Plantain is difficult to peel, you should run it under hot tap water and then slice through the skin down the whole plantain and then stick your thumb through it and use your thumb to push under the skin and separate it from the fruit. Also, you definitely ate raw plantain. If you fry it or air fry it has to be cooked twice, once until it gets soft enough then smash flat with a cup and then fry again. You can also boil it and then mash it. Or wait until it turns black/yellow so its fully ripe and then just fry it once and it will be sweet.
I would not say that’s a typical school lunch in Ukraine but it’s a good representation of what dishes we cook day to day. At school, elementary students usually have manka, which is a type of watery porridge, buckwheat, or mashed potatoes with sausages. Also, instead of pickled cabbage, we usually have sauerkraut on the side. I’ve never heard anyone put peas in borscht, usually it’s beans or meat along with cabbage. We eat borscht with black bread and sour cream. And high school students usually have pirojki, pizzas, or some puff pastry sausage rolls. So you were pretty on point, well done! 💙💛
Could you and Moon do your childhood favourites or like children's party buffet food from when you were younger? Maybe even remaking the dessert options from primary school dinners? 😊
That looks nothing like a Brazilian school dinner. But as a brazilian, I really appreciate your effort. And let me tell you, Taz, I love all your videos. I've been following you for many years. ❤
If you make the pea soup the Finnish way, it is made from dried peas soaked overnight and the soup is boiled for a long time. It can be vegetarian, or it can have meat in it. I actually think the mushy peas I got in England with my Fish&Chips tasted a lot like it 😅
@@bearclaire Not exactly, here they dry them whole, but the idea is just the same. A split pea soup would be very close to the Finnish kind, I think :)
Shallow pan fry the plantains in vegetable oil (instead of deep frying) until lightly browned. Then set them onto a plate with some kitchen roll. When they have cooled enough to be handled, give them a slight smash to flatten them out before frying them a second time. Once they are nicely browned and slightly crispy outside, but not burnt, and fluffy tender inside return them to the kitchen roll. Sprinkle a little bit of salt on them and they are ready to serve. They are starchy but should be slightly sweet, almost like sweet potato fries. I'm guessing the air fryer method still needs them to be lightly coated with oil or the air fryer will just dehydrate them instead of actually cooking them.
Moon's "Miso Soup Face" Needs to be a meme 🤣🤣🤣 She went from a young woman to a 90yr old old lady in 0.2 seconds! I love you too!! Another great video!
The plantain was unripe and in my culture (nigerian) is prepared as a pottage or grilled(with spicy sauce) or thin sliced and fried as chips. For it to be fried, it is best when it is ripe. To cut it, you slide the tip of your knife across it then use your hand to open it all the way.
I CANNOT believe that Brazilian food got lower rating than US food. It definitely looked much better. Also on the topic of being a good lunch lady or not, from my knowledge, the lunch ladies don't make the food, they serve it. (Our food was frozen and was defrosted).
I have some news about brazilian food, we don't use can beans 😅. And we fry in oil, nor in the air fryer. Probably these two things will make some difference 😂
CANNED BEANS IS A HUGE NO FOR US FR!! my boyfriend ADORES brazilian beans, he finds it the BEST and in his house they use canned beans so YK. palso i feel like she’s missing frying the garlic too for things 😩😩
Dried beans like you have in Brazil aren't that common in the UK really. Perhaps it's changing back, but it's mostly just canned beans. And plantains are used in some places, especially as"meat substitute" in some dishes; you'll see it in veggie recipes
the finnish food you tried was a lot nicer than we're used to here. our school food is often a little tasteless tbh :D and we rarely have any desserts for lunch. also, most of the time there's this thing called "näkkileipä" to go with your food instead of actual bread.
Taz for Plantains you cut along the side then you peel it. You need to oil your hands while preparing it because the starch will stick to your hands. As for the pronunciation it Plan-tain like Mountain
To open plantains in my country we usually remove the ends put a slit vertically and peel it or put it in the microwave for a couple of seconds like 10-20 seconds and then peel it. I love plantains 🥹
Finish one looked the best to me - the kind of lunch I would like to eat. I actually am making such beetroot salad quite often. But I use sour cream and a bit of mayonnaise instead of greek yogurt. I did not see if they added pickled cucumber to the salad, but that is one of the most important ingredients in my beetroot salad. It really makes a good contrast with other ingredients. Here is my beetroot salad ingredients: boiled potatoes, boiled carrots, boiled beetroot (slice those all to squares), pickles, red onion (slice both finely), sour cream, mayonnaise, salt, pepper. Yum!
