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I was not surprised Eva was able to improve all of them. Even without being able to taste them, you could tell how much better they were. The pizza rolls. Totino's pizza rolls started out as Jeno's pizza rolls. Both Totino's & Jeno's were started by Italian Americans but bought out by giant corporations who turned them into the junk food they are today.
I have not laughed so much in a very long time! My mother, from Treviso, lived in Australia for 60 years and taught English to Italian migrants and to the day she passed away she could not get the word s-h-e-e-t out without it sounding like s-h-i-t. It always gave us all a good laugh. You are both very entertaining and good at this whole food+Southern Italian attitude+YT thing and thank you for it. Thanks for pointing out just how sheet bought junk food really is!
Guys, discovering you has been a blessing! My girlfriend is American (from Maine, just like Harper) and I'm Italian (born and raised in Puglia but my mom is from Calabria, just like Eva): your relationship reminds me of my own a lot! I will never forget my girlfriend trying her first Italian pizza ever... ❤ thank you for creating such contents and sharing them with us! Ciao!
True, yet they can't follow directions and use the hot pocket sleeve properly. But I seldom microwave them. They used to include baking instructions and I still bake them. Much better results.
Eva 2:00, "Even if I don't like them I respect them and I treat them with as much love a I can." I come here for great Italian cooking insights and instead Eva serves as an example of how people should treat the world around them. Eat what nourishes the body. Think what nourishes the soul. Is there anything Eva can't do? Sei un tesoro in molti modi.
I liked your comment so much, I had to come back to read it again. "Eat what nourishes the body. Think what nourishes the soul." This is the recipe for heaven on earth.
No, I can't respect any of the junk foods, sorry. Hot pockets and all the other frozen junk foods are causing health issues: heart, liver, kidney, stomach problems... if eaten all the time.
The fact that you keep breadcrumbs in an old Lidia’s pasta sauce jar after pointing out in the LA video that those sauces have nothing to do with Italy 😂
Loved, and was equally shocked, by Harper’s time-lapsed reading of the endless ingredients of (was it) the Bagel Bites! Also, Eva telling Harper that the Hot Pocket made her want to “pook.” 😂 Another great video. Thank you both!
Just wanted to say that you guys are awesome. I love cooking shows and have been watching many different chefs cook various foods (including Italian) for over a decade. Nothing comes close to being as original as what you guys create. And let's face it, America needs more people who know how to cook real food, not microwave processed junk. I'm beginning to think this is why Europe tends to be healthier: the pride they take in making real food and using real ingredients. America started getting hooked on processed foods way back in the 50s.
Actually this is the reason, people in America tend to eat a lot out and buy ready made stuff. If you add up the fact that the FDA is not as strict with its regulations as corresponding agencies in European countries, you have it. I'm Italian and I do happen to eat frozen food or eat out, but I'm always amazed at how common it is to find scenes in American movies where people are having takeaways or eating some junk food. Not to say that we don't, but the frequency is reckoned as weird by us Italians
I was shocked when I saw Lydia’s tomato “sauce” jar, then I saw it was filled with breadcrumbs. Im cleaning the coffee off of my screen now. I DIED laughing 😂
I agree about the bite-size-ness. If you're going to eat half a dozen of those bagel bites, why not just make one bigger one and be done with it? I'd think making anything in a bigger size would be easier anyway.
I am of Polish heritage; my family came from Poland and brought so many wonderful Polish dishes with them that I grew up with; in addition to that, we lived in a neighborhood that was mostly Polish and Italian. Our neighbors were Italian, we traded dishes, recipes, we learned from one another. Polish cuisine was influenced heavily by Italian and French cuisines, and so there were the seeds of "fusion cuisine" long before that ever became a "thing". One thing I do have to say is that I enjoy your cooking, Eva, to such a wonderfully high degree, that it brings back so many beautiful memories. Like you, Eva, I am saddened and disappointed and even disgusted with so many American quick-prepared foods, and it is the American companies who put the "junk" in food, to coin the phrase "JUNK FOOD". I love your recipes, and will endeavor to make them. As always, I wish you Buon appetito!
Way to go Eva...I think for me I'd stuff my 'hot pockets' with refried beans, hatch green chili and cheese...and thank you for teaching all us to be respectful of our food, no matter what it is.
I love Eva's accent she says baking sheet exactly like my grand mother use to say it...love it and miss it so much... you guys are awesome!!! Your food always looks so beautiful!!
