian communities- and I really loved and learned to cook some of her favorites- gwompkies (polish stuffed cabbage,) stuffed peppers, and her fantastic meatballs and tomato sauce (both Italian-American style.) Nana wasn't Polish or Italian, but did have some Irish heritage- and that manifested itself in her pea soup. I'm told she made a spectacular pea soup, but I've never been a fan of pea soup (actually can't even endure the smell of it.) Nana was French Canadian/First Nation/Irish/English, and adapted well- her pies and cookies were legendary!
Still making my Nana's gwompkies, and her apple and pumpkin pies, but my crust isn't nearly as splendid as hers!
What a nice comment😊 I'm Polish and I'm glad to read you like some Polish dishes. Fun fact- We call it "gołąbki"(gwombkies 😉) which means little pigeons😋 Wish you all the best!
It’s wonderful to encourage people to talk about their stories! My mom was of German heritage (1800’s immigrants) and she grew up milking cows, only to sell, not for the kids to drink. Her brothers and sisters grew up during the depression and had a rough go of it. My grandmother died in childbirth and my grandpa loaded my mom and the other kids up and separated them, giving them to people who could feed them. My dad was of Irish/French heritage and met mom who was working in a diner just before the war. We kids were raised being thankful for our food and learning to garden and not waste. This country is like a patchwork quilt, we need each little bit to make the whole. I am grateful my ancestors found a home here and embrace our diverse cultures and cuisines. 🥰💕❤️👍👍
My family is English, Welsh and Scottish. My grandma strangely made alot of Dutch dishes.
I've made potatoes and eggs before, it's a nice quick meal.
I loved seeing your family photos
Very sweet opening to this episode. Almost universally true for this country.
This is similar to a dish my mom used to make when we were kids and money was tight. It was filling and cheap. She would slice and fry potatoes (2 per person if they were small), scramble 2 eggs per person and pour them into the fried potatoes (minimal oil or grease to fry the potatoes) and stir as the eggs cooked. I one up the recipe with white or pepper gravy over the dish. One of my favorite comfort foods!🤤
Sounds delicious with the addition of the gravy.
@@carolesmith4864 Ooooooo...YES!
I can fry potatoes in way less oil than that. That would make the dish expensive and fattening.
Loved your family history at the beginning. Thanks for sharing. BTW, your eggs, potatoes and onions looked delicious.
Was excited to see another hearth cooking video from y'all but your story telling of your family history was an unexpected gift! You tied it in so perfectly to todays menu! Awesome job!
Love that you gave us the background to why you make this dish. I could tell it was made with love.
Loved your mom's story! So sweet of you to share both the story and her recipe. ❤ Justine, your and Ron's stories help us all remember our heritage, no matter how different they are from one another. This is what makes America a melting pot.... and a great place to live!! 🇺🇸
Thank you!!!!
Amen to that!
My maternal Grandpa came to U.S. from Sicily in the early 1900’s. The rest of my family both sides, came from the mainland Italy. But, I remember my Grandpa getting us grandkids up out of bed and we watch him make potatoes and eggs for the lot of us. So good! He added Romano cheese. We’d eat with crusty homemade bread that my Grandma would bake every week, dipped in olive oil with lemon juice and herbs. Delicious! Thank you for sharing your story!
Thank you for sharing your mom’s story ❤️ I’m going to make this, this weekend! I have everything needed.
I loved hearing the story of your mother and her heritage. We take so much for granted--especially in the US. The voice we have, the rights we have, the roof over our head and the hearty food on our table. My grandmother lived during the depression and her father deserted the family. She and her brothers and sisters were separated and sent to live all in different places. I can't imagine what she went through and she never spoke of it. Many of my family immigrated from Ireland in the 1800s and it was heartbreaking to research and see how many of their children died of starvation. I think now about how lucky I am to have never suffered as she did, as they did, and as so many in the world did and still do.
Let the snow bunny they going to go wow in the future 2022
Thanks for sharing your mother's story. That's what makes America so great. People from all over the world melting their customs and traditions (and food) together in the great American melting pot. My ancestors came to America from England and Scotland a very long time ago (in the late 1700's on my father's side and mid-1800's on my mother's side) so I don't know of any recipes to share. I love your channels!
My dad made us kids something like this when my mom was at work but he did it because he hated washing dishes so everything went in the frying pan together.My mom’s family was in Canada for over 300 years and my dad is native there is too many dishes I love that I couldn’t tell you where they come from.
I really appreciate the story of your Syrian ancestors. Great channel.
Thank you for sharing your family history. A real inspiration...May Almighty God continue to bless you all always! Greetings from my Disneyland neighborhood here in Southern California! 🤗
What a lovely tribute to your mother and others through history with similar stories xoxo
I am third generation Australian of English and Scottish heritage. My father’s mother was best known for her oxtail soup, though sadly no one has the recipe anymore. I do make a casserole though that is based on one made by my other grandmother. I dearly wish I had their recipe books. But they are lost. So, I’m starting my own.
