Have you ever wondered how
to prepare healthy food that
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actually tastes good?
Well, stay tuned while
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Eveta Tezeno, Brenda Kemp,
and yours truly Nyse Collins
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show you just how to do it and
give you a Taste of Paradise.
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My name is Eveta Tezeno,
and my name is Brenda Kemp,
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and we are so glad
you joined us today.
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We will be sharing with
you Living Food recipes,
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and what are the
benefits of "Living Food."
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They are high in
enzymes and nutrient dense,
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and today's recipe is
a Spinach Avocado soup.
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The ingredients are:
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So let's begin, today we
will be using a Vita Mix.
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We have the two cups of
spinach, the green onions,
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one small avocado, some thyme,
one tablespoon of Olive Oil,
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one apple, some sea salt,
cayenne, and some roma tomatoes.
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Now we have the four cups
of water, and then we blend.
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And there we have it.
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So there you have
it, Avocado Spinach Soup.
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Wow Eveta, that looks really
good, and it's healthy for you
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too. Yes, it's
very nutrient dense.
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Oh Brenda, what are
we going to make next?
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We are going to be
making Avocado Kale Salad,
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So let's go
ahead and get started.
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We will be using
green leafy kale today.
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Brenda, most people
think that kale is garnish.
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Kale is a garnish but
kale is also very delicious
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to eat. So what we are doing now
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is we are de-stemming the kale,
and we do this so it is easy
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for us to chop. I'll
take that for you. Thank you!
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And what you do is
grab you a bunch like this,
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then you begin to cut
it. We are kind of slicing it
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very thin. Wow, that smells
good. Yes it is very good.
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What are some of the
benefits of kale Brenda?
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Well kale is high in
vitamin A, vitamin K, vitamin C,
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potassium, and also Folic Acid.
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This is a real simple dish,
it doesn't even need equipment
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to make. Let's do it like that.
I'll take that out of your way.
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Thank you! Ok, so to start we
will need our two tablespoons of
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Extra Virgin Olive Oil,
and then we have our Sea Salt,
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and then what we do
is we massage the kale.
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Why do you massage the kale?
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We massage the kale so
that it breaks it down so that
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it is easy to digest.
Kale is very hard to digest
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if it is not
broken down like this.
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A lot of people don't know
that they can eat kale raw...
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You know I've seen many
recipes and it's been cooked.
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Yes, this massaging
also gives it the appearance
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of being cooked. So you do
this for about a minute or so.
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Really getting in
there and working it.
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Well, it's going down already.
Yes, we started out with a
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pretty good size bowl of it
and it's really breaking down.
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Can kind of getting messy. OK!
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I think that gives it pretty
good. Ok, so we are going to
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add...We're going to
add some lemon juice...
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Thank you! Massage it
just a little bit more,
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can you give me a
clove of garlic? Oh ok!
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What do you want
me to do with it?
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Using our garlic press, we are
going to press that right on in.
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Mmmm! The garlic
really smells good.
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I think the garlic kind
of gives it an extra kick.
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What's the next ingredient?
Let's dump in some of the
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green onions.
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I'm getting these
cherry tomatoes chopped for you
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while you are
doing that. Um-humm!
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I love cherry tomatoes
because they are so sweet.
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Ok! Then we are going
to add in our avocado,
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half of avocado, and this
is when it really gets gooey.
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Laughter! Mmmm! Smells so good!
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Still massaging! And you
actually don't have to massage
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all of the kale in completely
into the kale...The avocado!
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The avocado? Oh yeah!
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You can leave a
few chunks in there.
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Ok! Then last, we are going
to add in our cherry tomatoes,
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just for decoration.
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Just kind of mix that
around like so. You know what,
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this is a good dish to bring
to a picnic. Yes, you will "WOW"
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people with this dish.
Remember the first time we went
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to that raw food meet over
in the... and we brought this
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dish, everybody loved it.
This is the dish that really
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got you and I
going raw. Yes it did!
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Ok! And there you have
it. Avocado Kale Salad.
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Welcome to the V.I.P. room! The
most important room there is.
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The question is, do you
know what the V.I.P. room is?
