I have a new girlfriend!

Hi, so I kind of have a new girlfriend and

I wanted to talk about her. Some of you

might know about her already because I've

been talking about her on various websites

and apps, including Discord and streams.

I'm not going to tell you anything too

private or personal about her. Basically,

she's a 27-year-old girl from Essex, and

we'll be calling her the Essex Girl for

convenience's sake. She first messaged me

around October last year, and I didn't

really take her too seriously because I

was a loyal, devoted married man at the

time, and I didn't really pay too much

attention to her. But ever since me and my

wife separated, we've been chatting to

each other nearly every day. And since I

got back from Germany, we've been doing

voice chats on Instagram, um,

not every day, but for quite a few days.

Every week, and she watches my YouTube

channel and she thinks I'm very nice and

she quite likes me, and I think she's into

me quite a lot. So I asked her if she

wanted to be my girlfriend and she said

yes! So we're going to meet up in London

next week and we're going to go on a date

and see how it goes. I think it's going to

be quite good because I feel as though,

um, you know, we kind of have a connection

when we talk to each other voice to voice.

Usually I don't like phoning people

because I find it a bit boring being stuck

in a conversation in a phone call with

someone that I don't really find that

interesting to talk to. But with the Essex

girl, we can talk for hours and hours and

hours, and I genuinely don't feel bored,

which is a good sign. Now, some of you

might be worrying. Some of you might be

thinking, hold on, this is just going to

be another Turkish girl disaster, and I'll

lose another 500 subs. But I think it's

going to be different this time. I'm going

to make some changes to my dating

strategy. Whereas in the past, I would

either just meet up with a girl and then

hook up with her, and I would try and have

cereal with her even if I wasn't attracted

to her. But I've come to realize that

society and people in general don't like

it when I tell them that I had cereal with

a girl even though I didn't feel attracted

to her. So I think some changes to my

dating strategy would be a good idea, and

here's what I propose. Now, I'm not saying

that I'm not going to do hookups anymore.

I'm still up for a hookup if the girl

agrees to it, and I'm still up for hooking

up even if I don't find you attractive.

The difference is I'm not gonna tell

anyone that I don't find you attractive.

But if you're one of those people who

aren't interested in a casual hookup, no

strings attached, one-night thing, and

you're interested in a serious

relationship with me, then I think I'm

going to have to take a different

approach. If you are looking for a serious

relationship with me then that's great.

I'm also looking for a serious

relationship. But this time, I think that

if I don't feel attracted to you, then I

won't try and cereal with you.

Because apparently girls feel upset

and hurt if you sleep with them when you

don't feel attracted to them. I don't know

why this is. I don't make the rules. If

someone slept with me and then later told

me that they didn't feel very attracted to

me, I wouldn't really care because I still

got cereal. So this time, in order to

protect myself and the Essex girl, what I

propose is we meet up for a date and we

see how things go. No cereal. And if I

like her, if I feel attracted to her,

then we meet for a second time. But if I

don't like her and I don't feel attracted

to her, then I just tell her that over

messages and maybe we just become friends

or I never speak to her again. And if that

happens, then no one gets hurt. Her

feelings don't get hurt, she doesn't feel

used by me, and I don't lose another 500

subs. So I don't see how this could fail

as a plan or a strategy. I don't really

know what we're going to be doing on the

date. I think we're just going to meet up,

go for a walk, maybe go to a park. I did

tell her that I don't really feel

comfortable in crowded places, so I think

a nice peaceful walk in a not-so-crowded

park would be nice. But if when we meet,

and for some reason, I mean, and somehow

we do like each other a lot and we click

very well, and she invites me to have

cereal, I'm not gonna say no.

