WEBVTT - Married and Quarantined + Supporting Loved Ones 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:05.240 Oh Carolina, Oh honey, how are you? How are you feeling? 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.600 I know we are still quarantined. Carolina is still in 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:12.720 your house. I am still in my house. But we're 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.680 seeing each other on zoom yes, and we're giving you 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:17.759 these episodes because we don't want you to feel like, 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.320 you know, we just jumped ship and then we abandoned you. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.000 Because it's like, we get so many d m s, 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:23.959 and every time somebody would tack me like can we 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.560 get a new episode, I'm like, do they not understand 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.319 the pandemic is happening? But then I'm like, let me 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.480 just be nice. Okay, soon, We're gonna get here soon, 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.800 you know. So I'm happy we're here and that we're back. Well, 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.120 I do. I do think that, you know, just a 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.599 lot of people are misunderstanding just because you're working from 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:41.560 home doesn't mean that you have a lot of free 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.879 time on your hands. You know. So when I explained 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.160 my schedule to people, they sit back and and here's 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.360 the other thing too, you know, Um, when I explained 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.599 my schedule, I always say, this is just me, this 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.080 is not you know, everybody else has their own individual 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.760 thing that they are going through. But like legitimately, I 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.520 am more tired looking from home and doing everything that 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.880 I'm doing. Then when I actually physically had to go 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.080 into the city and come back home, I said, have 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.399 some time to decompress. I don't have time to decompress. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.440 I go to the bathroom and I try to like 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.440 find some time for myself. These children, they find me everywhere. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.959 They're like little snoop dogs. You know that no one 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.200 has now dubbed himself snoop DOGG because he was just 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.600 like he is all up in my business, Like he'll 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.600 be laying with me. He's a career. You texting and 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:32.840 I'll say, nobody snoop dog, don't worry about it. Well, 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.840 I mean my snoop dog. If I asked you too 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.520 many questions, I said yes, because you're being a detective. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.480 You know, so welcome to life in sp English. You know, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.920 we have been just trucking along. I've been talking to Honey. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.080 We've been talking about like the different dynamics now that 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.080 we are at home, and you were telling me something 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.080 and I howled when you said it. You were talking 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.600 about Noonie taking a nap. Oh my god, god, when 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.320 I let him take the six hour nap, so that 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:07.440 he would be disappeared from my life. Listen, you know 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.160 what's happening. It's like he works, but by the time 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.120 he gets off of work, I'm getting up. So it's 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:15.960 like he's back at home at eight am, and that's 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:17.960 when I wake up. So it's like, yeah, he gets 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.600 to like go to work, he gets to like take 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.560 a shower, drive around, come back, do his thing. I 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.840 wake up and he's here, so there is absolutely zero 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.600 alone time for me period. So it's like when he 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.600 does take a nap, I'm like, oh, oh, let's him 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.000 take his nap. Yesterday he took the other day he 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.480 took a six hour nap and I was just so 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.120 quiet and I was just like, Okay, I can do 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.880 whatever I want and he's not gonna ask any questions, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.360 and it was absolutely amazing. Well, no, this is some myself, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.480 because I want you just help people, the real deal, 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.000 and she said, she goes, girl, I've been tiptoing for 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.760 six hours around this place because I do not want 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.320 this man to wake up and start. He's so mad 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.040 when he woke up, was like, why did you let 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.840 me sleep all day? I'm like, yeah, you look so peaceful. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:09.519 Why would I wake you. But girl, I whatever I wanted, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:14.160 I wanted. We're finding your piecetogram. I wi just stole 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.320 my thing. Nobody was asking me no questions. It was 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:22.359 it was amazing. And you know, navigating being quarantined with 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:27.120 your significant other, um, it's different, it is, you know. 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.280 So there have been many studies that have happened that 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.079 talk about like whether or not your relationship has been 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.520 strengthened by the quarantine or if it has been damaged. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.240 And so there are a lot of couples who are 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.520 going through the rediscovery of each other. And I think 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.280 that that's kind of what has happened with Mark and I. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:44.960 I used to always say to you, Mark and I 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.600 are like two ships passing in the night, because much 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.760 like your relationship. I get up in the middle of 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.360 the night and I would go into the city. I 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.400 wouldn't see Mark until seven o'clock at night. I maybe 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.960 get one phone call. This is prior to COVID nineteen. