How to Cook Without a Recipe | Plus cook a Tasty new dish
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- In today's episode, we talk about how you can Learn How to Cook Without a Recipe or Cookbook. After responding to a viewer's comment I decided to make this video to see if you find the information useful. I had a lot of fun making this video and we also made up a new delicious recipe while we chatted.
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Note to add, I will make a video on the Caramelized onions and post it in the next video 😊
I was hoping you would!
Wonderful comment - I totally agree!
Awesome
Stacey your engagement with viewers is exceptional. It is so refreshing to watch a genuine and honest person on You Tube that we can actually relate to! Keep on being YOU and dont ever change 👍
You’re spot in. She is humbly inspiring.
@mazza7419 : She really is, and l hope she never changes 😊
@@brilliantbutblue I can’t see Stacey ever changing. She has that face which exudes loyalty and sheer humbleness. I’m stoked I found her channel. Love her and wish her great time ahead.
Thank you so much 😊 I hope I stay that way and if not you guys have my permission to say hey! keep it real girl!
I watch alot of overseas homesteaders and I'm so happy to have found a NZ one so I can relate to the ingredients and grocery stores.
As a woman in her 70’s I have learned so much today from your video. Awesome, awesome, awesome, thank you ❤
I love watching someone who has such joy when cooking. I use a recipe as a suggestion. What fun it was to see your delight when you added the onion!!
Love how you incorporate notes from your viewers, this is such a great video. I think it is well needed as many people don't know how to cook on the spot. Keep doing what your doing wonderful content! The nice thing about making mistakes in the kitchen it's only one meal, the more you keep going the better you get. My hubby is a lot like yours he will never say an unkind word about my cooking no matter how big the flop. I asked him why...he said that if my recipe did not work out I would probably be harder on myself then he could ever be...he said that saying a kind word cost nothing and that if he was kind maybe I would be kinder to myself.
Youre the jamie Oliver of New Zealand 😂..i love this type of cooking especially these days with saving money, cutting food waste and shortages at supermarkets..we improvise at times and sometimes the best meals come out of creations 😊. Really enjoyed this video thabk you x
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Stacey I watch your show from Nova Scotia, Canada. Thanks for giving us all your helpful tips and recipes. Keep up the good work and bless you for doing this. It takes a talented and knowledgeable person like you to prepare and video what you do. Much appreciated. 😊You go girl.
Thanks so much :-)
Love this topic! So many cooks don 't explain how to do this and make you feel stupid for asking.
Thank you for letting me know the way I explained it in the video is helpful. Please don't ever feel that way in asking me anything. If I see a question from a viewer I try to answer :-)
SHUT THE FRONT GATE!! 😂 love it!! Thanks for all the info!! You make me hungry with every video 😊
As i was washing the stuck on cajun herbs from the pan after cooking cajun chicken i decided next time I'd make a gravy with it. Well the next time came and it turned out great. And i put that down to you inspiring me to think differently about cooking. So thank you Stacey.
Thank you for watching, I'm so pleased you are finding the videos helpful. Well done!
F.A.I.L. - First Attempt In Learning ❤
Love this!
Stacey you are a hoot🤣 Those facial expressions and Shut the front gate… I wasn’t sure what you were going to say 😂 I only found your channel recently while recovering from a foot operation. I’ve watched hours and thoroughly enjoyed them. I’ve also learnt a lot. Thank you from Australia!
Looks great . You have shown you can make something delish with little ingredients . Some people don’t realise that cooking from scratch gives you options . It looks so yummy .
Thank you so much 😊
that pasta looked restaurant worthy. a piece of garlic bread and this would cost 15-18 dollars in states of USA. looks so beautiful. that's a meal in itself.
Oh my, you've created a master piece! Great job! I'm making notes and a grocery list so I can duplicate this. Thank you so much, Love this idea. I've been cooking over 50 years and still love learning from other cooks. God bless you.
Yay! Thank you!
I love that YT finally gave me a NZ RUclipsr to watch ❤ your so relatable, as a chef by trade and a mum by profession I can confirm these tips are very useful and effective love your content
Hi lovely lady,thanks to your inspiration i am working through my freezer before a restock,just last night hubby and i had apricot chicken i had a family size that had been there for one and a half years that i vacuumed sealed so i cut the backbone out flattened it,sprinkled it with some french onion soup mix,mixed up some apricot jam with hot water gave it a bath and slow cooked it,put some chips on a tray best fakeaway ,we will be having the rest of the chicken tonight the it would easily stretch to feed six but my hubby at the dinner table is like trying to stop a race horse at the starting gate.Sending love from Australia Lee❤🦘
I am 2 weeks post op for gastric bypass surgery. I need to get as much nutrient dense protien food. In as possible. Having to think out the box. Got a few pate recipes perfected including cod liver pate. Thai fish cakes. Things like that. Love watching your channel
Sending you lots of healing prayers.
