Regardless of how cute this video is, it's ironic that MatPat is making this video considering that he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been hard for him.
15:15 "This is my grandparents' house's smell" So Proust had madeleines (in French, a "Madeleine de Proust" is an expression used to describe smells, tastes, sounds reminding you of your childhood or bringing back emotional memories from a long time ago), and MatPat has kielbasa & cabbage soup 🥣
The whole outta pocket convo Matt started with _"do you like smelling your own farts?"_ and Steph's cry-laughing _"Dude, you're my best friend, but you can _*_*clear*_*_ a room"_ is marriage goals right there
this episode made me cry. i dont have any connection to my ancestors cultural foods and to see yall be able to connect once again was beautiful. i hope more people end up cherishing what they have
As a Pole living in Poland, I can assure you that every Polish fan of yours will be proud and happy of this episode. Greetings to other Polish matpat viewers🇵🇱
"Yeah, no more tears for MattPat. The announcement should've been it but he snuck in Ollie's first sign off, but no more!" "This one's for you grandpa" *somber heartfelt tone* Mattpatt Well so much for no more tears lol
I never thought a Food Theory episode would actually show that Mat and i, along with many other people have a lot in common. Both raised Polish, a lot of interests similar to eachother, and have similar stories when it comes to ancestors. At the age of 4-5, my grandmother is someone i looked up to the most. She always had those iconic rainbow melon gummies lying around somewhere, and the best thing i remember her making was toast with that unforgetable pepper spice sprinkled around it. I still remember that party with my whole known generation invited by her, with those triangular decorations, tables, lights, music and fireplace set up, along with a basic mobile game needing to guess the names of certain games on it just for some fun of my own. Now with my grandma passing away since almost 9 years ago, that toast still lives on within my family, and my dad knows the exact recipe for it. God speed Matthew. May your cooking adventures live on
I lost my grandmother literally a couple weeks ago and this video opening with "This one's for your grandpa" almost made me cry. Thanks for giving me the motivation to call my dad and ask for some of their Portuguese family recipes❤
I AM POLISH and SUCH A BIG FAN. I laughed so hard listening to you pronounce all of the dishes my mom makes. Thank you for sharing your heritage MatPat!
When I was younger my uncle taught me how to make amazing shortbread cookies from a recipe that was passed down for generations. I’m finally glad I have an excuse to share it! Short Bread cookies: 6 oz flour 3 oz cornstarch 3 oz sugar 1 stick of butter (softened) 1 egg yolk Steps: Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Combine flour, egg, cornstarch, and sugar in a mix bowl. Mix well. Slowly add in pieces of butter and continue to mix until a solid dough ball is formed. You may need to add a few teaspoons of water if the dough is not forming. Place individually cut cookies on a baking sheet and put them in the oven for about 15 minutes. Check them occasionally. Depending on the cookie size, you may need more or less time. Once the bottom of the cookies are golden brown take them out of the over and let them cool. Once the cookies have cooled a bit, but are still warm, dip or sprinkle each cookie with sugar. Leave them to cool fully and then enjoy! ❤
Great gram's rhubarb pie: 4 cups finely chopped rhubarb 2 cups sugar 1/4 cup all purpose flour 1 generous squeeze lemon juice Pinch of salt 1 heaping tbsp tapioca pearls Before placing top crust, spread small dabs of butter onto the filling. The crust will absorb it as it bakes and makes it super flakey, and gets rid of the weird store bought crust after taste.
This is so much like the pie my mom and I made while I was growing up. Only difference is we used 3 eggs as the pie thickener instead of the tapioca. Rhubarb Pie like this and taking an extra stalk of rhubarb eating it sprinkled with sugar makes me thing of summer vacation.
This video made me surprisingly emotional. When my grandmother passed away I inherited her rolling pin and it’s one of my most cherished possessions. I think of her every time I bake a pie. She is 100% where I got my food love language from.
Right? My mom has a marble rolling pin that she treasures. I can't remember if that one was inherited or a wedding gift. I love cooking with my family. Well, the ones who care to cook, anyway.
As someone from a Chinese family, living in South East Asia, one of my family recipes is a soup made from papaya, tofu, pork and that salted fish Stephanie was talking about. It is cooked occasionally and never gets old or loses it's taste no matter how many times you eat it. Congratulations on Matpat for being able to embrace his family's roots and recipes in order to continue his legacy as one of his final theories.
As a Czech, this made me strangely proud😂. (Yes, I'm aware that Czech isn't Polish, but it still a Slavic nation). Sending regards to all my Polish and Slovak friends.
As a south african living in czechia , this made me also strangely proud (yes i'm aware i am not czech but i still lived there more then in south africa)
@@TheAndostro We do! There are a few variations, but my favourite s classic zelňačka. I looks siliar to ehat was in the video, though it is more green or yellow than red.
I'm a first generation Polish American and I teared up when MatPat said he was Polish... I was raised strictly Polish and eat all sorts of Polish food to this day, (today it was kotlety mielone). Yes I know we keep too many consonants together, and the smells of Polish dishes can be pungent, but you should try Kaszanka! It's truly delicious!
If it's pungent, it just means it's been fermenting in flavor. Especially when cabbage is involved (Im talking about veggies not other things, and even then only in some cases).
@@forwadnothing8212Hell yes. When he was talking about those soups stewing away all day, my mouth was watering… and now I really want some cabbage soup.
It's weird to think, but I live in Poland(although I have Hungarian and Rus(not Russian, a part of the Europe that was taken by ZSRR like Ukraine) roots, and I must say that we don't feel those smells, they are so ingrained into our cooking here, that it's just smell of the kitchen. Also it's very funny to hear American Polish people try to pronounce Polish name without knowledge of reading polish
I agree, we don't feel those smells - another Polish dish is gołąbki, basically meat with rice (I think historically it was meat with groats) served inside cabbage leaves 💚 We also eat pickled cabbage (kiszona kapusta)
@@crawfy48 dude, gołąbki or pierogi with cabbage and mushrooms. Basically the smell of my mother's and grandmother's kitchens, it makes me hungry by the thought
Without exaggerating, I think this is one of your best episodes made ever. Full stop. The sentiment was beautiful and the I think it’s great that now these recipes can see the light of day again after so many years.
Regardless of how cute this video is, it is ironic that MatPat is making this video considering he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been very difficult for him.
@@VitoHGrind Regardless of how tender this video is, it is ironic that MatPat is making this video considering he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been very difficult for him.
Im actually polish and my great-grandmother was actually a cook! I still have her thick cookbook full of traditional dishes and we prepare those for Christmas and other special celebrations. It was really nice to watch you cook this traditional soup! Loved every second of it ❤
“Boston” Cookies: 1 ½ c. butter 2 ¼ c. brown sugar 5 eggs 1 t. salt 1 ½ t. cinnamon ¾ t. freshly ground nutmeg 4 7/8 c. flour 1 c. finely chopped walnuts 1 ½ c. finely chopped raisins 1/3 c. cool water 1 ½ t. baking soda (dissolve in water above) Combine chopped raisins and soda solution; set aside until the end. Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Add salt, spices, and flour; mix well. Add raisins and nuts; mix well. Chill for 30 minutes. Drop by spoonful on parchment paper or greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 °F about 10 min, until nicely browned. Makes about 80 cookies. Grandpa Francis (Dean) made these in large batches and froze them in plastic wrap and Tupperware and would thaw them when we grandkids came over. They were always a crowd favorite.
The amount of joy running through me at Matpat talking about Polish food right now oh my gosh. I'm Polish-Canadian myself and talk about the importance of food in Poland is huge!
I’m from a lot of different places, but as it happens, I’m also a little polish. I got my “I’m from everywhere” from my mom. My dad is fully Colombian, so now I’m all of that, and then half Colombian
@@victorfunnymantrue, if you think about it marriage is basically being friends with extra things you can do, like... Living together, and... Sleeping in the same bed... what do you think i meant?
"I'll carry your babies and stay with you for life but we are just friends" 😂😂 that is some next level friendzone. But all seriousness good basis of marriage is friendship
I love, LOVE, that these final episodes are just what MatPat wants or has wanted to do. Especially this one, this will be awesome for his kid to look back on when he’s older and see his parents just enjoying each other and family meals.
Finding out this man has Slavic origins somehow made me emotional and somehow the way he is makes so much sense now. If there's one thing about us Slavs, it's that we're very passionate about a lot of stuff (Let's say have very strong opinions on many things...) and when we know something really well we make sure to put it into practice!
Also a midwesterner from a Polish family! I too grew up with a lot of these recipes. I’ll never forget my grandma telling me to never swear, and then immediately after teaching me how to say swear words in Polish
My dad is from a Chicago Polish family and we continue to do Wigilia traditions, and me and my Slovak friend meet up every December to make 100 pierogi from scratch over a weekend that we then freeze and eat gradually over the next few months
It's literally not possible not to swear in polish, when you have a very interesting word starting with letter 'k' that you can use to express absolutely every emotion 🤣
Great Grandma's recipe. Big on taste, small on preparation time and clean up! Butterscotch Oat Squares 2 cups quick rolled oats 1 tsp baking powder 1/8 tsp salt 1 cup brown sugar (packed) 1/2 cup butter, melted 1/2 tsp vanilla Combine oats, baking powder and salt. Add sugar and mix. Add melted butter and vanilla, blending thoroughly. Spread mixture thinly into a 9 x 13 pan (ungreased) and press down with a spoon or spatula. Bake at 300 degrees Fahrenheit until golden (about 20 minutes). Allow to stand 5 minutes, then cut into squares or bars. Allow to cool thoroughly before removing from pan.
