Have you ever wondered
how to prepare healthy,
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tasty meals, raw and cooked
that actually tastes good?
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Well, stay tuned
while Evita Tezeno
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and yours truly Nyse
Collins show you how to do so
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and give a Taste Of Paradise.
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Don't be sad, no need to cry.
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It's Evita and I've
got a guilt-free pecan pie.
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Welcome to the
Taste of Paradise.
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And yes, I have
a pecan pie today
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and it is easy.
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It's a reminisce of my
grandmother's pecan pie.
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She was an excellent cook
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and I just had to
brought up a little bit.
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So let's begin and
let's read the recipe.
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Holiday Pecan Pie.
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For the crust you need:
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For the filling, you need:
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And for the topping you need:
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So let's begin with the crust.
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Very, very simple.
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We have our almonds
and we have our dates.
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So I'm going to ground
the almonds up little bit.
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And then put our dates in.
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I'm going to put the sea
salt in first, that's it,
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and then our dates.
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And what you have here is
a little sticky consistency
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and you want to just
press that in your pot pan.
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Quite easy, like that.
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I remember, I
took this pecan pie
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to my family's
home for Thanksgiving
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and no one really was
a healthy eater there,
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but they were
fighting over the last piece,
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so this pecan pie is delicious.
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Very quickly
we're going to do this.
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There you go.
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And now we're
going to do the filling.
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And no need to wash
out your food processor.
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Just take the remainder out
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and let's just go
on to the filling.
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And we have our
dates that has been soaked,
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and then our raisins.
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We have our almond butter.
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And then the
water that has been...
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I'm just going to put
a little bit right now
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because it might need a
little bit of more water.
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This is vanilla
extract, and then our cardamom,
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and then our coriander.
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And our binder
is our coconut oil.
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And I love coconut
oil. It's wonderful.
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Okay, then we blend this up.
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Now we take this
wonderful goodness
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and we spread it
out in our pie pan
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on top of our crust.
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Wasn't that simple?
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Very, very simple.
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No baking needed.
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No oven.
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You don't have to watch the pie.
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We're gonna spread this out.
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And then we're
going to take our pecans.
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Put them in a bowl.
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Then take our maple syrup.
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Just kind of stir in.
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You want to coat it a
little bit because you know,
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on pecan pies
naturally you'll have
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like a candied pecans on top,
so this is what you're doing.
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You're kind of
candying the pecan.
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You're coating it with syrup.
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Then you put them
on top like dough.
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And you want to set
this in the refrigerator
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or you can set it in the freezer
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because you want
everything to sit.
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The coconut oil will
kind of get congealed
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and it will be
wonderful and yummy.
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How easy was that?
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And yes, this
will be a pecan pie
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that will grace your
table at any holiday season.
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This has been Evita Tezeno again
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on the Taste of Paradise,
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and remember to live life fresh.
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The holidays are back.
It's raining. It's snowing.
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You just want to be
inside with the family
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having a good time
watching your favorite
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Taste of Paradise show.
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You know, what I mean?
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And, of course, eating
some good healthy food.
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But unfortunately
during the holidays
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there is one item that comes out
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and it's the dessert item,
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and it's not just
your typical dessert
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that we wanna stay away
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from that we know is
not the best like this one.
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Some people say abomination,
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but I'm not
going to go that far,
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I'm gonna let y'all decide that.
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You know, when
the holidays come,
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there is that special
cake, they call it a black cake,
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some call it a fruit cake.
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I'm not gonna tell you
what else they call a cake
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and they eat it, and it has
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all kind of
extra ingredients in it
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and some of them
don't need to be in this,
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especially we don't
need to be touching.
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Some of those ingredients
last, make that cake last days,
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weeks, months at a time.
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I can never understand
long time ago when I was young
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that this cake
will be made literally
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in like September-October
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but we won't eat
it till December.
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Have mercy, Lord.
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So I said, man,
we have to do this
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but do it the right way and
so, you know what we had to do?
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We had to bring in our
expert from JA, Jamaica
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and it is Donna Marie Lindsay.
