Thank you especially for the Seatown section. I have cerebral palsy which comes with very poor balance, and some of my favourite childhood memories are of someone sitting behind me on the beach so I could have free hands to play around in the sand or gravel. Really appreciate being up close and personal with the beach again - wheelchair wheels hate sand and I am not easy to "throw around like a sack of potatoes" anymore!
Its a shame you can't come to New Zealand, down in Christchurch on quiet nights we can hear the ocean from like 5 blocks away, its also pretty easy to access our beach we have the pier which isn't used for anything but fishing (abit of a waste imo) which i believe has a ramp but also comes quite far up to the waters edge, as well as a couple more locations you can get pretty close- because previous builders didn't realize sanddunes are a thing you need, we have some buildings right next to the beach lol
@@dawfydd I would love to come to NZ one day! I do live near the sea in a city that is getting better at considering accessibility for recreation - a couple of beaches do have mats down pretty close to the water, just for this purpose. It's mostly getting out of the chair I miss, I think. I don't mean to dismiss that there are ways I can still enjoy the beach!
@@atypicalgeek88 Oh yeah i imagine it'd be easy enough to get down into the sand but its the then returning to the chair that poses the problem. Even without an issue i'm not sure i could get back up lol I'm not sure how we could build something like that in order to help, it'd have to be big large steal to get up and down from, or perhaps small steps down into the sand? i kind of recall seeing some but i think the sand reclaimed them long ago.
@@dawfydd "What could we do to make this better? Not quite sure yet but here are some ideas..." You sound like all the wonderful people, especially my dad, who've helped make my life what it is. Not surprised to hear it from a fellow Shrimp viewer...am pleasantly surprised to feel like "we" with someone who's almost as far away as possible geography-wise! I live in [the sort of place you should never share with strangers on the internet]!
I've been going through a lot with my anxiety, physical illness and PTSD lately - thank you, as always, for helping me find safety in the mundane, normal, simple parts of life. I'll never be able to put words to the soul soothing feeling I get when I click on a video and hear you just start to talk through the process of making a nice chicken stock. The beach segment with you sifting through the gravel and Eva barking at rocks was also wonderful. Always love to see Eva in her little coat 😍
@@fieryvaleoh my goodness, I love post 10 and mountain rug cleaning, that's almost spooky - thank you for suggesting them though. Midwest magic cleaning has been coming up in my recommended lately, so I may just have to give it a try 😊
I recently picked up a Too Good To Go "fruit and vegetables" bag from a supermarket near me. It was really good value, the bag was stuffed, and the stuff inside it was decent quality. BUT: among other things, the bag included about 15-20 bananas, give or take, which were all still edible, but clearly would not stay good for much longer. I live alone. Even if I make banana bread or something, then I have entirely too much banana bread on my hands. For the next couple days, I sounded like the weirdest drug dealer in the world, because I hit up everyone I know with "hey, do you like bananas? Do you want some bananas? I have so many bananas, take some! Take some free bananas, why don't you"
@@CounterCultureWISE a proper pain to use in my experience - the slices all freeze together and I wish I had a chisel when I want to only take some out. Do you have a tip for that perhaps?
Great Video, I work for a large stock producing company in the UK and I am also a keen home cook. Dishes have names and some are linked to certain areas of the world but everyone of them has been born out of trial and error and the ultimate goal being flavour. Using all the leftovers like you do and using that flavour to enhance any dish is a cooks dream despite wether that dish has the right name or exact ingredients. Use everything, create as much flavour as you can and enhance anything you can, if we all did this the world would be a better place. Amen.
You're one of my favorite comfort UA-camrs thank you for being yourself. The wide variety of things you do and are interested in inspire me it makes me want to go do things.
That was amazingly fun and satisfying A.S. as a wheelchair user I can't get to some of the walks you featured. It was very enjoyable to enjoy your company without banging music, rather the natural sounds and a pleasant voiceover. I loved the random nature of this one and watched from beginning to end, which I wasn't expecting to do. So I'd love to see more of this sort of content. Hope you're now fully recovered. Kind regards,
Besides everything that is "wholesome" with you vids you have really helped and inspired me in cooking.Nowadays I can make very much with very little and it has made a serious, real impact in my food budget because I just wanted to try some stuff myself "Can I survive for a week on 100 swedish crowns (ca 7 pounds)". I can, some meals might be boring but it makes me think about money in a different way.
I’d be interested in your tips for how to eat cheaply and healthily in Sweden. Our food bills here are much higher than in the UK. I am aware of Portionen under tian, but she doesn’t post so frequently now and food costs have risen so her recipes are no longer all under 10kr per person.
@@paulinebelford2645 Some basics: Rice and pasta: Don't buy small quantities. Buy it in "bulk", large bags. Sacks if you can, the international stores sell "raw" rice that needs pre-soaking and all that but if you have the time it's a lot cheaper than "normal" rice. A lot of leeks, onions and carrots: Cheap and you can use them for almost everything. Sausages: One fat sausage is enough meat for one person for one meal, but don't cook it whole. Chop it up. Spices: Don't be afraid of spices, stop using "kryddmått" and small quantities. Use A LOT of spices. A lot of spices can turn very bland meals to very tasty meals. Beans: Just very filling. I myself love kidney beans. Shoppingplaces: COOP and ICA are big no no-s for me now. They are just too expensive if I want cheap goods. A lot of budget markets have vegetables that COOP and ICA "rejects" because they are oddly shaped, too small or have become too ripe (less shelf life). Here in Malmö I go for Lucu Food or Bazaar. Brands: Don't be afraid of international products. If for example you are buying pickled feferoni (I love them) don't look for Santa Maria or ZETA in the main sections. Look for small scale "local" brands. You can either buy a small jar of jalapenos from Santa Maria that costs too much or for the same price you can buy a very big, fat jar of jalapenos (or other pepper fruits) with a brand name I can't pronounce that comes from Croatia.
Same. The only thing missing is the cooking segment and it would be perfect. But I understand that it's also an expensive experiment, as Mr. Shrimp pointed out.
