Participants: Nyse Collins (Host), Evita Tezeno
Series Code: TOP
Program Code: TOP000102
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00:01 Have you ever wondered
00:02 how to prepare healthy tasty meals, 00:04 raw and cook that actually tastes good? 00:07 Well, stay tuned while Evita Tezeno 00:09 and yours truly Nyse Collins 00:10 show you how to do so 00:12 and give you A Taste of Paradise. 00:31 It's the most wonderful time of the year, 00:34 for the most fabulous food of the season. 00:38 It's Evita Tezeno at A Taste of Paradise. 00:41 Welcome to our kitchen. 00:44 Yes, we're doing a wonderful scrumptious 00:48 Strawberry Ganache cake today, yes. 00:52 Oh, it's wonderful, fabulous 00:55 and scrumptious 00:58 and I can't wait to share it with you. 01:00 So let's just go to the recipe. 01:04 For the cake you need: 01:40 So we're going to start with the cake. 01:43 Very, very simple quick and easy. 01:46 We have our walnuts here 01:48 and we put them in the food processor. 01:53 We have our carob powder. 01:55 Carob is a fabulous substitute for chocolate. 02:00 It is high in calcium and it's naturally sweet. 02:04 So you don't have to have all of that extra sugar. 02:07 So we're going to put our carob powder in, 02:11 little bit of sea salt, 02:14 and we're going to blend that together first. 02:27 And that carob powder has the kitchen smoking, 02:29 look at that. 02:35 Cool, then we're going to put our dates in. 02:39 And so we want to kind of separate our dates, 02:41 so they're evenly distribute throughout our food processor. 02:47 And make sure that they're pitted 02:49 and there is no pits in them. 03:07 So it's all evenly incorporated, 03:10 so we want to then place it in our bowl. 03:20 We want to take our springform pan, 03:22 and we want to take half of this mixture 03:25 and put it in our springform pan, 03:32 about half of it. 03:33 And we want to start pressing it down. 03:42 Press it down, press it down. 03:45 So we're going to put a little bit more. 03:53 This is a really nice dense cake 03:56 but it's delicious, 03:58 delicious. 04:00 Then we take our strawberries and we just sprinkle it in. 04:09 Evenly distributed throughout the cake, 04:12 then take the rest of the cake mixture 04:15 and put it on top. 04:27 And press it down. 04:41 And then we're going to put this in the freezer 04:44 really quick for it to sit. 05:09 Now we're going to go to our icing or our frosting. 05:17 Using our blender, 05:22 we're going to put our maple syrup in, 05:31 our carob powder, 05:39 our medjool dates that have been soaked, 05:46 and our avocado. 06:26 Look at this, yummy, it's so creamy. 06:35 Then we want to place that in a bowl. 06:42 This is a real quick easy dessert 06:46 and it doesn't take a lot of preparation. 06:51 You want to get all of that wonderful carob goodness 06:54 out of the blender, okay. 06:58 And now let's go get our cake. 07:07 So it's been setting for a minute. 07:21 And it will set longer. 07:29 It needs to set about an hour in the refrigerator 07:32 or in the freezer. 07:35 Then you take your icing, 07:39 and you spread it all over the top. 07:53 And you want to make sure that, 07:55 you have it spread nicely all over the cake. 08:09 And then you take your wonderful strawberries. 08:19 Fan them out and place them all around the cake. 08:52 How amazing is this. 08:54 Got a little crumbles on it but it's okay, 08:58 your guests will love it. 09:00 It's been another great recipe the great show, 09:04 table this holiday season, 09:06 and remember to live life fresh. 09:16 Holidays come and go, 09:17 and it's one thing that doesn't come and go 09:19 whether it's Christmas, Thanksgiving, 09:22 the holidays, Easter, 09:23 there's one thing that's a main stay in most dishes. 09:26 And we all know it's that dessert, 09:28 but a part of that dessert that's even better 09:30 it's called the banana bread. 09:33 Some of us will eat a slice or two, 09:34 will even wrap some up in paper towel 09:36 and bring it home, 09:38 because we love the banana bread. 