- Honestly, if you had told me that in doing this channel
I would end up sautéing Cheerios...
(bouncy music)
Hi, I'm Beryl and the theme for today's video
is lazy day meals.
I have done this topic once before.
It's so good.
So easy.
It was very good.
I'm leaving a link in the description
and I've put the little, you know, tag thing up here.
If you wanna watch that episode...
The artist behind me is Ingrid Nilsen.
She is a print maker based in Edinburgh.
All of the lino prints that she makes are designed,
cut, and printed by hand using this cool lever press.
I am leaving a link in the description so you can
check out her other work and her socials.
Okay. First dish. Let's do it.
(happy ukulele music)
- Hi, Beryl. My name is Shareffa,
and I'm from the little red dot called Singapore.
The dish I wanna to share with you all today
is called (speaking foreign language)
In English, it directly translates to rice, egg, soy sauce.
And all you need are those three ingredients.
(speaking foreign language)is simply made
with fresh or leftover white rice,
a fried sunny-side up egg, and then it's drizzled
on top with (speaking foreign language),
a thick, sweet soy sauce.
You must make sure that the soy sauce is
the thick, sweet soy sauce and the sauce,
It really depends on the person, but I tend to
make sure that there's enough to cover up the dish.
The dish is not the most aesthetic-looking dish,
but it's perfect for a quick lazy meal.
and it's what I think of when it comes to comfort food.
I have fond memories of my mom or my
(speaking foreign language)
my grandmother on my mom's side,
making it for me when I was young.
And as I have gotten older, I now make it for myself.
A little fun fact,
I actually used to call this dish "mixed up mixed up"
when I was younger, because you literally had
to mix all the ingredients together.
I think it's fair to say that everyone loves lazy days,
and my ideal lazy day would be one relaxing
with a cup of tea and a good book and a nice view.
I think people should try (speaking foreign language)
if they enjoy a dish that is savory but slightly sweet
and they don't feel like cooking such a complicated meal.
Sometimes simple as best.
- Well, this was very easy to make.
So plus one point for that.
I'm also gonna do plus one point
that I'm trying another new sauce.
I've never had the thickened sweet soy sauce before.
It was a little thinner than I thought,
but I think I put enough on.
Now I'm going to mix it all up.
Mix mix mix.
I can see now at this point,
it's definitely not as like aesthetically pleasing
as it had been just a moment ago.
But once it's in your stomach, it looks like this anyway.
(woman exclaims)
Wow. Oh, that is, that is extremely satisfying.
Wow. I love all these new sauces
that I'm learning from you all.
Since starting this channel,
I eat rice for breakfast more
than I ever have in my entire life.
I think before this channel, I don't think
I actually ever really did eat rice for breakfast.
And now, now I do 'cause it's fabulous.
And it's like, it, it makes you feel good for the day.
This sweet soy sauce is definitely sweet
in a very good way.
Not sweet, like dessert sweet
but it's got this like salty, umami sweetness.
It's...
Come on, break, egg.
Sorry. It's just, it's so different
from anything I've ever had, and I love it.
You may have noticed that that bottle
of sweet soy sauce is very, very large
but I already looked online and found tons of recipes
like using it as a marinade,
and using it to cook chicken and fish.
So I'm excited. I'm excited to have a new sauce.
This is a very simple and low entry point
to eating something that's super familiar
but also very different.
10 out of 10. That was so good.
(happy violin music)
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(woman sniffs)
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Let's get back to the lazy day meals now.
(jazzy string bass music)
- Hi everyone. My name is Frida.
I live in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Today, I'd like to share the menu on my lazy days.
It's the chicken rice, not the usual chicken rice
but it's fried chicken rice cooker hack.
This thing went viral on the internet last year.
And it's originally from Japan.
You can use any kind of fried chicken you like.
And the idea is to absorb the fried chicken flavor
to the rice.
Super easy to make.
Add the fried chicken on top of your rice
and hit the cook button.
Once the rice is cooked, fluff the chicken rice.
Since I'm living alone, and sometimes I cook for myself,
I like the familiar smell of chicken rice
wafting in the air.
It feels like home on Sunday where my mom
used to cook for lunch or dinner.