That American meal looks miles better than what I had as a kid. We got a lot of cardboard like pizza, vaguely food shaped patties, and dodgy looking fruit.
In Ireland we could leave at lunch and we used to go get curry chip buttys / taco chips / breakfast rolls etc in the shop beside school lol! School canteen just had like gaujon rolls, sausage rolls, salad rolls and snacks
for the future, most of the stuff in borscht should be fried before boiling like onion, cabbage, beetroot and carrots. that's where you get all the taste. also we usually eat with sour cream
the way moon pronounced borscht is right lol my exes mom use to make it all the time, she put chunks of beef in hers. some people eat it with sour cream too
You did that plantain dirty 😂😂 Usually you’d buy plantain that’s yellow but going a little bit black. That’s when it’s sweet. Then fry in a little oil 🤌🏻🤤
Hi Taz! I am from Finland and been a subscriber for a while now. I really enjoy your content, you are so entertaining. :) About the Finnish school lunch, beetroot salad we don't eat so often, but the pea soup was accurate and the pancakes. However, the proper way to make pea soup is to cook it for 2-3 hours and it contains meat. But you did really well! :)
For plantain you need to coat with oil or deep fry it, otherwise it's dry. The green plantain is a unripe, you need to buy the yellow one and do as previous comment
This is exactly what I did NOT like in the video. :D I felt she did not give it a fair shot. She had decided she did not like that food before she actually tried a bite.
I'm sorry Taz, but I'm from Brazil and this is not what is served at schools...but it was a good try. It is, usually, beans, rice and pasta with a cheap protein and some farofa. If it has salad, usually is a vinagrete. No peppers, no bread, no plantain. A waterdowned juice is on the side. I'm not complaining at all, just want to inform! Only public schools serves food for the kids, and those schools are the most precarious ones because it is payed by the government and attend to the low income population. Because of that, the government don't invest a lot on those schools and the situation is not so good. That is why, that beautiful plate that you made does not represent what is served for the children here in Brazil. And in the private schools you have to pay for your food, so usually the food is pretty good but a little expensive, since you're already paying for the school.
My mom served school lunches to grade school kids. She told me by far the most popular items were pizza and tatar tots. Salad was available but few of the kids touched it.
Taz, use a bottle opener to open your jars... it changed my lift. Just pop it under the lid as if it was a bottle and pop it up, then it is so easy to unscrew!
As a Mexican Panamanian, you were supposed to cut it with a knife to peel it open. Once you have it peeled you warm them up in oil and when they are done you take them out to smash them from there you put them back in to give it a golden crispy texture. Now what you got is called a patacones.
Taz: hates cooking in her old home Also Taz: moves home and immediately makes 5 meals 😂😂😂 Also anyone else love the feeling like Moon and Taz are one of your friends?
Plantain is easy, cut top and bottom and cut along the edge. Your meant to steam it. It's more of a type of potatoe category. Miso didn't taste of anything when I tried it.
Taz, you’re not supposed to cook the green plantain on the air fryer 😭 and those green plantains are for tostones. the yellow plantains are for amarillos which is what you tried to do with the green plantain. i screamed love this so much honestly
Those plantains looked scary. I don't see how you were able to take a bite of it. 😂 The apple and beet salad sounds kind of good, with some fresh chives and dill. 😋 The pancakes looked good! I've never had thin pancakes before, besides crepes. This was interesting. Thanks for sharing. ❤
Wow, you ladies went to high school?! And here's me, just going to a bog-standard comp 😕 & lol, I wish Brazil was this spicy. Most places offer chilli on the side, but nothing in the dish. And (in the part I live in) they seem generally averse to seasoning: sometimes they have some nice stuff (e.g. in beans) but mostly so little there's hardly much taste 😔
Were the cookies you had from La Boulangerie (order from Brakes to have a look)! They were the ones we had at school and I couldn't find them until this year
A challenge for next one... do a Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 school lunch. We have various menus you could do a whole video just for that. (We do breakfast too) Mind you we do breakfast too. @Taz
I’m Brazilian and Portuguese and can tell you we don’t use paprika (Hungary 🇭🇺) or jalapeños (Mexico 🇲🇽). We always have farofa with the plantains rice and beans. Never seen what you made in my life except for the garlic 🧄. 🇧🇷🇵🇹🩰
The fact that she made the meals, takes away from the whole point of tasting food from other cultures. There is a lot of room for error. It isnt giving the foods a fair shot.