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsnah because while watching your montage of shittily-cropped PNG’s photoshopped on top of each other, all I could think was “wow! what great content!”
This may be my favorite episode you’ve done here on food theory. I really don’t have much in terms of memories of family or our history, but I do have a cookbook from my grandmother that makes me laugh. She was an amazing cook and baker in her time (though she wasn’t the best at cookies), and she left all the grandkids a cookbook. The problem was that she was a dump cook, so while all the ingredients are correct, none of them have the correct measurements. My sister spent years figuring it out, but I kinda treasure the book more with the wrong measurements. She had dementia during my time, so I never had any of her cooking, but I have the memories of her, and the cookbook reminds me of those days.
YOURE NOT LATE TO THE GAME!! theres never a bad time to reconnect to your roots and cooking freshly is one of the best things you can do for yourself no doubt, so this is a great way to connect those :D
MatPat: who wants to take a day making cabbage soup. Me: I love cabbage soup. But in this episode I learned the most out of all theory episodes, not because of the food, I grow up with most of it. No, knowing that Mathew is Zapadoslav is crazy. I am originally from the south Slavs but moved to Poland for education.
This episode hits emotionally. We lost my grandmother this time last year and one of the things I miss most is her cooking. Granted I don’t think she had any family recipes passed down from generations, but her cooking was always good. I don’t know how to describe it, but it was more than just food. Kinda the same for a great aunt that passed a few years ago. If you wanted to sell the Patrick Family Cookbook, I’d buy a few.
Not polish, American. But my family is polish on my dad’s side and Finninsh on my Mom’s. Unfortunately I know neither Finnish nor Polish and am very far removed from both cultures. Cooking and food is the only part of the culture I’m very familiar with.
My church is largely comprised of senior citizens. It’s a small church, so sometimes people are basically like family. Over the last 20 years (I’m 21), we’ve lost a lot of those elderly members. But what we *haven’t* lost is their recipes, because every few years, we make a church cookbook. One of the ladies we consider one of the most iconic chefs in the church passed away in 2015, but her husband (who’s in his 90s) allowed us to put some of her recipes in a cookbook we just put out within the last year or two. Since the last cookbook when I was just a kid, I’ve taken up baking, and I have some of my own iconic recipes that are now in that cookbook. You don’t always realize how special something is until something like this video brings it to your attention. Thanks, Food Theorist team. ❤️
I lost my grandmother over the summer. She was Polish, and she always made a point to let me help her make those foods. Pierogi, kruschicki, gołabki, paczki, so much more. Just this Saturday my friend and I were preparing a ton of pierogi for an event I thought she would be around to help with. We used her recipe and they came out amazing, this video is perfectly timed. Thanks Mat 💙.
Here's an easy recipe from my aunt's days in college Ultimate Grilled Cheese: 3 oz cream cheese 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder 3/4 cup of mayonnaise (it has to be mayo) 1 cup of shredded mozzarella 1/8 teaspoon seasoned salt A good type of bread. She recommended Italian bread or garlic Parmesan bread, but I found it taste just as good with regular sliced bread In a mixing bowl beat the cream cheese and mayo together until smooth, then stir in the cheeses and seasonings. After that you would spread it on some bread and cook it like a regular cheese sandwich.
This was a great episode! I'm Polish myself, first generation in the United States! (My parents are from Poland.) I'm happy that Matpat went through those old Polish recipes as Polish food is something I enjoyed growing up, and still enjoy! Keep on being amazing Matpat!
I hope he tries many more of these recipes! Born German by two Polish parents. Just asked my parents to teach me my childhood foods - I need the recipes!
@@alrobledo6322just report them, Ive made it a mission of mine to report every single one I find, only way theyll go away is if youtube gets rid of them from enough reports really
I was born and grew up in Poland, and when I was a teen I moved to UK permanently, but all my family are back home. I grew up on a lot of these dishes, and there are a lot of memories associated with them, thank you for reminding me of them :)
This moved me to tears. My parents got me when they were in their 40s, so currently I'm 29 and my mother is 72 and my father is no longer with us. He never passed those recipes on or wrote them down so I'll never be able to taste his lasagna, meatballs and fried fish ever again... This episode was a beautiful sentiment and a great lesson: I will be writing down all my recipes from now on! Hoping that it helps my children later in life!
Simple yellow rice with chicken. You take four big chicken legs, seal them on fire with onion, crushed garlick and parsley, add wine to deglaze and let the chicken be made slowly with 8 cups of water, boiling. After a few mins, add 3 parts rice, add curcums or food dye and salt. And... that's my fave food. You can add olives, too, or even pepper. Some sour helps a lot with the flavor
That sounds more exciting than my family's chicken and rice! We boil chicken thighs or leg quarters and add the yellow rice at the end. What kind of wine do you use?
Regardless of how cute and interesting this video is, it is ironic that MatPat is making this video considering he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been very difficult for him.
@@zelraiinightgale6113 Regardless of how tender and interesting this video is, it is ironic that MatPat is making this video considering he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been very difficult for him.
As a Polish person, I was positivly suprised that Mathew is from a Polish family So nice of him that he dedicated a whole video to his grandpa I'm also glad he liked the soup from the family recipe, Polish dishes do sometimes have unusual recipes, smells or/and looks, but the taste is always, and I say ALWAYS great.
This episode got me extremely emotional. I am from a Cuban family on both sides and first generation in the US, and I have always wanted to learn further and garner an even stronger understanding of my family's culture. I love the foods my grandmother and now mother make for me, and I'm eager to learn more. Seeing ajiaco representation especially brought me joy and nostalgia from my own family making it. The first recipe I was taught to make by myself was cuban coffee. I remember the vivid memories of having my grandmother, mother, and aunt sit and talk while drinking coffee, and my mom giving me a little taste. Now, I have been praised by them for making the best coffee out of all of them and am eager to teach the next generation. Thank you MatPat for everything!
2 years ago, me and my sister made sausage entirely from scratch. My great-grandfather and his brother ran a butchery together and they passed their sausage recipes down to their children. Over the years, my great-uncle and his granddaughter have been making the sausage and tweaking the recipes. My family still has the original sausage maker that my great-grandfather brought over in 1927, and me and my sister actually used it when we made the sausage. I only ever made the breakfast sausage once so i don’t remember the recipe but I thought it would be cool to share the story.
That's really sweet :3 I think family recipes are such a precious thing, and I'm so glad this episode means that people like you get to share your lovely stories relating to them.
@@Neonek1232 well polish sausage, or kielbasa is slightly different than overall sausage, it's heavy smoked while still being pretty fatty, while american sausage from what I heard is a bit more uniform, lean, and less smoky
As per traditional Slovakian spin on the cabbage soup, try adding dried mushrooms, pieces of pork shoulder and plums! (It is called kapustnica, and we eat it during Christmas) Also, try forgoing the tomato sauce, sugar and chicken broth, and instead simmer it purely in hot water. It takes longer, but it is so worth it. Also don't be shy with those bay leaves and paprika, add more. And I heartily recommend adding a splash of heavy cream (sweet or sour) into any cabbage soup plate, makes it like a little piece of heaven (also it serves great to cool the soup down a little bit). Also, EAT IT WITH A PIECE OF BREAD ON THE SIDE! (the truly central Europe way)
fun fact: I actually took a class about these sorts of old recipes, but mine was like WAY older. I'm talking between the 1400-1600 range when they were still using old english so we had to transcribe it into modern english. I actually found a pretty solid recipe for frosting in there, plus one for herbal medicinal teas.
@@vintwister i don't remember the frosting one exactly but I know it involved an absolutely obscene amount of powdered sugar and butter and I think that was like literally it? The tea one was just taking whatever herbs you got and steeping em in boiling water for maybe 3-5 min. I tried it with mint (good but weak) basil (weak but fragrant) and an old hibiscus flower (pretty color but tasted awful)
I'm Chilean but my family moved to the USA when I was young. Nicole cooking the Charquican and talking about her experiences honestly gave me such an emotional reaction and I even cried a bit. Food is such a great way to connect with family and culture, I'm making plans to collect as many family recipes as possible!
My sisters and I handmade a little cookbook full of our favorite recipes our mom would make us as children for christmas one year, and I've never seen her get so emotional over any other gift. Thank you for this episode MatPat, I will definitely be asking my grandma for her recipes.
My rother typed up a book of the family recipes and gives them out at weddings to the newly married couples. It's a great way for the family traditions to carry on and he can update the cookbook as people continue to add to it, but it's got VERY old recipes in it too - ones from our great, great, great grandparents and I *think* possibly even a few from thier parents. It's pretty amazing.
