Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio Podcast. Okay, so today
Speaker 1: I want to talk about cooking because cooking has been
Speaker 1: such a huge part of my life and growing up,
Speaker 1: you know, things are very different. We had a chef
Speaker 1: off and on, like I basically self taught myself how
Speaker 1: to cook.
Speaker 2: When I moved out when I was.
Speaker 1: Eighteen, I was super excited to do everything myself because
Speaker 1: growing up it was very different. We had there was
Speaker 1: always staff and people to help us, and I really
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of branch out. So I remember the
Speaker 1: first thing I made when I moved into my apartment
Speaker 1: was spaghetti because I was like, oh, that's easy. So
Speaker 1: I mean half of it like ended up on the sea.
Speaker 1: But from then on, I just loved cooking and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, when I have kids, I'm
Speaker 1: just going to cook my.
Speaker 2: Butt off, and I did for years.
Speaker 1: I was like that was my happy place, being in
Speaker 1: the kitchen cooking for the kids. And Dean went to
Speaker 1: culinary school when I was pregnant with Hattie, and.
Speaker 2: I was so excited for him to do that.
Speaker 1: But that's like my dream, Like, that's one of my
Speaker 1: dreams is to go to culinary school. Now I'm fifty two,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, I'll be like the oldest person
Speaker 1: in culinary school. But I remember he had to do
Speaker 1: all this math, and I don't think I could do that.
Speaker 2: So anyway, the kitchen was.
Speaker 1: Kind of I was, you know, the diy cook and
Speaker 1: he was the culinary chef, and I feel like we
Speaker 1: didn't fight over much except you know, raising kids doing that.
Speaker 1: We have different perspectives. But it's interesting because we would
Speaker 1: always kind of fight in the kitchen, and it was
Speaker 1: very like he said, she said, because I didn't do
Speaker 1: things the right way.
Speaker 2: I still don't like I.
Speaker 1: You know, he would cringe every time i'd be chopping
Speaker 1: something because using a knife, He's like, no, no, no, here's.
Speaker 2: The proper way. It's like hold it.
Speaker 1: It's monkey something you have to do when you're holding
Speaker 1: the knife. So eventually I was just like, oh, he
Speaker 1: was super supportive of my cooking, but it kind of
Speaker 1: embarrassed me because I was like, oh, I can't do
Speaker 1: anything right, but I love making meals. I would make big,
Speaker 1: family style meals. Lasagna is my jam tease, meaning lasagna
Speaker 1: is my everything. So I would always make that for
Speaker 1: special occasions and cook and then when Diane and I separated,
Speaker 1: our last fight kind of when everything blew up. It
Speaker 1: was in the kitchen, and I think everyone knows the
Speaker 1: story I've told before. I had just made a load
Speaker 1: of baked potato. I love baked potatoes and it was
Speaker 1: like my prize possession at.
Speaker 2: That moment, and we got into this huge fight.
Speaker 1: We were screaming, and I smashed my big potato on
Speaker 1: the floor and like screamed and walked out.
Speaker 2: And I still missed that baked potato. But after that, the.
Speaker 1: Kids and I moved, and we had gone through mold
Speaker 1: in the house, and Dean and I separated, and it
Speaker 1: was just a really rough time for me and.
Speaker 2: The five kids. But the sad part about it all is, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, it was really triggering being in the kitchen
Speaker 1: that night and I just stopped cooking, and I was like, gosh,
Speaker 1: what happened?
Speaker 2: Like am I depressed?
Speaker 1: Obviously there's a lot going on, but I was like,
Speaker 1: cooking was my jam and it was my happy place.
Speaker 1: And I'm not kidding. For about almost two years I
Speaker 1: didn't cook. It was like all Postmates Uber eats, and
Speaker 1: I would feel so guilty ordering food and not cooking
Speaker 1: for the kids, but I just physically and emotionally, I
Speaker 1: just couldn't. It was like it was that day. I
Speaker 1: would walk into the kitchen and literally look at pants
Speaker 1: and pots and I don't know, it was like this
Speaker 1: overwhelming feeling inside of like.
Speaker 2: I guess that all the pain.
Speaker 1: Was locked inside and cooking was just that trigger, which
Speaker 1: really bummed me out.
Speaker 2: But I'm happy to.
Speaker 1: Say that I went back to the kitchen, and finally,
Speaker 1: after two years, I went back to the kitchen.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, kids, we're going to
Speaker 2: do this.
