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I should have been over here. This is where I should have been. Like 20 minutes ago. And I feel a whole ton of way about it. Happy Tuesday! Happy Tuesday everybody! I am over here making sweets delicious treats. Y'all know what I'm doing? These kind of look like uh, ha! These kind of look like those little cocktail, little cocktail weenies. You know what I'm talking about? The little barbeque weenies but these are not. These are not barbeque weenies. I am making almond butter stuffed dates covered in dark chocolate. And these are absolutely scrumptious. They're absolutely delicious. Hello! Welcome to my live! So I'm Mika. And my channel is all about cooking delicious food that not only tastes good but it is good for you. So I am making a nice little sweet treat if you got a little goo and you want to get them something sweet and delicious for Valentine's Day and you don't want to spend that Valentine's Day money, honey. Go on. Go ahead. Make them this dish. These are almond butter stuffed dates and they are delicious. Oh! Is my almond butter oh my goodness. Y'all, I think my almond butter was oozing out. Everything is so decadent. I think my almond butter was oozing out, y'all. Delicious. I want to lick my fingers right now. I really do. I really do when I lick my fingers. Look at that chocolate. Nothing sexier than some melted chocolate. Do y'all hear me? And that is dark chocolate that I am using for my nut almond butter. This is almond butter stuffed dates dipped in dark chocolate. These are absolutely delicious. If you want a treat if you want something that's nice and sweet and delicious but you don't want all the fat. Try this recipe. I'm telling you. Is somebody trolling me? Why are y'all trolling me? What? I just oh my goodness. Look, I'm trying to get fat. I'm trying to get fat off this delicious chocolate. Look at that. Well, hello. Hi. Welcome. You guys, look, I'm almost done. For those of you that are tuning in, look, I know they might not look delicious right now, but let me tell you what these are. These are almond butter stuffed dates covered in dark chocolate. These are going to give you the satisfaction Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. These are going to give you the satisfaction of having something sweet without the calories. I'm just telling you it's delicious. Thank you for saying you like my hair. Believe it or not, I braided myself. I really did braid it myself and I'm not even done yet. I had to go on a Zoom call today. The middle of my hair is not braided, by the way. That's what my scarf is for, to hide the fact that it's not braided. Hi, Johns. Hello. Welcome to my live. Welcome. You guys are here just in time to watch me dip these almond butter dates in dark chocolate. Has anyone ever tried these before? Has anyone ever tried these? If you haven't tried them, I'm telling you, please do. Hi. Well, hello, Resident Evil. This recipe is so easy. It's so delicious. If you're someone that you're cutting back on sweets or maybe you can't eat a lot of sugar, if you try these chocolate-covered it's just a mouthful to say almond butter stuffed dates, you are going to love them. Valentine's Day is coming up. Maybe you got a little boo. You want to surprise your boo with something delicious? You know everybody does chocolate, right? Everybody does chocolate. Just go ahead and oh my God. Did y'all see that? But look, they didn't mess up. I am not vegetarian. No. I am not vegetarian and I am not a candy maker but I am making candy right now. So guess what, Johns? You could you could make candy too. You could make candy too. You know what I mean? This is absolutely delicious. Look at that. And dates are naturally sweet. These are the dates and I get the ones that are pitted so they take the seed out already, right? And then you stuff them. These are stuffed. Can you see that? These are stuffed with almond butter. Almond butter. I just got 100% almond butter so it's just almonds. And then you stuff the dates with the almonds, with the almond butter. You take some dark chocolate. This one is 72% cacao. The higher the percentage, the darker, the stronger the chocolate. But you know the darker the chocolate, the more delicious. You know what I mean? Anyway, you stuff your dates with the chocolate. You put them in the refrigerator and it is the best piece of candy ever. Do you hear me? I'm just saying. So I'm not vegetarian. My channel, if you go visit my channel, you guys subscribe. Make your meals with Mika. My passion is cooking delicious food that won't give you a big back. Okay? So the food is going to be delicious. It's going to be flavorful. It's going to be seasoned. I cook an array of different things. But I like to cook healthy versions of that food. So if you like delicious food and you don't want a big back, just go ahead and subscribe real quick. There's nothing stopping you. Look you guys, when I dropped that, when I dropped it on the plate, we kind of made a little mess. I'm done now though. Now all I got to do is put these in the refrigerator. So what's going on? Anybody got any Valentine's Day plans? John, you got any Valentine's Day plans, boo? See, I don't like to leave the leftover chocolate, so I'm going to take some dates and roll it around because we do not waste chocolate around here. That's what we're not going to do. So I'm going to put just the regular dates dipped in chocolate. I'm just going to put them in there too. And then some of them won't be filled. And this is where you get messy. This is where cooking gets messy. Okay. Here we go. You guys. Alright, and I'm done. Three simple ingredients to make your