shakshuka - although depends on what you mean by breakfast. I can totally have it as the first meal of the day as I often don't feel hungry in the morning. And I guess that's similar to what eva made except I really like the cumin and anise
Apart from breakfast, eggs find a lot of space in Italian cuisine. One of the differences between Americans and us Italians is that all this that we saw in this video, Americans would very happily eat it for breakfast.
My mother was from Calabria. During summertime when we were kids and had lots of time in the swimming pool she would bake her cheese sandwiches: Agnes Latino’s cheese sandwiches by poolside: Chopped hardboiled eggs…(5-8) Grated cheddar cheese (lots) maybe 2 lbs Minced rehydrated onions (not fresh she said too oniony) 2 tbsp Tomato paste 1 can small Chopped black olives Minced green bell pepper (cut very small) Dried basil Small fresh bread rolls cut in half, then mixture of the above added in bread rolls and baked wrapped individually in tin foil. …oh so good! then jump back in the pool. Sounds weird but delicious.
Not about eggs, but about Italian breakfasts. I've visited Italy several times and decided I really like their ideas about breakfast - a little coffee (it's before noon, so cappuccino is OK) and a pastry. Start the day on the light side, with a sugar and caffeine boost!
I think this also depends on the fact that dinner is usually later than in the US or Britain: on average around 8/8:30 PM, so there's less of a need to fill up after the night.
Eva mi hai sbloccato un ricordo, la mia nonna faceva spesso le uva in funghetto, ed erano buonissime... se non ricordo male faceva tutto come te, ma alla fine oltre ad aggiungere il prezzemolo, sopra le uova dopo averle cosparse di salsa di pomodoro dava una spolverata di grana, che chiudendo il coperchio col semplice calore anche a fuoco spento si ammorbidiva. buonissime, grazie per avermi fatto ricordare il tutto
Fridays during lent we usually eat eggs in sauce. My mother in law from Calabria introduced me to them. We cook the eggs until hard and enjoy with some great bread. One of my favorite.
In our Greek cuisine we have a very similar dish like the first one. There are two ways to make them, the first one you scramble the eggs in the tomato sauce along with some pieces of feta so that it melts all together. Or like Eva did you crack the egg and let it cook in the tomato sauce. Let's not forget the crusty bread.
My Sephardic grandma taught me to make ovos con tomat. Stewed tomatoes, s and p, poach eggs, put feta and black olives, cover, cook, eat. One day I changed it, instead of feta and olives I put a good quality French brie on the eggs. Everyone goes crazy for this. Of course both with lots of bread. Delicious 😊
Since I love "well done" omlettes (and almost NOTHING else that's "eggy"), I just LOVE the concept of Uova in Trippa alla Romana -- and it looks so EASY! Especially for Lent, this recipe makes it MUCH easier to observe on Fridays.
in MIlan we call them busecca matta (in dialect "busecca" means trippa "matta" means crazy but also fake). Except it isn't much of a lent dish because we add pancetta too. (And except that most Italians don't care about lent at all.)
But I believe that everything we saw in this video, many Americans would gladly eat them for breakfast. Most dishes that include eggs, Americans generally eat them for breakfast. While we Italians eat these things during lunch or dinner.
@@aris1956 Maybe, but hard boiled eggs we actually don't eat for breakfast, at least I never did. The reason the first dish stands out to me is because a sunny side up egg is iconic on an American breakfast plate.
0:13 I do not know where this is going, and I understand that my feeble attempts are just that but: in 1990 I prepared Eggs in Purgatory with fried polenta. It is a special memory to me, because I had (I thought) come up with it myself. No lie. I heard the phrase, “eggs in Purgatory”, and I guessed, at what it should be.🤗I made a somewhat chunky, spicy fresh tomato sauce, and poached the eggs within. I served it upon fried, herbed polenta, with finely grated Parmigiano Reggiano. The runny yolk pulls it all together.😋😋😋🔥
Eggs are great to nake a quick secondo! Once at lunch there were a bunch of people I wasn't expecting, but with a potato, some onion cheese and eggs I could make a quick frittata.
I found you guys a week ago and now have watched more than 50 of your videos.. Wanted to even book a Pasta Grammer tour but everything for this year is sold out :( Will wait for next year Thanks for all recipes and the entertainment :)
Hi from Tuscany! Also my great grandma used to make "uova in trippa" but she called it "frittata trippata" and sometimes she put on top some fresh pecorino cheese and she finished cooking the "frittata" under the grill in the oven. It was delicious ❤❤
I have been vegan for the past five years. The two things I miss? Eggs and cheese. I loved hard boiled eggs, particularly deviled eggs, and very, very, sharp cheese. I admit I have had some excellent aged cheese a couple of times in the last few years. I'm not sure if I can eat eggs, even though I miss them, all as a stage of life of a being sort of thing. Thanks for showing the possibilities. 😊
I just bought fresh eggs yesterday Uova con Cipolle Sponsali this one I'll try I don't like leaks much,but I have a green onions in the yard I might put a bit of shallots and chilli pepper in it,Im with harper this Would make a good breakfast with some sourdough I'm gonna try all of them, I needed more egg ideas
You are correct Harper! The founder of Kelloggs coined the phrase as a marketing slogan; "The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day can be traced back to the late 19th century. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a physician and nutritionist, believed that eating a healthy breakfast was essential for good health". 👍 Good memory 😊
Well, when I was a kid my grandma would often prepare for breakfast egg yolk and sugar gently cooked into a cream with either Marsala (zabaione) or coffee. So at least some Italian have eggs for breakfast!