As a pole, this made me so happy. I haven't seen my family (except for my parents) in ages since I moved from Poland to England and I miss my grandma's delicious cooking. This made me so happy and I might try to cook up some łazanki with my mum later :)
This episode really spoke to me. My grandpa passed away just a few years ago. He loved outdoor/cowboy-style cooking, and he became somewhat famous in my Boy Scout troop for it. When he died, my grandma gave me all his old cookbooks. Very few of the recipes in any of these books were his own, but in a binder he had compiled, I had finally found his elusive Ranch Beans recipe. This was a recipe that he would put together for almost every family gathering. They’re delicious, they’re spicy, and they’re very filling. When I decided to make the recipe for myself, I tried them and immediately thought back to my grandpa and how much he loved his cooking ❤️
I'm tearing up because of this video. My family is Armenian and we lost a lot of our culture and family members to the point where my great grandfather never taught his kids about the language or his past. We have a couple of our armenian family recipes in a family cookbook I've digitized, I really appreciate reconnecting to your roots since I feel a part of me that is connected to my culture through food.
Things are dire for us Armenians. My family has also lost much its Armenian culture over the generations we’ve spent in Italy and the US. Every year Azerbaijan is conquering more of our land and the world has turned a blind eye to it. I’m very afraid at this point that Armenian culture will be gone in a century or two.
As an Armenian we also lost so much due to assimilation. I know we did it to survive and I understand why, but it still makes me sad. We did keep our food though, and have a very precious cookbook written by my great great grandmother including Armenian writing. Every time I cook something from it I feel so happy in my soul.
I am also Armenian and we lost so much due to assimilation. My family did it to survive, and I'm so proud of their bravery, but it still makes me sad. We kept our food, though, and have a very treasured cookbook written by my great grandmother with Armenian writing in her hand. Every time I cook something from it it makes my soul so happy!
As someone who's from slovakia and lives pretty close to poland this episode almost made me tear up. The same cabage soup you made today is served every christmas (along with fish and mashed potatoes) and idk there was something so satisfing when Matt finaly tried it. Definitly one of my fav episodes
@@jeffhough7460hi Slovakian here. I'm late but I think it's just cabbage soup and fish with mashed potatoes. It doesn't really have a name. The translation is "kapustnica" for cabbage soup and "ryba so zemiakovou kašou" for the fish
Finding out Matpat is also Polish makes my heart fill with joy. Pierogi and Kolozkis being first two Polish recipes makes my heart sing. RiP grandpa MatPat.
This made me cry so much 😭 Even though my family life is not ideal, and I don't have those warm memories of my ancestors, the LOVE that's so clear in this video is potent! I'm so glad people are able to connect with their history this way, and feel that connection to others! Much love to everyone at Theorist!
My parents and I are a lot of survival foods (the 2008 crash was devastating to our family) Red beans and rice is still one of my favorites. And hey, be greatful for that soup, my parents would steam cabbage and use the leaves for a melted butter sandwich every memorial day. All in all, wild onions are an amazing seasoning and id highly recommend that if you have them in your backyard you learn how to harvest and cook them.
Thank you MatPat! For all the years of service For all the dad jokes For all the times you made us laugh For helping us learn the most random things For being an inspiration For being a great person This is not the end of MatPat It’s a new beginning Good luck and best of wishes to all of team theorists and your family ❤
This episode was amazing. As a kid, I loved cooking my grandmas recipes with her. I love making cookies with her for holidays or just because, but I haven't been able to do it that much lately. Thank you matpat
I just teared up when I learned there was South American representation on the team with Santi being from Argentina but now I'm BAWLING seeing Nicole talk about charquícan!! My dad is an immigrant from Chile and this is one of the dishes he makes that I truly enjoy. Huge thank you to having us represented, an even bigger fan now ❤!
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsStupid promotional tactic. No self-respecting individual will click on your bot channel because they are clearly a fan of the very channel you are insulting.
This made me tear up- as a first gen child in America ( Mexican parents) my biggest fear is losing my culture. I stay in the kitchen and watch in hopes of grasping all the tips and tricks that have become nature for my mom. Much love to the team for this ❤❤❤😊
I understand how would be the case for me it’s my Neices there first gen American and I see them and hope they don’t lose there roots I try to teach them the best I can about our heritage
This made me emotional, I do not have a relationship with any family members and seeing you do something for one like this was nice to see. I wish I got to have a connection like that with my grandparents
Hi MatPat! I’ve been watching you for a really long time. I never thought I’d start tearing up at a video you’d make, but, when Steph started to talk about the fried dough her italian family made I started tearing up. I used to love these miniature fried calzones my grandma made when I was younger. We’d have it on christmas while having the 7 fishes. I sent this video to my grandma and she really liked the video too. It’s so sad to see you leaving the theorists. I’ve been watching you since I was really young, around 8 years old. I’m 17 now! I really hope you realize the impact you’ve had on everyone. Love you dude.
Every woman in my family (on my mother side) has their own cook book or rather a cook notebook. They store their recipes there and then, after they die, they pass it to their daughters. I have my own, which is still pretty empty, but for now I'm writing down every recipe from my family, either them being passed down generations or something they just discovered recently. I Cooking them truly brings comfort when they are away, and I can't imagine what comfort and nostalgia they will bring when they all eventually will pass away. Great video Matpat! As a Polish woman, I'm glad you're getting back to your roots. And good luck on traditional dishes. They can be tricky at times but man are they good, especially in winter.
I lost my grandma a few weeks ago, and we were really close to her because she lived with us. This video made me really appreciate her and her cooking ❤ Miss you grandma
When you talked about how you guys took the time to experiment with your families recipes, that really highlights what a family recipe is supposed to be. Of course, it will always be nice to have the original, the first version of that recipe with you. But then that's just someone's recipe. Not a family recipe. It becomes a family recipe because you can change it, you can add or subtract aspects of the dish to your liking, and then pass it on to your kids. Then, they can do the same. So while its base started as the original recipe that your grandparents made, it now encorporates you, and every generation after you. It captures every single generation of your family, and it's something to cherish.
how to make Palačinke (Croatian Crepes) •3 large eggs •1 cup of milk •1/3 cup club soda (not flat) •1 cup all-purpose flour •1/2 teaspoon of fine salt •11/2 to 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter, divided •11/2 to 2 tablespoons of canola oil In a medium bowl, beat together the eggs and milk until well combined. Mix in the club soda. Add the flour and salt and stir with a whisk until only a few lumps of flour remain. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. As the flour is absorbed by the wet ingredients the batter will smooth out. Once rested, stir the batter until smooth (though a few lumps are okay) to prepare for cooking the crepes. Heat an 8-inch nonstick crepe pan or skillet. Add 1 of the teaspoon butter and 1 teaspoon of the oil. Add about 1/4 cup of batter to the pan, tilting and swirling so it covers most of the bottom of the pan. Cook about 2 to 3 minutes until both sides are a golden colour. Add extra flavourings like eurocreme (or nutella), jam etc. And Enjoy!
As a Polish person the first 20 seconds of this video left me kinda surprised. Also I can confirm, polish people are really obsessed with cabbage. Like half of polish cuisine contains it. Not a huge fan of it but sometimes it's good.
The moment the cabbage soup was mentioned i said "yum" because my family eats a lot of cabbage. Like, boiled cabbage with a little salt and pepper is never turned down. I never really thought about people who don't like cabbage and how frustrating cultural cuisine could be because of it
@@catelynh1020 my dad’s family immigrated from Poland in the early twentieth century and we regularly eat cabbage dishes, it also doesn’t hurt that my mom’s parents are Irish, that cultural combination makes cabbage necessary for life
12:00 Matt, you just made another Italian classic: a zeppoli! A fried Italian donut often served with chocolate or Nutella and sprinkled in powdered sugar! 🤤 I'm a big fan of them! Can't say I'm as big of a fan of the baccala though, sorry Steph (and my Nonna) 😅
Peruvian Empanadas (Everything is eyeballed) Dough 4-5 cups flour 2-4 sticks of butter (softened) 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt 200 ml water (ADD GRADUALLY) READ THE ENTIRE DOUGH SECTION BEFORE MAKING!!!!! (Maybe also refer to notes) Mix these ingredients together by hand, or use a stand mixer with a dough hook. I like to mix it by hand This should form a smooth dough that isn’t too buttery, so adjust this to what you need. I always end up using more flour. The dough shouldn’t feel too buttery and should be able to hold things in it. Don’t over knead or dough or it will become tough. Mix and let rest in the fridge for one hour (with plastic wrap over the dough). While you’re doing this, make your filling. Filling (This is a tradition filling. For lomo saltado filling, refer to the lomo saltado recipe). 1 onion 1 pound ground beef Parsley to taste Cumin to taste Salt and pepper to taste Hard boiled eggs (6, chopped) Cut up onion and let cook until translucent. Add in your ground beef and spices and cook. Adjust to taste after cooking and add your chopped eggs Take your dough out of the fridge, roll it out, and cut it into circles (about 1/2 and inch thick). Use an empanada press to stuff them, put them on the tray, and brush them with either butter or egg wash. (This step takes the longest) Once that’s over, put them in the oven at 350°F (180°C) and bake until you think they’re done. (About 10-15 minutes, but will vary depending on the batch and humidity) Notes * the dough is probably the hardest step, because humidity and temperature, literally everything affects the dough. It should be like a buttery pizza dough. * My best tip with the dough is to add 2 sticks of butter to start, add half of your water (100 mL) and then go from there. * This recipe is from my Abeulita, so it is authentic!! My Abeulita usually adds boiled eggs to it, but like it better without. * If this dough recipe doesn’t work for you, try a different one. This one is traditional for Peruvian empanadas, but if you try another dough you could fry your empanadas instead of baking (like Colombian and Mexican empanadas)
This is late but my dad’s side of my family is Spanish, and I remember everytime we went to Spain, my abuela would make us all Spanish omelette. I recently re made it and one of my core memories to this day is sneaking out of my room to grab a bite to eat of that omelette it was so good to me.
