Meet My Sweet Husband And Hear His Thoughts About Traditional Foods and More!

well ted and i wanted to wish you a very merry christmas and we also wanted to spend a little time with you so that you could get to know my sweet husband a little better [Music] hi sweet friends i'm mary and this is my sweet husband ted and welcome to mary's nest where i teach traditional cooking skills for making nutrient-dense foods like bone broth ferments sourdough and more so if you like to learn about those things consider subscribing to my channel and don't forget to click on the little notification bell below that'll let you know every time i upload a new video well for those of you have been with me for a while you may have already seen the video where i talked a little bit about how i met my sweet husband i met him at the airport as a matter of fact and you may have even seen him in a video or two where he is my wonderful taste tester but what i thought would be fun is as we go into this christmas season to have him here with me and let you get to know him a little better and if you've not seen the video where i shared how we met uh at my perspective i'll be sure to link to that in the i icards and in the description below so as i said my husband and i met at the airport we met at the airport in austin texas when we were both traveling and i've shared my perspective in that previous video but i thought it might be fun for you all to hear about from my husband his perspective about when we met that was the best flight ever i i remember it was so unusual because my uh i usually would travel with my mom by car to houston and to visit my aunt who lived in houston as well and and we used to do this on a regular basis but then one time i don't know maybe i was having car trouble or was concerned about my car or something about the weather i wasn't sure but we said well let's let's fly down right and uh so we got tickets on southwest airlines and it was what a pleasant surprise that was because i ran into my beautiful sweet lady met her at the airport we started chatting she was traveling with her folks on our trip and we just started chatting together and how how wonderful that was we were actually going down to uh my mom and i were going down to my my aunt's wedding in houston and it was just wonderful that we were able to uh to chit chat together and get to know each other and then i exchanged business cards that's right we exchanged business cards we were able to keep in touch and and one thing led to another and and and while i'm the happiest man and i'm the happiest woman but what was q2 was as ted mentioned we met on southwest airlines and if you look at like the little ticker thing that goes for the stock exchange that southwest airlines ticker symbol is love luv so it was nice that we exchanged business cards and ted had my telephone number and my email and when i got back from traveling with my parents and i checked my email i already had an email from him and he was like getting a dialogue going and we were chit-chatting and then we made plans to get together and before we knew it we were full-blown dating right that was fantastic yeah it was neat i remember we had some wonderful dates in austin and um enjoyed enjoyed coffee and we both had coffee and snickerdoodles which my sweet lady has made for me over the years and also has a nice recipe you've shared with the others as well um and we've had we had a wonderful time dating yeah it was nice had a really really good uh really good time it just seems it's many many moons ago yeah we've been married over 20 years fantastic yeah those 20 years went and and it really was you know as we we've shared with our son uh who i i have a video an upcoming video uh where i uh i'm talking with my son so that you can get to know him better as well our son and he's in his mid-20s now but what was cute was that uh we were sharing with him how now that he's older i we didn't say this so much i think when he was a teenager but we had a bit of a whirlwind courtship didn't we that's very true wow that was just a few dates and then we got married it was just amazing yeah really really and we were a little older yes so i've i've shared with the folks in in that previous video my husband is actually 10 years younger than me uh but uh i was you know up there basically but i knew right away it was very cute because after our first date uh tell them what you were thinking when you were driving home oh i thought yeah it was a wonderful date but maybe i i don't know i'm more of an introvert than my sweet lady who's a much much more wonderful extrovert and so i thought well that was a nice date but i don't know will i will i see her again you know would she be interested in seeing me again and so so i kind of drove away thinking well i don't know if i'll see her again but uh but it worked out wonderfully yeah we did and i told him i don't know if i told you this before or after we got married but uh when i was driving home after our first date oh my goodness he i just thought he was such a gem he was nice looking he was smart we had a lot in common and i was driving home and i liked him so much after that first date and i said to myself i'm not going to let him get away i wonder when he's going to propose and he was thinking are we going to have another date she's nice but geez will she go out with me again and i was thinking when's he going to propose i don't want to lose this fella that was nice we uh we had a lot of things in common which was which was wonderful it uh it's really great uh you know our faith our outlook on life and and then we were blessed with a son after marriage it was just magnificent uh it it really is it was the best flight ever yeah it was that was and it really was a blessing because i was in my 40s when ben was born and we really didn't know you know we kind of had to take we took a leap of faith getting married because we had a short courtship and then we just said well and ted was so sweet you know especially marrying somebody older i was a little worried because i said oh i'd love to have children but i just don't know you know given my age and you were so sweet because you said i remember you said well don't worry if we have children that'll be wonderful but if not we'll have a wonderful life together and i thought that was very kind and then it was just a few weeks after we got married and next thing i knew we were going to have a baby it was a whirlwind you're kind because i you're in such a catchy no i couldn't let you get away i don't know it's just it's amazing when uh when you know your wife is perfect right isn't it something where you know uh when you know the other person is just everything they do is wonderful i remember you had a phrase called hang the moon i think it would say oh i can't do something like that oh i felt that you hung the moon yeah yeah i thought that was that was nice yeah yeah you were just a wonderful lady oh thank you honey yeah no that's how i think when we after we got married we both realized and of course you know nobody's perfect but it's very nice when in the eyes of your spouse they think you you're perfect and i think yeah after we got married i i was telling i was saying to teddo i just feel like you hung the moon you're just perfect and you were surprised yeah yeah because i always you know going through life i was always very exacting on things you