3ABN Today Cooking - "Breakfasts That Will Make Your Morning" with Leslie Caza (TDYC018030)

I want to spend my people Oh [Music] moving Lord let hila hard [Music] and they will and people [Music] hello and welcome to 3abn today cooking the word for today is yummy I'm Yvonne Lewis Shelton and I am so excited to have our guest chef with us Lesley Kaiser thank you so much it's good to be here oh it's great to have you thank you so Lesley let's find out a little bit about you how did you get into vegan cooking well I've always been interested in cooking as a matter of fact as a child I had a little bread baking business I put the bread in my wagon and go around the neighborhood and sell bread and but I didn't know about healthy cooking until I became a seventh-day adventists the training that I got in q linear ER at school was butter and sugar and all the regular things just that restaurants want to serve not necessarily for health so when I became a Seventh day Adventist the pastor asked me a little bit about myself I told him about my training and he said great you can do our vegetarian cooking schools I knew nothing so it started a great research trying recipes that people would bring to potluck and making them my own and I began to become more interested in nutrition as well as cooking so enjoy reading I enjoy experimenting in the kitchen it's a and it's a nice way to meet people in the community right now vegetarianism and veganism is hot yes so it's a wonderful way to reach out in the community it's it's such a great way to evangelize because you can get people to come in and learn new dishes and teach them about their health yes and then of course teaching them about Jesus that's absolutely right that's tremendous that's tremendous and look at how God used your culinary art school training mm-hmm you could use some of it and discard some of it and now you're doing this which is phenomenal tell us about the ministry that you have now right now we're doing a ministry out of our church called simply vegan and wellness in Memphis that's a monthly class and then we wanted to be able to reach the community better so we started doing classes also in public libraries so we have two public berries that we do a one-hour program in once a month and then we do our about a two-hour program in our church and we invite the people from the library classes to come to get additional training in the church and it's a it's a very nice way they're to the point now where they own our church kitchen they love being there and and we've become a family within the family now it's very nice I like what you did too you start in a neutral place and let them get comfortable with you and then bring them to the church kitchen yeah I think that's very wise that's a very wise move how many people do you normally have in your classes we're normally about 20 so it's it's a it's a very workable size yes we do a health presentation we do some cooking demonstrations and we serve a full dinner so it's a nice evening out as they get to know each other and work oh that is so good I love to see innovative ways to reach people where prayer message of Jesus so that's great well let's try these yummy recipes let's move what we're gonna make today we're gonna make french toast casserole and a maple nut soft-serve baked breakfast grains and quinoa breakfast bowl Oh garbanzo Oh waffles oh we're gonna have some serious breakfast food here apricot sauce and a glorified applesauce topping yummy okay let's get started to go yeah let's look at the ingredients for the first recipe so for French Toast Casserole it's ten cups of bread cubes two and a half cups of water 1/2 cup of dates or two tablespoons of brown sugar 2 tablespoons of flour whole wheat is best to small bananas 1/3 cup of orange juice frozen concentrate 1/2 teaspoon of salt 1/2 cup of walnuts chopped 2 cups of crushed pineapple chilled and 2 tablespoons of orange juice frozen concentrate very good okay well we're going to start with our casserole dish okay mom you could just give it a quick spray sure and we will get this ready okay we've got our bread cubes here a lot of times children don't like whole grain breads because they're too coarse for them but in this particular recipe you can get a really good hearty bread if you wanted because we're gonna put a liquid topping over it and bake it so it'll soften it up very nice so it's a great way to sneak those whole grain fibers into the breakfast without the children complaining about the texture yeah sometimes you have to do kind of yes to get healthy healthy ingredients into kids so this is great absolutely okay these are just broken and just yes just cut up whole wheat bread okay I'm gonna ask you to hold the bowl and I'll slice around here with with my glove sure okay and I did wash my hands alright so we have ten cups of that here and you can still use the ends of the bread like I said it's gonna get soft once we put the the sauce on top of this for baking alright I guess I should know one of the reasons why I came up with this recipe is because I had three children and so that's a lot of french toast in the morning which means mama keeps jumping up and down flipping french toast and the kids are all done before I get to eat family right right and then it's cold the first batch is kind of cold by the time you make this I'm with you that's about it so we said you know what why don't we just put it in casserole dish we can all sit down and eat together so that's the men behind this one of it okay so we have our bread cubes in there and we're going to go ahead and put everything in our blender very simple recipe okay yeah you know what as you were saying go ahead you can what you were saying about keeping it simple yeah that's