Cook DINNER With Me! 👩🍳 ｜｜ Let's chat while I make meatballs and other dishes!
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Summary
In this episode, we are doing a cook dinner with me and I m making a recipe for Brussels Sprouts. These are one of my favorite veggie recipes to cook and they are super easy and delicious. I m planning on roasting them in the oven and serving them with a green glaze and a balsamic glaze. I hope you like them!
Transcript
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where we're going to be
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doing a cook dinner with me now I know you guys have probably heard of get
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ready with me's I've done a few of them on my channel we just do our makeup we
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get ready together and we do a little bit of chatting so today I thought I
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would do a cook dinner with me because I wanted to do a cooking video but I'm
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having people over and I don't want to do a fancy recipe for you guys I figured
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we could just make dinner we could chat and we'll just make dinner together I
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apologize in advance if the audio in this video is a little bit off I am in
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a new space when I record in my kitchen it's always a little bit hard to get the
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sound exactly right because it's very echoey and so I'm hoping it sounds okay
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but it may not sound perfect and so I apologize if that's the case but as you
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can see we are in my kitchen this is where all of the magic happens no we cook a lot
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of dinners in here and we're having some guests over tonight so I'm actually making
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a good meal for them I'm starting off with Brussels sprouts my plan is to roast
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them this is just one of my favorite recipes just for vegetables generally
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and so I'm going to be roasting them in the oven so I just came up with a little
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trick right now I am going to have a lot of ends for the Brussels sprouts and so I
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figured I might as well just grab a little bowl and put all them in there and then I
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can just toss them out so the way that I do Brussels sprouts is I'll generally
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actually third them so I like to have like a slice in the middle because my
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husband really likes them crispy sometimes they'll look a little bit burned but
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actually I don't find that Brussels sprouts taste burned they might just
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look burned and they are crunchy and delicious so I like to slice them into
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thirds and then they get really crispy I just saw a bunny in our backyard I just
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got so excited our sink overlooks a window into our backyard and we get so
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many bunnies it's like the best thing ever seriously I love it so much makes me
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feel like Snow White or something so sorry I got distracted my plan is to put
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these in the oven I kind of sprinkle them with some olive oil and garlic powder
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and onion powder and I just let those roast at like 425 for 20 minutes around
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and they cook super well and they're super delicious and it's just really easy so
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like I said the only fancy thing I do is instead of just slicing them in half I
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slice them in thirds so that they get really crunchy and then I really just lie
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them flat on the pan what are your guys's recipes for vegetables because I'll be
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honest with you my husband really doesn't like a lot of vegetable dishes so I'm
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always looking for new ones that he'll like and enjoy but it's a little bit hard
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because you know for me I like to just have a salad and he won't know like he will
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not do that so so instead I have to cook everything and so I'm always looking for
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interesting vegetable recipes so if you guys have recommendations leave them in
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the comments below now here's another question do you guys like Brussels sprouts
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because that is like a thing that people are really polarized on some people love
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Brussels sprouts will eat them no matter what and some people really hate them
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and I know as a kid there was always like a running joke about Brussels sprouts
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that Brussels sprouts were like gross my parents really didn't make them my mom
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didn't cook them so I never had them until I got older and then when I did I
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had them roasted and usually they have a balsamic glaze which is also delicious
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and sometimes I'll do like a balsamic reduction but we're just gonna keep it
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the bunny is still out there sorry I keep popping over to the sink so that I can
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rinse more Brussels sprouts because we're having two people over so it'll be four of
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us and Brussels sprouts they shrink they're kind of like spinach they get
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smaller when you cook them so it'll look like you have enough for a lot of
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people and you really don't so it's like always really important to make more in
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my experience I just threw this in the garbage bag so yeah I always make a ton of
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Brussels sprouts but so the first time I had Brussels sprouts I really liked them
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and then it became kind of a thing where I was like I'm gonna I'm gonna learn how to
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cook them and so now I make them for us pretty regularly and I love them they're
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really delicious so today's been a busy day I started putting out four videos a
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week guys so keep an eye out for that and so it's just made my schedule a little bit
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different because now I'm not putting out two videos a week like I was and then
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I'm not putting out three videos a week like I was now putting out four videos so
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I'm actually doing a lot of editing and a lot of filming which I love I actually
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love editing I never thought I would say that I never thought I would be somebody
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who liked the editing process but I actually really like it I really like
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learning how to use the programs I really like cutting and making it look fun
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and interesting it's actually a ton of fun I also really like just the whole
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process the creative process of putting together my videos and putting together
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thumbnails whoever thinks about the thumbnails when you look at a YouTube
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video but once you start learning about YouTube more you realize that you have to
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make interesting thumbnails and it's kind of a really fun process and it's
