Mike, your videos are genuinely better than most of the Masterclass classes with professional chefs. Thanks for all you do, man. I’ve learned a ton from your videos over the years
His videos are realistic and tailored to everyday people, whereas anything by Gordon Ramsay is more tailored to those who have a very large budget and/or spent years at Le Cordon Bleu school.
Fun fact about matcha: it also contains L-Theanine which essentially counteracts a lot of the jittery effects of caffeine, so it’s great for those who are sensitive to caffeine!
I can contest to that...no more jitters. I cut out coffee a few weeks ago and now enjoy my 2 cups a day of matcha. I add a couple pinches of stevia, a few drops of vanilla extract, and drink it over ice. Totally decreases the bitterness.
Yerba maté is a good, cheaper alternative than matcha which tends to be super expensive. It's higher in antioxidants than green tea, and higher in caffeine (matein) than both green tea and matcha, but due it's composition it doesn't give you the jitters like coffee may do. Also maté can be re-steeped and reused *a lot* of times, unlike green tea or matcha. It's overall the more accessible and budget friendly option, best replacement for coffee, and way healthier than green tea.
You are such a good cook. I’m 63 and have been cooking for a good many years, so I know a natural cook when I see one. I really love the way you have a beautiful sense of balance. You have something for everyone. Extremely well done. ☮️💕
I grew up watching Good Eats with Alton Brown. Honestly, watching your videos as an adult gives me the same feeling as watching that show as a child. Keep it up! I am completely loving your content.
Good comparison! I didn't see it at first but you are so right, it's not about what he is making but what he says, He gives you the info you need to make it own.
I love how you didn’t shame yourself for the sweets or really anything. You intuitively listened to your body and nourished it. Love these healthier snack options!
I’d be interested to find out “how to freestyle a baked good”! Like.. which baked goods can be free style with minimal ingredients? How do we know what makes it light vs dense, low sugar etc.
If you’re interested in that, you might want to check out the book “Lateral Cooking”. The author gives blueprints for many foods (e.g. what ratios are roughly needed, where can and can’t you change things around) plus showing examples of how to vary and adapt and how you go from one type of recipe to the next. I found it really helpful for learning to improvise
With time and practice! I cook soups all the time and I learn something knew almost every other soup (I wing it) I used to follow recipes to the T but it kept me out of the kitchen because I wouldn’t like it so I must be a terrible cook but when I’m winging it if I don’t like it I have motivation to get back into the kitchen to ‘perfect’ my craft! It’s very relaxing and extremely replenishing when you can share it with friends and family and see the gaze of aws from a great home cooked meal!!!
The best part about meal prep is you soon forget the effort put into it, but you never forget all the food quickly available in the fridge when you're hungry NOW. 👍
This mine 1 - water 2 - brewed chai 3 - fruit or oats with fruit 4 - lunch, sandwiches, leftover vegetables, bean veggies, lentils with either rice or roti 5 - light snack whatever is there with some tea at 4:30 6 - nice big dinner, could be anything lmao
Loving this new video format Mike, wasn't sure how Pro Home Cooks was going to differentiate itself from Brothers Green, but these themed recipe compilations are great, I never use everything, but there's always something great and useful in each video.
People, try those energy balls. I struggled a lot making them on my "smoothie bullet" since I don't have a food processor but in the end it was totally worth it. They are AMAZING!
"Being a pro home cook is all about showing up in the kitchen, getting creative with what you have, and providing for yourself and the people around you" so good!
I love the little "disclaimer" at the end. I feel like I have a very similar approach to food, I would LOVE to eat like this everyday, everything healthy and made from scratch, but it's just not realistic. I really appreciate the reminder that this is more like an aspiration, and that incorporating something like this in your diet at least for part of the meals is already a win!
I was always thinking about how hard it is to become a master/professional using the 10,000 hours rule, but honestly I think I am a master in watching TH-cam video's after all these years.
So inspiring! Now I'm hungry hungry hungry! It'd also be fun to see your take on how to eat well on a very small budget. I like seeing those videos on eating on $10/week or some other amount many people would consider low.