I was so shocked with what you did with the broth+currypaste+gochujang that I, at 12:41 at night, went and made it. I happened to have some stock already home made, and the above items. Holy cow.
One of my favourite channels churning out an over 1 hour video I love it! About that Too Good To Go: I'm glad you didn't stop were you left and kind of revisited the app. I think that part could have well been a video on its own. Glad you did incorporate it here. As I already thought the shop from last time was not the best to receive good items. I only used the app once so far and had a bit of a mixed result. I was a bit disappointed by what I got the meals were way simpler than what I expected: 2 times rice with almost bland tomato sauce, tomato soup which was just the thickened tomato sauce, a butter pretzl and I could get some extra bread (I took a lot because of my disappointment of the meals). I'm very glad someone pointed out to look at the 4+ reviews I think I haven't paid enough attention when I bought from that one store. It was my first time using the app and should I use it again (and I will just not right now) I will pay more attention to reviews.
Have just got my first proper cough/cold since pre-COVID and was almost (and I stress almost!) excited when I realised that it would give me the excuse to give this broth a go. As you say at 5:49 it is just nectar! Thanks very much Mr Shrimp!
This is such a fantastic interesting, useful, informative video. Not only did I learn a lot but it was a joy to watch. Thanks as always Mike! Take care
Its really sweet how eva wanted to help you dig through the gravel. she must have watched you and thought "you're barely moving any at all! I can help you dig so much faster!" ❤
Quick tip for long-term stock storage - reduce it by 1/2 to 3/4s by gently boiling it in a pot to save on storage space. As long as you know your reduction amounts you can always add the appropriate amount of water back in. Also, store it in many small containers (or freeze in ice cube trays) to make it easier to dole out. I inevitably have liters of stock once every few months, and it's much handier to store in multiple 250ml deli containers (that I don't even necessarily use all of in one go due to reduction) than into one big ol' container you'd have to take an ice pick to.
It’s a small thing, but thank you for acknowledging that there are pros and cons of living in various places and the goal is to find what works for you and your priorities. So often I hear people just bashing wherever they don’t want to live and it’s tiresome.
one of my best experiences of too good to go was when i ordered a bag from a small petrol station morrisons, the bag was heavy, contained 4 mini tomato and cheese pizzas, a bag of mixed leaf salad, 2 containers of tuna and sweetcorn sandwich topper and 3 various potato prepared products, in a combination with my regular shopping and stuff i had in cupboards, lasted me almost a whole week as a university student when i first got it i was a bit overwhelmed and nervous about wasting any of it but it lasted long and was fairly satisfying in the end my main problem/worry with too good to go is the amount of choice you get, i could've easily gotten something like what happened with shrimp in the video, i do not regularly eat meat like pork or beef, sometimes chicken edit: the morrisons was walking distance
This has been a blessing for my evening. Just doing laundry and chilling while listening and watching. Laughed a lot too. Thank you, Shrimp, always entertaining!
Honestly feeling quite low, but this video has literally been therapy to me as ive watched in bed. I used to holiday in Seatown as a kid and have abundant fossils from there! Thanks for the content Shrimp.
Potato and leek soup was the first dish i learned to cook as a kid. To this day it's one of my favourite comfort foods. As an adult I tend to go heavy on garlic. Some newly baked bread on the side and I'm in heaven.
You sifting through the small pebbles reminded me of years ago when i was in an art show in the park. I was a bit bored so i sat down near the sandy walkway in the park and sifted sand. Then i found a tiny little fossilized sharks tooth. I kept sifting and found quite a few fossil sharks teeth. They were all really tiny. But they were perfect. No chips.
I downloaded the "to good to go" ap today and found that there are no stores in my area using it yet. I live in central Illinois, (united states) and the closest to me was in the Chicago area which is 4ish hour drive from me. It said they are working on getting more stores involved in my area which we all know could take from 1 day to forever, but, I'll keep checking, because I'd love to use this. So happy you made me aware of it. I think it will be fun if it ever comes to an area near me.
For ordinary white rice, you can see without tasting whether the rice is done (assuming your eyesight is good). When raw, it is opaque; when cooked, it goes translucent. If you like firm rice, let there be a small white spot in the middle; if you like it a little on the mushy side, wait until the rice develops a crack and begins to curl.
Thank you for adding wonderful value to our lives! I am excited to try making the lovely rice & seafood dish. I know my family would love it. Your videos are very soothing & wonderful! Thank you!
omg i LOVED the beach part of the video...the water...the sun...and eva barking at unseen sand demons...was so relaxing. i would totally be down with more of these kind of pov videos-almost gave me asmr vibes. i also really enjoyed your perspective on the tgtg app-we have that app here in canada as well.....and have had much the same experience with the cancellations, and odd food selections/questionable values(one bag i got from a major supermarket here contained 5 bags of expiry date salads...nothing else..and another-from a bakery...contained 4 donuts...and nothing else....lol) love all your videos and esp the food challenge videos....regardless of what the challenge is-----cheers from the other london!!
You are so lucky to live near places like Seatown. It's stunningly beautiful. I also like that it makes Eva very happy to be there. So many stones to rescue! 👍👍👍 There is money in Iron and Steel - but not much. The everyday metals that are worth looking for, are the usual suspects - Copper, Lead, Tin, and Aluminium. Lots of Coprolites where I live - the discovery of huge deposits of them, and the realisation that they could be prepared and processed into a fertiliser, in the 18th and 19th centuries, gave rise to the once huge Fison's company in Ipswich. There is still a road near the docks called 'Coprolite Street'. Both my brother's children were fascinated by what coprolites were, and I had to dig some up from the garden, so that they could show their school chums some fossilised poos. The slag glass is fascinating. In Ipswich, we had a couple of huge engineering plants - Ransomes And Rapier, who made cranes, and Ransomes, Sims And Jefferies, who made farm equipment, electric vehicles, lawn mowers, etc. I did security work at the latter site, and, although the blast furnaces had long gone (the desolation of the site was depressing, actually), there was spelter slag of a startling ultramarine colour all over the site. Quite beautiful, but I never touched it, as I had the sneaking suspicion that it was highly toxic; the blue colour coming from something lovely like Cobalt. It's probably still all there, under the concrete and tarmac of the shopping centre now using the site. Slag glass can also be found in the mysterious 'Vitrified Forts' in Scotland, where the walls of some hillforts have been turned into long stretches of slaggy glass and stone. And nobody really knows how or why. The most famous of them is possibly Knock Farrell.
