Watch and Learn - u totally caught me making soup

Click on a word or part of a phrase to learn more.

Scroll through the captions and click to skip to a caption.

Play video to start

today when i was doing my grocery

shopping i

saw English green peas

and i cannot remember the last time i

ate a green pea

but for some reason they inspired me and

recently i've been in a little cooking

phase of my life

for the first time in my life i actually

think that

i get it when it comes to cooking like i

actually think i get it now i think i

understand what the hype is all about i

think i get why the grandmas are so into

this [ __ ] you know what i mean i think i

this __ you know what i mean i think i

understand

why people enjoy cooking and i've tried

to enjoy it in the past and i've always

found it

far too tedious

and really not that rewarding if i'm

being honest i always found that going

to a restaurant was more rewarding and

although i still love going to a

restaurant don't get me wrong love it

love it love it one of my favorite

things to do in my free time i

finally think i understand

what the hype is when it comes to

cooking i think i get it and it's a

hobby for me that's sticking and kind of

getting me up in the morning if i'm

being honest like the thought of waking

up in the morning and cooking excites me

and that is

priceless anyway back to the green peas

i saw these green peas in the grocery

store and i had a vision and my vision

was a soup with a basil broth and whole

green peas

and whole potato,

and whole potato

not whole potatoes not like a whole

potato but like

pieces of potato and i was like a recipe

for this must exist i can't have just

come up with this off the dome like i

must have seen this before you know this

must be a recipe that

has been circulated through the internet

or something like i doubt that i just

spontaneously

developed this in my brain so anyway i

bought all of the ingredients that i

thought that i could need and i came

home and started researching basil

potato

pea

soups

and to my surprise

nothing

was coming up that matched

what i was envisioning in my head but i

was so determined to make this soup in

the way that

i was picturing it in my head that i

decided that i needed to just do some

research and figure out

how i could make it without following a

recipe from somebody who actually knows

what the [ __ ] they're doing because i

what the __ they're doing because i

don't know what the [ __ ] i'm doing when

don't know what the __ i'm doing when

it comes to cooking i still do not know

how to properly dice an onion etc etc so

i did a lot of research i probably spent

an hour researching okay you know how

long do i need to cook potatoes before i

put them in the soup do i cook them in

the soup from start to finish or do i

boil the potatoes before i put them in

the soup like what the [ __ ] going on

the soup like what the __ going on

here how do i do this so that i don't

fail and hate myself because there's

nothing i hate more than wasting food

and if i make food that tastes really

bad and is inedible inedible and

inedible then i get really angry at

myself because i hate wasting food and i

think it's

a terrible thing to do and i avoid it at

all costs and that means that i actually

do frequently eat foods

that are burnt

and or

cooked improperly in order to not waste

them and that has caused me stomach pain

etc

anyway after all my research i wrote out

a pretty basic plan as to how i was

going to make

this soup so the first thing i decided

to do was to boil some peas and boil

some potatoes and based on my research i

found that boiling peas only takes about

a minute or two

and boiling potatoes only takes about 15

to 20 minutes so i boiled those for

around that amount of time did i set a

timer sure i did

but

the timer went off

and then i stopped it and then i forgot

to take things off the heat

who knows how long i boiled them next i

did some chopping um

of shallot and my shallots looked a

little bit funky

i honestly thought that they were a

little bit moldy so i kept smelling them

to make sure that they weren't moldy i

don't really know what this unknown gray

substance

is that's around the shallot but it was

the only shallot i had so i kind of had

to make do with what i had after

chopping these terribly i threw them

into

a large pot over medium-low heat

something that i'm just now learning

when it comes to cooking is

the importance of cooking on a lower

heat

like i used to think that i just needed

to cook everything on high heat and like

that was

my path to success but i'm learning that

cooking things low and slow is

really effective being patient you know

yes it might be tempting to turn your

heat up all the way when you're cooking

something but that's not good it's not

good you don't have as much control and

it's just a mess i finally learned how

to cook eggs properly i used to cook my

eggs on high heat and just now recently

i learned how to make perfect scrambled

eggs in a perfect fried egg not burnt

even though i don't really mind the

flavor of a burnt egg i don't but

cooking things on a lower temperature is

really important

anyway so i cooked the shallot over

medium low heat and then i added some

garlic for the last say two minutes of

cooking that shallot all of that went

well my kitchen started to smell very

fragrant which was exciting my hands

reeked of garlic and shallot which used

to really bug me like it used to make me

not want to cook with onion garlic

shallot because i was so annoyed with