B vitamins are cofactors for a lot of metabolic processes, so you have more of the other components that help enzymes turn sugar into "fuel". Basically like changing spark plugs to help process gas better. (re: 13:12)
Wow, Last video I saw of you a few years ago was when you were getting stoned with your buddy in your tiny apartment, teaching my broke 13 year old ass how to make food basics. Now Im 18, have had 2 cooking jobs so far, and your inside a beautiful home with 3 million subscribers and a new channel look entirely. I dont know you on a personal level but you helped me alot growing up and Im really proud of how far you came.
This is an awesome meal prep. Even for an athlete, which I am. I'm gonna give this a go. Only difference is I'll add a mid morning bowl of protein protein shake post workout. Can't wait to try the pancakes! Thank you so much
You have an interesting channel and I like your kitchen and I like water with citrus fruits in the morning, I also do it because I'm staying here for more videos, thank you very much for sharing
regarding the enerdy balls I myself like when their texture is super smooth and all the nuts are incorporated into the mix. So first I put the nuts into the food processor and wait until they are almost paste like and only then I add dates and other dried fruits. And also I wait untill the whole mass sticks together completely and becomes one single basse in the processor.
This channel literally saved my life. I actually get excited to cooking because it's literally perfect. I would really love a video for clueless college children who're not pro cooks...
Usually, when they're a lot of snacks around the house, I noticed that I'd eat way less in meals, cause I know there's always something to munch on whenever I crave, and my mind kinda compensates for that. Unlike when there isn't any, I'd eat so much of the same thing specially during meal times, which is less healthy in my opinion sooo go snackers!
If I know there are snack in the cupboard I cannot walk past it without dipping in. My only way to eat healthy is to have nothing except ‘allowed’ foods in the house.
I thoroughly enjoyed this vid. Every dish/creation is something that I would prepare independently or as part of an entire meal plan. I haven't gotten into kombucha but have always wanted to. Your ginger peach drink looks delicious and makes me want to start my kombucha journey. Everything was spot on. Kudos!
Your videos are so wholesome ! I have been showing up for myself - cooking wise quite consistently, am definitely going to make that coconut curry. Thanks for the inspiration !
The B vitamins in kombucha boost your adrenal gland. I had issues with my adrenal gland for a while and my doctor had me take a B Supreme vitamin. I had so much energy for the first few days, I felt like a superhero. It does start to balance out after a few days and you just get an even energy throughout the day.
I enjoy ur videos as well as ur brother's videos. Food made from scratch is more tasty i think. Eating minimum carbs does away w joint pain & stiffness 4 me. Why i prefer cooking at home from scratch. I control i put n my home cooking.
Can't wait to try the energy balls, I had made some with date paste, but every recipe I found added chocolate or peanut butter and they turned out a little too sweet for my taste, I'm definitely one for salty snacks!
Love the videos. Great motivation and inspiration. I would really love if you could mention how long you can save and store some of the things you make or prep.
I love the date balls....everything else too..lol. I can always tell exactly what time it is when that mid afternoon slump hits me...3pm. Lol. Great vid. Thanks.
You feel better after drinking water in the morning because, as you said, you're dehydrated. It has nothing to do with you drinking tea afterwards, you could not drink anything and still feel better from drinking water. Caffeine's dehydrating factor is also mainly just the fact that it's a diuretic, which means it makes you want to go to the bathroom more. This effect is minimal and won't really dehydrate you much at all. Also, as far as vitamin B boosting your energy, vitamins don't have an immediate effect like that and also in someone with normal levels of vitamin B you won't experience an energy boost. The energy boost is mainly only present in those deficient in vitamin B. The boost you feel is probably the caffeine as you originally thought or just a placebo as you feel that it does boost your energy so it ends up doing so.
Man, I am lot like you. I like to vary what I eat, drink and even do on a pretty regular basis. Sometimes coffee, sometimes tea, a lot of times soda, sometimes fatty bacon and fried hard eggs, sometimes ....... WHO knows what... I think we were many different people in the before life. OR just accept and enjoy many different flavors more so than most other people.
