Have you ever wondered
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how to prepare
healthy, tasty meals,
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raw and cooked that
actually taste good?
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Well, stay tuned
while Evita Tezeno
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and your's truly Nyse
Collins show you how to do so
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and give you A
Taste of Paradise.
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Hi.
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This is Evita Tezeno
with A Taste of Paradise
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and happy holidays.
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Yes, we're doing
some more fabulous recipes
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to grace your
table for the holidays
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and we're doing them raw.
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Yes, live living foods.
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And one of my
favorite dishes are greens,
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marinated greens.
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I just love collard
greens, I love kale,
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I love all types of greens.
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And yes, you can eat greens raw,
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but you just have to
treat them a little bit
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to make them tender
so you can eat them.
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So we're doing a
marinated collard green today
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that is fabulous.
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And coming from the
south, we used to flavor our,
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our greens with meat
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and so I'm adding
a little twist there
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by using eggplant
bacon to spice it up
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and give it like a
little savory smoky taste.
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So let's read our ingredients
and let's start the recipe.
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Gotta have that
little kick in it.
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For the eggplant bacon...
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We're gonna start off
making the eggplant bacon.
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So we have an
eggplant that has been peeled
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and we're using this wonderful
item here called the mandolin,
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this is my favorite, favorite
appliance in the kitchen.
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So what this does, it uniformly
cuts vegetables for you.
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So you don't have to be
trying to guide with a knife
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and trying to
thinly slice things
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this does it all for you.
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It's just very, very easy.
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So this is how it works.
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You want to just continue,
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you want to make sure
that you watch your fingers.
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And just continue
to slice the eggplant.
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And you could use
this with, with zucchini,
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with all kind of
different other vegetables.
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So once you have your
eggplant cut into thin slices
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you want to slice them in half
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and now let's make the marinade.
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So we're using
our Vitamix today.
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And we have some brags...
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maple syrup...
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olive oil...
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cumin,
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a clove of garlic,
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soaked chipotle pepper,
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a smoked paprika.
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Now if you don't have access
to a chipotle pepper, you can...
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and it won't be really raw
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but you could put some
natural liquid smoke in it
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'cause you want this smoky.
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So that's what
gives it the smoke,
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also the smoked paprika
also gives it that smoky taste.
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So now we're going to blend it.
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Once these
things are incorporated,
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you want to place
your eggplant in a bowl...
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and pour your
marinate over the eggplant.
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Now, my hands are clean,
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so you want to make sure
that your hands are clean
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and you want to mix this in
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and make sure that all
the slices are covered.
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And you want to then
put it in your refrigerator
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and let it sit kind of
bathe in this wonderful sauce
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for several hours.
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So then we want to
put it in our dehydrator.
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Now today we're
using Excalibur dehydrator
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but if you don't have
a Excalibur dehydrator
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you can try it in the oven
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and put it on a low
setting like 100 degrees
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and make sure that you watch it.
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It won't get really crispy
like it does in the dehydrator
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but it does work.
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So we're gonna put
it in the dehydrator.
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Grabbing a sheet...
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and this has a Teflex sheet
that comes with the dehydrator,
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this keeps the
liquid from seeping through.
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We're gonna just
place them on here.
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And you want to
dehydrate them overnight.
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So our next dish is the
marinated collard greens.
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So we have our collard greens
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that have been
cut into julienne.
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So I'm gonna show
you how to do that.
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We're de-vein
our collard green...
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and then we roll it like this...
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and then we cut
it into thin slices.
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This is called...
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this not called julienne,
it's called chiffonade,
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it's French terminology.
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So it comes in
nice ribbon like pieces.
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So then you want to
take your collared greens.
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And.
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I'm using
double the recipe today
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because it's so delicious.
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So I'm making a
bunch for my friends.
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So you want to put
the lemon juice in it,
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and the salt,
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and the olive oil.
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And then you want to massage it.
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This breaks down
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the cellular walls
of the collard greens
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so it becomes
very soft and pliable.
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And if you notice,
it has almost given
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the appearance
of its being cooked
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because of the
salt, the lemon juice,
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and the olive oil.
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We got our bell pepper...
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our wonderful red pepper flakes
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and if you don't like spicy
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you don't have to put the
red bell pepper flakes in,
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the green onions,
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we have a little maple syrup,
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our salt...
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and crushed garlic.
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And we want to mix this up.
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And we have some of our red...
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Our eggplant bacon.
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And we want to just
lightly chop this up.
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Toss this in.
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And we have a
wonderful festive bowl.
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What a pretty festive
bowl and let's plate it now.
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Oh, it smells amazing.
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I can't wait to eat this.
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Look at this.
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I wish you guys were here.
