welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen so today um
i'm i'm gonna make a recipe that is
inspired by the events of of july so the
first couple of weeks of july julie and
i were in
quebec city
we went down to quebec city for feck we
go to feck every year
the greatest music festival that you've
never heard of because you don't speak
french
10 nights of incredible bands out on the
plains of abraham
every night close to 110 100 000 people
out in front of this giant enormous
stage and last night we were there we
saw rage against the machine
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wow
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now in this cast iron pan i've put a
little bit of oil i've got it on medium
high heat and we want to saute off an
onion
i have a yellow pepper here it could be
green pepper it could be red pepper
could be any kind of pepper you want
and i've got a jalapeno
so we just want to saute these off and
soften them
so we're in quebec city for almost two
weeks and i gotta tell you even in uh we
rent an apartment even in an apartment
with a kitchen you're out all the time
you're going to concerts there's lots of
stuff to do during the day in quebec
city
um you end up eating out almost every
night and
10 12 14 nights of eating out in
restaurants
gets
a little bit hard to do
for me anyway so there's a couple of
diners that we go to
family run diners comfort food and so
probably three nights out of the 12 i
ate pate shinwa i absolutely love pate
chinois
and it occurred to me that i should make
one on the show but pate chinois is
essentially
what in the commonwealth you would call
a cottage pie
everywhere else it would be called
shepherd's pie
um
and i thought now i've already done
shepherd's pie a couple of times i'm not
going to do it again so this is softened
off nicely i have some ground beef
a chub of ground beef
and i always keep a chub or two of
ground beef
in the freezer
for a dish just like this it's really
easy to pull it out thought and then
cook it
and it's affordable um and i know that
right now the world we live in a lot of
people are looking for affordable meals
so this is an affordable meal
anyway so i've already done
cottage pie and shepherd's pie a couple
of different ways
and i thought i can't really do that
so fast forward a week from being in
quebec city
julie and i end up in mexico with the
glenn and friends trip
welcome friends welcome to
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okay so i've got some garlic and
i'm just gonna squeeze that garlic in
here
now for everyone who's screaming that i
should have browned the beef separate
from the vegetables
sauteed the vegetables take them out put
the beef in fried it really at a high
heat in order to really brown it off so
that you build that flavor
that's a great idea absolutely a great
idea
this is a very simplified dish and
there's a whole lot of flavor that's
going to happen soon
that that browning step becomes less
important
also because we're going to put it in
the oven and we're going to bake it for
a while all of these flavors come
together that browning step really isn't
as important as it would be if we didn't
add some of these flavors later
anyway so we're in mexico
um we ate a lot of great food we made a
lot of new friends with the people that
came on the trip with us
but
part way through the trip
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i had chipped the tooth just before
going on the trip and i ended up having
to have an emergency tooth extraction
in oaxaca at a dentist
got the tea cut the tooth out fine i
felt way better after getting the tooth
out but um
the dentist really reefed on my jaw
and as much as i can talk now and it
doesn't it's not painful i can't
actually open my mouth to get a spoon
full of food in and i can't really chew
all that well so i was looking for a
dish
that was easy to eat
and i thought you know
some of the flavors
that we experienced in mexico would go
really well in this so
this isn't mexican flavor per se it's
more of a southwest flavor
we're making
a southwest cottage pie or a southwest
shepherd's pie whatever you want to call
it um i'm easy in that regard okay so at
this point
i have some chipotle and adobo and i'm
going to put that in
get that stirred in there looking good
now
this is our homemade uh taco spice and
i'll try to link to the video down below
of where we make this the beauty of
making this this spice combination is
that you can play with the variations
and nail it down to exactly what you
want
this one that i've got here has
chocolate in it and the chocolate adds
this sort of smooth deep dark undertone
to the beef flavor
and it works really well but if what you
want to do is use a packet of taco spice
mix that you buy at the grocery store go
ahead just use a packet of that i'm
going to put in a good heaping cheese
tablespoon
maybe a tablespoon and a half
and we'll stir that in
from here it's pretty easy so
i've got some frozen corn that goes in
a can of rotel tomatoes if you live