09:40 And a reason I believe that we love the banana bread, 09:42 not only 'cause bananas are good for you, 09:43 and all of that stuff, 09:44 because sometimes it's not too sweet, 09:46 it's not you know, too bland, 09:47 it's just right, it satisfies. 09:50 And so what sense would it make for us, 09:53 this program of Taste of Paradise 09:55 to do anything else but banana bread? 09:58 Yes, our favorite banana bread, 10:00 but sometimes we make banana bread 10:02 when we have no choice and you know, 10:04 we always ask people, 10:05 "What bananas do you use?" 10:06 They said, "Well, when a bananas are going bad, 10:09 we always use the what? 10:11 We always make the banana bread." 10:13 Well, I want to encourage out 10:15 that's probably not always the best idea. 10:17 Why? 10:18 Because if you notice, 10:19 sometimes when you get that thing 10:21 looking like a cheetah, 10:23 or sometimes they're looking like a zebra, 10:25 something like that, 10:26 that's a sign that is probably not the best thing to eat. 10:29 Matter fact, when we do programs 10:32 for even diabetics, 10:34 they always say, they told us, we can't eat fruits. 10:37 Actually, do you know 10:38 this is considered to be a serious error? 10:41 Diabetics need fruits, 10:44 however they must use some caution in certain fruits. 10:47 One of those fruits in particular are dry fruits. 10:51 Another one is any items that have been like sweet 10:54 and you know, what I mean, 10:56 we talked about the dry fruits 10:57 or even like raisins or stuff like that, 10:59 and a lot of the dry fruits that you buy at the store, 11:02 a lot of them contain sugar. 11:03 So yes, that will elevate the blood sugars. 11:05 But there is a couple of fruits in particular 11:08 that is very good for diabetic. 11:11 Y'all ready for this? 11:13 Don't get me in trouble with your doctors, here it is, 11:14 that fruit is bananas. 11:18 Yes, I said it bananas. 11:20 Not this ugly looking banana. 11:22 I'm talking about bananas 11:23 as soon as they goes from green to yellow, 11:27 bam, a diabetic needs to eat that. 11:29 It is actually good 11:31 because it has a good amount of carbohydrates 11:33 and it helps balances those sugars out. 11:35 But don't go knockout three or four of them, 11:37 you see a lot of times when we wait for that banana, 11:40 if you can take a little close look here to get this way, 11:43 it's starting to show that it is fermenting. 11:46 A lot of us don't use bananas until it's like smelling. 11:50 Matter fact you know it's fermenting, 11:52 because it starts to smell like what? 11:54 It starts to smell like alcohol. 11:56 You know what I am talking about. 11:58 That time that means you're not supposed to eat it. 12:00 It's higher in sugar content, 12:03 that one you don't throw it away either, 12:05 we're in a recession, 12:06 you don't want to be wasting food, 12:07 everything you got to save. 12:09 You take that and you put that in a compost 12:11 and you can use that for a garden, 12:12 so bless the garden with this. 12:14 But a diabetic should eat it 12:15 as soon as it goes from green to yellow, eat it. 12:18 Do you know another fruit that's good for diabetics? 12:20 One of my favorites is mangoes. 12:23 Yes, I said it mangoes. 12:25 Mangoes are fantastic for diabetics, 12:28 however rule of thumb, 12:30 don't wait till the corner of the kitchen it start to, 12:34 and it smell like Jamaica, 12:36 that means it is too old 12:38 or it's too fermenting, you know, 12:39 where it's all squishy and you just take that thing, 12:41 you rip it open, it's all over your face, 12:43 and you just knockout two, three, 12:45 four of them, too much, 12:47 too much sugar. 12:48 This is what will cause the problem. 12:49 So people say how can a diabetic eat a mango? 12:52 As soon as it goes from green to tender, bam, 12:56 at that moment that's when a diabetic could eat it. 12:59 So yes, bananas and mangoes are good, 13:03 but please be careful, 13:05 don't let it ripe too much. 13:06 And that's the time that a lot of us make banana bread 13:09 when it ripes, ripes, ripes. 