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It smells amazing.
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This is another recipe
from the Taste of Paradise.
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And remember to live life fresh.
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Back to the special
holiday season here,
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A Taste of Paradise.
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You're gonna continue to enjoy
some of the fabulous meals.
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As you see, we've been putting
together, Evita over there
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preparing those raw items
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and we're just
trying to cook some food
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because I need some
cooked food during the holidays.
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But while there is
many different dishes
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that you can make
during the holidays
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and one in particular
that is always be our mainstay,
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it almost seems like,
all of them are mainstays
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is that mac and cheese pie
or some would say casserole.
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However, you say it, you
know what I'm talking about.
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The good old mac and cheese
with that whole wheat pasta.
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Amen, amen.
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I know you all are
using whole wheat pasta,
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you don't use that
white stuff, right?
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But, you know, I'm
talking about the mac and cheese
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is really thick, you
cut yourself a nice square,
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you have that next
to your tofu Turkey
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and your beads and
all that good stuff.
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Well, today we're going
to show you another twist
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to make that mac and
cheese pie or casserole.
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Step over with me as we go
into the kitchen real quick
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and we're going to look at this.
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You see before when we
were doing mac and cheese pie,
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you know, the healthy
one we were using what?
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The cashew cheese and
everybody enjoyed that one,
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we poured that over the
pasta and it was fantastic.
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Then we threw
another twist on it
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because not everybody has access
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to like cashews and
almonds and all of that.
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As a matter of
fact, I was in one country
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and I was going to
prepare the cashew cheese
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or mac and cheese pie
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and I went to buy the cashews
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and they were
literally 33 dollars a pound.
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I was like,
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"We're not going
to have the pasta
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on this recipe from now on."
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You know what I
mean, especially here.
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So they didn't have
access to those nuts and stuff
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so then we went ahead
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and we made what is
known as potato cheese
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several seasons ago
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and I hope you all enjoyed that.
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But now we're going to
take it to another level.
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We're going to
make what is known as
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mac and split pea cheese.
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And this is a recipe that I got
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from some of our
friends in the island...
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the beautiful
island of St Lucia.
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They said, "Man, Nyse, you know,
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the nuts here are too expensive
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and potato, we didn't
like potato on top of pasta,"
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they said, "Come, show us
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and you know how
to do so many things,"
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and they said, "We
have a new twist on it,"
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and they showed me how
to make it from split pea.
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So you know who you are.
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Thank you so much for sharing
this delicious recipe with us.
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We're going to try
to go ahead and make it
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from the split pea,
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we call it mac
and split pea cheese.
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There you go,
you've got it there.
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So here's a simple
recipe that you can do.
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Just a couple steps to it
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but hey, I hope you
can follow along with it
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and now you can add a new twist
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to your mac and
split pea cheese pie.
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Here's the recipe, you ready?
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All you need is:
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So there you go, simple recipe.
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It's quite a few
ingredients, you know,
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because now we have to get
that creaminess going again
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so that's why you have
the whole wheat flour in there
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along with the split pea,
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so it's something that
you all definitely can enjoy.
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And here we go.
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We're going to
get rolling with it.
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All you have to do basically,
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we have to get
back to the blender
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and we're gonna put
some of those ingredients in.
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Our main ingredient,
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as you see I have
going here is the split peas.
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So let me go ahead
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and pour some
of those split peas
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if you all want I'll
let you take a quick look
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at the split peas, you know,
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work with what you have,
we got the green ones here.
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Split peas, these are cooked.
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You can go ahead,
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these are fantastic
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with your nice balanced
carbohydrates, your fiber,
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I mean, who knew that eating
mac and split pea cheese pie
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would be good.
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Actually, well, it
sounds like it's good for you.
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People are like, it sounds good,
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I don't know how it tastes.
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Well, that's what we're
going to find out here today.
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So you add that in
there, then you're gonna ahead,
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we're going to get
the onions going in there.
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You put about half an onion
in here to get that blended.
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Then we are going to...
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You're gonna take some
of that red bell pepper.
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I took about half
of it or quarter of it,
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put that in there.
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And what else we have
here, we have tomato paste,
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but oh, coconut milk.
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So here it is,
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so we've got to
balance out our fats, right?
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So that's why we're
going to use some coconut milk.
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So we're going to
pour about half of a cup,
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so this is about
half of this in here.
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Now people said,
"Whoa, that's a lot of fat."
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Well, do you remember
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when we were
doing it with cashews,
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that was a lot of fat.
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So this is not going to
cause too much problems.
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However, this recipe,
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you don't want to
be eating every day
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and people want to why
they're eating healthy food
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and add on extra blessings,
especially during holidays
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because they have taken in
too much of the natural fat.