I went to public school in California, and I’m SOOO old, that schools still taught “shop” class (plastics, woodwork) to boys and “home ec” (cooking, sewing) to girls!! One of the first thing they taught to a classfull of 12-13 year olds was “english muffin pizza” (before microwaves!) 1) toast the English muffins 2) spoon on sauce from a jar 3) sprinkle on any kind of grated cheese 4) if you’re fancy, you can add pepperoni/salami/black olives//bell peppers 5) toast/broil it to melt the cheese They weren’t good, but we could make after school snacks for everyone!
Eva could start a restaurant and do so much with all the recipes she has in her head. AND take all the worst "Italian" foods and make them great! Keep up the marvelous cooking!
Eva baking tray sounds perfectly fine to this native English speaker. In fact it’s probably the word my brain would pull up in that situation, sheet would be a second choice. And why didn’t Totinos just drop the term pizza and call them what they’re much more like -mini calzones aren’t they? (to anyone ready to point out that you don’t fry calzone, let me save you the trouble and say - yes I know, thanks). No surprise about the pizza bagels. Bagels were not developed to act as a base for snack pizzas. Eva started literally using everything she knew would work best as a crust base for this snack, and thus naturally it turned out as a far superior base for her version of a pizza ‘bagel’ than a bagel😋 Thank you both once again for sharing your talents with us🙏🏻
Again, love the cinematic use of music. You and Furniture Fables have the most varied and theatrical use of soundtrack music, which makes sense if you are a filmmaker and she's a hobby actress.
I have to say, just a few seconds in I am on Eva's side! I can't "dump" anything out - I do exactly the same as her, my scampi and chunky chips(in the British sense) get carefully placed and spaced!! On the very infrequent occasions I allow myself an old "pub grub" favourite!😄
My sicilian grandmom forbids frozen pizza and fake italian foods in home. She made alot of cudduruni (not sure how to spell) and put some cudduruni in wrapped aluminum foil in freezer. If we familia want something food quickly to eat. Take frozen cudduruni out from freezer and put them in oven and serve them hot! Eva, thank you so much for homemade mini pizza rolls recipe! I have to try it when summer is gone due to humidity!
Eva summed it up nicely...."If the 'junk' food is well done, it is not junk food anymore." It's been years since I've been to Italy and I never spent time in an Italian grocery store, but I'm curious what Italians have (if at all) for "junk" food, frozen or otherwise.
They do have some frozen "junk," but it's a little different. For instance, the dough Eva made for her Hot Pocket is similar to sofficini, which are sort of like Italian Hot Pockets. You actually have to fry them yourself, though.
@@PastaGrammar I think the level convenience is tied to the "junkiness" of a product. When a company tries to make a product that goes from freezer to plate so fast that you just have to throw it in a microwave for a few minutes is where you get something like that Hot Pocket. But a company that makes a product that is pre-made, but still requires some level cooking might be where I would call a food "convenient" rather than "junk".
Fabulous! Just goes to show if you use simple ingredients, making it from scratch, you can easily surpass any of the pre-made frozen/chilled fast (junk) food - turning it into a delicious, healthy (without additives + preservatives) snack. Great challenge Harper and great job Eva! 👏👍😋
Harper, you are so funny that you make me laugh at loud! Ava is a lucky girl to have found you, and vice versa. She is so accommodating and her cooking skills are amazing. I’m learning so much from her, about her recipes and which products to buy. I’m almost done binge watching, I’m addicted.
The Respect Eva give all the frozen Foods shows how respectfull the italiens are to Food and to people and how they really shine there are so many stereotyps told to everyone how italiens are but its not true 95% of the time
Such a fun episode! I still want Eva’s fried Mozzarella recipe. She said once they use the small Mozz balls. I have yet to find a recipe with the right herbs to coat.
Fun story about Torino’s pizza rolls: I bought some when I was feeling nostalgic and sat down to eat them on the couch. My dogs, who normally will eat any thing, including raw spinach, wouldn’t touch them. My wife said that should tell a person all they need to know if the dogs won’t eat them. And the dogs eat rabbit poop.
People who don't enjoy cooking will never understand Eva. Much of the joy of cooking comes from seeing others love what you make them. Has Eva tried crispy pepperoni?
I like Totino’s square frozen pizzas over all the other frozen pizzas because of the crust. It’s completely different, flaky and bubbly. I’d love to see how Eva reimagines that!
