Chit Chatting With MEKA!!

We have to try it again because apparently the first time I did it it did not work out because my volume wasn't on so I'm gonna try this again Epic fail for going live. Okay, epic epic epic fail um Which is ridiculous I need to get my Oh, yay, now you can hear me guess what jacqueline because i'm on my phone and not my computer my computer was bootleg So I should get my uh My ring which I didn't think about getting my ring But i'm not okay. I'm glad you guys could hear me. Uh, sorry about earlier But I was trying to go live from my computer and it wasn't working. Oh, thank you. Jacqueline for saying I look gorgeous now You know like um You know like when when you get all nervous and you try to get try to fix something and it don't work I was I was over here sweating bullets y'all you hear me and i'm drinking You know i'm drinking a little uh, white cloth. So, you know, yeah, I was over here sweating bullets So y'all have to see that y'all forgive me anyway, but i'm glad that you guys have joined me I'm trying to get this camera position, right? How's that guys It's all good. Okay Next time I have my ring like i'll be more prepared, you know, i'm just sitting here trying to connect with people trying to get this social media Together and i'm having all types of kinks y'all are watching me go through these kinks live so I'm gonna take them like a champ. So anyway, I just wanted to sit here and chat with you guys. Uh I'm live honey. I told y'all that was my husband. Y'all he just came in here I told him I was going live now. He was like who you talking to? I'm talking to two people I'm talking to my people my meal makers my mica meal makers uh so So y'all might hear my husband. Oh, and by the way, I do have um I have a one-year-old rottweiler Uh, he's big and he barks And so when I have to film the making meals with mica I put him in a garage or I put him in a bedroom because he just uh, he he he's just He's crazy and rambunctious So I thought this would be a good time Just for us to chat And I really just want to get some Oh, hi, justin. Just you guys my friend. Justin's here. He's at the shop He don't know how to mute me. I mean he at the barber shop I mean I can have those as followers too people at the barber shop need to know how to make some meals Go ahead unmute me. They can hear what we talking about. Um I thought that we could just sit here and talk and I want to get some ideas on what what type of um Food y'all want to see me cook How's the weather? Oh, yeah, you guys I am in texas I'm originally from indiana. I'm in texas Thank god. I i'm not going to complain because I have heat um And and you should know, uh, my black strongest man if you guys haven't checked out his uh, YouTube go check him out He he tells you how to work out and give you a you know These crazy ideas on you know, not really crazy on how to work out and stay fit while you're at home um, but anyway, uh Uh, I have a friend we share a friend rashida and she's here and she didn't have any um any power So i'm just like really blessed that our power hasn't gone out We got warm water. It's crazy here in texas and you would think that such a big city Would prepare for this type of weather so I am doing well. I do have food. We do have heat um, and we do have running water so Yeah, go check his video out But it was go check it out and he just gives you all these ideas on how to stay fit and I need to do that because um This covid 15 it's it's it's real. Okay, it is real So i'm gonna be on your little workout plan trying to lose some of this this covid 15 um But the weather here is it's still crazy I'm originally from indiana. So indiana would have had these streets all cleared up like there. We really don't have any snow plows here Everything has shut like the very first day when the storm came like I went to croaker, right? um just to get you know a couple odds and ends and I sent my friends pictures it was like, uh, It was like an apocalypse all the food was off the shelves. It was crazy and i'm like For four inches of snow we get this kind of snow in indiana all the time and this this guy in line Told me we're not like indiana. We don't have the infrastructure that you guys have and i'm like Well, i'm gonna need y'all to get it together. It's 2020. Okay, that's not an excuse We don't got time to be sitting here. Uh stuck stuck in a house Like it's an apocalypse because you get four inches of snow. I need y'all to get that under control so anyway um Justin did you unmute me? Can people in the barber shop hear what's going on? Okay, so miss jacqueline is in arlington and she's doing she's doing good That's that's really really good. Now. Were you did you guys have the rolling? Um outages or do you know like what power grid you're on? So we're on a different power grid So our power never went went off. Thank god And I know you're And one of my friends is on this I didn't want to I heard it type Okay, so you live across the street from the hospital. Okay, so you are on a hospital power grid. So that's really really good That is really good. It's It's just crazy here, but it's supposed but it's supposed to be 60 this weekend So i'm ready for the 60 to come but y'all think i'm playing I tell my friends like we're i'm moving to hawaii Like I need to move if if texas can get this this cold. I need to move I don't got time for this. So I need to figure out where I can go that It's it's tropical all year long because I love tropical weather I look forward to next week You going to hawaii next week. Jacqueline. Did you just say you're going to hawaii? next week I gotta excuse me. I'm eating some gummy bears with some gummy worms But yes, i'm sorry. I won't allow you to allow you to um Oh warmer weather. Yes. Yeah, I look forward to next week, too And this is bullcrap how this is we've been here for two years and they have one the coldest winter This new york weather Yeah, that's what it did the new jersey weather made his way All the way down here That's not okay. I don't appreciate it at all I don't see how people stay in in cold climates like on the groundhog Did the groundhog not see his shadow? Listen, I don't see how y'all put up with cold weather. I just