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Donna, what's going on?
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Everything
criss. Everything irie.
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You good, you good.
Good to see you again.
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Donna working hard
in office at SanareLife,
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I don't know office all
over the place, but you know,
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she always make
time to bring back
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a Jamaican favorite.
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Donna, I'm so
glad you came back.
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Thank you for having
me back. You know why?
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Because this
cake is questionable
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and I don't want people
whiling me up, hamming me up,
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all kind of stuff talking about
this cake so I figured out,
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I'll just bring the
expert herself so...
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So I get the heat...
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Well, amen, amen.
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She is Jamaican and they call me
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freshwater Jamaican, you know,
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I'm from the island of Brooklyn
and plenty of Jamaican there
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but I've seen this a little bit,
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so I figured we'll
bring a real Jamaican
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but she has been hanging out
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in the States
quite a bit of time,
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so I don't know...
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So Donna, what's happening?
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Well, we're going to try,
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we're going to
do this black cake,
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and we're going to
mix it up a little.
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We have a
little optional method,
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see if you can use in place
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we're not going to
make it adulterated.
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This is the
unadulterated version...
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Look at that.
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You know what, it has
been raining outside, thunder,
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the Lord is not
pleased with the regular cake
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because the regular cake
they usually add what to it?
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They usually add
a little alcohol.
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Alcohol. Keep it real, ya.
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Now you know what
she is talking about.
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Alcohol. Straight up rum.
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Rum. Yes.
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Rum, rum, they
add it to the cake.
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Now this is not
just, you know, anybody.
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No.
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These are even
Seventh-day Adventists.
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Because this is how
traditionally it's made.
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This is like if you
don't have this in the cake,
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then I guess it's
not considered that
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but we're going to try
and suit it up and make it,
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you know, a little healthier
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and hopefully
will be just as nice,
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if not something better.
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Well, you hit that in the head.
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We always want to give
people a better option, yeah?
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And so we will try
to take what is there
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and then put a
little twist on it.
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One lady said, she
said, "Man, you know,
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I don't deal with the
alcohol and stuff like that."
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So I said, "Mom,
will you put in it."
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She says, "I put
the fruits in it."
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And this is
true, you can make it
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without the raw, more of alcohol
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and stuff like that,
and they put the fruits.
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And so I asked
the next question.
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"Where the
fruits come from, mom?"
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She said, "Well, you know,
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I purchased it
down by the store."
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I said, "What color are they?"
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She said, "Red,
green, yellow, orange."
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And those have been what?
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Those have been
soaked. Those have been soaked.
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And they wasn't soaked in water.
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Those were
presoaked for you in the rum.
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She said, "Well, you
know, just once in a while
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we have fix-up guys."
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She didn't knew
it. She didn't knew it.
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She said, "I didn't
put the rum in there."
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I said, "Mom, did
you use the fruits?"
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She said, "Yes."
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I said the same thing,
you know, same difference.
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Yeah.
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So I know some may
not add those items
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but if you buy those, buy those,
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those what, those soaked...
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Yeah.
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Those that are in the store
that's prepackaged or pre-made.
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Prepackaged, pre-made,
there were some that will
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already have what...
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They will have some
alcohol, they will have
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some other preservative
or something like that.
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So other preservative
or something like that.
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And a matter of fact, a
lot of times some people say,
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"Well, the one I
bought had no alcohol in it,"
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and they may be right.
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But you hit it on the head.
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It has a lot of
preservatives in it,
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and that's why those fruits
can sit there for a long time.
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One person said, you
eat so much preservatives,
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it kills you faster.
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But once you're dead,
your body stay fresher longer.
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Which one?
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You want to stay
fresher while you're alive
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or fresher while you're dead?
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You make the decision.
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I didn't do the
research on that,
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so don't quote me on it.
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Let's do it now.
We got a lot to do.
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So we have a lot to do
to make this black cake,
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all right, black cake,
what else, fruit cake...
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Fruit cake. So
many different names.
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Or you have, of
course, Christmas cake.
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Christmas cake is
what they call it as well.