My mom refused to cook after she went back to work. With both parents working, it sort of fell to 12 year old me to do the cooking. There were a few times when my Dad binned the meals... but... I learned 😂
Binge watching your videos, I enjoy cooking now that I have more time being a pensioner. I loved how you mentioned your husband's comments on your food, even on a bad day. Fortunately my hubby is the same, just makes all our efforts worth it, on good days and bad.... a little bit of encouragement and gratitude go a long way. ❤
I have a massive tomato harvest at the moment. I've made sauce and paste and dried some and of course, I use them fresh.
I make a big pot of soup, then the next day that becomes a base for a pasta sauce and then the next day the leftover pasta (my husband and I aren't huge eaters so it goes a long way) gets shoved in a dish with some white sauce and cheese on top and becomes a pasta bake.
Many sorts of soup (mushroom or pumpkin for instance) can be used as a base for other things if you have too much. And soup is an excellent example of things you can make without a recipe. It also freezes really well if you don't want to reuse it immediately.
Stacey l have only started to watch your videos and l am blown away with what you teach...
Your videos are simple and they really make good sense to me...
You have been a life saver with your simple recipe...
Thank you for sharing your knowledge...
God Bless!❤
Yummo! This video was so very helpful Stacey. My husband will politely eat a “mistake” but I can tell he dislikes it as much as me. But our son starts laughing and says, “ shit Mum what happened 🤣”. I’m a recipe girl but you may have just given me some confidence to learn, thank you ♥️♥️♥️
You are teaching me soooo much I love your channel. Such a natural talent 😊
I discovered in lock down that having a good stock of long life staples tins, herbs, spices pasta, rice even long life cream makes it much easier to come up with a meal.
I was tired, I have cooked for my family for so many years, I felt done. You have renewed my love of cooking, I am trying new things, getting excited about trying them. On Sunday I am making your meatball stroganoff, I have even bought the fancy fettuccine.
Oh my gosh, thanks so much for your message. I'm so pleased you are enjoying the channel. I hope you enjoy the stroganoff 😊
Thanks Stacey that was great. The word failure resonnated with me , as a young girl i decided to make curried chicken, the recipe was my invention, well the curry sauce would have made great wallpaper paste, my brother and best friend sat and faithfully ate it and said thank you that was lovely. I know it was anything but lovely😅😅
Love your videos. Watching from Bloemfontein, Freestate, South Africa❤
Hi, from Joburg ❣🤣
Thanks for watching!
You are a lucky woman to have such a kind good husband, your precious video made me cry when you described him . Love and learning all the at!
Thank you so much!
yes 😂 shut the front gate … looks delicious 👌🏻
i invent recipes all the time … saying shut the front gate often 🎉
hahahaha
Good morning from Hamilton, Stacey.
Good Morning, neighbour
Thats so good to watch cream cooked, ive only ever used cream to make cheesecake at christmas. Thankyou.
I’ve never made garlic sauce so thank you. I try different things at times cooking. Learnt from three rivers to keep all stocks and pan juices for other things. To think for years I threw them down the sink or in scrap compost bins. One thing I learnt to keep flavours simple. Works best.
When you have no other choice but to wing it…sometimes it actually doesn’t taste half bad 🥴… my mom passed unexpectedly when I was 17… I hadn’t spent much time paying attention to what she did to feed us… but in a effort to replicate some of the things we used to eat I tried my best to toss things together in hopes that the flavors would somehow be similar…. Toss and hope… and like you said, lessons were learned with each and every toss 😊 To this day even when I have a recipe I have a continuous need to tweak them 😂😂😂… there’s a great old book called the Kitchen Companion by Polly Clingerman that focuses on the basics and how to build on them…it was worth its weight in gold to me back then
Hi I am reasonably new to your video's and are really enjoying them. You present them so well I am starting to change my cooking or non cooking habits. thank you so much. 🤩looking forward to learning more.
Glad you like them!
Looks delicious! Thank you for sharing! Love learning new recipes! 💕🙏
My pleasure 😊
Yum ! Im defs going to try this ! Well with the ingredients i have on hand. Thanks for the inspiration.
