Taste of Paradise

Banana Pudding/Gardening 101

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Participants: Nyse Collins (Host), Evita Tezeno

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00:15 Welcome to a Taste of Paradise.
00:17 My name is Evita Tezeno and I am from the south
00:21 and we just love banana pudding.
00:25 We eat sleep and drink banana pudding.
00:28 But when I became to eat healthier,
00:31 I look at the ingredients and I said, not so healthy.
00:36 So I came up with a fabulous recipe
00:40 that's not only healthy and nutritious
00:44 but it's also delicious.
00:47 Honey, you could take this to any, any social gathering
00:52 and people will, ooh and ah and say, oh, you are best.
00:56 Because you know, people love banana pudding.
00:59 So let's look at ingredients
01:01 and let's show how healthy it is.
01:49 So you know, in all banana pudding recipes
01:53 they have the little cookies-- The little cookies in there.
01:57 So we're gonna make all kind of cookies with a twist,
02:00 this is a crust-- like almond crusty cookie
02:05 kind of mixture that I am making.
02:08 So we start off with our almonds.
02:15 And we want to blend them little bit,
02:18 so we can chop them up a little bit.
02:27 So we just want to pull some
02:29 so we could break them up little bit.
02:30 Then we have our medjool dates
02:32 and you know, that I said
02:33 that medjool dates are my date of choice
02:36 because they are soft and they sweeter.
02:39 And if you are using any other kind of date
02:42 you might want to soak them
02:44 and kind of rinse them a little bit
02:45 because some of them tend to be
02:47 a little harder then the medjool.
02:52 And we have your sea salt.
02:56 And your vanilla extract
02:57 and make sure that you read
02:58 your labels on the vanilla extract
03:00 and make sure that there is no alcohol in there.
03:05 And then we have our coconut oil.
03:11 Coconut oil is very good for the brain.
03:15 Good brain food.
03:24 And we want to--
03:49 Now depending on how nutty you want it
03:53 I like mines a little fine
03:55 to resemble like crumbled up cookies,
03:58 so this is the cookie in our banana pudding.
04:06 So let me get all of the stuff out of the way.
04:12 And now we're gonna make our pudding.
04:18 So we're gonna start up with almond milk
04:20 and I make my own almond milk
04:22 by soaking a cup of almonds in three--
04:27 and then blending them in three cups of water
04:30 and then using a nut milk bag and then making the milk.
04:36 So if you don't have a nut milk bag
04:39 or if you don't want to make your almond milk,
04:41 you can buy almond milk in your grocery store.
04:46 And I have the vanilla extract.
04:51 And turmeric just to color it,
04:53 it's just to make it a little, a little yellow color
04:57 because you know, when you have banana pudding
04:59 the pudding is little yellow, we have our dates.
05:05 And we're using chia seed,
05:06 chia seed is an excellent thickener.
05:09 So that's why we're using the chia seed.
05:11 It's also very hydrating and it's also high in protein.
05:17 Almond butter.
05:21 And there is raw almond butter,
05:24 it tends to be a little expensive,
05:26 so if you want to get the almond butter
05:28 that's not raw, it's okay.
05:32 Whatever is easier for you.
05:35 And then we have our coconut oil
05:37 and this also thickness the pudding as well.
05:49 And I like to add little pinch of salt
05:54 and then our bananas.
06:00 So you know, alone without putting this as a pudding,
06:05 this is a great smoothie recipe as well.
06:52 I want to eat this now because it's so delicious,
06:55 it's just fabulous but I must wait.
07:01 Okay, so you get your pan.
07:10 And you take your crust or your cookies,
07:14 your crumbled cookies and place at the bottom.
07:19 And you can use any kind of pan you want,
07:22 you could you a Pyrex dish
07:25 or if you have something fancy you can.
07:28 And then you cut up your bananas.
07:36 And this one is a little too ripe.
07:40 But you're going to cut your bananas up.
07:58 And the-- the more spotted the banana the sweeter it is,
08:03 you don't want to use green bananas
08:05 because they will not be sweet.
08:08 And you know, banana pudding isn't banana pudding
08:12 if it's not sweet.
08:13 So we want a sweet banana pudding.
08:16 And depending on how many bananas you want in your layer
08:22 you could load it up or you could just put it sparely.
08:31 So then you want to pour the banana pudding.
08:41 And this one is a layered banana pudding,
08:46 because you want to do several layers.
08:49 So then you take some more
08:52 of the almond cookie crust recipe and layer it.
09:00 And you just repeat.
09:05 And because I like to do thing fancy,
09:09 I made it in a special container.
09:17 Look at this.
