WEBVTT - What’s cooking good looking 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:02.960 I am all in. 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:19.000 Oh it's you. I am all in with Scott Patterson, 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:20.640 an iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:27.000 Hoa, Susanna, Merry Christmas, you guys Christmas. So it's Christmas morning. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:28.880 It actually is early right now. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.360 I'm not gonna I'm wearing my pajamas. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:30.600 I'm not. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:35.720 I had to set an alarm for seven forty five today. Yeah, 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.880 so Scott is you know, Scott's been working around the clock. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:44.519 He's like literally just finishing. He's getting back to his family. 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:48.839 So we did give him Christmas off. But the girls 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:53.360 and I got together for kind of a fun Christmas 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:58.560 Day Gilmore Girls celebration. It's sort of perfect for Christmas 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.760 Day and Kristen are going to join us. Who wrote 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.680 the Gilmore Girls the official cookbook, so they're going to 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.560 tell us all about the recipes. What's perfect to make 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:16.399 today on Christmas? Hopefully an easy one. So Tara and Susanne, 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.880 are you guys good cooks? 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.880 I'm not bad. I can cook. I definitely always need 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.080 a recipe. I can't go off the cuss, but I 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.800 can make. I can make good food. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:33.160 Really yeah, like what really? I'm actually so I. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.840 Actually for a long time I did when I was 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:37.760 living alone because I didn't know how to cook. I 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.279 did Hello Fresh, which is a sponsor by the way. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.120 And you used it before I was even a sponsor. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.840 So yeah, genuinely endorsing Hello Fresh. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:45.120 Yeah. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.040 This was like four years ago when I was living alone. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:48.800 I didn't know how to cook, and I was like, well, 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.240 it gives you the items and the recipe, so why not. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.880 And so I actually need to order the Kilmore Girls 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.440 Official Cookbook because now I want to make it. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.000 I did. It's good. Wait, Susanna, can you cook? 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.160 I I am not really a cook. I don't enjoy it, 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.800 and so I never really like learned how to do it. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.919 I can I can, you know, brown some ground beef 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.120 and you know, basic things like that, But I'm not 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.480 really a cook. My husband likes to cook, so he 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:15.799 does the cook Oh he does it. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:16.560 Oh that's good. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:18.040 Yeah. Yeah. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.560 I had a phase there where I was like, I'm 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.720 going to learn to cook, and then I like six 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.760 months into it, was like, I don't I hate this. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.440 The worst part is cleaning the dishes. That's the worst part. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.360 Like the process is great, but like. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.080 That's not the worst part for me. The worst part 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.560 for me is doing the whole thing and realizing it 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.640 tastes gross. I'm like, oh my god, I literally just 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.240 did all this and I don't like it. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:41.760 Oh, it's a bummer. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.880 I just to me, I always am focused on how 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.880 much time I'm spending, like you spend for me. It 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.480 takes I don't know, an hour two hours to cook 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.760 something basic for ten then you eat it in ten minutes, yeah, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.000 and then it's gone. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.760 So that's I think we all weren't meant to cook. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.120 Like I think we're all not meant to you know, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.760 b Taylor Swift. Some of us have skills, some of 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.880 us don't. And I don't have that skill. But for 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.760 those of you that do, the Gilmore Girls cookbook is legit, 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.920 like it's this is the official cookbook, and Elena and 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.320 Kristin wrote it and we'll explain how they did it together. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.639 But yeah, the burger on the front cover looks amazing. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.359 This makes me want to try cooking again because the pictures. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.200 It kind of agree and the whole Gilmore Girls of it, 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.440 and like, definitely we can pull off what Rory and 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.520 Laura cook. Yeah, for sure. So we've talked to one 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.760 of you before, right, who did we talk to before 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.680 me Kristin. So Elena and Kristin are here and they 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.080 wrote a book that many of you have Gilmore Girls, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.520 the Official Cookbook. So we were so happy to have you. Guys. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.960 We have so much to talk about. One is that 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.160 you both will be at our I Am All In 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.600 Live event at the iHeartRadio Theater January seventeenth for a 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.880 really cool segment with Scott So First, Hi, guys, tell 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.080 everybody a little bit about what each of you do 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.280 and how you came together for the official cookbook for 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:12.360 the Gilmore Girls. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.520 Well, I am a recipe developer and so I have 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.240 written a few cookbooks and this is one of my 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.840 favorites because it's a family affair. And I was approached 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.360 by Inside Editions to write this cookbook and luckily partnered 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.560 with Kristin, who did the amazing flavor text and I'll 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.440 let her speak to that awesome part. But I developed 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.039 the recipes for this book. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.679 And I'm Kristin. I am a humor writer. The book 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.200 was already a plan a little bit before I jumped on, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.320 but I heard from the editor that they were looking 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.000 for a writer to join in. I think it was 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.120 described as a pop culture cookbook and I was like, Okay, 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.039 I'm interested, and then she told me it was Gilmore 0:04:55.080 --> 0:05:00.200 Girls and I was like, I am super interested, and 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.039 she asked me to write I think it was a 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.840 sample for the Santa Berger. She asked me to write, oh, 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.640 we're going to talk about to and then they brought 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.520 me on and that was really really exciting. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.160 Yeah, and had so many fun ideas, like there's the 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.560 whole relationship chart in the book, which is one of 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:22.520 my favorite things. I love it. Yeah, I loved that edition. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.960 It's so cute. And it was really important to me 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.359 to organize the book by the places that we know 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:33.880 in stars Hollow and around it, rather than traditional appetizers, entrees, drinks. Right, 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:35.240 that was really fun. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:41.440 So meaning the diner, the Dragonfly, do you have recipes 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.159 from El's Pancake World in there? 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:43.880 We do? 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.880 We do. So we have Luke's Diner, we have the 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.560 Dragonfly in we have sort of outside of Stars Hollow, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.880 which encompasses the Gilmour mansion and things that maybe happened 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.480 at college. And then of course we have you know, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.359 Lorelei and Roy's house which has oh my gosh, we 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:02.360 recipes in it. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.080 We were literally just talking about the pizza with the 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:10.680 tater tots, so she got the frozen pizzas and then 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.800 just dumps the tater tots, which seems gross but yet 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.360 time efficient like it would work. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.000 Well, yeah, I had to tweak that a little bit. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.240 You really need to pre cook your tater tot's a 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.400 skosh to get that christiness. But I love that line 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.440 in that episode where Worri's like, well you're the one 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:27.360 who wanted to cook. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.560 Oh, we love that when she says do you want 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:36.920 the apple or the raspberry turnover? Yes? Yes, So we're 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.800 both of you, Kristen. You first, we're both of you 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.200 fans of the show before you found out you had 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:48.000 this job and came together to write the cookbook. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.000 Yes, I was so it originally aired. I think I 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:52.800 was in college when it originally aired, so I was 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.840 watching it week to week back then, and then the 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.600 Year in Life came out. It must have been after 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.080 one of my babies was born, because I binged the 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.320 entire series again before I watched that, So it must 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.200 have been. I was up at night and just binge 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.480 watched the whole series before I watched the four Year 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.520 in a Life episodes. So yeah, I was a big 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:13.280 fan before. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.080 Yeah, so I was also a huge fan and watched 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.000 it when it was actually airing, and then as my 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.040 kiddo sort of came of age, I watched it all 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.040 the way through with them, so so many hours on 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.960 the sofa, just you know, laughing and also just so 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.560 much emotional with the crying as they're sort of turning twelve, thirteen, fourteen. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.520 And then watched it all the way through again with 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.760 them when I got contracted to do this book, because 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.920 then I'm watching it with my notepad, you know, watching 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.160 for every single food reference that could possibly be. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.960 Right right right right, Yes, this book was a great 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.840 excuse to be able to watch some TV. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.440 Exactly I'm working, It's really I'm working. Yeah, And for 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.920 this book, it was so hard to narrow it down. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.840 I mean I was going to say, write three Gilmore 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:05.720 Girls cookbooks? 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.000 Really, well, you should do another one to follow. So 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.760 what what a cool thing to have happened in that 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.720 It wasn't like the two of you created this concept, 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.400 which would have been cool in and of itself, but 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:22.360 someone actually came to you and said, can you do 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.160 this for Gilmore Girls? Which I almost think would be 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.560 such a like a treat of a job offer to 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.360 get like, oh, are you kidding me? 