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What is wrong with your voice
I hate Lan Lam. 😒
really loving Lan in these videos!
Squid and octopus in tins for me, sardines not so much unfortunately
AK,Hello,but I ALWAYS put my 2 eggs in a COLD skillet, & they NEV STICK, by if I use a warm pan THEY ALWAYS STICK, GO FIGURE basically eat 2 EGG DAILY ,, 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
<3 Lan Lam <3
I like a crispy white, runny yolk, so I just separate and fry the white and add the yolk at the very end.
Lan, I'm sorry you had to baste.
Another tip: For those who hate uncooked whites, a lid on at the end does the trick, and destroys all the crispiness.
The older versions of Joy of Cooking I feel were better and had more traditional recipes, Mastering the Art of French Cooking and also James Beard Theory and Practice are three great books. Plus any of Jacques Pepin's Shortcut cook books.
Do you have a favorite restaurant? If so, do you stick with 1 favorite meal or do you "experiment"?
Rick O'Keefe asks: Seasoning carbon steel: if the paper towels used to "dry" the pan to remove seasoning oil has brown spots, is the pan able to be seasoned, or should it be cleaned first? (How?)
Tin fish, representing Chinese will have to be Fried Dace the oval can, Lan knows. haha. Im going to have that for lunch after this video.
I adore lemon with chocolate. 🙂
I make Coca-Cola slushies the same way in the freezer. 🙂
Oh God beer! I'll take the gin and tonic and it's all glass filled with crushed ice.
I like sweets I love to make ice cream and bake and I used to be a sweets freak but now I seem to go more for the savory when I'm looking for a snack. Ice cream is the guilty pleasure for me of all time and custards. 🙂
My mother always had a martini with a twist. May she rest in peace.
I drink bloody Mary's with gin is that was the original recipe and it's delicious! You can order it with gin and nobody looks funny at you. 🙂
For someone easing into canned fish I was born and raised in Maine so we eat it all. But I would recommend skinless boneless sardines or kippers in tomato sauce or mustard sauce. 🙂
When you put eggs in a pan they should not sizzle. I learned that from The Cordon Bleu.
The '80s was my time! For me it's a bloody mary year-round! 🙂
Lan is a beautiful person inside and out ☺️
No no no. If you can hear the egg in the pan the heat is to high.
You two are such sweet foodies
I was engaged the whole way through… you guys are awesome conversationalists. Thank you for sharing! … I'm still smiling!
This is the best interaction ever between professionals… I like this format, very personal, very real, and offering an intimate vibe that relates to the whole audience. Well done ATK, well done!
A last word is: Gin, green chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, lime juice,
This has just become my favourite Q&A. 🙂 I agree, "fewer dishes" is brilliant.
Easing into canned fish: choose high quality, and filets, not whole fish. And choose a simple flavouring or plain, not the fancy sauces, they are usually not good. Good crusty bread on the side was a great suggestion! ♥️
Fancy chefs like to eat tinned fish… WHAT?
Really enjoyed this! You guys have a great rapport. 🙂
Enjoyed the ask the test kitchen with both of you but tooo long. Thanks
Holy crap…long hair….
For anyone else who spotted the flash frame @ 30:06, this is what's on it. https://imgur.com/vnUyLIv A wild Dan Appears.
I'll see now as I thought before young couples don't cook and the reason is they don't know how and don't want to learn I've been cooking since I was 16 Dan Howell School vocational which we do not have any more what are terrible price to pay for the grown up people that sooner going to run our country shame on the government and the school systems because the school systems has done it
Bleached flour was invented for kids they want soft white bread to eat do we not remember the Wonder commercials sorry maybe you guys were not born at that time guarantee she picks play famosa
I love smoked oysters in a can also love octopus in a can but raw fish no one roller coasters no way anything raw I will not eat and Seafood medium-rare steaks yes only way to damn eat them
Your practitioner tells you not to eat salt your dentist tells you not to eat lemons or Citrus Foods how do you win sorry I've tried sardines that's worse to do this because you're eating all the bones and just like deveined shrimp it's not deveined
Garlic for sure
My mom is from So America and I grew up eating her rice which she cooked adding salt and oil to the water when making steamed rice. My husband is from Philippines and only cooks it with water. Now, this is the only way that I make steamed rice. Whenever I go to one of my siblings homes they make rice the way that we learned, from our mom and just can't eat it that way, anymore. Now, it's yuck
LAN—what ordere stores for chocolates? Addresses please.
The flour here in the Philippine is horrid (as is their brown sugar). The flour feels like powdered sugar and does not make good dough, barely makes a good roux. None of it is marked 'bleached' or 'unbleached' but when I buy US flour here, it is always unbleached and works better. I wonder of the flour here is bleached, and how I could find out? Baking is difficult here because all flour and brown sugar have to be imported (usually from the US).
…after some research it seems that yes, most flour here in the PIs is bleached. I do not like it ha ha (probably just not used to it)
12:50 Tinned fish? I have heard anyone but my grandparents call canned foods 'tinned'… and they died over 30 years ago. How old are these guys?
I love my Joy! It gives the basics for how to, and then u can riff from there!
East Asian descent here. You do wash the rice minimal three times – and save the water for you plants, it’s a natural fertilizer – until the water runs clear so that you can have hydrated, moist, larger grains to consume. Also South Asian rice grains are long and easily absorb water, so my family doesn’t take well to it.
Pie weights are not a scam … but save your money and use dry beans … I have a metal container full of beans that are used only for this purpose …
The sound of Lan Lam’s voice is enough to carry her own show no matter the content – why doesn’t she have one?
Oh my goodness! I love Portugalia Market. They have the best of Portuguese foods. I live an hr away from them. I order foods from them for my kids who live away. They have a website
…realizing I absolutely must NOT watch/listen to anything ATK before my intermittent fasting window has opened…cheers
Tinned fish, sardines with pesto and lemon.
Such great personalities, awesome talk show.
Much more Lan on the shows please. Or, I hear there are some vacancies at another magazine video channel?!?! If they get their stuff together, that is.