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I really enjoyed this video, and learning about your family's heritage and amazing immigration story.
My father's parents came to the U.S. from Japan in the 1900's. Their immigration papers are stamped " Imperial Japan". They had a farm in California, and their primary source of income was from their fruit orchards. The wineries used to buy grapes from them. They were sent to an internment camp in Colorado during WWII.
One of my favorite dishes was a dish my father called okazu. I call it Japanese potluck because it's a dish that is meant to use up whatever leftover vegetables you have on hand with some meat thrown in. In our home it was made with pork, scallions, mushrooms, bamboo shutes, and water chestnuts. You could also use chicken. Every family seems to have their own version. A simple, but delicious dish that is served over rice.
We frequently made "stir fry" with whatever vegetables and leftover meat with soy sauce and rice. If the meat was skimpy, add more vegetables, even greens from the pasture. I am mainly English and Irish, not Asian at all, but I love stir fried dishes from my yard sale wok. Bought it in 1977 for six dollars and still working fine.
Thank you for sharing the history of your lovely family. I am impressed that they spoke the language of Christ. I have watched other historical documentaries about the Assyrians and found it very interesting. The potatoes and eggs look delicious and so does the onion salad. My mother(whose family are mostly from Germany, Switzerland, and Wales) always made onion, cucumber, and tomato salad with oil and vinegar, salt and pepper. I made it for my husband and he loves it. My grandmother made homemade applesauce. I haven't made that yet, but I think I will do so soon.
I like this series; it shows what the regular folks had to do to live. Keep up the good work and I will try this dish.
Love this! Thank you, Justine, for sharing some of your family history and recipes with us. Normally I make "home fries" exactly like you do but fry eggs on the side but I'm going to try this! My paternal grandfather was Jewish, from what is now Ukraine, and he owned a deli in Boston from the 1930s through the 1950s. From his family we got what I call cabbage salad -- grated red and white cabbage, sliced green bell peppers, grated carrots, onion, cucumber, and radishes, salt, pepper, and the dressing is a mixture of oil and vinegar with a little sugar. Really yummy, a good picnic dish.
I recently found your channel and have enjoyed thoroughly your videos. This particular video brought tears to my eyes as I too am from Assyrian descent. My mother was born in this country and traditions as you know, carry on. We always had egg and potato sandwiches anytime we went to the beach or on a picnic. I always loved eating them and I make them for myself to this day some 55 years later. A mouth full of memories. I now feel a sense of connection with you and will enjoy your videos in a whole new, heartwarming light. Your friend from the coast of Massachusetts, Regina.
Always be proud of your heritage. ❤️
Just discovered the channel the other day and I love it!
My family is Italian American so we have a lot of cultural foods that mean a lot to us, many adapted because they were cheap since everyone was pretty poor when they came to America. Italian-American cuisine is a cultural traditional in its own right and I know it differs quite a lot from mainland Italian cooking (also depending on region) but whenever I make it I feel very proud and blessed to be an Italian.
Good to khow
Thankyou for sharing your mums story,I love to hear these kind of stories,my dad's parents were Jewish immigrants who came to the u.k in the 30's from Eastern Europe
The food though basic looks delicious and I will give it a go,you always make me feel hungry,xxx
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it was soooooooo delicious!!
I am originally from Greece but have lived in the U.S. most of my life. This is my absolute favorite dish. The only thing we do different is cut our potatoes into thin wedges. So good! Thank you for sharing your families history. It is because of all the wonderful cultures that make up the most amazing country we live in.
greek food is awesome and healthy !!
I was thinking a little tzatziki and pita with this would taste good. I am German/Irish/French but love Greek cuisine! And you’re right, our country is an amazing mixture of cultures and cuisines. 🎉
I completely obsessed with this channel, I’ve binge watch all the videos
Justine I enjoy watching your videos at night before bed they relax and soothe me. I have night terrors accompanied by sleepwalking and it’s terrible but lately it has truly helped me by watching some videos before bed I hope you and Ron are staying safe and warm!
Awesome family history! My family is European, and my father's side of the family is Italian, and they lived in the mountains, herding sheep.One of his staple dishes was "poenta" which is corn mush served with tomato sauce and occasionally cheese(cheese was very expensive and was made from sheep milk only to sell)..my grandma would scrub the big wooden table, bring a big cauldron of corn mush, spread it all over the table an inch thick and cover it in tomato sauce.Then everyone would sit and eat towards the middle..I prefer plates myself..so you see, the melting pot of America!
That looks so delicious.This is my favorite channel.. my Syrian ancestors brought tabouli,,,Bless them!❤
Yum, I love tabouli!