My father’s family made a baked macaroni with salami, peas and hardboiled eggs. I love it. I’m making a quick marinara and we have prosciutto so I threw some in. I made some almost hard boiled eggs this morning. I just had this urge to throw them in the sauce. Must be in my blood because I didn’t know people put eggs in the sauce all the time. I thought it just went in my family’s baked macaroni dish.
I too would love to see a video of what IS typical for breakfast in Italy! :) We know it's not eggs - so enlighten us with what you do eat. Thanks, you two, another very enjoyable episode!
It would be an interesting idea for an informative video. Italian breakfast is usually light and sweet. Obviously it depends from house to house but the big classics are coffee with or without milk with biscuits or a pastry for adults. Fette biscottate (I think they are known as "rusk" in the USA) spread with jam are another common substitute for biscuits, or should I say we're, because nowadays they seem to have become a little old fashioned. For kids, cereals with milk have been becoming more common.
My grandmother always cooked scrambled eggs for breakfast( and soft boiled eggs for me). Maybe because they were farmers so they needed a stronger breakfast. We live in the Northern part of Italy.
Wow! The egg recipes were super easy. For me, because they are similar to other middle-eastern/asian egg recipes: Persian shakshouka, Chinese breakfast tomato-egg, and Indian boiled egg curry.
And then there are the wonderful roman frittate: with zucchini, or onions, or artichokes, or broccoletti. And the frittata di pasta, a sort of pie of eggs with the leftovers of pasta of the day before.
My mom is from Friuli and did those "Uova al funghetto" a lot of times for me, with a small twist since we live in Tropea, a bit of chili pepper or a bit of n'duja in the sauce xD
I think many Italians keep their slim and youthful appearance because they don't subscribe to the traditional English or American breakfast Most of the Italians I know make do with a cup of expresso. This basically extends the fast from the day before and burns calories and fat. As for my favorite Egg dish for Lunch or dinner a Spinach and Egg Quiche, tops my list it is also a good meal for Lent.
I'd say it's more portion size than anything else. Eggs are low in calories and they keep you full and satisfied. Now ofc that depends on how you prepare it. A poached egg(my favorite) is not the same as a fried egg
A traditional English breakfast has 800 + calories an American breakfast has about 700. Coffee without cream or sugar is essentially water. This of cause would add to the daily calorie count but It has been found that Fasting for 15 hours has a positive effect on maintaining weight and blood sugar levels. ( Epoch Times) . Weight gain may be halted to some extent because of the length of the daily fast otherwise the higher carb diet of Italy and fat intake of France would produce a population of above-average weight gain it does not. France is another country that tends to have a very light breakfast. @@brunoserafimovski1903
Very slowly add scrambled eggs to a pot of sugo. Just a slight amount at a time, so it cooks immediately. Definitely do not pour all of the eggs in at once. Eat with Italian bread! Delicious!!!
That Uova in Trippa looks tasty. A bit like Moroccan Shaksuka or Huevos Rancheros. It is interesting and amazing how different cultures around the world came up with similar recipes with nuances giving it the specific cultural taste.
Hi Eva and Harper thank you Eva for sharing these recipets they lookndelicious even though I am not a fan of mint in mynfood but it all looks delicious. I personally am a eggs for breakfast and dinner type a person I love all the eggs hard boild scrambled fried etc. I will eat for lunch as well I love and enjoy them more for beeakfast and dinner. Thank you again for these delicious recipets. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I seldom eat eggs before noon anymore unless they are boiled and in salad.. that was my breakfast yesterday! Salad with boiled eggs. Today 😂 I had Baked Beans 🫘 and Italian Bread for breakfast. I sometimes have fresh fruit and ice cream for breakfast.. I think the most important thing is to just eat breakfast! At my age the menu is whatever I happen to want. 🤣 Thank you Eva and Harper.
These all looked delicious and I would love to try them. Gotta be honest, though; as a half Italian-American, I would eat any of these at any time of the day, including breakfast. (Sorry, Eva.) 😅❤
I love eggs with tomatoes. So,👍🏼🤟🏼🖖🏼✌🏼 The "breakfast is the most important meal of yhe day" is because it is supposed to be the breaking of the fasting that takes place after an 8hour sleep which is subjective because it can be linch time or supper time. Its just the moment that your body gets it nutritional first eats . Is how it's been explained.
I'm making this for breakfast and I'll add some country potatoes. Lots of cultures eat eggs for breakfast, and I agree with Harper that it IS the most important meal of the day. Having protein in the morning will help get you thru lunch without feeling too hungry. I would love for you all to make some Southern US foods for breakfast: cheesy grits and eggs, sausage gravy with biscuits, etc. Your Italian recipes are great, but we also love to see Eva enjoying other cultural foods. Does she like sushi or Korean food?