Re: To Good To Go - I used to use this app and others like it regularly when I commuted and traveled for work. I would often open the app around lunch time select one or 2 places that were either on my way home or on my way to other errands. This allowed me to combine trips or at the very least, not have an extra trip, particularly if the order was cancelled. If I was traveling for work, it also allowed me to try different eateries in large cities on a budget.
That bonus soup was great in the fact that they were obviously a bonus harvest you didn’t know you had, but it was also a bonus in that potato and leek was such a perfect combination for a soup!
I used to use Too good to go when I lived in London. It was a great way to discover places along my commute and get a cheap easy meal, but I think there's a few factors that make you more likely to have a good experience. The first you're kind of onto when you say about cities & population density, and one thing that comes with that is that larger swings in how busy a place is day to day. My best goody bags were on days where an area was quieter than usual, they obviously order & prep in advance, so collect from bakeries, cafes with outdoor seating and restaurants on rainy stormy days and you'll get more. Obviously shops often have more on those days too but it's a good bet, and in London for example if an area is touristy but it's been a quiet day for some reason then that's a good time to get those bags. The other for me was also picking places where they were less about selling individual prepared items, with those it always feels like there's just a simple profit/loss calculation done to work out what discount you're getting. I went to lots of coffee shops that offered food, bakeries, and places that served 'a meal in a box' as often they'll just keep filling up whatever containers they have with lentils, grains, salads, curry, different things that make up the nice parts of their usual menu items. Ultimately though I've ended up in the same camp, I live far from places that do it. If I happen to be somewhere at a weird time and check to see if there's anything on offer I might consider using it, but it's no longer covering a few meals a week for me now I'm outside of London!
It's not potato, but it's in a similar vein. My wife (she is from Slovakia) makes spaghetti with Granko (a Czech/Slovak brand of instant chocolate powder) sprinkled on top of it. It's actually not bad, if a little bizarre! I don't think it's necessarily common in her country, rather a quick and easy family recipe for a child's dessert.
I appreciate that you show budget cooking many are struggling at the moment and your work to ease that is excellent! Edit: any packaged meat in a swollen packet should be avoided. Also never take any produce from the front of a shelf as this has been sitting under the bright lights. Instead get your goods from the back if you can. As stock rotation will put the newest items there.
" Edit: any packaged meat in a swollen packet should be avoided." Sweden joins the chat with the the exception that proves the rule, Surströmming, the only dish that are defined as a biological weapon. Would also make an excellent episode of Weird stuff in a can.
It's so lovely to have made something almost entirely out of things you grew, isn't it? It's a good feeling! I can't wait for next growing season (although we still have lots of food left in the freezer and canned).
The sort of people who complain that you are not doing something correctly, are most often the sort of people who would never attempt to do whatever they are complaining about themselves. Furthermore, if their knowledge of something has been gained not by experience, but from the video of some sketchy UA-cam 'influencer', then they should stay quiet until they get in the kitchen and get their hands sticky. You keep on keeping on. I'm more than happy to give your recipes a try - and I haven't been disappointed yet. Thank you. 👍👍👍 P.S.: I made some leek and potato soup, as per your video. It was absolutely delicious. Nice one. 👌👌👌
I just love your doggy- so adorable. I lost my little old man (chi-pug) Lewis before Christmas. He was a lover who loved to pretend to be a fighter. The bonus soup looked sooo good.
Thank you for sharing your lovely way of using all those leftover bits that are usually cast off. I do just what you do, but take it one more step. I will take all the material in the colander, and run it though a second time with just water. Then, I pulverize the whole mass once it's cooled in the Vitamix. A super high speed blender will make the twice cooked bones into a paste, leaving perhaps a tablespoon or so of bone shards in the bottom. I decant it and add it to my dog's food. The second cooking means all the fat and salt have been removed, but all the minerals of the bones and the fiber of the veggies are left. I call it sludge, and the dogs love it. I'm sure Eva would, too. A recipe from Andie and Betsy for Eva.
Oh Mr Shrimp, i do enjoy your cooking videos immensively. I wouldnt be surprised if in an alternate universe there would exist an atomic chef channel solely on cooking.
Talk of a multilegged chicken reminds me of the old joke. Scientists have crossed a chicken with an octopus so everyone gets a drumstick. Does it taste good? They don't know. No one has been able to catch one.
so nice seeing the waves come up like that. i live in Calgary and we don't have anything like that anywhere close. we do have the mountains and that's not to be taken for granted. but one day i would love to live near the ocean.
Oh my word, "veggie bones" is the best idea I have heard in ages. I love it. One minute into the video. Why is this getting past my procrastination and into my brain better than "freeze veggie trimmings for stock"? Whatever, thanks Shrimp, I'm off to go label some freezer containers RIGHT NOW.
good call not making that a main video, and even better call on showing it to your viewers in some form. found it interesting and glad to have gotten to see it
That reminded me of digging through the sand pit in middle school It was filled with a coarse sea sand to absorb impacts under the bars and climbing rack; we used to find fossilized shark's teeth in it. (No beaches in a landlocked country...)
I mean, last one was really good for me. Got me to check too good to go again for my area, and shocker, I found actual participants. So yeah, you probably saved some food waste in future, even if it wasn't the most entertaining video for all participants. As someone who's already a regular at the local slashed "too good to go" coolers, cheers, excited to see what this gets me comparatively.
The tiny horseshoe mystery might have been a shetland pony. They're pretty popular to pull small carriages for a single person or two. And they usually would have shoes because roads are quite harsh on the hoof soles.