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Well, many people think of
the V.I.P. room, they think of
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maybe a special place
in a certain location where
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only the "Elite" goes to.
They may think of sometimes
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people think of a club,
or maybe a country club.
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There is always a V.I.P.
section... Matter of fact
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even when you go to the
airport, there is a little
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V.I.P. room for those who fly
all the time and items like that
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and so, that is not what I
am talking about here today.
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I am talking about the
V.I.P. room of your home.
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So if I ask you what is the
V.I.P. room, many people will
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ask...or answer and they
will say, well maybe it's the
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bedroom, you know,
where the family is made.
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And that's very important,
but that is not what I want
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to talk about. Some people
also think of the bathroom,
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and it is very true, if
you don't use the bathroom,
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you are going to
be in big trouble.
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But that still is not the
V.I.P. room. The V.I.P. room
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is the kitchen, you
use it you live, you don't,
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some people say, you may die.
And so we want to focus on that
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today, not just
because it is all about cooking
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and different items like that,
but a lot of relationships are
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built in the kitchen, which
I believe is the V.I.P. room.
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You spend time with the
family, you eat together...
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There is an old saying,
those who pray together,
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stay together, but I also
believe, those who eat together
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stay together. And you
do fun things in there.
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Another reason I believe
why it's the V.I.P. room,
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if you don't use it you
are going to be in big trouble.
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A lot of people that
don't use that V.I.P. section,
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which is the kitchen and they
go out and have fast food...
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I remember somebody telling
me, if you eat fast food,
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you live a fast
life. You are here today...
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Remember the old
saying, Gone tomorrow!
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I would like to
change that, Gone Tonight!
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So be careful that we don't
get into that other section.
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Well, let's start
to use the kitchen.
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I remember a long time
ago when I used to be young,
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I don't think you all
were around back then,
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I learned a lot of
things in the kitchen.
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We learned how to cook even
granola, we learned how to make
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some pasta, we learned how
to make rice and all of that
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good stuff. Of course we
made a mess, we were children,
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but actually it was the
best memories. Why, because now
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I have the opportunity to
cook and I learned it when
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I was hanging out in that room.
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Matter of fact, one of my
friends was just telling me here
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why is the kitchen
also very important?
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Because it will save you
some money. You eat out...
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Matter of fact, one of my
good friends was talking about
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the other day...He is
always in debt...Oh I don't have
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money this, and I'm
always broke and the man
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works almost 60- 70 hours a
week. Why is he always broke?
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And so we started to look at
some of the things that he was
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doing...The first thing is
I asked him where do you eat
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breakfast? He says, I
pick it up at the local shop.
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Where do you eat
lunch? I pick it up here.
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And where do you eat
dinner? Oh, I go out there.
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Right there...Let's do a little
calculation if you don't mind.
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The average meal, let's
say lunch, is about seven
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or eight dollars, I know
this big promotion now about the
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five footers and the five
dollars, and get everything
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for five, but watch this.
Let's just say it's just five.
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If I eat out...Let's say I work
five days a week, and I spend
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five dollars a day, and I
know you all just don't spend
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five dollars a day,
cause when I used to eat out
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I would get that meal, and
then I would go ahead and add
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something on to that. Maybe
a cookie, or a little bag of
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chips, or you remember the
old thing the super size it
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and all that good stuff...
Let's just stick to five though,
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Five time five is 35, no
25, and so you add that up
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and you go how many weeks
in a month? Is four weeks in
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a month, so let's go 25 by
four, that's $100 right there
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and you go ahead and
multiply that over how long?
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Twelve months in one
year, and that's what, $1,200,
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and that was just on
lunch, and I know we just don't
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spend five. We're not talking
about sometimes when we eat out,
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with breakfast, or even dinner,
and all those items, so you
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can take that and
multiply that is 3,600, 4,500.
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Some of us, even myself,
I used to spend $5.00 a day
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getting that special... you
know that little drink that you
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get you know, with all the
extra whipped cream on top,
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Thank the Lord, I
don't do that any more.
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But we spend so much
money because we are not using
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the V.I.P. room, so
let's get back home.