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.520 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's a treat. It's a treat. I 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:38.040 have written several books for inside editions, and I only 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:43.160 take on franchises that I love, right because otherwise I'm 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.920 going to be doing a disservice to the fans if 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.040 I don't love it, if I don't know it inside 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.640 and out, if it doesn't you know, if it hasn't 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.959 held a place in my life, I'm not going to 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.320 be able to find all those nuggets and all those 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.880 Easter eggs and kind of make all those things come 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.880 to life. So to get off this one was amazing, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.000 and it was and the perfect time where I had 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.679 just recently rewatched it and then you know, got to 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.640 watch it all over again. So yeah, it was great. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.520 And what about you, Kristen, And obviously what you do 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.080 is sort of different than what Elena did for the book, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.959 and that you have to figure out how to turn 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:33.719 the food into little stories and anecdotes, and you know it, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.400 it was a bit says. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.800 The show's so well written anyways, so it was easy 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.480 to kind of take the scenarios and just kind of 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.040 turn into something more about the food. And it's funny 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.959 because when the book was announced, I know you shouldn't 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:51.880 read the comments, but I always read the comments. You do, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.720 but so many people are like, what do you mean 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.880 a Gilmore Girl's cookbook, Like they don't even know how 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.480 to cook. And I thought that was really funny because 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.200 when you watch the show, so much of it is 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.000 about food totally, and one of the characters is a 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.679 gourmet chef, and we have Luke Steiner, and there's just 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.680 so many of the episodes are about food. So it 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.560 was kind of surprised to hear that, but it was. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.360 It was really fun and I personally, I loved writing 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.120 about the recipes that you know, you mentioned the pizza 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.160 with the tater tots. I loved about the recipes that 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.200 are about a food that they say on the show 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.079 is disgusting because I loved how Alena twisted those recipes 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.600 and wow, really good. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.480 Yeah, what are a couple that stand outs with? My kids? 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.440 Love the mash banana on toast. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.959 Oh, really so good. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.680 Yeah, it's really simple, it's easy for me and it's 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.560 just really tasty. Lena added some vanilla and I think 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.800 some cinnamon in there and some lime. 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.079 I don't do the lime, to be. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:52.480 Honest, it was the worst pieced. 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:58.280 For me. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.000 It was missus Kim's recipe. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.240 Oh my gosh, they're so difficult, and. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.480 Because my editor was like, I don't know what you're 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.080 gonna do, Like how are you going to do this? 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.400 We have to have them in there, but like extra 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.280 chunky soy pudding, like what is that? Like what are 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:14.680 we doing? 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.600 Are they all vegan at the Kims? Is that your 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.800 takeaway that? Or yes, she's definitely vegan. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:21.680 She's definitely vegan. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.959 Yeah, and so all the ahead of time. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.080 Yeah, she was totally ahead of her gune. All of 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.800 those recipes are vegan. One of my absolute favorites and 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.560 a huge cellar like everybody that I've ever given it 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.880 to to try is the eggless egg salad. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.640 Oh gosh, rights. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.040 And it just came together and it's got like an auditu. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.400 What I did was I toasted some chickpeas in some 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.360 warming spices and actually some tumeric so that they got 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.720 kind of yellow and then a very firm tofu and 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.599 a lot of celery and green im like gosh, and 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.160 actually doesn't decide are out a little bit of color 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.360 and then the Aquaa ranch is kind of the binder 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.840 instead of mayonnaise. Oh my god, that is in there 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:10.520 for a crunch? 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:12.280 Oh wow? 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.719 Is that from the dance? Is that the sandwiches she 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.240 passed out in the dance exactly? 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.400 And the aqua faa ranch is like part of the 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.160 salad and a bag recipe, so you get to kind 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:23.760 of use it. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.080 I was gonna say. Also, there's such an iconic episode 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.280 when they have to go to the like five thanksgivings. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:35.520 Do you address that in the book? Figuring out all 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.160 those different turkeys and remember there was a fry. This 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.200 might be for book two. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.040 Yeah, I think we only gonna have to do remember 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.000 Jackson the holiday edition. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:46.959 Yeah, that's a good idea. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:48.560 That's actually a really good idea. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.280 And then we could do all of the all of 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:56.240 the foods from like the Winter Festival edition. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:02.080 The thing that's really amazing about Gilmergold not only is 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.600 there a lot of food, right, but it's the way 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:09.360 the food is presented in the show, especially with Suki 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:13.480 and at the Inn, both incarnations of the Inn. It's 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.680 so beautifully displayed on camera, you know. And you talked 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.000 about the Winter Festival or the carnivals or the sort 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.160 of events of the town. The food is always just 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:29.400 massive quantities and looks like some food stylist has spent 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.959 one thousand hours preparing it because it's always just flawlessly done. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.600 The wedding cakes, I mean, the wedding cakes alone just 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.440 so gorgeous. And I actually taught myself a new skill 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.840 to do Suki's wedding cake. Yeah, I was trying to 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.160 figure out how to make it an approachable recipe but 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.480 also still make it really beautiful. Yeah, So I kind 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:58.359 of taught myself that this palette knife technique with buttercream, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.600 which is very popular all over social media right now, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.920 and it's basically like using a palette knife like you 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.760 would with oil paint, but to create textured flowers, often 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.000 in buttercream. So I enjoyed doing. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.360 Oh my gosh, it sounds at what's the easy for 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.960 somebody like me and maybe Susannahatara as well, what's the 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.160 easiest recipe, maybe other than the mashed bananas on TOAs, 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.640 what's the easiest recipe that like a person who cannot 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.200 cook can make. Maybe Santa Burger. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.840 The Santa Burger is a great one. I actually think 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.680 that you would be surprised how much you would enjoy 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:41.680 and love making the risotto with Skellos. It's actually it 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.760 seems intimidating, but risotto is one of those dishes that, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.080 just with a little patience, you look so fancy at 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.560 the end of the evening. And the reason it's one 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.320 of my favorite things to cook is because you have 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.160 to stand at the stove and drink your glass of wine. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.240 You can't be doing. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.920 Other things, so you know you've got to set somebody 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.360 else to set the table and make the salad and 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.960 fuss around. It's like I got to stay here with 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:05.640 the result. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.240 I wanted to ask you, Elena, is also how many 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.080 hours and how much time you know, as the expert 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.440 was put into the way the food looked on the show, Like, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.960 obviously that's someone's entire job, but that. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:25.080 Must have been several people's entire job. Wow, yeah, like 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.840 many people's entire job. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.800 So, and you did the recipes for this, and I'm 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.920 assuming they photographed your preparations. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:40.280 So I am a strange jumping between two hats, right, 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.320 So I am a recipe developer, but I'm also a 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.560 food stylist. I was actually a food stylist before I 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.960 really started developing recipes professionally. So I work with a 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:54.320 photographer who I've known for thirty plus years, and when 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.200 it's one of my cookbooks, but also I do other 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.560 styling for Insight as well and other clients. Yes, so 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.560 I prepared all the food that is actually photographed in 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.960 the book. And that's usually at least the second, if 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.960 not the third time or the fourth time you made 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.000 that dish, right, because I've tested it. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.960 And so how long for both of you was the 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.120 process of writing this book? I would think that would 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.360 take forever to make all those recipes. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.280 For me, for recipe development, they usually give me six 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:29.520 weeks is comfortable? Sometimes weeks oh yeah, Sometimes they want 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.640 to cram it a little tighter than that, but six 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:32.320 weeks usually. 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.400 And how many recipes are in the book? 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.440 I think fifty? 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:37.520 Oh my gosh. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:38.000 Yeah. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.360 And then Kristen so like a you know, lyricist in 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.120 their songwriter. So did Elena create all the recipes and 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.640 the and then you came in and wrote sort of 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:53.120 your stories and antidotes anecdotes about them or were you 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:57.640 doing that simultaneously a little bit of both. Actually, I 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:58.640 sort of got. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.760 Started because I had kind of the same time frame 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:05.040 as her, So I got started before I had some 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.040 of the recipes, because I knew I could sort of 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:08.760 come up with a story in this way to introduce 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.280 it without knowing the ingredients. But I think, I think, 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.280 I remember, Lenny, you were sort of passing them along 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.720 as you made them, so you would send them in bunches, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.439 so i'd get like an email with ten recipes in it, 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:20.879 and then I could go through and see what I 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.520 had already and then incorporate whatever ingredients I needed to 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:25.359 mention in there. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:26.960 Some of them start with. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.040 An outline that has sort of the title of the 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.159 recipe and a brief description of what it's going to be, 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.679 so at least Kristin will know it's a Sanna Burger. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.440 She might not know yet that I've decided to make 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:40.680 the hat out of Rent. 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:42.600 Leak. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.240 She's got like a start. And I always feel so 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.560 bad for the flavor text authors because I am I 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.280 am always way behind them, right, you know, And so 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.360 they're just like this fabulous recipe which will be flavored 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.600 with blank and blank and blank, and then they just 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.960 have to wait and fill that in because I'm never 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.520 gonna be I'm never going to be as fast as them. 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.640 They're cheating, they're at their kids' soccer games with the laptop. 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.640 I mean, you know, start're in the kitchen. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.320 Veway I have. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.080 We will end with my most important question, but first 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.359 I would love to talk about the Sanna Burger. I 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.880 always thought the Santa Berger was amazing. It just looked 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.399 a little mayonnaisy, and I love mayonnaise, but it was 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:29.360 very because of Santa's beard. Obviously, it just looked so mayonnaisy. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.240 How did you sort of navigate that? 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.520 So I believe in the show he actually says that 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.800 it's all catchup and cream cheese. I believe that is 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.760 an exact route. So I wanted to elevate it a 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.200 little bit because you know, come on, if the character 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:50.119 Luke had had the time with his health consciousness to 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.800 really prepare Santa Berger, he wouldn't have done it on 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.359 the fly. He would have done it more amazing. So 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.840 the hat is roasted red bell pepper, and the beard 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.359 and the pomp palm and all that is actually a 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:05.000 combination of like a cream cheese and a shredded cheese 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.560 to sort of like make it the cheese on your burger. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.480 Okay, sure, knit up a little bit. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.960 But it's still quite an investment to eat. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.360 Yeah. I asked you a question about the Santa Burger. Yes, 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.439 because I was looking through before we started. I was 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.359 looking through all the pictures because I think they're so pretty. 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.679 Your Santa Burger is beard is very fluffy. Did you 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.119 use that technique from the wedding cake to fluff up 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:28.560 his beard? 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:33.399 Oh, Kristen, we did kind of like you did almost 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.800 the palette knife technique. Yeah, I just kind of really, 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.399 you know, swoop it on there. But it's because it 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.119 has that shredded cheese in it that gives it a 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.320 lot of fun like beard texture. Yeah. 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.680 Some of the I'm not gonna lie, guys, let's let's 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.680 all huddle up. Some of these foods they eat will 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.000 give you diarrhea, like. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:58.120 You know, maybe some of them need to be sheer, right, like. 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.000 Right, maybe a bite, maybe to be a bite like. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.560 Maybe if you have friends, have a Sanna Burger. 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:08.199 Suki her recipes, no problem, Yeah, those are gonna go. 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:08.440 Well. 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.560 Some of the things the Gilmore girls. 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:18.000 Eat, yeah, will give you just one combination, not a platter, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.800 and don't make the whole recipe of edible raw cookie. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.560 Dough fine though. 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:29.080 Yeah, the restaurant I don't want to visit in Starsollow 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:30.520 is Al's Pancakes. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.520 Oh see, I'm so fascinated. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.080 Well, so what we did was wet because you know, 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.320 you got to be careful with that one, right, because 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.800 you're making something but that's supposed to be gross. But 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.879 then we want people to make it so right, I 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:48.520