At my companies canteen the chef used to make meals out of the leftovers from the day(s) before which you could then take from the buffet. It was always good food, spiced, never "over" and as we know, many foods get better the day after. But it needs knowledge to make something delicious out of leftovers. Obviously they saved money on the staff the recent years and they now only have convenience food and don't cook themselves anymore. They still do have leftovers at the buffet but they are dried out or just drown in sugary sauce.
5.15 I'm about to start including the Gochujang fermented chilli paste, thanks for the tip Mike! For anyone in Cornwall wanting to know where to get it the Thai & Asian food store on Kenwyn Street in Truro stocks it.
Some great ideas in this one that I will try. The sea looked amazing though :), I'm a bit of a winter beach visitor and love the rougher seas too. Also, I hope that cold gets better soon bud.
I really admire your drive to make videos even when you are unwell! Thank you for that, but don’t be afraid to take a break. Having said that, I wish I could be more like you when I get a cold, I get manflu and act like a massive baby, out of action for days. Thanks for all the happy hours of watching. You’ve really inspired me to get out more and explore the UK. I’d love to see a dartmoor video soon, maybe you could explore the Tarka Trail and temperate rainforest from Okehampton! I did that in that warm weekend in late september and it was womderful!
One of my favourite things has always been to sit in the pebbles on the beach and shift through them for treasures. Though I've never found fossils in my part of the world. And there is nothing like homemade chicken broth to drink when you have a cold. Hopefully you both are healthy going forward. 😊
Every segment of your vids is just good quality. Hoping you continue to recover. Everything you make in the kitchen looks really good for the nippy weather we have right now. 🍲
I enjoyed this video and particularly the too good to go section. I've tried a few and came to the same conclusion - you can't rely on it, and it's worth working out the best options. One thing we noticed was small bakeries and cafes tend to give you lots of the same product eg. 6 cheese scones! We found the co-op tended to make an effort to provide a sort-of meal. I know this was an expensive video to make and you don't have many local participants, but was disappointed not tonsee a Toby Carvery or Hotel breakfast in there - they're some of the best, so long as you don't mind eating them from the box in your car! Thanks for the video!
My go to rice for the last few years has been pandan fragrant rice. Way cheaper than jasmine rice, but the same texture, firm but not too much, very pleasant smell, I have no problem eating that rice 3 meals a day. I am not sure it is being exported outside of Thailand though, the packaging is in Thai language only. Leek and potato soup is nice also in hot Thai climate. About cutting the tubes of various paste, I think the tubes are made of tin or aluminium, so there is very little risk of cutting yourself on the edge of the tube. When I cook ramen noodles, there is usually a small pouch of oily seasoning. I cut that pouch and drop it in the pan, that dissolves all the bits of seasoning and make the broth taste richer. When I make a very reduced stock, I freeze it in an ice cube tray. The cubes then store tightly in the freezer. better that using a round tub.
Thank you for being considerate about the flickering clock. I have a migraine disorder that is very sensitive to flickering and appreciate blocking it!
44:16 I think that bit of ceramic with a hole in the middle might be from a vibratory tumbler. One of those things they use for cleaning mill-scale and weld BBs off steel
Thank you especially for the Seatown section. I have cerebral palsy which comes with very poor balance, and some of my favourite childhood memories are of someone sitting behind me on the beach so I could have free hands to play around in the sand or gravel. Really appreciate being up close and personal with the beach again - wheelchair wheels hate sand and I am not easy to "throw around like a sack of potatoes" anymore!
Its a shame you can't come to New Zealand, down in Christchurch on quiet nights we can hear the ocean from like 5 blocks away, its also pretty easy to access our beach we have the pier which isn't used for anything but fishing (abit of a waste imo) which i believe has a ramp but also comes quite far up to the waters edge, as well as a couple more locations you can get pretty close- because previous builders didn't realize sanddunes are a thing you need, we have some buildings right next to the beach lol
@@dawfydd I would love to come to NZ one day! I do live near the sea in a city that is getting better at considering accessibility for recreation - a couple of beaches do have mats down pretty close to the water, just for this purpose. It's mostly getting out of the chair I miss, I think. I don't mean to dismiss that there are ways I can still enjoy the beach!
@@atypicalgeek88 Oh yeah i imagine it'd be easy enough to get down into the sand but its the then returning to the chair that poses the problem.
Even without an issue i'm not sure i could get back up lol
I'm not sure how we could build something like that in order to help, it'd have to be big large steal to get up and down from, or perhaps small steps down into the sand? i kind of recall seeing some but i think the sand reclaimed them long ago.
@@dawfydd "What could we do to make this better? Not quite sure yet but here are some ideas..." You sound like all the wonderful people, especially my dad, who've helped make my life what it is.
Not surprised to hear it from a fellow Shrimp viewer...am pleasantly surprised to feel like "we" with someone who's almost as far away as possible geography-wise! I live in [the sort of place you should never share with strangers on the internet]!
We need to get you a wheelchair with those giant balloon tires so you can go to the beach whenever you please! ❤
From Eva's point of view, you're digging around and barking at rocks too.
I love how totally normal your videos are. No fluff, no fake drama, just shrimp videos. I appreciate that
I know..right?
it's as shrimple as that
For some reason, the fact that you actually *print out* comments instead of either saving screenshots or reading them directly makes me really happy
I've been going through a lot with my anxiety, physical illness and PTSD lately - thank you, as always, for helping me find safety in the mundane, normal, simple parts of life. I'll never be able to put words to the soul soothing feeling I get when I click on a video and hear you just start to talk through the process of making a nice chicken stock. The beach segment with you sifting through the gravel and Eva barking at rocks was also wonderful.
Always love to see Eva in her little coat 😍
I hope you can find peace.
Other channels you might like for soothing content are Post 10, Mountain Rug Cleaning, and possibly Midwest Magic Cleaning.
@@fieryvaleoh my goodness, I love post 10 and mountain rug cleaning, that's almost spooky - thank you for suggesting them though. Midwest magic cleaning has been coming up in my recommended lately, so I may just have to give it a try 😊
Eva barking at stones will never get old.