This episode had me sobbing. I'd give just about anything to have even just one of my grandma's recipes-- they were all lost in a house fire that took her from us. Knowing that I'll never have her company, smell, or any of the foods she made for me ever again hurts so much. I did managed to half-figure out a soup that she made, but it doesn't taste quite right. I'll just keep trying until I maybe eventually get it.
I wasn't expecting a Food Theory episode to make me cry... miss you Grampa. Family recipes are so awesome, and unfortunately I didn't get many from my parents. I need to ask other relatives still with us. New mission START
The idea of this is awosme the fact that you can experience essentially what the guy in ratatouille did is something that I didn’t know was real, I didn’t get to grow up with much of a family let alone have family recipes to take me back in time, but this was so cute and made me tear up at the ides of it
As a Polish person I cannot describe the joy of seeing you enjoy the soup. My mom taught me a lot of traditional Polish recipes and even though I don't like some of them I'm still glad I know how to make them. It's tradition after all 😁 My fav has got to be pierogi, it's just heaven. And it's really fun to make strange shapes with them to annoy my very strict grandma 😈
MATPAT 😭 you really posted this the day I was taught my wife’s mawmaw’s homemade bread recipe. I never got to meet her as she passed away very shortly before I met my now wife. My wife’s uncle made some of the bread last Thanksgiving and I liked it so much I asked him to teach me. Yesterday was my first time making it and my mother-in-law said it tasted just like her mama’s bread. I was so proud and happy. This episode tugged my heart
This video definitely made me a little emotional. My grandad is suffering from skin cancer and likely doesn't have all that much time left. It made me realise that I never took much time to ask about his food and the things he makes. My family is Greek and all the recipies he and my grandma make are amazing, even though we live far apart I'd love to learn some of his cooking one day.
In my family a commonly made family recipe is North Staffordshire Oatcakes (I think we’ve altered the recipe slightly but I still love the dish all the same) They’re found in towns such as Stoke on Trent(where my family is from) As a child I love it when my father makes this dish.
i honestly love how this episode served as a love letter from MatPat to his grandpa. ;w; i don't know if my granny had any family recipes, but i did write a poem about her kindness after her passing. i showed the poem to my mum, and she shared it with her family, who then shared it with their extended family members, including family i didn't even know about. my poem spread throughout my entire family and united us, and now a copy of it hangs in our hallway courtesy of my aunt who shared the poem the most. what i'm saying is don't take people for granted. you'll never know when something will come and take them away, and all you'll be left with are the memories. there may be good memories, there may be bad memories, but they'll never compare to the real deal.
this episode made me cry, it got me to think about my grandmother that past away last year - the things she would make for me and the things she would talk to me and my siblings about. I treasure everything dearly, and while she didnt necesserily teach me any of her recipies, she did share my love of coin and banknote collection - I love those things to bits and everytime i take them out to study them and look at them it reminds me of her. Thank you for sharing this, at least for me this episode brough a lot of joy (and emotions) to my day.
😋 Let's have some fun. Share your favorite family recipe below.
Wow Cool !
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Yeah!
idk any but HIIIIIIII
Sushi
Hearing the “This one’s for you grandpa” just makes my heart warm.
Yup
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IKR ❤
Why is there bots?
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Matthews childhood foods: polish foods, sour soups, meaty sausages- fatty and sweet breads etc etc
Matthew now: PINE CONES.
Well, pinecone jam is like an eastern European thing, it's in his genes maybe
Regardless of how cute this video is, it's ironic that MatPat is making this video considering that he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been hard for him.
matt now: PINE TREES
Only real ones remember that video
@IncognitoActivado please elaborate on what this means?
I'm interested
I love the idea of MatPat's grandpa being in the afterlife going "It only took me dying, but I finally got that grandson of mine to try ma' shoup!"
who asked mr uttpnewengland
@Hi2012_it's a bot
You must be very old or you are lying
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsok
If only
15:15 "This is my grandparents' house's smell" So Proust had madeleines (in French, a "Madeleine de Proust" is an expression used to describe smells, tastes, sounds reminding you of your childhood or bringing back emotional memories from a long time ago), and MatPat has kielbasa & cabbage soup 🥣
I love that there is a word for this!
So wholesome
MADELEINE?!?!?!?!? IS THAT A MOTHERF*CKING CELESTE REFERENCE?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?
The whole outta pocket convo Matt started with _"do you like smelling your own farts?"_ and Steph's cry-laughing _"Dude, you're my best friend, but you can _*_*clear*_*_ a room"_ is marriage goals right there
I think they divorced but that's just a theory
Really?
That’s new
@@Dingooose where did you get that??????? They are still happily married lol they even have a kid
@@incognitomode940he’s obviously lying
The tone of matpat shows how much he cares abt his grandfather’s recipe
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That "This one's for you grandpa" sounded so sad.
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oh my god the bots
How tf is youtube just not caring abt bots
these bots are making chains 😭😭😭😭
@drid193 could you guys just, not? On this one?
this episode made me cry. i dont have any connection to my ancestors cultural foods and to see yall be able to connect once again was beautiful. i hope more people end up cherishing what they have
Same my friend but you can always appreciate other cultures through classic recipes thanks to the internet, be well bud
Womp womp cry about it
As a Pole living in Poland, I can assure you that every Polish fan of yours will be proud and happy of this episode. Greetings to other Polish matpat viewers🇵🇱
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsok uwu🎉
I just realized that recipes from the balkanic region are the same
Pozdrawiam również!
A pole? Like a telephone pole?
I agree, I'm very happy right now, let's go polish Matpat's viewers 💪
“This one’s for you, Grandpa” 💔
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oh my lord these bots man :(
Clear them
"Yeah, no more tears for MattPat. The announcement should've been it but he snuck in Ollie's first sign off, but no more!"
"This one's for you grandpa" *somber heartfelt tone* Mattpatt
Well so much for no more tears lol
So true. And the gang getting back together on Game Theory. Matt is tugging on heartstrings.
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsOh get a fricking life you bot
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsget of UA-cam
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Yep, five words in and I am already in tears.
I never thought a Food Theory episode would actually show that Mat and i, along with many other people have a lot in common. Both raised Polish, a lot of interests similar to eachother, and have similar stories when it comes to ancestors.
At the age of 4-5, my grandmother is someone i looked up to the most. She always had those iconic rainbow melon gummies lying around somewhere, and the best thing i remember her making was toast with that unforgetable pepper spice sprinkled around it. I still remember that party with my whole known generation invited by her, with those triangular decorations, tables, lights, music and fireplace set up, along with a basic mobile game needing to guess the names of certain games on it just for some fun of my own. Now with my grandma passing away since almost 9 years ago, that toast still lives on within my family, and my dad knows the exact recipe for it.
God speed Matthew. May your cooking adventures live on
I lost my grandmother literally a couple weeks ago and this video opening with "This one's for your grandpa" almost made me cry. Thanks for giving me the motivation to call my dad and ask for some of their Portuguese family recipes❤
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im sorry for your loss :( i hope you get those amazing recipes
That is both sad and cool! I hope you make something that reminds you of her.
I lost mine a month ago 😢
Stay amazing:)
I AM POLISH and SUCH A BIG FAN. I laughed so hard listening to you pronounce all of the dishes my mom makes. Thank you for sharing your heritage MatPat!
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsbro shut up
I got rid of them (I reported the police dudes)
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots I ASKED + WHO CARES ABOUT YOUR CONTENT XD + why are you watching a Mat Pat video if you don't like him
@@rheeeeeee2011 same :D don't reply, report
@@thegayatheist I did
MatPat is really turning the last few Food Theory episodes into really wholesome ones. This makes it all the more sad yet special. Thank you, MatPat
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When I was younger my uncle taught me how to make amazing shortbread cookies from a recipe that was passed down for generations. I’m finally glad I have an excuse to share it!