can't do it. Yeah. I know i'm from the midwest That's why I had to get out there. It ain't It's not okay It's not okay. Listen I'm, sorry i'm smacking but These albanesia pataki's It says the world's best gummies. They they honestly are like the world's best gummies. I'm not lying And I'll sit here and eat and eat a whole bag I'm, not joking Justin you still at the shop So those of you who are familiar with going live I need to figure out what's going on with my computer Because I don't know. It's just crazy and my friend said If you guys are savvy with youtube I have a friend on here she says she can see me and hear me But she can't make comments. Y'all know what she can do uh Jacqueline you get these gummies anywhere. Um They're at least expensive At like target and things like that. We can get them from the gas station, but i'm telling you i'm gonna hold it up again Listen You eat you eat one or two of these it's over You're not going to want to eat any other type of gummies because I like the sour gummies And I will eat those all the time until I tried those and I mean, they're absolutely delicious and I'm drinking a white cloth. I'm done with work for today. So I need y'all not to judge me And it's still water. Okay, so i'm giving a little buzz, but it's water So you could you gotta hydrate? So let me ask you guys a question Has anyone else's drinking if you drink? Has it kind of increased during covid? Yes, or no Because everyone I talk to it has increased Oh, Jacqueline make the omelet bites. The omelet bites are delicious I love those. Um And they're real they're real real easy And I I have the mini muffin pan. I have a friend and she has like regular muffin pans So she just made them I think she has like six or twelve So she just made them in there. They're absolutely delicious You can put them you can make them real cute and put like put them in like the little cupcake holders or whatever I didn't do that for the video purposes Um, so I had the mini muffin pans, but those those muffins are absolutely uh, the omelets are absolutely delicious Your wine intake has definitely increased Yeah, I know that's everybody's so i'm going to get get some good workouts in once I do You know start leaving home because we have been on work from home order for quite some time now Speaking of snacks. Have you tried? jalapeno lime chips I have not tried those I was gonna say can you take a picture of them and send them because I would you know, I try some good snacks And especially if they're spicy, I love spicy food. I love it Can you go? Yes, they are Okay, so she's tried it Late july jalapeno lime chips. Where can I get those from? Hold on. Let me write this down Listen, i'm supposed to be getting recipe ideas for what y'all wanna Want me to cook but you sharing? Um Snacks, you know, I don't need no snacks I just said I need to try to lose some weight. I would try those snacks out. I would try those snacks Okay, let's see Okay, so they are Late july jalapeno lime. Let me go and write that down And I come on here and do like a mukbang eating their mugs Have you tried the habanero bacon ones? I ain't seen those either Huh? I haven't tried them So is there a particular recipe that you guys like or want to see me cook Or something that like you can't get quite right I'm gonna let you guys chat about your your snacks on uh your amazon. I just I just wrote it down i'm gonna have to get some of those and Y'all see i'm all bootleg with my camera I see that big elephant in the back I love I love elephants Meatloaf, okay Let me see I don't have that on my list, but I could definitely Put some meatloaf on here. Yes meatloaf now Um, what about so i'm going to make a beef meatloaf um I mean, I love ground turkey and stuff like that But I do like ground turkey for like my tacos and things like that But when I want meatloaf, I am going to do a ground beef meatloaf, so I would definitely Um cook some meatloaf Next week i'm going to do does anyone eat salmon patties or salmon croquettes? Like I guess it depends on what where you're from What's the That's funny. I guess it just appears on where you're from from and whether you call it salmon patties or salmon croquettes I love those grew up eating them. My mom used to make them So what i'm gonna do is kind of like an updated version of salmon patties salmon croquettes next week Where we're going to be using fresh salmon now, nothing's wrong with the canned salmon or whatever, but it's canned salmon You know what? I mean? So I have a updated better version of salmon croquettes Oh my god, I was just about to say really I read your mind. I read your mind, honey. I read your mind. Well, so listen, um If you want to go Prepare ahead of time and get you some fresh salmon. You're gonna need like a pound of salmon Um, and we're going to make salmon croquettes from fresh salmon instead of the canned salmon Um because to me they just taste so much better and they're healthier for you Uh for you and my whole purpose of doing like making meals with Mika is just to show You know my love for cooking but at the same time like I grew up with my mom and my grandmother Well, my great-grandmother and they taught me how to cook now you guys know back in the day I ain't gonna disclose my age, but you know from years ago um You know like my my great-grandmother like she would use like lard like all be a society like straight up lard my mom will use like um Crisco Shortening like for everything now, she would use like butter and stuff But you know, so they will put lard and crisco in everything So now, you know, I you know, I use extra virgin olive oil all day and I use fresh butter You know what? I mean? So it's like I like to take these recipes and food that we grew up on Um and just make them healthier, you know what I mean? Um same delicious taste but just you know a little healthier So we're going to be making salmon croquettes next week with fresh salmon. So Jacqueline i'm glad that you're excited. Um, and I will post that video and I was also thinking I don't know how I will pull this off, but maybe um Actually going live and cooking live So I was thinking like, you know Maybe like two weeks before or like a month before I will go and leave