This video/finding your channel has literally changed my life, thank you! I’m wondering for the pancakes if you can use the same ratio to make muffins? And could you do a video/point me to a video where you do some of your free-style muffin recipes?
Your round energy bites are called Laddoos in India. The nut based laddoos are great. Also, try making one with gram flour/besan. They are my favourite especially the nutty flavour and fragrance are just to die for.
Thanks man this was entertaining and I always learn something from you. Plus I was feeling bad for not being in the kitchen enough with the time I hav off lol but im getting in their and your reminder that its unrealistic to to eat the way I would like to everyday. Baking from scratch today and some simple crusty rolls.got flour to use and no bread.
I’ve made the curry recipe and it was sooo good! Thanks for sharing the curry paste technique. made mine with fresh turmeric. I wish I could attach the pic!
wow - this is the best! super informative, creative, well communicated, organized, efficient, fast, detailed, GREAT editing. really love the content and appreciate these videos SO MUCH!!! thank you thank you thank you!! no doubt this all takes a lot of effort, planning, time, and love of health and cooking. peace!
10,000 hours of meal prep... so, had to do the maths. Been married 46 years... have been sole meal prep (other than very occasional takeaway (until the last few years where we have it 2 or so times per week) that comes to just 35.4 minutes per day... pretty sure my meal prep is at least 5 times that!
"I just use whatever I have in my pantry" *has literally everything in his pantry
😂 that's so true..
I died when he showed his tea drawer. 🤣
My pantry is basically a desert compared to his.
😂😂 he did say he’s been at it a decade.
Lmao!
Mike, your videos are genuinely better than most of the Masterclass classes with professional chefs. Thanks for all you do, man. I’ve learned a ton from your videos over the years
True, chefs conceal a lot of details. Make it look like magic trick. I don't like tricks, I like simple stuff.
His videos are realistic and tailored to everyday people, whereas anything by Gordon Ramsay is more tailored to those who have a very large budget and/or spent years at Le Cordon Bleu school.
Fun fact about matcha: it also contains L-Theanine which essentially counteracts a lot of the jittery effects of caffeine, so it’s great for those who are sensitive to caffeine!
I can contest to that...no more jitters. I cut out coffee a few weeks ago and now enjoy my 2 cups a day of matcha. I add a couple pinches of stevia, a few drops of vanilla extract, and drink it over ice. Totally decreases the bitterness.
@@pennygardner9739 I love matcha but never thought to add vanilla extract, gonna have to try 😋
This is also in green tea generally, no need to make it matcha specifically.
Yerba maté is a good, cheaper alternative than matcha which tends to be super expensive.
It's higher in antioxidants than green tea, and higher in caffeine (matein) than both green tea and matcha, but due it's composition it doesn't give you the jitters like coffee may do.
Also maté can be re-steeped and reused *a lot* of times, unlike green tea or matcha. It's overall the more accessible and budget friendly option, best replacement for coffee, and way healthier than green tea.
Ooh, thanks for the tip!
You are such a good cook. I’m 63 and have been cooking for a good many years, so I know a natural cook when I see one. I really love the way you have a beautiful sense of balance. You have something for everyone. Extremely well done. ☮️💕
I've picked up so many tips from him.
@@mholtebeck so have I.
I grew up watching Good Eats with Alton Brown. Honestly, watching your videos as an adult gives me the same feeling as watching that show as a child. Keep it up! I am completely loving your content.
Good comparison! I didn't see it at first but you are so right, it's not about what he is making but what he says, He gives you the info you need to make it own.
Same. I’m an adult now. lol
You are so right
I love how you didn’t shame yourself for the sweets or really anything. You intuitively listened to your body and nourished it. Love these healthier snack options!
I’d be interested to find out “how to freestyle a baked good”! Like.. which baked goods can be free style with minimal ingredients? How do we know what makes it light vs dense, low sugar etc.