know having a kind of a computer background um i always you know thought things had you know you're the right the program would run or not or you know there'd be a bug or not and whatnot and it was nice having a realization with you that you're you're perfect i mean you're um everything you know you do everything about you is just wonderful and it's nice when you have that feeling and it really is well you're very kind in in saying about being perfect but i uh because i do you know a lot of traditional foods and all of that uh what were your thoughts uh i know you like some things like ben and my my son will share in the other video the traditional foods he liked and didn't like but i know you two have one thing in common and that's neither of you are fans of kiefer or kefir some people say kavir neither of you are fans of that and he tried it and didn't like it i don't think you ever tried it because it was made from raw milk but what were your thoughts when i got the grains and how i you can share how i got them i tell you i i i don't know maybe it's just the uh the growing up with reading about luis pasteur a lot and you always the raw milk i i couldn't i couldn't make that leap of faith but they're all i'm so glad i know all the benefits i read all the benefits and and i know that it's helped you and helped spend tremendously right he's never had a cavity he knows strong bones um it's more nutritious for you i understand all those things but i i just never had well not made that leap of faith and yeah those those grains you're talking about and it came in the mail or something i i don't know i just i just said i don't know about these things and and so god bless you though and and again i see i see you making them i see the benefits i see your your viewers doing the same you know following the recipes and and growing their own uh but yeah i just it's not at least raw milk that and i also must say one of the scariest things that you've you've made that i've been very afraid of is the kombucha my god that uh what is that thing that the scoby that thing is huge um i mean one of the videos there where you're holding this enormous uh container uh and it has a that's scooby you're massive and you know we used to have you remember early on in our marriage you had you were making kombucha or something it was inside of a container and it had a lid on it not not a screw top lead but one of those lids that you pop into the opening on top and i think we were sitting around once uh enjoying meal or talking or something here's loud pop and we're thinking what is that noise we were looking around there and the and the scooby i guess had grown enough to to try to uh escape you know it popped the top off and so i said i don't know it's it's not something i've tried but again i understand the benefits i know you enjoy [Music] well you know i i remember this is so long ago i uh sally fallon's book nourishing traditions which i really like a lot that i think you know that um as i talk about it a lot but something that was very funny was that book came out in 1999 and she was talking about kefir in the book i had never heard of this but i went onto the computer and there was no facebook there was nothing like that the only thing that i remember there being would have been yahoo right it would have been yahoo and i like searched on yahoo like nourishing traditions to try and find like a little group to participate in so i find this little group there's you know like a handful of people in this group and i type in you know does anybody know what kefir is does anybody have grains that you'd share you couldn't buy these things like you can today and a lady in new mexico where in texas and a lady in new mexico contacted me and she said i have some and i can share them with you so i said great you know what uh how much do your money do you want me to send you for them she said oh no don't worry about it they grow and i have a lot uh just uh send me uh like a self-addressed stamped envelope and a dollar twenty five a sun i think it was for postage okay so i send this to her and then i get an envelope back do you remember in the mail and in the envelope is a plastic bag filled with some raw milk and the kefir grains and they look like little cauliflower things and i remember you saying you don't know do you remember you don't know this person and i never what are those things and they've come through the mail have they gone bad they've not been refrigerated that's for sure it's really funny because we were so different we have a lot in common but we were so different on those things right yeah growing up and i said oh it'll be fine don't worry about it but i've come around to a lot of the restaurants oh yeah it's funny i've always thought of food as being fuel right so i just would eat you know eat just to eat uh just needing to eat but uh but you've got your beautiful meals that you made over the years uh and i remember some of the ones that you've made fortunately with all the recipes that you found my i enjoy a lot of the foods afterwards and you made some i never thought i would like it uh beat uh beethoven or beat that was the pickled beef oh the pickled beets yes oh my god i've never been a beet fan but those were outstanding i enjoyed that and then the other the piccolo oh sorry that's my phone the pickled vegetables and and the cauliflower and all that oh i just love those yeah the fermented jardiniere a tortilla with some turkey slices and the giardiniera the fermented jar ah magnificent and and you you really like bone broth and do you remember benjamin was drinking it but you hadn't had any bone broth yet you might have had it like in soups or things like that uh but do you remember the one time you had a cold and you came into the kitchen maybe you can share yeah yeah i wasn't feeling well and i think that you know i i heard a bone broth before but must thought of it like as a base for soups or whatnot and so to drink it by itself just seemed unusual to me but uh it wasn't feeling well and my wife always has some remedy up her sleeve uh and they always want to make me feel better so she said i'm gonna give you some bone broth and let me uh she warmed it up on the stove it was frozen in there in the little two cup containers and it was beef and you warmed it up in the stove and then put in a bowl and and sprinkled some of the sea salt on top of it and it was magnificent it was delicious and i i felt better you know i don't know if it was uh also having the warm you know the warmth of it the taste and helping me uh feel a little bit better there but then i quickly polished it off and i asked for some more yeah yeah and it was uh i love i love all the types of bone broth that you make you do you like the fish bone broth standing i i really love is um what's that white fish you have and you make a um oh like a boolean i think what you call it but that is magnificent they have oh i'm glad you enjoyed those honey now thinking of other traditional foods i think you were familiar with sourdough sourdough bread before we got married but not it having been baked or anything at home more that you and your dad i think both like sourdough bread and i what were you exposed to were you in san francisco or that's probably yeah i think when i was younger i'd taken a a trip with my dad uh to uh san francisco san francisco bay we had i eaten of course sourdough bread there