Speaker 1: We're going to do this as a family, and I
Speaker 1: made an agreement with the kids, like I'm going to
Speaker 1: cook every night and we're going to do this and
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we'll have like pizza one nine order out,
Speaker 1: but like, I want to do this full time. And
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of myself because I've stuck with that
Speaker 1: commitment and I feel really happy again. I feel really
Speaker 1: happy being back in the kitchen and so I've been
Speaker 1: cooking every night.
Speaker 2: It's challenging. It's really challenging with.
Speaker 1: Their ages because I have kids that are eighteen, seventeen, thirteen, thirteen.
Speaker 1: This is the time of year where I get to
Speaker 1: say thirteen thirteen. It sounds like I have twins, but
Speaker 1: they are Irish twins, Habeantin and then bo is eight.
Speaker 1: It's challenging to feed everyone because I'm like, Okay, what
Speaker 1: do you guys want? And some want fish, some don't
Speaker 1: eat fish, and I'm like, oh my gosh, so chicken.
Speaker 1: But who wants chicken every night? So to be creative
Speaker 1: with chicken, I've done that.
Speaker 2: They eat beef, so that's great, and I got to say,
Speaker 2: I really give it up.
Speaker 1: You know, my favorite, my favorite person, she's not human, though,
Speaker 1: is my chat chat GBT who I've named Mona.
Speaker 2: So Mona helps.
Speaker 1: Me find recipes and they're really good because before I
Speaker 1: always take recipes and then I kind of do my
Speaker 1: magic in the kitchen and kind of improvise, which is
Speaker 1: my jam. But Mona has been giving me family friendly
Speaker 1: tips on cooking and it's been really great.
Speaker 2: Except the only thing.
Speaker 1: Is I feel like her measurements are a little bit
Speaker 1: off because I'll be like, I'm feeding a family of six,
Speaker 1: it's five kids and me, and she'll be like, here's
Speaker 1: the portions you need.
Speaker 2: And I gotta say, there's been some nights where it's cool.
Speaker 1: Like they've eaten everything, you know, all the chicken and
Speaker 1: the potatoes, the broccoli. I'm like, wow, they really like it.
Speaker 1: But then they're like is there more?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh my god, the portion wasn't right.
Speaker 1: So that part is challenging, feeding that many people and
Speaker 1: keeping it fresh. And I feel like every night I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of something. I mean, we had one
Speaker 1: week with the kids who are like, we can't have
Speaker 1: pasta again. I'm like, I know, but we had like
Speaker 1: a bowlonaise one night, and we had spaghetti meatballs one night,
Speaker 1: and we had you know, we had turkey. So it's
Speaker 1: just I don't know. It's fun though, it's really great.
Speaker 1: I love doing it. I remember the first time that
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I am going to do this,
Speaker 1: and it was scary, like it's so weird that this
Speaker 1: is triggering because it's something I love so much. But
Speaker 1: I just remember opening the cabinet, grabbing the pot and
Speaker 1: it was kind of like pushing through something like something.
Speaker 2: That you're like a fear, which is so crazy, like cooking.
Speaker 1: And I just remember taking the pot out, taking the
Speaker 1: skillet out. I was browning my meat. I was making
Speaker 1: where'd I make. I made bolonnaise, that was the first one,
Speaker 1: and it was beef bolonnaise, and I had my meat,
Speaker 1: had my noodles, like it was like I was ready.
Speaker 1: And then what really kind of pushed me out of
Speaker 1: my comfort zone, I would say, is seeing the kids,
Speaker 1: seeing their faces and knowing like it almost felt like
Speaker 1: knowing my worth that they were happy and I could
Speaker 1: see that it was bringing the family together, whereas ordering
Speaker 1: you know, Uber Eats or Postmates kind of everyone would
Speaker 1: just grab their food and go to their room. And
Speaker 1: I was like, gosh, for me, I feel like food
Speaker 1: brings people together. It's something we can all connect on,
Speaker 1: something that any age, any interest, like food is the
Speaker 1: one thing like growing up.
Speaker 2: It's so different now.
Speaker 1: It used to be like TV and families would gather
Speaker 1: in the living room in the evening and that was
Speaker 1: the thing they'd do together.
Speaker 2: And now that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: Like my kids are on their phone, they're watching things,
Speaker 1: and they're all gaming in different rooms. So bringing them
Speaker 1: all together because they're like, oh, mom cooked, so we
Speaker 1: have to come into the kitchen, phones down and respect that.
