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and excite us and today is no exception
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so whether you're here live or on replay
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make sure to say hi in the comments
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i already see comments are coming in and
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today we are welcoming
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celebrity chef michael chang to the show
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and we are joining her
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in the kitchen a little bit about
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at a very early age she knew she wanted
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to be a chef every weekend she would
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stand on a dining room chair and
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position herself so that she had a
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clear view of her parents as they cooked
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while in her early 20s she worked for
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several los angeles restaurants while
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in 1994 she enrolled in the california
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culinary academy and moved to san
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francisco she's been a columnist for
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several magazines and websites including
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cooking smart jasmine and chinos
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michael was also the resident chef for
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the cbs show eye on the bay
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which aired each evening in northern
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california currently she is the resident
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for home nutrition and the carlos and
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lisa show in los angeles she teaches
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practical cooking and entertaining tips
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a celebrity chef she has cooked for
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former presidents fortune 400 moguls as
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well as some of the most
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celebrated actors in the world how
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cool is that phew i'm exhausted
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michael come and join us hi karen how
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i am doing so great i am so excited for
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i am going to put some comments up
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already because you have
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fans major fans we've got madeline who's
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up here this is uh actually it's
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uh we're early but so excited to see the
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show we're so excited
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you are here with us we have craig here
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we have vivian sitting here says so
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um also she said i'm early but you're
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here how fun you know what it just goes
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to show you have a lot of fans
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out there before we jump in and start
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cooking i i just want to talk a little
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the things that i know that i wondered
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about what is it like to be
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a celebrity chef what is that all about
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it's no different than cooking for
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anybody else to be honest with you
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personally i love the favorite people
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that i love to cook for are my family my
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um the only difference is i think that
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they just happen to be famous
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and i think that's the only difference
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i'm cooking for somebody whether it's my
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or the teacher for my daughter's school
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or a friend or family member
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that means as much to me if not more
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than cooking for somebody who happens to
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be on the silver screen
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or somebody who's a famous musician
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so um yeah actually what you're telling
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us is that we're all celebrities
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you know we're going to be doing some
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brain food for kids today why are you so
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healthy food for kids you know i've done
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a lot of research a couple years back
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about um childhood obesity
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and type 2 diabetes and it's really
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really affected our country i think 65
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children today are overweight or obese
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and it's something that
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um concerns me so i started doing
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cooking classes for my daughter's second
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she's now in fifth grade it's something
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that i did every year just to educate
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and teach parents as well as kids
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um how you can make them really healthy
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and delicious recipes
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that kids will actually eat and i was
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by the fact that my daughter goes to
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private school and some of these
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children had never even eaten a cherry
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so that's great there had some really
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cooked with the children and they tried
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everything and i was really
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happy with the fact that they really ate
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everything that we did together
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so that i do on a yearly basis with them
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and i really want to you know expose
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eating certain foods and nutritious
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foods can really make you
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stronger and smarter and i think that
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sometimes they get tired of hearing
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you should eat this because it's
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healthier you should eat this because
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you know you want to you know stay
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stay you know healthier nutritious but i
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teaching kids that certain foods really
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actually do make your brain stronger
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and also make you feel a lot better as
