Participants: Nyse Collins (Host), Evita Tezeno, Yvonne Lewis
Series Code: TOP
Program Code: TOP000025S
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00:01 Have you ever wondered exactly how to prepare healthy food that
00:04 actually tastes good. Well stay tuned while Evita Tezeno 00:07 and yours truly, Nyse Collins, show you just how to do it 00:10 and give you something better. A Taste of Paradise. 00:29 Welcome to A Taste of Paradise My name is Evita Tezeno 00:34 And today we're going to be making an Eggplant Bacon 00:40 And I have a special guest today. I have my friend 00:44 Yvonne Lewis. Hey Evita, Hi, how you doing? 00:50 I'm so glad to be here. I'm not the queen of the kitchen ok 00:53 Ok. So to observe how you do the raw food thing, I'm excited. 00:58 And I bought some eggplant recently. Really? 01:01 And I don't know what to do with it. So show me. 01:03 Well a lot of people don't know what to do with eggplant 01:06 So this is a quick and easy way to get eggplant in your diet. 01:11 Because you know I teach "Eat the Rainbow" 01:15 So here you get a chance to eat a purple item 01:19 Purple food item. What does that do? 01:23 It has Vitamin E, Vitamin K 01:27 And also it has the white flesh as well 01:32 It has Vitamin C in it. Oh good! 01:35 We're going to start off by peeling our eggplant 01:41 And do you always peel it or... 01:44 do you sometimes leave the peel in on it? 01:46 When you're doing raw you have to peel it because it gets 01:49 like leather. Oh ok. Because we're gonna dehydrate the recipe 01:53 So you have to peel it in order to use the flesh inside 01:58 It's kind of a stubborn thing to peel. So we gonna just 02:05 peel it like so. 02:08 Is there anything you do with the peel or discard it? 02:12 Just throw it away. Oh ok. 02:13 Yeah, there's nothing you can do with the peel. 02:17 So we gonna, we're almost done peeling it and we gonna take 02:21 the top of it off. We're gonna discard that. 02:25 And we're using the tool, this is called the Mandolin 02:30 Ah. Oh I've seen you use it. Yes. 02:33 And it gives you even slices. 02:44 And you just do it like that and you see the slices there? 02:47 Yeah. This is pretty amazing. 02:51 This eggplant is a little stubborn. Uh huh. 02:55 You've got to coax it along. 03:01 I don't know recently I've been kinda craving eggplant. Really? 03:05 Yeah I love it, and cook some with onions, garlic 03:11 Oh yeah. I love that. 03:16 And of course you can make a vegan cheese 03:18 and eggplant parmesan. Of course we're talking raw now 03:21 Yes, let me go back to raw 03:24 Let's come back to raw please. 03:27 Well we have our eggplant. Uh huh 03:29 And it's real thin. It's very thin. 03:33 And you know I forgot my cutting board 03:38 So I'm gonna use this. Sure, sure. 03:42 So we have to improvise. We're gonna improvise 03:46 We're going to use the container we're going to marinate it in 03:52 Okay. So we just take the eggplant and we stack it 03:57 and we cut it in halves. 03:59 Because we want it to resemble bacon. 04:02 Oh ok. Yeah. We want it to resemble it. 04:05 So we put the eggplant in here 04:09 And you said bacon, you have a recipe for this? 04:12 Oh yes. The ingredients for the eggplant bacon 04:45 Now we're gonna use my favorite tool the Vitamix 04:48 If you don't have a Vitamix you can use a blender 04:53 but you have to blend it a little longer 05:00 Now the chipotle pepper, what does that do? 05:02 Does it make it hot, or It makes it hot and smoky 05:06 Oh. This is uh...because I use some ingredients 05:10 that are not raw, this is one of the ingredients that is not 05:14 This is a smoked, red jalapeno pepper. 05:19 And it has been smoked and dried 05:21 I'm going to salivate (laughter) 05:25 We should get a tissue or something... 05:28 And we have maple syrup and this gives it a kinda sweet taste 05:34 Right. So you have the sweet smoky thing going on? 05:37 Sweet and salty, just like bacon 05:40 Ok, ok. But an animal didn't have to die. 05:46 And we use this chipotle pepper 05:49 Can you get that from just a regular store? 