Two soft-boiled eggs, peeled and put into a glas, maybe a bit of butter, definitely some salt, if you have them some finely cut parsley or other fresh herbs, then spoon out the eggs and eat with any kind of bread, whatever is your favourite. Could eat that every day for breakfast. Or as a snack. Or late dinner. Will try all of the dishes Eva made. And then I'll follow some recommendations from the comments.
I'm not one to eat breakfast as I don't typically get hungry until around noon but I love eggs. They are one of, if not my favorite single ingredient. If you've never tried them, Cantonese style scrambled eggs are amazing. They have a unique flavor and a much silkier texture than American style scrambled eggs.
True enough; as a general rule, Italians do not have savoury breakfast, eggs included. Except for one traditional breakfast item; Soft boiled eggs, which in Sicily is called, "ovu cirusu" (waxy egg).
During the Great Depression my Grandpa would tell my Mom & her sisters to eat a good breakfast because you don't know when your next meal might be, it is the most important meal of the day.
I'm spanish, eggs for breakfast is not really a thing for us either. I don't even know whether we have much of a breakfast tradition really, pan con tomate, a bocadillo perhaps, but for the most part breakfast will be sweet, a coffee with something quick or we may even skip it all together (I can't speak for everyone, but I'd say is quite generalised). But honestly, regardless, I've come to appreciate eggs for breakfast, or hearty savoury breakfasts from other cultures. Starting your day with eggs, good protein in general and veggies like this would probably be the way to go for health as well. I'm sorry Eva, but I might make this deficious meal for breakfast ❤😅
I love eggs for breakfast (scrambled or omelet or eggs Benedict), but often have pancakes, French toast, waffles, cereal (Frosted Mini-Wheats, Crunch Berries, and even the much maligned Grape-Nuts), oatmeal w/ milk & brown sugar, chocolate cream of wheat/farina (CoCo Wheats), biscuits & gravy, chicken fried steak (which usually comes w/ eggs and hash browns), toast or English muffin w/ jelly/jam or peanut butter or cinnamon sugar, Chocolate Fudge Pop Tarts, breakfast sandwiches/burritos (that do usually have egg, though), cinnamon or sticky buns...or various other pastries/coffee cakes/muffins, or sometimes just a yogurt.
OK Harper. I'm sorry... but my absolute FAVORITE breakfast is a cheeseburger from Steak n Shake! LOL. I don't get them anymore, since I've moved to Arizona from Indiana. But my breakfast of choice is always a cheeseburger!
As a brit i love a cooked breakfast and have eggs in one form or another every morning. i now live in italy and much as i try to live the italian lifestyle i just can’t get to grips with the ubiquitous sweet pastries and biscuits which seem to be the only option here, so far i’ve failed to find any savoury italian breakfast alternative with the exception of the typical buffet style continental breakfast served in hotels which i don’t believe has much if anything to do with Italian cuisine… maybe a video on savoury breakfasts if such a thing exists.
The sweet breakfast is a relatively recent thing in Italy, but in the past (until the second half of '900) breakfast wasn't even a thing: the first meal of the day consisted usually of left-overs of the dinner; milk was used only where it was immediately near at hand, i.e. in farms where cows were bred, that usually were in the north of Italy; there could be also a distribution of milk every morning in the cities near such farms for the very few who could afford the service. In any case, milk was for children, not for adults. Coffee was a luxury product and was served just in wealthy families at the end of every lunch, in middle-class families only at the end of special lunches (for holidays or anniversaries or ceremonies) or for visiting guests of special importance. Cookies were for dessert at the end of festive meals or for said guests in the afternoon. Not for breakfast: even when milk was used for breakfast, it was bread that went in it, and just the wealthy put some butter and/or jam on it. Until the 60s Italy was a very poor and mostly rural country, and most of the people worked in agriculture, where you had to get up VERY early and your "breakfast" came when the mothers of family, after tending to the beasts in the farm and to the very elderly and the very young in the house, brought the first meal of the day to the men (and sometimes the younger women) in the fields, after several hours of work; so you couldn't content yourself with milk and bread, you needed something more filling: bread and wine and cheese, the left-overs of the dinner (soup or pasta, depending on if in the north or in the south), for the more lucky salame and prosciutto, maybe some fruits, if in season. The "italian breakfast" is something born from the industrialisation of the country in the '60s, when also the agriculture became industrial and several food industries were born, or ancient almost artisanal food factories expanded and modernised. Milk began being produced in much more quantity, and the new fridges and refrigerated trucks could maintain it fresh for longer, so it could be transported in every city and conserved at home; and the better quality of life and economic possibilities of a large part of the population could afford to buy a lot of fridges and milk it in larger quantities. Biscuits were produced industrially, coffee was imported in larger quantity thanks to the money of the Marshall Plan and the commercial deals with South-America. Most of the population wasn't working in agriculture anymore, but in offices, factories, services; the working hours were different, so many could afford to have breakfast at home, or to pay for it in the bars, because a lot of people left the countryside and went to live in the cities. The sweet breakfast with coffee and milk and cookies and croissant was a luxury that everyone could afford, at last, and that everyone did afford, almost as a reaction to the poverty of the past.