Yes, the seasoning for the Brazilian food was not something that I would use to make daily meals. Normally we fry chopped garlic and onions in a little bit of oil. These plus salt is the basic seasoning for almost everything. If any pepper is used, it would be back pepper. Most people in Brazil aren’t used to spicy food. But I think that it’s really nice that she tried to make Brazilian food. I’m happy that she is making an effort to know a little more about my country
Can't believe how far Taz has improved with her cooking, like we saw her grow in front of our eyes
I was thinking the same thing!
Well she always Say, You are watching me grow in front of your eyes 😂😂
In some aspects yea but that plantain was butchered 😂
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this video was so wholesome, love seeing taz and moon just being themselves
Yeah i really love them both. 😄
Plantain is difficult to peel, you should run it under hot tap water and then slice through the skin down the whole plantain and then stick your thumb through it and use your thumb to push under the skin and separate it from the fruit. Also, you definitely ate raw plantain. If you fry it or air fry it has to be cooked twice, once until it gets soft enough then smash flat with a cup and then fry again. You can also boil it and then mash it. Or wait until it turns black/yellow so its fully ripe and then just fry it once and it will be sweet.
can also cook it just like you would a roast potato
Plantain is actually so versatile. You guys should do some research on it and it’s so good! Sorry you guys ate it raw though 😹😹
Really? I didn't know that. Interesting. I'm glad I read these. Thank you.
Learn something new everyday. I've never had it so would have no idea where to start. This is handy to know as I'm enjoying trying new foods
It was not ripe!!!
I would not say that’s a typical school lunch in Ukraine but it’s a good representation of what dishes we cook day to day. At school, elementary students usually have manka, which is a type of watery porridge, buckwheat, or mashed potatoes with sausages. Also, instead of pickled cabbage, we usually have sauerkraut on the side. I’ve never heard anyone put peas in borscht, usually it’s beans or meat along with cabbage. We eat borscht with black bread and sour cream. And high school students usually have pirojki, pizzas, or some puff pastry sausage rolls. So you were pretty on point, well done! 💙💛
So nice to see Moon. She always lights up the place. You have been killing it with the videos lately Taz.
Could you and Moon do your childhood favourites or like children's party buffet food from when you were younger? Maybe even remaking the dessert options from primary school dinners? 😊
That looks nothing like a Brazilian school dinner. But as a brazilian, I really appreciate your effort. And let me tell you, Taz, I love all your videos. I've been following you for many years. ❤
absolutely agree, it’s disappointing but at least theres effort which i love 😁
I think Taz should make a video about Brazilian food and her Brazilian subscribers should submit recipes. Just saying 😅
If you make the pea soup the Finnish way, it is made from dried peas soaked overnight and the soup is boiled for a long time. It can be vegetarian, or it can have meat in it. I actually think the mushy peas I got in England with my Fish&Chips tasted a lot like it 😅
And then you eat the soup with mustard and onion on top 😍
I guess you mean split peas?
@@bearclaire Not exactly, here they dry them whole, but the idea is just the same. A split pea soup would be very close to the Finnish kind, I think :)
You can really see how much Taz loves the new kitchen.
Shallow pan fry the plantains in vegetable oil (instead of deep frying) until lightly browned. Then set them onto a plate with some kitchen roll. When they have cooled enough to be handled, give them a slight smash to flatten them out before frying them a second time. Once they are nicely browned and slightly crispy outside, but not burnt, and fluffy tender inside return them to the kitchen roll. Sprinkle a little bit of salt on them and they are ready to serve. They are starchy but should be slightly sweet, almost like sweet potato fries. I'm guessing the air fryer method still needs them to be lightly coated with oil or the air fryer will just dehydrate them instead of actually cooking them.