13:11 And that time you should probably 13:13 either put it in a garden or leave it alone, 13:15 even a fruit flies will get into it before you 13:18 and we're kicking them away, 13:19 move away from my bananas, 13:21 here is the type of banana bread. 13:22 So it's not only during holidays 13:23 that we make banana bread, 13:25 but we make it all the time, so you can enjoy it. 13:27 Banana is also good along with apples, 13:30 if a person is not feeling too well 13:32 in the stomach you know, what I mean. 13:33 And, you know, 13:35 they're going to the restroom a little too much, 13:36 they have number two. 13:37 It helps fight against you know, 13:39 the watery stuff. 13:41 Amen, too much information, let's keep it moving. 13:42 But it's also good to fight against constipation as well. 13:46 It helps balance out the acid in the stomach. 13:49 So bananas are fantastic. 13:51 There is a reason why 13:52 this thing is all over the world, 13:54 it is like God wanted to bless everybody with this stuff. 13:57 You can even find them in the States to South America, 13:59 to Africa, to Asia, 14:01 it's there so bananas enjoy them. 14:04 And now we're going to look at 14:05 how we can prepare this simple, 14:07 healthy banana cake for the holidays. 14:11 Here it is, we call it the blessed, 14:14 y'all ready for this 14:15 because this thing is so awesome. 14:17 The Blessed Banana Bread, 14:19 BBB and this is not for Better Business Bureau. 14:22 All you need is: 14:42 Sometimes people use aluminum free baking powder 14:45 or something of that nature but the featherweight, 14:47 we find this pretty good. 14:58 Literally that simple, that easy, the BBB. 15:03 This is going to help you to run a better business 15:05 because it's also good for the mind, 15:07 did you know that? 15:08 Bananas are also good for the mind. 15:10 So all we're going to do is 15:11 we're going to basically start mashing these up. 15:13 I notice there are so many different ways 15:15 to open these things, 15:17 but I'm just going to go the way 15:19 that I have been taught. 15:21 You go ahead and you open that up 15:23 and you put that in there and you can smell it. 15:25 Once those banana start smelling a little questionable, 15:28 you got to leave those alone. 15:29 But look at this, this is still good, 15:31 it's fresh, ready to go. 15:33 You don't want to per se 15:34 however use those bananas when they're too hard 15:37 or too green 15:39 because then in that case 15:43 it's no going to workout as well, 15:44 it won't have that nice rich flavor 15:47 that you will get from the bananas. 15:49 I got three and then this one, 15:51 I'm going to use this last bit here and four. 15:56 So basically you got to just break those up, 15:58 y'all should be able to do this. 16:00 Do this with the kids please, get the kids involve. 16:03 Everybody is like, 16:05 the kids don't want to eat this, 16:06 that's because they're not involved in making it. 16:08 Matter of fact, 16:10 it says that children by the age of eight, 16:14 nine should be able to handle the affairs of the kitchen. 16:18 Did y'all hear that? 16:19 I think my mom took that serious. 16:21 I think she had us just to cook and clean literally. 16:25 After we were able to start cooking and cleaning, 16:28 my mom never stepped back in the kitchen, 16:30 and we even, 16:31 I've been complaining with my brothers, I'm like, 16:32 it's the only reason why she had us 16:34 to cook and clean for her. 16:35 She was smart, 16:37 it was the best thing that she did for us. 16:38 I didn't like it then, but now I'm blessed by it, 16:41 that's why it's the blessed banana bread. 16:43 So basically we got to mix those up. 16:46 And then if you can take a quick look. 16:49 This actually worked pretty well. 16:50 This is some little unique, 16:53 crusher, musher or something like that, 16:55 maybe if you can get one of these, 16:56 it will be cool. 16:57 If you don't have one of these, no problem. 