on a message board like hey You know on this day I am preparing this meal Um, if you want to join me live, you know You're going to need these ingredients and i'll just put all the ingredients and things, you know there And then I would just set a time to cook live Um, I won't be using my computer Because you can't hear me, but I would just cook live um on youtube what would like Jacqueline, um, is that something that you would you know participate in and you think that that would be Something fun to do Great idea. Yes. Yes. Okay, cool. Cool. Cool And then what I would do is obviously I would prepare something that you can cook in like 30 minutes or you know 45 minutes like okay Because you know, we're not making no pot roast, you know live because you know that has to cook all day But you know something just nice and delicious, you know simple that we can cook together Um in you know a time of maybe like 30 minutes 40 40 minutes. I think that would be a cool idea So I got meatloaf down we're doing um Salmon patties you guys I have This is my diary My making meals with mika diary you would participate with my girlfriend Yes over white that will be that will be perfect. So we're gonna do that Um, i'm just gonna start write all my ideas down in this diary But another thing I don't know about me. I think I said this in one of my um episodes maybe the very first one Oh bands is here. Hey, she can check you guys bands is here um but uh Jacqueline to go back to that wine idea cooking with wine like i'm a licensed bartender and I was like man somehow I I should incorporate just you know, not not with every meal but just do like a um A segment where I just show you guys how to just do just some you know Signature drinks a couple of drinks that you can have in your repertoire when you're hosting and these are like go-to drinks So I might do that as well, you know, maybe Um one time we'll we'll do one where we're drinking wine and we'll be cooking together and then another one It'll be like a cocktail hour Um, and i'll say hey ladies or gentlemen, you know, because we're not we are, you know, we're not just gender. Um, Exclusive everyone is welcome. I'll say hey, you know, uh next month we're going to do a The cocktail hour, you know go get you a bottle of vodka And i'm gonna show you how to make five drinks using the same bottle of vodka, you know Just with different mixers So if that's something you guys want to do we can do that as well because we'd like to keep it nice and spicy around here and fun So if that's something I want to do, yeah, there's a sit. That's so much fun and No, my black strongest man. I haven't Done i've cooked. Um chicken quarter and blue. I haven't done it on here. So let me put that on here And that should be a really nice easy dish So i'm going to put that on here and you guys i'm going to send you a shout out On a video when I make it i'm gonna say, you know, jacqueline Uh requested this so here you go. So i'm gonna say i'm gonna shout you out too when I do the chicken quarter chicken We're definitely gonna do that so We're gonna do the fresh salmon croquettes next week and then um, i'm going to do a live invite for us to all cook together Drink some wine and have a great time while we're cooking And um, I don't know. It's something about pasta and wine that to me goes together So maybe we'll make a cute little pasta dish. I don't know. Um, but I love pasta. I absolutely love pasta. So We're gonna do that. Oh my god. I'm it. I'm a liquor. What? Would love to be a bartender just like that one. I would love are you sick? What? Well, jacqueline, are you serious I wonder how we could both uh, uh, um Hey jacqueline i'm gonna need you to hook me up and show me some some some uh, some cocktails Oh my goodness. That is crazy. Now. I My friend bands is on here. You guys can ask her like, uh, I love making cocktails. Um I'll be trying to come up with my own cocktail So jacqueline we have to see how we can Kind of connect so you and I can come up with some cocktails and I will feature these like on the show I'm, so excited. I'm excited. You get me talking about liquor and everything else goes goes to the wayside I'm excited Oh, and I love good old-fashioned, honey. I love a good old-fashioned um My but my favorite. Okay, everybody Now i'm gonna talk to you about the truck floor in a second. I'm trying to answer the question, but my listen My favorite liquor is hennessey all day every day. I mean that is just my my favorite go-to. I love cognac um I love cognac. My favorite is just cognac with um with a little ice and a splash of cranberry juice That is my go-to Um, I can't have it neat. I do like it neat and then um, I like a hennessey black hennessey margaritas That's really really good. So cognac is my favorite Alcohol of all time. I know we got some tequila drinkers on here. My best friend loves tequila. That's bands and I can't do no tequila. No tequila. So what are some of your favorite beverages alcoholic beverages? Jacqueline you are you're a liquor rep. So i'm pretty sure you probably have a very eclectic Eclectic uh list of favorites Why does it say my chat is why am I having all these technical difficulties my chat hidden Live chat. Okay, like what? Okay. Yes, we have to connect. Absolutely My black strongest man, what is your real name, you know, I don't know you by your root Can you put your real name on here because you talked about truffle oil have do you like truffle fries? If you guys have never let me let me go and put that on the list. I truffle fries are absolutely delicious So I need to go on here put that on here truffle fries Um, and I use um, the black truffle oil It's delicious Oh Okay. Okay. Oh, hey, john. Okay I mean, I don't want to put you know, I don't want to put your identity out there, you know, but i'm like It's okay. I'll just call you john. Okay, so john truffle fries You like truffle fries Truffle fries are delicious Okay, i'll try that now cranberry and kielbasa vsop so um and also, uh 1738 I like that too. So yes, you do like like truffle fries are delicious Um, and they're really really easy to make you guys so i'm gonna put truffle fries on the list We will be making truffle fries. Now. The thing