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- Hey, guys, it's Katie
and I love giving challenges to other Tasty producers
so I thought it would be really fun
if we have three Tasty producers
make breakfast but at very different budgets
'cause sometimes when you're cooking, you got a lot of money
and other times your budget is really tight.
So I'm very excited.
Too excited?
I'm gonna go drop off money
at Matt, Nichi's and Jasmine's house
and we're gonna see how they react.
- I have the envelope from Katie.
I'm very nervous.
- She gave me this envelope here that has my name on it.
- I don't know how much is in here.
It could be a lot.
It could be very little.
- I'm a little scared that there's like a dollar in it
'cause I've made Katie do some content stuff
that was not fun.
- Oh, the prosciutto.
- But I'm not super nervous.
I'm kinda down for the challenge.
- I just really hope I don't get $2.
- Oh, hell yes.
- Oh, I got $10, bro, hell yeah.
- $100.
- No.
- This is super exciting 'cause I was gonna get a dollar
so Katie, thank you for having mercy on me.
I appreciate it
- Ha, suck it, Jasmine.
- I just really hope I don't get $2.
- All right and let's see these rules.
- You can use two pantries.
Oh, sorry.
I'm so nervous, I can't read.
- One, you can use two items from your pantry.
- You can use one item from your fridge.
Three, salt, pepper and olive oil are freebies.
Honestly, these rules seem pretty fair to me.
- Let's see what I have already
and then we'll see what we can make.
Let's do it.
- [Jasmine] Currently going through my fridge.
It looks like I have a lot of produce
and what's calling out to me are the strawberries.
They remind me of this really great breakfast item
from one of my favorite bakeries.
- [Nichi] Feeling French toast.
Let me grab this bread and syrup.
Perfect, don't have to buy those things.
- [Matt] I've got yogurt, hummus, cheese, eggs.
Eggs?
Eggs.
- So I think I got really lucky
'cause I've got pretty much everything I need
to make French toast.
I've got bread, I've got syrup and I've got eggs
but to kick it up a notch,
I'm gonna make this a little bit fancier
and use a tasty.co strawberry cheesecake French toast recipe
and so I don't have the things that I need
to make for the strawberry cheesecake part
so let's go to the store
and see if I can get all of that stuff under $10.
Okay, guys, I just got to the store.
I need about seven things and I've got $10
so let's see what happens.
- [Jasmine] Found some croissants but they're 2.99, ugh.
- God, guys, this is my problem.
Milk is so freaking expensive
but I got like a little small thing of milk
'cause I know I don't need a lot.
- Just went to the store.
I wanna show you what I got.
Nothing, I got nothing.
I could afford nothing with this $2 budget.
Have to go to more stores now.
- [Matt] I've gotten all of my smaller items
which comes out to about 52.76 so far
which means I have about $50 for my big ticket items.
- [Nichi] Sacrificed a couple of things.
We couldn't afford sugar but I got confectioner sugar.
- All right, we are off to store number three.
Finally, some stuff I can afford.
- Let's get out of here.
I had $100 to spend.
Sorry, Jasmine.
- Nothing, I got nothing.
- Let's go home and make some breakfast.
- I am back from the stores
and I am ready to start making my breakfast.
Let's start baking.
All right, so to make these budget friendly
strawberry croissants,
I'm gonna pop open my croissant dough,
roll them up and start with the wide side.
Once all those are done, I'm gonna pop those in the oven
for about nine minutes at 375 and make my custard.
I messed up.
I realized that this custard
or this vanilla pudding needs milk and so I'm cheating.
I have to use milk from my fridge
and that's two items from my fridge.
Maybe she'll let me get away with two fridge items
and one pantry item.
She's not gonna let me get away with that.
Yay.
Now, I'm gonna take my washed strawberries
and cut them into thin slices and get to assembling.
I let the croissants cool
and now I'm gonna use a serrated knife to cut my croissants.
I transferred my custard to a piping bag
and we're just gonna generously fill each croissant
then we're gonna take those sliced strawberries
and insert them into the croissants on top of the custard.
I love the flavor of the fresh strawberries
with the custard.
It gets me every time.