own candy at home. Dates, dark chocolate, and almond butter. And you stuff them and you just put them on a little platter and then you put them in the refrigerator. And hopefully you won't be as messy as me. But look at that. You know you got to lick the spoon like you have to lick the spoon. Mmm. That's delicious. I got to lick my hands too. I'm done cooking. Okay. I'm going to wash up. So, ooh, that chocolate is delicious. You guys, try try some dark chocolate. Okay. You will thank me later. Try some dark chocolate. Now I'm just going to clean up because I don't like a messy kitchen. And then I am going to Sorry for the noise. I'm going to put these in the refrigerator. Here's my dates. These go back in the refrigerator. Let me find a spot. Okay. And we are done. I will come back later and show y'all how they turned out. But, I will be posting on my channel the recipe for the almond butter dark chocolate covered stuffed dates. Okay. So, happy Tuesday. I hope everyone is having a great day. And I'm just going to get out of here real quick. Hi. Well, hello. I just came in here real quick to show you guys this little recipe I was making. So, what's going on? How's everybody doing? How's everybody doing on this Tuesday? We doing all right out there? I love when the viewers are interactive. We talk, ask me questions. I ask y'all questions. We can talk about cooking because that is my forte. Okay. I do make a good cocktail too. I really do. My son told me to start posting a little bit more cocktail recipes. I mean, I ain't trying to get everybody drunk, but I'll do it. I will post some cocktail recipes if y'all need that. Oh, what's up Ahmad? How are you doing? You just missed my recipe boo. How are you doing, sir? I just made some... What did I make, y'all? I just made some almond butter stuffed dates dipped in dark chocolate. So, it's a perfect alternative to candy and things like that. It's perfect for Valentine's Day. Perfect for Valentine's Day. You can make it for your boo and give it to him for Valentine's Day. Hi, Ahmad. I'm blushing. We need to make a shashay. What? What is that? I don't know what that is. I don't like when trolls come on here. It's ridiculous. So, look guys. I put that in the refrigerator, okay? That's going to take about 15- 20 minutes to get to where I want them to be. I might, if I'm feeling fancy, sprinkle a little sea salt on there. Oh, yes! Is it Miku? I want to make some new things for my mom soon. Do you have any easy recipes? And I do. I absolutely do. I just did a three-ingredient recipe. It's like your homemade candy and it's absolutely delicious. But if you go to my channel, Making Meals with Mika, you know, my recipes... They range, right? They range from very easy to more expert level. Go to my page, Miku, and I'm pretty sure you'll find some things for your mom. If you give me some ideas on what your mom likes, I can point you directly to the recipe that you're looking for. But I do have really easy recipe ideas. I have things from pastas to soups. You know, all types of recipes. So just go on my page. And I'm also coming out with an all-new recipe line that's going to be low-carb, low-fat, low-sugar. So if anybody is on a keto slash Whole30 slash paleo slash diabetic, you know, if anyone is on those types of diets, I'm coming out with all-new recipes that's going to be delicious because we do have to understand that just because we're eating healthy, it does not have to be bland, and it does not have to be, like, disgusting. So all these recipes are going to be very flavorful. They're going to be very easy. So check that out. And you are so welcome. You're absolutely welcome. And if you do try one of the recipes, you know, please just shoot me a line and let me know that you absolutely loved it. And if you didn't absolutely love it, you know, tell me what you didn't like about it or, you know, ask me, you know, what you can do instead. And all my recipes are customizable. So that's the thing with cooking. Like, when you're in the kitchen, it's all about what you like. So if one of my recipes, you know, calls for spinach and you don't like spinach, don't use spinach, you know? If I have a recipe that's on there and you think it will taste delicious with mushrooms, I hate mushrooms, so I rarely cook with mushrooms. Add mushrooms, right? You have to make it your own. So go check out my channel. Follow me, and I think that you will love the recipes that are on there. You guys that just tuned in, you guys missed it. I made some almond butter stuffed dates. And I dipped them in dark chocolate. They're going to take a good 20-30 minutes to set up like I like it. So I said I'll come back to show y'all the final product. But they are absolutely delicious. They are a great alternative to, you know, candy and things like that. Valentine's Day is coming up, so you want to make something cool for your little boo, make those stuffed dates. You'll thank me later, you know? If you get lucky on Valentine's Day for giving your significant other or your boo or whoever for feeding them one of those dates and you get lucky, I'm going to have to take credit for that, okay? I'm going to just go ahead and take all the credit for that. And then you can just thank me later. Oh my goodness. So I hope that you guys are having a really great Tuesday. Ahmad, are you still on here? Ahmad, are you still watching? Guys, I don't know what happened, but that's all my time. I got to go. But it was great hanging out with you guys. And come on back. I'm going to show y'all how these dates turned out, okay? I'll talk to y'all later. Making news with Mika. Go subscribe, please. You will not be disappointed. I promise.