- Hi, I'm Beryl and we're back with
another summer foods episode.
Just trying to squeeze it in
before the northern hemisphere heads into Fall
which I'm very excited about.
I'm not a summer person.
I'm a sweaty person.
So winter is my jam.
The artist today, you might remember
Halima Washington-Dixon.
She's a fabulous still-life painter.
She's originally from the US
but currently living in England.
She's the one who made me love still-lifes,
what can I say?
But I also felt like the vibe is very summery.
So with that, we've got three dishes
and I'm hungry so we're gonna start immediately.
- Hello, my name is Khristina
and I live in Michigan in the United States of America.
And on a hot summer's day I love to eat
a chicken salad sandwich.
But not any chicken salad sandwich,
it has to be a chicken cherry salad sandwich.
A chicken cherry salad sandwich is savory and tart,
and it's mixed with dried cherries.
And it has some celery and some pecans.
And you put it between two pieces of your favorite bread.
This is a perfect summer dish
because it's something that you can whip up without
having to cook very much.
You could use leftover chicken in the fridge,
throw it all together,
and you
would wanna chill it for 30 minutes or so
so you can bring out all the flavors.
This is specific to Michigan because
we use Michigan cherries.
In my opinion, I think Michigan cherries just taste better
than other cherries.
It's hard to explain, they just taste better.
Michigan is actually the cherry capital of the world,
Traverse City.
My mom used to actually make this when we would go out
on picnics and it was just like something she could
easily whip together.
And we would go and it would just be so much fun.
I personally think you should try this
if you love chicken salad sandwiches and
you'd like to try something new and you love cherries.
It's perfect, it's so good.
You have to try it.
- Okay, we've got my cherry chicken salad sandwich.
I've never had dried cherries in chicken salad.
I've had cranberries, kind of similar.
Whoa, not that similar.
Have I ever even had a dried cherry before?
It's good.
The cherry's interesting because
cranberries are like a little bit sour.
But the dried cherry
is more sweet.
And it actually, like wow -
it's very pleasant with the chicken.
I love a good sandwich.
Fun fact: my very first YouTube video was
sandwiches around the world.
I'm just gonna go for it.
Oh my God.
That started this whole thing
and now here I am.
And I also love that this was a picnic food.
I don't really ever go on picnics because
I feel like I'm just -
Like I like the idea of them,
but I'm so lazy to actually drag all the picnic stuff out
and then you have to drag it back and
by then, I don't know.
I did not know that Traverse City, Michigan was like
the home of cherries.
That's definitely not something I knew.
I don't think that these cherries are from Michigan.
They're just from Trader Joe's but
they still taste really good.
I'm not so sure that I would know the difference though
between two different types of cherries.
But maybe.
I like this recipe because it's something
that I'm familiar with but there's this
fun added twist of the cherries.
And one thing that I would say that I did add to this
is I like adding a little bit of rice vinegar
when I make a chicken salad or even an egg salad.
I find that the vinegar kind of brightens everything
in a really nice way.
That's just a personal thing.
This recipe, 10 out of 10.
Loved it.
- Hello, guys.
My name's Eli, I'm a YouTuber from Russia.
I travel across my big country but
today I'm in my kitchen in Moscow and
I've decided to tell you about one of my most
favorite traditional Russian dishes for
hot, summer days.
First of all, don't believe the stereotype that
Russia is this cold, unwelcoming country
where there is only snow and ice.
Well of course our winters can get pretty cold
with -30 or
- 40 Celsius.
But summers are very warm as well.
So it's the perfect day for okroshka.
It's a cold soup
that Russians only eat in summer.
Okroshka is
a bit salty,
very savory.
It's not sweet.
It consists of a lot of vegetables.
And actually it doesn't have a strict recipe
because usually this dish is homemade.
And we make it out of everything
that was left in the fridge and then make a salad.
And out of this salad, we make a soup.
For example you can take sour cream and mix it with water.
And then you just mix your salad in that liquid
and you get a soup.
I ate okroshka since my childhood.
