I agree completely, if you want to truly understand someone, have a meal with them and you find out, we're more the same than we are different. Building bridges
Beryl coming from a Paetinian herself, every Palestinian gramdma and mother would be so proud of you. You nailed it from the start when I saw how you did your dough, Bravo!!!
i very foolishly and ambitiously bought a 2.5 pound bag of spinach last night so this video came at the perfect time - thank you beryl and all of the folks who submitted recipes!!!
I think it would be fun to watch you do an episode about eating stinging nettle. 🌿Stinging nettle is a Very dark green. It is very healthy too. There are lots of wonderful wild plants out there. Maybe an Edible Wild Plant video? Just some thoughts....😊
Edible wild plants is probably hard for Beryl to cook because of the needed ingredients. But the recipes could maybe be presented by community members or international filmmaker/influencer friends. It would be really interesting.
It would be awesome to see foraged foods, but I have doubts that NYC has shops that stock foraged ingredients. It's not really the place to go foraging either
@@heathercampbell9496 At this moment, you can't say that without supporting the sadistic murders who did 10/7 and are working to maximize the number of dead Palestinian innocents to help their cause.
FINLAND MENTIONED this is a moment of national pride. someone tell the president (i'm just not used to finland being mentioned anywhere outside our own country ever so when a creator i like acknowledges it i'm immediately like WHOA SHE SAID FINLAND lol. also admittedly i did not think that our cuisine had anything interesting enough for this channel but YAY)
When I saw those spinach pancakes in the intro my first thought was that of course finland is represented by one of the most bland and boring dishes I know.
Let’s give Finland some more crédit, then ! I’m French and is visited Finlant as a twenty something. It was one of the best trips in my life and I have many fond memories. We stayed in a family that lived about 30 km of Helsinki surounded by a beautiful pine forest and lakes. The food was amazing, I often make kanel bullar with the recipe the family shared with us. I remember the charming city and the Park with the Sybellius memorial,we eat fresh peas out of the pod that were sweet as candy. And the people are so nice and welcoming. I experienced sauna for the first time and it was amazing, i never got the same feeling in sauna anywhere the following times though. We were invited because we housed their daughter when she was in France for her studies. We lived as sisters together for several months.
3 days ago, the german youtube channel ATLAS uploaded a video titled "warum ist Finnland so nice?" ^^ I think you have a pretty good reputation in general.
in Frankfurt, Germany, there is a green sauce "Grüne Soße" made up of many different green leaves and sometimes egg and you also eat it with eggs and potato
A food rainbow episode would be so cool! The prettiest food that I've ever had is a Lithuanian soup called šaltibarščiai. It's bright pink and it's the tastiest souvenir I've ever brought home from abroad. 😊
I LOVE spinach, even a little added to recipes adds this phenomenal vibrant green color and so much nutritional value! I am Greek, so my favorite way to eat it is just very simply pan sauteed with good olive oil and fresh garlic, and then served with a giant squeeze of lemon. 🙂
Spanakopita (chef's kiss) absolute favourite of mine. I had been babysat by a Macedonian couple & they fed me the dishes that they grew up with especially the freshly homemade phyllo dough since it wasn't really commercially available in grocery stores when I was in kindergarten in the mid-1970's. Loved SPINACH always.
I feel like I was always a weird kid who liked spinach, broccoli basically any vegetable or fruit. Not a fan of how spinach shrinks up so much- I feel like my entire backyard would have to be a spinach field to make one batch of Spanakopita.
I'm from the same group, but I can say that through living together, children with Latin and Asian influences tend to eat a lot more and like vegetables more
I’ve always been the veggie/fruit kid too! I’ll eat canned spinach I love it so. Agreed on the shrinking issue. I had a half acre garden in my last house and even with 1/2 of that spinach we would run out in 3 or 4 meals. ( family of 5, we all like spinach haha)
I feel like the stereotype of kids not being big on vegetables is because of people who can’t cook vegetables and the whole culture of “kid friendly” foods that’s usually just really junky, at least in America
Don't feel weird. I love eating spinach, homegrown tomatoes, strawberries, etc....my granny always gave us bags of it from her garden. She wanted to be sure that we were kept fed.
Tip: wash spinach in a large bowl of water and gently swish so that the dirt/sand falls to the bottom. The spinach gets cleaner and you use less water than running the tap.
Regarding Pinaattiletut: It´s 150 g before ringing out the water, chopped frozen spinach is most commonly sold in 150 g bags in Finnish grocery stores. I don´t even ring out the water and just whisk the ingredients together so you don´t even need to use a blender. But blending and using more spinach works well too! Thanks Veera for sending the recipe and thank you Beryl for featuring Finland 😊
Had to pause the video just to write this-I’m so glad someone else uses Travis’ line of “two very enthusiastic thumbs up” in Clueless. I say it all the time and finish out the quote “two very enthusiastic thumbs up, fine holiday fun” whenever someone asks my opinion on something 😂
Fatayer sbenekh are amazing! In Lebanon, we make them meatless, and they are equally delicious 😋 I love the filling to be very sour too. Middle Eats have a nice recipe in English too :) 🍉 🍉
Not me having just checked your channel half an hour ago because I felt like it had been ages since you last posted a longer video, and here you are, with one of my favorite vegetables, no less! 😻 edit: wait, you’re making a Finnish dish? To the marketplace, my fellow compatriots! 🎉
My favorite dish that my dad used to make was spinach pie. He put his own twist on his Italian grandmother‘s recipe and it was heavenly; even in my 50s, I would still beg him to make it whenever I visited him. I attempted many times to send a submission for this episode but he had just passed away on March 15 just a few weeks after being blindsided with a brain cancer diagnosis, and I was crying too hard to be able to make sense so I decided not to send the email. If you ever do a spinach part two though, I would love to share in his honor. Have you ever considered doing an ugly delicious episode? Wait, have you already done one? I need to look. So many ugly delicious dishes out there and it might be kind of fun.
I have a lot of spinach and I was gonna search TH-cam for some spinach recipes. Lol and behold beryl came out with this video today! And literally in the same hour I was gonna scour spinach recipes. Thanks beryl!