My Mom's family was of German descent,and married Scotch-Irish lots of good cooks,fresh vegetables,along with canned in winter,hearty meats,beef,chicken,pork...I remember lots of bean dishes,potatoes,Chicken and dumplings, applesauce or fried apples,they went in pies with cinnamon and sugar,biscuits lot of times made with lard,stewed tomatoes,pickles, 🌽 on the cob with fresh butter...cobblers ,cakes,pies I grew up eating good. 🥓🥕🍐🍎🍑🥒🥬🍅🍓🍒🥔🧅🥚🍗🍖🥩 and yes,we chur ed homemade ice cream in the summer. Bon appetit.😋😋
Thank you for reminding us that we’re a country made up of many, many different cultures & customs.❤️❤️
I just discovered your channel & am in love with it. I always enjoy history. Watching your videos & showing how things were cooked & done back then really makes me feel like I am right there with you . I did not know potato & eggs came your your Mother’s country. My Granny would use left over potatoes & fry up some eggs in them. To this day I still love eating that. Thank you for all that you do & for sharing a part of your family & their history. ♥️
I loved this video and I loved the story of your mom! Your channel is a wonderful antidote to what's going on in the world today. It's very good to remember our country's begining.
Thank you for sharing your moms story and recipe. Love the pictures. Our United States are so full of wonderful people. Stories and cultures.
I want potato and egg the smell, the taste a d the look yummy 😋. Thank you for appreciating us to share with the world Justine and your mom a d her mom. Many Godly Blessings to you all
Awesome work, Justine. Thanks so much for sharing your family history with us and spreading awareness, along with a great meal! 🥚🥔 ❤🔥🥰
This is absolutely priceless
I just found your channel and cannot get enough. I especially enjoy your cooking "how too." Extremely interesting how things were done in that period. Thanks for bringing that time back to life.😉👍
This was really cool. Loved the bit of your family history. Thanks
I'm a Catholic, and it's amazing that you are of Assyrian decent. That's awesome. I'm Italian, Greek, English, and German. My dad is Italian, and, oh, the food! My Italian grampa lived in poverty, and my English and German mom lived in poverty. My gramma made navy pea beans and potatoes almost everyday, supplied by the church. I loved your story, and I'm trying the meal!
Watching you prep and cook is so very comforting.
Few to none in this country are aware of the Assyrians Christians in Syria, nor the Coptic Christians of Egypt... To this day they remain a faith under siege and threat of death (by violent Islamic extremists).. My Grandparents & ancestors came from Sicily.. Along with their native recipes, they also saved & brought Vegetable seeds from their gardens.. My family still grows some of the Tomatoes and Cucuzza that were passed down.. It's wonderful how when the immigrants brought were sewn into the fabric of our country.. Great Vid..
Bless your dear Mother and thank you for telling us her story. You are carrying on a legacy in a new land, and we are grateful to have you here.
Puertorican here; our staple always been rice with chicken and beans, with a avocado salad. That onion salad many of my Dominican friends make it.
One of my brothers lived in the Middle East in the 80’s and though we were well aware of the Christian Communities there we were unaware of how large they actually were. Syrian Christians were a large and respected minority especially in Damascus and Aleppo. Very attractive women.
Thank you for sharing.
The family photos were so interesting, I'm sure your mom has some great stories. Affordable food dishes usually consist of potatoes and onions around the world and across time, it seems.
This video makes me so happy because this is the first dish my mother learned to cook. And this is the first thing she taught me how to cook with slight variations. And to this day, it remains one of my favourite foods. And our culture is so different and yet I feel like certain foods transcend all boundaries.
Grew up with my Mom's delicious potatoes and eggs. She sauteed onions with her potatoes first before dropping the eggs in. She also made peppers and eggs...so good!
Continuing to cook foods that we grew up with and are part of our heritage, is a way of honoring those that came before us and it tells a story of our ancestors…
YUM! Talk about comfort food...thank you so much! I would love to see more recipes like this!
I think it's awesome that your mom was born in a one room dwelling and you make early American videos from a one room cabin!
My family heritage is mainly Swiss and French. My dad used to say my mom could burn water, so that tells you how good of a cook she was! My gramma was the one who could cook . No dish in particular, but she could cook a piece of wood and make it taste good! Ha ha. She cooked with lard all her life and lived to be 89 years old! One of my favorites was her pancakes. All us kids would gat stuffed eating them , they were so good! I enjoyed reading about your family too. Very interesting! God bless you and yours!
Love this
mine were already here when the white man came over
Thank you for sharing the story of your family. I really loved it.
I thought you would dress the onions with vinager!! What a splurge to have lemon! I enjoyed hearing your family story...what a rich heritage.