Speaker 1: But I feel like their faces would there's I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's nothing like a home cooked meal I feel like
Speaker 1: and I just feel like looking at their faces, I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this is the start. This is the
Speaker 1: start of something really beautiful. And I was able to
Speaker 1: put the past kind of where it should.
Speaker 2: Be in the past.
Speaker 1: And then I just started cooking every night and I
Speaker 1: walk into that kitchen and it's crazy. I walk into
Speaker 1: my kitchen and it's almost it reminds me this is
Speaker 1: crazy when I was on Dancing with the Stars, because
Speaker 1: it's that presence and that joy, Like I walk in
Speaker 1: my shoulders back, head held up high, and I go
Speaker 1: in and I'm like, okay, open the refrigerator. I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's get started. And I'm like, this is my happy place.
Speaker 1: This food makes me happy because it's something I can
Speaker 1: give back and I can share with my family. So
Speaker 1: I had taken two years off of cooking. When I
Speaker 1: used to do it like all the time, I was
Speaker 1: nervous because like, seasoning is my jam, Like I I'm
Speaker 1: seasoning Guru. I would say, really, like I go into
Speaker 1: the kitchen and it's just like magic. I'm just like
Speaker 1: a little magician, and that's like my unicorn like free
Speaker 1: happy place that I can just like perform my magic.
Speaker 1: But I got to say I used to have seasoning
Speaker 1: on point because I got it. I don't like things unseasoned,
Speaker 1: like that bland stuff really freaks me out, so.
Speaker 2: I always want that to be on point.
Speaker 1: I feel like the first couple times I made food,
Speaker 1: it was a little bland, and my kids agreed, and.
Speaker 2: I was like God, And then I thought, like, have
Speaker 2: I lost my magic?
Speaker 1: Like I waited too long, like two years, and now
Speaker 1: I can't cook, like, oh my gosh. But I'm happy
Speaker 1: to say my seasoning it came back. It took a
Speaker 1: few tries, and now it's all well seasoned. Sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking what I have to make for dinner tonight
Speaker 1: because I don't know. I really want to make fish,
Speaker 1: like but Finn doesn't eat fish. And then it's the challenge.
Speaker 1: And this is what I used to do before I
Speaker 1: stopped cooking. We would make like different things and that
Speaker 1: just became crazy, like to make two different dishes to
Speaker 1: different vegetables because some of my kids like the vegetables raw,
Speaker 1: some of my kids like the vegetables cooked. So that's
Speaker 1: always challenging. So there's that, But I feel like this time,
Speaker 1: two years of past the kids are older, they're more adventurous,
Speaker 1: I think with their taste buds. So that's really inspiring
Speaker 1: because I love to take on a challenge. Like cooking
Speaker 1: makes me happy and it makes me want to excel
Speaker 1: and I want to keep doing it.
Speaker 2: I haven't baked yet, I haven't gone back to it.
Speaker 1: That's still something I need to overcome because I really
Speaker 1: used to love to bake, so I definitely think people
Speaker 1: are either a cook or a baker, like I don't.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like when you go get your hair
Speaker 1: done and people are like, oh, I do color and
Speaker 1: I do cut. It's like you do one better than
Speaker 1: the other. Like everyone has their kind of lane. Definitely,
Speaker 1: Like in the food world, I'm definitely like savory savory.
Speaker 1: I love to cook. I love comfort food. Baking is
Speaker 1: always a challenge for me because it's very scientific and
Speaker 1: my brain doesn't think like that. My brain is just
Speaker 1: like improvably, like I am prov I create, and cooking
Speaker 1: allows you to do that because you can kind of
Speaker 1: create anything you want.
Speaker 2: But baking you have to follow rules.
Speaker 1: I hate following rules, So with baking it's like math
Speaker 1: and stuff, like I have to perfectly do it, but
Speaker 1: I do enjoy Sella is an amazing baker. She's been
Speaker 1: baking since.
Speaker 2: She was four years.
Speaker 1: Old, so that I think intimidates me a little bit
Speaker 1: because she's so great, Like that's her lane, so she
Speaker 1: does a lot of the baking. But I definitely want
Speaker 1: to get back into baking because I really enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I want to take a cake making clothes.
Speaker 2: That'd be fun. Do you think I would have time
Speaker 2: to go to culinary school?