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So here's the ingredients
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for the healthy
Christmas black fruit cake
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and it's real simple.
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All you need is:
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And that is what you have
to make that recipe there.
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So, Donna, lead the way.
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I don't want the people
getting back to me and saying,
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"Nyse trying to
make black cake."
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What do we need
to do? All right.
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We said, as you
heard, it's soaked.
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So what we're
doing to soak our fruit,
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we're soaking them
in some grape juice.
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All right, so we
have the grape juice here.
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You can make your
own grape juice, yeah?
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Exactly. Or you can buy it.
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Everybody know, you go to
the store you find this one
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is 100% grape juice,
none of that foolish stuff,
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you know, they have all
kinds of things added to it.
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So you have the
grape juice. What else?
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So we took a little shortcut
instead of having it soaked
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for days, or weeks,
or months, you know,
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we decided to
just boil it under.
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So we have the
fruits and we boil it,
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stays like raisins, we
have prunes, we have dates.
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Raisins, prunes, dates.
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And those are excellent.
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They have, you know,
the good antioxidants.
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You know, prunes, we also know
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they have a
nice laxative effect,
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so it's all then
healthy and natural stuff,
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especially around
that time of the year,
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Christmas is the time
some prunes that you dye,
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if you get what I'm saying.
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Amen. Amen.
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We were all talking about
that on the show, people...
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Oh, Mercy. All right.
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So you boil these a little bit
and basically if you all want
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to take a quick look, we
have the dates, all right,
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so that's gonna be a good
nice little sugar content there,
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so you have the dates,
then you have the raisins,
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the prunes and you just put
enough water to get it going
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and then make it nice.
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So we don't have to
soak these for a long time?
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We don't need to soak
these for a long time.
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And what I like, what
my mom always did for me
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because I don't like chunks of,
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you know, big
fruits or whatever,
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so we would blend a little bit
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so it won't be chunks of fruits.
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So that's what we're gonna do.
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We're just going to
blend it a little bit.
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All of it? All of it.
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We're going to blend it
00:15:01.43\00:15:02.76
so if we need a
little bit more liquid,
00:15:02.80\00:15:04.13
if you notice, you know,
00:15:04.17\00:15:05.50
we don't have
water in this recipe,
00:15:05.53\00:15:06.87
what we have is our
liquid is actually grape juice.
00:15:06.90\00:15:10.41
All right. Here it is.
00:15:10.44\00:15:11.77
So, you know, since
as you pour you spill,
00:15:11.81\00:15:13.98
save that piece for
me, save that piece.
00:15:14.01\00:15:15.84
It didn't touch the
ground, the five-second rule.
00:15:15.88\00:15:18.11
All right. Here we go.
00:15:18.15\00:15:19.48
So we'll put that in.
00:15:19.51\00:15:20.85
I'll just add a little bit...
00:15:20.88\00:15:22.22
You notice I got a nice
little new blender, yeah?
00:15:22.25\00:15:23.95
Very nice. Very stylish.
00:15:23.99\00:15:25.32
Just this time for the
holidays, nice and red.
00:15:25.35\00:15:27.86
All right. Perfect. All right.
00:15:27.89\00:15:30.26
What else we need to
do? Just blend it up?
00:15:30.29\00:15:31.63
Blend it up.
00:15:31.66\00:15:33.50
All right.
00:15:40.27\00:15:41.60
You don't want it to
be a completely mushy,
00:15:41.64\00:15:42.97
at least want to have...
00:15:43.00\00:15:44.34
I thought we're
going to make jam,
00:15:44.37\00:15:45.71
or jelly, or some dessert.
00:15:45.74\00:15:47.08
No, no, no, I just like to
get it a little bit, you know,
00:15:47.11\00:15:48.64
so you get rid of those
big pieces and big chunks.
00:15:48.68\00:15:50.35
Okay.
00:15:50.38\00:15:51.71
All right, so
let's move on to next.
00:15:51.75\00:15:53.08
Of course, there was no seeds
00:15:53.11\00:15:54.45
and stuff in
there in the prunes.