Spacing is important. I do the same with pizza rolls & stuff. While hot pockets are hot garbage, the crisping sleeve is on incorrectly, it's folded at the bottom like for eating; it's supposed to be open at the bottom and over more of the pocket. Then you would have crisp hot garbage instead of doughy hot garbage lol.
so awesome to see Tempesta get some recognition ive loved them ever since they opened up. they have much more manageable sizes in grocery stores throughout the chicago area. The one that i know always has it is Eatly in downtown but ive found it at fresh farms and wholefoods before too
My family would love a freezable bulk version of the pizza rolls that you could make a bunch, freeze them and let the kids bake some when they want them, enjoy and not make an enormous mess of the kitchen - and have a treat that is real food.
Thank you for the Video. I am a german and grew up in Hannover, which has a strange phenomenon: It ist the only city outside the Napoli-Region(?) where you find fried Calzone (or is it called panzerotti?) on every corner. Italian workers brought this decades ago and I would call it a typical Streetfood of Hannover.
She’s so right! Italians would either laugh at you or give for a pair of cement boots IF you use Sugar in your “Gravy” or give Salami when you ask for “Pepperoni”. Only English, Germans & Irish use sugar & only Americans think Pepperoni is a meat when it’s really SMALL 🌶️ 🌶️. I knew she was ☝️ of our Calabresi. She is beautiful 😻!
😂Eva: How you say revolting? Harper: revolting. I adore hanging out with you two, I live vicariously because I'm keto/carnivore. My absolute favorite food is bread and if Eva made it for me I would be in BIG trouble. My type 2 diabetes would come back with a vengeance and the 108 pounds I lost would be found!
Thank you both for yet another fantastic Sunday morning video!! So, let’s see… mozzarella sticks, egg rolls, taquitos, chicken nuggets… all interesting items Eva can make better! Buon appetito! 😁
@@PastaGrammar flautas? th-cam.com/video/OFGFaXLR_u4/w-d-xo.html it’s a very great representation of what a real flauta is. The best and closest frozen “taquitos” are the H-E-B hill country fare brand taquitos. Most frozen ones don’t even resemble “taquitos” and pretty bad. Always serve with cream , sauce, and salad of lettuce.
I love frozen French fries, spring rolls, garlic baguette. Also, I would love to see Eva react on vegetarian alternatives to meat that look like meat, for example vegetarian ground beef/minced meat in a Bolognese. That would be very interesting for a video
Idea: I recently made homemade cheese from milk that was getting a little older. Perhaps challenge Eva to use ingredients that perhaps needs to be used up? Love these videos, keep it up!
Favorite frozen food is pierogi’s!!! Potato and onion or cheese filled pasta pocket type things… don’t know where they originated but I love to cook them with butter and onions 😋
Sarah Lee used to have these mini cheesecake bar think about half the length of a Snickers. Mighty tasty. Might be a fun one to add to Eva's challenge.
"eef you want a bite size, you take a bite." Jeez Harper! Eva has a mastery of dough that deserves more comment. Pasta-> pate a chou -> pizza dough -> various breads -> dessert pastries. She's got the skilz.
Okay, I'm certainly not endorsing Hot Pockets, but the reason the "dough" was mushy was because she didn't put it in the sleeve correctly. You're not supposed to fold it up until after you've cooked it. That part was outside the sleeve so it didn't firm up. I am with everyone else though, that I would buy Eva's version of any of these; especially that "Hot Pocket." That crust looks amazing! My favorite frozen "junk food" would have to be potstickers or mini eclairs.
The frozen snacks were staples of my childhood; and even into my 20s (at one job I cut the pizza rolls boxes when I had them for lunch and taped the front pieces to the inside of my locker). I really want to try the improved recipes, especially the improved hot pocket.
That was an awesome video, proving that mass produced "snack food", can be so much better when you take a little time to make a homemade version. Bravo!
My favorite frozen junk food has to be the fried 'burritos' they used to sell in Texas Middle and Highschools both at lunchtime and as a snack. They had them at both Public and Catholic schools as I went to both. They're kinda like a Chimichanga but were/ are laden with more grease. You can still buy them to cook at home from HEB stores here in Texas to either cook in the microwave, oven or deep fry. I have a home fryer so you can guess how I cook them. They're an affront to gastronomy and they'll give you gastritis but every now and then.... Maybe twice a year I get them, fry them and dip them in ketchup.