Lazy days are the best when you can
wake up late and it's raining since morning.
Well, while I'm busy doing nothing all day long,
but still wanted a hardy meal, this is perfect.
Definitely an easy way to cook up a delicious
and nutritious dish.
I hope you guys can enjoy it. Thank you.
- Okay. I love it when there is like a hack
involved in these.
And I guess, I don't know, somehow I missed this hack.
There was a ramen hack that also went viral
that I completely missed.
(bouncy string music)
The sauce is so good.
You know, better late than never.
(bouncy string music)
What?
Oh my God.
This is legitimate.
Wow. The rice is so flavorful.
(bouncy string music)
This is like the most luxurious 12-minute meal
of my entire life.
I appreciate though the irony that I didn't have
leftover fried chicken to make this,
so I went and I bought fried chicken,
but now I do have leftover fried chicken.
So like, am I gonna just make more of this rice?
Yes.
I think that the most satisfying part was
when I opened up the rice cooker
and was taking the meat off the chicken bone
and it just like fell off it.
It was, It was nice.
I'm just, I'm feeling like the cat that got the cream
so far and I'm excited for the next dish.
(bouncy string music)
- I'm Melody and I live in New Mexico in the United States.
The dish that I want to share
with you today is called Cheerios and eggs
or that's what it is. We don't even have a name for it.
It's a meal that you can make for yourself
when you're just, you know, feeling super lazy.
The dish is Cheerios with scrambled eggs.
Basically, you take some butter and melt it
in a pan on the stove or in the microwave.
And then you add your Cheerios
and get them warm and toasted and tossed in the butter.
And then you can move those to the side,
or you can take them out and add an egg
to the pan and scramble it.
And then you toss it all together with salt and hot sauce.
And it's absolutely delicious.
You just eat it with a spoon.
This recipe came from my grandmother.
She developed it or found it in the 1950s
when she was taking care of her young children.
I like this dish because it's really simple.
It's a meal that is really filling and comforting,
and part of that comfort comes from
just remembering my grandmother making this
for me when I was little, and knowing that she also
made it for her children when they were little.
It's just a nice family thing
that I would like to pass down.
And I love having lazy days.
My perfect day would be to make a big batch
of this for my husband and my son and myself,
and just sit on the couch in our pajamas
and read books or watch YouTube videos,
sing songs, and not have to worry about dishes.
It's just one pan and it's super easy.
(bouncy keyboard music)
- This one I struggled to like make as aesthetic,
but I think, I think it's okay.
Honestly, if you had told me that in doing this channel
I would end up sautéing Cheerios,
(smacks lips)
You know what, it, you know, it's like toast.
It's like having eggs with toast.
It's good.
It has all the makings of like a quirky 1950s meal.
But the problem is that it works, you know.
Funky.
You know it's funny because like I did put ketchup
and mayo on it 'cause I just like that on my eggs.
And so the eggs with that, it's fine.
But then when I stop for a minute
and I think that I'm having Cheerios with ketchup and mayo,
that feels confusing, but it's not confusing in my mouth.
I'm liking this more than I thought I would.
There is something very oddly comforting about this.
And I don't know if it's like the nostalgia
of eating Cheerios, which I haven't had since I was a kid.
I like eating cereal more like this than with milk.
I mean...
(woman claps hands)
I loved it. God, I am enjoying this episode.
(bouncy percussion music)
- Hello. My name's Laurence.
I'm from Ghent, Belgium,
and the dish I want to share with you all today
is called butter and miso pasta, or in Dutch,
It's almost the same (speaking Dutch).
So it's pretty self explanatory.
You can eat it plain or with a soft boiled egg
to make it more filling.
It doesn't really matter which kind of miso paste you use.
You could use white or red.
And the flavor of it is like salty umami.
You can achieve this distinct flavor with little effort.
So on a lazy day, for me, everything is lazy.
Like most of the times I don't even have any groceries left
in my house anymore.
And I'm that lazy that I really don't wanna go
to this grocery store.
So I just try to be creative and find what I can make.
And this is when I started making this kind of dish.
