- Hello my name is Andrew
Rea of Binging with Babish and this is everything I eat in a day. (pages flipping) First thing I do when I wake up is go promptly back to sleep. I dread getting up in the morning, that sounds sad, and then I make a beeline for the kitchen so I can get some coffee in me. I had Erika Vonie on my
show, she's a coffee master and she turned me into a pour-over freak, so I'm all about the pour-over, but sometimes when I need to be quick, I got an espresso machine
where I'll pull a shot if I need the heavy stuff. After coffee, if its a weekday I'm gonna be a little
bit more conservative. I'm generally just doing
a fried egg over medium on some Ezekiel low sodium
sprouted grain toast, and I'll fry up a runny
egg on that and hit it with a dot of Sriracha or some other, whatever
hot sauce is kicking around and that's fuel to begin the day and it's relatively healthy-ish. It's that or maybe I'll
make a breakfast burrito, or I'll skip breakfast all together, sometimes I'm a breakfast skipper. I don't recommend that kids, it's the most important meal of the day. So they say. So they tell me but always question what people tell you. Just about a year ago, on my other show, Being with Babish, I
chronicled an exercise regimen and weight loss thing that I tried to do and I've stuck with it to
the letter every day since, that's not true at all, I
took a few months off of that (laughing) and now I'm in a much more relaxed version of what I was doing for that episode, where I'll try to work out at
minimum three times a week, ideally four or five times a week. I mostly work out at home, I
like doing just body weight, kind of burpee, kind of
stuff, just calisthenic, whatever you call that jazz and I try to do that in the
morning after breakfast, so I can get it out of the way 'cause let's face it,
exercise is horrible. Lunch, being a New Yorker,
I'm typically ordering Seamless for lunch. I cook a lot for my show,
I cook a lot for my work, so typically in my off
hours I'm cooking dinner but I'm generally not making lunch. I'm doing research or I'm filming or I'm editing and I
just don't have the time or the mental space to prepare
a healthy balanced lunch during the week, so
typically I'm ordering in from one of these bowl places: Dig In, Westville, usually
just something simple like grilled chicken with a few vegetables and some sweet potatoes or again, this is the weekday we're talking about, just wait 'til I get to the weekend, you're gonna be disgusted. If I'm very busy, I'm
generally not snacking 'cause I'm not thinking about it. I'll skip meals, I'll forget to eat meals 'cause I'm busy sometimes. I try not to keep chips in the house, I try not to keep breakfast
cereal in the house or anything that I might grab a handful and regret later. So dried fruit, nuts, cheese
if I'm feeling really naughty, I'll fry up another egg, protein shakes, sometimes I'll make a soy-based protein shake and that's not 'cause I'm
vegan, it's because whey is bad for me as a man. Weeknight dinners, generally
also kind of a lame affair but this one I'm typically cooking, so I keep a lot of frozen
meats in my freezer right here. Here, let me grab one. What have we got today? Oh here's a nice, this is a hanger steak. Sent to me from Porter
Road Beef out in Nashville, great butcher, we've had a
long standing partnership so they send me meat
every once in a while, like so many of my closest friends. I love a good hanger steak,
I love a good skirt steak, they're very quick and easy to pan fry. You either make a pan
sauce or make like, a... What's it called? A... A chimichurri. Chicken breasts, I like to do skin on, bone-in chicken breasts, so I can pan roast them
and not destroy the meat but usually it's something
simple like that. It's a piece of meat, a
vegetable of some kind, sauteed, whatever, roasted, whatever, I like roasted Brussels
sprouts most of all, I'll toss them with a little
bit of Sriracha and honey. I think I'm getting hungry
now, I haven't had lunch. Sometimes a starch if
I'm, again, feeling frisky but usually just try to keep
it to meat and vegetables on the weeknights. Trying to keep it tight. As for what I'm imbibing liquid-wise, I am a seltzer freak. I'm one of the pathetic
members of this generation that can't just drink water
and just be happy about it, it's gotta have flavor,
it's gotta have bubbles but it's got me drinking a lot more water. Like, you're supposed
to drink a lot of water and I, again, decided to keep track, okay, how much water am I drinking per day? And it was dangerously low,