And she probably wonders why you don’t shout into hole you have just dug 😂
I recently picked up a Too Good To Go "fruit and vegetables" bag from a supermarket near me. It was really good value, the bag was stuffed, and the stuff inside it was decent quality.
BUT: among other things, the bag included about 15-20 bananas, give or take, which were all still edible, but clearly would not stay good for much longer.
I live alone.
Even if I make banana bread or something, then I have entirely too much banana bread on my hands.
For the next couple days, I sounded like the weirdest drug dealer in the world, because I hit up everyone I know with "hey, do you like bananas? Do you want some bananas? I have so many bananas, take some! Take some free bananas, why don't you"
Slice & freeze - fantastic in smoothies or when you want to bake later.
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@@CounterCultureWISE a proper pain to use in my experience - the slices all freeze together and I wish I had a chisel when I want to only take some out. Do you have a tip for that perhaps?
@@ZeroPlayerGame Snack baggies
@@CounterCultureWISE you mean like multiple ziploc bags? thanks, not sure why I didn't think of that ^^
Great Video, I work for a large stock producing company in the UK and I am also a keen home cook. Dishes have names and some are linked to certain areas of the world but everyone of them has been born out of trial and error and the ultimate goal being flavour. Using all the leftovers like you do and using that flavour to enhance any dish is a cooks dream despite wether that dish has the right name or exact ingredients. Use everything, create as much flavour as you can and enhance anything you can, if we all did this the world would be a better place. Amen.
You're one of my favorite comfort UA-camrs thank you for being yourself. The wide variety of things you do and are interested in inspire me it makes me want to go do things.
I'm not in a position where I could care for a pet, so watching your doggo go diggo is a vicarious pleasure for me.
"doggo go diggo" - love it!
@@atypicalgeek88 the UA-cam app have a translation of “dog to dog”
Which somehow makes it funnier
@@PaulMab9 It's a wonderful thing just to watch a dog dog! (Let's see what, if anything, the translation does with that!)
@@atypicalgeek88 The amount of butchered or hilariously weird, and or pointless translations UA-cam does is strange.
That was amazingly fun and satisfying A.S. as a wheelchair user I can't get to some of the walks you featured. It was very enjoyable to enjoy your company without banging music, rather the natural sounds and a pleasant voiceover.
I loved the random nature of this one and watched from beginning to end, which I wasn't expecting to do. So I'd love to see more of this sort of content.
Hope you're now fully recovered. Kind regards,
Besides everything that is "wholesome" with you vids you have really helped and inspired me in cooking.Nowadays I can make very much with very little and it has made a serious, real impact in my food budget because I just wanted to try some stuff myself "Can I survive for a week on 100 swedish crowns (ca 7 pounds)".
I can, some meals might be boring but it makes me think about money in a different way.
I’d be interested in your tips for how to eat cheaply and healthily in Sweden. Our food bills here are much higher than in the UK. I am aware of Portionen under tian, but she doesn’t post so frequently now and food costs have risen so her recipes are no longer all under 10kr per person.
@@paulinebelford2645
Some basics:
Rice and pasta: Don't buy small quantities. Buy it in "bulk", large bags. Sacks if you can, the international stores sell "raw" rice that needs pre-soaking and all that but if you have the time it's a lot cheaper than "normal" rice.
A lot of leeks, onions and carrots: Cheap and you can use them for almost everything.
Sausages: One fat sausage is enough meat for one person for one meal, but don't cook it whole. Chop it up.
Spices: Don't be afraid of spices, stop using "kryddmått" and small quantities. Use A LOT of spices. A lot of spices can turn very bland meals to very tasty meals.
Beans: Just very filling. I myself love kidney beans.
Shoppingplaces:
COOP and ICA are big no no-s for me now. They are just too expensive if I want cheap goods. A lot of budget markets have vegetables that COOP and ICA "rejects" because they are oddly shaped, too small or have become too ripe (less shelf life). Here in Malmö I go for Lucu Food or Bazaar.
Brands:
Don't be afraid of international products. If for example you are buying pickled feferoni (I love them) don't look for Santa Maria or ZETA in the main sections. Look for small scale "local" brands. You can either buy a small jar of jalapenos from Santa Maria that costs too much or for the same price you can buy a very big, fat jar of jalapenos (or other pepper fruits) with a brand name I can't pronounce that comes from Croatia.
Inspired by Shrimp, I too have began collecting "veg bones" in a freezer bag for stock use.
I would have been perfectly happy to watch the too good to go review in a seperate video. Personally I found it quite interesting.
Same
Same. The only thing missing is the cooking segment and it would be perfect. But I understand that it's also an expensive experiment, as Mr. Shrimp pointed out.
yes, i agree
@@gammelgemse I understood that. Which still makes THE experiment expensive ;)
I would too!
I was so shocked with what you did with the broth+currypaste+gochujang that I, at 12:41 at night, went and made it. I happened to have some stock already home made, and the above items. Holy cow.
One of my favourite channels churning out an over 1 hour video I love it! About that Too Good To Go: I'm glad you didn't stop were you left and kind of revisited the app. I think that part could have well been a video on its own. Glad you did incorporate it here. As I already thought the shop from last time was not the best to receive good items. I only used the app once so far and had a bit of a mixed result. I was a bit disappointed by what I got the meals were way simpler than what I expected: 2 times rice with almost bland tomato sauce, tomato soup which was just the thickened tomato sauce, a butter pretzl and I could get some extra bread (I took a lot because of my disappointment of the meals). I'm very glad someone pointed out to look at the 4+ reviews I think I haven't paid enough attention when I bought from that one store. It was my first time using the app and should I use it again (and I will just not right now) I will pay more attention to reviews.
Have just got my first proper cough/cold since pre-COVID and was almost (and I stress almost!) excited when I realised that it would give me the excuse to give this broth a go. As you say at 5:49 it is just nectar! Thanks very much Mr Shrimp!
