Hosting the ultimate party!

Hey, welcome to making meals with Mika the kickback today. I got a couple of my friends here We got Tangy and we got Rara And you know, you guys know the holidays are coming up and you know, people are gonna be hosting parties So I'm going to just share some of my party hosting ideas with you guys But before I start if you haven't liked or subscribed to my channel, go ahead. Don't push that little like button real quick Go ahead subscribe And today we're going to be making a couple of my favorites now This is a Latin themed kickback that we're having today. So we're going to do homemade margaritas We're going to do Some elotes. We're going to do some homemade guacamole. I'm also going to do some miniature Burritos, and then we're going to have some stuffed jalapenos So, you know just kick back and get ready to hang out with us. Are y'all ready? So we're going to get started with the margaritas first So when my guests come I like to have them liquored up and I don't know if you guys know this But I'm actually a licensed bartender. So I'm going to teach you guys how to make homemade margaritas I've never purchased the store-made margarita mix because it has a lot of sugar a lot of additives So this is going to be if you can say a healthy way to make an alcoholic beverage This is a healthy way to do it. So we're going to start with simple syrup Now all simple syrup is is equals them equal amounts of water and sugar. You're going to put it on your stove You're going to boil it. Once it comes to a boil, you're going to turn it off and just let it cool So in here I have my simple syrup. I also have Freshly squeezed limes. Tangey came over earlier. She saw me squeeze these by hand. So these are freshly squeezed limes And then I love the lemon juice, this is organic lemon juice I could have done the lemons as well, but I really didn't have time for that So this is a quick way to still get the fresh lemon But you don't have to sit here and roll lemons and squeeze it all day because I wasn't squeezing limes and lemons But this is organic lemon juice. So what you're going to do is I'm going to put this in my, I'm going to make a pitcher of them Because I think they might be a little light weight. Alcohol is light weight. That may not be enough, but it may be too much. So we're going to keep the party going. We're going to have a pitcher. So you're going to start with some White or clear tequila, some good tequila now because you don't want your friends going home with headaches or leaving too intoxicated So we're going to start with some light tequila. This is Blanca right? Blanca. Right. So we're going to do I'm going to do two thirds. I'm going to put a cup of tequila in here. Okay, and then the ratio is actually Two to one. So I put one cup of tequila in here So I'm going to put two cups of simple syrup in here. And then I'm also going to Put one cup of the lemon and the lime juice So you add equal parts of lemon lime juice and tequila and then you're going to double it for the simple syrup Now, of course based off of your your liquor preference You might want you can you know You can add a little bit less of the simple syrup if you want to if you want it less sweet For those of you who like really really stiff drinks out there. All right, so I have my tequila in here Now I'm going to add my lime juice Now you can also do a frozen version of this I'm not doing frozen I hope y'all like it on the rocks People who like to drink All right, so All right All right now let me show you a little trick to do the to do the glass now tangy wanted She wanted a salted rim and then rye rye. She wanted a sugar rim. I'll show you real quick how to do these rims All right, so you're gonna take your lime I should have this off of here. This is impromptu. I'm sorry. So I'm gonna take your line You're gonna quarter it All right. Now that good lime juice is gonna go right around it the rim of the glass And then I have salts right here Take it And this is sea salt actually guys, I mean, but if you've got the good, you know regular table salt You don't have to be fancy. You can use the table stop All right, the same for the sugar. You can use the same line around the rim Really in the shirt There you go, don't mix them up So we're doing over the rocks And I always always always Stuff in there All right All right now it's time to feed my friends I got them all liquid up it's time to make some guacamole Y'all ready for some guac. Yeah Alright, let's go. All right. So for my guacamole, I like to have really nice ripe Avocados, they're normally darker brown and you can squeeze them. They have a little, you know, squeeze to them I use fresh lemons and what the lemons do is not only does it add a little Acidity and acidity cuts through the creaminess of the avocados But it actually stops your guacamole from getting brown, especially if you're gonna keep it out You know for a company to come the the lemon stops the browning process. I use diced onions. I use diced tomatoes I Normally do not use cilantro because cilantro is not delicious. This is the 100 cilantro is not delicious But some people do like cilantro. So because I'm not making this for myself I am gonna put cilantro in here But I typically don't put cilantro in there because I can say again cilantro is not delicious I also use red pepper flakes salt pepper and a little bit of