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something I've really been enjoying so that was something I was working on
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today because I had a video go up it's unexpectedly been a really pretty week
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like the weather kept saying it was going to be awful and then it was only
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storming in the evenings which is the best of all possible worlds because it
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cools off the daytime and it's more like in the 70s and 80s and then evenings are
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when it rains so who cares you can be in bed have you found that you've been
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cooking more or less during coronavirus I'm really curious to hear because I
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feel like with us it kind of like balanced out there were weeks that we
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were doing more takeout because we wanted to support you know our small
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businesses and then there were weeks that I was cooking everything and so it
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just kind of ended up balancing out but it's an interesting thing because I feel
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like you would think that it would just be obviously you'd be doing more
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cooking but there is this kind of pull because you're home all the time to do
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something a little bit different and so you end up doing more takeout what's
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your favorite cuisine to order out or to like eat out and then what's your
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favorite to cook I feel like they're not the same I feel like there are some
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cuisines that I just I love cooking at home but then I would much rather get
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something else out to eat so my husband loves sushi so that's been a thing
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and I never thought that I liked sushi until he was the one who got me into it
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and now I like it a lot I don't get anything I'm not adventurous I like my
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sushi pretty straightforward I usually have like a veggie one or I will put like
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a salmon roll like I keep it simple he'll do a little bit more adventurous
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although he can't be that adventurous because kosher rules but at home
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obviously I don't make sushi I think I like making I really like making Italian
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food but also just like straight American I like making American food so to put
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on these Brussels sprouts I'm going to put on some garlic powder
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some onion powder some Italian seasoning and some paprika and I'm going to put
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these in the oven at 425 but for the sake of the audio for this video I'm not
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gonna do it quite yet because it is so loud that it really just blasts out the
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sound and you can barely hear me so we'll just do that a little bit later so now
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that we've got that done we're just gonna keep dinner pretty simple I'm just
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gonna make some noodles and meatballs and my husband likes rigatoni so even
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though you're supposed to eat meatballs with spaghetti we're doing rigatoni tonight and
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so I'm just going to put on a pot of noodles so you might be able to hear the
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pot filling with water what we're gonna do is I'm actually going to just put that
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on my normal stovetop over there and we're just gonna let the noodles do
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their thing because that's not interesting but I will make the meatballs in
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front of you here with my induction cooktop and then I can do it kind of with you
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guys I figured the noodles I don't really have to do with you guys because
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so before we actually start cooking the meatballs I am going to make them so I
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have to put them together and assemble them and all of that fun stuff so as you
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can see I've got my meat defrosting in this water here so this is my secret trick I
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always will defrost my meat because a lot of the meat we buy in Nebraska is
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I have to thaw it so the best way for us to do that is if we have to do it kind
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of spur of the moment or even if it just hasn't defrosted all the way I'll just
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put it in some water and let it start to thaw and so it's about I would say 80% of
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the way thawed but I might have to like massage out some of the frozen pieces it's
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what happens when you're working with frozen meat so I'm just going to unpackage
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these and then I'm just going to put them in the bowl and start making some meatballs
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so we do have some frozen chunks in here it's definitely not ideal they're not so
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frozen I mean I can probably like warm them up with my hands but it's not great
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the problem is that we don't have very many places in Nebraska that we can get
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not frozen meat there are a few so it's not to say that they don't exist but it's
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just easier to make one grocery trip than it is to make three or four so we can get
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all the things that we need and so I prefer to just get the frozen meat also
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getting frozen meat is nice because it means that you don't have to worry about
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it kind of going bad or having to throw it in the freezer it's already in the
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freezer there's good and bad to it all right but I just grabbed my meat masher I'm
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wondering if that will help me and it feels like it will oh my gosh I'm so excited
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so as you guys may have seen in my Amazon favorites video I talked about
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this guy here and how much I love it because it does such a good job of
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mashing up your meat and I'm just gonna use it to help me kind of break up that
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meat that's a little bit frozen still also update there are still bunnies in the
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backyard and I'm loving it I'm so excited because they're still there and they're
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so cute and I just you know I know that they can't come up to me I know they're
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wild animals I just wish that they could because like I said I believe I'm snow
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white or at least part of me believes I'm snow white okay guys so here's the
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deal I decided just as I was mashing up this meat I don't think it makes much
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sense for me to bring over the induction cooktop because that's not the
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interesting part I'm just literally putting in the meatballs so this is the
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plan I'm putting the meatballs in the sauce to simmer and that will cook them so
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that's my plan I don't think I need to use the induction cooktop to show you