I happen to love eggs in every form: heat a can of chili to a slow boil; drop one or two eggs into the hot chili, and stir them in. They cook within a minute or two. If you are reduced to eating ramen noodles: cook the noodles as directed, drain them, season them, and finally, drop in a couple of eggs and a little salt. You have turned a dish that is otherwise devoid of any nutrition into a delicious dish high in protein.
I cook my ramen with some frozen veggies, mix the broth as directed, then add an egg directly to the broth and continue cooking it and spooning broth over the top until just shy of soft boiled. I used the same preparation to make the egg from the zuppa video! Delicious and creamy
Have you guys checked out Rosie Maio’s channel? She records what her Nonna who lives in Calabria cooks when she visits.. It’s so interesting and I wish I knew more about the different regions because I was interested in knowing if that was a Calabria way of cooking or just that specific family. They seem To live next to all their favorite shops and so they get fresh seafood and pastries every day. Is that typical to live so close to everything? So jealous
Had rice+lentils in tomato sauce leftovers. Refried them and broke a couple eggs on top. You can make these dishes with anything viscous/granular enough!
Omg! Please try grilled whole eggs! They are like hard boiled eggs, but like if hard boiled eggs were the American version, and the whole grilled ones were the Italian version 😂 (Not knocking hard boiled eggs, I could eat them every day of the week! But grilled is OUTSTANDING 😋)
that thing you said in the end, about Breakfast being the most important meal of the day being invented by a cereal company is true. The founder of Kellog's first used the phrase in a health magazine in 1917 and it sort of became an accepted fact ever since.
But it's also true that it's the most important meal of the day scientifically. It lays the basis for energy for the rest of the day. Lunch is second best and should actually be the hot meal and in the evening, dinner, should be the lightest, since there's not a lot of activity after that. It's not just an 'accepted' fact anymore.
If you're doing physical labour, it's definitely important. Most people don't so it's not that necessary anymore. And many can get by without breakfast
@@Ash_Wen-li tbh i work out very intensely every morning and i never have breakfast. If it happens that i do, i feel so bloated and heavy when exercising. It's much better on an empty stomach imo.
In most of Europe, eggs are more a lunch type or dinner type dish. Save for the UK and Ireland where they are still served for breakfast. Me, I eat them any time of day. 😊
so do you use mint or mentuccia in the Trippa dish? My great-grandmother kept that in her garden; I have planted a few seeds this spring and hope to have a good plant or three to use all summer.
Do you have a favorite non-breakfast egg dish? Let us know if we're missing out on something yummy!
Classique french omelette can be eaten at any meal and be prepped with anything you want in it.
The atene cookies Eva mentioned before, found them in an Italian store, just up the country from me
shakshuka - although depends on what you mean by breakfast. I can totally have it as the first meal of the day as I often don't feel hungry in the morning. And I guess that's similar to what eva made except I really like the cumin and anise
Tamagoyaki
Una bella frittata con parmigiano.
Apart from breakfast, eggs find a lot of space in Italian cuisine. One of the differences between Americans and us Italians is that all this that we saw in this video, Americans would very happily eat it for breakfast.
My mother was from Calabria. During summertime when we were kids and had lots of time in the swimming pool she would bake her cheese sandwiches:
Agnes Latino’s cheese sandwiches by poolside:
Chopped hardboiled eggs…(5-8)
Grated cheddar cheese (lots) maybe 2 lbs
Minced rehydrated onions (not fresh she said too oniony) 2 tbsp
Tomato paste 1 can small
Chopped black olives
Minced green bell pepper (cut very small)
Dried basil
Small fresh bread rolls cut in half, then mixture of the above added in bread rolls and baked wrapped individually in tin foil. …oh so good! then jump back in the pool. Sounds weird but delicious.
My grandmother was from Calabria and her name was Agnese too ÷)
Not about eggs, but about Italian breakfasts. I've visited Italy several times and decided I really like their ideas about breakfast - a little coffee (it's before noon, so cappuccino is OK) and a pastry. Start the day on the light side, with a sugar and caffeine boost!
I think this also depends on the fact that dinner is usually later than in the US or Britain: on average around 8/8:30 PM, so there's less of a need to fill up after the night.
I’m eating two fried eggs on buttered toast with melted cheddar as I watch this and sip my coffee. ‘Murica.
Skip the toast and you have an actually healthy breakfast.
Criminy I waste my sleep watching your show you two are talented.
Eva mi hai sbloccato un ricordo, la mia nonna faceva spesso le uva in funghetto, ed erano buonissime... se non ricordo male faceva tutto come te, ma alla fine oltre ad aggiungere il prezzemolo, sopra le uova dopo averle cosparse di salsa di pomodoro dava una spolverata di grana, che chiudendo il coperchio col semplice calore anche a fuoco spento si ammorbidiva. buonissime, grazie per avermi fatto ricordare il tutto
My bride and I must know! - How does a gorgeous young Italian lady who is such an excellent chef stay so svelte? Many thanks for all you both do! 🤠
i love eggs and i love leeks - i will definitely try that recipe.
And Tacos!
