Trying Poor Man's Recipes!
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Poor Man's lobster. The devil's in the details. 😂🤣🤣😂
Cod works best, but any white fish will do. Cut into 1 1/2 or 2 inch cubes. Medium saucepan 1/3 to 1/2 full of water, NO SALT, 2/3 to one cup sugar, sliced up lemon, or the juice of a lemon, or 3 or 4 packets of true lemon works great also. Bring sweet lemon water up to a low boil and stir until sugar is dissolved.
Add your cubed fish. NEVER FOR ANY REASON, STIR THE FISH! 🤤
Bring back up to a boil, then turn down to a light simmer. Once the fish comes to the surface and stays there it's done.
I like to serve it on a bed of steamed white rice, with a drizzle of garlic butter, and a light dusting of Old Bay and true lemon crystals. 🤤🤤🤤
Thank you for that! I’m going to pin it in case anyone wants to try it that way!
Sounds 🔥 and I wasn’t a fish or 🦞 lover but been craving it and this is perfect!! Thank youuuu!!
I’m right there with you on the crab legs. They are my absolute favorite seafood.
Ohhh I’m gonna try this!
Your recipe sounds wonderful!
When my grandfather was growing up whenever their tiny grocery store in Southwest Virginia got canned oysters his mom would make her favorite oyster stew and they would tell this joke he still says after a good meal: "There may be rich folks eatin' tonight, but they ain't eatin' better than us!"
I love that! ❤️
My Nonna and Pop would always say , “I wonder what the rich folks are eating.” Being poor really makes you grateful and enjoy the ‘small’ things. I miss family dinners with them!
Lmao I love that 🤣
Hey Swva neighbor! Dickenson co here
My Grandpa said the only thing keeping him poor was grandma living like she's rich...
Rockefeller
Shallots: Finely mince shallots.
Spinach: fresh baby spinach, but regular spinach will work.
Cream Cheese: The Philadelphia brand.
Half and Half Cream or heavy cream.
Cheese: If you don’t have grated Pecorino Romano, parmesan will work.
Panko gets crispier than regular breadcrumbs. To keep this oyster recipe gluten-free, use gluten-free panko.
Thank you, all the oyster Rockefeller I've had, had spinach and was typically greenish. Will this recipe be good, maybe if you take all the salt away.
Love the new Ariel hair color for the seafood video haha.
Haha unintended coincidence but perfect timing on my part!
💯 🔥🧜♀️🐟🐠🧜♀️your hair looks gorgeous 🔥
🎉❤yes! 😊I agree, your hair looks absolutely amazing 🤩
I color my hair every 6 weeks, I’m not a natural redhead
@@annmargaret1069 maybe she does it because it's fun and makes her happy. It doesn't have to be about whether or not she's pretty.
Am I allergic to seafood? Yes. Did I watch the whole video regardless? Also yes.
The real MVP! ❤️
Same here!
I do the same!!! I think..... just substitute it with chicken 🤔
Same lol. I'm allergic to all shellfish but my family isn't. Still a great watch.😊
When I’ve had oysters Rockefeller it had creamed spinach on top with a panko topping. So that was the creamy aspect you were missing. A friend would combine the drained, smoked oysters with softened cream cheese. It was so good on a saltine!
If you are using canned tuna, spring for the 3.00 cans at the grocery store, like safeway. The tuna will be from italy usually and always packed in oil. Super flakey meat, firm not mushy. Mild and does not taste at all like bumblebee or starkist. Once you have had the good tuna, you never go back
Packed in water is better for you. Plus we can feed it to or dog. She is allergic to everything except tuna and turkey. We add potatoes or rice to it. All dog food has at least one ingredient she is allergic to.
Now Italian pasta is the best. It doesn't have round up in it because round up is banned in foods in Europe.
I dont like the tuna in water, too salty and too mushy. Im sorry to hear that your pup has so many food problems. Miserable for them and you. My dog does well with any kind of dog food, but not people food. Most people food sends her tummy into a tailspin.
Agree! Name brand tuna is mushy and flavorless. Italian processed tuna is like an entirely different product, and delicious.
I make a "poor man's sushi" by just rolling up rice in seaweed with no fillings. Kind of like a rice ball but in roll form.
On a truly poor day, they will only get soy sauce. But if I've got them, ginger and wasabi will give me a "close enough" sushi roll experience.
Yes i love wasabi ginger and soy. On mine too
I've been doing this lately and it's so good! Sometimes I'll do canned tuna with it.