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So you get that going
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and let me get a
little bit of salt in there
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to give it some,
give it some flavor.
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All right. So we have that.
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So here we go.
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All right, you want to make sure
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that's blended properly there.
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Ooh, it's looking good.
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I'm just gonna add a
little bit of that turmeric
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and then the rest I'll
show you what to do with that.
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So the turmeric is really good,
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we'll talk about
that here shortly
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why it's actually good for you.
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Done deal. So
we have that ready.
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This is our
split pea cheese sauce.
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So if you want to take a
quick a look here with me
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and see that's a
split pea cheese sauce.
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Look at that
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so you don't have
to be stuck to cashews
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or almonds or even potatoes.
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You can do it
now with split peas.
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Once you start
getting hang of it
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you all will be
creating new recipes,
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you know what I mean, for this.
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And if you notice in this recipe
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we didn't use any
nutritional yeast.
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Some people don't want to use it
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no problem,
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work with what you have
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and then just make
the simple adjustments.
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So now what we're going to do,
we're going to pull aside here.
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And I'm going to
have my pasta here,
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I'm gonna hold
that, they're on the side.
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So this is the pasta
that's already been cooked.
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I'm going to put that over here
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and then we'll
work through that.
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Then we're going to take
the rest of our ingredients.
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So we have the
onion, the garlic.
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Move this all over.
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Onion and garlic
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and we're going to
add that to this...
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ooh, I didn't add
the garlic to that
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but I added to this as well.
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A lot of times,
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I don't like
sometimes cooking with garlic
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even though it's really good
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is because it
gets in your fingers
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and takes for ever
to get that smell off.
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You're smelling garlic
for like the next two days.
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So I've found a cool little way,
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you all have done
it probably before.
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I just take a little jar,
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I just crush it
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like I'm angry with it
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so that basically
cuts it up for me.
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And I bring it back again,
another one I just crush that,
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crush that.
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You ready for this?
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This is cool, keep an
eye on it, watch this.
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All I have to do is
just pull off the skin.
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So take a look at that,
you ready for the next one.
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The skin comes
off automatically.
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I barely have to
touch the actual garlic.
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And now I can cook
something with garlic
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or even a lot of garlic
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but then I don't have
to be smelling like garlic
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for a whole day
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if you know what
I'm talking about.
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Some people like that, I don't.
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So there it is, done.
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My garlic is
literally done. All right.
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So I got this going here,
gotta put a little bit of...
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hey, I don't
have to use this oil,
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I can use my coconut oil.
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All right. So that's
about two tablespoons.
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So you're going
to get that going,
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that's gonna
add a little flavor.
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If you don't have
coconut oil, what could you?
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Just use some simple olive oil.
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All right.
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Get that off right here
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and then I'm going to pour in
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onion and garlic.
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It's going to smell nice here.
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So this is going to
give our mac and cheese
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a little bit of
texture and stuff as well.
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So get that go in there nicely.
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Once that gets going,
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I'm going to add a
little bit of that salt.
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You got to have that flavor.
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So we're gonna
saute that nicely,
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the whole house is
going to be smelling...
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they're going to be thinking
you're cooking something else.
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People don't know
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that you're
actually going to be cooking
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some mac and cheese.
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So here you go.
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We're gonna add some of
the red bell peppers there.
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Get that going.
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All right and we have
a choice of tomato paste.
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You could do it anyway
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but we want to
saute these first.
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And then... what
do we have there?
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We add a little bit of that.
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And we're going to
mix that up here together.
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You could add
more red bell peppers
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if you want as well.
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It almost looks like
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we are making
something like curry
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but this is going to give
it that flavor, that color.
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All right, so
that's gonna get going
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then I'm going to add
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the rest of the
ingredients here.
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My tomato paste.
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And while that gets
churning out a little bit
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I'm going to get my
pasta in the casserole dish.
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So of course you all know
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that the pasta is
basically already cooked
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but it's cooked al
dente, you know what I mean,
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where it's not too soft,
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it's almost like
you're under cooking it.
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Why you're undercooking it?
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Because you're basically
going to go ahead and bake it,
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all right.
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So I'm gonna let that
sit there for a little bit
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while I get the
other stuff ready.
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Now, I didn't
even put that garlic
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because it's going to have
a nice garlicky flavor there.
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I'm going to put it
back in here and blend that.
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So now my cheese is going
to have that garlic flavor.
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Did you member before
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we usually just add
onion and garlic powder,
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well, now we're trying to go
with more natural ingredients.
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There it is.
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So now we can go here.
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So that's running
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and then I'm
going to add the rest,
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saute that in nicely.