Moon's "Miso Soup Face" Needs to be a meme 🤣🤣🤣 She went from a young woman to a 90yr old old lady in 0.2 seconds! I love you too!! Another great video!
The plantain was unripe and in my culture (nigerian) is prepared as a pottage or grilled(with spicy sauce) or thin sliced and fried as chips. For it to be fried, it is best when it is ripe. To cut it, you slide the tip of your knife across it then use your hand to open it all the way.
I CANNOT believe that Brazilian food got lower rating than US food. It definitely looked much better.
Also on the topic of being a good lunch lady or not, from my knowledge, the lunch ladies don't make the food, they serve it. (Our food was frozen and was defrosted).
Nah, I'm Swedish and ours definitely made it.
Nah our lunch ladies also make our food and im from britain
in the UK our lunch ladies made our food, so they're probably going off that.
It’s just bc the us food is so similar to what we get in the uk, probably the closest to taz and moons pallet.
The US cooks foods like chicken spaghetti or holiday foods. But chicken nuggets and pizza, those types of things are of course defrosted and warmed.
I have some news about brazilian food, we don't use can beans 😅. And we fry in oil, nor in the air fryer. Probably these two things will make some difference 😂
Just adding, we don't really eat plantains XD but A for effort 😊
CANNED BEANS IS A HUGE NO FOR US FR!! my boyfriend ADORES brazilian beans, he finds it the BEST and in his house they use canned beans so YK. palso i feel like she’s missing frying the garlic too for things 😩😩
Dried beans like you have in Brazil aren't that common in the UK really. Perhaps it's changing back, but it's mostly just canned beans.
And plantains are used in some places, especially as"meat substitute" in some dishes; you'll see it in veggie recipes
Moon scared of Taz's cooking is such a mood.
Hey Taz for the Brazilian one you bought green banana not plantain, plantain is yellow 😁btw plantain is meant to fried in oil not in an air fryer❤
the finnish food you tried was a lot nicer than we're used to here. our school food is often a little tasteless tbh :D and we rarely have any desserts for lunch. also, most of the time there's this thing called "näkkileipä" to go with your food instead of actual bread.
It doesn't really look like a Brazilian dinner, but OMG TAZ your cooking has improved so much! Keep on the amazing work 10/10!! You go GIRL!!!!!
Taz for Plantains you cut along the side then you peel it. You need to oil your hands while preparing it because the starch will stick to your hands. As for the pronunciation it Plan-tain like Mountain
U both are so happy when together! That is some true friendship for life❤
Please research the foods you plan to cook beforehand. Give them a fair chance 😂 Plántanos are delicious and so versatile!
The American lunch looked better than what I got served in my cafeteria by a lot 😂
Same!
I would've been thrilled and shocked if I got something that looked this good😂
school dinners are actually underrated ngl 👀😍
fr my school had tasty food
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I love seeing Moon and Taz together! I striveee to have a friendship like their's one day 😭
To open plantains in my country we usually remove the ends put a slit vertically and peel it or put it in the microwave for a couple of seconds like 10-20 seconds and then peel it. I love plantains 🥹
Finish one looked the best to me - the kind of lunch I would like to eat. I actually am making such beetroot salad quite often. But I use sour cream and a bit of mayonnaise instead of greek yogurt. I did not see if they added pickled cucumber to the salad, but that is one of the most important ingredients in my beetroot salad. It really makes a good contrast with other ingredients. Here is my beetroot salad ingredients: boiled potatoes, boiled carrots, boiled beetroot (slice those all to squares), pickles, red onion (slice both finely), sour cream, mayonnaise, salt, pepper. Yum!
I wish I could be friends with you two irl. Such a comforting duo ❤ love ya taz
I love seeing Moon and you having such a delightful time!
That American meal looks miles better than what I had as a kid. We got a lot of cardboard like pizza, vaguely food shaped patties, and dodgy looking fruit.