09:20 Now this would even put my grandmamma to shame.
09:23 Because look at this, isn't this beautiful?
09:26 It is fabulous, I can't wait to dig into this.
09:31 It's fresh, it's fabulous and it is delicious.
09:35 Look at it.
09:38 And it smells amazing.
09:41 Okay, I've done it again, another fantastic recipe
09:45 from the kitchen of Taste of Paradise.
09:48 And you know what I always say at the end,
09:51 remember to live life fresh.
10:01 Welcome back.
10:02 We're here, we're gonna look
10:03 at some of the key items here in preparing a simple meal.
10:08 But even before preparing a simple meal
10:10 we have to look at what is--
10:12 where is this stuff coming from?
10:13 There is a big controversy of GMOs and what's organic,
10:17 what's not organic and all of these things.
10:19 Every time I do programs everybody is asking, what--
10:22 Is this good or is that not good
10:25 or the food and the fruits and stuff that we buy is
10:28 you know, is it good?
10:29 they are adding chemicals to it they are messing with it
10:32 and they're doing all of these things.
10:33 Now I say it's real simple to answer all of these questions
10:36 because I can't keep up with--
10:38 I mean, these days they're mixing
10:40 tomatoes with different species
10:43 and they are adding this and cutting that
10:46 and doing all of these things
10:47 with the genetics of these fruits, these vegetables
10:51 and who knows now soon or later
10:53 with may be animals or something of that nature.
10:55 So I can't keep up because it's always changing.
10:58 But there is one thing I know is I will keep simple
11:00 and I will stick to what was written,
11:03 what the Bible says is good for us.
11:05 And it says that there are fruits that are good for us.
11:08 If something bears a seed it is considered fruit
11:11 and then you have the herbs or the veggies
11:14 which is good for you as well.
11:15 So all of these are there, so I just stick to that.
11:18 So now when I see something that used to have a seed
11:22 not have a seed anymore, what am I going to do?
11:25 I am gonna probably stay away from that.
11:26 I will give you one quick example,
11:28 one of them in particular is probably like grapes.
11:31 You remember back in the days grapes always had what?
11:34 They always had general seeds,
11:36 I mean, even though seedless grapes
11:37 have been around for a long time.
11:38 So now when I see a seedless item I stay away from it.
11:42 Let's look at another one some of our favorites, watermelon.
11:45 Everybody loves watermelon but I guess
11:47 out of convenience or whatever the reason is,
11:50 now they have seedless watermelon
11:52 and they see over three quarter of watermelon now.
11:55 In our country it doesn't even have a seed anymore?
12:00 So I am like wait a second, watch out for that.
12:02 And especially with the grape seeds,
12:04 I only buy grapes in general that have what?
12:07 A seed and you know why I do that?
12:09 Because next you know in a couple of months
12:11 new study shows grape seed extract is good for you.
12:14 Well, I don't have to buy
12:16 that grape seed extract anymore, why?
12:17 'Cause the seed or the grape that I bought
12:19 always had a what in it?
12:20 A seed but if you notice more and more
12:23 these things are slowly but surely
12:25 becoming very hard to find.
12:27 So keep it very simply, your veggies,
12:29 if they look too big stay away from it,
12:31 too small and cute and bites eyes
12:34 probably stay away from that as well.
12:35 Just get your regular veggies the way it was
12:38 I can say probably intended.
12:41 So now you don't have to worry about
12:43 who's doing what to this or who's doing what to that.
12:45 Why, because you are doing it yourself.
12:48 And what I mean by doing it yourself?
12:50 Today, I know we talk about simple meal
12:52 but today we're go from the garden to the plate.
12:56 Why do you not have to question these things?
12:57 Because we're going to grow them ourselves,
13:00 gardening one on one right here
13:02 and a lot of times people say, well, I live in the city
13:05 or I do this and I don't have a farm.
13:07 There is no excuse.
13:08 Why? Because you can do yourself at home.
13:11 So take a note of the simple things
13:13 that's going to help us go from garden to the plate
13:16 of how you too can start to grow your own food,
13:19 it's going to bless you not only physically
13:21 but financially as well.
13:23 And you'll learn some spiritual lessons at the same time.
13:26 Here is your simple recipe
13:28 on how to start gardening from home.
13:31 All you need literally is some seeds,
13:33 any kind of seeds that you want
13:35 you want tomatoes or cucumbers whatever it is.
13:37 You just buy yourself some seeds,
13:39 all you need as well is a simple pot
13:42 or may be a starter pot, a bowl
13:44 whatever you have work with it.
13:46 Then you're going to need some good potting soil,
13:49 some good gardening soil
13:50 you can find that at many locations
13:52 and last but not least I think this one you can probably
13:56 get this for free as you're going to need some water.
