♪ Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ♪
♪ Pugs sleeping in the bed down there ♪
- They are.
Technically you're awake, but yeah.
Today we are doing a video inspired
by a comment on one of my last videos.
Make a Christmas taco.
And I'm like, yeah.
Do I do this sweet, do I do this savoury?
I'm excited either way, we're gonna go savoury.
There were so many ways I could've taken this,
so I decided to put it out to you guys.
I went on my Facebook page, and I was like
hey, I'm gonna make a Christmas taco,
'cause that's a great suggestion.
Please can you guys let me know.
That's how I type.
Please can you guys let me know how you would do it,
what would be the build up of it?
And I had loads, and loads of suggestions.
Thank you.
There was one that stood out for me,
and that was from Jamie Maddingham.
Turkey, small cubed roast potoates.
Sage, and onion stuffing, a couple of pigs
in blankets topped with gravy.
Keep it simple.
And that's a good motto in life.
In fact I was told that once before, at an old job.
KISS.
Keep it simple, stupid.
I think the stupid was a bit unnecessary,
so maybe kiss with one S.
And then a chap called Craig Woolgar replied
to that and said, "Exactly this."
With a full stop.
When you see a full stop you know it's
serious, so I thought yes, this is our mission.
My hopes for making this recipe...
I don't want you guys to completely
throw Christmas dinner out the way.
I know some people are actually having
fajitas on Christmas day, but what I'm
saying is maybe the day after Christmas, Boxing Day,
that you guys got some leftover turkey,
kind of exactly what I had here,
that maybe use it and make a Christmas taco,
'cause that'd be cool.
So the first thing I really wanted
to do was make these cubed potatoes.
So really simple, I have some baby potatoes
that I just sliced off basically all the edges on it,
which you could roast up as well if you wish.
And then keep the skin on, completely up to you,
just make you sure you slice them into
even sized cubes, 'cause the smaller
they are they'll cook quicker.
They'll char nice and easy, and they'll
just be a little bit more...
(clicks tongue)
Be more bite sized, you know?
(clicks tongue)
Grill-tastic.
I've got myself a big old pile of potatoes right there.
We're gonna drive some flavour into
these potatoes, so I went for a little bit of rosemary.
Lets get the potatoes in a bowl.
Bit of olive oil.
And the rosemary, oh yeah.
Just stir it through to coat.
Get the rosemary, and the oil on the potatoes.
Nice and coated, in fact I'm gonna add some pepper.
There we go, bit of peppers on those,
put salt on it as well, any spices you want.
Paprika, I love paprika.
Get yourself a large baking tray.
These things are amazing.
They're called sil pads.
Silicone, stop Mrs. Barry scraping me tray.
Place down your pigs in blankets,
which to vegetarians probably is not
the most appealing sound.
I think other places in the world call
it something different, so can you
let me know down below?
I actually...
I can't remember what it is, there's a
quirky name, I think, for something else.
So anyway, we got the pigs in blankets
on one, and we've got the potatoes
going down on the other.
And then I just whack that in the oven
to roast for about 25 minutes.
In it goes.
Alright guys?
We actually had a mini Christmas dinner
yesterday, so I've got some leftovers here.
I've got some gravy, so it's kind
of like a chicken gravy, and also I've
got some turkey that I've just shredded up.
That'll be pretty cool.
And of course a stuffing.
So I haven't gotta cook any of that up,
which is why hopefully this recipe
could be good for leftovers.
But I'm just really, really excited by it.
We wolfed down all the sprouts the other night,
so I've just pretty much cooked up a handful of those.
The most pointless cooking sprout experiment ever.
Probably quicker to have done them in the microwave.
But they loved it, in there, it
was bubbling away looking absolutely gorgeous.
Once they're all nice and done,
and softened, I tip them out onto a chopping board,
and give them a good old squish with my fork.
Just to splat them down, and make them
nice and manoeuvrable later on.
You don't wanna just dollop a whole sprout in there,
that's quite a lot.
Quite a lot to take in one go, so we're
just gonna have sprouty leaves.
So my leftovers of stuffing and the turkey,
and even the gravy that I have we just
kind of warm them up in the microwave.
For the last five minutes of baking
the pigs in blankets, and the potatoes,
I just warmed through the hard taco shells,
sticking them on a smaller tray, in the oven.
And I think that's pretty much it.
It's time for building, which was not that
easy actually, and I'm actually trying
to remember the build up that I did here.
I'm looking at it right now, I haven't eat it yet.
I'm gonna eat it in a minute.
Very excited.
Here's a little hack that I learned with Mrs. Barry,
actually, where you grab just a standard
table fork, with the prongs like so,
you grab the warmed taco shell,
and you just stick it in the back of the taco,
and it should...
Wait, the further along you push it in,
it'll give you that support, like that.
Well it does work.
We went for the sprouts first, a nice sort
of blanket of sprouts going down on there.
Then in goes our solo pigs in blankets.
And then went in a nice strip to one side
of the stuffing, we've actually got so much stuffing
left over, even from the other night still,
and after this I don't know what to do with it.
If there's any recipes that you know of with stuffing,
maybe like a wellington.
Christmas wellington.
(smacks lips)
Those lovely charred, rosemary pepper potatoes
went in next.
I'm looking at them now, they smell so good.
Just layers of that in there.
Then the turkey goes down, oh my gosh,
I really wanted to load this up with turkey.
It would've just been a turkey taco.
Which doesn't sound like a bad thing.
Cranberry sauce on top, drizzling it all there,
and then finally a drenching of gravy.
Oh my gosh, that looks good.
It fell over so many times.
I know the angle probably wasn't the most perfect.
My fork did hold strong, holding it up right there,
and it's now time to eat this Christmas taco.
Here we go, Christmas has come early.
(moans)
I have never had a taco with gravy
in it before, but that is insane.
That is amazing.
It might not be your priority at Christmas
to make a Christmas taco like this, but that is bonkers.
If you've got any leftovers, get out
some taco shells in the cupboard, something like that,
some tortillas for a soft one.
I really recommend you give that a go.
That is flavour packed.
And it's all done with, mainly, leftovers, easy peasy.
Amy's face will be a summary of what
I really think about it.
Good?
(dog grunts)
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Let me know down below what you wanna
see next, because just like this video,
that was inspired from that.
So next year I'm thinking that's
exactly what I might do.
Just take all your comments, and just let you rule me.
See ya.