05:52 Yes you could get dried chipotle peppers from a regular store 05:57 We have olive oil 06:01 This is cumin, mmm 06:09 smoked paprika 06:11 And garlic 06:14 Can't forget the garlic, uh huh 06:16 It's a great, great ingredient 06:33 Now this is a real quick recipe. You see we just blend it 06:36 You just pour the marinade over 06:43 And I always like to get my fingers in the food 06:47 So you want to make sure it's all distributed 06:55 Just in case the viewers don't know, you always wash your hands 06:59 Yes, you always wash your hands 07:04 I keep soap and water and always wash my hands. 07:09 Because you know some viewers are kind of...yeah, yeah 07:13 I guess you can use some tongs if you don't wanna put your hand 07:18 But you know I love to put my hands in the food. 07:22 So you want to make sure that you marinate, you cover every 07:28 slice with the chipotle mixture 07:34 and you want to cover this and put it in the fridge overnight 07:37 So good right now. Yes, okay 07:39 You stick this in the fridge overnight 07:49 The next day you get a dehydrator sheet 07:54 and then you lay, one strip at a time. Okay 07:58 on the dehydrator sheet. You want to dehydrate it overnight 08:04 So let me get it straight in my head. So you put it in the 08:07 refrigerator one night. And then the next night 08:10 And the next day you dehydrate it. So you could do it in the 08:15 evening before you go to bed and make sure that 08:19 you put it in the refrigerator and when you wake up in the 08:23 morning, right before you go to work you can stick this 08:26 in the dehydrator. Ok. And it can dehydrate all day while 08:30 you're at work. Ok, good. If you can you do that 08:33 Because the energy with the dehydrator is very low 08:36 Very very low. The energy usage is very low. 08:41 And it doesn't pull a lot of energy. Okay 08:44 So after it has been dehydrating overnight 08:47 Look at that! Does that look like it or what? 08:52 Okay. Can you taste this? 08:54 Now, come on you know me You know I do want to taste 08:58 Here you go, taste it, taste it 09:04 Mmmm, and its chewy. You're gonna like that. 09:12 Now guess what I made? What did you make? 09:15 Come on, made a sandwich 09:19 Oh this is good. I can see me snacking on this 09:24 When you want a little spicy snack 09:26 If you're traveling, because it's dehydrated 09:31 it doesn't have to be refrigerated. So you could put 09:34 it in a zip lock bag and it could be like jerky. 09:36 Like jerky, like jerky 09:38 This is, you know what? The viewers need to know 09:41 that the crew, after we do all these segments the crew comes in 09:46 alright so I'm getting first dibs at this. 09:48 Laughter. I just want the crew to know. 09:50 I get first dibs. 09:52 Oh this is so good. I want another piece. 09:57 I've made a sandwich. In one of our previous episodes 10:01 I made some raw bread 10:03 and so I made it ELT instead of BLT 10:07 I love it, I love it. An ELT 10:10 Oh that is so neat. You can put a cashew mayo 10:15 on here, or you could put some raw cheese that I made in the 10:18 previous episode and you have a sandwich. 10:21 That's awesome. This is all plant based 10:24 Gluten free and it's delicious 10:28 It's delicious. I'm telling you it's delicious. 10:33 I know, I'm so excited 10:36 Oh yeah, me too. Me too. 10:37 Well thank you Evita for showing me this. 10:39 Well thank you for coming to help me. This is good 10:42 This is Evita Tezeno. Remember to live life fresh! 10:55 Breakfast, never leave home without it. 10:59 You know there's a lot of credit cards out there 11:01 they say you shouldn't leave without them 11:02 That's maybe because they want you to eat breakfast out there 11:05 and use your money. But you should eat at home 11:07 Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. 11:10 We already know that. It's nothing new but many times 11:12 what do we do? We skip breakfast and as a result we suffer 11:16 throughout the day. So none of that anymore. Today we gonna do 11:19 something special. You've already seen a fantastic 11:22 recipe. No more of this you need to go and buy bacon 11:26 some use Turkey Bacon I know what you talkin about 11:28 But today we gonna do something special to add on to that 11:32 Evita did the ELT or the bacon the eggplant bacon. Now we 11:40 gonna go ahead. You just can't have the bacon alone, you need 11:42 some eggs to go along with that 11:43 So we have a special recipe. But let me get back to this 11:46 breakfast thing. Because this is