like, how are you alive? Kind of style. I got the Soda Stream over there and I'll mix in a little
bit of mango flavor, a little bit of lemon flavor and it makes a nice mango seltzer that I'm drinking right now out of an eco-friendly
vacuum-sealed beverage container. Ah. I'm generally eating
dinner around like, 10. I have a very, very
unhealthy work schedule, where I'll start working at like, 10 and finish working at 11 or something. It's 'cause I love my
job, I'm not pretending that I'm some sort of champion of work, I just love my job and I get lost in it. So I'm generally eating pretty late, so late night snacking generally doesn't enter into it... unless. (laughing) I'm kidding, this is a family publication and I'm referring to sipping on tea. If I'm sipping on tea then yeah, I might have a late night snack and that's when I regret having Cinnamon Toast Crunch
in the house or whatever and that's why I don't
keep it in the house. I try to, I got props, we're
lucky we're in my kitchen, I got props. (beep) I'm not on a super super
strict diet during the week, during the weekdays. I allow myself, I allot myself a couple of these little fellas,
Dove dark chocolate squares on a weeknight just to
kill the sweet tooth but generally I'm having
decaf coffee or tea, something like that to
kill the sweet tooth and not become a larger person than I am. If I'm not having one of these chocolates or something like that,
I'm probably having a glass of something brown,
be it whiskey or cognac or a glass of wine. You know, keep it to one
or none on the weeknights. So let's get into the weekends, shall we? This is when the rules stop. I'll keep it tight
during the day on Friday and then Friday night, all bets are off. I'm having you know, a
couple of glasses of whiskey because it's the end of the week, come on. My biggest weakness in this
world has gotta be chicken parm, so I'm typically ordering
from Parm, fittingly enough. They make the perfect
expression of chicken parm, it's a seeded Italian
hero, then it's got these big fat pieces of white
meat chicken, panko breaded, beautifully crisp, even
after being delivered, just enough sauce, not too much sauce, that's a big problem with
chicken parm heroes is that, and for everyone else in the world, chicken parm sandwiches. Chicken parm heroes, is
that they get over sauced or over cheesed even, I
know that sounds crazy but it's possible and
this is a great balance of chicken to breading to sauce to cheese, also whole leaves of basil on
there, so you just take a bite and you just like "oh, I have a mouth full
of basil, life's okay." I'll dig into one of those with their Italian shoestring fries and maybe a bowl of their spicy rotini. Yeah and so that's Friday night. Saturday morning, I maybe have
a little bit of a headache, maybe, I don't know. I don't know why I have a headache and why I'm hungry for breakfast
sandwiches, you tell me. And that's what I'll do, I'll get myself a breakfast sandwich,
I'm all about the BEC or in my case HEC, 'cause
I like ham, egg and cheese. I'll even make it myself
here if I got the stuff. You know, I have to have... Gotta have the good potato
rolls, Martin's or Marty's, which I didn't... Hmm, is this knock-off Martin's? Marty's? Big soft potato roll, lots and lots and lots of sesame seeds. Lightly toast that in the
pan, little bit of butter, that way the roll stays soft. Don't do it in the toaster,
don't do it in the toaster oven because then you're gonna get a hard roll, you don't want a hard roll. Fry up two eggs, medium, over medium. I want a little bit of
runny egg going on there. Right before it's done cooking, flip, squirt of water, cheese, cover. That's gonna melt your cheese,
it's gonna steam the eggs and finish them cooking. In another pan I'm generally
frying up a slice of ham or some bacon or something like that. Ga, ga, ga, tale as old as time. BEC, HEC, breakfast sandwich. That, or you know, if I'm
really out of commission (laughing) then I'm ordering in from
some place like Black Seed or Zucker's or any of
these New York bagel spots and then by the afternoon
I'm ready to, okay, maybe I'll start being a
little bit healthier again. Have a healthy lunch, one of these bowls, then by the evening I'm
ready to party again. If I'm not doing Italian
then I'm generally gonna go either Japanese or Vietnamese or some kind of noodley,
soupy, sushi kind of thing. Sushi snobs will make fun of me for this but I love Sugarfish, it's really good, the fish always tastes