Fridays during lent we usually eat eggs in sauce. My mother in law from Calabria introduced me to them. We cook the eggs until hard and enjoy with some great bread. One of my favorite.
In our Greek cuisine we have a very similar dish like the first one. There are two ways to make them, the first one you scramble the eggs in the tomato sauce along with some pieces of feta so that it melts all together. Or like Eva did you crack the egg and let it cook in the tomato sauce. Let's not forget the crusty bread.
My Sephardic grandma taught me to make ovos con tomat. Stewed tomatoes, s and p, poach eggs, put feta and black olives, cover, cook, eat. One day I changed it, instead of feta and olives I put a good quality French brie on the eggs. Everyone goes crazy for this. Of course both with lots of bread. Delicious 😊
As someone who has chickens. I have eaten eggs for every meal of the day. Thank you for the new ideas.
Since I love "well done" omlettes (and almost NOTHING else that's "eggy"), I just LOVE the concept of Uova in Trippa alla Romana -- and it looks so EASY! Especially for Lent, this recipe makes it MUCH easier to observe on Fridays.
in MIlan we call them busecca matta (in dialect "busecca" means trippa "matta" means crazy but also fake). Except it isn't much of a lent dish because we add pancetta too. (And except that most Italians don't care about lent at all.)
I'm so making that first dish for breakfast, hahaha!
But I believe that everything we saw in this video, many Americans would gladly eat them for breakfast. Most dishes that include eggs, Americans generally eat them for breakfast. While we Italians eat these things during lunch or dinner.
My new weekend breakfast dish!
@@aris1956 Maybe, but hard boiled eggs we actually don't eat for breakfast, at least I never did. The reason the first dish stands out to me is because a sunny side up egg is iconic on an American breakfast plate.
Since I don't eat traditional breakfast, I eat more of a brunch, these look great for me.
0:13 I do not know where this is going, and I understand that my feeble attempts are just that but: in 1990 I prepared Eggs in Purgatory with fried polenta. It is a special memory to me, because I had (I thought) come up with it myself. No lie. I heard the phrase, “eggs in Purgatory”, and I guessed, at what it should be.🤗I made a somewhat chunky, spicy fresh tomato sauce, and poached the eggs within. I served it upon fried, herbed polenta, with finely grated Parmigiano Reggiano. The runny yolk pulls it all together.😋😋😋🔥
We would medium boil the eggs.
You've given me two ideas. Grazie
Well I’m having brunch of leftover basmati rice with an over easy egg on top. Salt and pepper and that’s it. Simplicity and delicious!
This girl is a gem.A natural.You guys rock!
Eggs are an everytime food! I made myself carbonara for breakfast yesterday. Pasta, bacon(no guanciale here) & eggs. You can never go wrong with eggs.
I love funny eggs, I like the first recipe with leeks, eggs and tomatoes 😻
Eggs are great to nake a quick secondo!
Once at lunch there were a bunch of people I wasn't expecting, but with a potato, some onion cheese and eggs I could make a quick frittata.
That's hospitality! 👍
Made the tripe inspired egg and my family loves it! It will become part of our repertoire
I found you guys a week ago and now have watched more than 50 of your videos..
Wanted to even book a Pasta Grammer tour but everything for this year is sold out :(
Will wait for next year
Thanks for all recipes and the entertainment :)
Hi from Tuscany! Also my great grandma used to make "uova in trippa" but she called it "frittata trippata" and sometimes she put on top some fresh pecorino cheese and she finished cooking the "frittata" under the grill in the oven. It was delicious ❤❤
I have been vegan for the past five years. The two things I miss? Eggs and cheese. I loved hard boiled eggs, particularly deviled eggs, and very, very, sharp cheese. I admit I have had some excellent aged cheese a couple of times in the last few years. I'm not sure if I can eat eggs, even though I miss them, all as a stage of life of a being sort of thing. Thanks for showing the possibilities. 😊
I’m an egg any time any moment kind of person, and I’d love to try all these dishes.
I just bought fresh eggs yesterday
Uova con Cipolle Sponsali this one I'll try I don't like leaks much,but I have a green onions in the yard I might put a bit of shallots and chilli pepper in it,Im with harper this Would make a good breakfast with some sourdough
I'm gonna try all of them, I needed more egg ideas
You are correct Harper!
The founder of Kelloggs coined the phrase as a marketing slogan;
"The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day can be traced back to the late 19th century. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a physician and nutritionist, believed that eating a healthy breakfast was essential for good health". 👍
Good memory 😊
I eat beef soup Texas chili and hamburgers for breakfast.
Eggs pancakes and bacon for supper sometimes.
Nothing better for lunch than well toasted Tuscan bread, thick tomato sauce and a fried egg on top. Sprinkle of parm and you had me at eggs for lunch?
Well, when I was a kid my grandma would often prepare for breakfast egg yolk and sugar gently cooked into a cream with either Marsala (zabaione) or coffee. So at least some Italian have eggs for breakfast!
Some people even had soft-boiled egg for breakfast...
Nonna! 🤤👍😍
Yes, "zabaione" cream is an excellent way to eat eggs for breakfast for us italians Italians not used to eating salty for breakfast.