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Let's spend some time, and
I know a lot of people say, OH
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I don't have time to be
cooking and time to do this, but
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watch this! If you
don't take the time out now,
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you will have to
take the time out later.
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Unfortunately
later, is when we are sick.
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Unfortunately later is
when somebody else has to take
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the time to take care of us.
So let's start making some time
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in our schedules, in our
lives, to use that kitchen.
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Matter of fact, I was
just reading a report,
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everybody's spending thousands
and thousands of dollars
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on upgrades to their kitchen,
but nobody is using the kitchen.
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Matter of fact, don't
even upgrade the kitchen if you
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are not going to use it. Go
ahead and use that money for
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something else, but if you
are going to spend the money on
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the kitchen, then go
ahead and put it to use.
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So today we want to focus
on that and we want to focus
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on one meal that we
usually do around the kitchen,
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and one meal that we
focus on around the family.
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And we do it for holidays,
we do it for special occasions,
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and stuff like that, but
everybody always says Ahh!
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that recipe is usually not
the best because it has a lot of
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fat and stuff like that,
and you all know what I am
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talking about. It's the stuff
with the little stringy items
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that you have to boil it
and do all of that stuff.
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Yes! and you put all this
cheese on it, I'm talking about
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the Mac and Cheese
Pie. It's in every meal,
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we see it all the time,
especially with family settings,
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but today we are going to learn
how to make some mac and cheese,
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It's going to be economical,
it's going to be nutritious,
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and praise the Lord,
it is going to taste good,
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and so go ahead and get your
stuff ready, get your pens out
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we are going to make some notes
today because we are going to
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make Mac and Cheese Pie
that not only is healthy for you
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but it tastes good and you
get to do it in the V.I.P. room.
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So here we go, Mac and
Cheese Pie coming right up
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and it's a simple
recipe that everybody can do.
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All you need is:
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Now real quick...The reason
why I believe this one is so
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easy, and we try to make
it very simple, it's because
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the biggest downfall with every-
body who is trying to live a
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healthy lifestyle is...Oh man
I don't have all the ingredients
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and we always stop,
this is an absolute no-no,
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no more excuses. Keep
rolling with the recipe,
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use what you have and
just improvise, and so we try
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to keep it real
simple for you here today.
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What we are going to
do with that one box of
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whole wheat macaroni is we
are just going to go ahead and
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boil that, you all are experts
already, so I don't need to
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show you how to go
ahead and cook macaroni...
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Whole Wheat... Matter of fact,
when you go ahead and cook it
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you need to just cook
it just until it's tender,
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because we are going to go
ahead and bake it a little bit.
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So if you cook it until it is
like to soft and stuff, like a
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how you normally have it
and then you bake it again,
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instead of having
macaroni and cheese pie,
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you would have like
macaroni and cheese mush,
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or something of that nature.
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But you all already know
that so no worries about that,
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and because of time, we went
ahead and prepared it for you,
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so I have my tender macaroni...
whole wheat macaroni.
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After it's cooked, you
just go ahead and drain that out
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real quick and so this
is the little excess...
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and that's the cool thing about
macaroni, if you make more than
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enough, you can make a salad
out of it, you can do different
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things, so that is the
excess here. We already have...
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What you need is a casserole
dish, and this casserole dish...
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preferably clear, I
like the Pyrex ones...Why,
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because one of the
first steps in digestion,
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it has to be visual, ok.
And I am going to show you
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the finished product
here in a little while
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so go ahead and put
it in one of those items.
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You take a regular
blender or whatever you have...
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you get that going. I have
my two cups of raw cashews...
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A lot of times you can rinse
it...man if you see where these
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things are grown and
how people harvest them...
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People walking all over
it with their feet and stuff,
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you'd be washing
your stuff from now on.
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But you go ahead, you add
that, two cups, really simple,
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then we are going to go ahead
and add the rest of the other
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ingredients. We have the salt,
this is preferably sea salt ok.
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People don't catch a heart
attack, I know this quite a bit
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but I'm going to explain because
nobody's eating the whole
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macaroni and cheese
pie at the same time.
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So a little salt is not
going to cause any problem,
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then we have some garlic powder,
we have onion powder as well,
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and here's the
cool thing about it...
