WEBVTT - “Christmas Morning Arepas!” | Family Recipes 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.120 These ears are hilarious. There, it's so funny. That whole 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.040 thing is so funny. Why are you wearing that Easter outfit? 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:08.160 It's a Christmas movie. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:12.799 Just watch the movie. Just watch the goddamn movie. Oh, 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:14.239 I can't believe you've only seen it once. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:24.960 More and more, better, more and better, a little more better, 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:26.120 more and more. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:36.080 Hey, everybody, that's Stephanie Beatrice. That's mostly for marro. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:46.320 Happy holidays, happy holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Kwanza if 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.800 you celebrate that. If you are avoiding all holidays, you 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:52.120 should probably turn this off now. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.240 Yeah, it might not know for you, And that's okay. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.279 We're not gonna be for everyone every single time. No, 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.480 and that's okay. Yeah, what have you done lately? 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.040 That's more better other than you guys can't see us 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.360 if you're not watching this on the internet. But we're 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.360 dressed in holiday garb. We look really fancy. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:17.080 Yeah, we look really fancy, really fancy and cozy. I'm good, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.800 My more better lately, My more better today is that 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:27.240 I have been consistent lately. Oh, so I'm not doing 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.040 I'm not like striving to do more better and I'm 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.280 not like doing less. I've just been in this groove 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:41.959 of like consistency and yeah, it feels really good. Of course, 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.160 today I woke up under the weather, so the first 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.680 thing I thought of was like, oh man, my streak 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.880 of consistency is over. And what did I say to you? 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.040 And you said, that's okay, it's not your ball and 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:56.360 it's all good. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.600 You said something like that, right, don't be me to 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.280 yourself about it like oh I failed. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.120 Because no, yeah, thank you. I didn't do that this time. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.800 I'm more just like bummed because I was like, you know, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.040 it feels really good when you get on a streak 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.480 of consistency. And again, it wasn't like I didn't feel 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.400 like I was doing too much. I didn't feel like 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.560 I was doing too little. I was like right in 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.520 that sweet spot, that middle. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.280 You know, I can't take you seriously with your hands 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:24.880 and hands? 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.040 How about you? What have you did lately? That's more better? 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:35.000 Let's see. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.040 Well I got over being sick. I mean I still 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.359 am like a little bit. My voice really gave out. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:41.519 Yeah you were real. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.000 Yeah I lost it. I got it back. I lost 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.160 it again, it came back. It was okay, And now 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.519 it's like hanging on by a thread, but the thread 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:52.240 is strong. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.519 So are you doing all the things? Were you steaming? 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:58.120 Were you? 0:02:58.400 --> 0:02:58.640 Yeah? 0:02:58.760 --> 0:02:59.640 Yeah, I was steaming. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:04.239 I did like gargleing. I didn't gargle because it makes 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:08.359 me gag u. I did steam? I did, Yeah, I did. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:10.760 Side note, did you know if you drink too much 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.240 throat coat it can act as a laxative. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.520 I didn't know that. I'll leave it to you. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.359 Oh, I didn't figure out how I found that out. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.320 So careful with the throat coat, guys. But yeah, I 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.320 feel I feel more better. I went to therapy today. 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.119 That was good. You know, holiday season can be really 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.560 hard for people, especially if they're still struggling with grief. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.320 And I realized that I am definitely trying to fill 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.440 up my calendar so I don't have to think about, 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.320 you know, like not only how sad I am about 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.680 my dad not being here anymore, but also how mad 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.320 I am at him still. And that's a hard thing 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.400 I think to like deal with, because yeah, you know, 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.440 it's hard to be met. I don't know. Also, what's 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.680 weird is that we, you know, after people die, we're like, oh, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.600 they were so amazing, they were such a good people. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.320 It's like, well they were human, right, and so there 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.440 are things that I could have done differently, Like in 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.960 his life, I wish he would have been more like 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.000 loving and stuff, you know, like it really took himTo 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.039 the last month of his life to be like gregarious 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.840 with his love or like not stingy with it. Like yeah, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.719 and that's hard. It's like because I'm I'm I feel 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.080 really like, what the. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.920 Fuck you were a lepers so long? Like I was 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:32.800 a life for so long. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:33.560 Yeah. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.200 Yeah, I've been like you want to hold hands like 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:42.400 you hands, you know. It's like, no, that's hard. That's 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.480 a really hard thing. So like I'm trying to sort 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.920 of just like feel my feelings about it, which is 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.000 you know, it's hard when you'll just try to keep 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:58.240 yourself really busy soly you don't feel your feelings. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.520 I know, but then those feelings just end up finding 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.960 a way to like creep in and take over anyway. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:12.120 So I just showing you shove them back, shove them 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:22.839 back down, make another plan. Too busy to have these feelings. Yeah, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:24.440 more better. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:31.520 What are we talking about today? We are talking about 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:40.919 family recipes. Yes, in relationship to the holidays, because holiday time. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:42.880 I just realized my costume. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.400 Even though it's a uh, it's a bunny, it also 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.680 could be a pig, and I will be talking about 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.640 pork a lot. Oh. No, we all know it's a bunny. 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.599 If you've watched a Christmas story, you know it's a bunny. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.440 And if you haven't watched a Christmas it's a bunny? 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.560 Is wrong with you? 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.520 You know? I think I've only watched a Christmas story 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.520 like once when I was a kid. I know you're 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:10.120 gonna be mad at me, bitch, What are you fucking 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:10.920 get that reaction? 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:12.120 Bro? 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.240 I watched Memory multiple times? 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:21.800 What I know, Melissa, I've been to the museum twice. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.200 Some museum. I don't know what to say. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:30.000 Uh, you're well, congratulate me, first of all, I'm going 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.359 haven't been twice. 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.640 Congratulations. I heard the second time was even more illuminating 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:37.359 than the first. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:38.720 It was. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.720 I mean, that's sincerely. It was honest. I mean that's 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:44.440 sincerely too. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:45.400 Uh. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.720 Where have you watched it with your children yet? 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:49.120 No? 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.440 I think I'm gonna attempt to this this year. Yes, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.159 it is the perfect It's like just the right age. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:07:00.280 The kids are literally like almost their ages. They're all Also, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.680 I have to like think about my approach because my 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.960 children are at those ages where if I suggest something, 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:11.720 there's like immediate resistance, Like I like, I will probably 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.400 have better luck if I pay one of their friends 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.680 to be like, hey man, I saw this movie and 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.560 it's really great, and then they'll be like, Okay, we 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.920 should watch this movie. No. No, they're just at that 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:24.600 age where like you apply. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.800 Them with food, you like, you go, we're gonna have 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.160 a movie night tonight and then making hot cocoa and 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.040 we're ordering pizza, and then we're gonna have popcorn, but. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.239 We're watching this movie. We're watching this movie. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.400 So if you guys want to do movie night, we're 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.360 gonna watch this movie and we're gonna have all these 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.040 like cheaty foods that we don't usually have. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.600 And then they like connect like ooh, treat I like 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.200 that movie. Yeah. I like just what you do, get 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.880 what you do? Yeah, yeah, I like that. 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.440 Because you can't sit them down and be like and 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.320 then we're gonna have trail mix and watch this movie. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.560 You have to like bribe them with like right some 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.240 kind of yeah. Yeah, I have to make it all. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.200 I have to make it a whole event. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.520 Yes, it's an event. It's an event. You have to 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.880 wear that. Yes, I have to wear this. Yeah, and 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.040 not tell them why. It'll make sense after you see 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:12.720 the movie. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.400 Just until that part of the movie and then they 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:15.200 start laughing at you. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.720 Yeah, it's perfect, it's great. I love it. I'm going 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.800 to do it. I'm going to do it, and me 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:24.760 scheming at your kids. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.760 Sorry. I love to scam kids, man, I mean that 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:35.520 is like of parenting. Here's my big scam this holiday 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.240 season is all of my child's presents are coming from 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.600 the thrift store and she doesn't know it, and she 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:41.480 won't know it. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.720 Because I'm gonna wrap this stuff. It's gonna be amazing. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.840 I have next to me literally a stack of books, 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.240 a stack of books brand new, almost all of them 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.520 are completely brand new, multiple coloring books that no one 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:58.120 has colored in, dolls, dolls of plenty thing. I was 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.760 too slow on an American Girls all and another lady 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.760 got it, and I was actually quite happy for her 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:04.360 because she has a little two year old and the 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.240 two year old was like freaking out about the doll. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.120 There was an American Girl doll for twenty two dollars 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.040 at the thrift store. And I was like, oh my god, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.160 I did another lap and another lady I already had it, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:15.640 but yeah, you. 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.560 Got all of this at one thrift store. All at 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:19.160 one thrist store. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.720 And now or to be fair, I go multiple times 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.480 a week to see what the new stock is. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.440 Got it? This is my hobby. It's my hobby. 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:28.920 Got it? 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.880 I love it? Anyway, should we talk about food? Let's 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.559 talk about food. What's your experience with holiday food? 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.679 We have specific food that we always eat. I grew 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:43.320 up in Texas, so every either Thanksgiving or Christmas, we 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.600 have demalis, which we used to buy off the side 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.680 of the road out of a truck. I think this 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.920 year I've got a couple different names of people that 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.440 I am sorry, I am going to gate keep. I'm gonna 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.400 try a couple different things before Christmas, because what you 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.720 don't want is soggy to Molly on Christmas. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:01.960 That's bad. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.680 And also my sister and I are going to make them, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.480 which you mentioned that you were in over that day. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:15.160 Oh yeah them, Yes, I want to come. Yes. So 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.760 Tamali's are hard to make. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.080 There are a lot of steps we do, like a 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.920 it's a lot we do a production. But I had 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.280 to have my cookbooks over here. I highly recommend the 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:34.160 Homesick Texan, The Homesick Textan cookbook. There's used copies you 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.160 can buy online, but we make you can see here 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.000 are notes in it. We make tamales with Raja, and 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.800 we also are going to do this year, We're going 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:48.600 to do briskit tamales and like there it's a lot 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:53.000 of steps, but you know it's step by somebody. This 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.080 recipe book or this cookbook is really good at like 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:00.560 breaking down the steps. But also people have their own 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.560 ways of doing things, you know, obviously, like I don't 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.160 want to step on anybody's toes and be like my 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.120 tamalis are the best because they're not. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:08.680 Uh. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.880 Last year, last year, Brad I was like, you have 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.160 to buy this specific masa. You can find it at 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.920 this grocery store and this grocery store. And he was 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.600 like sure, he couldn't find it. I was like, no, 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.400 you didn't check the right grocery store. You have to 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.559 go to, like get to go to like the Mexican 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.920 grocery stores, Like you can't just go to like yeah, 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.280 you can't go anywhere, right, No? Yeah, So then he 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.319 goes to or Superior yeah, oh no, he goes to 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:33.839 Whole Foods. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:34.520 They don't have it. 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:39.080 So he comes back with this like organic. Whatever the fuck? Bro, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:40.160 The tamalies were trout. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:41.320 They were bad. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:42.480 They were really bad. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.600 What about you? What is your holiday food? 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.000 I'm hitting on Brad. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.199 We love you, Brad. It's all out of you. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:51.640 Brev. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:58.160 Yeah, you know I don't holiday food think. Well, you know, 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.680 Thanksgiving is a holiday that my parents, as your parents 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.080 adopted when they came to this country. Correct, but my 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:11.160 mom did uh find a recipe for a Bama stuffing 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.400 that I make every year. In fact, I'm flying to 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.120 family this year and like they don't really cook, so 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.000 I was like, I'll cook because I need to have 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:24.200 my mom stuffing on Thanksgiving. That's so nice? What's in it? 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:24.920 What makes it so? 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:25.440 But? 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:30.840 Uh, it's with apples and sausages. Yeah, and it's just 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.440 so fall. It's so good, and it's even like it's 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.000 so fall and it's like a bunch of herbs and 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:41.440 stuff and it's very it's it's even better the next day, 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.400 like with like a frieda egg on top, Like, oh, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.000 it's so good. I look forward to it every year. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.560 That's only like Thanksgiving food that I like have to 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.480 have every year, and then Christmas is like much more traditional. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:13:01.920 It's the Cuban menu for noo weena of le chon yuka, plantains, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:07.560 sweet and doss, white rice and black beans. Yup, that's 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:08.480 the traditional. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:09.240 That's what I've. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.720 Had every year. That's traditional in Cuba. My mom said 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:18.439 part of Nohauena was all the kids like gleefully following 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:23.520 her auela out to whatever pasture behind their house where 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:30.040 she would go kill the pig with a hammer. Dark 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.960 as fuck, so dark. And the first time my mom 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.840 told me that story, I was like what she was like, 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.520 I know, it sounds like so weird, but we just 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.400 loved it so much. Just like, imagine this old woman 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.000 going to the back with a hammer in her hand 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.640 and all these little kids behind her, like squealing with joy. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:53.400 Oh my god. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.680 Side notes, Latinos are the biggest audience for horror movies 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:04.920 in the United States. It feels fitting that she'd give 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.320 she was an expert, so she'd give that pig one 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.840 expert whack on the head and it'd be dead. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:13.960 She was like, my mom, like it was like it 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:18.360 was very humane. It was very humane. She was like, 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.440 it was so fast. She never missed, you know, she 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.080 never missed. It was just one knock on the head. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:30.520 So growing up, they would, yeah, they would, butcher maybe 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.760 it was like the day before Christmas Eve kind happened 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.160 or mourning of or something, and then they do it 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.760 in was called like the Gaha Gina, which I'm assuming 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.440 is from like all the Chinese immigrants that went to Cuba. 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.720 But it's like slow roasted over like a fire pit 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.680 kind of thing, which in Florida, my husband's family like, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.120 they do it that way because it's I get it's 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.880 warm enough, so they Uh. Every Christmas Eve I had 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.119 done in Florida was like the Gaha Gina was outside 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.120 and they did they had the pig roasting outside all 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:08.320 day Christmas Eve. But in Jersey, where it was fucking cold, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.040 my mom would get the pig. She'd get a whole pig. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.560 There would be a pig on a slab in my 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:19.120 dining room table days before Christmas Eve. Incredible that all 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.680 of my little like white friends and Italian friends were like, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.360 oh my god, like every time they came to the 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:30.440 house that my mom would marinate and she would take 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.800 it to a Cuban bakery that morning, and then my 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.400 dad and brother would go pick it up for dinner. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.400 And then my tea brought the beans, somebody else brought 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.760 the rice, somebody else brought the youth, like it was 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.280 like all the dias. I always loved that part of 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.480 Christmas Eve where all the dias and my mom were 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.360 in the kitchen like finishing warming everything up and like 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.520 and then putting things on the table because everyone was 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.240 like we always had everybody down in the basement partying, 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.440 but I liked go up to the kitchen when all 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.920 the women were like, you know, putting the last touches 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.360 and putting everything on the table. So and then I 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.560 made my first litch on like a couple of years ago, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.120 with a pork shoulder, not a whole pig, because that's 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.960 real hard to find, and also that's like for like 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:20.280 thirty people. So I did a pork shoulder and it 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.600 was a way easier than I thought it was going 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.960 to be. Yeah, it wasn't like I came out really good. Yeah, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.520 it came out really good, and I was able to 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.920 Caribbean ingredients can also be a little tricky to find 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.680 in La sometimes, but luckily Mexicans also eat a lot 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.680 of pork, so the pork shoulder was easy to find. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.440 And then some of the supermarkets do carry more like 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.360 Caribbean ingredients around Christmas, so I was able to find 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.760 like the sour orange and like all that stuff. So 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.720 that's that's the menu every year. That's awesome, I think my. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.840 Family because we didn't have a lot of like we 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:59.880 didn't have cousins and stuff that we. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.359 Like we had. It was really just the four of us. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.560 And so like we kind of just did our own thing. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.359 I think that's why I don't have a lot of 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.920 like memories of you know, there wasn't like a bunch 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.240 of people around like cooking in the kitchen. There was 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.600 like a couple things that got made, like certain dishes 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.280 and then Tomorrow's obviously like we would pick up. We 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.639 never made them ourselves. My mom would make when I 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.800 was younger, she would make and panaditas the guesso like 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.520 little and banadas with cheese inside. But there are a 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.679 lot of steps, and so as we got older, she 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:41.120 stopped making them all together. My dad would make us 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.240 on Christmas morning, but then as he got older, he 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.480 wasn't supposed to eat anything fried, so he stopped making 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:53.280 those two subsequently we make them when we can. I 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:54.879 think my sister and I are going to try to 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.520 make a rep us this year. Jenny is really good cook. 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.240 She's incredibly good at it. I am like, your sister 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.440 is amazing. I'm like, what do you want me to try? 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:04.800 I think you don't give yourself enough. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.080 I think you don't give yourself enough credit because your 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:10.399 sister is such a good cook. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:15.320 Maybe, but also I'm lazy, you know, and I don't 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.560 I like to be in the kitchen, like with a 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.439 glass of wine or something like hanging out, but I 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.880 want to be responsible for timing dishes to come out 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:25.400 at certain times, you know what I mean. 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.320 I don't want to be That is stressful. It's stressful. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.640 The eating is the timing amazing. 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.679 The timing is like I never want to be in 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.840 charge of a holiday meal. Like I'm down to Like 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.280 we're having a holiday party this year, and like we're 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.240 we're having a caterer come and I meant caterer, it's pizza, 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.200 Like we're having a pizza truck. Like because we are 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:51.919 invited a lot of people and. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:53.320 I'm not trying to cook for all those people. 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.120 I'm trying to give them pizza cooked by somebody who's 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:57.199 really good at pizza. 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.399 You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the move. Yeah, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.000 I know. I used to. We used to throw holiday 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:09.960 parties in New York or just parties too. We threw 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:11.560 a New Year's party a bunch of times. And I 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.400 would cook, and I feel like I don't know how 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:20.920 to do that anymore. I would like maybe no, I would. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.240 I would freaking cook. I would make like a whole 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:28.479 thing of pasta, and I would make sometimes like a 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:34.199 big ham, and I I don't know, girl this. My 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:38.080 mom has this like really great smoke like ham recipe 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.080 that's not that hard, that's always like a banger at 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:45.000 a party. My mom was like a berry like cook. Okay, 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.800 like maybe yeah. My mom was an amazing cook. And 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:52.320 she also was an amazing hostess, Like we hosted Christmas 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.960 Eve at our house every year with like thirty cousins 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:59.080 and aunts and uncles and you know. And she we 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.960 also like had people over for dinner a lot, or 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.160 like if someone invited us to a party, she would 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.000 always bring a dish that she made, Like she was 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.720 that kind of woman. So I think I picked up 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:14.800 some of that from her. But a man I used to, yeah, 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.199 like cook for having like twenty or something people at 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.200 our at our apartment in New York. And that's I 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.040 don't know what happened to that woman. But I can't 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.359 even fucking imagine doing that now. I mean, I'm cooking 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.400 Christmas Eve and Thanksgiving, but we're talking about like eight 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:34.480 or ten people like not you know, and it's it's 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:38.120 all the Christmas Eve stuff is easy because you can 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:42.119 it's all big batches. Anyway, how do you time out? 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:46.480 Like like do you know from experience? Like how how 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:48.520 do you time out? Like what needs to go when? 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:50.480 And like how you know what I mean? Like, I 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.560 just can't The idea of that is so over. It 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.920 feels like directing to me, like there's so many parts 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:58.760 yeah that all have to kind of like come and 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.679 to sync together. I cannot wrap my head around it. 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:04.800 I think I'm somebody to give me a guideline. 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:07.440 More. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.679 I do write a schedule like like like as if 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:17.960 it's a production schedule. 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:20.480 Yeah, this is the call time for the turkey. 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.439 Yeah, this is what time the turkey has to go 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.720 into the oven, and then this is what time each 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.760 thing needs to go in. I also especially if there's 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:31.879 people over and I'm like I have a glass of 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.119 wine in my hand and I'm socializing, Yeah I will. 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.919 I will burn some shit real easy because I'm not 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:42.919