I watch you from a little village in Spain. You ate great, easy to follow. Carry on being you, ignore the haters they generally hate themselves and project that on to others to feel better about themselves. Xx
I really enjoy Stacey's creative thinking with every meal or recipe. Always mostly what one has in the pantry too. Nothing too far out of the ordinary re. condiments or spices, or that I'd have to spend weeks trying to hunt down. There are some things which are obviously seasonal, or less common, but one can substitute with a local variant.
Thank you
I agree with you on that one Stace thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
It's practice, experience and being able to picture how combinations taste before tasting. Much like a good musician can do the same with sounds. An artist can see what is in a blank canvas or a photographer learns to see and compose.
Best I ever saw was a Scottish chef at a work retreat in an out of the way lovely location. He would go every morning down to the local markets and grab everything that was cheap and turn it quickly and efficiently into delicious meals for about 20 people all on his own. It was a delight to come to every meal and see what he had come up with. Never the same over the whole week.
As with art it helps to limit your palette. Simple is best. Michelin star restaurants work at perfecting complex dishes and strictly following exactly the recipe and techniques every single time. Good Home Cooks know basics and wing it so it is never the same twice, which in my opinion makes them much more interesting and appetising. That's you Stacey. 😀
Here's to the Nana's, Nonas and YaYas of the world with their wealth of experience and practice. My mum was a good Austrian cook but I've learnt most from a past girlfriend's Italian mum and my Chinese wife both superb cooks. I don't do their dishes, with a couple of exceptions, but they all influence and inspire what I do. I've learnt what will probably work and what to do if it doesn't go where I thought it would. A leek and potato soup I did the other day that wasn't working because the leeks did not have the intense leek flavour I wanted, turned into a casserole with a few more veg, mushrooms and poached Italian pork sausages. Went from bland to something entirely new. Wonder if I can repeat it?
There's nothing better than freestyling in the kitchen - you do it well and it's encouraging. Sometimes I look at what combinations are used in cookbooks and make that a springboard to freestyle a new recipe🙂 Ginny
Thanks so much! 😊
Brilliant Stacy. Thank you for reminding us all to be creative and not stuck in a rut 🎉❤
Wonderful content! I am beginning to look upon you as a wise Aunty. Very genuine. Thank you :) ❤
Thank you :-)
Absolutely love it, and your face when you tasted it!!! lol This is exactly the way cook,yes i look at recipes but really just for guidance. Go with the flow, add the stuff you like etc. Thanks for another winner! x
So simple, and so delicious! Husband is an absolute ANGEL for just always being your biggest fan - he's a good man! All I cook with is stainless steel and cast iron. My stainless set is as old as yours and when I find it getting "crusty" I'll make a paste of baking soda and lemon juice and jut scrub it. Generally though to keep it clean it starts at the beginning of using it - hot pan/cold oil = food doesn't stick. The insides of the pans stay "fresh" and won't stain. Stainless also holds up well to soaking.
Once again, another great vid Stace with A LOT of ideas and encouragement to do it ourselves. And look at you at 25K now! You are ROCKIN IT Lady! This has been such a beautiful journey watching you grow and making your dream come true. I am SO HAPPY for you! Love & BIG HUGS to you and Husband
Thank you, my dear friend. Thanks for sharing your tips on stainless steel pans as well. Needing an update X
Your learning and failing statement is brilliant!
What, cookbooks are instructions on how to make dishes? Mine are mainly for cuddling up with a good book. Love reading old ones with all the chit chat and how to from a hundred years ago. When the family asks what's for supper and I can only tell them the main ingredients with a shoulder shrug. Leftovers is the usual main ingredient changed into a different dish by adding whatever is on hand.
Yummm, love that pasta dish. I’ve never added lemon to cream…always onion, stock or garlic to flavour, also didn’t know it helps thicken the cream, another great tip! Thanks for sharing! God bless ✝️
I loved this post and found it very helpful, so thank you. I have never been an intuitive cook and have always found it difficult to adapt recipes or swap out ingredients, which is why I love your channel so much. I am learning such a lot about adapting from you, and looking for new ways to use the ingredients I have already. It is giving me the confidence to try new things. I look forward to each new post coming out.
Glad it was helpful to you :-)
This is how I learnt to cook! I found when just starting out and learning about flavour profiles, it was easier to stick to ‘cuisine’ ie. Italian, Indian and then learning what herbs & spices go well together. Once I had them down it was easier to go out on my own and mix things around 😊
You think like a chef! Sometimes I will look at recipes online for inspiration (search for an ingredient I want to start with), then wing it with flavours I have in the pantry. By the way, the acid in the cream works to thicken it, but it won't work with any other dairy with less fat content. You would get curds and whey instead (ricotta). Don't feel self conscious about eating on camera, I love your reactions - truly genuine!