My favorite frozen food is a Dutch snack called "kroket" originally you would deepfry them, but they have been available for quite some time now, in a specially made version that can be cooked in the oven or airfryer. Its best described as a thick meaty ragout incased in a good breading. And theres also a simular version but with a cheese filling called cheesesoufle which is equally good 🤤 I think these snacks are easier to recreate than a good pizza. However, Im not sure what would hapen were they to start producing them in the US... since they seem to add mountains of sugar to everything, way more than in Europe. 🙈 im from the netherlands and I once bought orangejuice at a supermarket.... it tasted like water with atleast 50% sugar, but probable more 😅 So I just ended up getting fresh oranges and squeezing it myself.
I can't wait to try these. My kids love this kind of food but I rarely buy it because it's NOT GOOD! It barely resembles food. That said ... when I do buy the pizza rolls I also line them up like Eva. I blame it on being a Virgo. 😂
Harper! Do really all American processed food contain so much ingredients, chemical and additives? It's mind blowing the list of ingredients of tortino's! In Italy the junk processed food contains more ingredients than the same recipe made with fresh ingredients and some additives too, but way way less than what you read!
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Cheeseburger Macaroni
I am expecting my 6th child with my husband. I crave chef boyardee ravioli, but it has way to much sodium. Help me!!!!
Hamburger Helper
Findus crispy pancakes with cheese filling!
how about something from Hostess or Little Debbie like Twinkies?
the look of pure happiness on eva's face when she made the bagel bites and harper was rating them was so wholesome i love their husband-wife dynamic
I was not surprised Eva was able to improve all of them. Even without being able to taste them, you could tell how much better they were. The pizza rolls. Totino's pizza rolls started out as Jeno's pizza rolls. Both Totino's & Jeno's were started by Italian Americans but bought out by giant corporations who turned them into the junk food they are today.
I have not laughed so much in a very long time! My mother, from Treviso, lived in Australia for 60 years and taught English to Italian migrants and to the day she passed away she could not get the word s-h-e-e-t out without it sounding like s-h-i-t. It always gave us all a good laugh.
You are both very entertaining and good at this whole food+Southern Italian attitude+YT thing and thank you for it.
Thanks for pointing out just how sheet bought junk food really is!
Guys, discovering you has been a blessing! My girlfriend is American (from Maine, just like Harper) and I'm Italian (born and raised in Puglia but my mom is from Calabria, just like Eva): your relationship reminds me of my own a lot! I will never forget my girlfriend trying her first Italian pizza ever... ❤ thank you for creating such contents and sharing them with us! Ciao!
"Even if I don't like them I'll treat them with as much love and respect as I can" I love it! I treat all my food this way 😂
Eva‘s cooking skills along with her ideas and the personal touch she gives EVERY dish….are simply UNMATCHED!!! I could watch her all day long.
True, yet they can't follow directions and use the hot pocket sleeve properly. But I seldom microwave them. They used to include baking instructions and I still bake them. Much better results.
Eva 2:00, "Even if I don't like them I respect them and I treat them with as much love a I can." I come here for great Italian cooking insights and instead Eva serves as an example of how people should treat the world around them. Eat what nourishes the body. Think what nourishes the soul. Is there anything Eva can't do? Sei un tesoro in molti modi.
Grazie! ❤️
Exactly =)
I liked your comment so much, I had to come back to read it again. "Eat what nourishes the body. Think what nourishes the soul." This is the recipe for heaven on earth.
@@messengeroftruth17 We need more messengers of truth walking among us. Thanks for doing more than your fair share. Eat a little Italian today.
No, I can't respect any of the junk foods, sorry. Hot pockets and all the other frozen junk foods are causing health issues: heart, liver, kidney, stomach problems... if eaten all the time.
Eva should start a company making frozen Italian meals. I would totally order!
I would pay Rao’s prices for Eva’s food.
@@ayidas i think everyone would
I agree 100 %. 😀
Exactly. Exactly. Just like Linda McCartney. She did great.
@@ayidas 0️⃣
It really is adorable how she enjoys him enjoying the food
The fact that you keep breadcrumbs in an old Lidia’s pasta sauce jar after pointing out in the LA video that those sauces have nothing to do with Italy 😂
No one makes baking seem more approachable than Eva. You two are the best. Thanks for the great ideas.