It's up to her. I guess what I'm saying is

it's up to her. I'm not going to push

anything. Unless she,

she's up for it and she's okay with it. I

guess I just want to avoid another Turkish

girl situation where I didn't really feel

attracted to her, but I still jumped into

bed and then later regretted it because of

all of the negative backlash and all the

subs I lost. And if you've been wondering

why my sub count is now hidden, that's

because I'm sick of people celebrating and

cheering because My channel's dying! Yes,

I've lost over 500 subs, and it sucks,

and it's annoying, and it irritates me

that there are a lot of people out there

tracking my sub count, posting screenshots

of it going down, and then cheering about

it. So I've decided that I don't want to

give them that satisfaction. I don't

really enjoy people deriving pleasure off

of my misery and suffering, so I've

decided to hide my sub count. So you won't

know how many subs I have, and it's going

to remain hidden until it goes above 90K.

If that ever happens, I don't know. So

that's the plan, that's what we plan on

doing. Hopefully everything goes okay,

hopefully it's not too awkward between us,

and you never know, um, this might lead to

something special. I have a good feeling

about this one. Hello and welcome back to

another exciting episode of Cooking with

Daniel. Today we're going to be making

something extremely simple. Actually,

it's probably going to be the most

simplest thing I've ever cooked on the

show. Just with this one onion, we're

going to be creating a delicious meal of

baked onions. Well, just one onion, we

don't have 2. That fridge is so noisy.

Well, how do you make a baked roast onion?

There isn't much to it. You don't even

have to prepare it in any way. Leave the

skin on. We don't do any cutting. And the

reason why we leave the skin on is because

if we take the skin off, then the onion's

going to burn. So the skin kind of

protects the onion flesh on the inside

from being overcooked and being scorched.

Also keeps the juices and the flavors

within the onion and stops it from

escaping. So the first step to making your

baked onion is get an oven tray, place

your onion onto it like this. This, and

then just pop it into the oven.

And I would say we bake it in the oven for

around 40 minutes. That should be long

enough.

Can you stay still,

Mima? Trying to take your video so

I can get the video to 10 minutes. Let's

check on my baked onion.

Ooh. Oh, actually smells pretty good. I

wasn't expecting a roast onion to smell

this nice. Maybe it's just because I'm

very hungry right now. This fridge is so

noisy. Get your towel because it's very

hot. Ooh, look at this! There's some onion

juice that leaked out of the bottom, but

that's okay, that's okay. Oh,

it looks good! Doesn't it look

good? Ew, what's that? It looks like an

alien thing off Halo. Wow, this camera

focuses in really closely. Look at that!

Whoa, whoa! So what we're gonna do is

we're gonna get a spoon, and I just want

to see how soft it is. Whoa, it's all

mushy inside of that onion skin. I'm not

sure if I can hold it yet. It might still

be too— oh no, it's cooled down quite a

bit. Hmm, how do we get it open?

That looks disgusting. Why are there

tentacles coming out of it? So get your

Daniel bowl out. Yes, I have a bowl that

says Daniel on it because my mum bought it

for my birthday, okay? Get your knife and

we're gonna make a slice. We're gonna

slice off those disgusting tentacles.

Eugh! And there we have the

onion flesh. Let's have a zoom in.

Can you focus? No?

Okay. As you can see, the onion has been

cooked fairly well. Hmm.

And we're just going to squeeze it out

into the bowl like this.

There's one more layer in there, but I

don't think I can get it out. Okay, now we

have the onion out of the skin, we're just

going to mash it A little bit like so.

And now I think I want to season it a

little bit. We have sea salt. Put some

salt on there for flavoring. Not too

much. And then we also have some black

pepper.

I also have some ground cumin, which might

be interesting. Just add a tiny bit, not

too much, and then give

it another mix.

It kind of smells like an onion bhaji.

Yeah, it does.

Okay, so I'm gonna give it a try. Wish me

luck. My first ever baked onion.

Let me get a big spoonful of it. Can you

see? Delicious looking.

Mm, I'm going to add a bit more salt.

It's a bit bland, to be honest.

A bit more salt. Okay, give it another

Um, it's okay,

I guess. It just tastes like an onion.

It's not really that exciting.

Tastes like a salty onion.

Well, I don't know if that was a success

or not, but there you have it, a baked

onion. Thanks for watching and goodbye.