I absolutely love ur videos, I come from a family where, mum would always make something out of nothing, boil up was her go to but in saying that, those were the best meals we had when mum would throw something together and it tasted so delicious
That recipe looks so good. I must give it a try. Thank you. Love your channel.
Ooh yummy, thank you. Stacy for inspiring us all, I will be doing my own sauce from now on xx
That's my kind of dish; simple and easy. I love about any pasta dish. Looks yummy. I like the pasta you used; don't think I've ever had it.
Totally agree but if you know the basic's in cooking like making a Rue or a basic sauce can help everyone to add to it, whatever they have in their household, I don't have an oven so cook outside or on the Gas BBQ has helped me appreciate the love and enjoyment in my cooking with using what I have to work with. Love your channel xx
Your reaction to tasting that dish makes me for sure want to try this. Thank you for sharing
I cook like you do. I love the challenge of making good healthy meals for as little cost as possible. Soups are another one thats good with many variations of ingredients. I have done this recipe with fake crab and shrimp that I bought on sale, and needed to use up from my freezer.
Oh my that looks delicious. I'm having this for Dinner!!
Hope you enjoy it :-)
Lunch looks great! I've been watching your videos for a while now, love seeing what you make and how easy you make it look. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I'm in the UK, its so nice watching a kiwi and seeing snippets from home.
I have a love hate relationship with food, love to eat it but hate to cook it. I have good intentions to try. I buy the things to make stuff but end up with a pantry full of ingredients that usually go way out of date before being thrown out. I can do the basics boiled veg, mashed potatoes and meat etc, but never use and herbs, spices or sauces, as i have no idea what to do with them.
I had a new kitchen 2 years ago hoping it would inspire me to cook, think ive used the oven maybe 12 times 😕
Summer is the best time in my kitchen because we get salad and cold meat, which is at least edible! 😂 Maybe one day i will be adventurous and try making something 🤔
I am going to have to try and write the recipe down and add to the meal planner that you have shared! Looks delish....I think it will also work with a cornstarch white sauce...I dont often have cream😊Shut the front gate- I could imagine that on an apron!! This video was brilliant- thanks so much for sharing x keep em coming!!
:Hello new friend Stacy! I'm in New Haven Connecticut USA. Relatively new to watching you and adore you and your channel! You have inspired me so much! I started this weekend. There is just my daughter and I here but anything to make meals easier..PLEASE! I made huge pot of bolognese that I will use for every sort of anything that uses a red sauce. Daughter loves rice so made and froze 1 containers of rice with veg. Fajita meals, beef and chicken. Mac cheese with broccoli. 2 pot pies, butter chkn, Tikka Masala with naan. 2 - 9" carmelized onion Foccacia. Pizza dough. Stroganoff with green beans, Swedish meatballs with Dill mushroom sauce. Lasagna and Baked Ziti still to do. We hv a hot dog and a burger night too. Also BLTs and Tomato soup and Grilled cheese...Im not bragging Im really not I hv wanted to do this forever and only made it about 7 meals... When I sat down and really made a list of freezer meals, I enjoyed it. Made a batch of sour cream corn bread that is just so LUSH! Chkn wings to do and a crispy potato salad that is HEAVEN!!! TY TY TY my new friend with the bluest eyes! Such fun!! I hv been really sick and not left the house for couple of weeks..this is what I needed!!! LOVE U GIRL!!!!! ❤❤❤ Dawn.
I have small crock pot that use too make a quick meal. I use a half of polish sausage ring cut it into half coins add 2 pints of home canned green beans & potatoes for around 3 hours on then turn too low and sometimes I use a pork steak or pork chop. Best for gardening season meals.
G'day from Melbourne Australia..you did well explaining..shapes of pasta can be an element of success too..with specific sauces, so they cling or grip or enter..fettuccine, raviolli or cannelloni ..just found your channel today..Im a kiwi, well Kwozie..been in Oz 42 years now..miss New Zealand..
The great part about being the cook is that you can eat the evidence :)
You are a biscuit! Love ya content
I call you a virtues woman I love make something from nothing. Bless you and yours
that looked delicious. I wonder about a dusting of fresh nutmeg. Never made a garlic sauce with just cream - will try. I don't own a recipe book, just cook with my heart, practice makes progress & I started cooking independently at age 8 = 55 years ago. My hubby used to eat anything I made - all the experiments 😄he was so good & supportive. love your videos.