Short Bread cookies:
6 oz flour
3 oz cornstarch
3 oz sugar
1 stick of butter (softened)
1 egg yolk
Steps:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Combine flour, egg, cornstarch, and sugar in a mix bowl. Mix well. Slowly add in pieces of butter and continue to mix until a solid dough ball is formed. You may need to add a few teaspoons of water if the dough is not forming. Place individually cut cookies on a baking sheet and put them in the oven for about 15 minutes. Check them occasionally. Depending on the cookie size, you may need more or less time. Once the bottom of the cookies are golden brown take them out of the over and let them cool. Once the cookies have cooled a bit, but are still warm, dip or sprinkle each cookie with sugar. Leave them to cool fully and then enjoy! ❤
I was hoping to see more people doing this thank you so much!
Gonna make these later, these sound delicious, I’ll update you guys
@@frankiemanki7536what’s the update
Great gram's rhubarb pie:
4 cups finely chopped rhubarb
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 generous squeeze lemon juice
Pinch of salt
1 heaping tbsp tapioca pearls
Before placing top crust, spread small dabs of butter onto the filling. The crust will absorb it as it bakes and makes it super flakey, and gets rid of the weird store bought crust after taste.
I screen shoted this so I could try it
Ohhhhh the tapioca pearls is such an interesting idea!! 😮 i looove tapioca (and rhubarb) so I’m definitely trying this!! Thanks for sharing!
OMG I love rhubarb pie so much!!!! we make it every year!
Yes! My grandma grows Rhubarb in her backyard and I go over to get some every summer to make into pie.
This is so much like the pie my mom and I made while I was growing up. Only difference is we used 3 eggs as the pie thickener instead of the tapioca.
Rhubarb Pie like this and taking an extra stalk of rhubarb eating it sprinkled with sugar makes me thing of summer vacation.
“This one’s for you grandpa” is so heartwarming.
@PatrickMahomesUTTPok uwu 🙄
This video made me surprisingly emotional. When my grandmother passed away I inherited her rolling pin and it’s one of my most cherished possessions. I think of her every time I bake a pie. She is 100% where I got my food love language from.
A rolling pin? Should’ve asked for an Xbox bro /joke
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots There is something wrong with you.
@@alex.g7317bro
You lowkey a loser@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots
Right? My mom has a marble rolling pin that she treasures. I can't remember if that one was inherited or a wedding gift. I love cooking with my family. Well, the ones who care to cook, anyway.
As someone from a Chinese family, living in South East Asia, one of my family recipes is a soup made from papaya, tofu, pork and that salted fish Stephanie was talking about. It is cooked occasionally and never gets old or loses it's taste no matter how many times you eat it. Congratulations on Matpat for being able to embrace his family's roots and recipes in order to continue his legacy as one of his final theories.
As a Czech, this made me strangely proud😂. (Yes, I'm aware that Czech isn't Polish, but it still a Slavic nation). Sending regards to all my Polish and Slovak friends.
As a south african living in czechia , this made me also strangely proud (yes i'm aware i am not czech but i still lived there more then in south africa)
@PatrickMahomesUTTPok UwU😋
you have similar soup there? cause we make a lot of czechs food like knedle
How many slavic people are there I am Slovak
@@TheAndostro We do! There are a few variations, but my favourite s classic zelňačka. I looks siliar to ehat was in the video, though it is more green or yellow than red.
I'm a first generation Polish American and I teared up when MatPat said he was Polish... I was raised strictly Polish and eat all sorts of Polish food to this day, (today it was kotlety mielone). Yes I know we keep too many consonants together, and the smells of Polish dishes can be pungent, but you should try Kaszanka! It's truly delicious!
If it's pungent, it just means it's been fermenting in flavor. Especially when cabbage is involved (Im talking about veggies not other things, and even then only in some cases).
@@forwadnothing8212Hell yes. When he was talking about those soups stewing away all day, my mouth was watering… and now I really want some cabbage soup.
It's weird to think, but I live in Poland(although I have Hungarian and Rus(not Russian, a part of the Europe that was taken by ZSRR like Ukraine) roots, and I must say that we don't feel those smells, they are so ingrained into our cooking here, that it's just smell of the kitchen. Also it's very funny to hear American Polish people try to pronounce Polish name without knowledge of reading polish
I agree, we don't feel those smells - another Polish dish is gołąbki, basically meat with rice (I think historically it was meat with groats) served inside cabbage leaves 💚 We also eat pickled cabbage (kiszona kapusta)
@@crawfy48 dude, gołąbki or pierogi with cabbage and mushrooms. Basically the smell of my mother's and grandmother's kitchens, it makes me hungry by the thought
Without exaggerating, I think this is one of your best episodes made ever. Full stop. The sentiment was beautiful and the I think it’s great that now these recipes can see the light of day again after so many years.
Completely agree. So warm and heartfelt, it was a joy to watch.
Regardless of how cute this video is, it is ironic that MatPat is making this video considering he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been very difficult for him.
@@VitoHGrind Regardless of how tender this video is, it is ironic that MatPat is making this video considering he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been very difficult for him.
Bro I cried I'm only 14 but my grandma has dementia and hasn't cooked in 3 years
Im actually polish and my great-grandmother was actually a cook! I still have her thick cookbook full of traditional dishes and we prepare those for Christmas and other special celebrations. It was really nice to watch you cook this traditional soup! Loved every second of it ❤
POLSKA GUUROOOOM 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
“Boston” Cookies:
1 ½ c. butter
2 ¼ c. brown sugar
5 eggs
1 t. salt
1 ½ t. cinnamon
¾ t. freshly ground nutmeg
4 7/8 c. flour
1 c. finely chopped walnuts
1 ½ c. finely chopped raisins
1/3 c. cool water
1 ½ t. baking soda (dissolve in water above)
Combine chopped raisins and soda solution; set aside until the end.
Cream together butter and sugar.
Add eggs and beat well.
Add salt, spices, and flour; mix well.
Add raisins and nuts; mix well.
Chill for 30 minutes.
Drop by spoonful on parchment paper or greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 °F about 10 min, until nicely browned.
Makes about 80 cookies.
Grandpa Francis (Dean) made these in large batches and froze them in plastic wrap and Tupperware and
would thaw them when we grandkids came over. They were always a crowd favorite.
This brings me joy!
These actually sound great, I'm gonna try these.
I'm gonna try these 😋 thank you for sharing
Holly molly! Thanks for sharing this! I might try it
thanks! im going to try it!
This was a really heartwarming episode. I'm so glad that everyone enjoyed their dishes. Especially Matt, after decades of avoiding it.
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots😅 the bots are wild
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@@N1ghtm4r3GHOSTunfortunately they aren't bots, they're just 11 year olds who think they're cool
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsgo outside kid
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots get off your moms phone and go outside.
The amount of joy running through me at Matpat talking about Polish food right now oh my gosh. I'm Polish-Canadian myself and talk about the importance of food in Poland is huge!
ik dude! Im so happy too!
''finish your gołąbki/pierożki/ziemniaczki/schabowe/rosołek or any other polish food''
I'm polish two!!!
I’m from a lot of different places, but as it happens, I’m also a little polish. I got my “I’m from everywhere” from my mom. My dad is fully Colombian, so now I’m all of that, and then half Colombian
Food anywhere is huge. Acting like food being important to one's culture is special. Why
11:39 "It's not a competition!" I never thought I'd hear Matthew "overachiever" Patrick say that 😂
The tone of MatPat shows how much he cares about his grandfather’s recipe!💖💖
Even at the start saying this one is for you grandpa it’s so nice to see
😭
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots shut it matpats the goat
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7:37 Mattpat just got friendzoned by his wife haha
In all seriousness being best friends and joking around about farts is marriage goals right there
I mean, being a best friend is really a great requirement for marriage in some way, as marriage is basically promotion to life teamate!
@@victorfunnymantrue, if you think about it marriage is basically being friends with extra things you can do, like... Living together, and... Sleeping in the same bed...
what do you think i meant?
@@lightningjadejavier y today's kid need inappropriate ness every where
@@lightningjadejavier I mean you can already be roomates or haby pyjama parties as friends tbh, that's not too special
"I'll carry your babies and stay with you for life but we are just friends"
😂😂 that is some next level friendzone.
But all seriousness good basis of marriage is friendship
I love, LOVE, that these final episodes are just what MatPat wants or has wanted to do. Especially this one, this will be awesome for his kid to look back on when he’s older and see his parents just enjoying each other and family meals.
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@@BryanHC08 I thought you were a bot for a second
I missed any announcement that this was the end?! When did it happen?!
Finding out this man has Slavic origins somehow made me emotional and somehow the way he is makes so much sense now. If there's one thing about us Slavs, it's that we're very passionate about a lot of stuff (Let's say have very strong opinions on many things...) and when we know something really well we make sure to put it into practice!
Слов'янська тут теж ^^
Also a midwesterner from a Polish family! I too grew up with a lot of these recipes. I’ll never forget my grandma telling me to never swear, and then immediately after teaching me how to say swear words in Polish
@PatrickMahomesUTTPhave some respect will you? Nobody asked you either sir please get out. Don’t disrespect MatPat.