is, you know, that truffle oil is expensive. Okay That truffle oil is expensive, but it has the absolute best taste on fries so You just gonna have to come out of pocket and get that good truffle oil The thing is though if you do like I would say the truffle oil is gonna cost about 15 Maybe but it lasts for a long time. I think uh, One bottle of truffle oil that's like this big is this big too It'll last you about a year. So Um bands or any ideas on cocktails or meals that you want to see made so far We got chicken cordon bleu. We got meatloaf. We got truffle fries So all those are gonna be um We're gonna be cooking those Okay, what else what else what else we got any other ideas on what we could cook and make? Or if you guys have any questions about anything, I would love to learn how to truffle. Okay We're gonna make some we're gonna make some truffle fries. We're making those And then bands would want some soul food egg rolls. Um So I want to tell you guys a quick story real quick, but I don't I don't No, I don't want to ruin it. I'm never i'm not gonna tell you guys this story But we're gonna have some soul food egg rolls Okay, so a soul food egg roll and I don't even know about this. My friend put me onto this She went somewhere and in this egg roll and you have to correct me if I give misinformation It was an egg roll, but it had like like macaroni and cheese Greens, um, I think some yams and some type of meat so basically like thanksgiving all wrapped up in an egg roll and i'm like Hmm, that would sound delicious. So I looked up some places here in texas I want some traditional spanish seafood Pale uh, well see it's it's all it's always listen Okay, no yams, but turkey ribs. Okay um Let me ask these questions so So the the egg rolls I could definitely make some soul food egg rolls like that. That's in the wheelhouse Now I have another friend on here asking me about some seafood. Um No, I don't eat no seafood. I can make seafood dishes because my husband loves seafood so I can do a good You know seafood boil, but I guess i'm gonna have to Try this paint. What is it? Paella? You know, I can't I don't even know how to say is it paella what is it paella what's that with rice and stuff listen My seafood skills goes like this. I can get some crabs some lobsters some shrimp I can put them in a good little bag. I can boil it a nice little crab boil I can put it a seafood bake. I'm great like that. Um When I make gumbo, I love gumbo, but I don't like the seafood aspect of it Um, I have to tell you guys this story So typically when I make gumbo, it's delicious and the only seafood I like is shrimp And then one time I make this huge pot of gumbo. I mean like if anyone eats gumbo You know that that if you ever made it it takes about I mean it takes a good like 40 minutes to get your roux Together, so my roux was perfect. I had all the vegetables you needed. I had chicken I had the sausage and I had shrimp And I put in this big old pot and I was all excited and my husband was like you can't have gumbo without you know lobster and crab And I was like fine, you know, you can put the lobster and crab in there I really didn't want it in there, but I let him put it in there And I was so upset because when I tasted it like my gumbo tasted like the ocean and I was pissed off Like I was upset meanwhile everyone else was like, oh, this is delicious. This gumbo is good So I that gumbo cooked for a good like three or four hours And let everyone else tell you it was seasoned to perfection and I did not eat it Because it tastes like the ocean And I say all that to say I don't like the taste of seafood. I just don't but I will make the pay ole What is it? Listen, I don't want me to I don't want making meals with me to be the first time I make this seafood dish and it Don't turn out right because you know how people you know, people will they will clown you Uh, you know what justin? Let's start me off with something. I mean I can do some shrimp and grits You know, I can cook you some. Um You know some idea fried shrimp But you want me to start with a whole seafood smorgasbord and do it on making this amica so they can tear me up I'm not doing it. I gotta work my way up to that. I ain't doing it Paella paella Anybody else know what a paella is? Let me google that I ain't gonna be able to do it. Justin. I can do some good crab cakes. Okay, we're gonna do some crab cakes That's what we're doing What's the editing? Oh, that's what editing is for That is So that you y'all you are hilarious, but I am so impatient with my videos like when I when I do it When I do a video Like I I want to edit it and I want to send it out that day Oh, I could do some avocado, you know avocado egg rolls, you know, like I love I love avocado I love avocado and here's a couple things you guys are hearing me say I'm, not a huge seafood fan. I love fish but shellfish I'm gonna do it. So naturally you cook what you like to eat now My husband likes shellfish so I can cook shellfish. I'm not very versed in shellfish Meals, and i'm also not a baker so like You know, I just can't bake and I think it's because Baking is messy and like, you know You try to make a batch of biscuits and you got to get flour and butter and sugar and and 50 11 You got to get 50 11 items and then your kitchen's all messed up and you got to measure it's too much So I think baking is overwhelming for me So if anyone would like to teach me how to bake we can definitely do that But when I come on here and like if i'm gonna do some good biscuits and gravy i'm probably gonna use the pillsbury Frozen biscuits. Okay. I'm just saying i'm gonna put the pillsbury frozen biscuits on there And i'm gonna give you a disclaimer to say now if you want to make biscuits from scratch go ahead I'm gonna show you how to make this good gravy to go with those biscuits But you ain't gonna see me making no biscuits from scratch. Okay, because i've tried and my family's like these are not delicious It's terrible and I need someone to show me how to make um Hot water cornbread. It is my nemesis. Do you hear me? I have look I have googled it I have youtubed it hot water cornbread is My nemesis. I don't know what it is and I can't cook. I can't make hot water