and i think we had it every once in a while my dad used to take me maybe saturday mornings growing up we'd go to a little diner and read the newspaper together and have you know mexican skillets with sourdough bread or tortillas with them and so yeah we didn't eat sourdough a lot so when you introduced me to it freshly baked uh the taste was fantastic i remember the first one that you made the first bowl that you made in the in the oven it came out outstanding i think we gobbled that up hot fresh sourdough bread and so that's that's amazing that's fantastic and my wife always has some um sourdough starter waiting in the wings there and all that remember we did a series he did a series on how to use the starter because because you had gotten uh comments from folks saying you know i have to feed it a lot what do i do with with all of it oh the discard i don't want to throw it out you've done some delicious things that i i all enjoyed all the flat breads the pancakes and the pancakes and the waffles yeah so with the sourdough i i really like that that's excellent and knowing that it's better for you and you actually feel feel good after you eat that as opposed to maybe just you know regular white bread and whatnot uh it's it's a nice health my dad that's benefit rising oh yeah that was so kind of you to do that my dad i remember him always talking about how he loved him yeah loved eating that growing up in west virginia and uh and it was so he treasured his uh because it just reminded me him of this youth and um we had passed but you would you would you remembered at that and you made that uh found the recipe and worked through it uh to to you make a beautiful loaf of uh salt rising bread for him so thank you thank you for that my love we uh we have a uh it's nice we our relatives in west virginia i used to uh my wife and i were fortunate to to go with my dad to meet together while he was alive and my cousin my wife's mentioned this a few times has sent a some honey from uh when raising bees and i remember once when i was i was working up uh in the northeast and driving through on the way home from west virginia when i was younger in in college and uh visiting uh my cousin and he was showing me all the the bee but they have been hives that they have there and you can they're in wood and you pull them apart in different segments and he showed me an old one there and there's this uh a mouth mouse in it and i thought so a very cute uh very cute creature but he got a he ended up getting a two by four and he dispatched it uh and i was shocked and i didn't i said well why did you uh why did you dispatch it there and he said well they're you know they're pests they eat food uh you know the food that we have and then i understood you know it's funny you don't you don't think about it you think they're cute little creatures but you don't understand that you know pests eat um either food that's that that you need to sustain your yourself and your family over the winter time and especially west virginia and all that uh many years ago um that uh that really stuck to me i i really understood that so so that's that's nice thank you for that for keeping you know keeping these old traditions alive you know the old recipes alive um and i know your viewers who write your comments and send you notes and all that really you know have a love of that they really appreciate that because that's uh you know something that people you know in their fast-paced life or or attention to other things may tend to to not appreciate or forget about and you're keeping to keep that alive for folks yeah that's so important you know i've shared this with you in the past it's so important to me to really keep those traditional foods and the and the traditional food preparations alive and to teach younger generations so that we don't lose these things because as my husband was mentioning with the salt rising bread that my father-in-law grew up with and and he was great i i wish that i had had this youtube channel earlier so that i could have shared him with you so that you could have gotten to know him he was an agronomist in the study of crops right is that what it stands for study of crops and he just had such a wonderful knowledge uh about crops and about grains and whole grains it was fantastic but and he and i we always had a lot of fun talking about that talking more you surfer started talking to him about ein yes yeah that was something new yeah that he had not studied in college right yeah yeah when i mentioned to him about eincorn because it had kind of just been rediscovered and he was like oh this is really interesting and we really started talking a lot about it foreign language yeah and we'd have a lot of fun but he would always talk about this salt rising bread and i actually tried once this is years ago and i had tried it while he was still alive but if benjamin was a baby then and i think i kind of forgot i was like letting it ferment and rise you know you i have the video now you know where i show you how to make it i'm a lot more experienced but that was probably you know uh 20 years ago and uh i think i let it ferment too long and then i went to check on it and it was like all bubbled over i remember it was a real mess and i was saying to my father-in-law how do you addy and i didn't know his cousins i didn't really know the cousins yet i had met one at the wedding but i didn't but it was a man you know and so he wasn't really doing so much of the cooking and my father-in-law couldn't quite remember how it was made and i and there was nothing on the internet that i could find and was trying to like cobble this together and we only have a little community library out here so it's not like we have a big like new year i'm originally from new york you know new york public library i probably would have been able to find something but what was so funny because i was saying to my father-in-law how to do it you know how what did they do and he's like oh there was like a potato and cornmeal and you know and i was just trying to cobble something together and i never got it you know before he passed away and but then i stuck with it and i over the years i got to know ted's cousins in west virginia and they're just great you know they all uh you know live this really wonderful rural you know sort of homesteading life and i asked the women do you know about salt rising bread and they were like oh my gosh yes we grew up eating it they said but it's tough to make mary don't be hard on yourself it's hard to get it right and it's amazing that their ancestors pioneer women knew just the right spot on their um oh gosh what are they like the kind of stoves that you know they had the wood in their wood stove they knew just the right spot on their wood stove to get that to be just the right temperature and it's funny because it's called salt rising has nothing to do with salt but pioneer women as they had explained to me had like rock salt and it would be warm next to the wood stove and they would put the jar in there and it was just the right temperature it was very cute but they shared all of this with me but they were challenged making salt rise and bread and but the two girls started chatting amongst the women started chatting amongst themselves and trying to remember exactly what their mother had done what their grandmother what their aunt had done and we were like emailing back