crucial, crucial, crucial 11:49 A lot of times we wonder why we can't balance our blessing 11:53 Y'all know what that means. We don't say nobody is fat 11:56 or skinny. Some are over blessed and some are under blessed 11:59 And we try this diet and we're good for two weeks and we 12:03 crash and we're in the same situation probably if not worse 12:06 Then we try this, we buy this new machine and we do this 12:10 and we do that and nothing seems to work. 12:12 Well you know what the information is free 12:14 Like I said you already know it. 12:16 If you just start having breakfast 12:19 Everything will be added or taken away from you 12:23 You know what I'm talkin about, right? 12:24 So what we wanna do is focus on that and why is breakfast 12:27 so crucial. It's almost like when you're about to drive 12:30 your car to work. Let's say the car is on empty 12:35 When do you put gas in the car? Do you put it when you 12:37 get to work or do you put it on your way to work? 12:41 Now everybody's like come on Nyse are you kidding me 12:43 what kinda question is that? It's like the worst question 12:45 around town. Because if we don't put it in on our way there, we 12:49 may never make it there. Hello. That means we're actually 12:53 taking better care of our cars then we're taking care of 12:56 this body. At least if I go, if I don't put gas in the car 13:01 y'know some of y'all. You live kinda on that E line whatever 13:05 and I'm talkin about myself to be honest with you 13:07 I just keep drivin. For some reason I think like I'm just 13:10 gonna, I guess it's a challenge for me. How long can I drive 13:13 on E, you know what I mean? 13:14 And a lot of us are driving on E all the time. 13:17 Well let's say we did run out of gas in our car 13:19 We'll call up Roadside Service or something of that nature 13:22 or your friend, your buddy. Hey come and get me. 13:24 Yes they will be inconvenienced a little bit but you'll get 13:27 right back and rollin. Now let me tell you something here 13:30 When this runs out of gas there's no call roadside service 13:35 call a friend anymore. It's call 911. 13:39 And unfortunately that body doesn't work like the car 13:43 Let's say the car was messed up 13:45 You can always buy another one and replace it. 13:47 But this here, you can't buy another one. 13:49 It's already been paid for you. But what we need to do is take 13:52 care of it. And how do we do that? Let's focus 13:56 You know how we're like supposed to spend time with God 13:58 every morning? Spiritual food is the most important thing 14:00 If you don't do that what's gonna happen? You find yourself 14:03 angry at people, no patience, no love or anything of that 14:05 nature. It's the same thing with breakfast. You miss out on 14:08 on breakfast and all of a sudden donuts seem like the best thing 14:11 around town. You miss breakfast you're livin by the vending 14:14 machine. You miss breakfast, you're stopping by every 14:15 fast food spot on the road. And so as a result we need to 14:20 we need to focus on this. Also what happens because you 14:24 miss that energy in the morning you're gonna start doin this 14:27 all throughout the day. You know eatin all the time a lot 14:30 of snacks and stuff of that nature. 14:31 One of my friends shared this with me. He says, there's only 14:34 one or two animals that eat and snack all day and they 14:37 hang out on the farm. He says if you snack all day you end up 14:40 looking like a what? Did I hear somebody say cow? No I didn't 14:44 say it, you all said that. But what happens is, as a result 14:48 if you look to balance your blessings what you need to do 14:51 is have set meal times, especially breakfast 14:54 put the gas in properly, you know what I'm talkin about 14:56 the fuel for the day, and then space out your meals 15:00 5-6 hours, some say 4 but just follow the principles 15:04 there and do not eat in between the meals. Drink what? Water 15:08 But the key is breakfast again We need to do this. 15:11 So what're we gonna do? We gonna add a little extra 15:14 we're gonna add some protein to that there. We already got 15:17 the eggplant bacon and so we're gonna do a fantastic recipe 15:20 And it's called Scrambled T'eggs. 15:24 Y'all know what I'm talkin about? Scrambled T'eggs 