If you like Italian, I highly recommend manicotti, stuffed with a spinach/ricotta mixture. I make the shells (like crepes), but you can buy the shells. (If you can't find them, buy cannelloni instead!) To continue the theme, Italian Wedding and Spinach & White Bean soup are great options. Enjoy!
Okay, the thing with the Spinach pancakes from Finland is that they are more like crepes not a pan cake so you must fry them very thin. Many times they are fried with a cast iron pancake skillet that has 4 small round places to put the batter in. In Finland you can find spinach pancakes from any stores ready made, they don't contain as much spinach as homemade but as a fast snack, they are just fine. I do these pan cakes or should I say crepes with freshly picked nettle too. It is just the right season for them now. So good with lingonberry jam!
I’m from Germany and one of my favorite childhood foods is cream spinach with mashed potatoes , fish sticks and a sunny side up egg with runny yolk on top ! I mostly had it at my grandparents house because I’m the only one from my family (mother,brother) who likes spinach !
Since you asked... I love a red onion, and while I understand shallots are prized for their delicacy and mildness, they are expensive for how much you get. What I always have an eye out for is Walla Walla sweet onions, so named because they were first crossbred in Walla Walla, Washington. I first learned about them on The Frugal Gourmet on PBS back in the early 80's. They make amazing caramelized onions for burgers, steaks, or even French onion soup.
Beryl, thank you for making these videos. I am suffering from depression and anxiety and watching your videos really calm me down a lot, I binge on them before I go to bed. Peace and love to you and all viewers❤
A trick I learned from ATK for dealing with massive amounts of greens that need to be cooked down - throw them in a big bowl and put in the microwave for a minute or two. They'll reduce without potentially falling out of a pan and you can just dump the whole thing into the dish at once so you don't deal with under/overcooked greens.
19:51 garlic and shallots are the cornerstone of nearly every major South East Asian cooking. So versatile, it can be the base of stir-fries, soups, steamed fish and so forth. My favorite way of cooking spinach has to be this one, in the garlic/shallot soup but instead of prawns, I'd substitute pork or chicken. When we say sautéed until fragrant, it means to sauté it until the garlic and the shallot turns a slight golden brown for that extra kick of aroma.
I've been watching your vids since covid and in one video you have said (as far as I can remember) that when you cannot travel you can always try (cook) something new and have the experience at your own place. It is for me to this day very inspiring and I thank you for that. You are such a nice and positive person, congratz! 👍
Omg I've been waiting for Finland to show up! Kiitos Veera! We used to have ”lettupäivä” ("pancake/crepe day") at school and we would get a trio for lunch: regular pancake, spinach pancake and blood pancake.
the slovakian is also known in Austria/Germany as (Rahm)spinat (same way cooked with an "Einbrenn" and (at least in Austria - eaten the same way with a fried egg and potatoes). Often an dollop of heavy sour cream (Rahm) is added at the last moment. (Although most people skip the beginning steps, and take the frozen green cube from the grocery instead of blending leaves)
Yes! I'm German, but raised in the US, and ate it often growing up. Boiled potatoes, creamed spinach on top, and a fried egg on top of that. So good! Now I have to make it agan.
1. Shallots 2. Red Onions 3. White Onions 4. Yellow Onions I would put Chives, Pearl Onions, Scallions, Leek and other varieties of the onion family between Red and White Onions, because the are for special dishes or garnishes. Concerning Nr. 1 Shallots, I very much like the Banana Shallot, because the are a big variety of Shallots.
The Slovakian sauce seems almost like the cream of spinach soup my family makes, only thicker and we add a few other veggies...1 potato, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 clove garlic cover in water boil until soft (don't drain the water). Steam 1 lb spinach in 1 cup water add to veggies and puree ( you can also just add the water and spinach to the other veggies but I often cook the spinach ahead and freeze it so I just add that, you can also puree the two things separately but why do extra work unless your blender is too small) Make a roux with 1/3 cup flour, 1/3 cup butter and mix with 2 cups milk mixing while you cook until thick. Add the purred veggies and spinach. Add 1/2 salt or to taste, 1/2 tsp dried basil, pinch of nutmeg, pinch of thyme, Fresh parsley....if your soup is too thick add more milk.
Wait what - pinaattiletut? Finally! This was my favourite school dinner. This dish can go sweet and savory. One store brand suggested serving it with shredded carrots AND honey - wasn't bad.
Spinach is also a BIG part of me growing up overseas. As a child of an immigrant I understood truly what Irene went thru, we substitute the traditional greens with Spinach! Like when my mom would cook the filipino dish Tinola we didn't have malunggay, so we use Spinach! She also did it with Monggo and Laing etc.
that last dish is very similar to what we eat on good friday in germany, just the spinach seems more simple. most people use "Rahmspinat" which is chopped spinach in a cream sauce. the fried egg and boiled potatoes are the same, sometimes you might have a fried fish filet or fish fingers instead of the egg
It’s a pretty classic combo in Switzerland as well and a childhood favourite of mine. My mom would often prepare oven fries instead, perfect to dip in the egg and the spinach, and they provide a nice contrast in texture in a dish that’s otherwise just soft and mushy things.
That spinach sauce! The pancakes! I have a little food nihlist in my house (about to turn 5), and maybe the color saturation of these will get her to try it out
Cook spinach from fresh or canned at a boil for 15 minutes. Less for canned. Add bacon grease and salt. Simmer for 30 minutes fresh and canned for 20. Serve hot with pinto beans, cornbread, onions, fried potatoes, or whatever you like. A good country meal via Kentucky!