and forth and and trying to sort of cobble this recipe together so i finally said okay i'm going to give this a try i think i've got a much better handle on it than i did all those years ago and it was a success and it was so cute because the first time i wrote to your cousins and i sent them pictures and they were like you did it we can't believe it remember they were like you're one the first one in the family you know of this generation to like be successful with it so you can do it and but what's so exciting about salt rising bread is there's no cheese in it but it tastes like cheese bread and that's why your dad liked it so much and i don't remember him warning us oh my gosh it is a stinky breath the bread is not stinky once it's baked but the process and it was cute because i remember your cousin saying to me you know mary it's really cute when you talk with people about old-fashioned traditional recipes and really traditional you know we have a lot of modern conveniences today and we have ways to make things in a more modern way but i often do try i really love those old cookbooks whenever i see edited for modern kitchens or something that's such a turn off to me right i think i've shared this with you and i'm always like looking in the all really old cookbooks and the vintage cookbooks from the 1800s and the 1700s where you know people didn't have the modern communities because i want to know how did they do it you know how did they make these things but it was so cute because our cousins were saying to me they were trying to be gentle about it and they were saying oh you know we just wanted to let you know there may be an odor to the starter because you make a starter but it's a one-time starter it's not like sourdough and they're like it may be a little odor there may be you know maybe you want to open a window and then your youngest cousin was so cute because she said it stinks it's like bad she doesn't cut the mustard she is so much fun it doesn't mean swears yeah that's the right expression and she really made me laugh because she said be prepared it's like stinky socks and then there's another thing um another plant called ramps oh my goodness i guess that has an odor to it too so it's funny we remember these things from uh uh from west virginia but uh but but i mean that was a great that was a great recipe yeah the the salt riser it's great red it's grape bread if you can get the hang of it and i have a really detailed video we'll walk you through the whole process but what i love about ramps is uh there was an article and i can't remember if if it were like the new york times or the washington post you know one of the big cities and it was talk i think it was the new york times and it was talking about ramps and how the people in new york city and you're very sophisticated in going to the farmer's market and they were so happy to get ramps for the first of sorrows or fires going and they were so happy that the first signs of spring and they're cooking up their ramps and this was quite maybe 10 or so years ago when that concept of you know farm to table was becoming very popular and i think a lot of these and i can speak to this i'm a former new york city girl you never heard of rams you know i mean we were city people and it was so cute because they were saying in this article oh yes you know and the city people and their oh first signs of spring buying their ramps and going home and cooking them and so proud of their farm to table recipes well i was telling this i had not had ramps i was telling this to my father-in-law he couldn't stop laughing and he said god bless them and wait till they cook them and eat them they're delicious but they're going to stink to high heaven because when we were k she's this is him he said when we were kids anybody who ate ramps had to go sleep in the barn that night because they reeked of like a garlicky onions and i just thought that was so cute that they had to sleep in the barn and i think of all these city folk you know eating the ramps going my these are quite fragrant that was very blessed my my uh for my dad and for you sweetie because my dad i remember as an agronomist he he loved wanting the world to have enough to eat he always wanted people to not go hungry he wanted to make sure that we could produce enough food and crops efficiently and in in such abundance uh that we could feed the world we could feed the united states we could feed the entire world and so that was he was very uh very focused on wanting to do that you know i think how wonderful it is that i would i was able to find you my my love and and you also want to you also want to help people you know eat nutritiously and and preserve the the old uh ways of making traditional foods and whatnot and and helping other people so it's amazing i um blessed with that thank you very much oh yeah i i always enjoyed uh with your dad because he had a love of finding the old books too about the farming methods that people used in the 1800s and it's cute because i remember we'd go over to your parents house and your dad when we discovered that you could buy used books on amazon and he had found this book from the 1800s talking about uh you know the farming practices and different things they did with crops and i remember when we walked in the door he was like mary mary come here come here i got to show you this you know in the book that he had got and talking about we really he and i both had such an interest in that but he yeah he really had such a love of of just exactly what you talked about finding ways to uh how best to grow crops and and crop rotation and incorporating animals and you really just thought incorp you know incorporating animals into the agricultural picture and their the benefits that they brought and but yeah he was just such a farmer at heart he really was he really loved really loved the farm the uh one of the neat thing that you've you've introduced me to many me the one thing i've never been exposed to before was canning home canning always thought it was done either in a big factory somewhere or done in some you know very rural area but you you enjoyed canning you knew a lot about it and you started canning a lot of delicious delicious things in particular i didn't realize how much in jam how much sugar goes into jam and holy mackerel that marmalade jam yeah marmalade i never realized that and and when you make your own jam uh you've made a couple of different recipes you have a low sugar and a no sugar one those taste just as good as the ones with tremendous amounts of sugar in them so how neat it is i didn't realize you know the canning how to can before so i i learned as as you went along and made these things and and uh and was able to enjoy the the fruits of that yeah it's funny too because uh given our backgrounds you know we're both kind of suburban raised kids and then as an adult i lived and worked in new york city and i grew up right outside of new york city and you know i had so you know i was in new york city a lot you know as a kid and you had a basic you know suburban upbringing uh more or less and lived but lived close to a city and so here it it was funny finding ourselves both now married and living in a smaller town you know a little farther from the city and really starting to embrace the gardening and although you're very good you're always saying you know i i do all kinds of different