@PatrickMahomesUTTPok UwU😜
My dad is from a Chicago Polish family and we continue to do Wigilia traditions, and me and my Slovak friend meet up every December to make 100 pierogi from scratch over a weekend that we then freeze and eat gradually over the next few months
This sounds like the most Polish thing to do ever
It's literally not possible not to swear in polish, when you have a very interesting word starting with letter 'k' that you can use to express absolutely every emotion 🤣
The intro gave me chills
Same
Me too, MatPat single handily made time speed up 😭
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Matpat dedicating one of his last Food Theories to his grandpa is so wholesome ❤
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15 bot comments. Thats gotta be a record
Great Grandma's recipe. Big on taste, small on preparation time and clean up!
Butterscotch Oat Squares
2 cups quick rolled oats
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup brown sugar (packed)
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 tsp vanilla
Combine oats, baking powder and salt. Add sugar and mix. Add melted butter and vanilla, blending thoroughly. Spread mixture thinly into a 9 x 13 pan (ungreased) and press down with a spoon or spatula. Bake at 300 degrees Fahrenheit until golden (about 20 minutes). Allow to stand 5 minutes, then cut into squares or bars. Allow to cool thoroughly before removing from pan.
When I got married, we were gifted a cookbook of all of the family recipes from both sides of the family. Best gift ever.
That's adorable!! I'd love a gift like that!
That's awesome. I can't even begin to imagine how special y'all felt when getting that cookbook.
When I got married... Oh wait I didn't
Maybe hot take, but BEST video MatPat has ever made!! Such wholesome vibes
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots you good bruv?
@@jacksonburger2081no, he isnt
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@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsnah because while watching your montage of shittily-cropped
PNG’s photoshopped on top of each other, all I could think was “wow! what great content!”
@@jacksonburger2081 it's a far right bot account dude
This may be my favorite episode you’ve done here on food theory. I really don’t have much in terms of memories of family or our history, but I do have a cookbook from my grandmother that makes me laugh.
She was an amazing cook and baker in her time (though she wasn’t the best at cookies), and she left all the grandkids a cookbook. The problem was that she was a dump cook, so while all the ingredients are correct, none of them have the correct measurements.
My sister spent years figuring it out, but I kinda treasure the book more with the wrong measurements. She had dementia during my time, so I never had any of her cooking, but I have the memories of her, and the cookbook reminds me of those days.
“this one’s for you grandpa” immediately started sobbing.
I ASKED ASSHOLE@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots
YOURE NOT LATE TO THE GAME!! theres never a bad time to reconnect to your roots and cooking freshly is one of the best things you can do for yourself no doubt, so this is a great way to connect those :D
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MatPat: who wants to take a day making cabbage soup.
Me: I love cabbage soup.
But in this episode I learned the most out of all theory episodes, not because of the food, I grow up with most of it. No, knowing that Mathew is Zapadoslav is crazy.
I am originally from the south Slavs but moved to Poland for education.
This episode hits emotionally. We lost my grandmother this time last year and one of the things I miss most is her cooking. Granted I don’t think she had any family recipes passed down from generations, but her cooking was always good. I don’t know how to describe it, but it was more than just food. Kinda the same for a great aunt that passed a few years ago.
If you wanted to sell the Patrick Family Cookbook, I’d buy a few.
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots
You have said this several times, stop the attention seeking and get a life.
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotskys
Its a bot. Best to just report
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotshuh maybe that’s why you don’t have any milk
I know what you mean. My mother, while having no recipes of her own, has a way of cooking that makes me truly appreciate a home-cooked meal. 🍛🥲👍
Born, raised and living in Poland, this episode is so heartwarming. I'm so happy you tried that recipe
as a polish guy my self, I'm glad that mat got the chance to try some traditional polish dishes :)
Tak samo
Ok ya bundle of sticks
Not polish, American. But my family is polish on my dad’s side and Finninsh on my Mom’s. Unfortunately I know neither Finnish nor Polish and am very far removed from both cultures. Cooking and food is the only part of the culture I’m very familiar with.
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsYou seem angry. Have a Snicker's.
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Tastes bad.
My church is largely comprised of senior citizens. It’s a small church, so sometimes people are basically like family. Over the last 20 years (I’m 21), we’ve lost a lot of those elderly members. But what we *haven’t* lost is their recipes, because every few years, we make a church cookbook. One of the ladies we consider one of the most iconic chefs in the church passed away in 2015, but her husband (who’s in his 90s) allowed us to put some of her recipes in a cookbook we just put out within the last year or two. Since the last cookbook when I was just a kid, I’ve taken up baking, and I have some of my own iconic recipes that are now in that cookbook. You don’t always realize how special something is until something like this video brings it to your attention. Thanks, Food Theorist team. ❤️
My grandma used to collect church cookbooks (she was a pastor's wife) it was a joy to inherit her collection, too.
stop yappin bro
@Non_Vita stop being a disrespectful child, bro
@@Lil_VitaDid bro just think he's cool 💀💀💀💀
Let my bro have his W in the immortal cookbook.
@@Lil_Vitabro, why, no, why you gotta be so rude
I lost my grandmother over the summer. She was Polish, and she always made a point to let me help her make those foods. Pierogi, kruschicki, gołabki, paczki, so much more. Just this Saturday my friend and I were preparing a ton of pierogi for an event I thought she would be around to help with. We used her recipe and they came out amazing, this video is perfectly timed. Thanks Mat 💙.
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots seriously??? on such a sad comment?? whats wrong with these ppl who pay for bots
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@@Bacon1108 i dont get why youtube wont do anything about it
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsyou are disgusting
@@ssmarton yeah youtube is not known for being responsible
"this ones for you grandpa" That was the saddest line ever dang
Yea
Here's an easy recipe from my aunt's days in college
Ultimate Grilled Cheese:
3 oz cream cheese
1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
3/4 cup of mayonnaise (it has to be mayo)
1 cup of shredded mozzarella
1/8 teaspoon seasoned salt
A good type of bread. She recommended Italian bread or garlic Parmesan bread, but I found it taste just as good with regular sliced bread
In a mixing bowl beat the cream cheese and mayo together until smooth, then stir in the cheeses and seasonings. After that you would spread it on some bread and cook it like a regular cheese sandwich.
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots hambooger
WILL be trying this!!
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing and I will absolutely be trying this!
Tried it and it’s great! Thx for sharing!
Sounds good
This was a great episode! I'm Polish myself, first generation in the United States! (My parents are from Poland.) I'm happy that Matpat went through those old Polish recipes as Polish food is something I enjoyed growing up, and still enjoy! Keep on being amazing Matpat!
I hope he tries many more of these recipes! Born German by two Polish parents. Just asked my parents to teach me my childhood foods - I need the recipes!
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots dude, you’re really paying for Bot nowadays, huh? I got one question for you. Are you really happy with your decision?
Third Generation American here (on my mom's side, we're also of Polish ancestry) This really was just a great video
My step mom is Czech, and we made kolaches every year when I was living with my dad for Christmas
@@alrobledo6322just report them, Ive made it a mission of mine to report every single one I find, only way theyll go away is if youtube gets rid of them from enough reports really
I was born and grew up in Poland, and when I was a teen I moved to UK permanently, but all my family are back home. I grew up on a lot of these dishes, and there are a lot of memories associated with them, thank you for reminding me of them :)
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This moved me to tears. My parents got me when they were in their 40s, so currently I'm 29 and my mother is 72 and my father is no longer with us. He never passed those recipes on or wrote them down so I'll never be able to taste his lasagna, meatballs and fried fish ever again... This episode was a beautiful sentiment and a great lesson: I will be writing down all my recipes from now on! Hoping that it helps my children later in life!
Simple yellow rice with chicken.
You take four big chicken legs, seal them on fire with onion, crushed garlick and parsley, add wine to deglaze and let the chicken be made slowly with 8 cups of water, boiling.
After a few mins, add 3 parts rice, add curcums or food dye and salt.
And... that's my fave food.
You can add olives, too, or even pepper. Some sour helps a lot with the flavor
That sounds more exciting than my family's chicken and rice! We boil chicken thighs or leg quarters and add the yellow rice at the end.
What kind of wine do you use?
Regardless of how cute and interesting this video is, it is ironic that MatPat is making this video considering he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been very difficult for him.
@@zelraiinightgale6113 Regardless of how tender and interesting this video is, it is ironic that MatPat is making this video considering he knows the truth about WWII, it must have been very difficult for him.
As a Polish person, I was positivly suprised that Mathew is from a Polish family
So nice of him that he dedicated a whole video to his grandpa
I'm also glad he liked the soup from the family recipe, Polish dishes do sometimes have unusual recipes, smells or/and looks, but the taste is always, and I say ALWAYS great.
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@UTTPNewEnglandPatriotsoh shut up
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I'm a Polish Roma and I was also surprised when I found that out
Wow. I wasn’t prepared for Food Theory to make me cry today.
Thanks everyone who worked on this episode!
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0:07 IM SEVEN SECONDS IN I HAVE NO IDEA WHATS HAPPENING SO WHY AM I CRYING????
We will miss matpat 😢
This episode got me extremely emotional. I am from a Cuban family on both sides and first generation in the US, and I have always wanted to learn further and garner an even stronger understanding of my family's culture. I love the foods my grandmother and now mother make for me, and I'm eager to learn more. Seeing ajiaco representation especially brought me joy and nostalgia from my own family making it.