Germany here. In my family we have various favourite spinach dishes that also children love. - Creamy spinach with mashed potatoes and fish sticks (Rahmspinat mit Kartoffelpüree und Fischstäbchen) - spaghetti with creamy spinach and maggi[optional] (Spaghetti mit Rahmspinat und Maggi [optional]) - spinach garlic cream cheese sauce with fresh pasta (Spinat-Knoblauchsoße mit Frischkäse und frischen Bandnudeln) - spinach potato mash with Bratwurst (Spinat-Kartoffelpüree mit Bratwurst)
I have made the Vietnamese Canh Rau Pi Nat (spinach and shrimp soup) four times since I saw this episode a couple weeks ago. Every time it's been my breakfast. It's easy, quick and absolutely delicious and filling. Never thought I would wake up craving shrimp and spinach soup but here I am. This is in regular rotation and I don't see that changing anytime soon. 10/10
Chaat is my favorite discovery from Indian cuisine so far. They are soooo savory and appetizing, totally impossible to stop eating once you start. I love fries with stuff, I love chips/nachos with stuff. But chaat takes everything to a next level. I am so grateful to the kind Indian restaurant who gave us an incredible free fried spinach chaat during a team lunch and introducing us all to this category of dish :)
as a kid I absolutly loved spinach it was my favourit veggi and I could not understand how other kids could dislike it. My sister was the same. PS I still love spinach but now I like asparagus and okra more.
Even before I opened the video I hoped you made palak patta chaat from India.. And I'm soooo happy it is in the video !! It's deserves all recognition!!
Yay ! to the dish from Slovakia from Germany. It’s a classic dish here , too and reminds me of childhood . Need to make this again some day. Though most people would you the premade frozen spinach. 1. yellow onions 2. red onions 3. green onions 3. shallots (tasty but too fiddly for me to peel, onions here are generally smaller than American onions) 4. sweet onions
The last is like Rahmspinat in Germany. We serve it with potatos and egg as well, only the Béchamel isn’t in there, just cream. But I think it tastes very similar. ❤️
I've been an enthusiastic viewer for some time now, and I am happy to share that I finally tried my first recipe from one of your videos! I have made Irene's shrimp-spinach soup twice because I had all of the ingredients home and it is delicious! I will continue to make this and keep it in my rotation. Thank you, Irene and Beryl!
My maternal grandmother used to make breaded cod with creamed spinach and boiled potatoes, and I really wanted to try the green sauce, but since I was allergic to cow milk protein (until I was 4 years old) she had to make me some with soy milk. Nobody thought that I would like it, so she only made a small amount. It was, of course, my favorite thing ever and she started making me the same amount that the 4-5 adults would eat and that was the thing I asked to have for dinner every time we visited for the next 20 years.
Berryl, in this spinach episode, I found something unique about the word spinach in Indonesian with the word spinach from other countries outside Indonesia. I discovered that Indonesians use the word spinach for the Chinese amaranth or pigweed plant. while the spinach shown in this episode is the spinacia oleracea plant or in Indonesia it is called Horenzo or Japanese Spinach. So make sure for those of you who want to visit Indonesia and want to eat spinach to say the word horenzo or Japanese spinach to avoid misunderstandings. Hopefully this is good information for all of you.
Oh my gosh! I have that potatoes shirt and I was wearing it as I watched this episode and I didn’t even realise you were as well until you said “what excellent boiled potatoes” and I had the “Same backpack!” Moment. 😅😊 Great episode as always!
spinach taught me to try things more than once before deciding i dont like it. i always thought spinach was nasty because i had only tried that nasty waterlogged frozen compressed brick of bitter garbage. then one day someone offered me a fresh spinach salad with strawberries and poppyseed dressing and now i love it. this is your sign to go back and try things you decided you dont like.
You mention spinach being disliked by American children. While this is true, I would argue that this is due to us Americans not knowing how to cook spinach in an exciting or interesting way. It’s always just the base for a salad or steamed/sautéed as a side dish. Children dislike it because it’s boring…but this video just proves that it doesn’t have to be! Spinach can be a really diverse vegetable and super tasty if cooked right!
27:37 of COURSE I knew exactly what you were quoting when the first few words came out of your mouth. A VERY favorite movie of all time! (Great episode showing the versatility of spinach!)
I love spinach. Can’t wait to try a couple of these for sure. I love your channel. I love learning what people eat in their countries and in their homes. ❤ My mom got me and my siblings to eat spinach because of Popeye😂 she added butter and cider vinegar after cooking it. I still eat it like this occasionally, but I love it raw in a salad too.
You are so right about the onion hierarchy. Shallots are also my favorite with sweet onions on the bottom. I really hope you de-veined those shrimp. The earrings are so cute. I like Greek and Italian spinach dishes.
Wonderful episode again! I love spinach 😊 And the last recipe from Slovakia was kind of a surprise for me. In Germany we ear something quite similar - and it’s actually one of my favorite foods 😊
In Germany we eat spinach in a way very similar to Špenátový Prívarok. In my family it was a typical Friday dish that we also ate fish with next to the potatoes and the egg. It was truly one of my favorite meals as a kid and one more reason to look forward to Fridays after school. Also the spinach sauce was the very first thing I ever ate at around 5-6 months when my grandma fed it to me. Maybe that's why I loved spinach so much as a kid.
Hi Beryl! i’m a long time fan and first time commenting. You must try to find malabar spinach as the Vietnamese soup originally used malabar spinach. The Vietnamese diaspora in US had to make-do with spinach as malabar was unavailable. Malabar spinach is an amazing vegetable because it is significantly more nutritious than spinach. Malabar spinach has a texture similar to okra, so in a soup it doesn’t have the grainy texture (oxalate crystals) in your mouth. It is easy to propagate and grow in hot and dry climate. Thank you for your wonderful videos. Your series on the alphabet of food is my favorite!
Loved this spinach episode! When I was a kid (like, 50 years ago, I am now 61) and my parents would take us out to dinner. If spinach was an option as one of the veggie sides I ALWAYS wanted the spinach. It never failed... the waitress would stop writing her ticket, look at my mom with the "is she sure" kind of face, and mom would nod yes... I loved spinach, still do. Thank you for the memories... and the fantastic new options for preparing it. I love the first one you showed. That will be my first attempt. The rest will follow. Hugs... PS
😂 The same thing would happen when I was a kid when we went out! If I got to choose the sides with my meal, I'd always get spinach as a side, and the server would usually ask "Are you sure?", and glance at my parents 🤭. Sometimes I would order double spinach, instead of picking a second side, and then they'd really stare at me! 😂
Loved this episode! So many beautiful recipes with spinach. I’m definitely going to try the chaat and the Palestinian pastries. Those both looked so crispy and delicious. Yum!
