AUNTIE FEE'S How to Feed 7 People For $3 | HARD TIMES - recipes from times of food scarcity

[Music] hello my beautiful lovelies hi it's Emmy welcome back thanks so much for joining me for another episode of hard times where I explore recipes and food from times of food scarcity now today's episode is dedicated to auntie fee lovely viewer Chad told me that auntie fee had passed away over a year ago now I had no idea if you don't know auntie fee I'll put her link down below to her channel and she had this really lively channel where she made recipes out of her own kitchen there's a lot of colorful language there so kids and parents you've been warned but on TV was hilarious so much fun she would be cooking her recipes in her own kitchen and her son Tavis was usually the camera person and their rapport was so funny very colorful in terms of language but so funny and real and so are her recipes and so was her just spirit and I'm so sad to hear that she's passed but in her memory today I'm going to be making her feed seven people with $3 recipe but what auntie fee actually cooks in the video looks like it'll feed more like two people but when I did in the math and scale the recipe up I think it still falls within the parameters of $3 so first things first I'm gonna take my instant noodles here and crush them up I'm using beef flavor because I'm using leftover ground beef from our burger meal from last night so beef and beef make sense right auntie fee says if you have leftover chicken breasts then of course by all means use the chicken flavor or if you're using shrimp or if have leftover seafood use the shrimp burger so so in the big skillet on medium heat I'm gonna heat up some oil or Santa Fe would say grease because we all know that she saved her grease and reused it because it was full of flavor now we're gonna add our 2 packs of noodles oops forgot that one and we're gonna Brown these up just toast them now this is an interesting technique I've never done this before but I think it's gonna add a lot of flavor and it rounds are a little bit of cup of noodles if you've ever had those styrofoam cups of noodles they have a consider of fried or even flavor to them and I think this will probably be a similar kind of addition of flavor so while my noodles are toasting up a bit I'm going to prepare my beef here on TV I used a steak she has leftover steak in her video and I have two ground beef patties left over from dinner last night and I'm going to use that so I'm just gonna cut this up so my past higher term recipes I've explored recipes that have been more historical the Great Depression post-war Boer War but today's recipe I think still falls in the umbrella of hard times because there's just not a lot of money there's not a lot of money to get around but you still gotta feed people and you still gotta eat so I think this recipe absolutely falls under the category of hard times so my noodles are definitely toasted now I'm gonna add a bit of water all right man I remember discovering on to be a couple years ago and I've been watched all of her videos because they were just so funny and real I loved her banter with her son Tavis so so funny alright I'm gonna add my meat look bad in there next we're gonna add some dried parsley flakes gives it a little bit of green and a little bit of flavor stir that in next we're gonna add some hot sauce use whatever hot sauce you like if you like hot sauce I'm going to add a combination of Tapatio and everybody knows I like hot sauce I'm gonna get them out and I'm going to add some sriracha - don't forget to add these soup seasoning there we go one I'm gonna add one and a half because these things are really salty I want a saltier I can always add more yeah apparently on TV passed up an heart attack which really surprised me because she really wasn't that old just goes to show that we should love our people while we have them you never know when they'll be taken away from us right all right so that's almost dry and I'm just a little bit more water because we have to do a little bit more touching next we're gonna add some shredded cheese have a combination of cheddar and Monterey Jack's I just said add as much as you like so that's probably about a third of a cup and we're just gonna cook this down until all the water has evaporated this is done I think that took all of like three minutes so here we are the $3.00 meal to feed seven people all right let's give this a taste it's a dr. Moss I'm so glad I put pack and a half of this beef bouillon growing up and we made instant noodles my mom always told us to put just half a pack because they're just so salty and I'm glad I did that in this case too I think I actually could have gotten away with one pack especially since we added and the hot sauce which also has salt in it but it is quite tasty it tastes very strongly of course of the beef soup base but that cheese in there is really nice it kind of makes a sauce and sticks everything together it's kind of like mac and cheese because you've got all that cheese kind of gluing everything together but the flavors are much more complex and of course it's spicy because we added a good amount of hot sauce in there you get a little bit of beef crumbles in there so you have some of that meaty texture the noodles are well cooked they're not mushy I'm not a huge fan of mushy noodles unless I'm having mushing Mimi with my brother which I'll do that video when I see him again this summer but in that case I really like my new sushi but that's the only exception I think I want a little extra hot sauce I like things spicy there we go mm-hmm yep there it is this is unlike any ramen noodles I've ever had it's much more of like a hamburger helper in the sense that you've got beef in there you've got seasoning of course ham and cheese my only critique is that it's very very salty and I think one way to alleviate that would be to serve this on a bed of lettuce and that way you'll be getting some crunchy vegetal crunch in there great texture you'd be getting some nutrition and you'd be dispersing some of that sodium this will fill you up and it does so very inexpensively so there you have an auntie feed recipe I hope I did it justice thanks to Chad for suggesting this recipe they think Santa Fe thank you guys so much for watching I hope you guys enjoy that one I hope you guys learned something let me know if you want to see more of aunty fees recipes or if there's any other hard time recipes that you'd like to see me test out I have a long long list of fascinating interesting and just humbling stories and recipes to share be sure to share this video with your friends follow me on social media and I shall see you my next video take care [Music]

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Keywords: inexpensive, auntie fee, cheap, ramen, noodles, instant noodles, soup, beef, leftovers, feed, hard times, emmy, emmymade, emmymadeinjapan, cook, recipe, eat, food

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Length: 7min 21sec (441 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 09 2018