Loved, and was equally shocked, by Harper’s time-lapsed reading of the endless ingredients of (was it) the Bagel Bites! Also, Eva telling Harper that the Hot Pocket made her want to “pook.” 😂 Another great video. Thank you both!
Nah, it was the pizza rolls
Just wanted to say that you guys are awesome. I love cooking shows and have been watching many different chefs cook various foods (including Italian) for over a decade. Nothing comes close to being as original as what you guys create. And let's face it, America needs more people who know how to cook real food, not microwave processed junk. I'm beginning to think this is why Europe tends to be healthier: the pride they take in making real food and using real ingredients. America started getting hooked on processed foods way back in the 50s.
Actually this is the reason, people in America tend to eat a lot out and buy ready made stuff. If you add up the fact that the FDA is not as strict with its regulations as corresponding agencies in European countries, you have it.
I'm Italian and I do happen to eat frozen food or eat out, but I'm always amazed at how common it is to find scenes in American movies where people are having takeaways or eating some junk food. Not to say that we don't, but the frequency is reckoned as weird by us Italians
@@Hastdupech8509 A recent statistic showed that around 80% of Americans eat and make home cooked meals this was a lot lower around a decade ago.
@@kevinprzy4539 I can only be happy for you then, let's hope this will result in an improvement of public health and food habits for Americans
I was shocked when I saw Lydia’s tomato “sauce” jar, then I saw it was filled with breadcrumbs. Im cleaning the coffee off of my screen now. I DIED laughing 😂
I like the way Ms. Eva thinks vis a vis bite-size bagels. I don't think any other cooking show so consistently makes me wish we had taste-o-vision
I agree about the bite-size-ness. If you're going to eat half a dozen of those bagel bites, why not just make one bigger one and be done with it? I'd think making anything in a bigger size would be easier anyway.
I am of Polish heritage; my family came from Poland and brought so many wonderful Polish dishes with them that I grew up with; in addition to that, we lived in a neighborhood that was mostly Polish and Italian. Our neighbors were Italian, we traded dishes, recipes, we learned from one another. Polish cuisine was influenced heavily by Italian and French cuisines, and so there were the seeds of "fusion cuisine" long before that ever became a "thing". One thing I do have to say is that I enjoy your cooking, Eva, to such a wonderfully high degree, that it brings back so many beautiful memories. Like you, Eva, I am saddened and disappointed and even disgusted with so many American quick-prepared foods, and it is the American companies who put the "junk" in food, to coin the phrase "JUNK FOOD". I love your recipes, and will endeavor to make them. As always, I wish you Buon appetito!
Loved the episode! An idea would be canned "Italian" soups and then Eva's version.
Way to go Eva...I think for me I'd stuff my 'hot pockets' with refried beans, hatch green chili and cheese...and thank you for teaching all us to be respectful of our food, no matter what it is.
I love Eva's accent she says baking sheet exactly like my grand mother use to say it...love it and miss it so much... you guys are awesome!!! Your food always looks so beautiful!!
"if the junk food is well done...
1- is not junk food anymore.
2- is delicious!"
I can't disagree with Eva, she amazing!
I like that. Even if she doesn't like them she respects them and cares for them with love.
Respect.
"If you want a bite size, you take a bite of a bagel". True. Love it
I went to public school in California, and I’m SOOO old, that schools still taught “shop” class (plastics, woodwork) to boys and “home ec” (cooking, sewing) to girls!! One of the first thing they taught to a classfull of 12-13 year olds was “english muffin pizza” (before microwaves!)
1) toast the English muffins
2) spoon on sauce from a jar
3) sprinkle on any kind of grated cheese
4) if you’re fancy, you can add pepperoni/salami/black olives//bell peppers
5) toast/broil it to melt the cheese
They weren’t good, but we could make after school snacks for everyone!
Eva could start a restaurant and do so much with all the recipes she has in her head. AND take all the worst "Italian" foods and make them great! Keep up the marvelous cooking!
Eva baking tray sounds perfectly fine to this native English speaker. In fact it’s probably the word my brain would pull up in that situation, sheet would be a second choice.
And why didn’t Totinos just drop the term pizza and call them what they’re much more like -mini calzones aren’t they? (to anyone ready to point out that you don’t fry calzone, let me save you the trouble and say - yes I know, thanks).