things outside and ted is always great because he says oh the garden's yours whatever you want to do and then you know even though i had been exposed to a lot of things with my mom you know with traditional foods and cooking she taught me how to cook and garden and can you know as a young single woman i wasn't really doing these things and so it was kind of fun moving out here to this small town and it's grown now you know over the years but it was a small town when we first got here and sort of bringing those things back to life the gardening and and the canning you know that that's really been a lot of fun with the this is a crazy year oh gosh yes but when the silver lining is is our son was able to uh spend time with us for a lot of the time during that's been nice and then having uh i mean especially with the gardening with him i remember one of the videos mary and ben garden together planting some of the vegetable scraps that was really neat it was nice to see mom and son work together again after her son had grown up uh and because i remember back when he was a little guy enjoying being out in the garden with mom that's one of the nice things about uh you know always good to look at the silver linings getting to know especially after my dad passed getting to know our cousin my cousins in west virginia uh more uh our cousins in west virginia as well as uh that's my dad's side as well as my my cousins on my mom's side who are also around the united states as well so it's been a joy to get to know them more especially this year to talk with them more it's just that's just been a nice thing because i remember one thing my wife mentioned to me is that uh you know you always think of well you know oh wow back way back when that was that was the best of times wasn't that great when when you know 20 years ago or 10 years ago and and i know you emphasized to me you know these are the best of times yes these are the good old days yeah enjoy enjoy the time that you have now and uh and i certainly have enjoyed your delicious cookies but enjoying the time i i have with you my love and and with our son while he's here with us uh with with everything that's been going on uh just enjoy enjoy life and enjoy life true you helped me to become more optimistic uh through our marriage and i know you're you have a lot of positivity that really helps helps everybody yeah i know it's helped me because i again i've been an introvert and and perhaps uh more uh um more worried about the world and and whatnot when i was uh uh younger and and you helped me to to just to be you know i'll be positive be cheerful look at the wonderful things of the blessings that we have in life and and so thank you for that oh thank you honey you do a lot of that for me when i get worried he's always like oh give your worries to me i'll take care of it for you it's very kind of you and you know you mentioned your cousins on your mom's side of the family and we always say yes those are cousins on his side of the family or cousins on my side of the family but we always think of them as our cousins yeah because you know we're all basically related but uh your cousins or our cousins on your mom's side of the family are very interesting because on my husband's mother's side of the family he's of asian ancestry and it's just so much fun when those cousins have come to visit us because they know how to make so many unique foods that i was never exposed to before we got married and it was so cute now we haven't seen them this whole year but uh the you know in previous years when they would come to visit uh they would teach me so many recipes and i've also learned from your mom you know about dumplings and uh oh i have to tell you a funny story about making spring rolls with dumplings and uh oh gosh i can't even remember the the exact names of them you'll have to help me with that but like the little um pancakes yeah but it was so cute when ted and i first got married so uh my mother-in-law taught me how to make the dumplings and then she taught me how to make the little gosh i can't remember what they were called the little triangle thing yeah like wontons you know i think she had a different name for them but they they're very similar you use the wonton wrapper and we cooked those up and that was fun but it was so cute when she said oh you know ted really likes spring rolls and i'll show you how to make them and they're the ones that are made with the uh it's like uh like a little stretchy rice paper and you just i've i can't remember she dipped it in hot water or whatever i was a such a failure at it it was a comedy show yeah it was hard to pull apart so we put it down and then she shows me she's very good at it and she rolls it up and she says oh you can do it and my mother-in-law is the kind of person who's like you can do it don't worry about it you know and she's going i remember i took my mother-in-law is fluent in french and i took french for many years in school but it's been so many years and it was really cute because she would give me letters from her friends that would write to her and i'd say oh can you help you know she's like oh you can do it it'll come back to you you'll remember you know she's like a real cheerleader and so she gives me the rice paper and i'm trying to roll this thing and remember it was sticking to my fingers i've gotten better over the years but that was very funny and god blesses she's so patient she's looking at what i'm doing and she's like okay let's just adjust it a little but it's really been a lot of fun when our cousins have come you know and they're kind of all over the country but we had a family reunion with them a number of years ago and that was great because pretty much everybody was able to make it i think except one cousin who actually came a few weeks later so we just had kind of had her all to ourselves which is a lot of fun but it was just you know it's just very interesting uh hearing their stories because they're first generation americans and you know hearing their stories about coming to the united states and and the foods that they brought with them you know the the cooking traditions that they brought with them jackfruit yes this is enormous i think that's called a jacket i've never had that before yeah and uh and the asian pears which were delicious those are excellent yeah those are good a whole bunch of other different foods had and they were so happy because they found them at our grocery store i never tried before so you know which is interesting i am getting to know them better um one thing i i uh you know when my when my folks had gotten together uh getting married you know long long time ago it was not very common for people of different uh ethnic backgrounds to uh to get married and uh it was more of a maybe things were not always accepting uh for that and so um so i guess it was it was hard i mean hard for them but their love kept them together and strong growing up was not always easy but one of the greatest things that my wife gave to me is her love and uh and knowing that it uh her love helped me feel very uh very good about myself and and i want to thank you for that so i didn't i didn't get a um it wasn't until recently i feel uh having the opportunities to get to know my my mom's side or the family more and i feel i've missed out on many years i've not not been able to get to know them more and and now i'm happy