I learned to make fatayir from my ex-husband's Syrian family. They never used meat in theirs, so it's a vegan dish. Very delicious. I like to make a big batch, freeze them, and then have them for breakfast. Some people also add a lot of lemon to the filling, and that is good, too.
My Mom had a home garden when I was growing up. When spinach was in season it was stored in Tupperware in the fridge. It was a quick grab and go snack for me and my sisters. One of my favorite food combinations is spinach and mushrooms.
I love that you were listening to Fleetwood Mac while making the dumplings together! Dreams is one of my favourite songs, and it really is a great song for cooking, especially as a group. Loved the video!
Beryl! loved this episode so much, that i absolutely suggest to you trying one of the most loved summer dishes in Italy: Piadina with spinach and squaquerone (it's a cheese very similar to stracchino) or with spinach and pork sausage! Very widespread dish but originally from a northern region, Romagna! easy quick and delicious meal 🇮🇹🤌🏻
In Greece we cook spanakorizo... which means spinach with rice. A piece of feta is a must in the side😊someone also can add it,in chicken or even lamb,my grandma used to cook it this way,on special occasions (Christmas or Easter)
I was just praying that it shouldn't be a Sag Paneer aka Palak paneer for an Indian spinach dish. And thanks to the lady who brought Spinach chat to the world 😍. Thats an absolute delight on a plate and people should try it once 😊 that is so much delicious 🤤. Thanks Beryl
aww so happy to get a reply from you. I just love your energy and you are just so Cute and bubbly.. make us all happy watching you. 💕 sorry if I was being insensitive. I did not know it was a genetic thing..its still adorable!
I am from Bangladesh and our typical spinach dish is very simple, fry shallots, garlic, and green chillies and then add spinach and stir fry. This is just not for spinach but for many other green leafy vegetables. Vegetables are sides and hence we keep them very simple.
My best friend is from Finland & I finally got to visit her last year- I’m sad now that we didn’t see any spinach pancakes but I can’t wait to make them & send her a picture!! Love the episode beryl thanks! 💚
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I love the way Beryl sees PEOPLE. It’s not just a food show, it’s a peace campaign. Everyone is welcome to the table.
@WholeHeartily Best comment ever. I hope @Beryl Shereshewsky sees it!
Best comment ever.
I agree completely, if you want to truly understand someone, have a meal with them and you find out, we're more the same than we are different. Building bridges
A peach campaign, except she leads with the terrorists.
Sure sure...
Beryl coming from a Paetinian herself, every Palestinian gramdma and mother would be so proud of you. You nailed it from the start when I saw how you did your dough, Bravo!!!
Fr they would all be asking her to marry their sons after seeing those 😂
They looked yum, I'll definitely give them a go.
Thank you for featuring me in this video, Beryl! So honoured and so happy that you liked the Palak Patta Chaat!
That looked delicious
i very foolishly and ambitiously bought a 2.5 pound bag of spinach last night so this video came at the perfect time - thank you beryl and all of the folks who submitted recipes!!!
omg you are SET for life with this episde!
2,5 pounds is nothing. As soon as you cook it it decreases by huge amounts
I think it would be fun to watch you do an episode about eating stinging nettle. 🌿Stinging nettle is a Very dark green. It is very healthy too. There are lots of wonderful wild plants out there. Maybe an Edible Wild Plant video? Just some thoughts....😊
I love cacti and elderberry (and elderberry flowers) in dishes the few times I've found them. Love this idea!
Edible wild plants is probably hard for Beryl to cook because of the needed ingredients.
But the recipes could maybe be presented by community members or international filmmaker/influencer friends.
It would be really interesting.
It would be awesome to see foraged foods, but I have doubts that NYC has shops that stock foraged ingredients. It's not really the place to go foraging either
Would love to see a stinging nettle recipes video! I found a nettle cake recipe last spring, that's now a favorite for my husband and I.
I love nettle in pesto, frittatas, and potato soup! A nettle video would be really cool.
Thank you for continuing to elevate Palestinian recipes ❤🇵🇸
#freePalestine
@@heathercampbell9496 At this moment, you can't say that without supporting the sadistic murders who did 10/7 and are working to maximize the number of dead Palestinian innocents to help their cause.
FREE PALESTINE. ... GO EDUCATE YOURSELF TOO GAZZA
@@garysmith9823please shut up.
I'm loving the colour theme in this episode 🍉💚❤️🩹
FINLAND MENTIONED this is a moment of national pride. someone tell the president
(i'm just not used to finland being mentioned anywhere outside our own country ever so when a creator i like acknowledges it i'm immediately like WHOA SHE SAID FINLAND lol. also admittedly i did not think that our cuisine had anything interesting enough for this channel but YAY)
Torille!
I can't think of Finland without thinking about Kimi Raikkonen and Valterri Bottas 😳
When I saw those spinach pancakes in the intro my first thought was that of course finland is represented by one of the most bland and boring dishes I know.
Let’s give Finland some more crédit, then !
I’m French and is visited Finlant as a twenty something. It was one of the best trips in my life and I have many fond memories. We stayed in a family that lived about 30 km of Helsinki surounded by a beautiful pine forest and lakes. The food was amazing, I often make kanel bullar with the recipe the family shared with us. I remember the charming city and the Park with the Sybellius memorial,we eat fresh peas out of the pod that were sweet as candy. And the people are so nice and welcoming. I experienced sauna for the first time and it was amazing, i never got the same feeling in sauna anywhere the following times though.
We were invited because we housed their daughter when she was in France for her studies. We lived as sisters together for several months.
3 days ago, the german youtube channel ATLAS uploaded a video titled "warum ist Finnland so nice?" ^^
I think you have a pretty good reputation in general.
Spinach, Egg and Potato combo is a classic in many European countries. Happy to see it represented here!