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.280 I would maybe get one phone call. These for he 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.400 would go to lunch because he would check in just 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.360 say like, hey, how are you. But that was like yeah, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.720 that was like before I would go into yoga. So 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.800 it would be like a quick phone call. So literally, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.040 I would not see my husband until seven o'clock at night. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:18.479 Now I'm with this mofo twenty four different. And you 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.279 know what it is. I said to him, I go, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.279 I forgot how much I like you like. I forgot 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:29.159 how much I like my husband like I lost a 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.520 little bit of that for a while. That's so cool. 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.560 It's like you're dating again. But it is in the 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.120 house dating again, I know. But he gets to hit 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:42.000 it whenever he wants. I have no excuses. Now you 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:45.760 don't at exactly, but no, for me, we were having 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.240 some issues prior to um, you know this whole, this 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:54.800 whole situation with communication and the workload, because I have 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.720 always been the person to take care of the family 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.240 and the home and you know, so much so that 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.679 he would ask me, where is the pasta in this place? 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.920 I'm Linda, you don't even know where the pasta is? Like, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.600 go to the second drawer, it's right there. So I 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.279 think that it has brought an awareness to him of 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.599 everything that goes in to keep the household running and 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.560 and that, you know what, I think that's amazing because 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.200 it's like out of sight, out of mind. But it's 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.839 like now he sees like you're working all day from 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.800 the morning till the nighttime, and now it's just like 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.279 it gives you an added value, you know. It's like 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.120 you know when when your parents are watching you and 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.159 they're watching you work hard, and you're like, they're going 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.200 to be proud of me. Kind of like the same 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.239 situation with like marriage. Now it's like when he sees 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.560 me cleaning and cooking and working, like now, before he 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.120 used to be like, oh, your job is fun, you 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.240 don't do anything. Now he's like, you work too much. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.760 Get up computer. So now it's like, oh my god. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.120 Now he finally sees the amount of work that I 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:56.960 put in and he doesn't just think I'm hanging out 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.159 at a radio station having fun. Well, I think the 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.520 awareness was there before, but now the awareness is heightened 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:08.560 and he's more um sympathetic to everything that I'm juggling. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.599 It's a very sincere thing. But if you think that 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.760 I haven't looked at him sideways because he's breathing too hard, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.680 or if he's opening up the chips and he's too 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.919 fucking loud because I'm watching TV and I have to 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.560 rewind Housewives three times because he was so loud when 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.040 he eats chips. It is not all roses over here, 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.599 trust me, it is not. There have been times where 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.080 I banished him and I'm like, no, no, no no, no no, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.240 you stay in the living room. I'm going to the 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.279 bedroom and I want my time, you know, because you 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.039 do need a little bit of that separation. You do, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.359 you definitely do. It's like it took away kind of 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.159 like my freedom. You know, I was I was very independent. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.479 It's like I was married, but then everything I just 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.680 I did it by myself. From the moment I woke up, 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.680 he was gone, and then I wouldn't again to like 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.760 seven o'clock at night. But now it's just I do 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.480 want to watch TV together that do you want to 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.320 sit together? Do you want to eat together? It's like 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.560 before I had my breakfast by myself and I what 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.800 I wanted and I as long as I wanted it. 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.840 Now it's just like what are we eating? I'm like, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.840 we since when the breakfast become a wee thing? I 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.920 eat what I want, You eat whatever you want. So 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.480 now it's like more compromising. What time are we gonna 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.600 have lunch? I'm like, I can't take away from this 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.400 computer like I. I just just it's nothing. You make lunch, 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.840 he's try, Well, we've we've split it. So it's like 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.040 he does like the breakfast every single day when he 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.640 gets home from work and then lunch and dinner. I 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:39.200 kind of like do it myself, but no, because then 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:44.760 later on he's gonna be expecting that lunch already breakfast. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.560 I told them today, I said, I said, listen, I'm 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.440 not cooking again. After outside is open. This kitchen ain't 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.640 never seen me like these pots. I'm wasting the pots. Carolina. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.840 I'm like, oh, look at the pots. They look they're 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.160 used now, but you look for a new Do you 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.120 know that? I noticed that when you first started showing 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.400 like your cooking skills, I said, did she get a 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:11.880 brand new setup? Positive? Because I just never used them. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:17.560 They got like the flame thing. I was, No, It's 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.360 just I wasn't cooking like that because maybe I would 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.280 cook once a week, we would eat breakfast and lunch 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.680 out six days a week. To be to be fair 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.200 to you, though, you were actually doing a lot of 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.600 things for work at night, so it wasn't like you 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.200 weren't just not cooking because you didn't want to. Like 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.439 you were doing a lot of like your music programming 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.160 things that I didn't like. So we were out together. Yeah, no, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:42.920 we were. We were out together a lot. So he 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.479 would come with me to industry events and it's like, oh, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.000 you know, label dinner and this dinner and that dinner. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.000 So we were just always eating out. It's not like, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.719 oh we were just home starving. But um, I told him, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.959 I'm like, after this, I'm not doing this anymore. And no, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.360 don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed cooking, and I 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:01.120 love to see the joy in people's faces when they're like, yes, delicious, Yes, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.760 but it's a lot, and then you gotta clean the 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.599 kitchen after that. My back hurts, girl, I need a bachotomy. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.840 My back hurt. I can't stand right now. It's final. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.560 I'm exhaustive, that's the thing. So I'm gonna put you 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.400 on something. Okay, And I think that I've talked about 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.199 this before, but you need to if you're so like 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.440 over cooking. I cannot believe I'm bringing myself to say 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.560 this because I feel like I'm becoming one of those people. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.000 Please tell me you need the instant pot, girl, You 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.880 need this instant pot I made that is that the 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.199 situation where you just throw stuff in it. Girl, you, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.120 I swear to you. I just put a bunch of 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.640 meat in there. I put a can of crushed tomatoes, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.800 I put the I did um all of the different seasonings, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.720 and you put it on and an hour later that 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:54.040 ship is popping so hard. Everything cooks in one pot. 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.840 Everything cooks in one pot, and it's like one hour 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.880 and it's like as if it was cooking all day long. Now. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.880 The only thing that I will say, it's like you 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.640 become it's almost like becoming part of a cult because 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.520 then you start looking at recipes. Now I don't want 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.480 to use my pots and pants anymore. Now I'm like, well, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.000 what what can I make that I can throw on 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.400 the instant pot. You'll be looking for the different type 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.079 of stuff. Oh yeah, these hot dogs and these potatoes 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:21.920 they can go together. I means and cabbage. The other day, cabbage, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.439 cabbage with a beef boo you on cube and boom. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.400 That was like lunch. It was so amazing. Can you 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.440 put together these recipes by yourself? No, but that's what 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.160 I'm saying. You go online and you start looking and reading, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.160 it becomes this cult. Like you start following these different 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.760 bloggers that all they do is instant pot and you're like, oh, 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.560 I know this blogger is good because I mean one 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.080 of her recipes before, so I'm gonna do this one. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.520 But like, is there any dish that you have like 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.840 perfected that you think is like the best now because 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.040 you've done it. I'll tell you one thing. There's one 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.360 dish or one particular thing that I'm never eating again 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.680 after this because and that's imp on Outa's okay this 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.960 and this man makes me in banada's everything in banaada 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:09.280 case soada. I thought you were the one making it 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.000 for him. No, he's making him for me. I'm never 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.960 having in bananas after this. Child. He swears, he's like 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.640 the banana came anything he could find and he could 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.839 put it instead of an infananda, he's making it. I'll 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:27.640 be like, bro, I've listened. I'm never eating in panadas 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.320 after this. But you know what I made rasta pasta 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.480 for the first time the other day, the one that 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.199 you showed me on your Instagram, Yes that you got 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.120 the recipe from the Okay, tell me about this? Is 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.320 this like jerk chicken spices. So it's like jerk Caribbean 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.520 jerk spices, so it's like a Jamaica dish and it's 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.880 like pasta with chicken and shrimp and then you use 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.880 Jamaican spices. And honestly, it was so good that I'm like, oh, 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.680 this about to be my signature dish when I go 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.840 to parties. If anybody says I I got to bring 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.240 a dish, I'm bringing rasta pasta. It was so was 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.520 it so good? It really was so good. And I 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.240 didn't go overboard with the jerk because no, he doesn't 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.880 really like spices, and he was and he was like, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.320 I'm not eating that. I don't eat mastapasta girl. The 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:14.040 day after he was, yeah, that was some good, listen. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.320 He was ready for the Jamaican food. The day after. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.880 I wasn't cooking again, but yeah, but I feel like 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.960 that's that. And I made it with my sister. I 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:25.040 think that's really what made me feel more like like, oh, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.920 I love this. I'm always going to make this because 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.800 it's like she was the sus chef, so she told 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.160 me what to do and I would do it, so 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.600 it like bonded us. You know. Cooking for Latinos has 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.320 always been like a bonding experience. You know, the center 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.440 really er of the home for us, at least I 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.720 know for you Tobe. You know, it's like that's where 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.640 we all gravitate when we're together. Everybody goes and we 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:52.199 have beautiful living rooms la you know the one, Yeah, exactly, 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.440 and it has the final over that we still have 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.319 all of that, but like everybody congregates in the kitchen, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.280 that is where the heart is and Latino's love to 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:08.040 watch other people eat call yes you know that way. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.640 It's it's just a thing. But what about you? What's 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.079 your favorite dish that you that you've made during this quarantine. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.360 I okay, so this is hilarious because I have been 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.040 known to make this one dish. It's called lemon chicken, right, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.760 but this lemon chicken is so bomb. It's so easy, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.560 and it's almost like a disservice for me not to 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.280 share it. Like I'm not a selfish person. I used 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:31.840 to tell my friends all the time, You've got to 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.920 make this chicken. I'm telling you. So when I first 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.840 started dating Mark, I went over to his place in 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.520 Long Island, and I wanted to make this lemon chicken 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.560 so bad because it was this guy I want to 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:50.120 show this guy girl, this chicken was so raw. This 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:54.720 this boy almost got food book. I didn't. It wasn't 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.640 different of it, and I didn't do it well. So 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.080 now I've perfected it. I have perfected this, and know 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.280 what I mean, I'm really super proud of something. And 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.320 you know, I've never wanted to blow myself up, but 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.880 like I recorded myself, I got this equipment, I did 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:14.679 the recipe and this is what's cooking. Carolina is like that. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.959 So I was like, this is so adorable. I loved it. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:19.760 You know what it was. I just said, there were 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.920 all of these people who were doing all these amazing 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:23.840 things that they've had time to do in quarantine. And 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.320 I said, you know, if I get out of this 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.840 quarantine and I didn't learn one thing that I'm gonna 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.320 be super disappointed at myself. And so I reached out 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.280 to someone and they said, why don't you just do 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:38.400 it on I movie. I took a good two hours 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.040 to just play around with I movie. And so finally 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.320 my lemon chicken recipe is up for the world to see. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.640 Good make it, and you do. You have to because 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.720 it is so easy and once you're perfect it, it 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.920 will be your go to when people come over and say, oh, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.160 make my lemon chicken, you know, and then you say 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.240 lemon chicken, and I'm thinking of like the chicken that 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.440 was always that sabarrows with the pieces of lemon on 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.120 top of it. No, child, it's like that's chicken front 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.560 chaise or some ship. Okay, my fault. Listen, I don't know. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.480 I don't know what lemon chicken is about. I gotta 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.280 make this is good. You said some borrows. No, yeah, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.800 I remember they always in the window. It always had 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.360 like a chicken and then it would have like lemons 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.720 on top of it. So I figured I was lemon chicken. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.240 Maybe this is so much better. But you know what, honey, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.240 like this is the hard part. I have to think 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.560 of breakfast, lunch, dinner. And now what I've been doing 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.680 is I've been trying to like, you know, meat prices 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:28.960 are going to go up. Have you heard about this 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:33.280 whole thing and you know and all of this stuff. Yeah, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.360 you know this has been going on for weeks. Caroline. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:36.880 I can actually question, do you have a freezer in 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:41.040 your house? Full of stuffing? My freezer? I was like, 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.800 I need a freezer. But then they were like a 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.600 thousand dollars. I was like, we don't need a freezer. No, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.920 you don't need no, you know what it is. Um, 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.120 we have a small and expert drawer, so we have 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.360 our real freezer. And then we have one of those 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:57.000 like little little refrigerators that go out like it's not 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.720 a full size or anything. So it's almost like it's 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.720 like a college refrigerator. It's bigger than what somebody would 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.920 have in a dorm. It's almost like a mid size. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.720 It doesn't really hold a lot, but it's like first 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:13.720 apartment type a refrigerator. I got exactly bare refrigerator, that 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.320 type of refrigerator that my my twenties six year old refrigerator. Okay, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.880 so that's what we have as an extra, so it 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.320 doesn't really hold that much extra. But but yeah, like 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.040 what I've been trying to do is if one night 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:27.960 we have chicken, the next time we have beef. If 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:29.880 the next set we have beef, then the next night 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.200 we have like poor you know, just the variety of 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.360 it all. There's just so much thought that has to 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.960 go in it. So whenever my husband eats and I'm 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.880 sitting there looking, you're right, let you know, say, look 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.880 at you. They want to see they want to see 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.800 the approval. Like, I just worked for three hours in 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.680 this kitchen, and if you don't give me a damn, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:53.280 that's good. I'm just questioning you. This is delicious. I 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.320 need that at least three times while you're and you 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.120 know what, give me a rule of the eyes. Give 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:03.400 me oh, this is so that means that you're truly 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.959 enjoying it. Listen, once my husband knocks out after dinner, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.760 I'm like, he really enjoyed this. He went right to bed, 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.360 Yes to sleep. Yes, he said all the time. There's 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:16.879 gotta be some type of sedative in some of his 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.840 food that you've been making, because I can't believe on 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:25.160 that show. Thank god, he goes right to sleep after 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.199 I could, because if not, I probably would be slipping 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.919 some of that in there. But what are you? What 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.600 are you indulging in? What are you just like? Okay, 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.320 this is my comfort food. This is what I go 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.320 to when I need like to just feel like, you 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.160 know what, today was kind of yucky. I just need 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.199 to feel better about it. You know what, I've been 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.359 making cookies from scratch. Remember when I put the flower 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.240 in my story and you're like, girl, that's like you 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.479 can't find that anywhere. That's a hot commodity. You got flower, 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.840 so you know what for whatever? I found this Martha 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.359 Stewart like chocolate chip, like chewy cookie. My brother in law, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.600 he um, he likes the bake. He likes to cook. 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.879 He's a boy. His name is John Tucker, and he's amazing. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:03.480 Every time. Every time I go to my sister's house, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.760 they have like these great cookies that he makes. So 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.800 I'm like, oh, this is your other sister, this is 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.480 your Yeah. So I'm like, I'm like, Tucker, I need 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.640 your recipe for those cookies. And he's like, oh, that's 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.679 Martha Stewart's recipe. So I've been doing those cookies and 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.439 then I make like three dozen and every time I 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:23.119 feel like, oh my god, I hate Why do you 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.680 have to make three dozen? I don't know the recipe. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.720 I don't know how to divide the recipe, you know 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.040 what it's says. So it's like then it's like a 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.639 million cookies and I'm like, Okay, I guess so I 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.720 don't want to throw it out. And you do three 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.760 dozen cookies because you don't know how to half the recipe. No, 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.320 I don't want you. Why are you my sister I called. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.679 I called Mark the other day because I was doing recipe. 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.520 I go, what's the half of the half? And he 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.639 goes seriously and I go, yeah, what's the half of that? 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.760 And he goes, are you being for real right now? 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:54.840 And I go yeah, and he was it though it's 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.879 a quarter, and it's like, oh my god, how do 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.640 I not know that it's a quarter? I was like, Oh, 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.040 it's an I'm not doing all that division. I'm not 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.639 doing Google and Google. What is um? What is ounces? 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.840 To leaders? Like if I get like a different type 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.560 of recipe, that is the worst. I'm like sitting there 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:12.960 trying to translate it. We're not doing that, that's me. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.040 It's like if it says one tablespoon and bacon soda, 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.880 I am not doing half. I'm doing the whole thing. 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.400 But cookies, I think those cookies and I feel good 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:22.880 that I made them. I'm like, oh, I made these 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.320 rooms scratch, Like I feel really accomplished when it comes 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.520 to like a lot of different things, you know. And 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:34.119 I think cooking has given me, uh a sense of like, Okay, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.240 I have a purpose, you know, Like I feed the family. 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.840 It's an outlet. It's important. Yeah, yeah, yeah, most definitely. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:42.960 And I get to post stuff on Instagram because I'm 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.840 not posting myself. I look crazy every single day. So 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:47.919 I'm like, at least I can post my food, I 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.520 can post my dog, I could post. Let you do that. 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.040 I will, let you do that. You look absolutely beautiful, 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.480 That's the thing. And again I'm giving advice and I 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.040