Finally, I'm gonna top them with some powdered sugar
which was my pantry item and they're done.
They look really great for what I had to work with.
To be able to make eight strawberry croissants
with $2.26 was a challenge
but I only need one for breakfast
so I think I'd call this a win.
So let's give it a try.
Cheers.
Mm.
Nothing can beat the ones from my favorite bakery
but these are really good especially on a budget.
Mm mm.
- All right, so we're making
like strawberry cheesecake French toast.
We couldn't afford sugar but I got confectioner sugar.
We are also skipping vanilla.
You can do without that flavor.
For $10, yes, you absolutely can.
I'm ready, I'm excited, let's get to cooking.
All right, guys, this is really sketchy without the vanilla
and without the regular sugar.
Let's give it a taste, let's see.
Oh, okay, it actually kinda tastes like a,
like cream cheese cake filling.
I'm sure it'll taste even more
once we get the strawberries in there.
I'm just gonna move on, we're just gonna roll with it.
We got $10.
This is what you get for $10.
Gonna go a little bit thick.
Well, I guess I'm doing two sides so I won't go that thick.
That's how you put something on bread.
Boom.
Excellent.
See, it looks pretty much like a cream cheese sandwich.
All right, let's get this dunked.
We're going to add eggs,
the cinnamon that we got from el store
and a little bit of milk that we got.
That was probably a lot of cinnamon.
I think I adjusted everything but the cinnamon
but I like cinnamon so that is okay.
Okay, so we might need another egg in here but no big deal.
We have got plenty still leftover in the fridge
so I'm gonna add that and then once our egg wash is done,
we can dunk our sandwich in it
or I mean, I feel like it counts as a sandwich.
I'm gonna call it a sandwich.
Oh yeah.
That's so hefty.
That's gonna be delicious.
Now, let's get this baby on the stove.
It's all in the wrist, all in the flick of the wrist.
Looking not bad.
This is a very quick cook.
Boom.
Nice golden brown.
Coming out, that's gonna be delicious.
Let's top this thing with some strawberries.
All right, so this confectioner sugar.
This is where it came in handy.
Here we go.
I went for this over taste
but it actually tasted pretty fine inside of that.
Some delicious syrup.
Oh yeah.
That is where it is at, Jasmine and Matt.
Suck it.
Mm.
Super great.
I don't think we missed anything with the sugar.
I was hoping that we wouldn't
'cause everything here is already pretty sweet.
You got the syrup,
you got the natural sweetness of the strawberries.
I think at $10, this was actually like not that difficult
'cause a $10 breakfast
is pretty much what people would spend for $10.
The only thing I'm missing is like a coffee
or like a mimosa or something like that
but other than that, great time.
- I am going to be making blueberry buttermilk pancakes,
steak, bacon fat fried potatoes, a lobster omelet
with Gruyere and cheddar and finally, a Bloody Mary.
So let's make some breakfast.
So to get started, I'm adding my pantry freebie,
the all-purpose flour then sugar, salt,
baking soda and baking powder and just whisking all of that
until nice and combined.
Now, for the wet ingredients, I'm adding my buttermilk,
melted butter and only the yolks at this point.
Beat that all together until nice and combined.
I'm adding my wet ingredients to my dry
and mixing it all together very gently.
I don't wanna overwork my batter at all.
It's okay if there's some stray little clumps
of flour here and there
and now for the remaining egg white.
Just mix that all together gently
and set aside for 15 to 30 minutes.
Now that the pancake batter is nice and rested,
it's time to cook 'em up.
I'm cooking these in a mixture of butter and bacon fat
just to add more of that nice bacony flavor to everything
and I'm adding some of my blueberries to the top
and this will cook for just a few minutes
until bubbles start to rise on the top of it
and it's nice golden brown and give it a flip.
I'm setting the finished pancakes aside on a plate
and moving on to my steak quickly.
Going to generously coat in salt and pepper
making sure sort of go around all those sides
leaving it all touched
and I'm letting it rest for about 30 minutes
just so the salt can kinda work its magic.
Now it is time for the potatoes.
My intention was to buy duck fat
so I could make duck fat potatoes.
I could only find bacon fat so that's what I'm using.