15:26 Yes, not eggs but scrambled T'eggs. Tofu 16:07 And it's real simple. Everybody can do this. You can knock it 16:10 out in several minutes but I know some people like, what? 16:13 Tofu? I'm just tired of this Tofu stuff. As a matter of fact 16:17 I just read this thing and some body said, it's no good for you 16:20 it's causing this problem and it's causing that problem 16:22 Well I'm going to call a time out. 16:24 I'm done with this 'he said, she said' stuff 16:27 Everybody's sayin somethin these days 16:29 Why don't we start studying for ourselves because as a matter 16:31 of fact you'll find out that soy is one of the best beans 16:36 we call it a super legume. That means it is like fantastic 16:40 like nothing could mess with it. This thing is amazin 16:43 And so tofu is actually pretty good for you. But there's an old 16:47 sayin, when in doubt leave it out and I'm gonna explain 16:50 and as we start cookin here I'm gonna tell you a little 16:52 bit about tofu to get rid of these myths and different items 16:57 then don't even take my word for it go and study for yourself 17:00 But let's at least get the recipe going 17:02 I know we'll talk a little bit more. All you wanna do 17:05 is get your nice, good tofu here and you wanna kinda dry 17:09 it out a little bit and you all know how to do this. You can do 17:12 with this, you can do it with a nice clean cloth. You wanna get 17:15 as much of the moisture out as you see. 17:19 And this will actually cut down your cooking time cause a lot 17:22 of the time that it takes to make the scrambled t'eggs 17:25 Yes scrambled t'eggs not scrambled eggs 17:27 A lot of times we've been using the regular names and 17:31 I fool people. People don't like to be fooled 17:33 Tell 'em it's different alright? 17:34 And what you do is you take this and you see this is extra firm 17:39 one. Extra firm tofu, look at that. I could even do a little 17:42 exercise with it here. I know y'all don't want my hands 17:45 all over your food but that's alright, this is mine today. 17:47 you make your own at home. What you do is you take that and 17:51 you crumble it ok? We gonna crumble it over and eventually 17:56 I'll go ahead and turn on the fire here 17:59 So you get what you crumbled that over so it's nice and 18:04 look at me havin a blast, have the kids in here 18:06 They're gonna love this. You're gonna have tofu all over 18:08 the place but that's alright, as long as they're having fun 18:12 So you go ahead, you get that nice and, ah here's my item 18:17 then we gonna get this fire going because this is crucial 18:21 what you wanna do, get the heat a little high. 18:24 If you can have a non stick pan. If you don't have one no problem 18:27 What you do if you don't have that non stick pan, you just 18:29 go ahead and take that nice little oil, this is olive oil 18:33 you put that right there 18:35 uh you get that rolling. What you want is to get the excess 18:40 moisture out. Now because I've squeezed, as you see, most of 18:43 that liquid out you don't have to worry about it, this is gonna 18:46 actually cook pretty fast. Who knows maybe even before we're 18:49 done. But I already did one in advance for you all, so you 18:52 gonna get that goin. Then a quick little tip that we can 18:56 start usin, as you know, people will say, well tofu don't have 19:00 no taste. Well obviously it's just tofu. But that's actually 19:04 a good thing. Why is that a good thing? 19:05 Because you could give it whatever flavor you want. 19:08 If you know a lot of foods that we use 19:10 they have their own flavor and now you don't have to worry 19:14 about this because if you want something sweet, if you want 19:16 something savory, if you like it this way or that way 19:19 Tofu is fantastic because it takes on whatever flavor 19:22 you give it. And so what we gonna do, because it takes 19:27 a little time to, how can I put it? Because it takes a 19:31 little time to take that flavor what you gonna do is just add 19:36 a little pinch of salt ok, so I'm gonna put a pinch of salt 19:38 just to get that going so it can soak and saturate into it. 19:43 I know I could give you, say 1 teaspoon or whatever, we already 19:46 said how much it needs but just get that going early 19:50 ok? You wanna get that