This content was created by Adam Greenberg. This content was uploaded by Adam Greenberg. This is a YouTube video titled "Vegan Matzo Ball Soup | Cooking with Mom" (created 2018-03-27) containing an informal, English-language cooking demo and conversation between Adam Greenberg and his mother, Gail Wax. They talk about Adam's veganism, walk through making a vegan Jewish "penicillin" soup and vegan matzo balls (ingredients, timing, tasting), share family anecdotes and light banter, and promote their Instagram/Facebook handles.
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You ready?
Yeah, are you?
Yeah.
Okay, great.
Cooking with Mom.
Passover is coming up, unless you're watching this in August because it's the internet and people can watch things whenever they want. Exactly.
Yeah, that much I know. Right.
I've been vegan for about 10 months. My nickname is T-Bone. My mom nearly had a panic attack when I said that I was vegan. For the past 10 months, she's been stressing about the Seder. And how am I gonna have matzo ball chicken soup if I'm vegan? So what are we doing today?
We're gonna make a vegan Jewish penicillin soup. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do like what I do exactly for the chicken soup. Sure. These are soup socks.
Shout out to soup socks.
Yeah.
It's like dad's sock there.
Not really, not really.
But anyway, that's his leg for the bear ghost face.
No, that's a support hose.
Oh, right, support hose.
So here I have leeks, onions, celery in one bag, carrots, white turnip, parsnip, and regular turnip. Not very good at quantities, and I'm not very good at, uh, reading recipes. I'm gonna add—
what?
Some vegetable broth.
Were you trying to rush the broth because it's not organic and I bought apples by accident?
Yeah, exactly. You didn't want to share it? No. Yeah.
Gill wax, all organic, everything.
No, no, it's not all organic. Don't put that out because that's just a lie. Let's keep it. Oh, for Christ's sake. I'm gonna put in some peppercorns. Okay, not so close. I'll put some garlic in here. Okay, so this, this bag is done.
A couple of sock sacks.
Soup sacks.
Soup sacks.
Soup socks.
Super socks.
Soup socks.
I feel like this is going pretty quick.
Yeah, it's gonna— it's done. Now I'm gonna make one last stock. So I have a whole bunch of dill. Mmm, smells good. Let me smell. Mmm. So Julia's allergic to dill. Well, I won't feed it to her because I like her. Okay. This is some parsley, so I'm just gonna put that with the dill. And again, this is just my way of doing things, so—
well, people want to know your way.
Maybe somebody has another way, but it's Pretty good.
You know what time it is. Leave your way to make vegan chicken soup in the comments. Oh, are we live?
No. Oh, you're so full of shit.
No, we're not live.
No. So, my bags. Yeah, I'm just waiting for the broth maybe to boil a little bit. And then that part is ready. I'll just add in the bags and we'll simmer it. I'll add in a little salt. And that's it. And we hope for the best. But we have to start preparing for the matzo balls, right? I've never really even made a matzo ball. I always—
like an actual—
I usually buy them, right? There's only 4 ingredients to it. There's quinoa flakes. I never even heard of quinoa flakes before. 2 cups boiling water.
Yeah. And then, uh, some oil. They say a light vegetable oil or safflower oil. I happen to have the safflower oil.
Really? And then we're gonna go like this, then we have to roll it out, and then we're gonna go like this, and it's gonna be ready. Yeah.
Do it, do it.
It's ready.
Yeah, I don't know.
You can't snap?
Yeah, not with the left. Oh no, I can't snap.
Well, just pretend.
Okay. Oh yeah, I guess it's a little different because there's no eggs in there, so— oh yeah, they roll up nice. It's a pain in the ass. And this is why I don't make matzo balls. You know, you always look for new things to make, but truth of the matter is everybody likes the traditional stuff.
Where did you used to go for the Seders when you were a youth?
Antiglorious. And true story, about a month before Zayda died, he said, okay, it's time for you to to make your own Seders now. So Seder will be gone, uh, 2014 years. Yeah, 14 years. So 14 years ago I started making my own Seders. He never made it to the Seder, but he had it in play that I was going to do it, so that's what happened. All right, let's see how it goes. So they say to cook it 20 to 25 minutes, check it after 10. Listen, they look like a matzo ball, but should I try a bite? Well, we are gonna, uh, I'll look at the finger.
Okay, so it doesn't have the same texture of a matzo ball, but I It almost has a texture of like a potato knish. Really good, actually.
I wonder if they should be in longer.
Mmm, that tastes so good. Doing fine?
They still have a taste of a—
do me a favor. Put a little bit of soup in there.
Okay, like, I wonder if we should put it in more, but they're pretty good.
Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, that's amazing.
You want to taste?
Mm-hmm, it's really good.
It's I mean, listen, it definitely has the flavors. Mm-hmm. I'll make a— not bad.
Did it. Follow my mom on Instagram @gailwax.
Also, you'll have to post this for me.
Yeah, well, I'll post it for you, but also follow me on Instagram @adamgreenberg1. And on Facebook, @AdamGreenbergTB1. 'Cause my mom wants you to follow me.
I do. Yeah. 'Cause she wants— I get a lot of— let him be sponsored all the time.
She wants to get paid for this. Yeah. So, if you want to pay for this, message my mom. And also, in the comments below, let us know what you want us to cook next. What vegan recipe you want. Gail to try.
Cooking with Mom. I will try another batch.
Okay, with this, you know what you should do? You should try your first Instagram story.