cornbread So if anyone would like to show me how to make hot water cornbread I would greatly appreciate it and I will do some shellfish. It's just not going to be elaborate. Okay I'll do a good shellfish bake Um, but that pie that pie. Yay. What is it now? Yeah, I ain't gonna do it. Okay. I need y'all to tell me something else anyway Oh my god, my mom used to make hot water cornbread is my favorite it is It's my favorite too and it's so delicious and and here's the crazy part it's like two ingredients Like it's just it's like two ingredients and And that's one thing like my mom used to make she'll just go in the kitchen, you know, no measurements No, nothing makes some good hot water cornbread and it's absolutely delicious Meanwhile, I have tried every way to make this hot. It's simple. I know it's simple and delicious But it really is not that simple and the crazy part is like every time I try to make hot water cornbread My husband's like here we go I know we're not gonna eat for some hours because I don't want to serve the meal without the cornbread But it takes me about four or five batches to make sub par um Cornbread, it's it's it's quite it's quite sad Yeah, I'm just anybody got time to be making biscuits biscuits from scratch. Anybody got time? Listen pillsbury frozen biscuits, you would think that they came from scratch miss jacqueline I need you to ask your mom if she's still here, uh for a good recipe justin, please ask your mom for the recipe because I am desperately in need of a hot water cornbread recipe because mine is Terrible you hear me? So it's like two ingredients like i'm not joking. It's literally like cornbread mix and hot water and listen I I literally almost had a breakdown. So you guys don't know me some people know me I have my two best friends on here. They know me Uh, and like when i'm cooking like I need I I have to have everything perfect I think it might be a little ocd just a little bit. Don't tell nobody but like I I I had a breakdown one time Because i'm sitting here trying to make this hot water cornbread and it's like my fourth batch Right and by this time it's like i'm literally like my eyes are watering like And my husband's like I know you're not crying because you can't make no cornbread. He's like girl. We don't need the cornbread I'm, like no we gotta have the cornbread. I had a like a whole meltdown because I couldn't have that cornbread So I I need help I need help with the hot water cornbread and if I get a good recipe and I perfect it Y'all know i'm gonna go ahead and post it i'm making meals with mika like i've been making cornbread for years I'm just gonna tell you right now. Let me get that. Uh that cornbread recipe down I'm post a good video like i've been making cornbread for years and then hopefully by that time this live video will be archived So can't nobody go back and pull it back up and be like she's lying She just learned how to make it because I just delete this live video. Anyway, that's all i'm saying I know uh In our culture and I think I think I think is is just all cultures Justin said old black moms don't really measure. I think like not like no old person. I don't want to say old but none of Like, you know mothers and grandmothers. I mean you can talk to someone that's italian and group in the kitchen watching their um their Mom make like pasta. They don't they don't measure that out You just put the pasta there you put the eggs there you do this and they can't give you but they making their pasta sauce They're not gonna say well you put one tablespoon No, you you take it you put it in there you look at it You smell it you taste it if it's not enough you put some more in there. So and that's what I try to do um Oh john, you're italian. That is so funny Seattle girl. Hey, seattle girl indiana. Did you just give me a recipe? I gotta go back Was that was that a hot water cornbread recipe? I need that recipe Okay, can I screenshot that? Okay, i'ma screenshot that but we were just talking about measuring and stuff like um people like Listen, my mom didn't measure nothing Now the only thing I do measure when i'm cooking is like my rice because your rice is two to one It has to be like exact and that's probably why i'm not a good baker because baking You know if you put something now, those of you who are bakers if I say something wrong, please correct me But you know baking if you you add a little bit too much of this or a little bit too little of this It's not gonna turn out right but when you're cooking you you know, you have to use your senses What what does it look like? What does it taste like? What does it smell like even you use like hearing like, you know when your chicken's done frying when you don't hear frying no more You know what? I mean you drop it in there and you hear that sizzle when it's done sizzling your chicken's done So you have to use all your your senses when you're when you're cooking but baking it's like saying I don't got time My mom used to cook by eye eggs. Yes Yes, that's why to this day like Now i'm gonna fight anybody who says that their parents make something better My mom had the absolute best yeast rolls on the planet hands down Look, I ain't never never no one in the whole world made a better yeast roll than my mom Like they were the best on the planet. Guess what? She passed away. No one knows that recipe Like because she didn't write it down and she put like literally maybe like three pounds of butter And she made like 12 rolls and it just three pounds of butter with 12 rolls, but there was the absolute best Uh yeast rolls ever don't nobody know how to make it Because she put a little bit just put a little bit of that. It's crazy And and rice, yeah rice you have to be very specific But let me tell you guys a key to making rice i'm sharing all those secrets here So it's two to one right rice really ain't that hard now My mom used to like take rice and drain it and do all that stuff like what who does it rice? You put one cup of rice to two cups of water right when it boils right turn it all the way down Once all the liquid evaporates your rice is done Period point blank is done um I I do know how to make good cheesecakes Jacqueline now I'm, not a baker, but