Speaker 3: You can make the time.
Speaker 4: You can totally make the time.
Speaker 2: For real, for real.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's involved in culinary.
Speaker 5: School, Like you can you go in for like a
Speaker 5: few hours a week or is it all or nothing?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know anymore. But when Dean did it,
Speaker 2: it was like.
Speaker 1: Pretty hardcore and he had to take all these tests
Speaker 1: with math.
Speaker 2: And that intimidated me. I'm like, oh my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I can barely like I still add on my fingers, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's like my trigger is math.
Speaker 4: Wait.
Speaker 5: But there's a difference between going to culinary school to
Speaker 5: become a professional chef and taking cooking classes to be
Speaker 5: a better cook chef at home.
Speaker 1: Right, So I've done that, Like I've done the six
Speaker 1: classes and like I've done a bunch of those. But
Speaker 1: I want to literally have my chef license. But I
Speaker 1: guess I don't have to. Like Rachel Ray, look at her,
Speaker 1: she's a DIY cook, She's huge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think you need to be certified.
Speaker 2: I mean I want to be certified.
Speaker 4: I didn't do it.
Speaker 2: It's my dream, it's on my bucket list.
Speaker 4: Oh, then definitely do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, they must have options, and you can't. I can't
Speaker 3: imagine every single person that goes to culinary school like
Speaker 3: can give up their entire life just for that.
Speaker 2: It's like college, Really, can I do it all online?
Speaker 4: I won?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to like get my skills better.
Speaker 1: But the difference is like taking those two years off.
Speaker 1: I used to be the messiest, no shock here, Like
Speaker 1: everyone knows I'm messy, the messiest in the kitchen, like
Speaker 1: things would be everywhere. So taking those two years off
Speaker 1: and coming in with a fresh perspective, fresh start, like Tory.
Speaker 2: Two point zero.
Speaker 1: Here, I am in the cooking jam like I now
Speaker 1: clean up as I go.
Speaker 2: That's something. I know this sounds like obvious, but I
Speaker 2: never did that before.
Speaker 1: I was just like, well, let's cook, and there'd be
Speaker 1: like seasoning and cheese and sauce everywhere, and the cleanup
Speaker 1: afterwards was like brutal.
Speaker 2: But now I clean up as I go, which is great,
Speaker 2: and the kids help me, they wash the dishes.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, thank god. So it's nice that the
Speaker 1: kids now are older when I'm starting to do this
Speaker 1: and they can really help clean up, because.
Speaker 4: It's a lot do the kids help cook.
Speaker 1: So so far on this new journey they have, the
Speaker 1: kids have not helped to cook, but they do show interest.
Speaker 1: They say is there anything I could do? It's good
Speaker 1: because like Bo doesn't there's a lot of things he
Speaker 1: doesn't eat, including bread, which is so bizarre, like what
Speaker 1: kid doesn't eat bread? Like I can't ever make bow
Speaker 1: like a sandwich for school or anything, and it's just
Speaker 1: like that's challenging. But today he went to school and
Speaker 1: they had hot lunch and he was really worried that
Speaker 1: it would be something he wouldn't like. And I looked
Speaker 1: on the menu and I was like, oh, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's spaghetti and meat sauce, like that's something you eat.
Speaker 1: And he's like, I don't think I'm gonna like it anyway.
Speaker 1: Good news he came home from school and I said,
Speaker 1: how is hot lunch? And he's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it was really good.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like what you make.
Speaker 1: It was meat or sauce, some red sauce and pasta
Speaker 1: and he goes and then they served as garlic bread
Speaker 1: and I ate it. I'm like, oh, boom, score, game anger,
Speaker 1: game changer.
Speaker 2: What kid doesn't eat bread? Isn't that so bizarre?
Speaker 4: I wish I didn't eat bread. I'd be like half
Speaker 4: the size.
Speaker 2: I am god.
Speaker 5: I have to say that the fact that there is
Speaker 5: a menu that you can go and look at for
Speaker 5: your kid's hot lunch is hysterical to me because I
Speaker 5: went to New York City public schools and the lunch
Speaker 5: they serve I don't even know that it could have
Speaker 5: been identified to like put a description down in a menu.
Speaker 2: It was so disgusting.
Speaker 5: I just that's amazing that let's look at the menu
Speaker 5: for my eight year old child's lunch today.