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we're just doing this
because we have to do it on TV,
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but if you are at
home and you don't have
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onion or garlic powder...Where
did onion powder come from?
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It came from the onion,
take a piece of onion, drop that
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in there, the garlic powder,
just take the garlic or two...
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just take it easy, not too
many because you have to talk
00:18:55.42\00:18:57.97
to people afterwards
and so we don't want a riot
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in the place
because of our breath...
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and so you can just drop the
fresh garlic in there actually
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I will tell you this quietly,
I think that's even better.
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So go ahead and do that...
Lemon juice, we'll pour the
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lemon juice in
there, really simple, and
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nutritional yeast flakes...
People you get your vitamins
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especially the B12 from
that, and you can do it before
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or after, then
you add the water.
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If you noticed it said
three cups of water divided
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and it depends on the
blender you have, ok. So you can
00:19:25.53\00:19:29.59
pour it there...If you
pour to much water, you may have
00:19:29.62\00:19:33.32
a problem depending on your
blender of grinding up the nuts
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and instead of having macaroni
and cheese pie, you have
00:19:36.22\00:19:37.69
macaroni & cheese cashew
pie crunch, or something of that
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nature...So you want to go
ahead and put in less water so
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it could blend properly,
and then you have your red
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bell peppers. I have a quick
question for everybody who is
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watching here today. What is
the highest source of Vitamin C?
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Highest source of Vitamin C.
Now I know you are all thinking
00:19:56.65\00:20:00.31
well you know maybe oranges
or grapefruit or lemon and lime,
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and you all are probably saying,
obviously he is going to tell us
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it's red bell peppers. Red
bell peppers, not the number one
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source but it's very high...
Number one is called actually
00:20:09.68\00:20:14.51
Acerola Cherry! You eat
this cherry, it tastes like a
00:20:14.54\00:20:17.09
vitamin C supplement,
it burns your mouth...
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But number two on the
list is Sweet Red Bell Pepper.
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Let me repeat Sweet Red
Bell Pepper, everybody see it!
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This one here, I'm telling you
This is an amazing fruit because
00:20:28.44\00:20:32.09
it has so much Vitamin
C... Matter of fact this
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Sweet Red Bell Pepper has
almost four times the amount
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of Vitamin C than an orange and
a lot of people don't know that
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now a lot of people will
also ask, well what about the
00:20:42.65\00:20:44.44
green one, or the orange,
or the pink, or the yellow.
00:20:44.47\00:20:46.72
Now they got purple ones these
days, I don't know about those,
00:20:46.75\00:20:49.35
I only know what we studied,
and we found out the red ones...
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Matter of fact, the red one
is a sign that it has actually
00:20:52.18\00:20:55.55
ripened. The green ones
are unripened Bell Peppers,
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and so the greatest amount
of Vitamin C will be found
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in the red ones. A matter
of fact, that's why they are
00:21:03.66\00:21:06.36
giving the green ones
away at the supermarket.
00:21:06.39\00:21:08.34
A lot of people are like,
well the red ones are expensive.
00:21:08.37\00:21:11.00
Why, because it costs the
farmer man more time to grow it.
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Matter of fact, if you leave
the green one on the vine there
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for a little bit longer it will
actually turn red and so the
00:21:18.70\00:21:22.42
farmer man is like well,
if it's going to cost me more
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time, I'm going to charge you
more. That's why these sometimes
00:21:25.54\00:21:27.39
are worth almost 3 or 4
dollars a pound and it's...
00:21:27.42\00:21:30.88
To me, I think it's extortion,
but that's why... because
00:21:30.91\00:21:33.61
we can grow our own garden
at home, so you will never have
00:21:33.64\00:21:36.75
to pay for this again. But, if
you don't have your garden yet
00:21:36.78\00:21:39.46
go ahead and buy this,
it's worth every last drop
00:21:39.49\00:21:42.82
because of the Vitamin C,
and that's why we also put
00:21:42.85\00:21:45.60
roasted red bell peppers,
because these actually...