Thanks to Sleepy creepy Joe, we all may have to start reviving these recipes. Thank you for a great video, it's important to pass along memories and recipes from our loved ones.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Seeing your mother’s story was so moving- I did not know of that people or culture, or the genocide. I greatly appreciate you sharing this information and intimate retelling of your heritage. What a blessing that we are free in this country to speak openly of these stories.
There are a lot of criticisms to be made about America, but one amazing thing that we have that basically no other country does, is our diversity. This has bred a culture with so much exposure to so many walks of life. That truly is something to be grateful for.
Thank you again!! I love your videos, Justine!!!!
E pluribus unum, “from many one” it is the motto of our country, which we should never forget. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
Thank you for the inside story.
The context of their situation, is an inspiration to us all!
Well done!
Love your amazing cooking over the wood burning fire.. I’m Native American and how grew up cooking over fire.. thank you for memory of my child hood .. 👍 delicious always have one of favorite potatoes and eggs
Delightful and enlightening too. Thank you very much. My Scottish ancestors brought traditions and food ways that are still being made today, especially in Appalachia. Neeps and Tatties, Tattle Scones, Porridge, Oatcakes ... hearty foods for cold, Highland winters. But the fave of all is Scottish Shortbread. Oh. My.
Justine thank you so much for sharing your story and what an amazing story that is. I can see how special this show is to you.
I really appreciate your “silent” videos but this is the best. Immigrants benefit our country beyond measure.
Those potatoes and eggs looked so good.
I heard a Roman Catholic Mass in Aramaic by refugees in 2016 and it was truly awesome and the singing was amazing. The Assyrian priest said Assyrians were being crucified by ISIS at that time.
When I was a boy in the late 60's and early 70's, I can vividly recall many winter evenings when my mother would fix this very meal for supper. It wasn't until I was older that I finally figured out why. My father was a construction worker during the winter he would be laid off from work for many weeks. Potatoes and eggs were a very cheap meal to fix. Fast forward to 2022, I still have this for supper quite often. What was done decades ago by my mother was done out of necessity. For me, though, having this meal brings back all of the happiness of growing up in our home and how our parents shielded us from their financial struggles. I wouldn't trade my childhood memories for anything because they were so full of love.
My mom made this when I was growing up only with much less oil/lard! Sometimes we had ground beef instead of eggs or sausage! It depended on what was on hand! We were very low income so this was usually something we ate toward the end of the month! I had three younger siblings and something like this would go a long way and fill us up pretty good!
This woman is someone to really look at as she shows how our grandmothers and greatgrandmothers once lived .God bless
I love these videos. They are such a wonderful mix of history, food, landscape, sounds, and sights that give so much mental comfort. Please keep doing them. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing that story about your mom. It was very inspiring and made me think about my ancestors. Although I am only a third generation to this country as most of mine came from the Croatia Yugoslavia area they had a lot of great dishes. But this one that you made with the potatoes and the eggs and the onion salad really looks good. And thank you for sharing it.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful story from your family! It is my favorite video so far! My mother has Polish ancestry and we love fried potatoes with onions, fried cabbage with caraway seed, and buttered egg noodles with pepper. Beets go well with all of this! Peasant cooking at its best!
I just made this dish sans the onion salad tonight for my dinner. I love eggs and potatoes and have eaten my fair share over the years. I do love onion salad and my dad made it often as it reminded him of his sister who made it and loved it. Poor food I was raised on was nutritionally dense and always tasty and comforting. Oatmeal is another food made as porridge with a bit of sorghum made by my family. Oatmeal was actually added to ground beef to stretch it when I was young. Lots of chicken and noodles with homemade noodles and very small portions of chicken with veggies as it helped feed a family of ten using one chicken. We actually raised chickens in my back yard. I enjoyed this very much learning about your heritage. My family heritage is Northern European. Very humble farmers.
My mother was a Canadian of French (with a touch of Italian) descent. She sliced her potatoes into thin wedges and pan fried it with onions until crispy before adding her eggs. So delicious and a great memory.
Good simple food cooked with care and love is universal across all cultures. Thank you for the reminder!
Love the simple, wonderful ingredients and techniques you share!
Day before boil some red potatoes with skin..place in a cool area or refrigerate overnight... next day remove skin, slice thin then fry some bacon placing sliced potatoes in skillet with the done bacon and bacon grease. Brown potatoes to your liking then crack a couple eggs into it once eggs are cook it's time to serve...learned this from my great grandmother of German descent!
I'm so grateful for your channel. Today's recipe using the lard. Brings back so many memories of my grandma. I used to love helping her cook or bake. She'd use lard for everything. Many times I've help render the fat to get the lard. Fresh cracklings we're the best. But that was many years ago. Funny how things change over the years. I love living history. I was raised to be self sufficient. Trying to past those ways on to my grandkids now. Thank you for all that you and yours do to keep it alive. God bless, Aubrey