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guys that I can just kind of put it on back there so I'm not gonna worry too
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much about that next I am going to put in two eggs three eggs we'll see I'm
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winging this because I'm not too worried about the consistency of the meatballs a
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lot of the flavor comes from the marinara sauce and I generally don't use
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recipes so depends sometimes I do but not always so today we're gonna do it so
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let's start off with two I need to get a measuring cup give me a second so I
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forgot to do this in my last cooking video but generally when I'm cooking with
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eggs I crack them into a clear container so I can check them for blood because
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yep all good there and now we're just gonna mash these the water is getting
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hot for the noodles so I'm just gonna keep letting that boil as they say a
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wash pot never boils and I'm not watching it so so it's fine because it's boiled
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so we're just mashing this up together and then we're gonna add bread crumbs and
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a few spices is the plan I've got about three pounds of meat here because I want
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there to be enough for everybody and if we have leftovers that's fine so it's
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going to make the portions of what I put in here a little bit more so that's why
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I'm deciding whether I want to put in another egg or not I think I'm gonna stick
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with two for now but let's put in the breadcrumbs and see so who here has
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Disney Plus because Disney Plus is a lot of fun as you guys know I have been
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finding solace during quarantine by imagining that I can go to Disney World
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and that includes watching Disney movies too so one of the things that I watched
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lately recently was the princess and the frog and I hadn't seen it for a very very
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long time so I was kind of excited to see what it was about kind of I didn't
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really remember it I remembered parts of it but not all of it you know it's okay
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it's cute but my issue is I don't like that they spend most of the movie as frogs
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I don't know why that bothers me but I'm like I just wanted to see Tiana and
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Prince Naveen being people I understand that the story and I'm sure that for kids
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it's appealing that it's you know animals but as an adult I was like I want to see
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them as people hanging out enjoying their lives oh I think that the water is
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so we're just going to let those bad boys boil for about nine 12 minutes
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between there sometime in there and then we can get going so this is going to
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need another egg I have determined because it is a little bit dry with the
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breadcrumbs so we're going to go in with another one
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but yeah I think that with the princess and the frog it's cute but it's a little
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bit like I said disappointing because I wanted to see Tiana and Prince Naveen
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I almost felt like I wanted to know them better before they turn into frogs
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but it's a cute movie and you know I will say I don't find that the songs are
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husband slowly approaches oh the video's gonna die
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so the camera died but we're back and my husband sneaked in a kiss before the
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camera died which was very cute but now I am mashing up this meat we're getting
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close with the noodles but we're not quite there yet and I'm just going to add
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some spices to this we're going to be using similar ones I'm going to be using
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now I'm not gonna add salt just because I don't want the salt from the
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meatballs to be too much with the salt from the marinara because I'm just using
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bottled marinara we're not getting fancy here come on so we're just gonna stick
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with those two things and then I'll throw in some Italian seasoning too
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so I asked my husband what he thought and he agreed that I should put some mayo in
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here just to give these meatballs a little bit more moisture so I'm gonna throw
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that in too I'm gonna go back in with these guys but what I'm gonna do first so I'm
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going to check those noodles see if they're done and I'm actually gonna be
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using the same pot because I can just dump out the noodles in the water and
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then I have less dishes to do and who doesn't want that so while we let those
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boil because they're not done yet we can just chat because my plan is the reason I
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don't want to start mushing this together now is because it's really
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annoying to run back and forth to the sink constantly and so I figure to what to
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wash my hands in between so I figure I'll just mash this all together after I
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filled the pot with the marinara sauce then I can just put these in and then
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cover it and let it simmer so I'm just waiting until that happens but I am
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curious to know what is your favorite Disney movie I all of them I know crazy
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but I'm saying not just the animated ones but like live-action ones too or we can
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make those two different categories live-action Disney movies and then the
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the animated ones but my live-action favorite Disney movie that was on
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Disney Plus Swiss Family Robinson I know guys I'm wondering what you think
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because Swiss Family Robinson is one of my absolute favorites I absolutely love it
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I've always wanted to live in that treehouse so why am I not living in that
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treehouse right now I just wish I was there right this second it's so beautiful
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in the movie he surprises her he like makes the roof so it opens up to the stars
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and they can look up at the stars at night so romantic so that's gonna be the
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dream house guys is uh it's just a treehouse just a beautiful treehouse but
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as far as animated ones there are so many that I really love but just recently I've
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really loved tangled I feel like tangled does a really good job of getting us to
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know Flynn and Rapunzel really well okay let's check on the noodles
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so we finished the noodles the noodles are in the sink draining and now we've got