00:21:45.63\00:21:49.17
in this container that I bought,
it had about 3 or 4 in there
00:21:49.20\00:21:53.84
for only $2.98 or
something of that nature,
00:21:53.87\00:21:57.14
and so it was actually
cheaper than the fresh one.
00:21:57.17\00:22:00.00
The fresh one is always better,
but if you can get it like that,
00:22:00.04\00:22:02.37
no problem, no complaints.
So you put all of them in here
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and we will just turn it
on, so bear with me real quick.
00:22:06.14\00:22:10.91
No watch this, you want to blend
it till you don't hear that
00:22:37.82\00:22:40.66
crispy, crackling sound,
that means that the cashews have
00:22:40.69\00:22:43.45
actually been blended properly.
Blend it until it is nice
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and creamy, if you have a
regular blender, take it easy
00:22:46.34\00:22:48.85
on the blender don't burn it
out, stop and go, stop and go
00:22:48.88\00:22:51.37
as you want...and if it kind
of gets like congested in there,
00:22:51.40\00:22:54.32
that's why you have an
additional water to add.
00:22:54.35\00:22:58.07
But if you all don't
mind, I like my mac and cheese
00:22:58.10\00:22:59.86
thick and creamy. If I
want it on the stove top,
00:22:59.89\00:23:02.19
I'll do something else... and
actually you can do stove top
00:23:02.22\00:23:04.18
just add more water and put it
on the stove and keep mixing it.
00:23:04.21\00:23:06.69
But I like it nice and creamy,
so I am not even going to add
00:23:06.72\00:23:09.05
that excess water there, and
now I have nice cashew cream.
00:23:09.08\00:23:13.25
It is real simple how you do
this. You go ahead...you take
00:23:13.28\00:23:16.18
your casserole dish, you
take that cashew cream...
00:23:16.21\00:23:18.97
Oh my goodness! Look at this!
00:23:19.00\00:23:21.43
This is good stuff right here...
and you pour that on there
00:23:21.46\00:23:25.27
and you all are like wait, you
have more cheese than macaroni,
00:23:25.30\00:23:27.81
and that's how
we do it back home.
00:23:27.84\00:23:30.22
This is actually so delicious,
people won't even know it's
00:23:30.25\00:23:35.62
made from cashews, and
because I have quite a bit,
00:23:35.65\00:23:38.39
I am going to go ahead and
take some more cooked macaroni
00:23:38.42\00:23:42.40
and I am going to pour that on
there, and what you want to do
00:23:42.43\00:23:45.89
is you want to
mix that in there.
00:23:45.92\00:23:47.38
I like to use the kind of
pasta that I would normally use
00:23:47.41\00:23:50.59
is the Rotini, the
little spiral ones here...
00:23:50.62\00:23:52.72
You can use the
elbows if you want,
00:23:52.75\00:23:54.70
whatever works best for you,
but I like the Rotini because
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.96
then it gets all in it you
know, and it holds it properly
00:23:57.99\00:24:02.67
and so let me put this down
and mix that a little bit with
00:24:02.70\00:24:07.88
my smaller spoon. So you mix it
properly and I think I have some
00:24:07.91\00:24:12.68
more cheese over here, so you
know me, I don't like to waste
00:24:12.71\00:24:16.32
anything, so I am getting
every last drop of cheese.
00:24:16.35\00:24:19.07
And you mix it in there
properly, like I said you can
00:24:19.10\00:24:22.08
use the elbows, it's just
that the cheese may not get in
00:24:22.11\00:24:25.67
the elbow so you
will have an empty elbow
00:24:25.70\00:24:27.71
if you ever
heard of that before.
00:24:27.74\00:24:28.82
Umm! And so you put it
there, now you can stop here
00:24:28.85\00:24:35.24
and take it and put it in the
oven, ok, you put this on the
00:24:35.27\00:24:41.20
oven 350- 375, follow
the instructions there,
00:24:41.23\00:24:46.58
Ill go over this to
give you something better.
00:24:46.61\00:24:48.35
So you take this, you put this
in the oven, so if you don't
00:24:48.38\00:24:53.17
mind, giving me a second. Now we
don't have all day to go ahead
00:24:53.20\00:24:56.75
and bake it, and it doesn't
even take that long to bake
00:24:56.78\00:25:00.03
Matter of fact, one second.
