8 (and a Half!) Picnic-Perfect Recipes

[@lenorabrown7797]

I worked for Popeye's for a number of years and I can attest that they do not use Corn Flakes. They do a process very much like the one you do. They marinate it in a dry rub and tumble it in the sink until all pieces are evenly coated. They let it get tacky after the initial flour, wash flour and just before dropping it into the oil, they flour it once more to get that crumbly, craggy coating.

[@shirleyjhaney1041]

I watch lots of cooking shows and look at lots of recipes but you’re my favorite.

[@Khalrua]

When he said, “when it turns foamy, your bacon’s almost done homie”, I lost it! I knew it was coming but I love it every time

[@kathleenwassum7712]

Whenever I feel down or depressed, I listen to Chef John and try one of his amazing recipes! You have saved me Hours of Therapy! Thanks so much!😍🙏🏼🥂

[@jeannegallegos8410]

Well said, so true.

[@nelllugo2276]

The 🍉 drink made me subscribe. Plus your soothing voice takes the stress off. Thanks!

[@greenleavesofsummer9673]

I usually like his food. But if a recipe is not to your liking, you must agree he’s humorous and entertaining.

[@eeeibrahim6690]

It become a habit to hit like before I see the video! I am that confident of the content 😎😉

[@danielaros6361]

Same here 🤣

[@paulwagner688]

Chef's antipasto pasta salad is one of the best I've ever seen. If I'm making a pasta salad, that's the one I'm doing.

[@mssixty3426]

The dressing for the pasta salad is something I'll have to try - thank you for all of these recipes!

[@no-Just_Ice]

Thank you for being a decent human being by putting more than 2 pickles on that chicken sandwich.

[@cherylbishop7657]

You can use the leftover watermelon for ice pop's just add a little honey and freeze. GOD BLESS

[@Bobsk3]

That Watermelon Agua Fresca (with a touch of wodka) was a hit at our party! 😃

[@lindabell9235]

Hi I'm watching from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I really enjoy watching your channel 😊. It's very entertaining as well as informative and I've been picking up some great ideas. I would love to come for a barbecue at yours 😋. Thanks for sharing.

[@maryellenrodgers1673]

When the crunch from chicken came , I lost it 😂😂 I love Chef John. His videos release my stress and anxiety. ❤️

[@Rem694u2]

I actually am most excited for pasta salads at picnics or BBQ's. I LOVE pasta salads.

[@FireAnt376]

Love you sense of humor, thank you

[@TheRealDominikVinko]

Love your videos John! Would love to see some recipes from my place of birth - the Balkans! We have alot of great cuisine that goes unoticed, from the iconic čevapi, pašticada, jota and so on! Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia and others are filled with delicious food that people sadly don't know about. It would be awsome to see some of that cuisine featured on your channel! All the best!

[@dalenetrejbal7787]

Everthing looks so delicious

[@carolselfridge5925]

Chef, when I have left over ingredients from preparing fried chicken, etc., I make bird cake, for the starlings, they love it. I empty the left overs that have been in the refrigerator into the batter. I use the old fry oil and add baking powder to the mix. Any food that I would throw out, instead goes into the batter, meat, fat, fruits, veggies, bread, cheese, anything. Then I bake it in a huge foil pan and give it to the birds. No wasting food.

[@urabundant]

I love how this popped up just days after I tried to make these and ended up throwing away tough yucky chicken!!!!! Now I can do it right!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@cindydolezal2980]

I like to make the watermelon puree and freeze it in ice cube trays to add to my water. Yum

[@lococappi]

I use chef johns videos as ASMR to sleep am I the only weirdo here?

[@crimsonking2874]

I’ll definitely have to make that hybrid chicken sandwich and the grilled chicken teriyaki skewers.

[@maddycollins356]

I enjoyed watching your video. Mark from self sufficient me recommended coming over to view your video's.

[@proverbs2522]

I love the shirt designs

[@idowanna837]

8:10 Girard's Champagne dressing is my favorite, but this looks very tasty!

[@updownstate]

I haven't seen crumpled foil used to drain food. Fascinating. I use cake cooling racks over newspaper.

[@ЛюдаБурцева-й7с]

Спасибо за рецепт, хозяюшка. Уверена, что будет вкусно. Здоровья вам. 🌹 🌹🌹Thanks for the recipe, ma'am. I'm sure it will be delicious. Wish you health.

[@majoroldladyakamom6948]

Chef John is a boy, male, man... not a lady. 🤣

[@yolandawatson9949]

Hey Chef! This looks amazing! Thanks for all you do

[@danmccann6666]

Tip: After the guacamole is made and you want to store it in the fridge, place the avocado pits on top of the guacamole before covering with plastic wrap. This will prevent the top of the guacamole from turning brown if it's not eaten immediately.

[@1TornMonkey]

When you cover with plastic wrap, put the wrap all the way down, ON the guac. It stops oxidation because it's in contact with it.

[@jeannegallegos8410]

I think good cooking is so therapeutic. One is creating, making something nourishing & good (we hope), as well as tasty & satisfying

[@MaikasCooking]

Been watching this channel since 2007

[@jadisonica1083]

Bacon bits are the fairy dust of the food world.