really important because if it looks too complicated people are gonna be like oh I can't do that I just can't do that that is so true well this is blend and bake no it was real simple love it now I'm using very ripe bananas okay cuz they're sweet a lot of times people will save these for making banana bread uh-huh but you can go ahead and use those wonderful speckled bananas this dish as well to add a little added sweetness you know what else is when they're kind of getting a little bit more ripe you can also freeze them I peel them freeze them for smoothies and then you can just put them drop them in for smoothie our next recipe okay and then we're going to put in some dates now these happen to be medjool dates they're not pitted they're not pitted so if you buy medjool dates they're probably not going to be pitted you want to make sure you just pull those pits out very simple to do they just slide right out and if you forget one you can fish it out of the blender now what is some what are some of the advantages of medjool dates over just regular dates these are a little larger mm-hmm they're a little softer so the soft is really nice if your blender is not really powerful okay so if you have a blender that it's not really powerful and you don't have mentioned eights you they could take the dates and just soak them in the water for just a little while and soften them up before they put them into the blender and that will that will help to ease the strain on the blender hmm okay so there's that I'm going to go ahead and take these off while we finish up right all right then we have some whole wheat flour and that just helps to thicken the sauce up once it heats mm-hmm and some orange juice concentrate that adds a little bit of sweetness as well as flavor and a little bit of salt here to just enhance the flavor that we have there ah salt enhances the Bailee does it really does a little bit the salt of the earth that is right okay so just cover on here this Vitamix is really great because it's it's a very intense kind of blender it is so we're gonna start slow so it doesn't take off like a bomb okay and that's really about all it needs really yes that'll be fine and so then would you like to pour it on George okay tell me what I'm told we're gonna just evenly back and forth it all over the French toast and this will just moisten that bread up and as it bakes in the oven it'll just be soft and warm and maliciously sweet hmm I'm gonna make a little topping to put on this as well nice yay yes and then everybody will eat together what a great idea I had never thought of a French Toast Casserole that's right why not just great I'm just gonna spread this what isn't this that'll work okay I'm just gonna spread it just a little bit well tuck those down maybe that didn't get quite so coat it will tuck them down in there so the kids don't complain about right yeah okay that's beautiful and we're just gonna sprinkle some walnuts on the top of this love it well Oh Megan nuts are great for omega-3 and brain food absolutely oh that's really great tastes so wonderful it does yeah walnuts and just fruit and oh it's just so good it is so that's it and then this will go in the oven okay we have a finished one over here if you want to we can pull that out and just show them what it will look like when it's done yeah and we'll have you taste it after we do this smoothie okay so it bakes up with the walnuts in that and then we have a topping for that oh now we can put the smoothie on it that we're going to make on our the maple nuts officer yes or we could put on if you could hand me the pineapple and the orange juice concentrate sure a simple topping for this if you're in a hurry would just be to take some crushed pineapple add a little bit of orange juice concentrate into that stir that up and then put it on the individual pieces when you serve it and it's very very nice on there pineapple is naturally sweet and the orange juice is just enhances that pineapple flavor so this is a an unsweetened it's just in its own juice that's really natural you not so sweetness so when you cut your piece you could at the breakfast table just go ahead and this is warm and then that's just the groom temperature and if you like it cold you could make up a night before wholesome that works great grapes very good okay now would you want to try it like this sure okay we have a place right there for you gotta do it quickly okay I'll just give you a little piece here okay and I'll put a little sauce on there just a little bit all right like you thank you Lord for this food yeah wonderful whole-grain so you have whole grains fruits and nuts remove a complete meal and the one dish you can leave ready for school ready for with brainpower for their day oh that's great I make this for Danny there you go thank you you're welcome the next recipe is maple nut soft-serve the ingredients are 1/2 cup of water more if needed 1/4 cup of dates 1/8 teaspoon of maple flavoring 2 bananas frozen and 1 tablespoon of chopped nuts and that's optional so let's see how to make this okay now what's the soft-serve thing what's that well I custard it's like an ice cream okay a lot of times people get a soft-serve it'll be in a cone and be kind of lead up yes yes well we found that we really liked smoothies but it's not quite as satisfying to drink a meal as to eat it with a spoon right so we decided that we would go from smoothies to just making them thicker Oh less fluid then the smoothie does and then you end up with a very nice thick soft sir nice ok so again we're back to our blender okay if someone's blender is not strong they may just want to let the bananas defrost just for maybe five minutes just to soften them up and we've got some bananas that were