BRAVO !! BRAVO !! I REALLY ENJOYED THIS EPISODE !! : - )
Shakshuka is an Egyptian breakfast recipe
All love from Egypt ❤
Bacon & Eggs for Breakfast, you can't go wrong! 😋
Yumm! I eat eggs twice a month and these recipes will definitely be on my to-do list ❤
Uova in funghetto sembra facile da fare. Lo proverò certamente.
A cheeseburger for breakfast is my oldest friend’s favorite😂❤
My father’s family made a baked macaroni with salami, peas and hardboiled eggs. I love it. I’m making a quick marinara and we have prosciutto so I threw some in. I made some almost hard boiled eggs this morning. I just had this urge to throw them in the sauce. Must be in my blood because I didn’t know people put eggs in the sauce all the time. I thought it just went in my family’s baked macaroni dish.
Love listening Ava speak! Beautiful accent!
Eva
The first dish is similar to shakshouka or menemem (as it is known in Turkey). A vegetable stew with eggs on top.
I too would love to see a video of what IS typical for breakfast in Italy! :) We know it's not eggs - so enlighten us with what you do eat. Thanks, you two, another very enjoyable episode!
It would be an interesting idea for an informative video. Italian breakfast is usually light and sweet. Obviously it depends from house to house but the big classics are coffee with or without milk with biscuits or a pastry for adults. Fette biscottate (I think they are known as "rusk" in the USA) spread with jam are another common substitute for biscuits, or should I say we're, because nowadays they seem to have become a little old fashioned. For kids, cereals with milk have been becoming more common.
Peppers and eggs is one of my favorite egg dishes...as is or in a sandwich made with great crusty italuan bread.
My grandmother always cooked scrambled eggs for breakfast( and soft boiled eggs for me). Maybe because they were farmers so they needed a stronger breakfast. We live in the Northern part of Italy.
Thanks for these fantastic egg recipes I am keen to try
Wow! The egg recipes were super easy. For me, because they are similar to other middle-eastern/asian egg recipes: Persian shakshouka, Chinese breakfast tomato-egg, and Indian boiled egg curry.
And then there are the wonderful roman frittate: with zucchini, or onions, or artichokes, or broccoletti. And the frittata di pasta, a sort of pie of eggs with the leftovers of pasta of the day before.
I am very inspired! I am a vegetarian so these are great for me! XThank you so much you two are adorable ❤❤
My mom is from Friuli and did those "Uova al funghetto" a lot of times for me, with a small twist since we live in Tropea, a bit of chili pepper or a bit of n'duja in the sauce xD
I love this channel.
Polpettone. Loved it growing up.
I think many Italians keep their slim and youthful appearance because they don't subscribe to the traditional English or American breakfast Most of the Italians I know make do with a cup of expresso. This basically extends the fast from the day before and burns calories and fat. As for my favorite Egg dish for Lunch or dinner a Spinach and Egg Quiche, tops my list it is also a good meal for Lent.
I'd say it's more portion size than anything else. Eggs are low in calories and they keep you full and satisfied. Now ofc that depends on how you prepare it. A poached egg(my favorite) is not the same as a fried egg
A traditional English breakfast has 800 + calories an American breakfast has about 700. Coffee without cream or sugar is essentially water. This of cause would add to the daily calorie count but It has been found that Fasting for 15 hours has a positive effect on maintaining weight and blood sugar levels. ( Epoch Times) . Weight gain may be halted to some extent because of the length of the daily fast otherwise the higher carb diet of Italy and fat intake of France would produce a population of above-average weight gain it does not. France is another country that tends to have a very light breakfast. @@brunoserafimovski1903
Very slowly add scrambled eggs to a pot of sugo. Just a slight amount at a time, so it cooks immediately. Definitely do not pour all of the eggs in at once. Eat with Italian bread! Delicious!!!
That Uova in Trippa looks tasty. A bit like Moroccan Shaksuka or Huevos Rancheros. It is interesting and amazing how different cultures around the world came up with similar recipes with nuances giving it the specific cultural taste.
Love eggs for breakfast and also could eat them lunch or dinner
Hi Eva and Harper thank you Eva for sharing these recipets they lookndelicious even though I am not a fan of mint in mynfood but it all looks delicious. I personally am a eggs for breakfast and dinner type a person I love all the eggs hard boild scrambled fried etc. I will eat for lunch as well I love and enjoy them more for beeakfast and dinner. Thank you again for these delicious recipets. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I have never seen this channel before, but I am here for that hair. Goodness gracious, I love that hair.
Eggs are everything
I seldom eat eggs before noon anymore unless they are boiled and in salad.. that was my breakfast yesterday! Salad with boiled eggs. Today 😂 I had Baked Beans 🫘 and Italian Bread for breakfast. I sometimes have fresh fruit and ice cream for breakfast.. I think the most important thing is to just eat breakfast! At my age the menu is whatever I happen to want. 🤣 Thank you Eva and Harper.
These all looked delicious and I would love to try them. Gotta be honest, though; as a half Italian-American, I would eat any of these at any time of the day, including breakfast. (Sorry, Eva.) 😅❤
Another egg-cellent video. I always directly want to get into the kitchen and try some recipes out. Thank you for the entertaining information.