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yeah and that's what we want and that's
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what we want and that's what we want
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if you're just tuning in right now we
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a celebrity chef michael chang we are in
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the kitchen with her we're going to be
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making some brain food whether you're
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coming in in youtube or on facebook no
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matter doesn't matter where you are if
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you have something you want to say
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to michael to say hello or ask a
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question make sure you put it in the
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below so i know that you you brought
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some friends with you some young friends
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with you and i'm going to let you
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introduce them in just a second once we
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live with you solo um but i'm i'm so ex
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actually i'm got their hands going
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parts of them are already on set so
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we're going to turn the camera
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straight on to you and um we're going to
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after the show where you can go get the
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ingredient list and where to get
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utensils so that you can cook along
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with michael in the kitchen so are you
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ready to cook some green food
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i'm ready here we go so i'm going to
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bring on my first little cook here
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this is chloe chloe if you want to come
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in chloe's 10 years old
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and we are going to make a really simple
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but delicious cucumber salad and i
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honestly think that cucumbers probably
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are one of the most kid-friendly
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vegetables what do you think chloe do
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most of your friends like cucumbers
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yes they do yeah so this is kind of
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describe this cucumber salad i would say
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this is very similar to a cucumber salad
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that you get as a sushi restaurant
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it's like that sweet vinegary cucumber
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absolutely love so we're going to start
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i'm using persian cucumbers today you
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can use english cucumbers
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you can use japanese cucumbers you can
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really use anything that you want and
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chloe help me dice this today so can you
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put those in the bowl club
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yes so we're going to dump the diced
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cucumbers in the bowl
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use your hands because you just washed
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your hands don't be afraid to use your
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hands guys you know us chefs all the
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our hands and then we're gonna put half
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of that garlic chloe in here as well
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we're gonna save the other half for the
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tomato salad that we're gonna do with
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deuce in just a few minutes
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and then we're going to add a little bit
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of that chopped onion chloe that's about
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a tablespoon of chopped white onion
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you can add the whole thing and again
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it's about using what you have i'm all
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like i said use whatever cucumbers you
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have at the house if you don't have
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white onion you can use scallions you
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can use chives if you wanted to remember
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use the ingredients that you have in
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your kitchen especially right now you
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don't want to run to the store if you
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putting on that mask and then going to
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i'm using a basic white onion today
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because i feel like out of all the onion
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things like scallions or chives you
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an onion in your pantry more than any of
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the other ingredients
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so we're going to put about a teaspoon
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of kosher salt flow if you want to put a
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spoonful of the salt and just go in a
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i think we'll maybe use half a spoon
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maybe a quarter spoon of the ground
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black pepper that's going to go in here
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perfect and then i'm putting some sesame
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seeds in this cucumber salad as well i
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sesame seeds also have a bunch of
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protein which makes it a little bit
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i'm going to put about a tablespoon of
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sesame seeds while chloe is
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we can put that entire little container
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in flour you can dump all of that in
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i'll take that okay i'm just gonna get
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and then we are going to drizzle it with
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about a tablespoon of rice
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vinegar there's two types of rice
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vinegar we put about a tablespoon of
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a little bit more that's good and also
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when i'm teaching kids how to cook as
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well as adults i think it's really
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you know kind of eyeball things get
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comfortable like putting a tablespoon of
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in a tablespoon of that instead of
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having to measure every single
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when it comes to baking baking is