This is such a fantastic interesting, useful, informative video. Not only did I learn a lot but it was a joy to watch. Thanks as always Mike! Take care
Its really sweet how eva wanted to help you dig through the gravel. she must have watched you and thought "you're barely moving any at all! I can help you dig so much faster!" ❤
Quick tip for long-term stock storage - reduce it by 1/2 to 3/4s by gently boiling it in a pot to save on storage space. As long as you know your reduction amounts you can always add the appropriate amount of water back in. Also, store it in many small containers (or freeze in ice cube trays) to make it easier to dole out. I inevitably have liters of stock once every few months, and it's much handier to store in multiple 250ml deli containers (that I don't even necessarily use all of in one go due to reduction) than into one big ol' container you'd have to take an ice pick to.
It’s a small thing, but thank you for acknowledging that there are pros and cons of living in various places and the goal is to find what works for you and your priorities.
So often I hear people just bashing wherever they don’t want to live and it’s tiresome.
one of my best experiences of too good to go was when i ordered a bag from a small petrol station morrisons, the bag was heavy, contained 4 mini tomato and cheese pizzas, a bag of mixed leaf salad, 2 containers of tuna and sweetcorn sandwich topper and 3 various potato prepared products, in a combination with my regular shopping and stuff i had in cupboards, lasted me almost a whole week as a university student
when i first got it i was a bit overwhelmed and nervous about wasting any of it but it lasted long and was fairly satisfying in the end
my main problem/worry with too good to go is the amount of choice you get, i could've easily gotten something like what happened with shrimp in the video, i do not regularly eat meat like pork or beef, sometimes chicken
edit: the morrisons was walking distance
The best tgtg bags that I have had are from Aldi and Budgens.
Coming home tired from work and discovering 1h+ new Shrimp video is a special kind of blessing
This has been a blessing for my evening. Just doing laundry and chilling while listening and watching. Laughed a lot too. Thank you, Shrimp, always entertaining!
I liked the too good to go section and wouldn’t mind seeing it again in the future 😊
Honestly feeling quite low, but this video has literally been therapy to me as ive watched in bed. I used to holiday in Seatown as a kid and have abundant fossils from there! Thanks for the content Shrimp.
Potato and leek soup was the first dish i learned to cook as a kid. To this day it's one of my favourite comfort foods.
As an adult I tend to go heavy on garlic.
Some newly baked bread on the side and I'm in heaven.
Seatown beach, aka "Eva's heaven" 😄
A whole beach full of stones and pebbles to dig out and bark at - that obviously made her very happy!
I LOVE these longer varied vids Mike xxx watched EVERYTHING you've done so many times 😊 hope we continue to see Jen too, thanks xx
You sifting through the small pebbles reminded me of years ago when i was in an art show in the park. I was a bit bored so i sat down near the sandy walkway in the park and sifted sand. Then i found a tiny little fossilized sharks tooth. I kept sifting and found quite a few fossil sharks teeth. They were all really tiny. But they were perfect. No chips.
I downloaded the "to good to go" ap today and found that there are no stores in my area using it yet. I live in central Illinois, (united states) and the closest to me was in the Chicago area which is 4ish hour drive from me. It said they are working on getting more stores involved in my area which we all know could take from 1 day to forever, but, I'll keep checking, because I'd love to use this. So happy you made me aware of it. I think it will be fun if it ever comes to an area near me.
For ordinary white rice, you can see without tasting whether the rice is done (assuming your eyesight is good). When raw, it is opaque; when cooked, it goes translucent. If you like firm rice, let there be a small white spot in the middle; if you like it a little on the mushy side, wait until the rice develops a crack and begins to curl.
Thank you for adding wonderful value to our lives! I am excited to try making the lovely rice & seafood dish. I know my family would love it. Your videos are very soothing & wonderful! Thank you!
16:51 Eva digging around and then intensely looking and barking at the stone was such a precious yet amazing moment! thanks for capturing this!
There's something just very soothing with the sound of you moving around those tiny pebbles lol
It's therapeutic, isn't it? :D
The broth with gochujang is a top tip. If you want more of a thick soup add a little kimchi and diced spring onions. Perfect for a cold winter's day.
omg i LOVED the beach part of the video...the water...the sun...and eva barking at unseen sand demons...was so relaxing. i would totally be down with more of these kind of pov videos-almost gave me asmr vibes. i also really enjoyed your perspective on the tgtg app-we have that app here in canada as well.....and have had much the same experience with the cancellations, and odd food selections/questionable values(one bag i got from a major supermarket here contained 5 bags of expiry date salads...nothing else..and another-from a bakery...contained 4 donuts...and nothing else....lol) love all your videos and esp the food challenge videos....regardless of what the challenge is-----cheers from the other london!!
Thank you so much for covering the flickering, you are saving me from a migraine!
Hey Atomic Shrimp,
Love these kind of mixed bag vids, keep up the good work :)
Was curious how you learned to cook?
Hope you have a good day
Listening to the waves, the wind and the water reminds me of the times i just fell asleep on a beach.
Almost a Slow Video, very relaxing. 👍
LOVE this longform content - Thank you! Hope it takes off and makes you a bunch of money
You are so lucky to live near places like Seatown. It's stunningly beautiful. I also like that it makes Eva very happy to be there. So many stones to rescue! 👍👍👍
There is money in Iron and Steel - but not much. The everyday metals that are worth looking for, are the usual suspects - Copper, Lead, Tin, and Aluminium.
Lots of Coprolites where I live - the discovery of huge deposits of them, and the realisation that they could be prepared and processed into a fertiliser, in the 18th and 19th centuries, gave rise to the once huge Fison's company in Ipswich. There is still a road near the docks called 'Coprolite Street'. Both my brother's children were fascinated by what coprolites were, and I had to dig some up from the garden, so that they could show their school chums some fossilised poos.