how my hands would smell but now i'm

learning to kind of appreciate

when my hands smell like food you know

what i mean this might be kind of

disgusting but it's like

it's not like it's a bad smell like it's

yummy like you know like i don't know

and before you go and call me a freak

you love onion and garlic yes i'm

talking to you you love onion and garlic

you might not even know that you love it

but when you go to your favorite

restaurant i can guarantee the best

tasting dish on the table

probably has a

[ __ ] ton of onion and garlic in it even

__ ton of onion and garlic in it even

though the smell is a little weird it's

still yummy and sometimes i itch my

armpit and cut a shallot within the same

hour and when i smell my hand later i

don't know i don't know if the rancid

smell came from me itching my armpit or

from the shallot um

anyway so after that i added six cups of

water i added in a teaspoon of salt and

a half teaspoon of pepper. I added about

a half teaspoon of pepper I added about

three tablespoons of this vegetable

bouillon which was kind of intimidating to

me because buying a pre-made bouillon which

is basically all of the delicious

flavors of a stock packed into a paste

so that you can mix it into water and

then

it flavors the water

for soup okay

like buying a pre-made one is kind of

scary right because you don't really

know what you're getting yourself into

The flavor

is kind of unpredictable, especially if

is kind of unpredictable especially if

you haven't tried that specific bouillon

before and I've never used bouillon before

to be honest i've never even made a soup

i've made a curry before but i've never

made a soup so this whole experience

was really scary i was kind of shooting

in the dark here i was like i don't know

what i'm getting myself into and then

things kind of started to get intense

because this next step is kind of when

my soup was about to turn into

what i had dreamed it to be it was like

all the dirty work was done and it

it was almost time to assemble so i

removed the pan from the heat put it

into a blender and added a half a cup of

basil and a fourth cup of parmesan i

probably could add more Parmesan

honestly i'm going through a cheese

phase recently i went a pretty long time

without eating much cheese because i

thought that it hurt my stomach but it

turns out it doesn't and

that was some of the best news i've

gotten in a long time cheese doesn't

hurt my stomach now let me tell you if i

drink a glass of milk

it's a completely different story but

cheese for whatever reason doesn't bug

me and there is science behind it and i

have done the research but i don't think

anyone cares

so anyway i threw

everything into the blender except for

my peas

and my potatoes and i blended that

mixture up and at first i was really

worried i will say i was concerned

because in my brain i had imagined a

vibrant green broth for my soup

but the vegetable boy on that i added

into the soup base

just turned it kind of brown and after

blending in the basil it was a little

bit more green but it wasn't as green as

i imagined so at this point i was

praying for a miracle because seeing

this brown soup base kind of upset me

you know it was like wow

my dream is not coming together as i

planned but i didn't give up

and when i tried

the soup base i was shocked at how

delicious it was it was so flavorful and

was really excited this kind of put the

pep back into my step i was like you

know what maybe maybe shit's not so bad

after all

maybe everything will be okay but i

didn't know for sure yet i had a very

strong fear

that i didn't cook my peas and my

potatoes correctly i was very very very

very very very very very very very very

very concerned about this but you know

the show must go on so i added the peas

and the potato to the mixture

and i brought it up to a boil one last

time

and that was the end of the soup. The

and that was the end of the soup The

soup was done

[Music]

Music

[Music]

Music

I garnished my soup with some Parmesan

cheese because, again, I'm going through a

cheese because again I'm going through a

cheese phase right now. I can't stop

cheese phase right now I can't stop

putting cheese on literally [ __ ].

putting cheese on literally __

everything. I'm serious. I also garnished

everything I'm serious I also garnished

my soup with a bit of chives. I love the

my soup with a bit of chives I love the

way that chives look.

way that chives look

I just think that they're so beautiful

When they're finely chopped, they're like

When they're finely chopped they're like

little tiny,

little tiny

circles

green circles, and I just think that they

green circles and I just think that they

look great.

look great

I don't say this a lot,

I don't say this a lot

but I'm [ __ ] proud of myself, and I'm

but I'm __ proud of myself and I'm

proud of this [ __ ] soup, and the way

proud of this __ soup and the way

that I rate a cooking success is based

on whether or not I would purchase it at

a restaurant, and for how much money I

a restaurant and for how much money I

would purchase it for.

would purchase it for

At a restaurant, and with this soup I

At a restaurant and with this soup I

would definitely purchase it at a

restaurant, and I would pay 17 for it.

restaurant and I would pay 17 for it

[Music]

Music

[Music]

Music

you

- Pause

Account Settings Subscriptions

Your daily language practice

Today's Learning Tip

You might also like these videos

u totally caught me making soup

it will be ok

my childhood bedroom

ugg season

cooking

alterations