Amen.

He is a chef but mostly what he is doing in the video is cooking and describing as he goes. What youre referring to is a chef in a staff kitchen. When you have to do scheduling, dealing with call out, product that came in and isn't up to your standards, payroll, menus, tastings, specials, group events, inventory, answering a text every minute, trying to see where your staff wandered off to in the 5 min your away, meeting, ordering, random popup stuff, being a leader but approachable, teaching others new things, accountability, usually you oversee dishwashers as well so all the cleaning and maintaining, a lot of chefs do repairs or installations on their own of equipment as well (within reason). You've no idea what it truly means to be a chef. Not trying to be rude but it's a whole different ballgame that you think. Anyone can make a good cooking video. But running the best performing banquet departments in a management companies portfolio of over 360 properties takes a toll, then realize your department is on of the top 5 Marriott banquet departments in the world, far as our guest scores go. Oh I forgot, trying to explain to sales department why things cost what they cost and you can't give discounts on food because the valet was rude, 10% off your wedding. Had a staff of 9, including myself and boss, did roughly $20mil in revenue in 2023. Not to forget how disappointed you feel when something goes wrong. Could be anything. Might even be yourself forgetting one thing that you put off because you were covering a bunch of other mistakes from people, front and back of house. There's another aspect, dealing with wait staff and teaching them as well. Someone yesterday asked what beer cheese tastes like. My boss and I were like you have to try it to understand, it's like asking what's wusterschire tastes like or foie gras. And chef Jean piere is wonderful, I referenc his videos to confirm my thoughts on dishes. Learned a bit here and there but I mostly watch for the enjoyment. Oh and I shouldn't make it sound as if all kitchens are like what I described, I hated the chef position I held and took a half pay cut to be a cook again. I feel better and work with a really talented chef who considered the other two cooks and myself as chefs in his kitchen. I'm used to doing 200 weddings a year and thousands of other evens and now work for a different hotel that does about 10-15, that's much more time to spend on everything. But when stuffs happening it gets a bit tense. Although, all chefs I've worked for have had a good sense of humor and would let me get away teasing/fucking with the in a small minute way that I know would get a rise. But I worked hard and became a well versed person in the kitchen. I bet I can pour wine better than the vast majority of servers in the US. FYI, you put the cork in front of the person who bought the bottle to see how much far the wine has gone up the cork, not to smell it, then let them taste and you pour them a glass last. Few more tide bits but yeah. Idk.

May god rest her soul. Enjoy the soup :)

I think you’ve missed the point of this video and recipe…. Chef was not giving praise to Olive Garden! That place is garbage!

@thatfishindude5459 I think you missed the point of my comment. it was my deceased grandmother's favorite restaurant and soup; and I never understood how she loved the garbage restaurant having been born in Italy.

Such an easy soup to make and delicious! I make it with hot and sweet italian sausage!...yumm! I know it going to be better then olive garden's one! Enjoy!

@camicri4263 Yes, we made it tonight, too. almost exactly as chef. made with mild sausage, but I added lots of red pepper flakes. We ate half and froze the other half...i know it can freeze for 17 yeara!

I was just thinking the very same thing.

Yes, but he's chained to the radiator.

​@@LunarLocust worth it

I’m sure Chef JP unchained him so he can eat some great food 🤣🤣🤣@@LunarLocust

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I sure hope he didn't have to try the pasta!!!! lol

@@didisinclair3605 hahaha

They have all you can eat breadsticks and salad :)

@@CONTINGENCY_sys And it comes with soup!

I think literally everyone's is better than Olive Gardens. My family has started calling it dirty sausage water soup ever since I described it like that after a particularly horrendous visit there.

Great idea.

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AMEN!!!

Better yet, make it FOR her!

@@hullbarrett We enjoy making food together. (:

Every once in a whole, the company has an employee appreciation meal. Sometimes it's olive garden, i don't complain about free food. The one time i went out to eat alone at olive garden since i had a gift card; they put me in the center of the room and left a huge bowl of salad and breadsticks at my table.

Yes, I add extra ground fennel seed or fennel bulb.

Exactly fennel! Had a Jimmy Dean Italian sausage and it tasted about as Italian as a hotdogs 😢

I was thinking of trying spinach also. Not a fan of kale. Did you add at the end or cook it in with the potatoes?

olive garden is mcdonalds but if i say .....il giardino delle olive......sound very high class restaurant

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I haven't eaten at OG in 20+ years so I forgot what it tastes like to render a judgment, but those dishes are based on actual Italian foods. I can see the criticism if the ingredients are of low quality or oversalting is used lieu of true seasoning, but never understood the constant lambasting. I advise people that, if they crave culinary authenticity, they should save up for a trip to the country long specializing in a particular cuisine. Otherwise, there will be regional or personal modifications---as well as the terroir of the ingredients used---affecting the taste of dishes.

@@msr1116 I see your point. Mine was that Chef JP doesn’t use criticism to show his greatness. Seems very humble to me!

@@JorgeLuisCarbonell . .. I hear you and also find it commendable that Chef Jean Pierre is taking the high road. I'm now going to look for a cookbook of OG clones since I cook at home regularly.

@@msr1116the problem with OG is they go way overboard on the garlic.

@@user-se1ev7my6f .., I like a little garlic but Italians in Italy complain about being stereotyped as garlic freaks. That is true in areas of France, Spain and Greece

Thanks for sharing!!👍❤️

Yes, I love it made with hot Italian sausage. If the store only has mild on shopping day, I add hot pepper flakes, too. 😋

Hope you are using the organic kale at it requires heavy use of pesticides due to bugs & slugs loving it like all cabbage type foods.

@@allenkasner6290 No worries. I grew it myself.

That's because she had taste🎉

Olive Garden is not worth crap. Pasta is cheap and easy to cook, no one should be paying to go there.

Your mama had taste! Olive Garden isn’t real Italian. They cater to folks who think it’s true Italian cuisine.

Mama Mia!

​@@cynthiagonzalez658Olive Garden and restaurants and restaurants like it are really just bars with a food theme. It's not a place to go for italian food. It's a place to go with Peroni on tap that just so happens to also serve something vaguely representing chicken parmamesean.

Super nice technique, thank you for sharing! 🙏❤️

Same. I'll just substitute spinach for the kale.

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My Italian father, now passed, loved when my mother made something called "pasta fazool?" It looked brown & soupy with dark small beans and small slanted pasta in it. Dad always liked to put olive oil in his bowl with parmigiana cheese sprinkled over it. Haven't had it since I was a kid in the 60's.😊

@@user-hm8kb5ib1zI know this is bad taste but if Chef JP doesn’t have a recipe for it look up Sip and Feast on YT or google, he has it and I’ve made it…first time trying for me but I loved it.

Right. That's the difference between "thinking out loud" and "talking to yourself"!

Kale is great , only if it's organic though !

I luv that green spatula.

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You too!

Omg yes!

A Viking Chef!

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He’s the real deal.. 👍…❤️.. He’s priceless..