garlic powder. So let's get started and make this guacamole All right, so I have some about four Avocados in this bowl. Let me show you a quick way to cut your avocados. Take your knife Go around. Okay, I'm gonna be two sides. Boom. How do you get that seed out? All you do is you just Tap it with your knife you turn and look it comes out what I typically do is a couple of cuts and look squeeze All that goodness comes right out Now don't worry, these are overly white ripe so you are gonna see a little brown in there, it's okay These are perfectly good to use. No worries Squeeze all that that good avocado out. There you go Then we're gonna add some onions. I say about a for this about a fourth of a cup of onions I love onions Then we're gonna add about a fourth of a cup of tomatoes Now look now this I told you this is approximate so I don't measure nothing you just got to use use your senses and we're just gonna add a pinch of Cilantro. Okay, cuz cilantro is not delicious. All right, we've already established that I'm gonna squeeze My lemon now with the lemons you see how these seeds are if you do not want your seeds No one wants their seeds in their guacamole hold your hand right here And then what you can do is squeeze and then your hands gonna automatically catch those The lemon seeds or you can go this way All right, so your your hands won't catch those seeds. I mean your hands will catch those seeds my bad So I'm gonna squeeze the lemon in here and I'm gonna put two lemons in here because I have so many avocados And if your lemons aren't giving you all the juice that you need Did you know you can put your lemons in the microwave now? I'm not for two three four minutes just nuke them in a microwave for about 15 seconds and then When you squeeze all the juice to come out So we're gonna squeeze that See how my hand is catching those seeds All right now seasoning, please don't spare on the seasoning for your guacamole I love crushed red peppers. Don't put those in there. One, two, three, four about five shakes All right, put a little garlic powder in there Okay eyeball it pepper Look, that's that's look it would smell so good right now. I can smell all the All those seasonings and then I'm gonna put I'm a little bit of faint I'm a little fancy. So I do like sea salt. I'm gonna put some sea salt in there And then I have a secret ingredient I have a secret ingredient that I put it in mine. I actually use just a little bit of Jalapeno juice that gives it that spiciness All right, and I like mine chunky so you have to mix it to your consistency and you just keep mixing Until it's all incorporated now mind you you're gonna have to taste this So if you taste it and you know It doesn't have enough flavor add a little bit of more salt a little bit of more Is that even what we're gonna use it today a little bit of more Add some more pepper some garlic powder. So you have to have this to your Your liking All right But right now it smells absolutely delicious So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna continue to mix this up and then I'm gonna show you how to serve this to your friends It's time to feed my friends. So now what I have here. I have an array of different tortilla chips I have some blue corn ones and I have some yellow corn. I just like different colors you guys people eat with their eyes first So just make sure Your display is really nice and then I never put out all of it Because you know, you don't have some people coming late, you know, people will come late. Mm-hmm So what I do is I just put out a portion Put it, you know You know, and then you know, we have the leftovers right there, but you know ladies The mini beef and cheese burritos Mini burritos, so while your guests are eating, you know The guacamole you can be assembling everything and you want everything to come out hot. So in the mini burritos Check out the comic section. I will give you the recipe for the ground turkey black bean mix But I have ground turkey and black bean and onions with my homemade Taco seasoning. I also have my own Cheese mix and this is grated cheese. It's grated Monterey Jack and sharp cheddar. Now. I like to grade my own cheese and not get the shredded cheese I know this takes a little bit more time. But when you do buy shredded cheese from the grocery store I don't even know if y'all know this but it has a Coating on it the coating is to keep the stress from melting together like it naturally does So I like to taste the cheese and its richness is fullness. So I always break my own cheese So this is like I said sharp cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese And we're also going to be using this same mixture for our stuffed peppers So let me show you guys how to assemble these mini burritos. Oh, and I also top it off with an enchilada sauce So I'm going to show you guys how to assemble these and these takes about maybe like 10-15 minutes from start to finish Let me show you how to assemble your burritos. Now. These are miniature ones. So this is the mixture. This is ground turkey Black beans and onions It's really really simple you guys put that in there And then you're going to I love cheese load it up with the cheese Loaded with the cheese you're gonna roll it once fold in the corners and Then roll it again Look at that. Thank you. That is so cute. That is so cute And you just continue to fold them and