Hmm warm in a crispy dough sounds pretty good right about now.
Grew up with a variation of this as a humble supper, especially on Maundy Thursday in Germany
Same in my native Austria - and many kids love it, btw. My 4-year-old actually requested it today!
Definitely a childhood favourite for me (Austrian) too.
in Frankfurt, Germany, there is a green sauce "Grüne Soße" made up of many different green leaves and sometimes egg and you also eat it with eggs and potato
What do you all think of my intro? I am trying some new things, I think it's fun but open to thoughts!
I loathe youtube intros. I always skip through them. Nothing personal.
I like the intros. A nice over view of the episode. Dont like the ads though. Oh well. Thanks
Im not sure i loved the intro but i loved the digital interaction for the pancake recipe
It was a nice intro
it was so fun! loving all the little tweaks that you've added recently!
A food rainbow episode would be so cool! The prettiest food that I've ever had is a Lithuanian soup called šaltibarščiai. It's bright pink and it's the tastiest souvenir I've ever brought home from abroad. 😊
June content right here. :)
Inga Lam, another TH-camr (I think she was part of Buzzfeed) had a series about eating foods,.of a certain color, for a day.
I LOVE spinach, even a little added to recipes adds this phenomenal vibrant green color and so much nutritional value! I am Greek, so my favorite way to eat it is just very simply pan sauteed with good olive oil and fresh garlic, and then served with a giant squeeze of lemon. 🙂
Spanakopita (chef's kiss) absolute favourite of mine. I had been babysat by a Macedonian couple & they fed me the dishes that they grew up with especially the freshly homemade phyllo dough since it wasn't really commercially available in grocery stores when I was in kindergarten in the mid-1970's.
Loved SPINACH always.
@@annbower6278 Yes, I have made fresh phyllo, it is so much work and I have immense respect for families who do that! 🙂
@@FishareFriendsNotFood972 so do I. Fresh is always tastes better than the 1's sold in the grocery stores.
God, that sounds amazing.
I feel like I was always a weird kid who liked spinach, broccoli basically any vegetable or fruit. Not a fan of how spinach shrinks up so much- I feel like my entire backyard would have to be a spinach field to make one batch of Spanakopita.
My issue has been always with okras! I never liked this vegetable 😩
I'm from the same group, but I can say that through living together, children with Latin and Asian influences tend to eat a lot more and like vegetables more
I’ve always been the veggie/fruit kid too! I’ll eat canned spinach I love it so. Agreed on the shrinking issue. I had a half acre garden in my last house and even with 1/2 of that spinach we would run out in 3 or 4 meals. ( family of 5, we all like spinach haha)
I feel like the stereotype of kids not being big on vegetables is because of people who can’t cook vegetables and the whole culture of “kid friendly” foods that’s usually just really junky, at least in America
Don't feel weird. I love eating spinach, homegrown tomatoes, strawberries, etc....my granny always gave us bags of it from her garden. She wanted to be sure that we were kept fed.
Tip: wash spinach in a large bowl of water and gently swish so that the dirt/sand falls to the bottom. The spinach gets cleaner and you use less water than running the tap.
Regarding Pinaattiletut: It´s 150 g before ringing out the water, chopped frozen spinach is most commonly sold in 150 g bags in Finnish grocery stores. I don´t even ring out the water and just whisk the ingredients together so you don´t even need to use a blender. But blending and using more spinach works well too! Thanks Veera for sending the recipe and thank you Beryl for featuring Finland 😊
This is the confirmation I was seeking in the comments! Thank you for sharing.
would unfrozen spinach (in a bag) also work? since you'd be blending it all anyway
@@baansiinyeah! :)
I am also a spoon person. I will eat anything and everything with a spoon if possible. Spoons are just the superior eating tool. Period.
Spoon people unite
@@BerylShereshewsky Omg, you are one of my absolute favorite TH-camrs, AND YOU RESPONDED TO MY COMMENT :D So excited. Spoons are the best!
@@BerylShereshewsky 🥄
@@BerylShereshewsky @MsLabansen I am also a spoon person. And a bowl person.
Had to pause the video just to write this-I’m so glad someone else uses Travis’ line of “two very enthusiastic thumbs up” in Clueless. I say it all the time and finish out the quote “two very enthusiastic thumbs up, fine holiday fun” whenever someone asks my opinion on something 😂
Yesssss i love when my jokes land however rarely haha
Fatayer sbenekh are amazing! In Lebanon, we make them meatless, and they are equally delicious 😋 I love the filling to be very sour too. Middle Eats have a nice recipe in English too :) 🍉 🍉
Palak paneer. Its divine.
I have to get it every time I’m at an Indian restaurant! It’s the best
Not me having just checked your channel half an hour ago because I felt like it had been ages since you last posted a longer video, and here you are, with one of my favorite vegetables, no less! 😻 edit: wait, you’re making a Finnish dish? To the marketplace, my fellow compatriots! 🎉
My favorite dish that my dad used to make was spinach pie. He put his own twist on his Italian grandmother‘s recipe and it was heavenly; even in my 50s, I would still beg him to make it whenever I visited him. I attempted many times to send a submission for this episode but he had just passed away on March 15 just a few weeks after being blindsided with a brain cancer diagnosis, and I was crying too hard to be able to make sense so I decided not to send the email. If you ever do a spinach part two though, I would love to share in his honor.
Have you ever considered doing an ugly delicious episode? Wait, have you already done one? I need to look. So many ugly delicious dishes out there and it might be kind of fun.
Aww..could you post the recipe here? Would love to try! ❤
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@LisaTedescoVC Sorry, Lisa. Such a sad time for you, but I hope happy memories offer you comfort.
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I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope you share the recipe!
I have a lot of spinach and I was gonna search TH-cam for some spinach recipes. Lol and behold beryl came out with this video today! And literally in the same hour I was gonna scour spinach recipes. Thanks beryl!
It’s kismet!!