00:15:54.48\00:15:55.82
No seeds.
00:15:55.85\00:15:57.19
The prunes are pitted,
all of that's good stuff.
00:15:57.22\00:15:58.55
So you don't have any
seeds. Don't worry about that.
00:15:58.59\00:16:00.36
So let's just leave it
there, let it cool a little bit
00:16:00.39\00:16:02.39
because it was on the
stove, you know, I mean heated.
00:16:02.42\00:16:05.06
So let's go to our...
00:16:05.09\00:16:07.76
This is cake from scratch.
00:16:07.80\00:16:09.23
So this is not brought
cake or anything like that,
00:16:09.26\00:16:11.10
so we have to start
from the very beginning.
00:16:11.13\00:16:13.84
So I don't know
if you guys remember,
00:16:13.87\00:16:15.30
back in the day we're
used to have, you know,
00:16:15.34\00:16:17.84
your little
butter and your sugar.
00:16:17.87\00:16:19.41
So that's what you have to do.
00:16:19.44\00:16:20.78
So we have the
cane juice crystals,
00:16:20.81\00:16:22.14
we have the earth balance like.
00:16:22.18\00:16:23.55
You think we can use
better butter in this?
00:16:23.58\00:16:25.28
Better butter? You could try.
00:16:25.31\00:16:27.35
Better butter, I still want
to go with the cornmeal, yeah.
00:16:27.38\00:16:28.82
With the cornmeal, yeah.
00:16:28.85\00:16:30.19
You could definitely try,
may give it a little, you know,
00:16:30.22\00:16:32.79
different flavor with a
cornmeal different texture.
00:16:32.82\00:16:34.16
Hey. That's all
right. That's all right.
00:16:34.19\00:16:36.89
I know y'all don't eat
black cake once in a blue.
00:16:36.93\00:16:39.13
Some people eat it a
little more often than others.
00:16:39.16\00:16:41.26
So you can try the
better butter recipe
00:16:41.30\00:16:43.90
that was way
back with season two
00:16:43.93\00:16:46.63
or you could just use
the earth balance as well
00:16:46.67\00:16:49.10
and that would do the trick.
00:16:49.14\00:16:50.47
So now we're
making the black cake,
00:16:50.51\00:16:53.01
fruit cake from scratch, right?
00:16:53.04\00:16:55.04
There is no
shortcuts in this one.
00:16:55.08\00:16:56.51
Donna going all the way.
00:16:56.54\00:16:58.15
All right, so because
these are the liquids,
00:16:58.18\00:17:00.32
I'm going to add now my vanilla.
00:17:00.35\00:17:02.32
All right, so you
have your vanilla extract,
00:17:02.35\00:17:04.09
alcohol free.
00:17:04.12\00:17:05.59
Alcohol free and I also
have the egg replacer here,
00:17:05.62\00:17:10.33
so you know, what you need
to do, because it's powder,
00:17:10.36\00:17:13.70
you have to add water to this.
00:17:13.73\00:17:15.73
This is the only
water that you're gonna have
00:17:15.76\00:17:17.77
so I had heated
some water already.
00:17:17.80\00:17:19.97
So you warm some water
00:17:20.00\00:17:21.34
and add that to
the egg replacer here?
00:17:21.37\00:17:22.70
Yes, exactly.
00:17:22.74\00:17:24.07
You could buy that in
most health food stores.
00:17:24.11\00:17:25.47
Or you could just use, you know,
00:17:25.51\00:17:27.58
what they usually use flax seeds
00:17:27.61\00:17:29.71
because it's
kind of like a binder.
00:17:29.74\00:17:31.25
Flax seeds, so
it's a binder basically.
00:17:31.28\00:17:33.52
Right, and I was
even thinking now,
00:17:33.55\00:17:35.15
maybe even bananas would
work very well with this.
00:17:35.18\00:17:37.15
Hey, I have some mashed bananas.
00:17:37.19\00:17:39.35
We could throw in
some bananas in here.