to be able to do that little by little and step by step and enjoying it along the way with you my love as we as we both get to know uh more of the culture and the more of the foods on my mom's side so so thank you yeah it's a lot of fun i really learned a lot from your mom and your cousins about the different foods and they're just wonderful people wonderful and we really love them you know we're so blessed to have them in our lives tremendous love love of our country love love of family just tremendous love that they share with us and so so very blessed uh on my side of the family both my dad's side lots of love from west virginia there the love from my mom's side around the country i feel very very blessed and it's so sweet because you know they they love me you know just like if i were their blood relative they really embraced me and what's so cute is that uh they when they met my mom and they were calling her grandma it was just adorable and they were you know they really honor the elderly you know that's very culturally i think embreaded in them that they really honor the elderly and they were so kind or very kind obviously to my mother-in-law who's their aunt but they were just so kind to my mom and i remember we all we took them for texas barbecue and we had a lot of fun and they were just giving my mom so much attention and uh just really like the expression like just loving on her you know and it was really cute because the next day my mother said they're so nice they just love me so much they just love me so much you know but it's just been such a joy getting to know them and something that i'm so happy about because my parents raised me they just really they just always embraced all different cultures and you know and i think also too you know growing up in new york i was just exposed to a lot of different cultures and i uh it was funny because my father had been in the military for part of his life and had spent a lot of time in asia and it was cute because when we met and i just knew a lot of different things and whatnot and and you know about asia and it it never it's interesting because i think like you've shared you know being multi-racial and but growing up at a different time it was a little more difficult and i never thought about that you know i never it never crossed my mind you know he was just perfect to me and and it was funny because i remember you had a little concern you know about my parents you know just being older people and i will say you know like would they be a little uncomfortable you know about our courtship and i i remember it was funny because especially you know both my parents and they didn't matter to them at all but i remember it being cute given my age that i was older and i said oh my gosh are you kidding they're going to be so happy that i have somebody who wants to get married with me they love me very much yeah they loved you very much but and it was very cute because my my father has since passed away but uh my mom i think it was like right maybe after we got back from a honeymoon i can't remember exactly when this happened but it was very cute because i think i said something using the terminology son-in-law and my mother said oh no he's not my son-in-law he's my son and i thought that was very nice and it was very nice yeah that was that's one thing i wish and you always hear people say this but yeah i wish i got to know both my dad more and my father-in-law more while they were still alive so if that if you have any older uh older parents in your life and you have the opportunity to talk with them again yeah just check with chat with them a little bit more about uh what they remember in their old times and and who knows you might get some neat recipes out of it or or just at least get to know a little bit more about what they uh you know they're growing up because it's part of your heritage and so that's one thing i i i miss about our dads and i'm glad that we can spend some time chatting with our moms about it yeah it is that that's so true you just sometimes you think people are going to be with you for forever and they're not you know and then you miss out you know if you don't take advantage and it can be like 5-10 minutes you know it doesn't really it doesn't have to be it can be in small snippets of time just taking the time to get to know them better but something that i think is so beautiful is and i think that this made you very happy was how our son ben really embraced oh my goodness your culture or and from your mom's side i'm amazed because i again i was not i i did not embrace my my asian side of my culture growing up again just uh just things were not this not as they are today but my son loves asia and asian cultures and how that fills me with such uh i guess love and peace you know i i love our culture the american culture that we have we have the you know most wonderful country uh and and i know that uh you know it's wonderful knowing about your italian and your irish heritage getting to know you especially through the food i love that and it's nice again getting to know my asian culture my side of the cultures was my american side with my dad but that our son just just loves uh loves our culture and and uh is fills me with with love and peace so i'm very happy well as i mentioned earlier you know ted and i have a lot in common but something that he really introduced me to well actually two things but uh that really was not something that i did a lot was games and not just ordinary games no growing up sure i played monopoly or clue or things like that but i learned from ted that there are is like this whole world of games that i had never heard of or been exposed to and that were so much fun to learn about from him the other thing is movies i i think ted loves movies and when we met and we went on even our first date we went to the movies and i i remember telling you that i think i hadn't been to a movie theater in about 10 years you know i would just watch them on tv or whatever the case may be but in any of it getting back to games uh i'd love for you to share with everybody the games that you like because i think it's very interesting to people because as you shared with me that they are some of them are becoming a little more commonplace yeah i guess i've always enjoyed uh playing games and growing up one of my fondest memories is of going to the hobby shops with my dad and rummaging through all the old games that they had there while he would be looking around and one nice thing that my wife mentioned that we like to listen to knct kind of the easy listening music that always reminds me of two things one is going to hobby shops with my dad because they always play the music in the background and in the shop as we you know go around and i find little boxes of little soldiers in and things like that um and so that was a nice thing of that nice memory but also uh when when our son was younger you know we we played i never knew about that's easy listening station uh knct until my wife introduced me to it and it was so pleasing to get them around me of the old times so we've listened to it ever since our son was growing up rocking in the chair my wife would be rocking him in the easy chair listening to the music in the background so it's always been a part of our life and so it's nice when i hear it now i think of two things uh being with my dad and then uh with with