goin early so it can start to soak in 19:55 Another thing that we wanna do gettin it rolling early 19:58 is the other seasonings, ok? What we've done is 20:02 I've just taken all the seasonings and just mixed it all 20:04 up in advance. You could separate seasonings 20:08 But what happens is, how can I put it, if you don't add it 20:13 properly you're gonna get like a bunch of nutritional yeast 20:16 in one spot. So I like to mix all of my dry ingredients up 20:20 first, these are dry ingredients so I mix that up, if you notice 20:24 I went ahead and left out the turmeric cause I wanna put that 20:28 in early so I can get that color 20:30 Here's a quick little item if you noticed. Sometimes 20:33 you know you're rushin and you're cookin and 20:36 it's like the, the, the air is like comin up and the 20:41 moisture is comin up, so here's a little quick thing I do 20:43 when I add it I just go around and spin a little bit 20:46 now why am I doin that? Because when the humidity gets in 20:51 so your bottle you know next time you go back for the 20:54 turmeric or you go back for the salt it's all stuck and you're 20:57 like bangin it and doing all these crazy stuff. It's because 21:00 that air went in. So as I moved around now don't do this at home 21:03 but it's just a little thing that I do. 21:05 Quick fun, a little item that you can try as well 21:08 Just make sure the kids are not around. You don't wanna 21:10 knock anybody and burn them neither. 21:13 So get that going. 21:17 As you see there this is gonna be delicious. 21:20 And then you take the rest of the dry ingredients 21:24 and we're gonna add that. As a matter of fact these ingredients 21:28 are so good. I'm gonna put some in right now 21:31 Cause I'm gonna add, I want the onion and bell peppers 21:35 to get in there nicely. As you see it's quite a bit, I'm not 21:38 actually gonna put all of it 21:40 You don't have to. You can eve save that. What that basically 21:43 that nice little seasoning that we just did there 21:45 that's basically almost chicken style seasoning. 21:50 So you can keep some of that. Then I'm gonna add onion 21:54 and enjoy it. As a matter of fact add garlic if you want 21:57 red bell peppers, really simple, really easy. 22:03 and you get that goin there. Now the key is you have to let 22:06 this dry out quite a bit ok? So I'm gonna mix it there nicely 22:10 And you have to keep an eye on it of course 22:12 Then I'm gonna add a little extra seasoning there 22:18 Now this is my scrambled t'eggs. Let's get back to this whole 22:21 subject of the tofu and stuff 22:25 Lot of people crying and complaining, ah the tofu has 22:28 this related to female problems it's worsening menopause 22:34 it's causing this or causing that. 22:37 Watch this. Lots of times I have to watch out for different 22:39 studies because the people that they're studying yeah they gave 22:42 them tofu but they're also eatin other animal products 22:44 which have hormones in it as well, the estrogen and different 22:48 items of that nature. But also let's look at what its actually 22:52 good for. It's good for female situations such as menopause 22:59 and the mensies, you know the little monthly situation there 23:03 it's good for the males as well for the prostate, good for heart 23:07 helps a person with arterio sclerosis, high cholesterol 23:13 So this is good for all of those also good for the little ones 23:18 as well but however, you don't want to use soy milk or somethin 23:21 of that nature in place of formula. Lot of people are doin 23:25 that. The best formula is one from the Lord, you know 23:28 you know what I'm talkin about, cover up of course 23:30 that's the best formula a child can have. But it's good for all 23:35 these items. But what we don't wanna do is to say, Oh it's good 23:38 for everything. Let's look at some of the drawbacks it may 23:40 have. Because of its protein content different items of that 23:44 nature, a person who has gout they may not want to use excess 23:48 amount of soy or tofu because of uric acid that can be built up. 23:53 What else maybe a drawback? Sometimes people may have a 23:58 little intestinal situation, you have a little flammable 24:02 situation happening, you know I'm talkin about flatulence 24:05 So some people