I’m going to eat all of those for breakfast.
I love eggs with tomatoes. So,👍🏼🤟🏼🖖🏼✌🏼
The "breakfast is the most important meal of yhe day" is because it is supposed to be the breaking of the fasting that takes place after an 8hour sleep which is subjective because it can be linch time or supper time. Its just the moment that your body gets it nutritional first eats . Is how it's been explained.
I'm making this for breakfast and I'll add some country potatoes. Lots of cultures eat eggs for breakfast, and I agree with Harper that it IS the most important meal of the day. Having protein in the morning will help get you thru lunch without feeling too hungry. I would love for you all to make some Southern US foods for breakfast: cheesy grits and eggs, sausage gravy with biscuits, etc. Your Italian recipes are great, but we also love to see Eva enjoying other cultural foods. Does she like sushi or Korean food?
Two soft-boiled eggs, peeled and put into a glas, maybe a bit of butter, definitely some salt, if you have them some finely cut parsley or other fresh herbs, then spoon out the eggs and eat with any kind of bread, whatever is your favourite. Could eat that every day for breakfast. Or as a snack. Or late dinner.
Will try all of the dishes Eva made. And then I'll follow some recommendations from the comments.
Schoolhouse Rock told me in the 1970’s that breakfast did not have to be sugary cereal. I never forgot.🤗🤗🤗
Yuuuuuuum when are we going to have breakfast together?
Soon!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Vincenzo's Plate!!! Love your videos. Would love to see another collab
Breakfast foods are whatever your hungry for.
I'm not one to eat breakfast as I don't typically get hungry until around noon but I love eggs. They are one of, if not my favorite single ingredient. If you've never tried them, Cantonese style scrambled eggs are amazing. They have a unique flavor and a much silkier texture than American style scrambled eggs.
True enough; as a general rule, Italians do not have savoury breakfast, eggs included.
Except for one traditional breakfast item;
Soft boiled eggs, which in Sicily is called, "ovu cirusu" (waxy egg).
During the Great Depression my Grandpa would tell my Mom & her sisters to eat a good breakfast because you don't know when your next meal might be, it is the most important meal of the day.
You just gave me some lunch and dinner ideas for my eggs! Graci!
I'm spanish, eggs for breakfast is not really a thing for us either. I don't even know whether we have much of a breakfast tradition really, pan con tomate, a bocadillo perhaps, but for the most part breakfast will be sweet, a coffee with something quick or we may even skip it all together (I can't speak for everyone, but I'd say is quite generalised). But honestly, regardless, I've come to appreciate eggs for breakfast, or hearty savoury breakfasts from other cultures. Starting your day with eggs, good protein in general and veggies like this would probably be the way to go for health as well. I'm sorry Eva, but I might make this deficious meal for breakfast ❤😅
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I love eggs for breakfast (scrambled or omelet or eggs Benedict), but often have pancakes, French toast, waffles, cereal (Frosted Mini-Wheats, Crunch Berries, and even the much maligned Grape-Nuts), oatmeal w/ milk & brown sugar, chocolate cream of wheat/farina (CoCo Wheats), biscuits & gravy, chicken fried steak (which usually comes w/ eggs and hash browns), toast or English muffin w/ jelly/jam or peanut butter or cinnamon sugar, Chocolate Fudge Pop Tarts, breakfast sandwiches/burritos (that do usually have egg, though), cinnamon or sticky buns...or various other pastries/coffee cakes/muffins, or sometimes just a yogurt.
Is that all ?
Can't wait to make this for breakfast!
Thank you!
OK Harper. I'm sorry... but my absolute FAVORITE breakfast is a cheeseburger from Steak n Shake! LOL. I don't get them anymore, since I've moved to Arizona from Indiana. But my breakfast of choice is always a cheeseburger!
In the Mexican stores you can get cebolla ("bulb" green onions) that might make a good substitute
As a brit i love a cooked breakfast and have eggs in one form or another every morning. i now live in italy and much as i try to live the italian lifestyle i just can’t get to grips with the ubiquitous sweet pastries and biscuits which seem to be the only option here, so far i’ve failed to find any savoury italian breakfast alternative with the exception of the typical buffet style continental breakfast served in hotels which i don’t believe has much if anything to do with Italian cuisine… maybe a video on savoury breakfasts if such a thing exists.
The sweet breakfast is a relatively recent thing in Italy, but in the past (until the second half of '900) breakfast wasn't even a thing: the first meal of the day consisted usually of left-overs of the dinner; milk was used only where it was immediately near at hand, i.e. in farms where cows were bred, that usually were in the north of Italy; there could be also a distribution of milk every morning in the cities near such farms for the very few who could afford the service. In any case, milk was for children, not for adults. Coffee was a luxury product and was served just in wealthy families at the end of every lunch, in middle-class families only at the end of special lunches (for holidays or anniversaries or ceremonies) or for visiting guests of special importance. Cookies were for dessert at the end of festive meals or for said guests in the afternoon. Not for breakfast: even when milk was used for breakfast, it was bread that went in it, and just the wealthy put some butter and/or jam on it. Until the 60s Italy was a very poor and mostly rural country, and most of the people worked in agriculture, where you had to get up VERY early and your "breakfast" came when the mothers of family, after tending to the beasts in the farm and to the very elderly and the very young in the house, brought the first meal of the day to the men (and sometimes the younger women) in the fields, after several hours of work; so you couldn't content yourself with milk and bread, you needed something more filling: bread and wine and cheese, the left-overs of the dinner (soup or pasta, depending on if in the north or in the south), for the more lucky salame and prosciutto, maybe some fruits, if in season.