somewhere where you can't get rotel
a can of tomatoes works just fine
a jar of store-bought salsa would be an
amazing substitute for the rotel
probably even better than than this
i've got a can of black beans and a can
of pinto beans
um
beyond adding texture and flavor
the beans are a meat extender that's
that's really one of the things that it
comes down to they extend your protein
they make the dish a little bit cheaper
while still keeping it filling and tasty
i've got a can of these roasted chopped
green chilies in they go
to that i'm going to add a couple of
scoops of
sour cream
let's see that's good
i'm just going to mix this get it all
really well incorporated now i've done
it in an enameled cast iron pan you
could do it in any pan as long as it's
oven safe that's the most important part
here because we are going to put this in
the oven at some point
that mixed together looks really good
now
last ingredient secret ingredient the
ingredient that i use in pretty much
anything that i have beef or ground beef
and that is marmite
and
the marmite just ups that umami that
that beefy
feeling that you get when you eat
something so
i'm going to do
about a tablespoon of marmite and we'll
mix that in
and don't fear
the marmite you know and i've had a lot
of comments i use i use marmite a lot
and i've had a lot of comments down in
the comments section from people who
have said
i didn't think i'd like marmite and i
gotta tell you i don't like marmite
either even even a thinnest little skin
on a piece of toast just makes me gag
it's horrible but
put it in a stew or a soup or something
with beef and the flavor is amazing and
that's what people have said in the
comments is you know i didn't think i'd
like it but i put it in
and it just did amazing things to the
other flavors really brought the other
flavors forward so don't fear the
marmite
so stir that in
now the last thing i'm going to put on
is a layer of potatoes
so mashed potatoes
potatoes boiled in water mashed up with
some salt pepper
cream uh
that sort of thing you could put other
flavorings in other flavorings would
work really well
something that would complement what's
going on in the rest of the dish but of
course
you don't have to use mashed potatoes
i'm just using mashed potatoes because i
really love mashed potatoes but you
could put on here
cornmeal
like a cornmeal mush that would work
really well you could put on crushed up
nacho chips
a couple layers of corn tortillas would
work really well that would be amazing
so i'm just going over it with a fork
getting lots of little craggy bits
that in the oven will start to get brown
and crispy and then i'm gonna put this
in the oven for about an hour
bring all of the flavors together get
the top a little bit brown and crispy
and then i'm going to pull it out
sprinkle some cheese on top some
shredded cheese
and then put it back in to let the
cheese get nice and crispy so
into the oven this goes and we'll see
you in a little while
hey jules hey glenn hey friends
that's a tough one
looks like it's does it have macaroni no
no well it's
so
a tough one we had spooner spoon or fork
i wasn't sure
let's call it pate
tex-mex
can you put another language in there
like like like pate chinois but tex-mex
flavored peppers ah okay now i
understand and it's and it's small and i
might be able to get this in through my
teeth so i can actually taste it wait
it's hot it is i can still wear the
steam yeah i might wait a moment because
it's just gonna burn my tongue we're
gonna pause
okay
okay we've had a pause welcome back
actually really good that's lovely
that's got that comfort of you know
potatoes and all the comfort of the the
kind of tradition of the dish with that
twist
the twist of flavor tiny little bites
i'm just gonna have this big bite
it hurts it hurts a lot
to get my jaw open even that much okay
so
like i said earlier i put potatoes on
top
but uh cornmeal mush on top would be
would be great yeah you know and that
puts it into
you know the territory of adjacent to
tamale pie but not tamale pie but you
know beside tamale pie you could put
um
crushed up
nacho chips on top mm-hmm doritos
i mean you could put doritos might be
too much man but doritos but for some
people doritos would that's perfectly
you know that's exactly what i feel like
that would be like a giant flavor bomb
wow it would be huge yeah so there's a
lot that you can play with this and this
is one of those dishes where you can
hide some vegetables for people that may
not want vegetables no need to hide them
i mean i only put in corn and and and uh
yellow bell pepper as a vegetable but
you could hide other things in there or
not even hide other things
yeah carrots put them right in yeah
definitely cauliflower lots of room to
play with this and don't worry
don't worry that it doesn't conform
to one single recipe idea so it's not
cottage pie it's not
shepherd's pie it's not tamale pie but
it's something new that you've made for
your family
thanks for stopping by see you again
soon
can i get one more scooping maybe
oh well done