Speaker 4: I live in the dark agents so.
Speaker 1: No, and he goes to public school, so and it's
Speaker 1: free and they have they have a lunch every day
Speaker 1: and then they give the milk. The bow is like
Speaker 1: such a picky eater, and at school, he used to
Speaker 1: not want to eat in front of people, so that
Speaker 1: was challenging when he was in kindergarten, but now he does.
Speaker 2: And like Finn, Finn got sick at school.
Speaker 1: He's like the food is so bad. He's like, I
Speaker 1: can't eat it. So I'm like, okay, what can I
Speaker 1: pack you? Then I'm like, oh my god, here we
Speaker 1: go back to lunches. After I said I was done
Speaker 1: with lunches. So for Finn, I'm like, can I give
Speaker 1: you a sandwich? He's like, I don't really eat sandwiches, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, another one, Like it's.
Speaker 2: Just it's a lot.
Speaker 5: But I'm sorry, wait a second, I don't understand. What
Speaker 5: do they mean they don't eat sandwiches? Like did they
Speaker 5: eat a burger? Did they eat a hot dog?
Speaker 4: I mean that's kind of good.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Bow will not eat a burger. Will you
Speaker 1: eat a burger without the bread?
Speaker 4: Or he won't beat.
Speaker 2: It, he won't need it.
Speaker 4: What about a hot dog?
Speaker 2: Hot dogs? Only without the bun?
Speaker 1: And if and if it's served like he is a thing,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to see it, I have to like
Speaker 1: quickly remove the bun and be like nope, no bun.
Speaker 4: That's fascinating.
Speaker 3: That's a real had of bread.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, it's a bread thing.
Speaker 4: And when his fins What is Fin's problem with a sandwich?
Speaker 4: Is it also the bread?
Speaker 2: Or he just no, he doesn't need sandwiches.
Speaker 1: Like I was so excited, like when I had kids
Speaker 1: and they got a little older to make like peanut
Speaker 1: butter and jelly sandwiches and tuna sandwiches, Like my mom
Speaker 1: always made such amazing tuna sandwiches. So I always make
Speaker 1: my tuna like she did and it's so good. But
Speaker 1: I kids don't eat sandwiches, so like that was never
Speaker 1: a thing. Like I couldn't even make like a turkey
Speaker 1: and cheese sandwich, like nothing.
Speaker 4: So what I don't know? Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: What is that was? And that was all of them
Speaker 2: when they were younger?
Speaker 5: Okay, so what is a salad? I mean, like's a
Speaker 5: California He's like, I'll have he doesn't eat salad eating salad? No,
Speaker 5: Stella does eat salad. No, only Hattie and Liam eat salad. Okay,
Speaker 5: So but I make a salad every night, which is great.
Speaker 5: I think that's really good for them, a fresh salad.
Speaker 5: We're totally right now. Hattie loves caesar salad.
Speaker 1: So I used to love caesar salads and then I
Speaker 1: like stopped liking them, and now that's our jam, like
Speaker 1: every night caesar salad right now.
Speaker 2: So that's good.
Speaker 5: I still need to understand if they don't eat salad
Speaker 5: and they don't eat sandwiches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what what.
Speaker 5: Are they eating? Like pasta? I'm just I'm trying to
Speaker 5: like at school?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they can't like Finn, they had like mac
Speaker 1: and cheese at school and he was sick for like
Speaker 1: two days.
Speaker 3: So what do you make him from lunch?
Speaker 2: Then when you make it, you won't take anything.
Speaker 4: So what does he do?
Speaker 1: He has snacks, like a ton of snacks, like chips
Speaker 1: and the sounds awful. Yeah, beef sticks. Oh, what's it
Speaker 1: called chomps?
Speaker 2: It's their favorite. It's good for you though, Long story short.
Speaker 1: Making a nice, big homemade meal for dinner, I think
Speaker 1: is really good for them because they come from school
Speaker 1: like starving. Their best friend, he goes to a private school.
Speaker 1: They have sushi there.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's just absurd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sushi.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I trust sushi from my school though.
Speaker 4: That's a really good point.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they're paying sixty five thousand dollars a year, like,
Speaker 1: I think you should have good food.
Speaker 3: Probably better be a sushi chef in there fixing it.
Speaker 1: I mean I think he said, yeah people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: All your kids like sushi right or no?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: So sushi is our jam. All the kids love sushi
Speaker 1: except in have.