nice and speckled mm-hmm and we let them freeze after we peeled them just in ziplock bags and if someone is concerned about their blender they could even slice up the bananas and put them on a cookie sheet to freeze them so that the pieces would be even small so just have to know your kitchen tools okay and the bananas in this are very very nice because it gives it a creaminess if you have a lot of fruits in here like frozen strawberries or peaches some more high water content fruits it comes out icier the bananas give it a creaminess nice it kinda is reminiscent of full fat ice cream yeah yeah yeah so we've got our dates again we've taken the pits out of those and we're just going to put a little - little dash of maple flavoring is pretty strong stuff or you could use the maple syrup if you like mm-hmm and then some water and just like I said a little bit of water or you could like juice or you could use almond milk or soy milk or whatever milk you might like so it's these are very flexible recipes and to make any kind of soft-serve you could maybe add some frozen strawberries to that or blueberries blackberries love it but I'm gonna say that for us the base always has to be bananas because we want that cree-cree nice and seasoned feeling yes right that's right now we're gonna drag this a little bit okay so you kind of pulse it we're gonna pulse it a little bit just work it just a little bit here see if we can get it down lower there we go so is the idea to have it chunky or smooth we want it smooth we want it smooth but there we go we'll get it and see it's getting creamy there if we added more fluid it would blend up very quickly without having to adjust it but then you wouldn't have ice cream right so we want the softer consistency which means we're gonna work it for just a little bit right and if somebody has a powerful blender like this one you could actually double this recipe so it's a little bit harder for a Vitamix to make the smaller amount simply because of this this is a very powerful I think one more time and we're going to be good okay get this nice and creamy for you okay and you can actually see it has some body in there yeah you still see the swirl yes I want to taste it okay let me put I'll put it in this bowl first okay I'll just take a little okay I'm just tasting just a little bit okay you can see that's good body yes and if you liked your date smoother in there hmmmm then you just go ahead and blend it longer or soak the dates if you want it smoother and of course if you really want to make it special you make it maple not right yes oh this is so good you know what it's very creamy and it tastes like ice cream yes without any dairy without any dairy and if you don't add the walnuts on there without any fat mmm so it's a perfect for those who might have a lactose intolerance or just would prefer not to eat dairy products hmm I like what you did with the banana because it does give it that creamy consistency lo can the flavor yes and the flavor calorie yes okay let's look at our next recipe it's gonna be baked breakfast greens and the ingredients are 1/2 cup of steel-cut oats 2/3 cups of millet rinsed and drained 4 cups of non-dairy milk 3 or 4 tablespoons of maple syrup 1 teaspoon of vanilla 1/3 cup of raisins 1/3 cup of another dried fruit and 1/2 teaspoon of salon cinnamon okay let's start this ok hey do I spray we're gonna spray okay make sure our casserole does not stick okay just give it a quick little spray there beautiful hey know what I love about this is this looks like it's a one-dish meal it is how easy is that and you can make it ahead at night and just rewarm it in the microwave if you want so it shouldn't be fast and easy and it is one meal oh yeah see that's great cuz in the morning a lot of times you don't have time to do a lot so if it's pre-prepared and you heat it up for the kids or your husband or your spouse if here yeah man your wife this this works out great absolutely and they find that breakfast skippers would tend to eat something mid-morning well if you're eating mid-morning and probably not going to get whole grains and fruit it's going to be the donut an unhealthy beverage something along those lines yes eating a good breakfast is foundational to starting your day yes dark breaking the fast break that absolutely ingredients in here okay good all right so this is steel cut oats mm-hmm and basically it's the whole oat groats and they've cut it in half or thirds so it's very close to a whole grain it's not missing any of your fiber or anything like that we'll just sprinkle this in the bottom nice and even there cuz fiber is so important like if you don't get enough fiber in the diet fiber helps the body to metabolize sugar fiber helps the bowels to move fiber is so important and I really think it's important for diabetics to get more fiber in their diet as well so this is this is good fiber is important that fiber is so important and yes in diabetics and for heart disease yes I found that the fiber also helps with that yes yes we want to just be healthy yeah it's amazing how when we have a healthy lifestyle it takes care of so many problems yes not just it's a it's a one-size-fits-all it's a it's a blanket yeah right when you're getting your healthy that's it and it's so much easier to prevent illness than to reverse it so why not eat better so that you can prevent so you give your body what it needs God created us in such a way that the body heals itself if we give it what it needs so we're giving it with it that's our goal that's right now what's that this is millet okay also known as bird seed in that of Maine I never knew that millet was bird seed well we're eating it without the whole if you ever see you know a little pet parakeet they'll put