16:59 A fork will do the trick. All right. 17:01 Let's go old school, but if you can find these 17:04 in one of those little stores, it will do just fine, 17:07 so we have the bananas there, 17:09 and then I'm gonna put this on a side. 17:10 Then we're going to add 17:12 the rest of the ingredients, okay. 17:14 So we have the flour. 17:17 All right, so we add our whole wheat flour, 17:19 some people use pastry flour, work with what you have. 17:23 Big thing with making recipes is people always stop 17:25 because they're missing a certain ingredient. 17:27 Work with what you have 17:29 but ideally work with that whole wheat flour, 17:31 so we're going to mix that up. 17:32 We're going to add those cane juice crystals. 17:34 Now if a person is dealing with diabetes 17:37 or something of that nature, 17:39 you can actually hold of on the sugar 17:43 or a cane juice crystals there, 17:45 and you can use either agave nectar, 17:47 some people use agave nectar, 17:49 or you can just add a little bit more of bananas, 17:54 and bananas will do the trick. 17:55 That's one of the ways I like to do it, 17:57 if you get those nice sweet, sweet bananas 17:59 that will do it just as well. 18:01 Then we're going to add the rest of the ingredients. 18:05 So we have the fatherweight there. 18:06 This is a item that we use instead of baking powder, 18:13 or even instead of the aluminum free ones as well, 18:16 because they still have the sodium bicarbonate. 18:19 All right. 18:21 And then we have the rest of the items here, 18:24 so I'm basically gonna put it in cardamom, coriander. 18:27 Anybody remember what we use this for? 18:29 In place of cinnamon and nutmeg, 18:31 we'll use cardamom or coriander. 18:33 If you didn't get it by now with these many seasons, 18:36 I don't know what to say anymore. 18:38 But you add the cardamom and coriander, 18:40 this gives it that nice flavor, 18:42 that's why banana bread tastes so good sometimes 18:44 because of cinnamon and nutmeg that we add. 18:47 So you mix these items up. 18:50 All right, and now it will get nice and thick. 18:53 You got to work those bananas, if you can't you can even, 18:57 you can use your hands as well. 19:01 It becomes nice and thick. 19:06 So who knew that you eat banana bread a nice dessert 19:10 and you're helping the brains, 19:11 you're helping the digestive tract, 19:13 I mean this thing is good for almost everything. 19:17 Even the monkeys know 19:19 what's good for them, not saying, 19:21 however that we're monkey here, so... 19:27 Even now one person says, some people act like it, 19:30 so we mix that up nicely. 19:34 This thing will have you breaking out in a sweat here 19:37 if you don't watch out, so we'll get that going. 19:41 All right. 19:43 And watch this, I have some more bananas, 19:45 you can add more bananas, you can add different fruits 19:48 and so what I'm going to add is the raisins, all right. 19:51 So we have the raisins here. 19:52 Now you remember I said, diabetics need to watch out 19:54 a little bit with the dry fruits. 19:56 Those raisins used to be basically grapes, 19:59 right or wrong? 20:01 So what happens is if a diabetic goes ahead 20:03 and eats a handful of raisins, 20:06 that means that they're basically eating 20:09 almost two bushels of grapes. 20:12 What would that do to your blood Sugar? 20:14 Anybody's blood sugar will go up through the roof, 20:16 even if you're not a diabetic. 20:17 So with the raisins, 20:19 diabetics need to be very, very, very, 20:21 very careful. 20:22 But they're still good, 20:23 prunes as well is good for individual. 20:27 So these are some of those, 20:29 I went ahead and put in some of our 20:32 either pecans or walnuts, 20:34 if you to take it to the next level, 20:36 somebody got, 20:37 I'll stay ahead or something like that, 20:39 throw in some pumpkin seeds. 