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the same pot making sure we don't have to wash extra dishes and we've got the
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bowl with the meat in it so what I'm going to do is I'm actually just going to
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pop two different kinds of marinara sauce into this pot I figure it's kind of
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interesting to mix them because you get all the different flavors from each so
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brief break while my husband opens this for me that pop was courtesy of Jacob and
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now I'm going to put this mayo into these meatballs and then we can start
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actually making them into meatballs so then what we do is we put them on the
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stove and bring them to a boil and then bring them to a simmer and we let them
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sit for about 30-ish minutes but you can always check them with a meat
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thermometer that always makes things simple and easy and then you don't have
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to worry to make sure that it's actually cooked and like cut into one you can
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just test one with a meat thermometer so now we're just gonna roll about a
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million meatballs because we've got a bunch in here I'm hoping that they stick
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together because with the Mayo they might be too moist but we shall see I would
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say right now Tangled is my favorite because it's just really well done it's
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really sweet I think it's appropriate for kids but it also has something for
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adults I think that's the thing for me with Princess and the Frog is in a weird
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way it feels more appropriate for children but then there are topics in
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there that I don't think that children would be that interested by so that's
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maybe why I wasn't as much of a fan of that so normally when I'm cooking dinner I
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usually will either put on some music if somebody is here with me I'll put on
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some French cafe music or something which is always fun or if I'm alone I might
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watch a show or something while I get ready so when I make one of these videos
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obviously it's a little bit different I'm not watching a show I'm I'm chatting
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with you guys but what's your perfect way to cook dinner like what gets you
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really happy while you're cooking dinner do you wear an apron do you put on
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music what are you cooking what's your favorite meal to cook I love to hear how
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other women like to hang out in the kitchen so share with me in the comments
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how you guys do that so guys I went thrifting for the first time in a really
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long time and I'm gonna be honest I didn't really grow up thrifting so I
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would usually shop in the major sales sections but I didn't really go thrifting
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and so I tried to go thrifting the other day I got four items for $12 and I was
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like is this real and they were really nice they're from like Ann Taylor Loft
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and I think one of them was Banana Republic and I was so excited that I was
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able to find stuff at the thrift store that was actually good quality and so
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inexpensive so if you guys have tips for shopping at the thrift store please let
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me know because I'm dying to go back I feel like it is so much better to shop at
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the thrift store than it is to go to TJ Maxx or whatever if you can find stuff
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that works for you and so if you guys have tips for it let me know because I
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want to be better at thrifting and it's so interesting how good you can get at it
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like I know there are some people who are really good at thrifting and so I
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really want to be better at it because like I said I didn't I didn't grow up with
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it really so I would like to be better at it but while I was there I was shopping
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honestly I was shopping to find shorts that were a little bit longer because
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the shorts that I own I think they're okay they're like pretty modest but I
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worry that they're a little bit short so I thought you know what I'm gonna see if
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I can find some shorts that are a little bit longer and so I won't feel
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self-conscious and that was my plan was to find shorts that I felt more
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comfortable in and so I went to the store and I was able to find some I also
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found two skirts which was awesome and I found this adorable hanging wall
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cabinet it is so beautiful it's wooden with these little glass doors and when
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I say it's like a hanging wall cabinet it almost looks like a jewelry box it's
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very small but it is really pretty and I think I got it for $10 and I can't
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believe if I got it anywhere else it would be less than 30 so I was like well
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that's a great purchase how often do you host people because I know that for
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me my husband and I host so often like we love having people over obviously
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coronavirus has put a damper on that and it's made things a little bit harder and
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lately things have been opening up more so we've been you know having a few
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friends over in small small groups and all that but it's it's interesting because
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I think a lot of people aren't comfortable hosting and I know that in the
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Orthodox Jewish community you have people over every week because of Sabbath so I'm
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just used to the concept of hosting people for dinner okay guys so all of
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the meatballs are done they're in the pot I may need to add actually even a
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little bit more marinara just so that it really cooks all the way through
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because you want them to be covered while they're cooking and I'm gonna bring it to
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a boil and then I'm gonna let it simmer so because I'm having people over I can't
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really show you guys the finished product as it comes out because I need to be able to
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serve it and everything but what I will do is I will take a picture of the
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finished product so you guys can see it so I'm gonna put this on the stove I'm
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gonna start letting it cook and that's gonna be pretty much it I just need to
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pop that in the oven put this on the stove and then we're good
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okay guys so that's everything it's not very complicated it probably took longer
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