@@MichellePondueCruz i add cream cheese to my wasabi. Excellant 👍
For spicy mayo, if you happen to have sesame oil on hand, a splash of it will completely elevate your spicy mayo!
As someone allergic to shellfish but not regular fish, these are some new recipes I can try
Me too!
Years ago we made poor man’s lobster from frozen pieces of white fish..also put garlic in the butter
Girl, your videos have given me SO many ideas for cooking, including this one. Thank you for what you do!
Happy to help!
I go to the food pantry a lot. I've found a location that lets you go once a week. (They usually have English muffins). But I looked in my freezer, and I have like 4 things of English muffins. Can you do a series about cooking with food pantry food? There's a channel: Uncle Chris the Food Pantry Chef.
I tried the sushi tonight with the flaky "crab" and sriracha from dollar tree in a very small container that wasn't bad at all. Let me tell you! It tasted like the spicy California rolls I buy from Wegmans for 8 bucks for one small container. We added cucumber, avocado, sesame seeds, little soy sauce, my kids raved! Very yummy they said 10/10. Gonna be a regular thing now 😋
Here in Eastern Canada (where the lobster fishery is a major industry) most lobster rolls have the lobster tossed lightly in may with maybe some chives and or dill. Perfection. Pollock is usually used in imitation crab and lobster bur most any white fish would work.
If you don't have mirin or rice vinegar, apple cider vinegar is a great alternative! It's also often available at the dollar store! Another suggestion is my husband and I found Thai sweet chili at dollar tree and we use that in our mayo for sushi dishes!
My Dollar Tree has Chicken of the Sea Imitation Crab in brine pouches for $1.25 as well as pouches of pink salmon.
In the recipe for turning white fish into lobster that I used to use you also added white vinegar or lemon juice to the water which helped tighten up the protein in the fish so the imitation lobster had a bit more of a lobster meat texture..
Poor man's lobster was my fav as a kid. Along with a kiddie cocktail, which sounds very wrong today, but it was the 80s.
LOVE the true lemon packets from Dollar Tree! They are SO good in water or iced tea! Love your ideas!
Yes they are! I buy them all the time
🇨🇦I haven't seen them here but will have to search further. We'd use them for camping beverages and cooking.
Those are handy for when I make myself tea. I thought I would be using them in just water, but for me they weren’t a good substitute for a lemonade flavor packet. As a way to get real lemon flavor, they’re great.
@@mikekz4489 oh. Ok. Good to know.
Try the true lime packets too. Great on anything. 😊
I used the pouches of crab for crab Rangoon and it was ok. I prefer the little cheap $1 sticks of it from Walmart. I’m not a seafood lover either. My preference for it is about like yours…crab legs, fried clams and shrimp!! My grand daughter loves the seaweed just as a snack!! I get them allot for her. I appreciate you sweetie!!
Those tins have a thin layer of plastic to prevent rust and leaking. I don't know if it's a good idea to cook in.
Canned food is heated, that’s how it’s canned :)
It's still likely to leech into the foods. Google says not to cook in the cans. Yes, they're heated at the factory, but that's a different process than cooking them in the oven, etc...
I love oysters but we dont really have them so cheap here. I have made something similar to you with scallops, a sort of St Jacques but my own version. More of less the same ingredients - scallops for oysters, but add a small amount of cream with grated parmesan.
Great idea!
Immediately I have to comment the hair is so fun and the color suits you so beautifully 🥰
Thank you so much!!
I'm in my 50s and have never had lobster. Not on purpose. I've never gone out to each much anyway, even when I had a full time job. I'm barely working part time now, so I obviously can't afford it these days. I've also never had interest to eat sushi. But this looked so good! I'm very curious about the imitation crab.
I haven't watched too much of this yet. But.... I grew up eating poor man's (lazy mans) goulash.
Brown a pound of ground beef, with an onion. Season with season salt and pepper
Cook till done and drain.
For every pound of meat, add 2 smaller cans of Campbell's spaghetti. (Used to be Franco american) I was taught to shake the cans and the 1s with the thicker sauce was the right ones.
Heat it through, make some buttered bread, eat it as a "fold over."
95% people I make it for turn their nose up at it. 2% can tolerate it and 3% love it as much as I do.
It's simple hence why my grandma grandma and mom called it lazy man's, and it's fairly cheap, why my childhood best friend called it poor man's goulash.
I don't love it once a month, but I do love it every 4-6 months.
Too bad this is all sea food, I'm allergic.