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Then I'm going to get my
pasta, put my casserole dish,
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well, even before I
get the casserole dish
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I'm going to pour that in here.
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Ooh, look at this,
we up in the kitchen.
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Put the pasta there
as this gets running.
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So I'm going to mix
all of this up together,
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I'm gonna mix
it all up together.
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So now we have
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our split pea cheese,
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nice and thick.
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And I want to make
sure I get all of it, yeah.
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So what I'm going to do is
grab a little bit of water.
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Get that going there.
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Then I'm going to
get my nice little item
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'cause all of
that is good stuff.
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As a matter of fact,
I'm just going to go ahead
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and get every last drop
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'cause those split
peas are good for you.
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So here it is.
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I'm going to
get every last drop.
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Well, I'll just
leave the Vitamix up here.
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I'm going to
add that in there...
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Ooh, it smells fantastic.
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So now you have
your split peas in there.
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Let's move this
stuff out of the way,
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then I'm going to add
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my other
ingredients in there as well.
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Like I said, this
is a once in a blue.
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You don't want to be
doing this every weekend
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'cause this is, this is,
this is heavy hitter here.
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So we have the...
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the tomato paste,
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the split pea cheese
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and then ready for this,
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this is going to
be a little different
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than what most people do.
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We're gonna add that
whole wheat flour in there.
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That's going to give
us some consistency there.
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And then we're
going to put this together
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in our casserole dish.
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All right.
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Ooh, that thing
is nice and thick.
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And I'm going to show
you what it looks like.
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Then we're going to
put this in the oven.
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And we're going to bake it there
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and you're going to see
00:24:45.55\00:24:46.88
what the finished product
is going to look like here.
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So I'm gonna take this now,
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I'm going to put
in a casserole dish.
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And pour it out.
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If you want it a little creamier
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you can do so,
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just need to
mix up nicely there.
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Some people
actually put a whole cup...
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whole cup of coconut
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and like I said you
can do that as well.
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So here it is. Pour that out.
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Have that nicely in there,
00:25:15.61\00:25:19.01
and then I'm going to take this,
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I'm going to put
this in the oven,
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I have another one
that is in there already.
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It's going to be really good.
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So follow along with
me here, where is my...
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man, there it is.
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I'll just use
this to grab the rest.
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So here we go.
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Oh, I've got stuff up,
00:25:37.83\00:25:39.17
I've got all the
stuff in here baking.
00:25:39.20\00:25:42.20
So let me just move
these out of the way,
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cooking up a storm in here.
00:25:44.14\00:25:47.11
And then here is
the finished one.
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Follow along with me. Put
that over here to the side.
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And when it comes nice and thick
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this is what you end up with.
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I'm gonna grab my items.
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So here it is, split pea mac,
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or mac and split pea cheese.
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There it is. Look
how thick that is.
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This is a very rich dish.
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Now listen closely
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when I say it's
rich it's rich, okay?
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But this is
holidays, once in a blue,
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once in a blue we got
to do something like this.
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So all you do is
you... wow, look at that.
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Yeah, follow me here.
00:26:29.62\00:26:31.52
Look at how thick that is.
00:26:31.55\00:26:32.89
I going to come on
this side over here
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and show you how thick it is.
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What you have to do is
give it a little bit of time
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and it will...
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it will basically
congeale together,
00:26:43.20\00:26:45.90
so wow,
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let me get a dish for you here.
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A nice little dish.
00:26:50.17\00:26:52.94
And then here it
is, I'll grab this.
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And then I'm
gonna pull it out here.
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It's a little warm.
00:27:02.15\00:27:05.65
This is a heavy hitter, y'all.
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Where is my other one?
All right, there it is.
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Wow, wow, wow, wow
somebody call a police.
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Who knew that mac and
cheese could be so delicious
00:27:20.80\00:27:24.17
by using split peas.
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This is something that
00:27:25.81\00:27:27.14
everybody will definitely enjoy.
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Please do not put it out there
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like this is
some split pea cheese.
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They're gonna look at you funny,
00:27:33.42\00:27:34.92
they're going to
give you bad looks,
00:27:34.95\00:27:36.69
I recommend don't do
that, okay, don't do that.
00:27:36.72\00:27:39.32
Just put it out there nicely
00:27:39.35\00:27:40.69
and watch with me
00:27:40.72\00:27:42.06
watch with me how
thick and delicious this is.
00:27:42.09\00:27:45.33
Watch the
fullness, the fullness of it.
00:27:45.36\00:27:48.20
That thing goes in
00:27:48.23\00:27:49.56
and I encourage
you to use tahini
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so it gets in there really good
00:27:50.97\00:27:52.43
and you will enjoy some
mac and split pea cheese
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because I will.
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