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definitely a science so it definitely
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has to be more specific
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but when it comes to cooking get
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comfortable you know putting a pinch of
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and a spoonful of that because i think
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that it makes you become a more
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confident cook as well
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and then the last thing we're going to
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do is add about a teaspoon
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of sugar it's just going to make the
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cucumber salad a little bit sweeter
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i would add yeah that's perfect clove
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and maybe one more just like that
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because that spoon is really small so
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it's going to be about a teaspoon of
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and then you're going to use a big spoon
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and you're just going to give it a nice
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stir so go ahead and stir it up
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and make sure you get all the
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ingredients mixed perfect
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and then after you let's mix it up a
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good and sometimes i always like to
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scoop from the bottom
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and then over to the top kids when
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you're stirring something so
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bottom and over and you can even turn
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the bowl so you get all the ingredients
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under and over perfect
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and if you guys are out there with your
9:10
ingredients joining us for the live
9:12
hopefully you have everything in the
9:14
bowl as well you're giving it a good mix
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okay at this point we always want to
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taste our food why do we always want to
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taste our food before we serve it to
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anybody else chloe to make sure that
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it has the right amount of ingredients
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so if we need more salt and pepper if
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you wanted to add more vinegar you could
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so these are clean spoons you're going
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to try your cucumber salad
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and then you're gonna put it in the
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dirty wall afterwards and take
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take a bite and then tell me if you
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think it needs any more salt
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any more vinegar any more pepper what
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are your thoughts or did you just
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have to make it perfect on the first
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a little bit more pepper okay so go
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ahead and put some pepper
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give it a stir everything else tastes
9:54
okay the salt level the vinegar level
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okay perfect let's give it a stir and
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then i'm gonna have you place it
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in our salad bowl okay and i'm a big fan
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in a clear or white dish i think food
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in a white bowl okay so i'll hold this
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and if you want to go ahead and scoop
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that in it looks great
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and here's some other variations for
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this salad you could always add
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i love adding seaweed to the salad as
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well kids if you wanted to make this for
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your parents they would love that
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you can reconstitute some seaweed that
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you bought me at an asian store
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this is also great if you want to pack
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it with a little bit more protein
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if you got the shelled edamame they sell
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aisle of your grocery store you can have
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a cucumber and edamame salad
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you can even go so far as putting in
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poached boiled shrimp and you can have a
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shrimp in cucumber salad or even octopus
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so those are some other options as well
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and cucumber is packed with vitamin k
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and c there's also fiber it's also about
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water so it's really hydrating for you
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healthy so chloe you did a great job
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if you want to exit we'll put her lovely
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and we're going to bring in juice
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thanks for joining us today so today
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juice we're going to do a simple um
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i can't tell you how many compliments
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that i get on this cherry tomato salad i
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literally if i have people over for
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and if i make eight or nine side dishes
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they're always asking about this salad
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that said hello today he's one of the
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this is these are san marzano baby
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tomatoes you can use
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any type of cherry tomatoes you want you
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can even use roma tomatoes or heirloom
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tomatoes cut up again it's all about
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what you have at the house
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so deuce let's go ahead and put the
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cherry tomatoes in the big bowl
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you dip all of them in a few more yep if
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you need to use your hands go ahead
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because i know your hands are clean too
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a little bit of garlic here that's left
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you can put the rest of this garlic
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into the cherry tomatoes that's about
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one cloves of clove of crushed garlic
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perfect i'll take that for you since i'm
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your little sous chef
