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RECIPES
Arroz de Forno: https://www.beryl.nyc/index.php/2025/05/07/arroz-de-forno/
Ropa Vieja: https://www.beryl.nyc/index.php/2025/05/07/ropa-vieja/
Tomato Rice: https://www.beryl.nyc/index.php/2025/05/07/tomato-rice-2/
Uova In Trippa: https://www.beryl.nyc/index.php/2025/05/07/uova-in-trippa/
Crazy Cake: https://www.beryl.nyc/index.php/2025/05/07/crazy-cake/
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:38 Making Brazilian Arroz de Forno (Oven Rice)
03:37 Trying Arroz de Forno
06:26 Making Cuban Ropa Vieja (“Old Clothes”)
10:26 Trying Ropa Vieja
12:24 Making Indian Tomato Rice (Spiced Tomato Rice & Lentils)
15:02 Trying Tomato Rice
16:23 Making Italian Uova In Trippa (Tripe Eggs)
19:38 Trying Uova In Trippa
21:14 Making USA Crazy Cake (One-Pan Chocolate Cake)
23:56 Trying Crazy Cake
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Instead of using vinegar and baking soda for that cake… just use BAKING POWDER.
Baking powder is just baking soda with an acidic agent already in it. It also reacts to heat, helping the cake rise even more.
The more you know.
Would really love to watch an instapot episode on your channel
A little powdered sugar sprinkled on that cake would be good
Yummy love making the delicious baked sushi lols
“Whisk prison” 😂 best description ever!!!
On another note, curious about the little oven used for first recipe – is it a toaster oven?
Pressure cooking bay leaves doesn't really work. You need at least ten times more bay leaves when you convert a recipe to be made in a pressure cooker, and then you still barely will notice them being there. You can add the bay leaves after the pressure cooking and let it boil without pressure an additional 30-45 minutes, but that really only works for sauces, the bay leaf taste won't permiate cooked chunks of meat or already cooked beans. Fresh bay leaves work slightly better with pressure cooking, but still not really good.
And whole bay leaf need at least 20-25 minutes of cooking time to give of any taste and aroma.
I have started to use powdered bay leaves, which works a bit less bad with pressure cookers, and the powdered form is so much more forgiving than whole bayleaves, and requires shorter cooking time. I make the powder myself with an electric coffee grinder (that will forever make everything you grind in it taste leafy and bitter, but electric coffeegrinders are surprisingly cheap, so I think it is worth it). Even in a closed glass jar, powdered bay leaf totally loose its taste and aroma after something lika a couple of months.
It smells soooo gooood when you grind the bay leaves. I think I am addicted.
And Indian "bay leaves" can't compare to real bay leaves. Except maybe the colour, the two spices has very little in common. And Indian bay leaves in itself, is a collective name of several different spices/species.
YEEEEEESSSSSSS for a pressure cooker video!!! 😀 I wanna use mine more often!
Oh and also, bay leaves DO change the taste. I made a simple soup that had store bought vegetable bouillon and bay leaves as the base of the soup, I was thinking it would taste very blend… and it was amazing! Clearly the bay leaves elevated this dish lol
We always called it 'wacky cake'. A couple of suggested tweaks – when you are baking you really shouldn't scoop out the flour like that, but use the spooning method. You'll end up with too much flour (drier and denser cake, or 'stodgy' as Paul Hollywood would say) when you scoop it. And if you want it sweeter, you can mix in some chocolate chips before baking, or toss them on top to melt when the cake comes out of the oven. I always thought it wasn't chocolate-y enough. The leavening effects of the vinegar make up for removing the egg – normally in a cake you'd whip the eggs or egg whites to get a more airy texture.
17:00 a beautiful chiffonade! 🎉
My family always called it wacky cake. I went thru a season of being the designated birthday cake baker in my group of friends. I don’t have the patience for traditional cake recipes (nor did I have the budget for the fancier ingredients and excessive amounts of eggs) so I started experimenting with our wacky cake recipe. Sub cold coffee for the water and you get a mocha cake. Sub peanut butter for the oil and you get a chocolate-peanut butter cake. You can also sub lots of flavored powders in for the cocoa (like almond powder, peanut powder, etc). I have also subbed lemon juice for the vinegar, replaced cocoa with a little extra flour, and added a lot of lemon zest for a lemon cake. The possibilities are endless and the recipe is so forgiving. It also does great with a simple glaze, which can help pump up the sweetness, if you like. And you can coordinate the glaze flavor with your wacky cake creation. I also gave up on the novelty of mixing it in the pan with a fork like my great-grandma. I just mix it in a bowl with a whisk or spoon. One bowl and one pan isn’t bad for a cake. 😉
@thebnoth reference!! 😍😍
It actually inspires confidence that you are willing to tell us when a recipe just doesn't do it for you. As you say, it might suit someone else for precisely the reasons you weren't a big fan, and it helps us to know whether the recipe might or might not suit us. Thanks for that!