that millet in their mouth and then they'll chew on a little bit they're removing the hull so we get it without the whole okay unhold millet and they sell it that way you don't even have to ask them oh okay buy millet in a health food store or online or whatever it will be unhold and ready to eat nice now it tends to be a little bit powdery and I don't know exactly why that is so I always rinse it in a sieve first so just run it under the water and clean it up a little bit this has been rinsed already so we will go ahead and also add this into the casserole so this is a fully whole-grain high-fiber yeah cereal nice alright nice now we will add our other yummy ingredients so we've got some pumpkin seeds or some crunch we have a small amount of maple syrup just for that little extra touch mmm a little sweetness a little bit and that wonderful pure maple syrup oh that's right in it that's what this is love it and then we have some wonderful raisins here I try to get those spread evenly mm-hmm and raisins are a nice source of iron mm-hmm as well as sweetness and what child doesn't like raisins yes oh those are easy to get a lot of adults too yes yes yes and then this is dried diced pineapple but we could use almost any dried fruit in this I like to do the raisins but if someone mixed two different kinds of dried fruits that would be just fine so I might want to put dried cranberries or something like that but we just chopped up some pineapple here and those are pumpkin seeds you said we have pumpkin seeds those are so important for men for the prostate gland Punk mm-hmm and a lot of times we're not getting enough zinc like if you have a cold you need more zinc it st. stops the replication of the virus so you're adding things in here that again are preventive and curative so that's really a blessing got a vitamin pill in the bowl yeah for sure all right and now we have some non-dairy milk here and I'm gonna go ahead and mix the vanilla right in the milk so it spreads evenly there we go you'd like to pour that I'm sure okay again evenly spread and you know today in this age finding non-dairy milks is so easy every girl easy carries down maybe twenty years ago the whole thing the whole thing Wow it will soak it right oh okay yes that mill it absorbs so it does and the stand of steel-cut oats as well alright and then we're going to sprint and this is an optional ingredient mmm-hmm this is Ceylon cinnamon and tell us the difference between that kind of cinnamon and just the regular regular cinnamon that people would buy in the grocery store is high in coumarin on coumadin coumarin which for some people is damaging to the liver Minh Nations had put some of them have put a limit on how much cumin can be used in food so bakeries had to cut back on the amount of cinnamon they were using and things like that because it because of the damage to the liver Salon cinnamon is a totally different product comes from a different plant it does not have such an intense bite to it it's milder and it has almost no coumarin in it so it's a different product if someone's concerned about the cinnamon this would be the way to go but again you could leave it right out of the recipe and the recipes still very young oh good so I'm just gonna sprinkle this just a little bit on the top nice and then this will go in the oven and like I said it could be it could be refrigerated overnight microwaved in the morning how long do you leave it in the oven it's cooks for 1 hour 1 hour ok and the milk we had the milk a little bit warm so if you wanted to warm it in a pot or in the microwave a little bit just to give it that jumpstart in the oven and make sure everything is good and cooked after that hour we want a long slow cook our grains nice very delicious all right well we have a copy do we have one that display version okay oh look at that and then which people could do after we after they take it out of the oven just scoop it out and if they like it a little moister add a little bit more milk or some of that maple nut soft-serve on top of that oh yeah or even some applesauce yeah nice if you like it chewy eat it just as it is oh that's great yes great yummy yummy let's look at our next recipe it's going to be the kinwa breakfast bowl and the ingredients are one cup of quinoa uncooked 2 cups of water 1/2 cup of dried apricots cut into small pieces 1/2 cup of raisins 1/2 cup of nuts chopped 1/2 cup of pumpkin or other seeds 2 cups of non-dairy milk and stevia to taste quinoa breakfast bowls like that's so great breakfast is so important and it's quick and it's easy and you can pre prepare it correct absolutely it's a win-win it's a win-win yeah and you know the nice thing about quinoa is not only is it good for breakfast you could make a big batch of it and then use it on your stir-fry almost any way that you would use rice except the quinoa is higher in protein than rice higher in fiber than rice it's rich in minerals so one cup of quinoa cooked has 8 grams of protein Wow in 5 grams of fiber plus all the minerals so it's just a really excellent product yes and if you don't want to use wheat as much some people are gluten sensitive if you don't want to lose weight quinoa is a great alternative is it is gluten free yeah you are right so great one of the things that MIT turns people off from quinoa they may have tried cooking it and didn't rinse it there is a naturally occurring substance on the outside of the grain as it's happening hmm and it has a little bit of a bitter flavor so if your package of quinoa does not say pre-rinsed on it then you want to put it in a sieve rinse it really well stir it with a spoon while you're running in under the water until the water is coming out clear and that removes the bitterness and greatly