If you like Italian, I highly recommend manicotti, stuffed with a spinach/ricotta mixture. I make the shells (like crepes), but you can buy the shells. (If you can't find them, buy cannelloni instead!) To continue the theme, Italian Wedding and Spinach & White Bean soup are great options. Enjoy!
Okay, the thing with the Spinach pancakes from Finland is that they are more like crepes not a pan cake so you must fry them very thin. Many times they are fried with a cast iron pancake skillet that has 4 small round places to put the batter in. In Finland you can find spinach pancakes from any stores ready made, they don't contain as much spinach as homemade but as a fast snack, they are just fine. I do these pan cakes or should I say crepes with freshly picked nettle too. It is just the right season for them now. So good with lingonberry jam!
I’m from Germany and one of my favorite childhood foods is cream spinach with mashed potatoes , fish sticks and a sunny side up egg with runny yolk on top ! I mostly had it at my grandparents house because I’m the only one from my family (mother,brother) who likes spinach !
The sirens in the background while you're stressing about dough is perfect comedic timing
Since you asked...
I love a red onion, and while I understand shallots are prized for their delicacy and mildness, they are expensive for how much you get. What I always have an eye out for is Walla Walla sweet onions, so named because they were first crossbred in Walla Walla, Washington. I first learned about them on The Frugal Gourmet on PBS back in the early 80's. They make amazing caramelized onions for burgers, steaks, or even French onion soup.
Beryl, thank you for making these videos. I am suffering from depression and anxiety and watching your videos really calm me down a lot, I binge on them before I go to bed. Peace and love to you and all viewers❤
18:12 "but i love brussel sprouts" hold. a brussel sprouts episode would be hardcore.
seconded!!! i always love eating brussel sprouts but i'm a weenie in the kitchen and don't know how to prepare them myself
A trick I learned from ATK for dealing with massive amounts of greens that need to be cooked down - throw them in a big bowl and put in the microwave for a minute or two. They'll reduce without potentially falling out of a pan and you can just dump the whole thing into the dish at once so you don't deal with under/overcooked greens.
19:51 garlic and shallots are the cornerstone of nearly every major South East Asian cooking. So versatile, it can be the base of stir-fries, soups, steamed fish and so forth. My favorite way of cooking spinach has to be this one, in the garlic/shallot soup but instead of prawns, I'd substitute pork or chicken. When we say sautéed until fragrant, it means to sauté it until the garlic and the shallot turns a slight golden brown for that extra kick of aroma.
I've been watching your vids since covid and in one video you have said (as far as I can remember) that when you cannot travel you can always try (cook) something new and have the experience at your own place. It is for me to this day very inspiring and I thank you for that. You are such a nice and positive person, congratz! 👍
Thank you!!!!
Omg I've been waiting for Finland to show up! Kiitos Veera!
We used to have ”lettupäivä” ("pancake/crepe day") at school and we would get a trio for lunch: regular pancake, spinach pancake and blood pancake.
Is blood pancake actually made with blood, or is it just red colored?
@@strawberrycherrybabyReal blood.
@@Jay_Kay666 that’s so cool! I craved blood and raw meat when I was pregnant, I should have just made those pancakes.
@@strawberrycherrybaby Store bought verilettu tastes so bad.
the slovakian is also known in Austria/Germany as (Rahm)spinat (same way cooked with an "Einbrenn" and (at least in Austria - eaten the same way with a fried egg and potatoes). Often an dollop of heavy sour cream (Rahm) is added at the last moment. (Although most people skip the beginning steps, and take the frozen green cube from the grocery instead of blending leaves)
Yes! I'm German, but raised in the US, and ate it often growing up. Boiled potatoes, creamed spinach on top, and a fried egg on top of that. So good! Now I have to make it agan.
1. Shallots
2. Red Onions
3. White Onions
4. Yellow Onions
I would put Chives, Pearl Onions, Scallions, Leek and other varieties of the onion family between Red and White Onions, because the are for special dishes or garnishes.
Concerning Nr. 1 Shallots, I very much like the Banana Shallot, because the are a big variety of Shallots.
The Slovakian sauce seems almost like the cream of spinach soup my family makes, only thicker and we add a few other veggies...1 potato, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 clove garlic cover in water boil until soft (don't drain the water). Steam 1 lb spinach in 1 cup water add to veggies and puree ( you can also just add the water and spinach to the other veggies but I often cook the spinach ahead and freeze it so I just add that, you can also puree the two things separately but why do extra work unless your blender is too small) Make a roux with 1/3 cup flour, 1/3 cup butter and mix with 2 cups milk mixing while you cook until thick. Add the purred veggies and spinach. Add 1/2 salt or to taste, 1/2 tsp dried basil, pinch of nutmeg, pinch of thyme, Fresh parsley....if your soup is too thick add more milk.
Breakfast: Sauteed sliced mushrooms topped by a bed of fresh spinach and grated garlic, with an egg poached on top. Supper: More inspiration! Thanks!
seeing the watermelone in the dish setup made so happy!! thank you Beryl!! 🍉 small but mighty gesture 💕
I'd love to see a Sumac episode! I'd love to have more ideas how to use it.
Maybe other particular seasoning/herb episodes?
And, you must also try Espinacas con Garbanzos (Spinach with Garbanzo beans) from the south of Spain. Sooo good.
Must is harsh
Wait what - pinaattiletut? Finally! This was my favourite school dinner. This dish can go sweet and savory. One store brand suggested serving it with shredded carrots AND honey - wasn't bad.
Spinach is also a BIG part of me growing up overseas. As a child of an immigrant I understood truly what Irene went thru, we substitute the traditional greens with Spinach! Like when my mom would cook the filipino dish Tinola we didn't have malunggay, so we use Spinach! She also did it with Monggo and Laing etc.
Oh Beryl, that color idea is awesome! Please do it.❤️
You just know its gonna be a good day when Beryl uploads a new video
I love this episode. Thank you for the new ideas. When I need to get the liquid out of foods, I love to use my potato ricer. Works great
❤thank you❤4 this video. My mood is messed up today and your personality helps me forget my issues
Aw i get if I’m so happy this show can bring a little levity and joy
Look at Beryl being all brave grinning into the camera, not knowing if she has spinach in her front teeth or not! Love it so much!