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and then the basil right there go ahead
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and just tear it up into little pieces
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and then go right in here
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and it's true i usually like to tear my
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basil it does a lot less bruising than
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a knife cutting it so i have two fresh
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basil leaves and you tear it into little
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and then we want to season with salt and
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pepper so the kosher salt juice
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i would say let's put about a spoonful
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you just sprinkle it around perfect and
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then maybe about a quarter spoon of the
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that we ground up maybe a little bit
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okay good and then we can sprinkle it in
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there and then the only other two
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ingredients that we need
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a really really great yummy balsamic
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vinegar um this one is from bristol
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farms this one is their aceto balsamico
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um you know i have to say i've tried a
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lot of really really expensive
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balsamic vinegars and this one is
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comparable to i would say like a 50
13:21
bottle a lot of times it's on sale for
13:23
14.99 so when it is go ahead and use it
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so i want you to just pour we want about
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maybe like a tablespoon
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so just pour slowly and again not
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measuring i wanted to eyeball it because
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i wanted to feel comfortable
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a tiny bit more i want to feel
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comfortable just being able to do it
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freestyle just like this
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that's great and then about a tablespoon
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olive oil and the more he does this he's
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going to realize oh that's about a
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tablespoon a little bit more
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perfect so give that a good mix make
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under and over just like chloe i showed
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just under and over and then if you need
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to turn the bowl go ahead and do that
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oh that smells really good just that
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little bit of fresh garlic in the basil
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smells so delicious and again another
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tip for the tomatoes when you buy
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tomatoes never ever put them in the
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refrigerator i still
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see people doing this tomatoes you're
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supposed to leave on your counter
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to ripen until they're really ripe and
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sweet once they get to that point
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then you can transfer them into the
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refrigerator but never buy your tomatoes
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and put them in the refrigerator you
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want to keep them at room temperature
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and tomatoes again have lots of lycopene
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which is great it's a wonderful
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great booster these have about eighty
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percent of that anti
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antioxidant which today when everyone's
14:46
really trying to stay healthy i feel is
14:47
super important really fights against
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heart disease and keeping your immune
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great so i'm gonna have you taste this
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first so we'll use a clean spoon
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and then you tell me deuce if you feel
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like do you need more salt
15:02
do you think it's kind of spot on what
15:12
actually i think it's good okay perfect
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so let's go ahead and put it in here
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i'll hold the bowl that's the dirty yep
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perfect do you want to scoop that in
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and again nice clean white bowl
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that was great good job
15:31
great okay so i'm just gonna move a few
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of these things out of the way
15:36
and i'm gonna have you and chloe do the
15:38
last salad together and it's going to be
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which i love this cabbage sauce recipe
15:45
it isn't any type of a mayonnaise base
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and it's really good and really healthy
15:52
and i'm going to scoop these ingredients
15:53
over here hey juice can you help me just
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slide some of these ingredients over
15:59
perfect and so we've got the shredded
16:03
you can buy it in the bag pre-shredded
16:05
but it tends to be a little bit dry and
16:07
it lacks a little bit of flavor
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hi so this one i the red cabbage i
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always slice by hand
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and i'm going to have you two go ahead
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together okay so scoopy so they're a
16:19
little bit out of the way
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and let me make sure that we have our
16:22
big spoon so we can mix
16:31
um i'll have you stir claw and then
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season juice you're going to go ahead
16:36
put that dijon mustard
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right in here go ahead and scoop and put
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the dijon mustard while he's doing that
16:42
chloe why don't you season it with some
16:44
salt and pepper so let's do
16:46
two of the small spoons of the salt
16:47
which is going to be i would say like
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a teaspoon and a half of kosher salt and
16:54
a quarter cup of the black pepper
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that's good and then deuce we can scoot
17:03
that over to the side
17:05
and let's add the chopped onion
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that's about a tablespoon of white onion
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again you can use any type of onion that
17:12
scallions if you don't have an onion you
17:16
and then i'm also adding some parsley to
17:20
you know color and garnish but also
17:22
parsley has a ton of vitamin c
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which is good for your body as well you
17:25
can put that whole thing in there
17:29
and then we can put the cider vinegar
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about two tablespoons of the cider
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vinegar that's gonna go in here
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the whole thing juice and then
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chloe let's maybe put two spoons of