No surprise about the pizza bagels. Bagels were not developed to act as a base for snack pizzas. Eva started literally using everything she knew would work best as a crust base for this snack, and thus naturally it turned out as a far superior base for her version of a pizza ‘bagel’ than a bagel😋
Thank you both once again for sharing your talents with us🙏🏻
Again, love the cinematic use of music. You and Furniture Fables have the most varied and theatrical use of soundtrack music, which makes sense if you are a filmmaker and she's a hobby actress.
I have to say, just a few seconds in I am on Eva's side! I can't "dump" anything out - I do exactly the same as her, my scampi and chunky chips(in the British sense) get carefully placed and spaced!! On the very infrequent occasions I allow myself an old "pub grub" favourite!😄
My sicilian grandmom forbids frozen pizza and fake italian foods in home. She made alot of cudduruni (not sure how to spell) and put some cudduruni in wrapped aluminum foil in freezer. If we familia want something food quickly to eat. Take frozen cudduruni out from freezer and put them in oven and serve them hot! Eva, thank you so much for homemade mini pizza rolls recipe! I have to try it when summer is gone due to humidity!
Pretty impressive that all 3 get different dough, I’ve never seen dough made like she did for the hot pocket.
Eva summed it up nicely...."If the 'junk' food is well done, it is not junk food anymore."
It's been years since I've been to Italy and I never spent time in an Italian grocery store, but I'm curious what Italians have (if at all) for "junk" food, frozen or otherwise.
they have plenty of junk food in all forms nowadays. don't fool yourself.
@@rosannapizza6402 we have a lot of Eva too , and it makes a huge difference 😀
They do have some frozen "junk," but it's a little different. For instance, the dough Eva made for her Hot Pocket is similar to sofficini, which are sort of like Italian Hot Pockets. You actually have to fry them yourself, though.
@@PastaGrammar I think the level convenience is tied to the "junkiness" of a product. When a company tries to make a product that goes from freezer to plate so fast that you just have to throw it in a microwave for a few minutes is where you get something like that Hot Pocket. But a company that makes a product that is pre-made, but still requires some level cooking might be where I would call a food "convenient" rather than "junk".
Fabulous! Just goes to show if you use simple ingredients, making it from scratch, you can easily surpass any of the pre-made frozen/chilled fast (junk) food - turning it into a delicious, healthy (without additives + preservatives) snack. Great challenge Harper and great job Eva! 👏👍😋
Harper, you are so funny that you make me laugh at loud! Ava is a lucky girl to have found you, and vice versa. She is so accommodating and her cooking skills are amazing. I’m learning so much from her, about her recipes and which products to buy. I’m almost done binge watching, I’m addicted.
The Respect Eva give all the frozen Foods shows how respectfull the italiens are to Food and to people and how they really shine there are so many stereotyps told to everyone how italiens are but its not true 95% of the time
that crunch though. You can tell from the bite that that pizza roll is great.
Such a fun episode! I still want Eva’s fried Mozzarella recipe. She said once they use the small Mozz balls. I have yet to find a recipe with the right herbs to coat.
That’s a good idea! I’ll see if I can get her to cook them for me 😋
Fun story about Torino’s pizza rolls: I bought some when I was feeling nostalgic and sat down to eat them on the couch. My dogs, who normally will eat any thing, including raw spinach, wouldn’t touch them. My wife said that should tell a person all they need to know if the dogs won’t eat them. And the dogs eat rabbit poop.
People who don't enjoy cooking will never understand Eva. Much of the joy of cooking comes from seeing others love what you make them.
Has Eva tried crispy pepperoni?
No yest
I like Totino’s square frozen pizzas over all the other frozen pizzas because of the crust. It’s completely different, flaky and bubbly. I’d love to see how Eva reimagines that!
Spacing is important. I do the same with pizza rolls & stuff. While hot pockets are hot garbage, the crisping sleeve is on incorrectly, it's folded at the bottom like for eating; it's supposed to be open at the bottom and over more of the pocket. Then you would have crisp hot garbage instead of doughy hot garbage lol.
Always good to wake up on Sunday and enjoy your show.
so awesome to see Tempesta get some recognition ive loved them ever since they opened up. they have much more manageable sizes in grocery stores throughout the chicago area. The one that i know always has it is Eatly in downtown but ive found it at fresh farms and wholefoods before too
The look of bliss on Eva's face when she tastes her delicious cooking...