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THIS
As if I was thinking the same as I don't everything I need for muffins or carrots cake and looking how to wing it without completely botching it
If you’re interested in that, you might want to check out the book “Lateral Cooking”. The author gives blueprints for many foods (e.g. what ratios are roughly needed, where can and can’t you change things around) plus showing examples of how to vary and adapt and how you go from one type of recipe to the next. I found it really helpful for learning to improvise
With time and practice! I cook soups all the time and I learn something knew almost every other soup (I wing it) I used to follow recipes to the T but it kept me out of the kitchen because I wouldn’t like it so I must be a terrible cook but when I’m winging it if I don’t like it I have motivation to get back into the kitchen to ‘perfect’ my craft! It’s very relaxing and extremely replenishing when you can share it with friends and family and see the gaze of aws from a great home cooked meal!!!
The best part about meal prep is you soon forget the effort put into it, but you never forget all the food quickly available in the fridge when you're hungry NOW. 👍
Nourishing our body often gets left out. You are a great encourager!
“one of my five go-to dinners” sounds like a video i would watch
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Oh thank you. I always wondered why my green tea was so bitter and disagreeable. The water was too hot!
0:47 What a beautiful plan for a day!
This mine
1 - water
2 - brewed chai
3 - fruit or oats with fruit
4 - lunch, sandwiches, leftover vegetables, bean veggies, lentils with either rice or roti
5 - light snack whatever is there with some tea at 4:30
6 - nice big dinner, could be anything lmao
If my son can grow up to be like you I would have achieved my goal in parenting!!!
i really enjoy your freestyle way of cooking! cooking = having fun! this is the key
Love your meal prep vids, quick fresh Tex mex on fresh corn tortillas is now my diet like every other day cause of you!
@Beatriz Macri de Campos Best thing is to go back and find that video for ideas. I will often when the mood strikes to burritos.
Loving this new video format Mike, wasn't sure how Pro Home Cooks was going to differentiate itself from Brothers Green, but these themed recipe compilations are great, I never use everything, but there's always something great and useful in each video.
I love watching your videos. You make me want to be a better chef and you inspire me every day to cook for my family! Thanks for doing these videos!!
Really appreciate this video, and that you didn’t talk about dieting in it! Thank you!
People, try those energy balls. I struggled a lot making them on my "smoothie bullet" since I don't have a food processor but in the end it was totally worth it. They are AMAZING!
I really appreciate how you break everything down so well- and how you explain that it’s not about perfection. Thank you!
Just made the banana pancakes, I used oat flour and they were delicious and so easy to make !Thank you!
Love that you worked with Better Help. I found an amazing therapist through them!
A man after my own heart. Cooking from scratch. 100%
"Being a pro home cook is all about showing up in the kitchen, getting creative with what you have, and providing for yourself and the people around you" so good!
All of your videos make me want to cook so badly! Thank you for the inspiration!
I really love the quality and style of your videos
I love the little "disclaimer" at the end. I feel like I have a very similar approach to food, I would LOVE to eat like this everyday, everything healthy and made from scratch, but it's just not realistic. I really appreciate the reminder that this is more like an aspiration, and that incorporating something like this in your diet at least for part of the meals is already a win!
I was always thinking about how hard it is to become a master/professional using the 10,000 hours rule, but honestly I think I am a master in watching TH-cam video's after all these years.
Solid video as always. Really appreciate you presenting recipes/meal ideas that are so flexible and easy to make with what we have in our homes.
So inspiring! Now I'm hungry hungry hungry! It'd also be fun to see your take on how to eat well on a very small budget. I like seeing those videos on eating on $10/week or some other amount many people would consider low.
B vitamins are cofactors for a lot of metabolic processes, so you have more of the other components that help enzymes turn sugar into "fuel". Basically like changing spark plugs to help process gas better. (re: 13:12)
Wow, Last video I saw of you a few years ago was when you were getting stoned with your buddy in your tiny apartment, teaching my broke 13 year old ass how to make food basics. Now Im 18, have had 2 cooking jobs so far, and your inside a beautiful home with 3 million subscribers and a new channel look entirely. I dont know you on a personal level but you helped me alot growing up and Im really proud of how far you came.
epic! thanks for writing in, glad to help you out on your cooking journey!