13:59 So I hope you went ahead and wrote that down.
14:01 I am going to grab some of these items.
14:03 I have some potting soil right here,
14:06 I am going to start with a little cup,
14:09 this is a special cup
14:10 and if you don't have it, work with what you have.
14:12 You can probably even get a little bowl
14:15 or something of that nature and then seeds,
14:18 these are a dime a dozen.
14:19 And I know what some people are thinking,
14:21 ah, those are genetically modified as well.
14:23 Well, I have simple question,
14:25 did God not know we will be in the situation?
14:28 He knew that and so as what he encourages us to do is
14:32 number one, get out of those cities.
14:34 So you can be in a country, grow your own food.
14:37 The other day my mom called me,
14:39 she said, son, I need some money.
14:41 See, mom is retired and all that stuff,
14:43 and I said, why you calling me, call my brother.
14:46 She said, well, they're married,
14:47 I said, exactly why you need to call my brother,
14:49 and I said, because they have two incomes,
14:51 it's just me, hello.
14:53 But I'm like, mom, I'm just kidding with you.
14:55 I'll-- What do you need the money for?
14:57 This is why I don't like asking people for money,
14:58 when you ask people for money, they tell you how to spend it.
15:00 She said, somebody came by
15:03 and told me that I only need to use organic food.
15:06 I said, mom, did you see
15:07 the price of organic food in New York?
15:10 One broccoli like a big broccoli crown is like $5.99.
15:16 I said if we have to die eating regular broccoli so be it.
15:20 We're going to rest in piece.
15:21 But here's what you need to do,
15:22 Buy the food, if you have to buy it,
15:24 the way was intended, prepare in a simple manner.
15:27 I said, mom, what do you need to do before you eat that food?
15:30 She said, bless it.
15:31 Bless it and trust that God will bless it,
15:34 as matter of fact say a special prayer,
15:35 Lord in the name of Jesus, if the farmer puts
15:38 some pesticides in this please send the angels to do what?
15:41 Remove it and if he didn't cook--
15:43 oh, he didn't cook it--
15:44 He didn't grow it long enough, now what do you need to do?
15:47 Lord, send another group of angels to replenish it.
15:49 But sometimes our prayers are so quick
15:51 we just sooner, Lord, amen,
15:53 and we start eating and the angel,
15:55 they don't have enough time replenish the food.
15:56 Of course, we know that doesn't happen
15:58 but you getting what I'm saying?
15:59 But you have to believe that God will do whatever everybody?
16:02 He will bless the food.
16:04 But at the same time we're blessing the food
16:06 soon as we are finished, what do we do?
16:08 We take a whole bunch of supplements.
16:10 You know, what that's telling God
16:11 if I can probably guess them,
16:13 you telling God, he didn't do
16:14 a good enough job of blessing the food.
16:17 So now as a result you're going to
16:18 bless it yourself with supplements.
16:21 You just have to believe and trust.
16:23 So I said, mom, we are not going to buying this.
16:25 And number, two the poor man can't afford the organic,
16:29 but the poor man can grow his own food, yeah?
16:33 As a matter of fact it's cheaper.
16:34 Anybody who follow these basic principals
16:36 you will save almost $4,500 a year,
16:39 just by making and growing your own what everybody?
16:43 Your own food, so here is what we're going to do.
16:46 I am going to share with you how to do it, it's real simple.
16:48 It's like the easiest thing and if you are concerned
16:51 I don't know, I am not farmer,
16:52 I never taught, was taught these things, no problem.
16:56 All you need is some dirt, a little this is a--
16:59 What you call is a recyclable not recyclable but a degrade--
17:02 A biodegradable item.
17:04 So once you put the dirt in here.
17:08 you can actually just water it and stick it in the ground
17:12 and it will do everything for you
17:14 because normally you have to transplant it,
17:16 so I'll put that here and I move this over to the side.
17:19 And as you can see you could just pat it down.
17:21 Just a little bit not to tight, make a little hole.
17:24 Hello, we're back in like science class or something.
17:27 We're going to make a little hole.
17:28 And what do I have here? I have some tomatoes.
17:31 So you're going to take a little tomato seed.
17:34 All right, I got a whole bunch of them,
17:35 may be you can see that these things are so small.
17:39 Look at how small they are but you've seen,
17:41 as a matter of fact you probably
17:42 don't even have to buy these seeds
17:45 when you're making your tomato,
17:46 you see them all right there?
17:48 Or when you're eating your tomato,
17:49 just pull those seeds out and you can probably
17:52 even grow your own tomato someday.