In Ireland we could leave at lunch and we used to go get curry chip buttys / taco chips / breakfast rolls etc in the shop beside school lol! School canteen just had like gaujon rolls, sausage rolls, salad rolls and snacks
The growth journey on the channel is so real . Love you guys. 😂❤
I’m really loving the taz and moon content. Super nostalgic 💗
Would love to see another series on school lunches around the world 😊
You should watch how Japanese school lunch is made. Always nice to see Moon .
for the future, most of the stuff in borscht should be fried before boiling like onion, cabbage, beetroot and carrots. that's where you get all the taste. also we usually eat with sour cream
love this friendship honestly
the way moon pronounced borscht is right lol my exes mom use to make it all the time, she put chunks of beef in hers. some people eat it with sour cream too
You did that plantain dirty 😂😂
Usually you’d buy plantain that’s yellow but going a little bit black. That’s when it’s sweet. Then fry in a little oil 🤌🏻🤤
Always love Taz and Moon’s friendship ❤❤❤❤❤
in the netherlands we buy kaasbroodje (a cheese pastry) or frikandelbroodje (a sausage pastry) and thats it 😭
Hi Taz! I am from Finland and been a subscriber for a while now. I really enjoy your content, you are so entertaining. :) About the Finnish school lunch, beetroot salad we don't eat so often, but the pea soup was accurate and the pancakes. However, the proper way to make pea soup is to cook it for 2-3 hours and it contains meat. But you did really well! :)
Your videos are so calming and relaxing.
For plantain you need to coat with oil or deep fry it, otherwise it's dry. The green plantain is a unripe, you need to buy the yellow one and do as previous comment
I love moons straightforwardness in contrast to Taz who seemingly doesn’t want to offend - they balance each other out😂
This is exactly what I did NOT like in the video. :D I felt she did not give it a fair shot. She had decided she did not like that food before she actually tried a bite.
Love seeing moon & taz laughing and joking and jay popping in too 👍
Taz! I love you so much and wish you’d give us a 30 minutes video one day!
I'm sorry Taz, but I'm from Brazil and this is not what is served at schools...but it was a good try. It is, usually, beans, rice and pasta with a cheap protein and some farofa. If it has salad, usually is a vinagrete. No peppers, no bread, no plantain. A waterdowned juice is on the side.
I'm not complaining at all, just want to inform!
Only public schools serves food for the kids, and those schools are the most precarious ones because it is payed by the government and attend to the low income population. Because of that, the government don't invest a lot on those schools and the situation is not so good. That is why, that beautiful plate that you made does not represent what is served for the children here in Brazil.
And in the private schools you have to pay for your food, so usually the food is pretty good but a little expensive, since you're already paying for the school.
Really interesting info
I saw Moo on the train from Cardiff and I was too shy to say hello! But I saw you and wanted to say I think you are super awesome and sweet!
It's been one heck of a journey ❤️❤️
Love you Brooklyn and Bailey❤❤❤
My mom served school lunches to grade school kids. She told me by far the most popular items were pizza and tatar tots. Salad was available but few of the kids touched it.
Taz, use a bottle opener to open your jars... it changed my lift. Just pop it under the lid as if it was a bottle and pop it up, then it is so easy to unscrew!
I liked that the probiotic ad popped before the American school dinner 😉😉
We used to have chocolate filled donuts in school and I really miss them on the daily basis
That plantain ain’t cooked right it has to be golden brown 😢
As a Mexican Panamanian, you were supposed to cut it with a knife to peel it open. Once you have it peeled you warm them up in oil and when they are done you take them out to smash them from there you put them back in to give it a golden crispy texture. Now what you got is called a patacones.
Oh one other thing once you open them you got to cut then 1 inch to smash it.
Ramadan Mubarak to those observing ❤
As an American I can say that what you guys had looks so much better then ours😂
Borscht and cabbage takes me back to my time in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Russia 🇷🇺 and Eastern Europe 🇷🇴 where I trained and worked as a professional ballerina 🩰 😋
Taz: hates cooking in her old home
Also Taz: moves home and immediately makes 5 meals
😂😂😂
Also anyone else love the feeling like Moon and Taz are one of your friends?