My family would love a freezable bulk version of the pizza rolls that you could make a bunch, freeze them and let the kids bake some when they want them, enjoy and not make an enormous mess of the kitchen - and have a treat that is real food.
Thank you for the Video. I am a german and grew up in Hannover, which has a strange phenomenon: It ist the only city outside the Napoli-Region(?) where you find fried Calzone (or is it called panzerotti?) on every corner. Italian workers brought this decades ago and I would call it a typical Streetfood of Hannover.
i love that the jar of lydias sauce is used to store breadcrumbs
She’s so right! Italians would either laugh at you or give for a pair of cement boots IF you use Sugar in your “Gravy” or give Salami when you ask for “Pepperoni”. Only English, Germans & Irish use sugar & only Americans think Pepperoni is a meat when it’s really SMALL 🌶️ 🌶️.
I knew she was ☝️ of our Calabresi. She is beautiful 😻!
🤣🤣 Ava's face when you asked her if she was ready for another challenge....No....yes . 🤣🤣
When I see that Lydia Marinara Sauce can, I suddenly burst out the laugh, it reminds me Eva making Baked Ziti with this sauce lol
Hot Pockets are insipid. The one you made looks like a slice of heaven. Great content guys. Ciao
😂Eva: How you say revolting? Harper: revolting. I adore hanging out with you two, I live vicariously because I'm keto/carnivore. My absolute favorite food is bread and if Eva made it for me I would be in BIG trouble. My type 2 diabetes would come back with a vengeance and the 108 pounds I lost would be found!
In Sweden, we have Pizza Buns. They are pizza-like rolls stuffed with cheese and bacon and with "pizza spice" (oregano, basil).
"Easy, Arper!" - wise words to live by...
Thank you both for yet another fantastic Sunday morning video!!
So, let’s see… mozzarella sticks, egg rolls, taquitos, chicken nuggets… all interesting items Eva can make better! Buon appetito! 😁
Ooh, I would love to see Eva’s take on taquitos… 🤔
@@PastaGrammar flautas? th-cam.com/video/OFGFaXLR_u4/w-d-xo.html it’s a very great representation of what a real flauta is. The best and closest frozen “taquitos” are the H-E-B hill country fare brand taquitos. Most frozen ones don’t even resemble “taquitos” and pretty bad. Always serve with cream , sauce, and salad of lettuce.
Love how Eva respects any food, even the bad food
Pop tarts, toaster pastry, and eggos! Have her fix the classic American breakfast!
I keep the house at 80 degrees in summer. Feels cool compared to 112 outside. Even at 80 my dough rises so fast.
I love frozen French fries, spring rolls, garlic baguette. Also, I would love to see Eva react on vegetarian alternatives to meat that look like meat, for example vegetarian ground beef/minced meat in a Bolognese. That would be very interesting for a video
No. Just no.
@@ArmadilloGodzilla why not?
Us vegetarians love Italian food, too!
Thank you Eva for all the great snack ideas! They all look great!!!
Eva, never ceases to amaze! Hold on tight to this one Harper!
I buy frozen tamales from the Texas Tamale company, they are delicious but not cheap at around $15 for the chicken. They are my favorite frozen food.
I would love to see a cook book written by the both of you one day.
Idea: I recently made homemade cheese from milk that was getting a little older. Perhaps challenge Eva to use ingredients that perhaps needs to be used up? Love these videos, keep it up!
Love the extra "soundtrack" during the cooking process :)
That hot pocket remake was ridiculous 🤤
My fav frozen junkfood are piccolini’s. Look like bagelbites but a bit larger. And taste like mini pizzas that are really crunchy.
Eva is so expressive without saying a word.
Just when you assume Eva’s just going to make a calzone…BOOM!❤️
I was looking at some old videos for a recipe and realized we haven't seen chef Alfredo in a long time. I kind of miss him.😃
I'd love to see Eva's take on fish sticks (and, btw, really great background music on this one!)
OMG!! Now that’s a Hot Pocket! My mouth was watering. Eva should be a consultant for all the companies that make and sell frozen Italian food! 😋♥️
Nah! She should start her own company and scare them all with her creations!
Her single hot pocket probably costs more than 50 of the original crap.
@@dahls1195 SO RIGHT!!! I would buy every single thing!
Favorite frozen food is pierogi’s!!! Potato and onion or cheese filled pasta pocket type things… don’t know where they originated but I love to cook them with butter and onions 😋
There's nothing she can't do 🥲 she's a national treasure.