I can make some fires. I make mini. Let me put that down I'm gonna make i'm gonna have one baking show one baking episodes where I make these mini cheesecake bites Y'all see I like the little bites They are delicious and I make I make a um a turtle one And I make one with oreo cookies and I make a plain one with with a um And then I make like my fresh strawberry topping so I do have a really good cheesecake recipe i'm gonna put that on there we can We can make a show about that mini cheesecake Okay, but i'm telling y'all I need to i'm using a hot water corn bread and I gotta I gotta practice and practice and I think it's all about like the the thickness of it now now john, I know that you are italian like Um, what what's like a real easy bread for you guys Okay, key lime cheesecake or sweet potato pie. Okay. So, uh, here's another thing. I don't like sweet potatoes No, don't judge me I don't mean to do it I I do not I don't like sweet potato pie. I don't like sweet potatoes I probably don't like i've never had sweet potato cheesecake and this is why there's always a reason why I don't like stuff I cannot get over the texture The texture is not delicious Nope Oh, come on. Mika take it. No, you can't take you can't take my black heart. You can You cannot you cannot be as I said tiramisu. I'm gonna learn that listen. We're gonna talk about tiramisu in a second Um, no, I do not like I do not like sweet potato. I I can't and so listen guys most of our preferences I think come from Like us growing up and what we experience. So like sweet potatoes. The texture is absolutely like gross and and In african-american homes and my african-american home and my mama put something on your plate You had to eat it. No matter what she don't care if you didn't like it. I don't care It's on your plate you eat it. So she will force us to eat these sweet potatoes disgusting My mom put mushrooms and everything and bell peppers. I hate them to this day. I do not like bell peppers I do not like onions. I mean I love onions and I do not like bell peppers and mushrooms because my mom put them in Everything, you know, like like for instance, you you a kid everyone will you would think kids love pizza, right? Nope, because my mama didn't just get a cheese pizza or a pepperoni pizza that a kid would be excited about My mom had to get the supreme You don't you don't give a little kid supreme pizza with the onions and bell peppers and mushrooms and all that meat. It was disgusting I hated pizza growing up. No, i'm not doing it So now today my pizza is very simple. Give me some black olives some cheese and it's good You know, I might put a little pepperoni on there a little sausage But that's why I do not like mushrooms and bell peppers like my mom will put mushrooms in omelets mushrooms and spaghetti bell pepper in a potato salad No No, and then you had to eat it Like no So anybody that comes from that type of background y'all know if the parents put something on your plate you had to eat it and then Listen and growing up. My mom didn't cook chicken wings like she didn't and maybe because she had five kids to feed You know what? I mean? So my mom would cook the chicken quarters I think I was like grown until I read when I realized that That the leg and the thigh was separate Like for real because my mom would make those big old chicken quarters and she would fry them or she would bake them and put The whole thing on your plate and you had to eat it. So when I got like I would say probably like I'm about to embarrass myself like in high school. I'm like, oh these two these two different pieces of chicken. It's crazy My girl makes me lemon beans. I hate them Lemon beans are disgusting same thing. They're gross and they would make you eat it Grandpa said she remember leg quarters. I'm telling you listen I thought that that the leg quarter was the whole piece of chicken who knew that it was uh, Separate till I got grown and I started cooking Listen my mom wasn't a big lemon bean fan But my great-grandmother cooked lima beans and you guys ever had like crowded peas and the worst is black eyed peas They made us eat them now. I love I love Pinto beans, I would tear some pinto beans up some great northern beans Um, and i'm pretty sure john you're italian. So you guys eat these types of beans, but lima beans I'm, not going for that. It's not delicious and black eyed peas. It's not delicious and those nasty butter beans Oh Oh my god now butter butter beans are the big white ones, right and then That's so funny That is so funny everybody hate bees and here go bears, I love all those all the bees but peas and okra hell no now listen I I don't love all the bees, but I love peat now black eyed peas are disgusting I like green peas and okra is delicious when you prepare it now Not I don't like no big soggy ass put a big piece of okra Oh, i'm, sorry in my soup, but you cut that okra up and you fry it with some cornmeal Kill yourself put a little salt pepper kill yourself is over. It's it's quite delicious So it's all about the preparation of that of that okra and beans depending on what type it is And this is like good, you know hearty, you know meals that that the family used to cook Yeah, everything you name goes great with cornbread. Absolutely. No okra ever Um, it does go great with cornbread, especially some hot water cornbread because somebody teach me how to make it Listen you okay, so What y'all saying is we need to have a making meals with mica with just some beans I can do a mean pot of pinto beans. I mind you you guys We're gonna make this a little bit healthier than our parents and grandparents. So, you know Don't take my black card, but i'm not using no ham hot i'm using no fat back, you know, no salt pork I'll probably use some smoked turkey Um next or some smoked turkey, um drumsticks y'all cool with that, you know, it's a little bit better By the way, i'm sipping on cognac and cranberry. Do you like it? Cheers? Do you like it? See now you want me where are you at? Jacqueline? I need some cognac Benza said each week do an international dish. I am all for that I am all for doing an international dish and I think it might be good Um, because I was like, you know, I don't want to