20:40 You may end up with like a seed bread 20:44 or something like that. 20:45 But work with it, 20:47 the whole goal here is just to try and explore new recipes 20:51 and or take some old favorites 20:55 and make them even better. 20:56 So we have all of those there, mixing that up nicely. 21:00 Amen. 21:02 You can even... 21:04 Hallelujah. 21:06 So this is good. 21:07 Then I'm going to get this ready, 21:09 I'm going to let this sit for just a little bit, 21:11 and I'm going to get my nice little baking dish here, 21:15 okay. 21:17 And I'm going to put just a little bit of oil, 21:18 so let me go ahead and grab this oil. 21:21 Just a little bit to line the edges here. 21:27 Okay, just put it on the sides there. 21:30 Now, if you all remember, I'm not a big fan of oil, 21:33 I don't like to touch oil. 21:37 I think, I know where I got it from, 21:38 I don't know if I should tell you, 21:40 but I tell you anyway. 21:41 You know, I tell everything. 21:43 Longtime ago when I used to be young, 21:45 before you all were around. 21:47 My hair used to be a little bit longer, yeah, 21:50 you know growing up, I was a last child. 21:52 And my mom always used to sit me down and grease, 21:57 see what I'm doing here. 21:59 She used to grease my scalp, 22:01 and she used to part it and braid it 22:03 and do all of these stuff. 22:05 And one day I just got mad, 22:06 I'm like, "Mom, if you want another girl, just have one." 22:10 You know, what I mean, 22:11 you don't have to be greasing my scalp 22:13 and she didn't put those just a regular grease. 22:15 You know, what I'm talking about, 22:17 the old school inner city grease, 22:19 that green thick stuff 22:21 and when she slapped it on my scalp 22:23 and it was hot outside in New York, 22:25 and you start sweating 22:26 what will happen to that grease? 22:28 The grease will start to melt 22:29 and it'll be all over your face. 22:31 I was about to say, 22:32 you're looking like not Michael Jackson 22:34 amen, all right amen. 22:35 You get what I'm saying though. 22:37 And I used to hate that oil and that grease. 22:39 And ever since then I grew up with this weird 22:43 I don't like grease at all. 22:45 You all know what I'm talking about, 22:46 the heavy, heavy, heavy grease. 22:48 Now you see why I wear hair short 22:50 because I don't like all of that stuff. 22:52 And she used to do that almost everyday. 22:55 Me and grease, we're not fans, 22:57 and that's why I don't like to use a lot of oil. 22:59 Anyway long story short, 23:01 you have to grease the pot there. 23:03 So here is what we're going to do. 23:05 We're going to take this nice little mixture, 23:07 I'll make it sure I get all of it. 23:09 We're going to pour that into our, 23:12 pour that into our nice little baking dish. 23:16 And this will do it itself, 23:17 all you have to do is put this in the oven 23:22 at about 350, 23:25 for about 50, 60 minutes 23:27 and it just depends, keep a eye on it. 23:28 There is no reason 23:30 why we should be buying banana bread. 23:33 Literally there is no reason why. 23:35 This thing is so easy, 23:36 you can make it with what you have. 23:38 You just have a little bit of flour 23:39 and some bananas, some raisins, 23:43 you can make it so there is no reason why. 23:45 I don't want to see anybody ever buying banana bread. 23:47 And if I do catch you buying a banana bread, 23:50 I'm going to make sure you watch this video. 23:52 And matter of fact we're launching a program 23:55 for everybody in their homes, in their church, 23:58 it's called Taste of Paradise Cooking Club. 24:01 What do we say, y'all? 24:02 Taste of Paradise Cooking Club. 24:04 We believe that every home 24:07 should be running a nice little cooking club. 24:10 It says that every home should 24:11 understand the principles of the health work 24:13 and so what you can do, contact Dare to Dream, 24:17 find out how you can get enrolled, 24:19 they'll let us know. 24:20 We want you to take some of these videos here 24:23 and go ahead and in your home, 24:24 so we put together little package 24:26 for you in your home, 24:27 invite your friends over, right? 