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Hello and welcome. I'm super excited today.
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Today we have a really great friend of mine.
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We've worked together in the past,
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thank you so much first and foremost for all those that don't
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already follow him. Tell us how you like your background my
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background. So obviously I was always into food,
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I would watch Food Network,
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Rachael Ray, 30 Minute Meals,
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so I was always into food.
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My mom was a stay at home mom,
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so she always cooked for us after school.
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In college, I got more into cooking with my first apartment
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and everything. I always wanted to do it full time and
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with TikTok and everything,
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I made it happen and I saw in your book and.
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If you guys get a chance,
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It's amazing. It's a beautiful photo of you and your mom
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right in the kitchen.
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What's your, I would say like your son,
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like what's your kind of vibe of what this book is about
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and what you want people to get out of it?
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I think the vibe of the cookbook,
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it's like, obviously my parents are Mexican growing up my mom
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would only make us Mexican food,
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so I grew up knowing Mexican food,
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but as I got older and watching Food Network and YouTube and
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TikTok and all of this.
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I learned more about like American food in general,
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so it's like 50 traditional Mexican recipes,
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50 not so traditional like Mexican American flavors,
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and that's kind of what we're doing here with today's recipe.
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So speaking of like what are we making today?
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Yeah, so we're doing an Elote potato salad.
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It's like the perfect recipe for carne asada.
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To start, we need some potatoes.
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We start with the small ones and then I'm gonna add some
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salt to the water where we're gonna boil them.
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Now we're gonna do the corn.
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So that's on. We're gonna put a little bit of oil
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in here. Today we're using canned corn,
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but in the book I use the whole corn on the cob
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and I give you instructions to grill the corn to like
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get the charred marks on it.
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We're gonna get into a little bit of like kind of the
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blow up moment with you know Cardi B.
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14 ounces. This one got 11 ounces,
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so a bunch of cilantro,
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put that hole in there.
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Oh shit. Look how beautiful that looks.
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Mm mhm. Make you wanna slap your mama but I'm on
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yours. I was at game night with my cousins and I
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was, my phone was blowing up.
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It was like all these Cardi B fan accounts like tagging me
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I had no idea what was happening until one of my
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DSs texted me, they're like Cardi B tagged you in her
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video like making your recipe.
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Ever since then it's been known as the Cardi dip and like
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everyone makes it all the time,
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but no. You hear it here first,
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a key like it's the Fred's,
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it's the Fred's dip.
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So Cardi B, you don't claim it,
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you know, but we can cook it together if you want
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like, right, like let's,
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let's give this man a do.
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We can start making the sauce,
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so we can do the mayo and the sour cream.
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All right, so here's mayo you give.
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Measurements in the beginning of the book you said look,
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I want this to be fun.
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I want this to be engaging you like food to taste a
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certain way so it's more so like I'm a guy.
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Yeah, because we all have our preferences like I love mayo
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like I'm obsessed with mayo,
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so like there's more mayo in the sauce dressing than there's sour
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If you like sour cream more than mayo,
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like, double up on the sour cream and like useless mayo
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If you don't like mayo,
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just use sour cream.
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You could probably, I've never tried it.
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I'm sure you could use Greek yogurt.
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So what are we building now?
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Is it spices? So yeah,
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pretty much the spices,
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jalapeno, the garlic powder,
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onion powder, and some black pepper.
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We also have the queso cotija crumble it in there and we'll
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I love cotija cheese,
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so like, but you're a salty guy.
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so it has a little bit more like that.
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We have cilantro. Do you want me to chop them up
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so we need some cilantro,
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just like a rough rough chop.
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So now that we have all of this in here,
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we can also add in the corn,
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all right, and then we just mix it together.
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I'm gonna do some quick fire real quick right while you're doing
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that and you're mixing everything together,
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right? You remember your book pretty well?
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I hope so. Are you good with pop culture?
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Yeah, OK, I'd like to.
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OK, so who's your favorite artist?
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Favorite art like music or oh,
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Coldplay? OK, I'm gonna give you three artists,
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OK, and you have to tell me what recipe in your
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book they are. Right,
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I feel like I would do the the rib eye aguille.
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that's the one for her.
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peso pluma oma. Probably one of the wing recipes.
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yeah, I could see him like getting down on some wings
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Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga.
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What's like the most out there recipe in the book?
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Maybe the Mexican chicken parm.
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yeah, that's a good one.
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Yeah, that's a real good one.
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All right. And finally,
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not quickfire, but if like if you were to sit down
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with anybody and have a meal,
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pop culture, who would you sit down to make a dinner
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for? Oh, that's a good one.
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Make it juicy, like make it get,
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No, no pun in I kind of wanna say Rachel Ray
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Cause I, I grew up with Rachel.
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I grew up with 30 minute meals.
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A lot of the recipes are like kind of like in her
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style and like I cook like her,
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like we're like she doesn't really measure.
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OK, but like for the book I measured,
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but you don't really need to measure all the time.
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So like I feel like that would be like the perfect worlds
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colliding. And then here we just mix this up.
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We're gonna top it off with more cotija cheese.
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You can top it off with more tajin.
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So here, this looks delicious.
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It's kind of like a corn in a cup but potato salad
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I feel like I feel bad about eating a corn in a
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cup. No, and you know what,
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like, look. I know I'm not a male guy,
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but like this looks,
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it's no, I know it's gonna be good here,
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more cheese Cotija cheese,
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so you just top it off with more tajin.
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OK I don't have that cilantro.
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So I made this at home.
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First of all, like my wife loved it,
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And I hope you don't mind.
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OK, I, I added a little bit of salsa matcha
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to it. So this is because it's my,
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this is yours, yeah.
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You wanna know something funny?
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I've never had the salsa matcha with the potato salad.
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It's awesome, so I'm excited.
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this is like my jam.
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you can't wait to try with the salsa matcha so.
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yeah. Down. I got a big chunk of cotija cheese
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is perfect. The citrus in that awesome.
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The enhances it, yeah,
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really does. And with the corn is like really nice and
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sweet. The sala matcha is a good touch.
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You're a genius for that.
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you made it. This at a carne asada.
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When things go away,
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I, you could put me in a corner with a bowl
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of this unin chi la and then like I'm like good like
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I am like set right like.
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this is amazing. I'm super,
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as a friend and as a colleague,
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I think that you are killing it.
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where can people find you?
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Obviously they know who you are.
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TikTok, Instagram, YouTube,
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everywhere. When does the book come out?
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Book officially comes out April 22nd.
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OK,, and where can people pre-order you can order
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it wherever you get your books.
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Amazon, Barnes and Noble,
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yeah, pretty much anywhere books are sold and Salta Maa on
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your salsa matcha on my website,
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shopfreers.com. All right,
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well, there you have it,
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folks. Thank you so much for joining us today.
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Thanks for having me,
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