00:17:39.39\00:17:40.86
That's right, you
can use the bananas also
00:17:40.89\00:17:43.56
in your cake recipes and then
it works as a nice little...
00:17:43.59\00:17:46.19
It congeals it all together,
so that's what we can do.
00:17:46.23\00:17:49.30
That would work very well.
00:17:49.33\00:17:50.97
So we'll mix that up. Yes.
00:17:51.00\00:17:53.27
And that is the egg replacer.
00:17:53.30\00:17:57.41
So it has that nice little...
00:17:57.44\00:18:00.11
So I'm gonna add this here.
00:18:00.14\00:18:01.94
My holidays is here.
00:18:01.98\00:18:04.45
Cake is here.
00:18:04.48\00:18:06.75
Keep it coming.
00:18:06.78\00:18:08.62
Man, it's snowing
outside, raining outside.
00:18:08.65\00:18:11.89
You just come
together with the family.
00:18:11.92\00:18:13.69
One day, one day. All right.
00:18:13.72\00:18:15.82
So I'm adding that all in there,
00:18:15.86\00:18:17.63
so these are our
wet ingredients here.
00:18:17.66\00:18:24.17
So I'm just gonna
mix this all together,
00:18:24.20\00:18:27.04
and next what I'm going to
do is put our dry ingredients,
00:18:27.07\00:18:31.64
put all our dry
ingredients in there.
00:18:31.67\00:18:33.01
Wait on, wait on, you
missed the drop of vanilla here,
00:18:33.04\00:18:34.91
come, come... All right.
00:18:34.94\00:18:36.28
It to taste nice.
00:18:36.31\00:18:38.71
All right, very good.
00:18:38.75\00:18:40.35
So if you even look at
that it actually looks like
00:18:40.38\00:18:42.48
when you add egg to
the recipe, it does.
00:18:42.52\00:18:45.19
All right, so now we're going
to go for our dry ingredients.
00:18:45.22\00:18:49.56
So that's whole wheat flour.
We also have some breadcrumbs.
00:18:49.59\00:18:53.06
So we have the breadcrumbs,
you can make that from scratch.
00:18:53.09\00:18:55.20
Basically what, just take bread,
00:18:55.23\00:18:57.40
toast it extra
and crush it all up
00:18:57.43\00:18:59.77
and you have your
all natural breadcrumbs.
00:18:59.80\00:19:02.80
And this is our
coriander and cardamom mixture
00:19:02.84\00:19:06.21
because usually
they have nutmeg,
00:19:06.24\00:19:08.18
all spice, cinnamon,
and all of that stuff.
00:19:08.21\00:19:10.71
You know, you
know, they put everything
00:19:10.75\00:19:13.52
that's in the cupboard in there.
00:19:13.55\00:19:15.15
Everything that have
that nice sweet flavor,
00:19:15.18\00:19:17.05
so we're going to use
the cardamom and coriander
00:19:17.09\00:19:19.32
instead to go ahead and do this.
00:19:19.35\00:19:21.36
Let me move this out of the way.
00:19:21.39\00:19:22.72
And then our featherweight.
00:19:22.76\00:19:24.56
And that's the
featherweight there.
00:19:24.59\00:19:25.93
Sorry.
00:19:25.96\00:19:27.30
Anything else we could use
probably instead of that or...
00:19:27.33\00:19:30.20
Some people do the
aluminum-free baking,
00:19:30.23\00:19:33.07
but you know we
want to try even one day
00:19:33.10\00:19:35.20
we probably will hold
off on the featherweight,
00:19:35.24\00:19:36.97
you know, sooner or
later, but it's a better option.
00:19:37.01\00:19:38.34
All right. So
what I'm going to do...
00:19:38.37\00:19:41.14
Okay, so now we're gonna
combine our dry with our wet.
00:19:41.18\00:19:43.58
Could you hold
this for me please?
00:19:43.61\00:19:44.95
Yes. Thank you.
00:19:44.98\00:19:46.31
I remember this.
00:19:46.35\00:19:47.68
We used to make
a mess with this.