The slag glass is fascinating. In Ipswich, we had a couple of huge engineering plants - Ransomes And Rapier, who made cranes, and Ransomes, Sims And Jefferies, who made farm equipment, electric vehicles, lawn mowers, etc. I did security work at the latter site, and, although the blast furnaces had long gone (the desolation of the site was depressing, actually), there was spelter slag of a startling ultramarine colour all over the site. Quite beautiful, but I never touched it, as I had the sneaking suspicion that it was highly toxic; the blue colour coming from something lovely like Cobalt. It's probably still all there, under the concrete and tarmac of the shopping centre now using the site.
Slag glass can also be found in the mysterious 'Vitrified Forts' in Scotland, where the walls of some hillforts have been turned into long stretches of slaggy glass and stone. And nobody really knows how or why. The most famous of them is possibly Knock Farrell.
Re: To Good To Go - I used to use this app and others like it regularly when I commuted and traveled for work. I would often open the app around lunch time select one or 2 places that were either on my way home or on my way to other errands. This allowed me to combine trips or at the very least, not have an extra trip, particularly if the order was cancelled. If I was traveling for work, it also allowed me to try different eateries in large cities on a budget.
Randoms are my favorites. Eh but I love all your videos. Thanks again Mike. Best wishes to you and Jenny and your family in this new(ish) year.
That bonus soup was great in the fact that they were obviously a bonus harvest you didn’t know you had, but it was also a bonus in that potato and leek was such a perfect combination for a soup!
I think Eva has learned the game very well, she sees you barking about rocks, so she’s just returning the favor!😂
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I used to use Too good to go when I lived in London. It was a great way to discover places along my commute and get a cheap easy meal, but I think there's a few factors that make you more likely to have a good experience. The first you're kind of onto when you say about cities & population density, and one thing that comes with that is that larger swings in how busy a place is day to day. My best goody bags were on days where an area was quieter than usual, they obviously order & prep in advance, so collect from bakeries, cafes with outdoor seating and restaurants on rainy stormy days and you'll get more. Obviously shops often have more on those days too but it's a good bet, and in London for example if an area is touristy but it's been a quiet day for some reason then that's a good time to get those bags.
The other for me was also picking places where they were less about selling individual prepared items, with those it always feels like there's just a simple profit/loss calculation done to work out what discount you're getting. I went to lots of coffee shops that offered food, bakeries, and places that served 'a meal in a box' as often they'll just keep filling up whatever containers they have with lentils, grains, salads, curry, different things that make up the nice parts of their usual menu items.
Ultimately though I've ended up in the same camp, I live far from places that do it. If I happen to be somewhere at a weird time and check to see if there's anything on offer I might consider using it, but it's no longer covering a few meals a week for me now I'm outside of London!
You made Eva's day, week or month even by sitting and digging with her❤😂❤
Or even her year...
@@capitalb5889 She knows Mr. Shrimp will be there for her...
It looks delicious as always Jane. Thank you for sharing your beautiful recipes
It's not potato, but it's in a similar vein. My wife (she is from Slovakia) makes spaghetti with Granko (a Czech/Slovak brand of instant chocolate powder) sprinkled on top of it. It's actually not bad, if a little bizarre! I don't think it's necessarily common in her country, rather a quick and easy family recipe for a child's dessert.
If you can't get Granko, it's almost identical in taste to Nesquik instant chocolate powder.
That's not paella, you can only make paella in the champagne region of Japan.
Absolutely love this channel.
I appreciate that you show budget cooking many are struggling at the moment and your work to ease that is excellent! Edit: any packaged meat in a swollen packet should be avoided. Also never take any produce from the front of a shelf as this has been sitting under the bright lights. Instead get your goods from the back if you can. As stock rotation will put the newest items there.
" Edit: any packaged meat in a swollen packet should be avoided."
Sweden joins the chat with the the exception that proves the rule, Surströmming, the only dish that are defined as a biological weapon. Would also make an excellent episode of Weird stuff in a can.
It's so lovely to have made something almost entirely out of things you grew, isn't it? It's a good feeling! I can't wait for next growing season (although we still have lots of food left in the freezer and canned).
The sort of people who complain that you are not doing something correctly, are most often the sort of people who would never attempt to do whatever they are complaining about themselves. Furthermore, if their knowledge of something has been gained not by experience, but from the video of some sketchy UA-cam 'influencer', then they should stay quiet until they get in the kitchen and get their hands sticky.
You keep on keeping on. I'm more than happy to give your recipes a try - and I haven't been disappointed yet.
Thank you. 👍👍👍
P.S.: I made some leek and potato soup, as per your video. It was absolutely delicious. Nice one. 👌👌👌
I like how the new camera angle solves the flickering oven clock problem.
I just love your doggy- so adorable. I lost my little old man (chi-pug) Lewis before Christmas. He was a lover who loved to pretend to be a fighter. The bonus soup looked sooo good.
Truly, enjoy hangin' out with you!🙂
✌🏻❤️😎
Thank you for sharing your lovely way of using all those leftover bits that are usually cast off. I do just what you do, but take it one more step. I will take all the material in the colander, and run it though a second time with just water. Then, I pulverize the whole mass once it's cooled in the Vitamix. A super high speed blender will make the twice cooked bones into a paste, leaving perhaps a tablespoon or so of bone shards in the bottom. I decant it and add it to my dog's food. The second cooking means all the fat and salt have been removed, but all the minerals of the bones and the fiber of the veggies are left. I call it sludge, and the dogs love it. I'm sure Eva would, too. A recipe from Andie and Betsy for Eva.
Oh Mr Shrimp, i do enjoy your cooking videos immensively.
I wouldnt be surprised if in an alternate universe there would exist an atomic chef channel solely on cooking.
Talk of a multilegged chicken reminds me of the old joke.
Scientists have crossed a chicken with an octopus so everyone gets a drumstick.
Does it taste good?
They don't know. No one has been able to catch one.
What a beautiful time at the beach!!!
What a delight. Wellness to you all!
so nice seeing the waves come up like that. i live in Calgary and we don't have anything like that anywhere close. we do have the mountains and that's not to be taken for granted. but one day i would love to live near the ocean.
Shrimp, I was pleasantly surprised to see you are one of the few people who still drive a manual transmission car. Love your videos!
Your selection of "flittering" music made me smile.