24:29 And then have them sit down 24:30 and for just 25 minutes put in this DVD 24:33 where Evita and myself showing people 24:35 how to make banana bread 24:36 and zucchini cake and all of that stuff. 24:38 And as soon as we do the demonstration, 24:41 as soon as it's over, 24:42 all you have to do is bring the food out. 24:44 You may not know 24:45 all the beneficial properties of the food, 24:47 right, but you can still cook. 24:49 Everybody know somebody that can cook 24:51 and follow our recipe. 24:53 So we'll send you the recipes, 24:54 we'll give you the video I mean, 24:56 it's just a small fee or whatever like that, 24:57 and now you can run 24:59 A Taste of Paradise Cooking Club 25:01 in your home or even in your church. 25:02 I'll tell you little bit more about it, 25:04 I got to get this baking. 25:05 I already have one already, 25:07 so I'm going to carry this over here real quick, 25:10 get this rolling. 25:11 I have this one preheated, I'm going to set about 350, 25:14 and then I have another one in here 25:18 that is pretty much ready, 25:20 I just had it like staying warm for us. 25:23 And wow, there she is. 25:27 Look at this, 25:29 let's make a grand entrance here, 25:30 let's make a grand entrance, clear the way, 25:32 where is the red carpet? 25:33 I don't have a red carpet here. 25:35 But anyway, basically 25:37 I'm making a mess. 25:39 I don't have a red carpet but I have a wood carpet, 25:40 I have a wood carpet, here it is so. 25:42 There is your blessed banana bread. 25:47 Really simple and easy, it literally rises up, 25:50 it opens up and says, here I am, eat me. 25:53 And as you see here, it looks nice, 25:57 it's brown around the edges or whatever like that, 25:59 this thing is so easy, 26:00 you don't even have to be taking the knives 26:02 and going ahead 26:03 and testing to see in if it's moist 26:05 or whatever like that, 26:06 just in matter of time this thing is ready for you. 26:09 Now this one, it literally pops out. 26:12 I'm going to pop it out real quick, 26:14 and then I'm going to just cut a nice little slice off, 26:17 because I don't know if you all want to try, 26:18 but I'm thinking I want to try that, 26:20 so here it is and watch, 26:21 it's so easy that it literally pops out at you. 26:24 But it's warm, it's little warm. 26:27 And then shake it out and voila. 26:31 Holiday times is here. 26:33 You make about five of these, 26:35 seven of these, do something 26:37 and just wrap them up with a little love there. 26:40 Send a note, and look at that, 26:42 that one is ready to go to oven, 26:43 it's telling me we're about to get roll in too, 26:45 don't leave without us. 26:47 And you can cut this, let me see if I can go ahead, 26:50 and cut that nicely there, cut this. 26:53 Pass it out to your neighbors, your friends. 26:56 This is a heavy hitter though, be careful with this one. 26:59 This one is, this is heavy 27:01 and you only need a little piece for dessert. 27:05 And nice and thick as you see there. 27:08 Man, I'm going to keep cutting this thing, 27:09 I'm gonna share a couple with you all. 27:11 And when you passes out to your neighbors, 27:13 you don't have to be like, oh, you know, 27:15 come and meet in my church, just be nice to be nice, 27:18 and people will definitely, 27:20 they'll come by and then you can start that 27:22 Taste of Paradise Cooking Club. 27:24 Look how rich, oh, man, this is good stuff. 27:28 Have them come out, you teach them how to cook. 27:30 And matter fact, 27:32 if you don't know everything about it that's fine. 27:33 Just play the video, 27:35 let them watch it and have the food ready. 27:38 Do not show these programs without the food ready, 27:41 there will be a riot in your home, 27:43 or in your church, 27:45 so go ahead have the food ready, 27:46 pass it on and you ready for this? 27:48 Your program should be no longer than an hour, 27:50 the next 30 minutes you just spend time talking and eating. 27:54 Enjoy some blessed banana bread. |
Revised 2016-12-26