00:19:47.72\00:19:49.05
I was saying
that back in the day,
00:19:49.08\00:19:51.05
you have to get, it
will be good workouts.
00:19:51.09\00:19:52.42
Or we used to take
them off and you know,
00:19:52.45\00:19:56.32
we used to take
the little thing off
00:19:56.36\00:19:57.69
and we used to lick them
because they had the cake mix
00:19:57.73\00:19:59.46
and stuff on that so...
00:19:59.49\00:20:00.83
Exactly, I remember.
00:20:00.86\00:20:02.20
Man, these little machines...
00:20:02.23\00:20:03.70
These are good old days. Okay.
00:20:03.73\00:20:05.90
So it's going to
come in very handy
00:20:05.93\00:20:07.64
because when you
add all of this stuff,
00:20:07.67\00:20:09.34
it's gonna be pretty thick
00:20:09.37\00:20:11.37
and we still have
our fruits to add.
00:20:11.41\00:20:13.27
So when do we add the fruits?
00:20:13.31\00:20:14.71
I'm going to have
to add it right now.
00:20:14.74\00:20:16.68
Right now. So we're
gonna add the fruits.
00:20:16.71\00:20:19.58
Right, why don't
you just wipe that off?
00:20:19.61\00:20:21.22
Make sure that we get
everything, everything.
00:20:21.25\00:20:25.69
And then...
00:20:25.72\00:20:29.52
This thing is not coming out.
00:20:29.56\00:20:31.53
Let me get, let me
get that spoon here.
00:20:31.56\00:20:32.99
So basically we're
going to add this what?
00:20:33.03\00:20:34.46
Fruit mixture.
00:20:34.50\00:20:35.83
But now we don't...
00:20:35.86\00:20:37.20
But you see, if
you blend it all up,
00:20:37.23\00:20:38.63
then it's not going to be
like the fruit cake, you know,
00:20:38.67\00:20:41.90
with the cubes but you
can also do that, right?
00:20:41.94\00:20:44.44
You can also do
that if you desire.
00:20:44.47\00:20:46.71
So we're trying to get
it all together well mixed
00:20:46.74\00:20:51.05
and if it's too stiff,
you can add grape juice.
00:20:51.08\00:20:57.85
So we could add some
more grape juice to that
00:20:57.89\00:20:59.79
just in case...
00:20:59.82\00:21:01.16
If it's too stiff.
00:21:01.19\00:21:02.52
Man, this looks
like a preserve, sorry.
00:21:02.56\00:21:05.33
We overhear.
00:21:05.36\00:21:07.03
This looks like a nice preserve.
00:21:07.06\00:21:12.50
All right. Is it coming out?
00:21:12.53\00:21:14.90
I got most of it.
00:21:14.94\00:21:16.27
The rest, I'll take
care of it, trust me.
00:21:16.30\00:21:19.21
All right.
00:21:19.24\00:21:20.58
So now you want to
have it well mixed.
00:21:20.61\00:21:22.71
You have a lot of ingredients.
00:21:22.74\00:21:24.45
Remember the breadcrumbs,
so it's pretty stiff
00:21:24.48\00:21:27.05
and that's because it's
usually very chunky by nature.
00:21:27.08\00:21:33.52
Chunky by nature?
00:21:33.56\00:21:34.89
But what if you
eat too much of this?
00:21:34.92\00:21:36.29
You end up blessed and chunky.
00:21:36.32\00:21:39.66
Well, one person said
blessed and highly flavored.
00:21:39.69\00:21:43.23
So here we go?
You got that going?
00:21:43.26\00:21:44.83
Yes. Now...
00:21:44.87\00:21:46.20
We need to do this,
what about this stuff here?
00:21:46.23\00:21:48.80
Let's see. Are you ready?
00:21:48.84\00:21:50.17
Hmm-mm.
00:21:50.21\00:21:53.11
So try to get it
as smooth as possible.
00:21:53.14\00:21:55.64
Oh, I love invention
and modern technology
00:22:00.42\00:22:03.49
makes life easier.
00:22:03.52\00:22:04.95
You want it to a
cake consistency.