enhances the flavor at the quinoa what a great tip oh yeah that's a great tip because I have seen pre-rinsed before and if it's not it's bitter that is right and so if someone's buying it in bulk it's not going to be more interested in some packaged brands are not rinsed yet mine better safe than sorry rinse if you're not sure okay okay so it's a fast cooking grain okay so if you want to go ahead and put this in our posh sure just there we go and then we're going to add our water to that mm-hmm now Yvonne if you would just put it on the burner sure and what we would want to do would be to cover it put the burner on bring it to a simmer and then let it simmer for about 10 to 15 minutes we want to make sure that all the liquid is absorbed and then we know it's done much like cooking rice okay okay same principle same principle only faster is it so you covered the quinoa with the water just like you would rice yes and it's one cup of quinoa to two cups of water okay but after it cooks you end up with close to four cups of cooked products oh you grab that bowl over there of the done quinoa we'll just take a look at what it's the finished product is like so you can see that it's very soft yeah and fluffy kind of like couscous kind of like couscous my only whole grain mm-hmm but again stir-fry put your stir-fry on mm-hmm but today we're gonna eat it as a breakfast grain so here's what we're gonna do I'm gonna let you make up a little breakfast oh gosh here okay so you'd want to if if we were doing it according to the recipe we would have about 1 cup of quinoa in the bowl okay so I'll just add a little bit more of that okay okay and then we're just gonna round out another one dish meal not love it love it dried fruits and we've got some raisins for iron I'll just use this sure mm-hmm and then we have some dried apricots here love it very high in vitamin C Oh beta-carotene haven't Laver oh there's yeah let's not forget flavor and then any kind of nut would work we do have walnuts here today mhm and then we have some sunflower seeds these are just raw sunflower seeds and someone prefers them toasted you could just lightly toast them in a dry skillet and give them that little extra crunch but we like to eat them raw yes so breakfast in a bowl love it and then we'll just add some non-dairy milk to that mmm it's a very delicious meal just like that now the dried fruit makes it nice and sweet right but if it's not sweet enough for some we have some stevia here but very concentrated mm-hm so we would just want to put a small pinch and then stir it in stevia is so sweet I mean it it's unbelievably sweet I am I use the liquid stevia and I love lemonade so I'll take the dried lemon you know you can buy it in packet so because we travel a lot yeah so buy that and take the packets and then just add liquid stevia drops and water purified water lemonade so stevia is wonderful this stevia that we just used is the powdered either one is fine it at first it might have a little aftertaste you know with steam you might have to get used to it but the drops I got used to right away so and there's different brands yes so you could try that's true there is a different flavor on the different brands yes if you don't watch one try another yes don't give up on your stevia that's right yeah and the dry fruits are really sweet and the ancient Egyptian kings would actually have them put dried fruits in their tombs with them they were such a valued product huh and they have a great shelf life and if you're traveling and you can't bring a lot of fresh fruit with you dried fruit is a wonderful alternative high in iron right and I and iron excellent stuff great that's great okay let's take a look at our next recipe garbanzo bean waffles the ingredients are 2 to 2 and 3/4 cups water 1 cup of regular rolled oats or buckwheat one cup of soaked garbanzo beans or soy beans 1/2 cup of coconut optional 2 tablespoons of sweetener 1 teaspoon of vanilla optional and 1/2 teaspoon of salt garbanzo bean waffles I'm just a little I'm trying to wrap my mind around beans and waffles but I'm trusting you because so far your recipes have been yummy ok so I'm trusting you so tell us about the ingredients and then we'll talk some more ok well I did bring these waffles for my team we'll tell you more about the team a little later yeah I just serve them at breakfast and I asked them guess what's in them mmm they thought they were regular waffles made with wheat flour and all that so ok nothing about turning them into a waffle just makes them you can't tell what you know it's great because you're you're it's a healthy dish and again we'll talk about the ingredients in a bit but it's healthy and it's breakfast it's breakfast go so well in it so we have some garbanzos Oakley's we just soaked overnight triger bronzy buy in any grocery store if you need to quick soak them bring them to a simmer take it off the stove let them set for 1 hours just the same as soaking them overnight so we've got one soaked garbanzos here then we have 1 cup of oats our unbleached sugar here mm-hmm a little bit of salt coconut is optional in this recipe we're going to leave it out thank you because I'm allergic to coconut cupcakes so and I want to taste it which means we're going to use less water the recipe called for 2 to 2 and 3/4 cups we're going to lean toward the two and we'll check it as we go okay we're gonna start with a little less than what we think we need okay and then we will play with it and that's great you can adjust like some people like me are allergic to coconut and so you don't have to have it in there but absolutely we like coconut it's probably a great addition yes so if it's too thick you add water and if it's too thin do you add more Oh so do you if you can't