Amazing how Eva, can re create all these products, I think she needs her own restaurant!
I recently have considered that if you were to deep fry pizza rolls or hot pockets, you could take them to a whole new level!
My favorite frozen junk food is Sara Lee frozen Raspberry Turnovers.
If you want a bite size you take a bagel bite! I love it!
Sarah Lee used to have these mini cheesecake bar think about half the length of a Snickers. Mighty tasty. Might be a fun one to add to Eva's challenge.
"eef you want a bite size, you take a bite." Jeez Harper!
Eva has a mastery of dough that deserves more comment. Pasta-> pate a chou -> pizza dough -> various breads -> dessert pastries. She's got the skilz.
Those pizza rolls with lard in the dough must be heaven, I knew if anyone could just whip up better hot pockets and pizza rolls, it would be Eva.
best frozen junk food - taquitos - hands down!!!
Okay, I'm certainly not endorsing Hot Pockets, but the reason the "dough" was mushy was because she didn't put it in the sleeve correctly. You're not supposed to fold it up until after you've cooked it. That part was outside the sleeve so it didn't firm up. I am with everyone else though, that I would buy Eva's version of any of these; especially that "Hot Pocket." That crust looks amazing! My favorite frozen "junk food" would have to be potstickers or mini eclairs.
Or just use the old baking instructions.
The frozen snacks were staples of my childhood; and even into my 20s (at one job I cut the pizza rolls boxes when I had them for lunch and taped the front pieces to the inside of my locker). I really want to try the improved recipes, especially the improved hot pocket.
That was an awesome video, proving that mass produced "snack food", can be so much better when you take a little time to make a homemade version. Bravo!
Not really Italian but I really like Taquitos and those Jamaican Beef Patties. Always a good snack time with those on hand.
Ava is an amazing woman. She is beautiful, funny, and can cook up a storm! May God continue to bless you both.
This is one of my favorite videos to date!! So much fun and got some good recipes out of it!
My favorite frozen junk food has to be the fried 'burritos' they used to sell in Texas Middle and Highschools both at lunchtime and as a snack.
They had them at both Public and Catholic schools as I went to both.
They're kinda like a Chimichanga but were/ are laden with more grease.
You can still buy them to cook at home from HEB stores here in Texas to either cook in the microwave, oven or deep fry.
I have a home fryer so you can guess how I cook them.
They're an affront to gastronomy and they'll give you gastritis but every now and then....
Maybe twice a year I get them, fry them and dip them in ketchup.
Yesss I grew up loving the frozen sofficini now I can just make it!!
The pate’ choux ndjua pocket looks the best! I’m making that!
My favorite frozen food is a Dutch snack called "kroket" originally you would deepfry them, but they have been available for quite some time now, in a specially made version that can be cooked in the oven or airfryer. Its best described as a thick meaty ragout incased in a good breading. And theres also a simular version but with a cheese filling called cheesesoufle which is equally good 🤤 I think these snacks are easier to recreate than a good pizza. However, Im not sure what would hapen were they to start producing them in the US... since they seem to add mountains of sugar to everything, way more than in Europe. 🙈 im from the netherlands and I once bought orangejuice at a supermarket.... it tasted like water with atleast 50% sugar, but probable more 😅 So I just ended up getting fresh oranges and squeezing it myself.
I can't wait to try these. My kids love this kind of food but I rarely buy it because it's NOT GOOD! It barely resembles food. That said
... when I do buy the pizza rolls I also line them up like Eva. I blame it on being a Virgo. 😂
Try out instead if bangles, use English muffins to make little mini pizzas. My Italian nana used to make those for me as a child all the time.
0:47 AHAHAHAHAHAH Best transition I've seen in a while 😂😂😂
Please come to Australia, I will be your tour guide free of charge, but Eva has to cook for us! Love your content, keep up the fantastic work.
My favorite frozen foods Mozzarella sticks, fish sticks,fried pickles and chicken nuggets
Harper! Do really all American processed food contain so much ingredients, chemical and additives? It's mind blowing the list of ingredients of tortino's! In Italy the junk processed food contains more ingredients than the same recipe made with fresh ingredients and some additives too, but way way less than what you read!
My favorite... Totinos in the air fryer. LOL
My favorite savory frozen junk food, by far, is garlic bread. I’m a total American when it comes to garlic.
Wonder how Harper would freaks out when he finds out about Pizza Fritte