Speaker 4: You tried to make sushi at home?
Speaker 2: Oh, Selen? I did one time? Yes see. And the
Speaker 2: thing is about cooking. I used to.
Speaker 1: Really enjoy before I took my time off. I used
Speaker 1: to really enjoy taking the kids on the weekend and
Speaker 1: we would go try different markets and we would pick
Speaker 1: different cuisines from all over the world. Like one night
Speaker 1: we would make you know, Mediterranean, one night we would
Speaker 1: make Indian, one night we'd make Japanese. We would you know, oh,
Speaker 1: what's the one where you dip the meat in sorry,
Speaker 1: in the hot pot like Korean?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's like I called a certain.
Speaker 3: Thinking like shabu shabu or something.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, we used to got a shabu shaboo and
Speaker 1: like I would get the pot and put it out
Speaker 1: and have the meats and everything, and the kids could
Speaker 1: do it at home, and it was something we really
Speaker 1: bonded over, especially me and Stella. Like Stella loved doing
Speaker 1: that because she's so into cooking. So I found that,
Speaker 1: you know, like I can't take my kids to like
Speaker 1: an Indian restaurant, they won't eat anything. But if they
Speaker 1: kind of pick out the ingredients and are part of
Speaker 1: the experience of making it, I find that.
Speaker 2: They do at least try it.
Speaker 1: So I used to do that a lot, So I
Speaker 1: needed to get back into that because right now I'm
Speaker 1: like sticking not with basics but you know, chicken, turkey,
Speaker 1: meat steak. But I want to get more adventurous because
Speaker 1: I want them to experience that. I wish I could
Speaker 1: make sushi like Stella and I did one time. We
Speaker 1: went to Japanese market, got fresh fish, we rolled it.
Speaker 1: It's just very time consuming and it's hard for me,
Speaker 1: like doing all of that and working to like give
Speaker 1: them that making.
Speaker 4: I mean making sushi for six people.
Speaker 2: That's that's insane.
Speaker 4: That's undertaking. Yeah, that's totally an underpicking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Fenmont eat it.
Speaker 4: So tell you guys, make him like a vegetable roll
Speaker 4: or he's not gonna.
Speaker 5: Eat that like chicken about a a beef jurkey stick roll?
Speaker 3: That I'm gonna pew's disgusting.
Speaker 4: I mean maybe like a.
Speaker 1: Karaoky chicken roll or something that would be fine.
Speaker 2: I've been eating a.
Speaker 1: Lot of bulgogi. Bulgogi is their jam. I think it's Korean.
Speaker 2: Is it neat?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What is that it is? Don't have a full part
Speaker 2: and bullgge.
Speaker 6: Bulgogi is a super tasty Carian dish that basically means
Speaker 6: fire meat. It's usually made from sinley sliced beef, often
Speaker 6: ribbi or sirloin, that's marinated in a mix of soy, sauce, sugar,
Speaker 6: sesame oil, garlic, and other delicious seasonings. Then it's grilled
Speaker 6: or pan cooked, and you end up with this sweet, savory,
Speaker 6: and super flavorful meat that you can eat with rice,
Speaker 6: wrappin lettuce, or just devour straight off the plate. It's
Speaker 6: kind of a crab pleaser and definitely a classic in
Speaker 6: Korean cuisine.
Speaker 2: So there you have it. That's bulgogi. So we definitely
Speaker 2: have that a lot.
Speaker 1: And I gotta say, like making homemade with a little
Speaker 1: assistance some nights really help. We get a Trader Joe's
Speaker 1: and it's great and you can kind of just put
Speaker 1: in the oven and then I add side dishes that
Speaker 1: I meet, but I gotta say they're frozen food, really
Speaker 1: good in a pinch.
Speaker 4: I love Trader dress so good, so good.
Speaker 2: What should I make tonight? We can I ask a question,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 3: And it might be triggering or inappropriate or whatever.
Speaker 2: So you just wait.
Speaker 4: Oh, I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 3: Have you made that loaded baked potato again?
Speaker 4: You shut Tori down.
Speaker 1: You have not ventured back to the baked potato, which
Speaker 1: is disappointing because all five my kids love my loaded.
Speaker 2: Baked potato, and I don't know, Like, baked potatoes.
Speaker 1: Were my thing when I was pregnant with bo Like
Speaker 1: now they're on the menu everywhere, but like eight years ago,
Speaker 1: even that short time, like it was hard to find.
