hello my beautiful lovelies hi it's emmy welcome back thanks so much for joining me for another episode of hard times where i explore recipes and food from times of food scarcity now today's episode is dedicated to auntie fee lovely viewer chad told me that auntie fee had passed away over a year ago now i had no idea if you don't know antifi i'll put her link down below to her channel and she had this really lively channel where she made recipes out of her own kitchen there's a lot of colorful language there so kids and parents you've been warned but on tv was hilarious so much fun she would be cooking her recipes in her own kitchen and her son tavis was usually the camera person and there rapport was so funny very colorful in terms of language but so funny and real and so were her recipes and so was her just spirit and i'm so sad to hear that she's passed but in her memory today i'm going to be making her feed seven people with three dollars recipe but what antifi actually cooks in the video looks like it'll feed more like two people but when i did the math and scaled the recipe up i think it still falls within the parameters of three dollars so first things first i'm going to take my instant noodles here and crush them up i'm using beef flavor because i'm using leftover ground beef from our burger meal from last night so beef and beef makes sense right antifi says if you have leftover chicken breast then of course by all means use the chicken flavor or if you're using shrimp or if you have leftover seafood use the shrimp so so in a big skillet on medium heat i'm gonna heat up some oil or as antifee would say grease because we all know that she saved her grease and reused it because it was full of flavor now we're gonna add our two packs of noodles oops forgot that one and we're gonna brown these up just toast them now this is an interesting technique i've never done this before but i think it's gonna add a lot of flavor and it reminds me a little bit of cuppa noodles if you ever had those styrofoam cups of noodles they have a kind of signature fried oily flavor to them and i think this will probably be a similar kind of addition of flavor so while my noodles are toasting up a bit i'm going to prepare my beef here antifa uses steak she has leftover steak in her video and i have two ground beef patties left over from dinner last night and i'm going to use that so i'm just going to cut this up so in my past hard time recipes i've explored recipes that have been more historical the great depression post-world war but today's recipe i think still falls in the umbrella of hard times because sometimes there's just not a lot of money there's not a lot of money to get around but you still gotta feed people and you still gotta eat so i think this recipe absolutely falls under the category of hard times so my noodles are definitely toasted now i'm gonna add a bit of water all right man i remember discovering otp a couple years ago and i binged watched all of her videos because they were just so funny and real i loved her banter with her son tavis so so funny all right i'm gonna add my meat cook that in there next we're going to add some dried parsley flakes just gives it a little bit of green and a little bit of flavor stir that in next we're going to add some hot sauce use whatever hot sauce you like if you like hot sauce i'm gonna add a combination of tapatio and everybody knows i like hot sauce i'm gonna add a good amount and i'm gonna add some sriracha too okay don't forget to add the soup seasoning all right there we go one i'm gonna add one and a half because these things are really salty if i want a saltier i can always add more so yeah apparently antifee passed up on a heart attack which really surprised me because she really wasn't that old it just goes to show that we should love our people while we have them because we never know when they'll be taken away from us right all right so that's almost dry and i'm gonna add just a little bit more water because we have to do a little bit more cooking next we're gonna add some shredded cheese i have a combination of cheddar and monterey jack and she said add as much as you like so that's probably about a third of a cup and we're just gonna cook this down until all the water has evaporated this is done i think that took all of like three minutes so here we are the three dollar meal to feed seven people all right let's give this a taste itadakimasu i'm so glad i put a pack and a half of this beef bouillon growing up and we made instant noodles my mom always told us to put just half a pack because they're just so salty and i'm glad i did that in this case too i think i actually could have gotten away with one pack especially since we added the hot sauce which also has salt in it but it is quite tasty it tastes very strongly of course of the beef soup base but that cheese in there is really nice it kind of makes a sauce and sticks everything together it's kind of like mac and cheese because you've got all that cheese kind of gluing everything together but the flavors are much more complex and of course it's spicy because we added a good amount of hot sauce in there you get a little bit of beef crumbles in there so you have some of that meaty texture the noodles are well cooked they're not mushy i'm not a huge fan of mushroom noodles unless i'm having moshi mimi with my brother which i'll do that video when i see him again this summer but in that case i really like my noodle machine but that's the only exception i think i want a little extra hot sauce i like being spicy there we go mm-hmm yup there it is this is unlike any ramen noodles i've ever had it's much more of like a hamburger helper in the sense that you've got beef in there you've got seasoning of course you have cheese my only critique is that it's very very salty and i think one way to alleviate that would be to serve this on a bed of lettuce and that way you'll be getting some crunchy vegetable crunch in there great texture you'd be getting some nutrition and you'd be dispersing some of that sodium this will fill you up and it does so very inexpensively so there you have it an auntie fee recipe i hope i did it justice big thanks to chad for suggesting this recipe big thanks to antifi thank you guys so much for watching i hope you guys enjoyed that one i hope you guys learned something let me know if you want to see more of anti-fees recipes or if there's any other hard time recipes that you'd like to see me test out i have a long long list of fascinating interesting and just humbling stories and recipes to share be sure to share this video with your friends follow me on social media and i shall see you in my next video take care hello