like mess up on camera for the first time But you know what you guys I think it might be good if I just try something new On camera and say hey, this is my first time trying it. You know, this is how it looks Let's taste it what y'all think it's the bob i'm in arlington. Oh see I I I put you up on that good drink now Jacqueline every time you have some cognac with cranberry you're like look mika Mika talking about this good drink, but I think what do you guys think trying that international? meal, I mean, uh Meal once a week or you know, once every couple weeks I think that'd be great and I I am all for trying new things as long as they don't have mushrooms um Bell pepper um sweet potatoes And i'm not eating no shellfish. Okay, and I tried I'll try and I think we should I should make sushi who likes sushi raise your hand So I said raise your hand like I can see uh Yeah, mistakes are perfectly fine on camera. It's human. Mm-hmm. I think it's gonna be fun. So i'm gonna try some new international um dishes and then the cool thing is You know, I'll you know if someone is from that culture that I you know They're from the the culture that i'm making the dish. They can come in here and get me together You know what? I mean? That can be like, uh, to me good I don't look right or you should have added this and then look get me together get you know And then next time I make it it'll be perfect. You know what I mean? And that's that's what i'm just gonna try is just do i'll do something like that sushi I was going to suggest sushi as well. See We don't we on the same we on the same uh page jacqueline now, here's the thing with sushi salt pork yum So I don't like I don't like the seafood. I mean, what is it the seaweed and sushi? So I like to do um, Soy paper is delicious. Let me see john said I started interviewing the world's strongest men and women on my channel. Hey Are you serious? That's really good Now 20 interviews later i'm really good. Hey There we go. So we are incorporating everything every type of dish and and if it don't look right It ain't looking. Hey, we can learn together. So now I have to figure out what's What's something? And here's the thing guys Whatever I cook my hugs are gonna have to eat it because it's just us and I don't like wasting food. So And you know with kobe, you know people we don't they don't visit like they used to so I just can't have people over here eating Sometimes it would be great. I did a recipe I did Yeah, try recipes from your viewers. Absolutely and john since uh, since we are viewers of each other's page See if you know, maybe one of your your viewers wants to share a recipe then I can go on making on making meals with mika We can do that And yes, I do love ethiopian food But here's the thing That injera, I don't know how to make no injera. So I love you. Oh my god I love ethiopian food and if no one has ever tried if you if someone on here That has never tried ethiopian food. I am telling you to try it. It is absolutely delicious Um, I would say it's an acquired taste like i'm not a huge. Um like indian Like with the indian spices like, you know with the coriander and you know Like with the cinnamon and the cumin and you put all that stuff the star anise you put all together. I'm not The yogurt i'm not a big fan of those flavor combinations. So I tend to stay away from indian food um but like If you want to try something really delicious and you haven't tried it ethiopian food is absolutely delicious You guys should try it. I love it with the injera now I can try to make it Um, I know because they use a lot of lamb so I can try to make like a um Like an ethiopian food that just that injera is what i'm gonna have to try a lot because that that's the base of it Is the bread Still a huge puerto rican food fan Yeah, I love puerto rican food too and there's no places around here Um that does puerto rican food. So look y'all i'm taking these notes. So we need to do puerto rican food And then john if you can ask some of your viewers, I mean, um your guests like, you know If there's someone that wants to try to cook something in their culture What would be like the easiest thing to cook? Like if someone wants to cook like a soul food dish the very first thing I would not teach them how to make gumbo You know what? I mean? Because that's probably one of the hardest dishes. I would teach them, you know how to make a simple Um baked macaroni and cheese to start off with, you know, and they have to work their way up So I just need something simple out of all these dishes So we said puerto rican. We say ethiopian I love jerk chicken and jerk chicken Um, once you get your your base your sauce down it is good In italian, maybe it's chicken parm. I love chicken. Listen. Hold on. You can't see Look, okay. Look i'm trying to share this with y'all. That's one of my things I wrote down look Y'all can't see it right over that meatloaf chicken parm is on here So chicken parm is one of my favorite things to make so I will be making chicken parm with fresh tomato sauce and then so john When I post that you can go ahead and say well to me You should have used this instead of this or try this and that because you're italian So the best way to learn how to cook that food is from someone, you know, that's italian. So i'm gonna make that So we said puerto rican. What else we say? Oh, thanks. Don't you like my pan? Thank you Thank you Um, we say ethiopian we got um, what else um What what bobby play has a a good chicken parm recipe? Now listen, I just told y'all that I don't really care for indian food But if you guys know like an indian food that is not really spice heavy That would be great for me to try. Please. Let me know. Um Okay, thanks for joining us I would say like marsala but I think that has like the base of it is mushrooms, so If the base is mushrooms, I don't like mushrooms. I don't think like a chicken marsala would be good I've never done. I don't think i've ever eaten curry before and that's indian, huh? So has anyone ever eaten curry and you guys like curry? I'll put that on here and maybe do like a simple curry To see how it is What y'all think? i'ma try i'ma do i'ma do the I'm thinking my soul food ever Okay All right