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and then you can go ahead and put that
17:50
garlic in here juice
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so we've got all the ingredients in here
17:53
except for the olive oil
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so why don't you drizzle about a
17:59
tablespoon and a half of the olive oil
18:01
juice and then chloe you can start
18:04
while he's got that in there and these
18:08
purple vegetables again
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they have anthemic acid which is tons
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great antioxidants for your body uh the
18:16
red cabbage has about four and a half
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times more than the white or the green
18:20
cabbage uh great for heart disease
18:22
lowering your cholesterol inflammation
18:25
it's also really great keeping your
18:27
brain healthy so again
18:28
talking about foods that you know help
18:31
you feel stronger and smarter
18:33
so go ahead and give that a good stir
18:36
can you hand me that white platter
18:37
please little white bowl
18:42
give a little bit more stir and then i
18:44
want to have you guys give it a taste
18:45
remember we always have to taste what we
18:47
cook because we need to make sure
18:49
before we serve it to anybody else that
18:51
it's seasoned right and it tastes right
18:53
okay so i'm just give it two more stirs
18:56
so just so it's really incorporated
19:02
and i'm gonna taste it too let's see how
19:11
really good really really good
19:16
i don't think that we would need to add
19:18
anything else what do you guys think
19:26
you want to add something else um you
19:28
want more vinegar right
19:29
yeah i knew it i knew it i know you
19:38
a tablespoon of vinegar give that a stir
19:44
i took the bite and i was like oh it's
19:45
really good but i don't know like a
19:47
splash more vinegar and then she called
19:57
okay so why not you go ahead and put it
20:01
in here a whole bowl
20:02
you want to scoop it in there
20:07
look at how bright and beautiful these
20:08
salads look all three of them different
20:11
they look so good you guys did an
20:13
amazing job and most kids i mean we've
20:17
your birthday parties and everything
20:18
chloe and all your friends love this
20:21
yeah okay so we can get that can you eat
20:24
that and sing for monkeys yes
20:26
thanks so we've got our red cabbage
20:30
how beautiful the color is in this and
20:32
then the cucumber salad that we made
20:34
and then the cherry tomato the this this
20:37
cherry tomato salad also
20:39
i love giving the viewers um variations
20:42
so if you wanted to add black olives
20:44
like any swash or kalamata olives it's
20:47
sometimes i even add chopped roasted red
20:51
in the jar and it's so so great that's
20:53
actually one of chloe's favorite salads
20:56
so you guys did an amazing job and thank
20:59
you so much for helping me today do you
21:01
guys want to give a shout out to
21:02
your friends family anybody say hello to
21:05
deuce what about you
21:13
shout out to anybody no chloe what about
21:16
shout out to anybody um to my dad
21:19
and my friend vivian and charlotte
21:23
okay and i'm going to give a shout out
21:24
to hal hal yo-yo and fal
21:28
uncle pat uncle jack and a big
21:31
shout out to melly henson's classroom
21:37
thanks so much for joining us you guys
21:38
did awesome you want to say
21:40
hello to anybody juice before we log off
21:43
give a shout out to anyone
21:44
yeah my dad yay perfect
21:51
thanks for helping you guys are awesome
21:55
you guys are awesome um we have a
21:57
question here for you michael what is
21:59
the best way to introduce a food to a
22:01
kid that doesn't like
22:02
vegetables great questions the best way
22:05
noticed that kids tend to like raw
22:07
vegetables like salad type vegetables
22:10
as opposed to cooked green vegetables so
22:13
i would say one of these salads
22:15
especially the cucumber salad
22:17
or the tomato salad i would try that
22:19
first and i think that
22:21
another great way to get them to try
22:22
them is really get them involved i
22:24
really feel like the more you cook with
22:27
the more likely they are to try it
22:29
because they really feel like they
22:31
involved makes total sense makes total
22:36
so guys you know if you're watching
22:39
live you're going to notice a link is
22:42
literally going to be put right into the
22:45
where you can go click on it and get the
22:48
and the utensils on how to create these
22:52
amazing amazing salads
22:54
in addition to that um you can actually
22:57
go pick up some of those utensils go
22:59
over to the kids corner again there's
23:01
link right in the comments go click on
23:04
it and go get your utensils
23:07
so chloe and deuce thank you so much
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for joining michael in the kitchen today
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food and as we close out the show the
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show i'm going to have you guys go back
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to wherever you guys work
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before this a green room back here one
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go back to the green room thanks again
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you guys did amazing
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awesome and you know what i'm gonna tell
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everyone how they can get in touch with
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you michael whether they
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are interested in finding out more about
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you know your catering and all the
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different things that you do they can go
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livingwithmichael.com
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and you also have an instagram account
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you have all sorts of things going on
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over there and that's at
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living with michael imagine that right
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and i think i spelled that wrong so i'm
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going to actually fix this right now
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oh karen come on no i'm literally going
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okay i have too many c's in there
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i think that's ch you know what what am
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here we go all right let's do this the
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right way because i'm a perfectionist
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there we go all right so michael i want
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to thank you this is
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this is a been a blast and we're going
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to have you back on we're going to be
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doing a special halloween show which i'm
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look forward to that it was so fun i
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hope you viewers enjoyed it i'm looking
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forward to doing another live show with
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abs absolutely and you have so many
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comments here that came in from
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youtube you came in from facebook i put
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as i could here's another one a great
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kendra says those look so yummy
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great job deuce and chloe we thank you
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we thank our viewers because we know
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that you have a choice as to where to
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spend your time and you chose to spend
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so we are very grateful for that go out
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an awesome day and michael we'll see you
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thanks karen shout out to laurie harris
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thank you so much for your help today
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yay lori hey lori okay guys
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have a great day everyone we'll see you