Good luck to all♡♤☆
I love raw oysters on the 1/2 shell, but I stopped eating them because of the hepatitis scare from eating raw clams and oysters. I will try the ones in the tin. I am not crazy about a strong smokey flavor of the ones in the bag.
I love making sushi bowls and bakes from DT! I use the same process as your spicy tuna/crab, but I layer the rice with their cream cheese, some dried chives & crushing up the wasabi edamame (from the snack section). Once baked use the nori sheets to scoop that deliciousness and enjoy!
Also, mirin can be mimicked by vinegar (rice, apple cider or white wine) and sugar.
That exact tuna bowl is what got me through the newborn stage with my kiddo! I lived off it, now I need to start making it again.
For the poor man's oyster Rockefeller. I suggest using a little creamed spinach if you can find it. That will give you that creamy element. Which you would get with normal oysters Rockefeller. It would come with spinach on top. And the cheese would melt into that. So that will replicate the element you're looking for. You might like it better that way. I do. 🤷
I love seafood, and am broke, so I’m excited to for this series.😊😅
Jeepers a lot of haters out today. Ignore them you are practical while being creative and we love you !!
Always!
In the 70 I made a casserole of monk fish shrimp and crab. I added mayonnaise woostershire sauce and baked it at 350 for about 30 minutes. You could add bread crumbs on top with butter This was our New Year’s Eve dinner.
Oyster Rockefeller typically has a hollandaise sauce! I made it in culinary school
Some ramekins would be nice for the oysters in the pouch.
Traditional oysters Rockefeller use cream and spinach, and are served in the shell. But these recipes look good and have given me some ideas, as I love to eat smoked oysters from the can. Very creative.
Ramekin bowls seem like a good choice for the oysters that came in a pouch.
I love smoked oysters in the tin. Also, yummy yummy.❤
I.have also had rock fish as a sub for lobster. It doesn’t require a bunch of flavoring to work ❤
I think all of those would be great as hor d'oeuvres for a beach themed party.
the poor man's sushi tacos are actually really similar onigiri!
I love the new hair color you look like the little mermaid just beautiful…thank you for all of your wonderful recipes I just love your channel ❤
My dad is Swedish. We grew up on smoked seafood. I have to admit not my favorite. But that sushi bowl looks fab.
I’m looking forward to making sushi “tacos” next time the kids come to visit. They are gonna think Mom’s so creative 😉
I love the deconstructed sushi in a bowl idea; I will have to try that!
putting nori sheets into ziplock tends to not get soft/stale and while its a bit cheaper for the snacks if stored right you can get more nori. Of course if you don't eat them all the time like I do, like you said, It may be more worth it for the snacks. The snacks also come in flavors which is a plus.
Love your hair🌹❤bright red suits you! And as always love your content!
I tried the poor man’s lobster a while back, and although it did not taste like lobster, it actually tasted pretty good. Never thought of putting it in a sandwich. I would dress it like most lobster rolls with a little mayonnaise celery for that nice crunch.
To better mimic sushi rice on a budget, don't rinse your rice before cooking, it makes the rice stickier, and instead of mirin, you can use white vinegar, as usually vinegar is added to sushi rice to give it a slightly sour flavor. You can also use plastic wrap to make the rolls, or you can make more of an onigiri/rice ball setup as well, as tuna mayo is a popular filling for those in Japan
You can heat the sardines in the can? I would think that would be toxic as you aren’t suppose to cook anything from the can. Also a poor person wouldn’t have all those ingredients on hand
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Tulipa works as lobster substitute too.
Love the deep red hair 😍😍 you look absolutely beautiful
Thank you so much!!
I wonder if you take the pouch oysters and make a hot cream cheese, spinach, oyster dip?
Monkfish for poor man’s lobster is very close to
I would be leery of baking the oysters in the tin, since they might be lined or treated in a way that's not heat safe. They may be prettier, but it's safer to use something designed for the oven
If you don't have mirin, you can make homemade sushi vinegar by heating up some rice vinegar with a bit of sugar and salt. I reckon other (more neutral) vinegars would work as well.
For a half cup of vinegar I reckon it would be about a couple tablespoons of sugar and a teaspoon of salt, but you can do it to taste.
The vinegar is very important, too! The pH balance of the rice is altered and that's what makes real sushi rice so amazingly delicious.
Loving the hair! Great ideas!
Thank you!! 😊
My fiancé loves smoked oysters in a tin as a snack on saltines with hot sauce. This could elevate it to a meal! Maybe I missed it, but I’m curious about cost breakdown. We like to go out for sushi, but these recipes are a great alternative! Thanks!