do the coconut what you put add you could add a little more oats I think the best thing to do would be to start with less water hmm and then just watch your blender right when you make the waffles if they come out a little heavy and dense mm-hmm for your second one add a little bit water tablespoon or two whiz it up again and then do it so you after your first one you kind of will get a feel for if that's right for that batter right so we're just gonna give it a quick spray huh this recipe does not work well in a Belgian waffle maker oh this needs to be your traditional sized waffle okay you always start in the center guide in this right here you don't want to go all the way to the end right because it will explode out of your waffle iron Wow now the beans in here actually act like a leavening when they cook they will they they expand even though they're even though they're blended up like this I try to avoid using baking powder and baking soda in my recipes because those destroy the B vitamins in our food okay so these are actually a steam raised waffle haha so the steam is actually puffing it up yes not if you know you can see my steam here it's going that's right yeah well it's the same and you can actually see can you see how it's lifted the plates I can is risen inside here see the port your plates come down flat in a very short time yeah you're raised okay it takes about four minutes so I want to talk a little bit about these waffles they freeze very well you know dad is a great feature because you can buy when you buy frozen waffles they have all this junk in them you know my rule of thumb is if you can't pronounce what's in your food don't die they have all these ingredients this is so healthy it has whole whole food in in here and then you can freeze them so you don't have to eat them all at once that's right you can have them for another day that's that's a win-win - yes I love that so you're making the breakfast easy for it's got to be easy and then to reheat them so if you froze them just plug your waffle iron in for maybe a minute pull it out just like your store-bought waffles just put it in here for maybe a minute and they come out as crisp and nice as if you've just made them huh you don't have to respray the waffle iron which means you don't have to rewatch your mom so it's another fast way to do your breakfast right you'd have it right there and you know it's good to get that fiber we've been talking about it not this new beans have that extra fiber you also have that protein boost and for people with diabetes or something like you know it's a lifestyle disease beings are actually a very nice addition to a breakfast and this way they're hidden in your waffle yes yes because again beans can slow down the digestion of glucose the assimilation of glucose that's right oh that really helps the fiber it's got fiber and protein beans so you're getting the twofer that's right that's right and if you don't really taste garbanzo beans in your waffles it's like that's like a win-win - absolutely great that's great no I have tried making these with other beans and grains my favorite way to make them mm-hmm I'm just watching my light here yeah my favorite way to make them is with soaked soybeans and instead of oats I use buckwheat groats oh that's actually what I served my team I had no idea that it was soy and buckwheat sand most people would say so and buckwheat yeah but it becomes indistinguishable right and you also you're not using genetically modified so that's correct because that is right big thing recently you know the discussion here's a plate - OH see that's a real mom right there who can touch a hot wok [Laughter] can you see Avon can you see all the air holes in these yeah they are light I'm gonna take first feet okay we're gonna make toppings for them in just a minute but if you want as a fresh good ways I'll wait for the top okay you're gonna wait for the to go wait for this all right that's gonna be our next recipe Oh seeing perfect segue that's right yes let's look at our next recipe apricot sauce and the ingredients are one and a quarter cups of pineapple bits 1/2 cup of dried apricots one medjool date 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla and one tablespoon of lemon juice I love apricot oh good when I was little well actually all through from when I was little to when I was grown my grandmother used to make these puffs we call them peach puffs but yeah apricots in a mile no we calling people but anyway it was dried and she would put vanilla and sweetener in there and and cook it and then put it in dough and bake it Oh so every time I see apricots it conjures up those feelings from my grandmother who made the apricot the peach puffs I wonder if this filling that we're going to make here what could actually be used in something like that so you've got me thinking for my laboratory yes it is worth the try and we'll make apricot peach puffs yeah okay so our apricot sauce is a wonderful topping for these waffles okay or just on toast if somebody wanted to make sweet rolls they could use a bread dough roll it out on a big rectangular thin and then spread some of this sauce on there sprinkle some chopped walnuts or pecans in there roll it up slice it up and make sweet rolls with this sauce but it's a pretty versatile sauce it sounds good and you could always eat it with a spoon if you really [Laughter] which I sometimes do okay so we have our apricots here why you know those are just dried they're not cooked or anything else dried up just dried apricots of course without the pits okay it's nice if you can get them unsullied it's a little hard to find the ones over but if you can find them unsullied they're not going to have the same bright color but it's