I love cooking and making sure
that I have almost nothing left anymore
in my house to cook with because then I have to get creative
and I have to make a meal out of nothing.
But it, it always works.
We always have way much more food
than we need to have in our houses.
And I think it's better for the environment
if we be more careful with everything we buy.
I came up with this dish when I didn't have anything
in the house and I just tried to be creative.
I just let my imagination run wild.
And this is what I came up with at the moment.
It's nothing, nothing difficult.
And it's just really delicious,
like low effort, big outcome.
So I really recommend you to try it.
- Okay. Miso pasta with a soft-boiled egg.
I soft boiled the for six minutes
and then put it in cold water.
And it is perfecto.
Da-da-da.
I've never had miso like this before, so I'm curious.
(woman smacks lips)
(woman exclaims)
This is an incredible easy sauce
that is so rich and flavorful.
I am mightily surprised.
Miso is an ingredient for me
where I purchased it for one recipe
and then I didn't really know what else to do with it,
so it kind of just like sat in the back of the fridge.
And more recently I've tried to experiment
and you can use it in dressings and on chicken and fish.
I never thought to use it in pasta,
but this is, honestly it's phenomenal.
It is salty and it is rich and decadent.
And then the egg yolk with it.
(woman smacks lips)
Ew. It, without the hand movement, it felt...
I don't like that.
This was kind of funny.
So Laurence emailed me about this
and I was like, wait, I recognize your name.
And then I looked and she was in our midnight snack video.
- I'm studying for my exam.
So let's look for something to eat.
- I just think that's so fun.
Like this has happened before.
I recognize you guys and I remember you guys
and the people who comment,
I recognize your names and it's just, it's cool.
Like I know we all don't know each other,
but sometimes I really feel like we do.
Okay. Final dish.
(calm ukulele music)
- Hi Beryl. My name is Ora. I'm from Israel.
And today I would like to talk about meat and potato stew.
And this is a very hot, very hardy stew,
perfect for a lazy day because it's like zero prep time.
And in the end you have this perfect stew
fit for a king and queen.
The base is meat and potatoes.
Now the key ingredient for the stew,
something you cannot skip is garlic.
You have to use garlic.
It's a quite a stinky dish from garlic,
but it's really great.
I'm a cook. I'm a cook at a restaurant.
I don't have a lot of time.
And when I have free time, when I have lazy days,
I like to lay in my own filth
and just have something in the oven that can stay there
for a few hours, do its thing.
And in the end, I have this great meal.
This is a family recipe, which I perfected
because my mom used to cook it on the stove.
And I cook it in the oven because it's a little simpler.
You don't have stir it.
This dish also freezes really really well.
And the best thing it's like, it's really, really
easy to make. You like shove it in the oven,
let it do its thing for three hours and that's it.
- Okay. The final dish is our beef and potato stew.
I do wanna say this.
I know that I was supposed to make this in an oven
but let me show you my kitchen right now.
As you can see, I don't have an oven.
Many of you know that I haven't had gas
in my kitchen as well for a little over a year.
So I adapted and used my slow cooker.
(snappy jazz music)
Whoa.
The beef just like melted in my mouth.
I feel like I didn't even chew it.
This definitely has winter vibes going for it.
I do feel like it's a little bland for my taste,
but I could probably remedy that by just
grabbing some hot sauce and maybe some fried onion.
I have those like fried onion bits and fried garlic bits.
That would be really good.
I mean, I'm not gonna do that.
I'm just, well, I'm gonna do it.
I've got some hot sauce and some fried onion.
(snappy jazz music)
Fix it right up.
It is really nice to be able
to just throw everything into a pot.
And then at the end of the day
you have this like delicate and slow-cooked, amazing meal.
Are slow cooker meals popular around the world
or is that very much an American thing?
I know that I grew up with them,
but I'm curious if those of you who live
outside of the US also have slow cooker things.
If you're interested in the other lazy day meals episode,
I've linked it for you here.
And I feel like comfort food is kind of the same vibe.
So I linked the comfort food video as well for you to watch.
I hope you all have a great week and I will see you.
Or actually someone said, I'm not seeing anyone.
You guys will see me.
So you'll see me again next week.