you're gonna bake them For 10 minutes in a 350 degree oven. All right, all of the burritos are rolled up I topped them with the enchilada sauce. They are about to go in the oven and we'll show you what they look like when they're done We are about to make the stuffed Jalapeno peppers. I want to show you how to cut these jalapenos These are very very hot all the spice comes in the seeds. So it's gonna chop the top off. I All right, and then you're gonna get down in there and you're gonna take all the middle out all of it Okay, all of it And then you're just gonna take all the seeds. I have my trash right here next to me You want to take all the seeds out? You don't want any other seeds in there because that is the spicy part and let me tell you after you Are handling your your jalapenos, please wash your hands with salt and pepper With salt and pepper wash your hands with salt because I messed around and I you know, I cut some earlier today Put my hands in my face and I burned it all up. I mean I was on fire So make sure you wash your hands when you're done handling this But this is what it should look like and let me now we're going to make the mix for our stuffed jalapeno So we're going to put one package of cream cheese All right Make sure that's all nice and smooth Now this is that same cheese mix that we used earlier today. We're just gonna dump that in there This this is about a cup and a half. I love mine cheesy and Then you guys flavor is everything flavor Tangy rah rah, they still here with me y'all y'all just can't tell me about flavor. Do y'all like flavor? It's everything It's everything everything now. Listen, I'm just gonna put a couple sprinkles. I told y'all don't really measure I eyeball it in the Recipe, I'm gonna try to approximate couple sprinkles of garlic powder Couple sprinkles of pepper and then cumin is what gives you that smoky Flavor Well, that was a good cumin. Okay, my good cumin and then we're just gonna mix this until it's all Gathered together. So it's all lightly mixed in when you stuff your peppers You're gonna take this mixture and don't be afraid. I told y'all before to use your hands you're gonna have to get on in there and just Fill each half up and Press it down Now this is easily a vegetarian dish Because you have your peppers and your cheese But y'all know me y'all know I like meat So what we're gonna do is we're gonna top this off with some bacon bits Now you can actually wrap these in bacon, but I found topping it with bacon bits is less Greasy, of course and less oily a little healthier But bacon makes everything taste better This is let's just be clear who says that let's be clear Bacon makes everything Yeah, that sounds like rah-rah. Let's be clear Bacon makes everything better So now listen, this don't have to be pretty right now guys because the cheese is gonna ooze all over the place So you just make sure you have enough stuffing in all of them So is that an over stuff? Definitely not a barely stuff You know what you can say over stuff put it like this, you know when I like to stuff stuff I don't I like to stuff stuff. I don't like You know, you're like, where's the filling? You know, I mean like I don't like I like it nice and and and stuff So you can say you're gonna over stuff it just stuff it to the rim. Okay, and I mean you don't want to be skimpy So this is about this is one two, three four So this is eight Peppers you want to estimate about two two per guest two halves per guest So you want them nice and filled and Then the best part comes and you guys you can see they're kind of jumbled in here I'm using my my my Pyrex dish. I love this dish I use this for a lot of stuff and I have this layered with aluminum foil Because I just don't want the cheese sticking to it. I really don't so once you have them all topped Yes, I just was four peppers is a is eight peppers, I'm sorry once you have them all Stuffed and this is where the magic happens Bacon Don't worry about putting too much, you know bacon to make everything delicious This is delicious. Okay, this will be delicious and we have our burritos in the stove right at 350 So when those come out these going right on in He's going right on in which I think that's enough baking Oh You know bacon does add sodium and salt so at the risk of not being too salty I'm gonna go ahead stop, but this is what it looks like now. Look that looks delicious All right. Let's put these in up So I thought I'll just show you guys how to do the corn right over the stove This is about two pounds not about this is two pounds of frozen corn and I've already prepared it I just steamed it over the stove. Like I said If you don't have fresh corn on the cob Frozen is the next best. I do not like canned vegetables They have a lot of preservatives and additives and they also have a lot of sodium which is not good for us Now this is my elotes version I Like to take recipes and make them my own So now the original elotes actually calls for margarine. I haven't purchased margarine in about 20 years So I'm going to use fresh butter, so I'm going to use about Four tablespoons of butter because that's the deliciousness right there. It's absolutely delicious Right four tablespoons of butter now those of you who you know are Latino, please don't be mad at me Please don't say I'm messing up your recipe. I told you that I made this my own. Okay, this is this is Mika's