really sweet and clean. That'll be Saturday and then Sunday is kind of the tempering, get back into the normal flow of things day and just tempering myself
for oh God, Monday's coming, here we go. If I'm making my cheat meals at home, it's typically gonna be pasta,
a carbonara in particular. With the carbonara I will
either make fresh pasta or I will use something, some
big, really thick spaghetti or bucatini, something
with a lot of chew to it and something that I'll
cook really al dente and I can twist it up into a nice nest and if I made it out to my
favorite butcher Pino's, Pino's Prime Meats over
in the East Village, generally while I'm there
if they have guanciale, I'm gonna buy a slab of it and be like, I'm saving you for the weekend
and I'll make the carbonara with some really nice orangey yolked eggs and some guanciale and a whole bunch of freshly grated Romano cheese. Oh my God, I'm so hungry right now. Another one of my favorites
is Pasta alla Norcina. It's an herbed pork sausage
that you kind of have to make, you can't really buy it in the States and so the best approximation of it is to take some ground pork, mix it with a ton of
fresh rosemary, garlic and freshly-grated nutmeg and
then you cook that sausage and then make a cream
sauce out of heavy cream, a little bit more rosemary,
a little bit more garlic and a whole lot of Pecorino Romano cheese and it makes this very creamy, very sharp, very herby pasta that,
I've never tasted anything quite like it before. That, or one of my favorite
things to make over the weekends is fajitas with marinaded
thinly pounded chicken breast, some sauteed onions and peppers and this great condiment almost, I guess you'd call it a condiment,
called rajas con crema, which is Poblano peppers that you place right on the grate of your
stove and fire roast them and just blacken them entirely, peel off all the burnt carbonized exterior, chop up the nice soft pepper underneath and then cook those in
crema, which is basically a Honduran sour cream,
so basically to make an approximation of that you
mix sour cream and lime juice with a little bit of Mexican oregano and a little bit of cumin
and it makes this flavor that again, you think you've
tried all Mexican food flavors and then you try
something from some locale that you've never heard of before and you're like "wow!" There's this whole other
world that I'd never tried and this is one my favorite
expressions of that and that, with some homemade tortillas, 'cause tortillas are
surprisingly easy to make and they're so much better
than the stuff you get out of the bag. (exhaling breath) My weekends are a lot more
interesting than my weekdays. The main food that I actively avoid 'cause I hate it very
publicly is cilantro. I actually have a tattoo
of cilantro right here and if you follow it all
the way down in there, I won't reveal everything,
but it just grows straight out of my armpit. That's my little middle
finger to cilantro. People who hate cilantro, it's
literally a genetic marker that makes it taste like soap or whatever, in my case it tastes like burning tires. Despite being a proud New
Yorker, my favorite food city has gotta be New Orleans, Louisiana, because a lot of the cuisine
there was born of need and of scarcity and most
of the food in that genre is cooked slow and low,
that's my favorite, sort of category of
cooking, is slow and low and making something
beautiful out of something that most people might not be
interested in or throw away. So I've never met a dish, I
don't think, in New Orleans that I didn't love and
I don't think I've gone to a restaurant in New
Orleans that I didn't love and I went to a lot. Last year I went and did Homer Simpson's food tour of New Orleans, which was 52 different restaurants in a two minute and 30 second long video. Of those 52 restaurants, I
don't think I met a flavor or a thing that I didn't like and there were some very interesting, very exotic things going on there. So that's pretty much
everything I eat in a day. My name's Andrew Rea, I have a YouTube channel
called Binging with Babish, where I recreate foods
from movies and television. Go check it out, thank you for watching.
I was really jealous when he said a butcher shop just mails him steak for free
Does anyone know the brand of water bottle he's drinking his lemon mango seltzer in?
I don't think this has been posted, I checked around. Excuse me if it has i'll delete it if so!
But here is an awesome video of everything Babish eats in a day....!