The fact that i didn't notice it probably says something
This is such timely episode Beryl. Just been discharged from hospital suffering from severe Anaemia.
Omg yes this will help!!
Green Parsley ist better
I just want to say I LOVE your website!
Omg thank you!!
that last dish is very similar to what we eat on good friday in germany, just the spinach seems more simple. most people use "Rahmspinat" which is chopped spinach in a cream sauce. the fried egg and boiled potatoes are the same, sometimes you might have a fried fish filet or fish fingers instead of the egg
It’s a pretty classic combo in Switzerland as well and a childhood favourite of mine. My mom would often prepare oven fries instead, perfect to dip in the egg and the spinach, and they provide a nice contrast in texture in a dish that’s otherwise just soft and mushy things.
That spinach sauce! The pancakes! I have a little food nihlist in my house (about to turn 5), and maybe the color saturation of these will get her to try it out
Nice touch with the watermelon in the bg.
Cook spinach from fresh or canned at a boil for 15 minutes. Less for canned. Add bacon grease and salt. Simmer for 30 minutes fresh and canned for 20. Serve hot with pinto beans, cornbread, onions, fried potatoes, or whatever you like. A good country meal via Kentucky!
Germany here. In my family we have various favourite spinach dishes that also children love.
- Creamy spinach with mashed potatoes and fish sticks (Rahmspinat mit Kartoffelpüree und Fischstäbchen)
- spaghetti with creamy spinach and maggi[optional] (Spaghetti mit Rahmspinat und Maggi [optional])
- spinach garlic cream cheese sauce with fresh pasta (Spinat-Knoblauchsoße mit Frischkäse und frischen Bandnudeln)
- spinach potato mash with Bratwurst (Spinat-Kartoffelpüree mit Bratwurst)
I have made the Vietnamese Canh Rau Pi Nat (spinach and shrimp soup) four times since I saw this episode a couple weeks ago. Every time it's been my breakfast. It's easy, quick and absolutely delicious and filling. Never thought I would wake up craving shrimp and spinach soup but here I am. This is in regular rotation and I don't see that changing anytime soon. 10/10
Chaat is my favorite discovery from Indian cuisine so far. They are soooo savory and appetizing, totally impossible to stop eating once you start. I love fries with stuff, I love chips/nachos with stuff. But chaat takes everything to a next level. I am so grateful to the kind Indian restaurant who gave us an incredible free fried spinach chaat during a team lunch and introducing us all to this category of dish :)
as a kid I absolutly loved spinach it was my favourit veggi and I could not understand how other kids could dislike it. My sister was the same.
PS I still love spinach but now I like asparagus and okra more.
As a kid me eat ut raw. Like chew from garden. In a sallad. But could not stand it cooked.
Even before I opened the video I hoped you made palak patta chaat from India.. And I'm soooo happy it is in the video !! It's deserves all recognition!!
Yay ! to the dish from Slovakia from Germany. It’s a classic dish here , too and reminds me of childhood . Need to make this again some day. Though most people would you the premade frozen spinach.
1. yellow onions
2. red onions
3. green onions
3. shallots (tasty but too fiddly for me to peel, onions here are generally smaller than American onions)
4. sweet onions
Your video is perfectly timed as I am looking for ideas for the beautifu and huge bag of CSA spinach in my fridge. Thanks Beryl!
"I want to live in this dish" is the best compliment I have ever heard
Hahaha it was true
The last is like Rahmspinat in Germany. We serve it with potatos and egg as well, only the Béchamel isn’t in there, just cream. But I think it tastes very similar. ❤️
I've been an enthusiastic viewer for some time now, and I am happy to share that I finally tried my first recipe from one of your videos! I have made Irene's shrimp-spinach soup twice because I had all of the ingredients home and it is delicious! I will continue to make this and keep it in my rotation. Thank you, Irene and Beryl!
Yes!!!
My maternal grandmother used to make breaded cod with creamed spinach and boiled potatoes, and I really wanted to try the green sauce, but since I was allergic to cow milk protein (until I was 4 years old) she had to make me some with soy milk. Nobody thought that I would like it, so she only made a small amount. It was, of course, my favorite thing ever and she started making me the same amount that the 4-5 adults would eat and that was the thing I asked to have for dinner every time we visited for the next 20 years.
Berryl, in this spinach episode, I found something unique about the word spinach in Indonesian with the word spinach from other countries outside Indonesia.
I discovered that Indonesians use the word spinach for the Chinese amaranth or pigweed plant. while the spinach shown in this episode is the spinacia oleracea plant or in Indonesia it is called Horenzo or Japanese Spinach.
So make sure for those of you who want to visit Indonesia and want to eat spinach to say the word horenzo or Japanese spinach to avoid misunderstandings.
Hopefully this is good information for all of you.
My mother used to make a spinach and potato frittata when I was a child. I have always been a finicky eater, but loved this.
Those little spinach parcels looks so good, well done on the pastry work. I love spinach as an ingredient ❤
Thank you!!! I was impressed too!
Oh my gosh! I have that potatoes shirt and I was wearing it as I watched this episode and I didn’t even realise you were as well until you said “what excellent boiled potatoes” and I had the “Same backpack!” Moment. 😅😊 Great episode as always!
I needed a Beryl video today! 💚💚💚
That last dish really made me think about how similar it was to saag paneer; creamed, spiced spinach with potatoes. Yum, either way.
spinach taught me to try things more than once before deciding i dont like it. i always thought spinach was nasty because i had only tried that nasty waterlogged frozen compressed brick of bitter garbage. then one day someone offered me a fresh spinach salad with strawberries and poppyseed dressing and now i love it. this is your sign to go back and try things you decided you dont like.
As soon as you said “oh brother,” I immediately said “where art thou…” at the EXACT same time you did! JINX! 😂
The deepfried indian spinach leaves reminds me of deepfried salvia I do in the summer. They are excellent snackfood.