00:22:10.96\00:22:15.13
You don't want it too stiff.
00:22:15.16\00:22:17.17
As a rule...
00:22:17.20\00:22:19.63
Yeah.
00:22:19.67\00:22:21.00
One second, can you stop?
00:22:21.04\00:22:23.00
As a rule, as a test, if
you put this spoon in there
00:22:23.04\00:22:25.87
and it's like
standing up, then you know,
00:22:25.91\00:22:28.11
it's too stiff and
you need to make it
00:22:28.14\00:22:29.78
a little bit more watery.
00:22:29.81\00:22:31.71
So do we need to add more juice?
00:22:31.75\00:22:33.08
We need to add more juice.
00:22:33.11\00:22:37.85
I'm trying not to make a mess.
00:22:37.89\00:22:39.29
You already remember
how this used to happen
00:22:39.32\00:22:41.02
back in the days.
00:22:41.06\00:22:44.79
So make sure it is
well blended and mixed.
00:22:44.83\00:22:48.06
How's that?
00:22:58.07\00:22:59.77
All right. More juice?
00:22:59.81\00:23:01.34
More juice. All right.
00:23:01.38\00:23:02.94
What I like to add to is
just a little bit more raisins.
00:23:02.98\00:23:07.28
So more raisins? Hmm-mm.
00:23:07.32\00:23:09.08
Have mercy.
Diabetics, be careful here.
00:23:09.12\00:23:12.05
Anybody be careful.
00:23:12.09\00:23:13.42
You just want a nice
little slice of this.
00:23:13.46\00:23:15.92
You don't want to go
too much. Just a little bit.
00:23:15.96\00:23:17.56
Because remember, we
kind of blended it some,
00:23:17.59\00:23:19.79
so we still want that at
least have some fruits in there.
00:23:19.83\00:23:23.67
It smells good.
00:23:23.70\00:23:25.80
I may need to make sure
that all of the ingredients
00:23:25.83\00:23:28.30
are working out
properly, is it right?
00:23:28.34\00:23:29.94
All right. Go ahead.
00:23:29.97\00:23:31.81
What's the conclusion?
00:23:31.84\00:23:33.24
Is it?
00:23:33.27\00:23:37.61
Amen, amen. All
right, let's spin.
00:23:37.65\00:23:39.51
So that's it, once more? Yes.
00:23:39.55\00:23:41.25
And then we're
gonna... Ooh. That's nice.
00:23:41.28\00:23:44.25
Actually,
surprisingly, you know what?
00:23:44.29\00:23:47.79
It's not even that sweet.
00:23:47.82\00:23:49.16
It's not like
extra overly sweet.
00:23:49.19\00:23:51.26
Okay.
00:23:56.70\00:23:59.37
I thought it was
gonna be like killer sweet.
00:23:59.40\00:24:02.40
But it's like
live against sweetness.
00:24:02.44\00:24:05.24
So here we go.
00:24:05.27\00:24:07.84
It failed the test.
00:24:07.88\00:24:09.54
That was too thick.
00:24:09.58\00:24:10.91
She is trying to
make black fruit dumpling.
00:24:10.95\00:24:14.38
All right, let's go. All right.
00:24:14.42\00:24:16.22
There is a story about
00:24:16.25\00:24:17.59
Sister Donna here and dumplings.
00:24:17.62\00:24:19.25
Oh, no, don't go there. I know.
00:24:19.29\00:24:21.76
Boy, she make some dumpling.
00:24:21.79\00:24:24.09
Whole place fall
down after they eat, man.
00:24:24.13\00:24:26.66
Heavy.
00:24:26.70\00:24:28.03
No, it can't see all good
on the feel and all of that.
00:24:28.06\00:24:30.33
Heavy, man.
00:24:30.37\00:24:32.10
You eat one of these dumplings?
00:24:32.13\00:24:35.00
You'll pass out.
00:24:35.04\00:24:37.17
All right, now it's
looking much better.
00:24:37.21\00:24:39.47
Okay. Very good.
00:24:43.81\00:24:46.11
Telling you.