This is an awesome meal prep. Even for an athlete, which I am. I'm gonna give this a go. Only difference is I'll add a mid morning bowl of protein protein shake
post workout. Can't wait to try the pancakes! Thank you so much
I don’t like pancakes but I followed this recipe and added raspberries and they were so delicious! ✨🥞 I love your channel! 💕
Thank you. Good food, cooking great food and you are not overweight! Doin' super sensible! Love your vids. 👍
We are mostly lost in our own heads and thought.... so true !
1. Great Quality Videos
2. My mouth waters with all these recepies.
3. You are so creative
Congrats!
You have an interesting channel and I like your kitchen and I like water with citrus fruits in the morning, I also do it because I'm staying here for more videos, thank you very much for sharing
regarding the enerdy balls I myself like when their texture is super smooth and all the nuts are incorporated into the mix. So first I put the nuts into the food processor and wait until they are almost paste like and only then I add dates and other dried fruits. And also I wait untill the whole mass sticks together completely and becomes one single basse in the processor.
This channel literally saved my life. I actually get excited to cooking because it's literally perfect. I would really love a video for clueless college children who're not pro cooks...
Usually, when they're a lot of snacks around the house, I noticed that I'd eat way less in meals, cause I know there's always something to munch on whenever I crave, and my mind kinda compensates for that. Unlike when there isn't any, I'd eat so much of the same thing specially during meal times, which is less healthy in my opinion sooo go snackers!
If I know there are snack in the cupboard I cannot walk past it without dipping in. My only way to eat healthy is to have nothing except ‘allowed’ foods in the house.
I thoroughly enjoyed this vid. Every dish/creation is something that I would prepare independently or as part of an entire meal plan. I haven't gotten into kombucha but have always wanted to. Your ginger peach drink looks delicious and makes me want to start my kombucha journey. Everything was spot on. Kudos!
Start another series videos
I really love those type of videos
Your videos are so wholesome ! I have been showing up for myself - cooking wise quite consistently, am definitely going to make that coconut curry. Thanks for the inspiration !
OMG...why am I just finding your channel....love the way you roll.
The B vitamins in kombucha boost your adrenal gland.
I had issues with my adrenal gland for a while and my doctor had me take a B Supreme vitamin. I had so much energy for the first few days, I felt like a superhero. It does start to balance out after a few days and you just get an even energy throughout the day.
I feel like this meal prep takes so much time.
I also start my day with lemon water. I just love it!
Amazing variety, thanks for showing it all! I'm inspired to make a curry now, it's been a while!
Everything looks delicious, as always. Going to have to try those date balls, and the coconut curry, soon. Thanks Mike! 👍
I enjoy ur videos as well as ur brother's videos. Food made from scratch is more tasty i think. Eating minimum carbs does away w joint pain & stiffness 4 me. Why i prefer cooking at home from scratch. I control i put n my home cooking.
I'm old. Note my name, lol. I have found that flaxseed oil (1000 mgs.) before bed and in the morning helps lube these old bones and joints very well.
Major old - I will give it a try
Can't wait to try the energy balls, I had made some with date paste, but every recipe I found added chocolate or peanut butter and they turned out a little too sweet for my taste, I'm definitely one for salty snacks!
My only problem with all this is just how much washing up you'll be doing all day
I would love to see more of these meal prep ideas to get some ideas for the weeks. I love your videos keep up the good work ❤️
For snacks, I like larabars type of energy balls : dates, cocoa powder and natural peanut butter. So easy and so good
Hello, great video. I just wanted to say that the lien for the recipes are the one for Mexican meals.
I mean the "link" not the "lien"
Love the videos. Great motivation and inspiration. I would really love if you could mention how long you can save and store some of the things you make or prep.
I love the date balls....everything else too..lol. I can always tell exactly what time it is when that mid afternoon slump hits me...3pm. Lol. Great vid. Thanks.
I think I have found a new TH-cam to binge on and get addicted to... lovely.