You mention spinach being disliked by American children. While this is true, I would argue that this is due to us Americans not knowing how to cook spinach in an exciting or interesting way. It’s always just the base for a salad or steamed/sautéed as a side dish. Children dislike it because it’s boring…but this video just proves that it doesn’t have to be! Spinach can be a really diverse vegetable and super tasty if cooked right!
27:37 of COURSE I knew exactly what you were quoting when the first few words came out of your mouth. A VERY favorite movie of all time! (Great episode showing the versatility of spinach!)
I love spinach. Can’t wait to try a couple of these for sure. I love your channel. I love learning what people eat in their countries and in their homes. ❤
My mom got me and my siblings to eat spinach because of Popeye😂 she added butter and cider vinegar after cooking it. I still eat it like this occasionally, but I love it raw in a salad too.
You are so right about the onion hierarchy. Shallots are also my favorite with sweet onions on the bottom. I really hope you de-veined those shrimp. The earrings are so cute. I like Greek and Italian spinach dishes.
Wonderful episode again! I love spinach 😊 And the last recipe from Slovakia was kind of a surprise for me. In Germany we ear something quite similar - and it’s actually one of my favorite foods 😊
In Germany we eat spinach in a way very similar to Špenátový Prívarok. In my family it was a typical Friday dish that we also ate fish with next to the potatoes and the egg. It was truly one of my favorite meals as a kid and one more reason to look forward to Fridays after school. Also the spinach sauce was the very first thing I ever ate at around 5-6 months when my grandma fed it to me. Maybe that's why I loved spinach so much as a kid.
Hi Beryl! i’m a long time fan and first time commenting. You must try to find malabar spinach as the Vietnamese soup originally used malabar spinach. The Vietnamese diaspora in US had to make-do with spinach as malabar was unavailable. Malabar spinach is an amazing vegetable because it is significantly more nutritious than spinach. Malabar spinach has a texture similar to okra, so in a soup it doesn’t have the grainy texture (oxalate crystals) in your mouth. It is easy to propagate and grow in hot and dry climate.
Thank you for your wonderful videos. Your series on the alphabet of food is my favorite!
Loved this spinach episode! When I was a kid (like, 50 years ago, I am now 61) and my parents would take us out to dinner. If spinach was an option as one of the veggie sides I ALWAYS wanted the spinach. It never failed... the waitress would stop writing her ticket, look at my mom with the "is she sure" kind of face, and mom would nod yes... I loved spinach, still do. Thank you for the memories... and the fantastic new options for preparing it. I love the first one you showed. That will be my first attempt. The rest will follow. Hugs... PS
😂 The same thing would happen when I was a kid when we went out! If I got to choose the sides with my meal, I'd always get spinach as a side, and the server would usually ask "Are you sure?", and glance at my parents 🤭. Sometimes I would order double spinach, instead of picking a second side, and then they'd really stare at me! 😂
I love "you can do this, you can do this, you can do this"...Beryl can do EVERYTHING! Superwoman 🦸♀️ 😂🎉
Loved this episode! So many beautiful recipes with spinach. I’m definitely going to try the chaat and the Palestinian pastries. Those both looked so crispy and delicious. Yum!
I learned to make fatayir from my ex-husband's Syrian family. They never used meat in theirs, so it's a vegan dish. Very delicious. I like to make a big batch, freeze them, and then have them for breakfast. Some people also add a lot of lemon to the filling, and that is good, too.
My Mom had a home garden when I was growing up. When spinach was in season it was stored in Tupperware in the fridge. It was a quick grab and go snack for me and my sisters. One of my favorite food combinations is spinach and mushrooms.
Loved the episode and love spinach. I can't wait for the second episode!
I love that you were listening to Fleetwood Mac while making the dumplings together! Dreams is one of my favourite songs, and it really is a great song for cooking, especially as a group. Loved the video!
Literally my favourite channel. I am so excited for this episode
A colorful dish episode would be super cool
I was raised vegetarian, though no longer. I love my spinach, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts! Thanks for featuring one of the best leafy greens!
The layering of toppings on Palak Patta Chaat is just reminding me of nachos in the best possible way and I so badly have to try this now! 😍
Yesss I love “messy dishes” where you just go wild with toppings
Yes! I love community videos ❤❤❤❤
My favourite onion is also the shallot. It’s so delicious in curries and when fried.
Beryl! loved this episode so much, that i absolutely suggest to you trying one of the most loved summer dishes in Italy: Piadina with spinach and squaquerone (it's a cheese very similar to stracchino) or with spinach and pork sausage! Very widespread dish but originally from a northern region, Romagna! easy quick and delicious meal 🇮🇹🤌🏻
In Greece we cook spanakorizo... which means spinach with rice. A piece of feta is a must in the side😊someone also can add it,in chicken or even lamb,my grandma used to cook it this way,on special occasions (Christmas or Easter)
I was just praying that it shouldn't be a Sag Paneer aka Palak paneer for an Indian spinach dish. And thanks to the lady who brought Spinach chat to the world 😍. Thats an absolute delight on a plate and people should try it once 😊 that is so much delicious 🤤. Thanks Beryl
I gotta grow some spinach in my garden this spring and fall! It’s so nice when it’s fresh ❤️
When your ONE EYE opens lager than the other.. I KNOW ITS GOOOODD!!!
(it's like Mark Weins signature head bob)
Hahah it’s also a slight genetic thing called Marcus Gunn but it also does goes up when my jaw
Is like ong yum
aww so happy to get a reply from you. I just love your energy and you are just so Cute and bubbly.. make us all happy watching you. 💕
sorry if I was being insensitive. I did not know it was a genetic thing..its still adorable!
I am from Bangladesh and our typical spinach dish is very simple, fry shallots, garlic, and green chillies and then add spinach and stir fry. This is just not for spinach but for many other green leafy vegetables. Vegetables are sides and hence we keep them very simple.
My best friend is from Finland & I finally got to visit her last year- I’m sad now that we didn’t see any spinach pancakes but I can’t wait to make them & send her a picture!! Love the episode beryl thanks! 💚
I just subscribed to your channel. Thank you for the content. You do a really good job.