17:54 So I am going to take one, two of those
17:56 and put that right in there, okay?
17:59 Then I'm going to save the rest
18:00 'cause I may plant that another time.
18:03 You cover it a little bit and then let's get some water.
18:07 This is like the literally the easiest thing around town.
18:10 You just put just a tide of water
18:12 to go ahead and get the little hydration going there.
18:15 And then even when you're doing this
18:18 you got to still say,
18:19 Lord, I don't know what I am doing
18:21 but please bless this thing, grow it for me
18:24 and then you make a little, little item here,
18:26 and you mark it tomato.
18:29 Done deal, all right?
18:31 So bear with the handwriting there
18:33 but right there you have a simple way
18:35 that you can start making your own what?
18:38 You can start making or growing your own tomato.
18:40 What else do I have here? I have some parsley, mints.
18:45 Yes, everybody likes mint, so I am going to do mint
18:48 and I am going to get another seed here
18:50 and then I'm going to grab
18:51 another one of my little examples
18:55 and I am going to take this one,
18:56 I'm not even going to ask you all to look at it,
18:57 these mint seeds are so small,
18:59 I can only imagine a mustard seed.
19:01 And if you just have faith
19:02 like a mustard seed, you can do this.
19:04 So I am going to take this put it in the middle,
19:06 and drop them, this is call faith.
19:09 Can you imagine, putting something in there,
19:11 you're not sure how it's going to work.
19:12 And then what am I going to do again?
19:14 Just going to add a little bit of water,
19:15 so then I have my mint there.
19:17 You can do basil and I encourage you
19:19 to start with something simple like a tomato,
19:21 basil, what else, we have mint here.
19:27 There are so many things that you can do
19:28 and then I am going to label this one
19:29 and I am going to call that mint.
19:31 Then you take these and you put them,
19:35 let me go back here.
19:39 And you put them in these nice little trays that these stores,
19:42 and many stores have what is known as
19:43 like little starter kits or something.
19:45 Planting starter kits and you just take that,
19:48 you put that in the sunlight by your window
19:50 if you have garden you can actually place the whole,
19:54 the whole item in your garden, you dig a hole.
19:56 And then what do I have here?
19:57 I have some basil, I have some mint that has already grown
20:01 and if you have those going in a garden
20:03 in this special type of cup it naturally does it for you.
20:05 If you have a regular cup, like one of these or whatever
20:10 as it starts to grow
20:11 you're going to have to transplant it, okay?
20:13 And put it in something bigger.
20:15 So look at this tomato plant as it took a little time
20:19 and now of course that didn't happen today.
20:23 That took several weeks there.
20:24 But it's going to teach you patience
20:26 and long suffering and all that good stuff
20:29 as a matter of fact, when we was getting ready
20:30 for this program here, we didn't even have it.
20:34 It didn't grow fast enough of course,
20:36 so we went ahead and we--
20:38 we got ourselves some tomatoes here.
20:39 These are tomatoes are from the vine.
20:42 So you can do that.
20:43 I think anybody can do this and a matter of fact
20:46 I encourage you to get the kids involved, please.
20:49 Ask children, where does food come from?
20:51 Oh, it comes from the box.
20:53 No, food doesn't come from the box.
20:55 Food comes from the farm, food comes from your garden
20:59 and I think everybody can do this.
21:01 So any questions, I would say?
21:03 Good, no questions, because you can do it yourself.
21:07 So here's your tomato,
21:08 here's your mint and here is your basil.
21:10 A matter of fact, while we are at it,
21:12 why don't we just make simple recipe from our little tomatoes
21:16 and maybe we'll use some basil?
21:18 What about a special spaghetti sauce
21:19 or something of that nature,
21:20 you think you guys will like to do that?
21:22 And even before I get to that special sauce
21:26 I am going to show you all one of the easiest ones to do.
21:28 Matter of fact, I am going to go to the fridge
21:31 because some people say,
21:32 oh, it takes too long, I don't know what to do.
21:34 Anybody, green onions, green onions?
21:38 Here it is.
21:40 All you have to do is get yourself some green onions
21:43 and you literally cut them and I am going to move this
21:48 and then we're going to make a special sauce
21:49 that's the easiest part.
21:51 Cooking is actually, it's like so easy.
21:53 We're going to take our potting soil again, all right.
21:59 And I am just going to do this in this little bowl.
22:00 if you don't have one of those
22:02 special little cups or those little kits.
22:04 Even if you don't have potting soil
22:06 you just grab some dirt and just pray over it.
22:09 You can go ahead and put just enough there, okay.
22:15 Where is my knife?
