“If you poured your hot soup right on to the egg yolks, they would SCREAM in anguish and curdle.” The mental image of eggs screaming in anguish is never something I would have ever conjured on my own, and it delights me. Julia delights me.

She is either the most wholesome or the most stealth-clever person you ever met. Omg, the knife... XD

@ahlivetuhsidamaro150

11 күн бұрын

She was a spy during world war 2. She’d know how to fillet anybody

"it has a beautiful perfume like an onion or like ... itself" that's delightful.

My gawd. We wouldn’t be cooking the same if Julia hadn’t graced our lives!

Love how she hurried up the bell. A treasure.

Ok so I decided to cook along with Julia on this one and even ordered up a food mill for the purpose. Finding watercress was not easy, but tracked it down at a local luxury produce market. I admit I was a bit hesitant on the whole "enrichment" part at the end so divided the soup into two pots and added the cream/egg/butter enrichment to one and had the family do taste testing. Wowza. The enrichment makes an incredible and incredibly delicious difference! It elevated the soup from tasty to transcendent! And the eggs yolks add a great shot of protein as well : )

My mom exploded a pressure cooker decades ago, I think that's why I've never wanted to use one!

@mikezylstra7514

Ай бұрын

I heard all the horror stories (back in the 50's). I think that was simply "geloso." Pressure cookers saved time - lots of time. My aunt could go to the racetrack come home at 4 o'clock, and still cook a dinner like my mom tended for 3 or 4 hours. And mom never hesitated to tell the pressure cooker stories (the lid flying off, the whole nine yards). LOL

Just made Julia's Watercress soup, it was wonderful, her recipes are absolutely the best.

Made the watercress soup today. Amazing

Julia called the nakiri knife harakiri

I've made mushroom soup it's brown mushrooms, leeks and so delicious someone went for a second serving.

I love her. I learn to cook and have a good laugh to-boot.

@mikezylstra7514

Ай бұрын

Learned a lot of cooking techniques from her show. 55 years ago, afraid of girls and afraid of divorce courts, I had to learn to cook my own meals. Julia was a big help.

This one is new to me. I have never gone shopping for watercress in my life. Now I'm like Rapunzel obsessing over rampion. I do believe Julia could sell anything!

@rah62

Жыл бұрын

Well, since watercress is native to Europe and Asia, it's not a terribly American thing. Julia probably first encountered it in France. Brits tend to put it on their tea sandwiches; I remember an episode of Two Fat Ladies where Clarissa made a tea sandwich of sliced tongue, cress, and mustard butter. (There is a variant called just "cress" or "garden cress" to distinguish it from the version which grows in streams and creeks) Of course, since I live in the desert, there isn't watercress - or water, for that matter - for miles and miles!!!

I need to get one of those harakiri knives for the kitchen.

funny that im eating the leek an tater soup i made on christmas, i put some chicken in it used bone broth sweated the leeks and garlic used little red potatoes and mashed them up a little with the skin still on it, lots of the green of the leek.... carrots ...celery shallots it is excellent i didnt puree it or add cream just whole milk and some butter when i reheated it... its excellent

i've never had a pressure cooker. I just use the old pot on the stove or a crock pot. And the watercress cost me $2.00 a bunch at the farmer's market. Probably even more at the supermarket. Times change.

"This is a Japanese knife my sister-in-law gave me, and it's used for harakiri... and vegetables, depending on what your mood is"

@DaveMK.

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment Adrian! I looked up what Harakiri actually meant and I just gasped when I found out XD! That line in the video would've just went over my head as another "chef" term I'm unaware of but your comment made me look it up and appreciate the dark comedy behind it!

@calmingme01

Жыл бұрын

@@DaveMK. what does it means

@DaveMK.