Some chopped rosemary, a bit of garlic
and finally, some black pepper
and I'm gonna cook this over medium heat
for a couple of minutes until my bacon fat starts bubbling
and the garlic turns a nice golden brown.
I've gone ahead and boiled my potatoes
until they're nice and fork tender
and then gave the pot a good shake
so that the outside's got a nice shaggy appearance
as you can see here and to these,
I am adding back my bacon fat
but I want to strain out all the bits of garlic
and herbs that are in there
because they might burn when they're in the oven.
They're already perfectly cooked.
So hold onto these, don't throw 'em away
and then these potatoes are going to go
into a 450 degree oven until they're nice and golden brown.
In my trusty cast iron over medium high heat,
I'm adding some butter, a little bit more bacon fat
and my steak.
I just want this to cook for a few minutes.
Get a nice golden brown sear on one side.
I have rosemary and I have garlic leftover
so I'm gonna throw those in the pan as well
and just baste with my buttery mixture.
That's starting to brown really, really nicely.
Give it a good flip.
Cook another few minutes on the other side
and then once it's ready, pull it off
and let it rest for about 10 to 15 minutes.
Now it's time for the lobster omelet.
Again, I am cooking it in a mixture of butter and bacon fat
just going to cook it meat side down at first
until it's cooked through, have a nice char
then we're gonna flip, repeat with the underside
and then flip onto the sides.
Keep doing this
until the lobster tail has completely cooked through
then I'm going to remove the meat,
chop it up and it'll be ready for my omelet.
For the egg portion of this omelet,
I'm also adding just a little bit of water
and finally, some salt.
Beat it all together until nice and incorporated
and this is going to rest for about 10 minutes
while the salt works its magic on the eggs.
I'm melting some butter over medium, medium high heat.
It should start to foam, brown a little on the bottom.
Add the egg.
As the egg cooks, push it into nice curds, shaking it around
making sure every little bit is covered.
Today, I'm topping with a combination of cheddar, Gruyere.
Now time for my lobster meat all around.
Turn off my heat, cover and let sit for about a minute
just so the residual heat continues to cook the omelet
and melts all of my cheese and using my spatula,
I'm just going to gently fold this over.
That's the perfect lobster Gruyere cheddar omelet
in my opinion.
It's now time for my favorite
of all the alcoholic breakfast drinks, the Bloody Mary.
First thing to go in is my tomato juice.
A good glug of Worcestershire sauce.
Squeeze of lime.
Shake of celery salt.
Shake of garlic salt and finally, a nice pour of my vodka.
Oh and of course my black pepper.
Give that all a good stir.
To finish, I'm just gonna throw in my one piece of celery.
Okay, so that took a while.
It took a couple hours worth of work
but my breakfast is finally done.
Everything went pretty smoothly.
I think the red flags that I had were syrup.
I didn't buy syrup.
It wasn't in my budget.
I couldn't take it from my pantry.
So I just threw together a really simple syrup
with sugar, water, my leftover blueberries.
It's time for me to taste everything.
What do I wanna start with first?
I am going to start with the steak.
Steak is really simple.
Salt.
Pepper.
Get it nice and brown.
Ooh, that's good.
So this is my lobster Gruyere, cheddar omelet.
It's good, I think the Gruyere works really, really well
with the lobster.
Let's give these potatoes a shot
and I'm like shocked by how brown these are.
The inside is perfectly fluffy.
It's like biting into like a mashed potato bite
then outside is so crunchy
like I don't know if you can hear this.
So let's try our blueberry pancakes.
Making the simple syrup with blueberry
really saved this at the end
because if this didn't have any sweet,
sugary, syrupy goodness on top of it,
it would not be as delicious as it is.
Finally, the Bloody Mary.
I don't love that.
Overall, this was a super fun challenge.
I feel like I had to kind of problem solve
a little bit more at the grocery store
to make my budget work.
It also taught me
that you don't need to spend the most money
to make the best breakfast.
This is good but I would have been okay
with just a fraction of what I have here
and you know what, that's fine.
Some days you're able to splurge.
Some days you can't.
Let us know which breakfast you like best
in the comments below
and until next time, take care, friends.
- [Narrator] Oh yes.
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