[@jacquelinehoward5183]

Omg I'm so excited about the peanut sauce! The first I had was in a restaurant on pad Thai, and now I'm obsessed with peanut sauce and dislike tamarind. So what I'm saying is - put it on your pad Thai and tell me if it changes your life!

[@poulthomas469]

Another shout out for you to do avoglemono soup. It would be great to see your version of it. It's so simple but it's so good.

[@Mah_Na_Mah_Na]

For the Fried Chicken Sandwich. To make the marinade into the dip for dredging ... Just add the egg to the marinade. It's amazing!!!

[@phillipgomez1092]

Yer good! Also a helpful marriage councilor, in reference to your tomato comment 😂

[@Drew-qs2wk]

I’m going to drop my preferred guacamole recipe here: 1-2 ripe avocados The juice of 1/2-2 limes, but you can also use the zest if you want. Thoroughly mix these in a molcajete if you are fancy, but a fork works just fine if you don’t have one. Now chop 1 roma tomato or an equivalent volume of the tomato of your choice into ~3mm cubes, and mince 2 serranos and 1 árbol chili into a 1mm dice. You don’t have to de-seed anything, and I recommend you don’t. The seeds of the tomato have acidic juice that will help keep the avocados green, and the pith of the serranos have extra heat, and why are you even including them if you don’t like heat? Finally, take an entire fistful of cilantro and cut it into strips. Admire its beautiful summer aroma and add it with the chilis and tomatoes until it’s all combined. At last, taste your guacamole on whatever you serve it with, and add salt until it tastes perfect. I personally don’t add onions or garlic, but it is okay if you want to add them. Alternatively, I’ve found that you can replace these elements with any sources of acid, fleshy fruit-vegetable, and spice to create amazing avocado salsas inspired by guacamole.

[@RobertoSilva-og3go]

Thank you will give this a try.

[@TheNinnyfee]

"Then you have to clean a blender, and I don't..." Never has pettiness been so funny. 😄

[@2CraftySeniors]

🥗The pasta salad looked good enough to eat while hot. It probably would be eaten cold as a leftover in my house... and hot the first day. LOL 🥜 I'd probably use the peanut sauce with the fried chicken and have salad instead of a bun. 🍢 My grilled foods never look like this. Amazing.

[@docmalthus]

The ooooold recycla-recycla.

[@Hermiel]

My pasta salads are always a hit at picnics. You and I have a similar recipe, but diced peppers and onions with fusilli? Sorry, chef. Gotta match vegetable slices to the size of the pasta. Julienne peppers and new-moon Onion slices stay on the fork better (and look nicer in this dish, IMHO). That emulsified dressing looks fantastic, however. Will definitely be trying it out on my next go!

[@Zumindestens]

absolutely! that minced onion is going to stay at the bottom of the plates if not of the bowl. Pasta salad with SLICED veggies please

[@ekureedafedaniel2622]

Lovely

[@Milkshakist]

Time for a nice picnic!

[@DONJULIANOrtiz]

On the guacamole “…now we squeeze some lime juice. Or if you’re super weird! You can do lemon juice.” 🤣🤣🤣

[@kitchenamarius5671]

Thanks for the inspiration 🤗

[@RIDERSONLINEORG]

Curious if there's a reason to use the crumpled up foil to drain and cool the fried chicken versus just putting it back on the wire rack? A summer rolls look amazing! 👍

[@10mdeliciousrecipes]

Thanks so much!✅🆗❤️

[@Viigan]

15:16 In the Popeye sandwich recipe, the background noise cut-in during the two "fork don't lie" parts sounded like a drum roll. I kept expecting a final hi-hat "Tttssshhhh!".

[@godzilladestroyscities1757]

That's dill! I love dill!

[@endeavouringit]

Anything in a burger bun we (in Australia) call a burger, but to American's is it only a burger if it's made with beef pattie, is that right ? This is too much, every time I watch your videos I'm hungry and crave what you make, god your family is lucky. I love making chicken salad with walnuts, mayo, celery, salt & pepper, yum on some lightly toasted baguette. I tried it with pecans, wasn't as good.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

Miso Hornee, big plate chicken teriyaki Love you Long Time.

[@eg3534]

I worked at a popeyes chicken as a teenager, and we never used cornflakes or anything like that. just flour and batter.

[@carolinejordan12]

Good Grief that's a veggie salad with pasta as a thought.

[@knutem2155]

Another great video! One comment I have is: No GARLIC in the Guacamole? (I've always made my guac with garlic, and no cilantro, and love it that way.

[@alinasanders6169]

Brilliant video ..

[@questrixdragon]

Try the chicken salad with Ceasar dressing instead of mayo.

[@jp6993]

How about some grated cheese on top of pasta salad?

[@philippines4.0buildinganew64]

Love your videos and recipes. Just one question. You have mentioned that marinading chicken is optimal at around 4 hours. What happens if you marinade longer ? Does the tissue in the chicken actually start to break down ?