elotes So I got the butter I'm gonna put some salt and I like sea salt But you can use regular salt to season that up now. I don't use a lot of salt because the cojita cheese I'm going to use in here is quite salty itself. So we got butter salt. I put garlic in everything Every single thing so I'm put some garlic a couple sprinkles of garlic powder. I'm gonna put some pepper So my corn you should be able to basically eat this if you if I tasted this corn right now It should be delicious, right and I haven't even added everything else So make sure that's all mixed in Next we're going to add mayonnaise people not Miracle Whip Miracle Whip is delicious But it has a sweet component to it. So we're going to add some real mayonnaise like I said, I'm going to give you the approximates in the In the recipe in the comment section, but we're going to add some mayonnaise Make it real nice and creamy and delicious. And as you see I'm stirring it All right, and then this is where the magic happens right here this is cojita cheese, it's very very crumbly I'm going to add about a cup of this To my corn. I'm gonna stir it and let it get all melty and delicious Now I don't want to overcook my corn. I don't know about you guys, but you over cook corn It gets mushy and it's not delicious. So I'm going to turn this stove off right now I'm just gonna just let this all this marinate and then I'm gonna come back and show you How to serve this up when your guest comes So it is time to start plating up our food now I like to like I said when I have parties, I don't know or kickbacks I don't necessarily have everything all out. You know when everyone comes in I have a nice little Pre-appetizer and now I'm going to start plating things. So first we're going to plate our burritos. They turned out beautifully Now there's no right or wrong way you guys to place them I just like stuff to look my food to look pretty and I like it to look Symmetrical So I'm just gonna go in here and take these off. Don't worry. It's gonna stick just a little bit. That's just that cheese Like I said for parties, I've never put all of them out at once Because you know, you're gonna have those late people coming And I'm one of them, you know, I never go to a party on time. You know, I like to be Late I do my husband he is one of those people I swear the party started the party starts at 8 o'clock Timothy is walking up to the door at like 7 58 But that's actually kind of rude though, because if you're hosting a party, you know, you want to get everything together You know, you got to make sure that you're together. So it's actually rude to come to a party early So no, you should have it together Specified What I'm saying is it's rude to come to a party early the party starts at 8 o'clock. Don't don't get there Don't get to the party at 7 50. I'm good All right, so look now let me tell you I make these pretty not just got taco sauce I got a red taco sauce and I got green taco sauce. This is a salsa burrito, which is my favorite So I'm gonna do is no, no, I just you know, just just you know, just drop it on top like that Even I was shaking if you made me shake Now are those spicy this is not spicy Sprinkle that and then voila. There you go Those are buddy toes All right, next we're going to play Our peppers now Rasheeda asked if these peppers were hot They actually are not spicy Because I took out the seeds so With any type of hot pepper the seed is where all the heat is. So I am Really really confident to say that these are not spicy All right, and then I'm just going to now sometimes you don't have to just put things down on nice and neat You know, sometimes you just lay them off kind of randomly lay them out randomly. It looks good like that So I am going to randomly put these in here All the cheese I Like tahini Which is a lime flavored seasoning So with the corn behind you, this is just a little kickback, you know finger foods You want people to to be able to eat their food easily. So I saw these cute little cups, right? So the corn is still nice and hot Okay I'm going to you can never have too much cheese ever Cheese or bacon? No cheese I'm going to top it with the tahini. The tahini is not spicy at all. Like I said, it's seasoning but it's also lime I'm just going to top it with the tahini And then I'm going to put a little lime on the side Look at that Isn't that cute? Look at that You just set that on out there like that Oh, oh, oh And then for garnish I'm going to put a little cilantro Cilantro is not delicious I'll put a little cilantro on there But it'll make it look cute So I'm going to finish plating these And then ladies Are y'all ready to eat? Oh yeah Absolutely Always ready to eat I'm not going to go and do all of them But That's not a lie So yeah So here you go So you have a little kickback You can have a Latino inspired meal Oh, I'm going to put the good tahini on Yeah Don't short me on it The little cilantro The cilantro is not delicious Again We'll eat that too So we have our chips and salsa We have our elotes We have our stuffed peppers And we have our mini turkey bean and cheese burritos And then we also have Just some more little condiments Some sour cream Some jalapenos and some salsa So if y'all are ready to party Let's go Let's eat up Thank you for joining me Making Meals with Mika the Kickback With TNG and Rara And we will see y'all later Let's eat Bye