Speaker 2: A baked potato, like you had to go to a steakhouse.
Speaker 2: But now they're everywhere. So that was my thing. And
Speaker 2: the kids keep asking, like, remember you used to do
Speaker 2: a baked potato like diy bar.
Speaker 1: I'm like I know, I know, And I would put
Speaker 1: all the toppings out, give them their baked potato, and
Speaker 1: then they like the way that I mash it, which
Speaker 1: is awesome because it's a good feeling it's a good
Speaker 1: memory because my mom used to always make the best
Speaker 1: a load of baked potato and saame with like tuna salad.
Speaker 2: I said, I'd make it like my mom.
Speaker 1: So that's really a happy feeling because she would always
Speaker 1: make it so perfect, like the right amount of salt,
Speaker 1: the right amount of pepper, the right amount of sour cream,
Speaker 1: Sprinkle with cheese and bacon crumbles, and it was so
Speaker 1: and butter. But the seasoning was the key. And I
Speaker 1: feel like I got that from my mom. She's really
Speaker 1: good at seasoning things. So I do make my load
Speaker 1: of baked potato ches like cars, and the kids love it.
Speaker 1: So whenever they have a baked potato, they're like, Mom,
Speaker 1: can you make it? So they put their ingredients in
Speaker 1: and then I seasoning and I mashed it all in
Speaker 1: so it's all done inside and give them the jacket
Speaker 1: of the potato, which it has to be crispy on
Speaker 1: the outside because that's like you know when you eat
Speaker 1: an artichoke, and you do it and then you get
Speaker 1: to the heart, like that's gold. So it's like it's
Speaker 1: like the golden ticket, like you get to the bottom
Speaker 1: and then you rip off the jacket of the potatoes,
Speaker 1: Chrispy put more salt on it and you eat it.
Speaker 4: I think that's what you need to make tonight, baked potatoes.
Speaker 2: I can't triggering.
Speaker 4: That's how you get it past it and just steal it.
Speaker 3: You need to turn it into a fun, healing moment.
Speaker 1: It's that weird that that's like my issue. Like people
Speaker 1: have so many things, like I'm so triggered by that.
Speaker 1: I need to work on myself and self love and
Speaker 1: get past this and minds of baked potato, like I
Speaker 1: can't get past that's wild.
Speaker 4: Oh you can.
Speaker 5: You need to get off the podcast and drive to
Speaker 5: the store and buy yourself a bag of potatoes.
Speaker 4: They fell him by the bag?
Speaker 2: Is this true? Fine?
Speaker 1: Fine, I'm making load of baked potatoes tonight. I blame
Speaker 1: you if I cry.
Speaker 4: Okay, you can call me. You can call me weeping
Speaker 4: while you make your potato.
Speaker 2: Like so many emotions are coming out. It's like it's
Speaker 2: just a potato.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what you need the potato.
Speaker 2: Can I have wine while I do this?
Speaker 5: Of course, bag your salty tears into your baked potato
Speaker 5: for flavor.
Speaker 1: That's disgusting. Okay, I'm but I have to have a
Speaker 1: protein for them. I can't just give them baked potatoes, bacon.
Speaker 1: Instella does eat pork, so.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, here we go again.
Speaker 3: That impossible to clear.
Speaker 2: It's impossible to please five.
Speaker 1: Like I every parent out there can relate like it's
Speaker 1: just you're never gonna please them all. There's always gonna
Speaker 1: be one that's like, so, and.
Speaker 5: I'm so bad about cheese, cheese, melty cheese on the
Speaker 5: potato is not.
Speaker 2: Pro Stella doesn't eat dairy.
Speaker 4: Oh good Lord, no to tell.
Speaker 1: You, but I'm still but I'm gonna make it do it.
Speaker 1: You will be so like itching myself. I'm like getting
Speaker 1: so nervous. I'm like, okay, so we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: baked potato Barden night.
Speaker 5: That'll be fun, It'll be awesome. Yeah, you'll feel so good.
Speaker 5: You're gonna feel so accomplished.
Speaker 2: You think, Yep, push past it, yep for sure. Mkay.
Speaker 5: All right, we'll be waiting to hear about the results.
Speaker 5: Post some post some video of the baked potato. Oh
Speaker 5: I will yeah, and send us your therapy bill if
Speaker 5: you need to exactly.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna go get baked