actually a better product right and then we're just gonna add one date and we have removed the pit from that those dates are so sweet they're so sweet and they're so good you don't need but so much you're trying to if you're trying not to have it too too too sweet one date should do it it should do it and I was really surprised we've been doing diabetes classes mm-hmm and a comment was made that I checked up on that dates actually have a low glycemic index low glycemic load so it's got to be because of the fiber and that's slowing down of the absorption of the sugar right so they are an excellent sweetener superior to sugar because of the fiber any other nutrients that you're gonna find just in the natural fruit right right I would not have thought that it's low on the glycemic index I was very surprised to find that that is good good information okay then we have a little bit of lemon juice which gives a little more zip to those apricots which already have a nice little zip they do they do especially the tried one huh and then we have a vanilla now this is clear vanilla yeah you know I've been noticing that it was clear and that's interesting because I haven't seen a clear vanilla before so you y'all thought I forgot my vanilla and with substitution I'm glad to know that this is real vanilla this is real vanilla okay so you got our clear vanilla okay I love vanilla too it just enhances everything it does just takes a little - mm-hmm and then we have our pineapple and these are just pineapple tidbits you could use pineapple chunks imagine could even use fresh pineapple if you'd like mm-hmm and also unsweetened right so it's sweetened in their own juice just in their own juice good now what we've done is we've drained the can because we don't want to use all this liquid we want this to be a thick sauce not runny mm-hmm so we've reserved the pineapple juice on the side so that we can adjust it how we'd like to have it so I'm going to put half of it back in so that we're able to blend mm-hmm and then we can add more as we think we'd like it mm-hmm so again a powerful blender comes in handy if you do not have a powerful blender just soak those dried fruits and the pineapple juice or with the pineapple for half an hour or so and let them soften up mm-hmm I will say that buying quality kitchen tools makes spending time in the kitchen a whole lot nicer yes and you know we find money for the things that are really important to us and I honestly would not enjoy cooking in my kitchen if I didn't have sharp knives good blender yes you know quality cookware and you don't have to have the most expensive but we want to get the best quality we can afford I agree it makes it I some of these things like recently I got the one of those instant it's my it's my favorite toys what did i do before I got it it's a pressure cooker it's a slow cooker it's a saute or it does all of that and I mean I've been getting it from gifts and as gifts I think it's fab it's great because it cuts down your kitchen time you don't want to be in the kitchen forever that's why these dishes are so great you're making breakfast dishes that can be made and pre-prepared this is great because nobody well except people who love to be in the kitchen that's true but if you're really busy mm-hmm you don't have time to just stay in the kitchen all the time so this is perfect this is really perfect and we don't have time to be sick yeah I mean we might say well you know I don't have time to eat a healthy breakfast I'm gonna live on doughnuts and pastries and all those other things but if you don't have time to be healthy now you will take time to be recuperating later that's right you're gonna pay at one end or the other one under the other you're gonna be and you know sometimes people will say well the dried fruits or the fresh fruits or the nuts are expensive you're just you're just investing ahead of time so that you don't have to pay later mm-hm and if you can you know get a membership in one of these warehouse type buying places where you can buy your nuts in a three or five pound bag and your dried fruits and vegetables in a large frozen bag the price is going to come down that's right and and they and they will last a long time a bag of apricots dried apricots if we're using very small amounts yeah ask you a long time yeah you're stretching the expense out and you're in you're saving your health that's right and money without health what good is it what good is it what good is it this is great this is great information and yummy and yummy that's why that's the babies have had little chance to soak here so let's see how we do turn that down so we don't explode [Music] okay I think we don't need any more liquid in there that's right and if we wanted it thicker a little less juice okay I'm gonna pour it in here and then we'll let you have some okay why they pour it this way so I'll just take a little edge I'm okay okay we'll just do that for now mmm all right I'm gonna just pre-cut it I should have rewarmed your waffle well that's all right I'm just gonna use my fingers as I'm the one eating that's it all right let me give you some okay let me give you some sauce to do yeah mm-hmm that's the test okay okay very good tell it it's me with beans no you cannot mm-hmm and those beans like I said give it the airiness that's why all these air holes are in here cuz the beans just steamed up mmm you like apricots so it works this is so good really you definitely want to try this and in and then if you wanted more on there again some chopped nuts on there would also make it very nice and then on the side you'd have a really lovely meal that's so good and you can freeze this that's look now can you freeze the sauce or no I would think yes I have never