For sushi rice, you can substitute mirin with equal parts vinegar and sugar to get a similar effect.
Oysters Rockefeller has creamy spinach on it. Maybe that would be the creamy element that you felt was missing.
Another oyster recipe that would be great could be panko fried oyster!!
Girl you slay that hair color 😍
I have seen these and wondered how to make them!!!! Thank you!! Excellent looks delicious. I don’t know why I thought oysters. Rockerfeller had spinach on it.
I totally agree with you about crab being better than lobster
Love your videos. I’ve read the comments and feel I can fine tune boiling the fish and giving fake crab the necessary seasonings to make it quite palatable. Thank you everyone.
Love this idea of budget friendly creative meals (especially in this economy 😡) And LOOOOOOVE your hair!!!! ❤
Thank you so much! This was a fun video I enjoyed it!
when you come to Washington State you have to try King crab legs. you won't want to go back to snow crab legs.
Garlic grown in china is fertilized with human feces so IF you have the option to buy real garlic, make sure the root is attached. Chinese garlic has roots cut bc of the feces. Canned/minced garlic from California is not fertilized with feces so that’s also a good option. I understand it’s not an option for most these days but if it is, go that route. 😊 Great video! Thanks for sharing :)
Pollock would be a better choice for Poor Mans Lobster. It's less fishy tasting and has a better texture for something like this.
Anyone can use anything they like, but normally sushi rice is made with rice vinegar or with "sushi vinegar" which is made from rice vinegar, sugar, salt, and a bit of water. Mirin is basically "cooking sake" and very similar to a cooking wine in the West. Once again, if you love using mirin that's totally okay!
What happen to the spinach. Oyster Rockerfella has spinach in it.
The red is absolutely gorgeous. Do you cosplay for your boyfriend's conventions? You could do a lot with that hair.
Great ideas I’m interested in like a canned crab idea yummy 🦀 by the way I love your hair very pretty ❤
Monk fish is sub for lobster
I can afford maki rolls. I live on welfare. That said, these are awesome ideas, thanks for sharing them.
Your hair color looks amazing! :D
Like your new hair color! Your videos always have very interesting recipes to try. Thank you for the videos! PS: if you get the chance sometime could you do some more videos like the ones on the back of food packages (I think you did an imitation crab meat and cornbread stuffing) from a recipe on the back of the stuffing box. Anyway great job love what you're doing!
Looks delicious! I love canned clams,oysters,sardines and herring. Thank you ❤
Oysters Rockefeller has spinach in it.
I would so do that with imitation crab, I also prefer it to lobster.
I was thinking heavy cream for the oysters
Simply Mama Cooks did a mushroom cream sauce that’s great over pasta or cutlets; I’d love to try some smoked oyster or mussel stirred into a batch of that.
My store carries imitation lobster which is similar to the imitation crab
I like the imitation crab with cocktail sauce as a poor kid that was kind of a treat.
Very enjoyable! Every single meal I eat is "poor man's" 😏
I have seen these and wondered how to make them!!!! Thank you!! Excellent
That was very fun. Thankd
She looks lovely in her hair color!👍
Out of all of these in this video the oyster one is a no-no for me. Only because I loathe oysters in all shapes and variations. I will not eat stuffing if it has oysters in it. But that's just me.
Love your red hair! Love the content and the way you make everything happen… the funny thing is that I’m from Brazil and we don’t have dollar tree here but I still love to watch all your videos. Go girl!
Muffin tin for the rockafella
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I guess the cod would have ended up chewier like lobster tail, had you cooked it the whole ten minutes. Maybe that was why it was so long? Just a hypothesis.
I'm going to try making fish tacos with the cod as I have tortillas to use up
New hair for a hot girl summer, love it!
Thank you! I wasn't sure how I felt about it until I was editing this video :)
I love your hair color! Beautiful ❤❤
Mayo for the lobster roll?
You need spinach in rockefeller oysters!
Awesome video Rebecca!! 🥰❤ Loveeeeeeeeeeee your videos & recipes!💞💞🍽💞💞
Thank you so much!!
Today's post was really fun. I love seafood of any kind so these are some recipes I will enjoy TY
Glad you enjoyed!
Omg love the hair! Love all your videos too!
Thank you so much!!
Wondering why you put sriracha in the mayo, because Kewpie mayo doesn’t have sriracha in it? If it’s just your taste, that’s ok.
I’m allergic to seafood and still watched the whole video. I love them all! 😂
You got me at fish that taste like lobster even though I prefer crab 🦀 legs over lobster but I do love oysters too