our son when he was much younger but it always makes me think of games because we always played games with our son too uh going you know growing up uh and and so the games that i uh uh enjoy just like being able to get together with people and talking you know with our family i i had a uh i used to have again before this year i used to have a wonderful set of friends who would come over and we'd go to different uh houses and we'd play games together different games and we just it's a nice time to catch up you know maybe once a quarter or a little longer stretches of time and these our friends have had for decades uh uh you know since college and and unfortunately we've been uh living together you know relatively close by so we can meet in different houses and just play games and catch up um and these games they're not as you mentioned they're not like monopoly then i like risk or things like that because those games you know somebody gets knocked out then they're out of the game and they just you know sit around until the rest of the game is played out so these are more of the european type games that are very commonplace nowadays you've probably heard of some of them like sellers of catan carcassonne you know typically they're they're you know big pictures or very visually visual not a lot of writing a little small text that it's hard to read but very language independent so that way you can you can play it you can look at symbols and pictures and whatnot that it makes it very easy to play uh well and can play across countries and that's why again that's a unique aspect of the european games and people don't get knocked out you know there's always people going to play through the whole game is and a player won't get uh a sideline as part of that typically in those in those games so i mentioned a few of those that you probably could see at your local department store one of the ones that i never knew that i would have loved is one that my wife got me a few years ago called seven wonders and there you're building uh your civilization through cards uh through history and that's nice again you know big you know pictures very minimal text uh uh very easy to play and and wonderful and and we've had a lot of good times with those uh playing those games together as a family what are some of the other neat one i think that we had played recently with our son was everdale and oh my god that's a beautiful game the i know one thing you enjoy is the pictures of creatures yeah animals little animals dressed in clothes doing wonderful things in the in that game um there's a little tank more taxi might you know if it's hard to see use a magnifying glass to see some of the text but other than the uh that the pictures the pictures are gorgeous um they have husband and wife cards they're different different animals different things you can build as you build up your your little city of folks animal folks together so that's a gorgeous game so it's um i i do enjoy that i do enjoy uh in the element they have a lot of food they have food stuff yeah they have a little little store yeah and that's neither reminds me of i think you have some viewers who play computer games and they and they write you and they say that they've encountered some of the things that you created in your recipes in those games that was so cute i had uh well i still have i have a little group of maybe y'all are watching but i have a nice little group of friends and i actually think those fellas are up in canada and uh the one wrote to me and then a couple of others you know they wrote to me and it was very cute because they were playing some computer games and in the computer games uh there were potions and the potions were like rose hip syrup and elderberry syrup and different things like that these are young guys these are guys in their early 20s and they had no idea what these things were and then somehow because of some game they were playing because it was cute because they wrote to me and they said i don't know why you came up in my youtube recommendations but maybe some game they were playing had something to do with elderberry and i had done an elderberry sierra for whatever and it came up in one of their recommendations and then they clicked on it and and they said oh it's so funny i i learned what elderberry syrup was and then i learned what rose himself was and all the other different potions and tonics you know they were calling them potions that i would call them tonics that i was making and they were like oh we learned so much about much about uh these things from you and now we know what the heck they're talking about in the game so that was funny it was neat to see that the kind of food crosses behind me it does it really does and you mentioned them oh no no i was going to say something that you mentioned you you raised this is a really good point and i want to mention this because uh i've shared with some of you that our son has dyslexia and my husband was mentioning uh about games the nice thing about the european games as opposed to you know games you know the sort of the more typical board games that you think of you know when you're growing up but the european games often have very limited text they have a lot of pictures and that makes it very easy uh if you know like my husband if you have some issues with your eyesight it makes it very easy to play the game or like our son if you have dyslexia it makes it very easy to play the game because you're not having to worry about in the case of our son just being overwhelmed and not really enjoying the game or if you have issues with your eyesight you don't have to worry about always having the magnifying glass you know to read the cards or whatever the case may be because most of these games everything is presented in pictures and they're pretty you know it's very visual in the sense of large pictures and the the you know if it's got cards the cards are you know like regular playing cards and there's often like a lot of little pieces uh so it's a very very very tactile yeah just beautiful beautiful to behold it's really a work of art they really those games are just beautiful works of art i'm sorry i interrupted you but i was gonna say about movies you mentioned movies oh yeah that's another thing about this year is that we can't we can't uh we can't visit any movies and uh but that's one nice thing is i know growing up i enjoyed the like star wars and movies like that and my son loved star wars oh my gosh when he grew up during that clone wars time when he'd dress up as a clone trooper and enjoy playing star wars and the dog obi-wan kenobi how neat that you uh you you've embraced these these cultures these this uh you know star star wars types cultures and uh mandalorian i know we were loving the man in there especially when you saw baby yoda drink the bone broth that was that was neat wow when that happened uh i remember you were just wow that's fantastic yeah that was a lot of fun so we just finished watching the uh the last uh episode of this and now we have to wait till season three to come out but uh it was nice yes and it's a lot of fun spoil spoil spoiler a little spoiler alert spoiler alert okay i wouldn't say anything nothing to enjoy but yeah i love baby yoda or the child [Laughter] and and he actually has a name now but i won't say anything in case you've not had a chance to catch up but yeah the movies you