tried we eat it mmm but there is absolutely no reason why that sauce could not be frozen oh that's clear freeze it in smaller amounts and just take it out or put it in the microwave to defrost it real fast I love it that's great well let's go to our next round okay okay it's going to be glorified applesauce topping and the ingredients are one and a half cups of unsweetened applesauce one half cup of blueberries frozen or fresh 1/4 cup of raisins and 1/4 cup of reduced sugar dried cranberries mm-hmm I love every ingredient in there I do I love that well this is a recipe that the four-year-old can make okay all right yeah mom's making waffles yes toddler or the young child can be making this for the waffle topping love it all right so we have some no sugar apple sauce here and it's already pretty naturally sweet so you really don't have to add a sweetener that's right but I'll tell you what this tried fruits gonna make it sweeter Oh that'd be so good absolutely love that blueberries I have blueberries almost every day is that right they're great for the brain oh they're great for they have something called proanthocyanidins and then that they're just anti-carcinogenic they're just really really good for you so I have frozen blueberries with walnuts just about every day and love it you can use frozen blueberries in this recipe oh no problem just make it the night before and in the morning the blueberries when they defrost in this are almost like fresh mmm so you can go ahead and you we had these beautiful fresh ones but frozen is how I normally make them at home good so you were talking about phytochemicals weren't you oh yes there are all kinds of phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables and if we increase our fruits and vegetables that's just one basic thing you can do to get healthier yes it makes such a huge difference like the blueberries like the blueberries yes you know I have a note here the World Health Organization says that 2.7 million could be lives could be saved if people increase their fruits and vegetables Wow so no raisins yeah again sweet okay and then we have reduced sugar yes and that's important because the less processed sugar you eat the better colorful sure is let this set overnight coming up those truths on your waffle oh hey you know what we should try it on my walk colorful and they you know different fruits and different fruits and dried fruits could all be added in yeah yes let's try it all right then we're gonna let people know now that hasn't had a chance to soak so it's gonna be a little bit chewy that's okay let's try it all right the dark fruits like that are especially rich in vitamins so the blueberries and the dried cranberries very very good it's got the sweet tart thing going on Wow cranberry right yes this has only 43 calories in a quarter of a cup if you have two tablespoons of butter and two tablespoons of maple syrup on your waffle you have 300 calories so adding a fruit topping it really saves you a lot of calories as well as increased fiber more minerals and vitamins mmm is so so good you're gonna have to make this at home how often do you make this for your family oh we eat waffles do you yes regularly most of this food are staple foods in our home as much as I love to cook I still like it to keep it simple mm-hmm it's got to be fast and easy I don't want to be sleeping in the kitchen and want to cook and eat mmm yes the challenge is to not okay what we want to do is let people know how to reach you okay because you're gonna want these recipes you're gonna want to get in touch with Leslie so this is how you reach her if you are interested in inviting Leslie kaiza to your church for a cooking seminar or to help your community to attain a healthier lifestyle you can contact her at 4 204 Jackson Avenue memphis tennessee 38134 Jackson Avenue memphis tennessee 3 8 1 2 8 you can call her at 7:30 1 7 9 8 1 106 that 731 7 9 8 11:06 or you can email her at leslie dot CA za @ gmail.com [Music] look at all these beautiful meals tell us what you made today all right we have a French Toast Casserole with the pineapple topping our maple nut soft-serve then we have our baked breakfast grains with the quinoa and the and the steel-cut oats we have a quinoa breakfast bowl with the fruit in the nuts our waffles apricot sauce mmm and glorified apple sauce wonderful this is so good you have to try these and in fact you have a cookbook I do tell us about the cookbook the cookbook has about 160 recipes in it 130 of them are gluten free for those who need that and we didn't plan it that way that just the way it worked out so they're yummy and many of them are gluten free and there's a big variety from breakfast to desserts oh that's so good if you're transitioning and you want to know how to cook some really good vegan meals get our cookbook and just practice make it you know make your kitchen your laboratory there we go you had a wonderful team that assisted you tell us a little bit about them as well - precious sisters in the Lord Angela hide and loseth Jones have joined Mila Seth was here last time I was here they know how to cook they know how to decorate I'm just supportive prayerful great prayer team yes amen what's your next move tell us your next step with simply vegan in like 10 seconds we just hope to enlarge it as far as getting people in from the community which is why we're expanding we are expanding in our library outreach and things like that to try to just get the public aware that's great that's great awareness is key testis recipes try them on your families they will love them thank you so much for joining us join us next time on 3abn today cooking [Music] you

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Published: Wed Feb 19 2020