Жыл бұрын

@@calmingme01 Well ages ago in Japan, Harakiri knives were used in ritual suicide where one would slit their abdomen with the knife. Thus when Julia said that the knife could be used for Harakiri or vegetables depending on your mood, she was comedically referencing the medieval purpose of the knife (which was to disembowel yourself during suicide) or use it to cut vegetables depending on how you feel that day i.e. to kill yourself or to cut vegetables. Hahaha

@arra5316

Жыл бұрын

For Harakiri or to cut vegetables whichever mood you have ….Thats really hilarious…i dont know if shes joking or what 🤣🤣🤣

@sandywaddell4303

Жыл бұрын

@@calmingme01 “Hara-kiri” is a somewhat blunt way of referring to Japanese ritual suicide, more formally known as “seppuku.” The name for the Japanese vegetable knife Ms. Child is using here, as it happens, is “nakiri.”

3:52: "Now this is an AK-47 that my sister in law gave me. It's for stealing cars in Liberty City...or it can be used for vegetables, depending on what your mood is."

@ahlivetuhsidamaro150

11 күн бұрын

Different times for sure

This is all true.

Every month I pick one of my cookbooks and use it to source three or four recipes for the month. (The rest of the time I cook The Usuals.) I was wondering what to do for December and then saw this. Mastering..., Volume I is my book for December 2023. I was going to choose "Julia's Kitchen Wisdom," a great little book that has Julia's "greatest hits" recipes, including this soup. (It's cheaper and less scary than Mastering... and makes a great gift for cooking newbies BTW.) Instead, I decided to get out the Mama rather than the Baby version. If you've not had potato-leek soup, it's yummy.

And regards knives I've got a Mercer chefs knife that I keep nice and sharp

Food Mill before Food processors

@ 27:34, This is a No-Cal Soup, Ha ha It had butter, cream & potato's in it

@mikezylstra7514

Ай бұрын

Potatoes never made me fat. Pizza pasta, and bread, on the other hand...

Must be a really sharp knife if it can be used for harakiri…😂

Cant find watercress in our area. Leeks either.

@MuddyPigg

Жыл бұрын

It's easy to grow, you might be able to find some seeds and grow it on a windowsill.

@nathanjustus6659

Жыл бұрын

I find leeks in my local Walmart grocery and I live in a food desert. You have my sympathy

@mikezylstra7514

Ай бұрын

Bought a leek once. It was bitter. Ugh! I just buy the smallest onions I can find, sometimes available, sometimes not; you just have to look. Scallions work but way too expensive.

I went through a pressure cooker (Instant Pot) phase. It's not worth the hassle and the special appliance. Factoring in the time you spend waiting for it to come to and come down from pressure, you might as well just cook things the normal way as it doesn't save much time at all.

@richardengelhardt582

Жыл бұрын

Agree!

@RCook-iy4xk

Жыл бұрын

You must not have watched the video! You speed cool the cooker with cold water just like seen in the video.

@rah62

Жыл бұрын

@@RCook-iy4xk Of course I watched the video, silly. "Speed cooling" is not often recommended because pressure cooking recipes usually factor in the time coming down from pressure in the cooking time. Often, if you "speed cool", you're undercutting the recipe time. So there.

@RCook-iy4xk

Жыл бұрын

@@rah62 Didn't you see her cooling with running water or was she doing it wrong? I suppose you know better. You are flat wrong . So There.

@mikezylstra7514

Ай бұрын

Depends on the brand and learning how to use it. The beef they sell today is like goat meat. meh I give a ribeye 35 minutes at 14 lbs pressure just make it edible.

Julia bir işaret gibi 3 gündür heryerden geliyor, 1. Gün Netflix, 2. Gün dsmart biography, ve bugün 3. KZread 😅 juliayı ve azmini sevdim şuan tek düşündüğüm güneş burcu veya yükselen burcu yengeç mi?

Pressure cookers are useless. Let it cook naturally and slow.

@mikezylstra7514

Ай бұрын

really? That goat meat they sell for beef and pork?

3:53 😳 a bit of leftover bitterness from WWII Julia??