00:24:46.15\00:24:47.48
These dumplings
that Donna make, man...
00:24:47.52\00:24:50.75
There was not a
grown man on the ground.
00:24:50.79\00:24:55.36
They were so heavy but then
she got into the dumpling thing
00:24:55.39\00:25:01.00
so much, she
tried to make pancake
00:25:01.03\00:25:02.53
and we ended up
having pancake dumplings.
00:25:02.56\00:25:04.97
Oh, no, don't lie.
00:25:05.00\00:25:06.94
You were making
all kind of dumplings,
00:25:06.97\00:25:08.47
is this off limits
right now, it's done?
00:25:08.50\00:25:10.11
Yes. It's done. You can have it.
00:25:10.14\00:25:11.47
Praise the Lord.
00:25:11.51\00:25:12.84
Praise the Lord from
whom the blessings flow.
00:25:12.87\00:25:15.31
I'll tell nobody y'all.
00:25:15.34\00:25:18.05
Hmm-mm.
00:25:18.08\00:25:19.88
Wow!
00:25:19.91\00:25:21.78
This is nice.
00:25:21.82\00:25:23.82
The grape juice actually
gives it a very nice flavor.
00:25:23.85\00:25:29.92
That thing make you
dance. Holy dance, of course.
00:25:29.96\00:25:34.40
I think it's even
better than alcohol.
00:25:34.43\00:25:37.37
Better than alcohol?
00:25:37.40\00:25:38.73
Donna, what do you
know about alcohol?
00:25:38.77\00:25:40.10
No. Busted. Busted.
00:25:40.14\00:25:42.30
No. It smells good.
00:25:42.34\00:25:45.07
And it has a very
good preservative.
00:25:45.11\00:25:46.44
You know why it's better?
00:25:46.47\00:25:48.31
Because you can think
straight when you're done.
00:25:48.34\00:25:51.41
See people drink alcohol,
00:25:51.45\00:25:54.45
you wonder why
they're knocking out.
00:25:54.48\00:25:56.05
It wasn't that
you ate too much food
00:25:56.08\00:25:57.75
or they want to call
it the right A syndrome.
00:25:57.79\00:25:59.79
There was that
alcohol in the stuff.
00:25:59.82\00:26:01.36
So here we go, are we
putting this in the oven?
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Yes, we are. All right.
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You handle that, let
me handle this over here.
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Hmm.
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Hallelujah.
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All right. So let's take out.
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We'll, don't
burn yourself, sister.
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I'm going to let her
handle that over there.
00:26:18.74\00:26:20.81
Yeah, while you handle
that over there, right?
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Man, memories.
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They don't live like people do.
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I think this is...
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So this is the black cake.
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Pretty much done.
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What I would like to
do when I take it out
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of the oven is to just pour
a little bit more grape juice
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on the top of it.
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Mercy.
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You know because you know
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what they used to
pour on top of that.
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Yes. So the same concept.
00:26:47.27\00:26:48.60
It's just that we're trading
in one for something better.
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So you could pour that in,
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you put it back in
oven or something like that,
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or you let it sit
for a little time?
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No, let it sit, let it sit.
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And it will
soak all the flavors.
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That was so
good, but I have to see
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how this thing works here.
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So we're going to
give that grand entrance,
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the grand finale
of the black cake.
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Wow.
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Let me handle that.
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Make sure now you...
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You put that on there.
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Yeah, there it is.
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And then we're almost done here.
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And then we're going to
top it off with some cherries.
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Some healthy
cherries, healthy cherries.
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Yes. These are healthy cherries.
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All right. I made sure.
00:27:29.88\00:27:32.08
Wow!
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Call the police,
y'all. It's about to go down.
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This is the original, you
know, what they would say,
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rude boy or
rude girl black cake.
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And so I want you all to enjoy.
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There is no plate for us,
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so I'm just going to handle that
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like a big man, yes.
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Donna, thank you so
much. I hope y'all enjoyed.
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You could have a happy
holiday and you could go
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for another piece
of that black cake.
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Respect.
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