Yes, curry. Okay. I'ma try i'ma try curry perfect. All right So you guys have really I just want to say thank you so much for you know Going through all my little technical difficulties. If I was smart, I would have put my my tripod up with my ring I I so yeah, I had I had a moment. I didn't think about that So but this is what i'm going to do. I know next week we're doing salmon croquettes or salmon patties chicken piccata Justin, I love chicken piccata. Do you hear me? Okay. Um, especially Um, yeah, so I can make some chicken piccata. I love chicken piccata I made I made some go check out. I didn't make it on camera But if you go check out my making meals with mika Ig paste is some chicken piccata on it refresh capers and everything. It actually turned out delicious Um, but so what I want you guys to stay tuned. We're going to do a live cooking Uh with mika, we're gonna you know, bring your glass of wine and bring your cognac with your uh, cranberry juice Bring your tequila and there's going to be something that is going to be hearty delicious and pretty simple And then i'll just cook live with you guys um Did you just get an accent? Did I talk in an accent? It might be the white claws, you know the white claws how you talking crazy around here All right, so I'm gonna with all this list. I'm gonna find something nice and fun for us to cook And I think that would be great Look at jacqueline look, I like jacqueline. She's my type of girl jack. We're gonna have to hang out, honey Okay, we're gonna have to hang out when texas open back up and then the world open back up. We're gonna have to hang out um So but be looking out i'm gonna post it on the on the site to say hey, you know next month on this day We're gonna do this. We're gonna cook live. We'll get these ingredients. It's gonna be fun We're gonna sit around chat have some cocktails and we're gonna do that Um, i'm gonna i'm gonna make it fun and it's gonna be something that's simple but maybe we'll do like some asian chicken lettuce wraps or You know something that we can cook in 30 minutes, but still kind of you know a little You know, jenna jenna say qua a little fancy, but still like not fancy. Y'all know i'm talking about anyway Um, I think that's about it. I've been on here for an hour. I don't really know how long um live streams last but Um, i've been on here for an hour Um, it's been awesome talking to you guys. What did justin say? I had something called mango chicken from an italian restaurant Oh, we could do it I can try zoom Um, that would be fun. Oh, okay. So before I go so there's a food truck and I tell I one day want to open up a food truck. So and I try to support small businesses especially within my community Right, and it was this um caribbean. Um Food truck and I was out today. I had just went to kane's They sell chicken strips and got a whole meal for me and my husband But I pulled in here and they had this caribbean food truck I was like, let me just try it or whatever and they had this so they make these sandwiches on something called fry bread Now if you guys never have fried bread, it's absolutely delicious Um, I learned how to make fried bread when I was on the indian reservation in college And it's basically like an elephant ear, but it's not sweet. It's like delicious, but that's the texture It's like elephant ear and they they put this fried fish on there and justin i'm saying this because what you talked about like with The mango, whatever the pineapple, whatever they put this fried fish on there And then the toppings was like this sweet and savory slaw. So it was like, um, fresh mango it was um onions, it was um It was cabbage and I didn't think that all those would go together on this fried fish on top of this big piece of fried Bread, it was absolutely delicious. I mean it was great and it's called a fish something Um, it was it was it was a 13 sandwich, but it was worth every single bit of that So we will do a youtube live cooking. Let's set this out for maybe like a month That would get people enough time and I'll post it on there and post all the ingredients And we'll come back and we'll cook together and next week we're doing Salmon, we are doing salmon croquettes And we are going to be doing i'ma cook it traditional with the good with the rice because my mama And grandma always make the salmon croquettes with some rice and we're going to do a nice little vegetable So that's what we're going to do next week for making meals with mika And then if you guys thought that this is kind of cool the the live interaction, let's do it again I don't know how often I should be doing it But y'all come hang out with me y'all sit here talk with me jacqueline benza justin john um shana, we have a couple cocktails and we just We just chat and thank you guys for supporting me. And yes bands that you are always pushing my youtube Uh, I have a she's a great great friend. Let me push her business real quick. I need you guys to go to pandora j Gifts, can you type that being the type of your site you talking about the best personalized items? I've worn a couple of her um aprons when I was uh cooking but like the absolute best personalized gifts She does t-shirts sweatshirts glasses Blankets keychains earrings. Hell she a person. She'll personalize your wall If you need her to don't put your site on there bands so they can go visit your site I'm telling you you would not be disappointed. Okay It was so much fun. I know this was fun bands will put your site on there. Just go check out this site Um, and I also put um stuff on my on my facebook page, too So if you guys want to share your facebook names if we're not facebook friends I'll you know, I'd love to be your facebook friends too, but i'm just going to go ahead and end this chat Thank you for hanging out with me for an hour This was fun talking about how we grew up and the kind of foods we ate and that's just pretty awesome. So We must do this again, but i'm signing off but thank you guys for your support. I love you guys Now how now look guys now, how do I stop this this is funny This is real life bloopers because I don't know how to end this feed on my phone. Let's see here. Do I push the eggs? Okay, there we go. See y'all later