My mom used to make this huge bowl of okroshka,
cut so many vegetables in it,
make a soup, and put in a fridge for several days.
It can be in the fridge for three or even four days
and nothing will happen.
This is something that Russians would have in summer
in their fridge all the time.
So try to make it at home and let us know in the comments
what you think about the taste.
Na zdorovie.
- This is a dish that is honestly close to my heart.
When I lived in Russia, I absolutely adored it.
I think that not many people know about
how amazing Russian cuisine can be.
So I was very excited that Eli submitted this one.
And fun fact: I met Eli through Niki,
who you might remember as my favorite Russian TikToker,
who did the Russian grocery store video.
So
the internet is a big, happy, little family.
If you're in the right part of it.
Otherwise, it's terrible.
My God.
Honestly,
don't be weirded out
by the idea of watered-down sour cream as a broth because
it is so good.
Like it is so good.
And when you keep it in the refrigerator overnight,
everything is just cold.
And there's something really nice
about just a cold soup.
And I feel like gazpacho gets all of
the acclaim for being a great cold soup
but okroshka really should
be up in that top tier.
Because Eli's right,
it's whatever's in your refrigerator.
But I do feel like you have to have dill in it.
And ham.
It's so good.
If you do wanna try to make this,
which I do recommend you try to make it
'cause it's delicious.
Make the salad and make the broth separate
and keep them both in the refrigerator because
if you wanna have the salad just like as a salad,
maybe on a piece of toast,
you could.
Or you could add the broth and then have them together.
But that way, it doesn't get too, too soggy
by sitting in the broth for too long.
Eli has a really fabulous YouTube channel
that I'm gonna leave a link to in the description
so you can check out her stuff.
If you have any curiosity about Russia,
she is an amazing resource and
she's super cool.
(laughs)
Hi, Eli.
- Hi, I'm Ramya.
I'm from Hyderabad, India.
One of my favorite dishes to eat during summer is
aamras poori.
Aamras is nothing but mango puree and
we serve it alongside poori which is a deep-fried dough.
We tend to make it out of whole-wheat flour,
carom seeds, and spices and
fry it 'til it looks like a fluffy cushion.
So growing up my mom used to make it.
And I never used to like it because
it's basically baby food.
But once I started making it,
I started liking it even more.
And the only reason I look forward to summers is
because of this one dish.
I am not a big fan of summers and
this dish makes it 100 times better.
And I just think everybody should have it at least once
because it's Indian food, come on.
Who does not like Indian food?
- I have made pooris twice in my life.
And both times were on camera.
And surprisingly, I did better the first time
than this time.
Come on, puff!
Ahh!
Puff, puff, oh my God, oh my God, come on!
Come on, halfway!
Go!
Come on!
Just puff!
Oh my God!
Yes!
At least the last one worked.
Here's the last one.
Maybe like a little brown but like
this is definitely better.
This guy got like a half.
I have never had this dish before and
it's ironic to me that
a hot summer's day dish requires deep-frying because
I'm sweating.
Just gonna do it like a dip.
Mangoes, man.
This would've been perfect for the mango webisode up.
But we got it for this one.
I love it.
I've never thought to dip bread into mango pulp.
Nothing about this is
bizarre but at the same time,
nothing about this is anything that I would've ever
thought to do.
It's good.
This dish definitely feels like a summer dish
minus the aforementioned deep-frying.
Just 'cause it's very fresh-tasting.
The mango is very fresh.
And even though the bread is deep-fried,
pooris are not as heavy as like
an American funnel cake of deep-fried bread.
Mm.
The taste of this dish plays with a lot of different
flavors and textures
and so it's very exciting to eat.
I don't know.
It is, it's just exciting to eat.
I feel like maybe we should do Fall.
What are some dishes that you're looking forward to having
in the Fall season?
Like in September, October, November?
That's kind of what I'm thinking of as the Fall.
Let me know and I will look through the comments and we'll
get going on that video.
So until then, I hope that you try some of these
and if you do, let us know.
Let me know.
And I will see you all
in my next video.
(toy squeaking)