really introduced me to i i had seen one star wars and they're not numbered like this but because they don't go in order because the new the newer ones have lower numbers but the original star wars which would have been number four right yeah okay that i had only seen that and i saw that as you know i was an adult and i saw it with a friend of mine she said oh you want to go to the movies and you're like oh okay with play oh star wars and i had always liked science fiction so like okay but i saw that and then that was the end of it never really saw anymore or followed through with it well when ted and i got married he liked star wars and indiana jones and the other kind of action marvel marvel yeah marvel characters um marvel comic books when i was really young and and i really had no exposure to this and we watched all the star wars and oh my gosh our son loves star wars and we even went to a star wars convention oh what a good time yeah really enjoyed such a good time and then you introduced me to the whole line of indiana jones movies and now i have seen i probably all the marvel movies and i know iron man and spiderman and and all these things and i loved uh the guardians of the galaxy movies those are my favorite i love the little wreck raccoon in it well i know he doesn't rock it yeah he's just a great character he's so funny but it's what's funny about it is given my age but now being introduced to all of these and probably you know i guess maybe girls have interest in it too but having a son you know we really embraced all the action hero stuff and and it is fun to sometimes talk with younger folks and then i know all the storylines i must say i i enjoy an episode for star wars for you star wars and fishing hours after episodes one through six i was not a fan of the seven eight and nine so the but the mandalorian series really they made up for it and it's really cute too because i said to my son did you like so because he would have seen those you know with his buddies or whatever he knows he's older and i said did you dad was not a fan of seven eight nine did you like seven eight and nine and he said oh no mom the they they need to just make those go away and i said well he's little really lovely girlfriend and i said what does your girlfriend think of them and he said oh i think she kind of likes them and she feels there's a romance or something you know but it was funny that uh but when i especially the younger fellas i have that are viewers who play computer games and whatnot but i've learned from them because they correspond with me and uh they they it's cute because they'll they'll say oh and at first it was funny because i've shared with ted sometimes they'll say oh you're like a mom and sometimes they say you're like a grandmother and at first i'm like oh my gosh i'm really getting old but it's true with them being in their early twenties but uh it was cute because they will tell me things you know about star wars or whatever and i'll say oh yeah my husband and son are really into it and they you know really educated me about it uh but they're not happy with seven eight and nine it seems like this is universal amongst men who are vegan boys who are big star wars fans and it's funny and they're like oh they're so right you know and it's so cute i can almost like hear them talking but the mandalorian boy that's a really good show it's a really good show i really like that one well i do want to mention one more movie that i had never seen before but you had introduced me to me yeah that was the inner sixth oh my favorite movie ever [Laughter] that was a joy to watch and that that it was my wife's favorite movie i uh would really warm my heart with it's the end of the sixth happiness with ingrid bergman and it was made in the 1950s and you you got to see this movie and you can't miss it and i just you know uh my father having you know served in the military and had uh spent time in asia and then my parents also um together had you know been to china my father having you know been in uh korea and japan uh during uh the 1950s and whatnot and would you know sing me korean lullabies you know when i was growing up and he would tell me a lot of stories about asia and whatnot and so i was just fascinated with it and i had my whole room decorated with different little things i would find that were chinese or korean or japanese you know what little like rummage sales that my mother would take me to but i saw for the first time i guess i was about five years old and i saw in of the sixth happiness and i just love that movie and it's about a woman ingrid bergman she's a missionary and she goes to china and there are some very cute scenes in it but it's funny the way god works in mysterious ways you never know what's going to happen to you in life but there's a scene in the movie where ingrid bergman falls in love with one of the men in the movie and the man is half european and half asian and he says to her and i think we almost both when we saw this together years later i think we both were getting little tears in our eyes because the man is so sweet in the movie and he says something to her you know and this is very generational because now you know going into 2021 it's very different today you know it's very people are modern it doesn't really matter you know people's ethnicity and all of that but as my husband shared you know it was very different for his mother and father and it was also different you know for him growing up but in and in this movie is set in the 50s and the man says to ingrid bergman oh you know i'm so touched i'd be honored you know but uh the and i'm kind of paraphrasing but he says something to her oh i'd be honored you know if if you loved me because you know my mixed heritage some he says it's something like that i don't remember exactly i'm kind of paraphrasing but i i think we both found it so touching and it really uh really i think we both were you know there wasn't a dry eye in the room but it's kind of funny about all of that because there i was just as a little child and i don't think i really focused on that storyline it was more the magnificence of the movie and the scenery and the filming and you know just being so enthralled with it and and having heard stories you know from my dad and whatnot but seeing that years later with you that part of the movie really touched our hearts i think but that that is uh i highly recommend that and i always when my husband asked me what is your favorite movie and i i said oh hands down into the sixth happiness you know with ingrid bergman and you had not seen that being an older movie and then uh but now when you ask me okay of modern movies what is your favorite movie and i think you know guardians of the galaxy well thank you thank you for introducing that movie oh i'm glad you enjoyed that well i hope that you've enjoyed having this opportunity to get to know my sweet husband ted a little better and this handsome fella is our son ben and i've got another video coming out next week where you're gonna get to know ben a little better but in the meantime we have a little song for you we wish you a merry christmas we wish you a merry christmas we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year love and god bless [Music]

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Length: 73min 23sec (4403 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 23 2020