The "italian breakfast" is something born from the industrialisation of the country in the '60s, when also the agriculture became industrial and several food industries were born, or ancient almost artisanal food factories expanded and modernised. Milk began being produced in much more quantity, and the new fridges and refrigerated trucks could maintain it fresh for longer, so it could be transported in every city and conserved at home; and the better quality of life and economic possibilities of a large part of the population could afford to buy a lot of fridges and milk it in larger quantities. Biscuits were produced industrially, coffee was imported in larger quantity thanks to the money of the Marshall Plan and the commercial deals with South-America. Most of the population wasn't working in agriculture anymore, but in offices, factories, services; the working hours were different, so many could afford to have breakfast at home, or to pay for it in the bars, because a lot of people left the countryside and went to live in the cities. The sweet breakfast with coffee and milk and cookies and croissant was a luxury that everyone could afford, at last, and that everyone did afford, almost as a reaction to the poverty of the past.
Since she doesn't eat eggs for breakfast, perhaps now you guys need to give us a series of episodes with just Italian breakfasts!! Yum!
Time to cook Italian Breakfasts!
I have had cheeseburgers for breakfast and its EVERYTHING 😋❤🍔
I happen to love eggs in every form: heat a can of chili to a slow boil; drop one or two eggs into the hot chili, and stir them in. They cook within a minute or two. If you are reduced to eating ramen noodles: cook the noodles as directed, drain them, season them, and finally, drop in a couple of eggs and a little salt. You have turned a dish that is otherwise devoid of any nutrition into a delicious dish high in protein.
BTW, you cannot hurt either of these dishes with added onion.
I cook my ramen with some frozen veggies, mix the broth as directed, then add an egg directly to the broth and continue cooking it and spooning broth over the top until just shy of soft boiled. I used the same preparation to make the egg from the zuppa video! Delicious and creamy
Have you guys checked out Rosie Maio’s channel? She records what her Nonna who lives in Calabria cooks when she visits.. It’s so interesting and I wish I knew more about the different regions because I was interested in knowing if that was a Calabria way of cooking or just that specific family. They seem To live next to all their favorite shops and so they get fresh seafood and pastries every day. Is that typical to live so close to everything? So jealous
Yes, it is normal in Europe
I’m convinced this woman is from Queens and she’s putting on a character.
Had rice+lentils in tomato sauce leftovers. Refried them and broke a couple eggs on top. You can make these dishes with anything viscous/granular enough!
Good dishes for lent.
Maybe do more meatless dishes.
What is eaten during lent in Italy?
Omg! Please try grilled whole eggs! They are like hard boiled eggs, but like if hard boiled eggs were the American version, and the whole grilled ones were the Italian version 😂 (Not knocking hard boiled eggs, I could eat them every day of the week! But grilled is OUTSTANDING 😋)
I heard the egg story about Brunelleschi and his design of the Duomo di Firenze 🤔😉
I've always heard the 'stand an egg on end' story in connection with Brunelleschi's Dome.
Here n Italy is connected with Colombo...but maybe because is a kind of popular legend can work for different person in different regions.
The second dish in Florence is called "frittata trippata" 😊
Shaksuka. I like salad for breakfast. Oil and vinegar dressing. Never bottled dressing.
Let’s normalize cheeseburgers for breakfast! 😂
Just put an egg on it!
The only thing holding you back is the effort you want to put into it
We should! We eat pizza for breakfast. You have all day to burn off the calories
It’s called sausage McMuffin
I've eaten ramen, pizza, burgers, and Arby's Beef N' Cheddar for breakfast.
I love eggs 🥚 ❤
that thing you said in the end, about Breakfast being the most important meal of the day being invented by a cereal company is true. The founder of Kellog's first used the phrase in a health magazine in 1917 and it sort of became an accepted fact ever since.
But it's also true that it's the most important meal of the day scientifically. It lays the basis for energy for the rest of the day. Lunch is second best and should actually be the hot meal and in the evening, dinner, should be the lightest, since there's not a lot of activity after that. It's not just an 'accepted' fact anymore.
If you're doing physical labour, it's definitely important. Most people don't so it's not that necessary anymore. And many can get by without breakfast
@@Ash_Wen-li tbh i work out very intensely every morning and i never have breakfast. If it happens that i do, i feel so bloated and heavy when exercising. It's much better on an empty stomach imo.
In most of Europe, eggs are more a lunch type or dinner type dish. Save for the UK and Ireland where they are still served for breakfast. Me, I eat them any time of day. 😊
Good morning AVA & Harper
you should do an episode on trippa, or offal meat in general
so do you use mint or mentuccia in the Trippa dish? My great-grandmother kept that in her garden; I have planted a few seeds this spring and hope to have a good plant or three to use all summer.