You feel better after drinking water in the morning because, as you said, you're dehydrated. It has nothing to do with you drinking tea afterwards, you could not drink anything and still feel better from drinking water. Caffeine's dehydrating factor is also mainly just the fact that it's a diuretic, which means it makes you want to go to the bathroom more. This effect is minimal and won't really dehydrate you much at all. Also, as far as vitamin B boosting your energy, vitamins don't have an immediate effect like that and also in someone with normal levels of vitamin B you won't experience an energy boost. The energy boost is mainly only present in those deficient in vitamin B. The boost you feel is probably the caffeine as you originally thought or just a placebo as you feel that it does boost your energy so it ends up doing so.
Love the way you slice up peppers taking seeds out with the tops! Great time saving method !
Add magnesium bicarbonate to you water in the morning. Helps so much
thank you a lot for your videos 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 i also love matcha and coconut oil, knowing your chanel is so satisfied!!
Always fire! Thank you!
Man, I am lot like you. I like to vary what I eat, drink and even do on a pretty regular basis. Sometimes coffee, sometimes tea, a lot of times soda, sometimes fatty bacon and fried hard eggs, sometimes ....... WHO knows what... I think we were many different people in the before life. OR just accept and enjoy many different flavors more so than most other people.
this snack looks so nice
My new favorite channel. Thank you.
This video/finding your channel has literally changed my life, thank you! I’m wondering for the pancakes if you can use the same ratio to make muffins? And could you do a video/point me to a video where you do some of your free-style muffin recipes?
That's a great day!
Your round energy bites are called Laddoos in India. The nut based laddoos are great. Also, try making one with gram flour/besan. They are my favourite especially the nutty flavour and fragrance are just to die for.
Yeah, had he just added ghee instead of citrus as the binding agent, he would've had authentic dry-fruit laddoos.
We make these in South Africa too. Big Indian community!
Excellent content 😎
I'm a beginner and learning a lot. Thanks 👍☺️
Love this series !! Thanks bro
Hemp milk is absolutely amazing in Matcha!!!
Thanks for sharing the features and benefits of Air Frying!
Thanks!
I absolutely love your episodes - super informative and easy recipes! Love it
I noticed you used packaged Dijon. Chef John's Dijon mustard recipe rocks ! great as gifts as well
yes pls
Great video, thanks for sharing!
That matcha looks drool-worthy!
Those beverages look amazing….
Thanks man this was entertaining and I always learn something from you.
Plus I was feeling bad for not being in the kitchen enough with the time I hav off lol but im getting in their and your reminder that its unrealistic to to eat the way I would like to everyday.
Baking from scratch today and some simple crusty rolls.got flour to use and no bread.
this is awesome... i need a cook day for a week of food though!
very interesting and simple
its very good for the adrenals if you put some himalayan salt or sea salt 1/4 teaspoon in the citrus water
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this👍Took notes too!
Great video, I tried like 5 recipes of you in the last 3 days
Side note, coffee is not really dehydrating, that‘s a myth as far as I know.
Gotta try a ketchup powder for your popcorn. As a southern gentleman this Canadian condiment is a winner my dude.
your youtube videos remind me of the show good eats
I’ve made the curry recipe and it was sooo good! Thanks for sharing the curry paste technique. made mine with fresh turmeric. I wish I could attach the pic!
You make me want to cook more from scratch! Thanks for sharing!
wow - this is the best! super informative, creative, well communicated, organized, efficient, fast, detailed, GREAT editing. really love the content and appreciate these videos SO MUCH!!! thank you thank you thank you!! no doubt this all takes a lot of effort, planning, time, and love of health and cooking. peace!
Use a milk frother instead of a bamboo whisk to make a matcha latte
Amazing video! And your kitchen... Wow it's just beautiful!
OMG that salad looks amazing
10,000 hours of meal prep... so, had to do the maths.
Been married 46 years... have been sole meal prep (other than very occasional takeaway (until the last few years where we have it 2 or so times per week) that comes to just 35.4 minutes per day...
pretty sure my meal prep is at least 5 times that!
I need a video on, "what should I have in my pantry"
I like this a lot. I am going to try that Macha tea.
oh man! the perfect youtuber does exist!