22:18 Here is the coolest thing
22:19 and I may even use this in our recipe,
22:21 you go ahead and you just chop off your green onions
22:28 and you see this right here.
22:29 What do you do with this?
22:30 You literally stick them in.
22:35 Stick them in, then what are you going to do?
22:39 A matter of fact, you can do a little trick on your family,
22:42 say, look I started planting and they were growing
22:45 and they are literally growing, you're not lying of course.
22:48 They are growing but they will start to sprout out
22:51 even more, more and as soon as they grow
22:53 little bit too much what do you do?
22:55 You just chop them off make a recipe out of it.
22:57 And then you're done.
22:59 So actually we're going to get to that recipe today
23:02 and we're going to make our special sauce.
23:04 Here is your simple recipe
23:05 on how to make a special spaghetti sauce, pasta sauce
23:08 with the fresh grown tomatoes that you have here.
23:11 All you need is:
23:24 One half small onion, two sprigs of parsley
23:28 and one teaspoon of paprika, paprika.
23:31 This is a simple easy recipe that we all can do.
23:34 A matter of fact I don't know about you
23:36 but I got to go to work, so I'm going to show you
23:37 easy way how to do it all,
23:39 because normally we would just be
23:40 cooking in and doing all that stuff.
23:42 So basically you're going to get a nice little Vita-Mix here
23:47 and we're going to put that up top.
23:49 And then I'm going to get this, then we're going to run
23:51 our tomatoes under the water, just rinse it off really nice.
23:58 Okay, so we have our fresh tomatoes,
23:59 we're going to get this open real quick
24:02 and I'm just going to take the tomatoes off,
24:04 oh, man, straight from the vine,
24:06 straight from the garden.
24:07 Nobody has any excuses anymore
24:10 to not have their own organic fresh meals.
24:16 And you can just literally put the whole thing in there.
24:18 You can dice it up
24:20 if you are going to cook it a little bit there.
24:24 So I'm just going to take these,
24:26 I'm going to put this there.
24:27 And I'm going to get all four of them going.
24:30 And just get that just the bit
24:32 you can put the whole thing if you want to actually.
24:36 And then you just chop it off if you have a regular blender,
24:38 you know, you have to work with it a little bit.
24:40 So I'm going to take those get that going
24:44 and then you are just going to add
24:46 the rest of the ingredients in the blender.
24:50 One, two, three. One, two, three.
24:51 I have my onion here and just chop that into pieces.
24:56 Get that going, I have my parsley and stuff,
25:00 that's in there.
25:01 And then the garlic, oh, yeah.
25:03 Oh, man, how am I going to do this?
25:04 Now a lot of times people are peeling it,
25:06 here's my own little one I just take a can, done deal.
25:10 And it actually because I hate
25:12 the smell of garlic on my fingers
25:14 and it just comes right out of it.
25:16 So you can-- you can do that yourself.
25:19 Then we're going to do a little bit of olive oil in there
25:22 and don't forget your salts, how much are we going to put?
25:26 Probably about a teaspoon, you can add it to taste
25:29 however you see fit and don't forget your paprika.
25:33 So I'm just going to go ahead, just put a little bit
25:35 and does anybody know what paprika is in general?
25:38 This is basically a red bell pepper
25:41 or a dried red bell pepper
25:44 and also a little bit of liquid, we put oil,
25:47 yes, but we're going to put a little bit of water.
25:52 All right, should be good, just a little bit more.
25:56 And then we're going to cover this up
25:59 and we're going to get this going.
26:36 All right.
26:38 With that we have our special sauce,
26:40 this is nice and our cream--
26:42 Oh, you can even smell it, it smells good.
26:44 Just a little bit more.
26:59 And here we go we have our special sauce.
27:02 This is fresh, fresh, fresh.
27:04 For paprika, anything you like and you can enjoy that.
27:08 This is a simple little item
27:10 that you can do, it's really quick.
27:12 And for those who like to eat on to run,
27:14 they can use this as well.
27:16 You could even get it with your pasta.
27:19 Matter of fact I have some pasta over here,
27:22 you just drain that out.
27:23 I know everybody likes to use the colander and stuff,
27:26 me, I do a quick start, let me see here.
27:28 So I just pour it out there.
27:32 Have that there. Let's see.
27:35 And then you can have a simple meal on the run.
27:39 Here's your nice spaghettis, nice and hot there.
27:44 And then just a tad because this is powerful sauce here.
27:48 And if you cook it longer in the Vita-Mix,
27:50 this is a little you need,
27:51 this is a quick little item that you can do.
27:54 Everybody can enjoy it. Go ahead, start at home.
27:57 Grow your own food from the garden to the plate.


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