[@ps3shakes123]

Three serranos with seeds! Hay carumba! It's funny how often I have a thought and chef John immediately addresses it.

[@paulwagner688]

I'm surprised State Fair Lemonade wasn't on this compilation

[@Gimpy24x7]

Miso Hungry

[@mrmanriwe]

Would love to try at least three of these but cannot find a printable recipe. Any ideas where I can find them? Your video library only shows the ingredients.

[@myenjoylife22]

Nice

[@denisejimenez5315]

The pickles make a difference Popeyes have the best pickles!

[@Enjoy42ye]

Recpect chef.

[@apoteque]

I simply must make sure to have a muscle spasm next time I whisk a salad dressing to see if that trick works.

[@updownstate]

I never thought watermelon needs sweetening but I'll give it a try. Of course I'll process both halves and use the second to make ice cubes for the first. It's a sin not to eat watermelon you know.

[@cozyvamp]

That Million Dollar Dip??? As I was watching you mix it all together, I thought, why not thin that out with some milk or olive oil, mix it with a ton of cold pasta, add some diced apples and whole red and green grapes, and call it some kinda...Million Dollar Pasta Salad. You're welcome.

[@sil1598]

I’d love to make the chicken sandwich except my son is allergic to ranch. It’s weird I know. Is there something else I can use? There’s actually a lot of recipes I can’t make because of the ranch.

[@joshaaflores2790]

"Just a single layer, just a single layer" DED

[@cravensean]

I so want to add some sausage to that pasta salad and call it a meal and ride off into the sunset...

[@cravensean]

(And I'd line the boiled vegetables up in line and give 'em a little time between adding the carrots and the onions and so on. Because I'm nuts.)

[@lorihouchin4732]

I really like using cheese and spinach tortellini pasta for pasta salad and I absolutely don't like tarragon! But I Love Picnics ❤ I really appreciate that you didn't add olives because yuck

[@kunfussed213]

Making a *_Pop-Fil-A_* chicken sandwich

[@lindainparis7349]

I cut green onions with scissors, holding a few together by the base at a time. Easier.

[@XxShellyW13xX]

What if you don't know what sea water tastes like? I added a bunch of salt to my water one time and the spaghetti noodles were so salty, it really stood out against the spaghetti sauce. Not that great 😕

[@mssixty3426]

Yup, same here, grew up in the desert. Ruined pasta once with too much salt.

[@marie-suzankalogeropoulos9249]

One tsp thick or kosher salt per quart of water, per 100 gr (3,5 Oz) pasta... That's the basic ratio 😋

[@steveberryman2710]

MSG leaves me with a huge thirst that can't be quenched. I stay away from it for that reason.

[@sih1095]

Yeeeessss. We are genetically superior

[@myjewelry4u]

Fork don’t lie!

[@gnomespace]

Well yes, but, a pickle?? Oy!

[@alicejenkins7591]

Just asking, is that a piece of plastic that fell on top of the broccolini at 4 minutes 25 seconds into your Perfect Picnic Pasta Salad video?

[@liznielsen3458]

It was a small leaf 🍃

[@alicejenkins7591]

Oh thank goodness!

[@venusgal2706]

All differ and I disagree on the perfect cook of the pasta for salad. The best one I ever made was al dente bronze cut pasta and now I aim for it always. The added chew made the dish. The dressing sounds yummy though.

[@jetonkuqi8841]

♥️♥️♥️👏👏👏

[@Amarie1961]

I saw the pasta in the store yesterday and decided not to get it. I should have gotten it.

[@proverbs2522]

I am one of them that hates cilantro

[@erinparker1828]

Where did the piece of bacon that was too big go? 👀

[@jamesberggren9029]

Why would you salt Dijon mustard??? It's loaded with salt already

[@donhancock332]

As for your chicken breast recipe I dont think two large breasts are EVER a problem!

[@williamemerson1799]

Man !, that fried chicken sandwich almost made me want to go out and commit crimes. 👹

[@SerenitySharesStuff]

Great. Needs feta and salami. Just saying.

[@barbarareyes3005]

lol #spatulation

[@DavidWilson-sm2ym]

27%, not 10%. Cilantro tastes like soap.

[@berthaday3473]

Maybe ur recipe is like Popeyes. ( Never eaten there). But that's not Chic Fila . I would bet money on it, that they use cinnamon or allspice in their coating.

[@bibektamang6698]

❤️❤️❤️❤️1st

[@jvallas]

Sorry - i didn’t hear you tell me why I should turn it back on, because id turned it off. (JK)

[@fayeprice4253]

Bbbbbbbbbb

[@angelalane1307]

Popeye's uses a roach and rat breading, from what I understand.

[@angelalane1307]

@@joyinthemorning44 🤣😂It's a joke! But not really...get your panties out of a twist.

[@buttplug2162]

Ewww. Don't let people hear you chew! Gross!

[@lawncuttingplusdelta]

I do same for all channels I am suscribed to ……

[@berthaday3473]

Ps. I am definitely in that "haters 10 %" for cilantro !" Worse than soap.... 🧼🧼🧼🧼