The first recipe I was taught to make by myself was cuban coffee. I remember the vivid memories of having my grandmother, mother, and aunt sit and talk while drinking coffee, and my mom giving me a little taste. Now, I have been praised by them for making the best coffee out of all of them and am eager to teach the next generation.
Thank you MatPat for everything!
Same here bro! Seeing other european dishes rlly reminded me about the dishes i liked as a kid here in Romania ❤
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I am 50% Polish and I can’t stop crying knowing that he is a part of my culture
STOP WRITING PARAGRAPHS
2 years ago, me and my sister made sausage entirely from scratch. My great-grandfather and his brother ran a butchery together and they passed their sausage recipes down to their children. Over the years, my great-uncle and his granddaughter have been making the sausage and tweaking the recipes. My family still has the original sausage maker that my great-grandfather brought over in 1927, and me and my sister actually used it when we made the sausage. I only ever made the breakfast sausage once so i don’t remember the recipe but I thought it would be cool to share the story.
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That's really sweet :3
I think family recipes are such a precious thing, and I'm so glad this episode means that people like you get to share your lovely stories relating to them.
I wish my family cooked, for family gatherings we just eat at restaurants makes me kind of sad knowing that I don’t have a memory like that.
I'm polish, and i suffer hearing how you prononce this food, but i'm happy that you share our cooking to people ^^
TRUEEEE, i suffered the most at "pączki" being singular and him saying "Kiełbasa" instead of sausage
@@Neonek1232 well polish sausage, or kielbasa is slightly different than overall sausage, it's heavy smoked while still being pretty fatty, while american sausage from what I heard is a bit more uniform, lean, and less smoky
I love how he didn't even bother choosing a font with Polish characters so there's just a bunch of "boxes" instead of doughnuts on the screen
As a polish - I'd love to hear you pronounce anything with a "th" sound ;)
@@onman14I don't know what you mean, I regularly order packages from Amazon just to eat all the paczki
As per traditional Slovakian spin on the cabbage soup, try adding dried mushrooms, pieces of pork shoulder and plums! (It is called kapustnica, and we eat it during Christmas) Also, try forgoing the tomato sauce, sugar and chicken broth, and instead simmer it purely in hot water. It takes longer, but it is so worth it. Also don't be shy with those bay leaves and paprika, add more. And I heartily recommend adding a splash of heavy cream (sweet or sour) into any cabbage soup plate, makes it like a little piece of heaven (also it serves great to cool the soup down a little bit). Also, EAT IT WITH A PIECE OF BREAD ON THE SIDE! (the truly central Europe way)
fun fact: I actually took a class about these sorts of old recipes, but mine was like WAY older. I'm talking between the 1400-1600 range when they were still using old english so we had to transcribe it into modern english.
I actually found a pretty solid recipe for frosting in there, plus one for herbal medicinal teas.
Well you've got to tell us the recipes now.
@@vintwister i don't remember the frosting one exactly but I know it involved an absolutely obscene amount of powdered sugar and butter and I think that was like literally it?
The tea one was just taking whatever herbs you got and steeping em in boiling water for maybe 3-5 min. I tried it with mint (good but weak) basil (weak but fragrant) and an old hibiscus flower (pretty color but tasted awful)
I'm Chilean but my family moved to the USA when I was young. Nicole cooking the Charquican and talking about her experiences honestly gave me such an emotional reaction and I even cried a bit. Food is such a great way to connect with family and culture, I'm making plans to collect as many family recipes as possible!
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@@benjaminpizarro7028It's a bot. Just ignore every single one you see, they just want attention (or maybe report them, but there are so many of them.)
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My sisters and I handmade a little cookbook full of our favorite recipes our mom would make us as children for christmas one year, and I've never seen her get so emotional over any other gift. Thank you for this episode MatPat, I will definitely be asking my grandma for her recipes.
That's so cute! Thanks for such a good gift idea!
My rother typed up a book of the family recipes and gives them out at weddings to the newly married couples. It's a great way for the family traditions to carry on and he can update the cookbook as people continue to add to it, but it's got VERY old recipes in it too - ones from our great, great, great grandparents and I *think* possibly even a few from thier parents. It's pretty amazing.
As a pole, this made me so happy. I haven't seen my family (except for my parents) in ages since I moved from Poland to England and I miss my grandma's delicious cooking. This made me so happy and I might try to cook up some łazanki with my mum later :)
This episode really spoke to me. My grandpa passed away just a few years ago. He loved outdoor/cowboy-style cooking, and he became somewhat famous in my Boy Scout troop for it. When he died, my grandma gave me all his old cookbooks. Very few of the recipes in any of these books were his own, but in a binder he had compiled, I had finally found his elusive Ranch Beans recipe. This was a recipe that he would put together for almost every family gathering. They’re delicious, they’re spicy, and they’re very filling. When I decided to make the recipe for myself, I tried them and immediately thought back to my grandpa and how much he loved his cooking ❤️
I'm tearing up because of this video. My family is Armenian and we lost a lot of our culture and family members to the point where my great grandfather never taught his kids about the language or his past. We have a couple of our armenian family recipes in a family cookbook I've digitized, I really appreciate reconnecting to your roots since I feel a part of me that is connected to my culture through food.
Things are dire for us Armenians. My family has also lost much its Armenian culture over the generations we’ve spent in Italy and the US. Every year Azerbaijan is conquering more of our land and the world has turned a blind eye to it. I’m very afraid at this point that Armenian culture will be gone in a century or two.
As an Armenian we also lost so much due to assimilation. I know we did it to survive and I understand why, but it still makes me sad. We did keep our food though, and have a very precious cookbook written by my great great grandmother including Armenian writing. Every time I cook something from it I feel so happy in my soul.
I am also Armenian and we lost so much due to assimilation. My family did it to survive, and I'm so proud of their bravery, but it still makes me sad. We kept our food, though, and have a very treasured cookbook written by my great grandmother with Armenian writing in her hand. Every time I cook something from it it makes my soul so happy!
As someone who's from slovakia and lives pretty close to poland this episode almost made me tear up. The same cabage soup you made today is served every christmas (along with fish and mashed potatoes) and idk there was something so satisfing when Matt finaly tried it. Definitly one of my fav episodes
Can you tell me the name of the dish or the recipe perhaps?
@@jeffhough7460hi Slovakian here. I'm late but I think it's just cabbage soup and fish with mashed potatoes. It doesn't really have a name. The translation is "kapustnica" for cabbage soup and "ryba so zemiakovou kašou" for the fish
Finding out Matpat is also Polish makes my heart fill with joy. Pierogi and Kolozkis being first two Polish recipes makes my heart sing. RiP grandpa MatPat.
This made me cry so much 😭 Even though my family life is not ideal, and I don't have those warm memories of my ancestors, the LOVE that's so clear in this video is potent! I'm so glad people are able to connect with their history this way, and feel that connection to others! Much love to everyone at Theorist!
Yeah 🫂
My parents and I are a lot of survival foods (the 2008 crash was devastating to our family)
Red beans and rice is still one of my favorites.
And hey, be greatful for that soup, my parents would steam cabbage and use the leaves for a melted butter sandwich every memorial day. All in all, wild onions are an amazing seasoning and id highly recommend that if you have them in your backyard you learn how to harvest and cook them.
My family also has a couple red beans and rice recipe and its the best food.
WHO ASKED + MY CONTENT IS WAY BETTER
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Thank you MatPat!
For all the years of service
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This is not the end of MatPat
It’s a new beginning
Good luck and best of wishes to all of team theorists and your family ❤
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This episode was amazing. As a kid, I loved cooking my grandmas recipes with her. I love making cookies with her for holidays or just because, but I haven't been able to do it that much lately. Thank you matpat
I just teared up when I learned there was South American representation on the team with Santi being from Argentina but now I'm BAWLING seeing Nicole talk about charquícan!! My dad is an immigrant from Chile and this is one of the dishes he makes that I truly enjoy. Huge thank you to having us represented, an even bigger fan now ❤!
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This made me tear up- as a first gen child in America ( Mexican parents) my biggest fear is losing my culture. I stay in the kitchen and watch in hopes of grasping all the tips and tricks that have become nature for my mom. Much love to the team for this ❤❤❤😊
I understand how would be the case for me it’s my Neices there first gen American and I see them and hope they don’t lose there roots I try to teach them the best I can about our heritage
This made me emotional, I do not have a relationship with any family members and seeing you do something for one like this was nice to see. I wish I got to have a connection like that with my grandparents
Hi MatPat! I’ve been watching you for a really long time. I never thought I’d start tearing up at a video you’d make, but, when Steph started to talk about the fried dough her italian family made I started tearing up. I used to love these miniature fried calzones my grandma made when I was younger. We’d have it on christmas while having the 7 fishes. I sent this video to my grandma and she really liked the video too.
It’s so sad to see you leaving the theorists. I’ve been watching you since I was really young, around 8 years old. I’m 17 now! I really hope you realize the impact you’ve had on everyone. Love you dude.