Plantain is easy, cut top and bottom and cut along the edge. Your meant to steam it. It's more of a type of potatoe category. Miso didn't taste of anything when I tried it.
that plantain was so unripe, i do like green plaintains sometimes but they tastce very very different to ripe ones lol
Taz, you’re not supposed to cook the green plantain on the air fryer 😭 and those green plantains are for tostones. the yellow plantains are for amarillos which is what you tried to do with the green plantain. i screamed love this so much honestly
Those plantains looked scary. I don't see how you were able to take a bite of it. 😂 The apple and beet salad sounds kind of good, with some fresh chives and dill. 😋 The pancakes looked good! I've never had thin pancakes before, besides crepes. This was interesting. Thanks for sharing. ❤
"Wanna hold hands?" hahaha love your friendship
Sweet dessert only once a week in my school in Finland but no pancakes
Lol I went to high school with them, it was willows high school in Cardiff....can confirm the food was lush there but very unhealthy lol 😂
Isn't that the same school that where Educating Cardiff was filmed? That's so cool!! 😊
@@kirstiepea yep lol that was after we left
I already want a part 2 of this 😶🌫
the korean school lunch needs justice cuz it's not at all representative😭😭😭😭
I love these 2 together!!
We had same great cookies and great warm baguettes
Omg so hard being Brazilian and seeing you cook like that HAHAHA ❤
Thank you for including Finland ❤
love your videos
that plantain rawwwww bb girl.
Beautiful taz and moon always love your videos you are an amazing team love you taz always enjoy your videos
Fun video. Love a vid with your friend , Moon. She’s awesome
I love seeing your friendship
Amazing
Thanks to the air fryer industry for sponsoring this video. I'm gonna buy 3 of them right after.
I can't stop watching your videos Taz. You are absolutely amazing.
i love all videos of taz and moon
3:07 love that moment lmao
Wow, you ladies went to high school?! And here's me, just going to a bog-standard comp 😕
& lol, I wish Brazil was this spicy. Most places offer chilli on the side, but nothing in the dish. And (in the part I live in) they seem generally averse to seasoning: sometimes they have some nice stuff (e.g. in beans) but mostly so little there's hardly much taste 😔
In the USA we call them school lunches. School starts at 7 and ends at 2
love this duo!!
nice video guys, intetesting how your palate becomes use to certain foods
At 1:50 when you tried to spell it again that was so hilarious 😂😂😂😂
Ur my favorite youtuber these days
Plantain is delicious when it’s well cooked. When you put it in the air fryer, it just dries out.
Oh girl. It was awesome that she tried new things but the tofu probably needed to be seasoned and the plantains needed more prep
Were the cookies you had from La Boulangerie (order from Brakes to have a look)! They were the ones we had at school and I couldn't find them until this year
A challenge for next one... do a Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 school lunch. We have various menus you could do a whole video just for that. (We do breakfast too) Mind you we do breakfast too. @Taz
1:50 The most beautiful geek ♥️🤓 She looking wonderful with outfit
The plantains 🥲🥲🥲
As a Korean, I would say that does not look like any school food I've been served before😅😅, but you get A for appreciation and effort Taz!!
As a finnish person I gotta say that they really had the most random combo of foods is the example, would not recommend. Good effort of making it tho😊
I’m Brazilian and Portuguese and can tell you we don’t use paprika (Hungary 🇭🇺) or jalapeños (Mexico 🇲🇽). We always have farofa with the plantains rice and beans. Never seen what you made in my life except for the garlic 🧄.
🇧🇷🇵🇹🩰
The fact that she made the meals, takes away from the whole point of tasting food from other cultures. There is a lot of room for error. It isnt giving the foods a fair shot.
Yes, the seasoning for the Brazilian food was not something that I would use to make daily meals. Normally we fry chopped garlic and onions in a little bit of oil. These plus salt is the basic seasoning for almost everything. If any pepper is used, it would be back pepper. Most people in Brazil aren’t used to spicy food. But I think that it’s really nice that she tried to make Brazilian food. I’m happy that she is making an effort to know a little more about my country
@@sandraalmeida1772 100% o seu sobrenome é igual ao da minha mãe!
@@DivineDianne exactly and she got the Brazilian food so wrong!
Yayyyy Taz is back with another video 🤭
I don’t think I know a single person that doesn’t rave about his high school cookies. My school had amazing ones, people would fight over them 😅
The huge chunks of herbs and garlic on the chicken 😂😂😂
Back at it again with the great content jeeeeze Taz *pop* noice 👌 😊❤