Stacey I'm completely hooked on your videos and style of cooking. Love a creamy garlicky sauce 😋 Thank you! ❤
Looks amazing Stacey ❤❤❤❤❤!! I learned to cook with my grandmother with no recipes.
I’d order that in a restaurant, yum!
Love your recipe ideas. I've started shopping at the vege store more and buying what's on special, this works with me trying to eat more veges, saving money and not waste food.
Hi Stacey!!! You just mentioned making a homemade teriyaki sauce. Would you want to go over how to make homemade soy-sauce based sauces?!?! Every time that I try, without a recipe, it is a flop!!!! Thank you.
Yes, I will definitely do that soon.
It is a thing of beauty. Now Im starving. Thank you for your encouragement
Thankyou Stace - Great Tips as always !! 👍💚
Glad it was helpful!
Stacy when you were talking about learning from your mistakes, a very old lady told me when I was a new bride with little experience cooking and had had a flop in the kitchen , “if it isn’t a cake it can be a pudding “ her way of saying make the best of what you have.
Love this!
helpful information
The best thing about this channel there is something in it for everyone. As an older viewer I love the tips and tricks, the recipes and the sensible instruction to make what we do every day exciting. And the days when I can't be bothered or too busy there is the freezer meal to solve that problem. Making pucks to reduce wastage, tidying the pantry by putting ingredients in glass jars, even demystifying cooking with yeast. I apply what is useful to me, be it a recipe or a better way of doing something I've been doing for 50 plus years. Thanks Stacey , an inspiration to every viewer.
Thank you so much :-)
This looks so good! Now I’m hungry!
I think ill make this white sauce tonight, I have some cream I need to use up. Looks delish. 💙👍🏻
That dish looked delicious, will have to try it! Thankyou!
Stacey I love you 😂. This is exactly how I cook. However if I come up with something exceptional I write it down so I can duplicate it. Cause otherwise it's never the same.
Well that's for dinner tonight. My gosh looks so delicious.
Great video... LOL I call it cooking on the fly ..it's almost being invited to a party and you go to the closest to try to put a outfit together... What ever you have that sounds good... really.. really.. enjoy your channel... Ohio..USA
so true awesome apron saying
Another fantastic informative video. I am an ingredient shopper now. Then I make up what to cook from the protein as that’s where I start. I live in the country now and not in the city so shops are 45mins away. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Awesome video!!! I love how you break it all down into categories. If I can humbly make a request ... can you talk about cooking for a big family?? Beginning June dinners will go from cooking for 3 to cooking for 8, and I need ideas for streamlining prep, cooking and cleanup. No rush on this, I still haven't finished watching your playlist.
That was great.. thank you Stacey.. watching from Hamilton...🕊
Fantastic!! Great episode, thankyou. I've worked out a couple of dinners using pasta & my last pack of frozen pumpkin soup from last winter. Then thought blow, no cream, but I do have sour cream, that'll work. Woohoo ❤
You're inspiring me. I even want to add some farm decor to my kitchen 😊 I dug out my pinnies yesterday. I have all the ingredients to try this...and I love pine nuts so might try it.
Think I need a towell, I'm drooling so much. That looked absolutely amazing.
So many great tips and advice. Definitely going to make this one for my family.
Love the addition of the caramelised onion. Do you have a vid or recipe for the caramelised onion pls?
You go girl. Keep up the great work. Really look forward to your video's.
Bravo !
I love this! You are so good at teaching ❤ What I find also is to peek at recipes for clues on what goes together well, and see what I might have that is similar. Also wanted to say, I start with potatoes often, and have come up with some winning combinations lol Rice as well. You're very much appreciated, Stacey. I have never made a garlic sauce 😮 and going to try it out!
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your super thanks. I will put this towards the PO Box fund. 😊
So look forward to your videos! Watching from the Mid-atlantic area of the U.S.. I have already learned so much from you. Thank you for sharing your ideas and recipes, much appreciated!
That was really helpful and I was thinking along with you about what I might add, like curry powder maybe. Thanks so much.
Hi Stacey, I've cooked mushrooms this way, cream, salt, garlic...over steak so delicious
Some of my best dishes came from using things that needed to be used up and throwing them together.
WOW!!! That looks like a delicious lunch!!!! I’m definitely going to give this a try! (I wish we could purchase a large jug of cream like that in Canada! 🇨🇦) I can’t wait to make a dish similar to yours, I’ve got to learn how to make carmelized onions.❤️🥰🇨🇦🙏🏻🍁
I sure will make your meal. That's how I cook a little of this and a little of that the good lord helps me out in each meal . That you so much for sharing cause my son doesn't tomato sauces.