Every woman in my family (on my mother side) has their own cook book or rather a cook notebook. They store their recipes there and then, after they die, they pass it to their daughters. I have my own, which is still pretty empty, but for now I'm writing down every recipe from my family, either them being passed down generations or something they just discovered recently. I
Cooking them truly brings comfort when they are away, and I can't imagine what comfort and nostalgia they will bring when they all eventually will pass away.
Great video Matpat! As a Polish woman, I'm glad you're getting back to your roots. And good luck on traditional dishes. They can be tricky at times but man are they good, especially in winter.
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I lost my grandma a few weeks ago, and we were really close to her because she lived with us. This video made me really appreciate her and her cooking ❤
Miss you grandma
@PatrickMahomesUTTPok uwi👍
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i lost mine last week so feel that. :/ condolences, internet stranger
When you talked about how you guys took the time to experiment with your families recipes, that really highlights what a family recipe is supposed to be. Of course, it will always be nice to have the original, the first version of that recipe with you. But then that's just someone's recipe. Not a family recipe.
It becomes a family recipe because you can change it, you can add or subtract aspects of the dish to your liking, and then pass it on to your kids. Then, they can do the same. So while its base started as the original recipe that your grandparents made, it now encorporates you, and every generation after you. It captures every single generation of your family, and it's something to cherish.
how to make Palačinke (Croatian Crepes)
•3 large eggs
•1 cup of milk
•1/3 cup club soda (not flat)
•1 cup all-purpose flour
•1/2 teaspoon of fine salt
•11/2 to 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter, divided
•11/2 to 2 tablespoons of canola oil
In a medium bowl, beat together the eggs and milk until well combined. Mix in the club soda.
Add the flour and salt and stir with a whisk until only a few lumps of flour remain.
Cover with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. As the flour is absorbed by the wet ingredients the batter will smooth out.
Once rested, stir the batter until smooth (though a few lumps are okay) to prepare for cooking the crepes.
Heat an 8-inch nonstick crepe pan or skillet. Add 1 of the teaspoon butter and 1 teaspoon of the oil.
Add about 1/4 cup of batter to the pan, tilting and swirling so it covers most of the bottom of the pan.
Cook about 2 to 3 minutes until both sides are a golden colour.
Add extra flavourings like eurocreme (or nutella), jam etc. And Enjoy!
As a Polish person the first 20 seconds of this video left me kinda surprised. Also I can confirm, polish people are really obsessed with cabbage. Like half of polish cuisine contains it. Not a huge fan of it but sometimes it's good.
The moment the cabbage soup was mentioned i said "yum" because my family eats a lot of cabbage. Like, boiled cabbage with a little salt and pepper is never turned down.
I never really thought about people who don't like cabbage and how frustrating cultural cuisine could be because of it
Ja też polak
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@@catelynh1020 my dad’s family immigrated from Poland in the early twentieth century and we regularly eat cabbage dishes, it also doesn’t hurt that my mom’s parents are Irish, that cultural combination makes cabbage necessary for life
I dziesięć spółgłosek razem xD
Even if the food is a century old, when it is made by MatPat, it tastes as luxurious as gold.
What a great way to honor your Grandfather Matt.
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12:00 Matt, you just made another Italian classic: a zeppoli! A fried Italian donut often served with chocolate or Nutella and sprinkled in powdered sugar! 🤤 I'm a big fan of them! Can't say I'm as big of a fan of the baccala though, sorry Steph (and my Nonna) 😅
Peruvian Empanadas
(Everything is eyeballed)
Dough
4-5 cups flour
2-4 sticks of butter (softened)
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
200 ml water (ADD GRADUALLY)
READ THE ENTIRE DOUGH SECTION BEFORE MAKING!!!!! (Maybe also refer to notes)
Mix these ingredients together by hand, or use a stand mixer with a dough hook. I like to mix it by hand
This should form a smooth dough that isn’t too buttery, so adjust this to what you need. I always end up using more flour. The dough shouldn’t feel too buttery and should be able to hold things in it. Don’t over knead or dough or it will become tough.
Mix and let rest in the fridge for one hour (with plastic wrap over the dough). While you’re doing this, make your filling.
Filling
(This is a tradition filling. For lomo saltado filling, refer to the lomo saltado recipe).
1 onion
1 pound ground beef
Parsley to taste
Cumin to taste
Salt and pepper to taste
Hard boiled eggs (6, chopped)
Cut up onion and let cook until translucent. Add in your ground beef and spices and cook. Adjust to taste after cooking and add your chopped eggs
Take your dough out of the fridge, roll it out, and cut it into circles (about 1/2 and inch thick). Use an empanada press to stuff them, put them on the tray, and brush them with either butter or egg wash. (This step takes the longest)
Once that’s over, put them in the oven at 350°F (180°C) and bake until you think they’re done. (About 10-15 minutes, but will vary depending on the batch and humidity)
Notes
* the dough is probably the hardest step, because humidity and temperature, literally everything affects the dough. It should be like a buttery pizza dough.
* My best tip with the dough is to add 2 sticks of butter to start, add half of your water (100 mL) and then go from there.
* This recipe is from my Abeulita, so it is authentic!! My Abeulita usually adds boiled eggs to it, but like it better without.
* If this dough recipe doesn’t work for you, try a different one. This one is traditional for Peruvian empanadas, but if you try another dough you could fry your empanadas instead of baking (like Colombian and Mexican empanadas)
This is late but my dad’s side of my family is Spanish, and I remember everytime we went to Spain, my abuela would make us all Spanish omelette. I recently re made it and one of my core memories to this day is sneaking out of my room to grab a bite to eat of that omelette it was so good to me.
I'm Spanish and tortilla is freaking amazing. My father makes at least one per week. And when they come out almost liquid? That's perfection
Man, this episode made me way more emotional than I anticipated. I’m going to miss Mat and Stephanie so much, and they deserve all the happiness.
This episode had me sobbing. I'd give just about anything to have even just one of my grandma's recipes-- they were all lost in a house fire that took her from us. Knowing that I'll never have her company, smell, or any of the foods she made for me ever again hurts so much. I did managed to half-figure out a soup that she made, but it doesn't taste quite right. I'll just keep trying until I maybe eventually get it.
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you can figure it out!
0:01 emotional
Yea it makes you think
The joy he would have knowing his meals are now able to be enjoyed by thousands… you did a good thing, and he appreciates it.
I wasn't expecting a Food Theory episode to make me cry... miss you Grampa.
Family recipes are so awesome, and unfortunately I didn't get many from my parents. I need to ask other relatives still with us. New mission START
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time for the main quest
10:33 when Steph is explaining her recipe, the way Matt looks at her, I want someone to look at me like that...
The idea of this is awosme the fact that you can experience essentially what the guy in ratatouille did is something that I didn’t know was real, I didn’t get to grow up with much of a family let alone have family recipes to take me back in time, but this was so cute and made me tear up at the ides of it
As a Polish person I cannot describe the joy of seeing you enjoy the soup. My mom taught me a lot of traditional Polish recipes and even though I don't like some of them I'm still glad I know how to make them. It's tradition after all 😁 My fav has got to be pierogi, it's just heaven. And it's really fun to make strange shapes with them to annoy my very strict grandma 😈
MATPAT 😭 you really posted this the day I was taught my wife’s mawmaw’s homemade bread recipe. I never got to meet her as she passed away very shortly before I met my now wife. My wife’s uncle made some of the bread last Thanksgiving and I liked it so much I asked him to teach me. Yesterday was my first time making it and my mother-in-law said it tasted just like her mama’s bread. I was so proud and happy. This episode tugged my heart
This video definitely made me a little emotional. My grandad is suffering from skin cancer and likely doesn't have all that much time left. It made me realise that I never took much time to ask about his food and the things he makes. My family is Greek and all the recipies he and my grandma make are amazing, even though we live far apart I'd love to learn some of his cooking one day.
This is really making me happy and the fact that both of my parents are Polish makes it even better. 🇵🇱
In my family a commonly made family recipe is North Staffordshire Oatcakes (I think we’ve altered the recipe slightly but I still love the dish all the same) They’re found in towns such as Stoke on Trent(where my family is from) As a child I love it when my father makes this dish.
i honestly love how this episode served as a love letter from MatPat to his grandpa. ;w;
i don't know if my granny had any family recipes, but i did write a poem about her kindness after her passing. i showed the poem to my mum, and she shared it with her family, who then shared it with their extended family members, including family i didn't even know about. my poem spread throughout my entire family and united us, and now a copy of it hangs in our hallway courtesy of my aunt who shared the poem the most.
what i'm saying is don't take people for granted. you'll never know when something will come and take them away, and all you'll be left with are the memories. there may be good memories, there may be bad memories, but they'll never compare to the real deal.
Wow! That's so cool how you are part Slovak. I'm from Slovakia and watching you for years!
this episode made me cry, it got me to think about my grandmother that past away last year - the things she would make for me and the things she would talk to me and my siblings about. I treasure everything dearly, and while she didnt necesserily teach me any of her recipies, she did share my love of coin and banknote collection - I love those things to bits and everytime i take them out to study them and look at them it reminds me of her.
Thank you for sharing this, at least for me this episode brough a lot of joy (and emotions) to my day.