may find that if they use soy or tofu it may 24:08 cause that problem. So this is true. What else could be, it 24:12 doesn't have Vitamin B12, let's see that usually comes from 24:15 animal products, we're a kind of animal family. So we have micro 24:18 organisms that produce it in our oral cavity, in our mouth 24:21 and our digestive tract. So that's pretty neat. You can get 24:25 that from somewhere else. Vitamin C. Hello I just put 24:28 some red bell peppers in here. Red bell peppers have up to four 24:31 times the amount of Vitamin C than an orange. So that's 24:35 covered as well. But many people say, soy causes allergies 24:39 Let me explain this whole allergy situation real quick 24:43 Now what happens is I'm gonna lower down the flame just a bit 24:48 cause it's cooking nicely here for me. What happens with that 24:53 this is how allergies in general develop. You bring in a foreign 24:57 item and the body develops what is known as immuno globulin 25:03 ok, and so it attaches to that and the next time it sees it 25:06 you have an inflammatory response, you get congested 25:09 you break out in hives and items of that nature. Which nut most 25:13 people have an allergy to? Peanuts, right? Ok. 25:16 Peanuts are like, some people the allergy is so bad all they 25:20 have to do is smell it and they're like breakin out 25:23 sometimes they have a really bad they have anaphylaxic shock 25:26 and they have to get the epi-pen matter of fact one time I was 25:28 flyin from Johannesburg back to Atlanta, Georgia and we got 25:32 on the plane, everybody was sittin down in the big jumbo jet 25:36 and the flight attendant said, hey everybody on the plane 25:40 somebody seated in 32C, obviously we don't know who, 25:44 that is so everybody looked back, has allergy to peanuts 25:49 so what we gonna do, every body 5-10 rows around them 25:53 5-10 rows around them, we're not gonna allow you to use 25:55 peanuts ok? Look at that. Just take a quick look, turnin nice 25:59 and brown there and it's startin to cook properly ok 26:05 So they said, the flight attendant got on, so that person 26:09 in 32C has peanut allergy so everybody 5-10 rows around them 26:13 don't use it. Now why did they say 5-10 rows because that 26:16 person probably has peanut allergies so bad that if they 26:18 just smell it they're in trouble. 26:20 So then everybody's click. Ok poor person. Now we can't eat 26:24 peanuts in that area, right? Here's the funniest thing 26:26 The flight attendant got back on the mic, check this out 26:30 for 10-12 hours we're gonna be over the water, so you know what 26:35 we can't do emergency landing peanuts are banned on the plane 26:39 Everybody's like, oh man, no peanuts cause we're on the plane 26:42 for 15 hours right? So here's the thing that came to my mind 26:45 The reason why a lot of people have peanut allergy is because 26:48 they have been overexposed to peanuts back in the day when 26:52 they were doin candy bars they either buy peanuts for 26:54 a dollar a pound or they can use almonds for $7.99 a pound 26:58 which did they use? Peanuts. Same thing with olive oil 27:01 They could use olive oil for $10 an ounce or peanut oil 27:05 for 50 cents an ounce. Watch closely. This is what happened 27:08 with tofu or soy. They find out soy is so good that they use it 27:13 in everything. And now people are startin to develop allergy 27:15 to it. Let me explain. You wake up in the morning you have bread 27:18 with what kind of butter do you put on it? Soy butter 27:21 You have some scrambled t'eggs made from tofu, then you take 27:24 a smoothie made from soy, then you go to work and have a what 27:28 a soy burger, what kinda cheese do you put on that, soy cheese 27:30 what kinda mayonnaise, soy mayonnaise 27:32 You come home and you have rice with what? 27:35 soy chunks. And then you finish off with a scoop of what? 27:38 Scoop of soy ice cream. So your body says, too much what? 27:42 Soy, I don't want anymore 27:44 So what we need to do is find a balance and moderation 27:47 in everything. And I have a nice finished product for you all 27:50 And this is done and I know you all will enjoy 27:53 some nice scrambled t'eggs. Enjoy, give it a try 27:57 and make sure you eat your breakfast every day. |
Revised 2020-05-13