These shrimp random videos are great perfect viewing for when your eating evening meal 👍
Oh my word, "veggie bones" is the best idea I have heard in ages. I love it. One minute into the video. Why is this getting past my procrastination and into my brain better than "freeze veggie trimmings for stock"? Whatever, thanks Shrimp, I'm off to go label some freezer containers RIGHT NOW.
good call not making that a main video, and even better call on showing it to your viewers in some form. found it interesting and glad to have gotten to see it
Thanks for making me watch your oven clock for a minute. In slow motion. With music.
I did not know I needed that 😂
That reminded me of digging through the sand pit in middle school It was filled with a coarse sea sand to absorb impacts under the bars and climbing rack; we used to find fossilized shark's teeth in it.
(No beaches in a landlocked country...)
The flickering music for the flickering clock, just perfect
I mean, last one was really good for me. Got me to check too good to go again for my area, and shocker, I found actual participants. So yeah, you probably saved some food waste in future, even if it wasn't the most entertaining video for all participants. As someone who's already a regular at the local slashed "too good to go" coolers, cheers, excited to see what this gets me comparatively.
Great video Shrimp, really enjoyed it. Hope you are back fighting fit how.
Gochuhang is so good! Thanks for sharing 😊 I hope you recovered well.
My mother was the same- like a crow- she loved odd bits & shiny things 👍👍
Budget cooking is what I was brought up with. Nice to see others do the same.
Loving the Time Team moments👌
Wonderful to see the magic of semi transparent rock, held up to the sun, for us to see it shining through. Thanks so much.
The tiny horseshoe mystery might have been a shetland pony. They're pretty popular to pull small carriages for a single person or two. And they usually would have shoes because roads are quite harsh on the hoof soles.
52:30
At my companies canteen the chef used to make meals out of the leftovers from the day(s) before which you could then take from the buffet. It was always good food, spiced, never "over" and as we know, many foods get better the day after. But it needs knowledge to make something delicious out of leftovers. Obviously they saved money on the staff the recent years and they now only have convenience food and don't cook themselves anymore. They still do have leftovers at the buffet but they are dried out or just drown in sugary sauce.
Thank you! Very enjoyable. Loving that beach!
5.15 I'm about to start including the Gochujang fermented chilli paste, thanks for the tip Mike! For anyone in Cornwall wanting to know where to get it the Thai & Asian food store on Kenwyn Street in Truro stocks it.
The rice dish is made just like a Pilav. There you go, you have an official name for it!
I guarantee if I'd called it that, someone would tell me it's not because it's the wrong rice or because I didn't add something
@@AtomicShrimpKeep it simple, call it Atomic Shrimp 😁
Some great ideas in this one that I will try. The sea looked amazing though :), I'm a bit of a winter beach visitor and love the rougher seas too. Also, I hope that cold gets better soon bud.
I really admire your drive to make videos even when you are unwell! Thank you for that, but don’t be afraid to take a break. Having said that, I wish I could be more like you when I get a cold, I get manflu and act like a massive baby, out of action for days. Thanks for all the happy hours of watching. You’ve really inspired me to get out more and explore the UK. I’d love to see a dartmoor video soon, maybe you could explore the Tarka Trail and temperate rainforest from Okehampton! I did that in that warm weekend in late september and it was womderful!
One of my favourite things has always been to sit in the pebbles on the beach and shift through them for treasures. Though I've never found fossils in my part of the world.
And there is nothing like homemade chicken broth to drink when you have a cold. Hopefully you both are healthy going forward. 😊
Every segment of your vids is just good quality. Hoping you continue to recover. Everything you make in the kitchen looks really good for the nippy weather we have right now. 🍲
I enjoyed this video and particularly the too good to go section. I've tried a few and came to the same conclusion - you can't rely on it, and it's worth working out the best options. One thing we noticed was small bakeries and cafes tend to give you lots of the same product eg. 6 cheese scones! We found the co-op tended to make an effort to provide a sort-of meal. I know this was an expensive video to make and you don't have many local participants, but was disappointed not tonsee a Toby Carvery or Hotel breakfast in there - they're some of the best, so long as you don't mind eating them from the box in your car! Thanks for the video!
The flickering oven clock reveal was fantastic!
My go to rice for the last few years has been pandan fragrant rice. Way cheaper than jasmine rice, but the same texture, firm but not too much, very pleasant smell, I have no problem eating that rice 3 meals a day. I am not sure it is being exported outside of Thailand though, the packaging is in Thai language only.
Leek and potato soup is nice also in hot Thai climate.
About cutting the tubes of various paste, I think the tubes are made of tin or aluminium, so there is very little risk of cutting yourself on the edge of the tube. When I cook ramen noodles, there is usually a small pouch of oily seasoning. I cut that pouch and drop it in the pan, that dissolves all the bits of seasoning and make the broth taste richer.
When I make a very reduced stock, I freeze it in an ice cube tray. The cubes then store tightly in the freezer. better that using a round tub.
I have a bone bag in the freezer too. It's a lovely treat to make a pot of stock with stuff that would otherwise end up in the bin.
Or in a grave…
@@rosemarymee you’ve lost me there
@@jonathanfinan722 Bones -buried- grave? Dear me…
Eva warmly dressed in the best colour.
You should steep some ginger, lemon and honey as a tea for when you're feeling under the weather
Drinking it right now. Hate it. Love the result
@@Nachos_with_a_slice_of_lime Stick some rum or whisky in it
Really appreciate your soup mixtures , as an expat Pom now living in Australia makes me miss England sometimes.
that section at seatown was so calming :') also lmao, the song being called flickering
That rice looks fantastic. Will try that myself. Thanks Mike!
Thank you for being considerate about the flickering clock. I have a migraine disorder that is very sensitive to flickering and appreciate blocking it!
Roving Shrimp and the Too good to go bags could make for an interesting "Ready Steady Cook" type video series 🤣
44:16 I think that bit of ceramic with a hole in the middle might be from a vibratory tumbler. One of those things they use for cleaning mill-scale and weld BBs off steel