One lady said, I was making the
00:25:00.06\00:25:03.83
macaroni and cheese pie, but
I was so hungry that I couldn't
00:25:03.86\00:25:08.72
wait for it to finish.
So I said, "what happened"?
00:25:08.75\00:25:11.78
She said I pulled it back
out of the oven and had started
00:25:11.81\00:25:16.36
eating it. I said, was it
done? She said no, and she says
00:25:16.39\00:25:19.35
"am I going to get
sick"? I said "why would you"?
00:25:19.38\00:25:22.23
It was just cashews, some
lemon juice, onion powder,
00:25:22.26\00:25:25.24
garlic powder, and some stuff
like that, no problem, eat it.
00:25:25.27\00:25:27.82
But you know what, if you made
that other macaroni and cheese,
00:25:27.85\00:25:31.01
the one like grandma,
you may get sick. "Why!"
00:25:31.04\00:25:33.70
Because she put a whole
bunch of stuff in there,
00:25:33.73\00:25:35.90
and if you have to let it cook
properly, because if it doesn't
00:25:35.93\00:25:38.48
cook properly, then it is
going to cause other problems.
00:25:38.51\00:25:40.13
So let me get the other finished
product one that we have here
00:25:40.16\00:25:43.79
for you...Now I don't want to
show you because people my want
00:25:43.82\00:25:47.93
to order it and I'm trying
to have this later for dinner,
00:25:47.96\00:25:52.30
but my dinner is lunch actually.
And this is actually the
00:25:52.33\00:25:56.16
"Mac and Cheese Pie." As
you see here, we got it a little
00:25:56.19\00:26:00.14
crispy and let it bake properly.
What you do is you let this bake
00:26:00.17\00:26:05.49
in such a way that it gets
really thick and you can see it
00:26:05.52\00:26:10.20
right here, look at this.
Right there, simple, easy.
00:26:10.23\00:26:13.82
Don't worry, it's
not going to fall.
00:26:13.85\00:26:15.61
Imagine if it did fall.
But no, it won't fall on you
00:26:15.64\00:26:18.18
because it is nice
and thick and hardy,
00:26:18.21\00:26:19.99
and here's the good thing
about it, it's almost as good
00:26:20.02\00:26:23.25
as grandma's. "Almost!"
Ok! And why do I say almost?
00:26:23.28\00:26:27.26
Because grandma's
is not as good as this.
00:26:27.29\00:26:28.65
Because this one here...
Did you ever notice when ah,
00:26:28.68\00:26:31.13
Thanksgiving and stuff like
that, we'll come and we'll take
00:26:31.16\00:26:34.79
a slice of her macaroni
and cheese...She will put like
00:26:34.82\00:26:36.84
five different cheeses in there,
matter of fact, she will crack
00:26:36.87\00:26:39.24
a couple of eggs, milk,
and all this stuff, and a whole
00:26:39.27\00:26:42.36
stick of butter...I
remember because I ate one piece
00:26:42.39\00:26:45.32
and I was whew! Lord help
me. I ate a second piece and I
00:26:45.35\00:26:47.87
felt my hear actually
like start to flutter...
00:26:47.90\00:26:49.87
Oh I don't know if it was my
heart, but I just got so tired
00:26:49.90\00:26:52.68
and if you notice at
Thanksgiving everybody just
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.57
knocks out after the meal,
because I don't know if they
00:26:54.60\00:26:57.62
knocked out or the mac
and cheese knocked them out.
00:26:57.65\00:26:59.59
But the good thing with
this one is, it will taste good
00:26:59.62\00:27:03.29
and it's actually good for you.
00:27:03.32\00:27:05.36
So go ahead, put this out
on the table Thanksgiving,
00:27:05.39\00:27:09.18
special holidays... Enjoy it!
00:27:09.21\00:27:10.80
Just don't tell
anybody, this is the fake one,
00:27:10.83\00:27:13.00
and this is the real
one, just put it out there
00:27:13.03\00:27:14.98
and let them have a good time.
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