Another vote for a pressure cooker episode!
I'm curious about the chocolate cake. I DO like chocolate cake ALOT.
Yay to see Heilala Vanilla in your video! The factory that makes it is just around the corner from where I live in NZ (although vanilla beans grown in Tonga). Sad the cake didn't hit the mark though…
Drizzle Chocolate sauce on the cake would have been soooooooo gooooood…. choco chip drizzle in the batter??? I am gonna try this cake for sure… Tks for the recipe 🙂
We got your Pride and Prejudice reference Beryl ❤😂
Yes please to the pressure cooker episode
Fantastic! I would echo the Instant Pot theme for a future episode!!!!!
Beryl, please: I love you but there is just no such thing as "too cheesy"😂
23:27 Reminds me of Karate Kid 2 when Danielson’s love interest is performing a tea ceremony for him. Kids from the 80s should know. 🤗
Love the idea of an insta pot or crockpot recipe. But it would be amazing and fun for a whole vegetarian episode of both. Even an airfryer episode.
my grandma has a chocolate cake recipe very similar to the crazy cake (i think it was probably inspired by one of those recipes), and it’s definitely my favourite cake because of the texture as well—not a great habit, but i eat a small piece of this everyday after lunch, so there’s never a time in my house where we don’t have this in the fridge. plus, speaking of fridge, it doesn’t get hard and difficult to eat at all (maybe because of the oil instead of butter? idk. but i know that the oil makes it really moist too). i’ve never thought my version is not sweet, so maybe you can try it out with these measurements:
– 1 1/2 cup flour
– 1 cup sugar
– 1/4 cup cocoa powder
– 1 tsp baking soda
– 1/4 tsp salt
– 1 1/2 tsp vanilla (though i usually just eyeball this)
– 1 1/4 tbsp white vinegar
– 1/2 cup oil
– 1 cup water
i’ve never made it directly in the cake dish—i usually make it in a mixing bowl so it’s just one more dish, but it probably makes it a lot easier to mix everything together
edit: never mind i just checked the recipe and the ratios are almost exactly the same as mine, so you probably won’t like this, but maybe i find it sufficiently sweet because i’ve been having this for as long as i can remember
Yes to a pressure cooker video that would be so good.
When I was a teenager, I always asked for strawberry cake nearly every year. 😋
i feel like Beryl is really pushing India on her channel
Flank steak is wonderful in Sunday Italian gravy with meatballs and sausage. Cooked down until it shreds. Serve over spaghetti.
pressure cooker aka one pot dinner, cabbage or other leafy green, potatoes, carrots, onions, ham hock or ham bone or corned beef, or meat of choice, i normally use ham hocks and i start cooking them first, after half hour in the pressure cooker i deflate and add other ingredients, my mom also used green beans , always a good meal
Used to love your videos, thought I'd see if you still have the eating sounds and yup. Hard pass. Still so sad you changed the audio. 😢
Beryl's rap about onion powder was SO Regular Show 😂
Can we do some mic adjustments in the future? The chewing noises are new and very prominent.
Uova in Trippa was suggested by actual Mona Lisa?
Want to add my vote for pressure cooker and/or slow cooker recipes! I'm always on the hunt for more, i make soups, chili, casseroles, curries, I find ways to turn existing recipes into IP recipes, I love ittttt.
If i was to share a slow cooker recipe it would be my mulled wine 😁
19:42 how are eggs vegetarian??? Is this an Indian thing? Cause eggs are most definitely non veg
For the cake maybe stir it with a fork instead of a whisk
can you include central asians?
I came for the Crazy Cake, but I have to say…I do miss the eggs…
Just a little simple hack I use for "beating" eggs. Use a wide mouth jar, like a pickle jar, and shake shake shake. It's so easy, quick, works well, and easy clean up. Love the vid kid!
Instapot recipes for sure!
You didn't pour the milk over the cake
It wuold be really useful to know slow cooker timings for the Ropa Vieja – looks delicious!
Beryl, can you please make a video about your time in russia? Im really interested
Hey Beryl,
If you ever plan to make a pressure cooker episode make sure to include bengali style mutton curry popularly known as mutton kosha or mutton jhol in bengali. This is an iconic dish fron West Bengal which deserves all the exposure possible.
YESSS to pressure cooker meals!!! 🙌🏼❤️
Aisiri I love your inner eye corner pop of chartreuse 💚
This is so interesting, I'm canarian and Ropa Vieja is such an important traditional dish for us too (also common in the rest of spain but mostly just a dish ”de aprovechamiento", a dish to utilise the left-overs of another), but this is such a different way to make it, I would never even think of putting olives in there😮😮 – so very interesting! I must give it a go, specially given our conections with Cuba❤
I always make my Grandma's version… Wacky Cake. Her recipe adds a dash of cinnamon which is also yum
Yes please instant pot meals!!!
I made the tomato rice with the recipe and it was insanely delicious. I made a version with completely different spices and it came out almost as good