grating today we are going to be making some food and all of these recipes are
inspired by spring and also things that I wrote
meaning
so let's do this thing Oh No gets excited
now get the real chef today right now and he's like looking at all like you
dad
the first thing we're going to be making is a soba noodle salad and i was really
inspired by my friend Claire because we did a cooking video together where we
made a soba noodle salad together
I'm kind of
he might go home and spin on it because they're so much that you can do with
soba noodles and they're really really awesome if it pretty much is like
leftovers that you have makes it all
making a salad and your friends phone I'm gonna be starting off with making
and the sauce for the dressing and
actually something that we're going to be
present him as well I'm starting up here with a bowl that has two thirds of a cup
of creamy almond butter and if you're allergic to nuts and you don't have
and use this you
totally just leave this out those will work without it but I just like having a
creamy base then I have a half cup of coconut aminos and this basically is
taking the place of choice on can use toys on you
but i really like coconut aminos because it has way less sodium and actually kind
of has a nicer flavor it's slightly sweet but not too sweet
and it still adds that saltiness and soy sauce
but without feeling
overwhelming here I have some fresh lime juice that I squeeze and you want about
five to six tablespoons here is really just your case 4 tablespoons of sesame
oil right here
I really love the labor obsessed anymore
huge difference we just got some good old money here and this is
one two three tables means
and
some sweetness
I little jar of chopped garlic and this is something that my crew won't be
having in the fridge because it
time
and my grandma
mom
all the time so they always had three chopped garlic just around
always but you can just take fresh garlic and you want
chop it up yourself but this is just nice because it's already done
you want about 2 teaspoons of Garland
if you really love garlic and you anymore no it's time for our friend of
Mr with
we are going to be makes you know
the moment but erm a stick
the bottom but it's really all gonna die together and
really mean a nice
dressings / is on
and like it's great
the bottom and everything really works together minds together
I love recipes like this because like Claire says and they're dumping your
recipes so you can have everything ready
and ready to go and
trying to
well i have over here eight ounces we're one happy and you love the Bucks means
Somen noodles
and these are just a really great noodles take a look like regular pasta
and
the problem is
honored for about 8 minutes and train them with triangle
it's good to me
no now I'm going to be adding a moment
address
you'll see how easy this is
here
or I got it
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I'm just gonna
all about cutting corners if it's something like this where i can get
something that
pre-sliced for free chops
my name
asparagus that makes
earlier and again
summer is here
around the dinner
and I just cut it up
and then I have some cooked chicken here I'm just gonna shred this up with my
fingers because I just like to keep things casual it doesn't need to be no
perfect little chunks
here and another alternative
to be
adding mushrooms mushrooms are just party within themselves that we don't
want that kind of
textural feeling of it
something similar to meet many rooms are an awesome way to go especially you're
not crazy about you I love spicy food so I have some sriracha chili sauce here
optional no one's mine
you can leave this now I'm actually just going to add this directly into the
dressing here
just gonna mix it in you can also do this separately if you just want to
support it over the chocolate
I just like
so it's all kind of it
i'm going to add
dressing and / sauce into the bowl
only half though because we need the other half for the next recipe
so what I like to do whatever I more interesting is I for around the edges
so that way it really gets to the bottom and you're not just touching this stuff
on the top and then all you got to do from here is
let me finish soba noodle salad
super easy to make and what I learned from player is that you can keep this in
the fridge for a week and the flavors just really sink anymore
actually gets better as the week goes on you don't have to worry about eating it
up
it's just something cold and you're good to go using ingredients that are fresh
in the springtime
it's awesome and makes everything taste better now time to make some spring
rolls and if you don't know what spring rolls are maybe if you've gone out to
eat whether it's at an asian restaurant or not any restaurants they're pretty
popular now
maybe you had something that's almost like a cold burrito with rice paper
around it
one of my favorite things I grew up eating these so I'm just going to start
off with some Vietnamese spring rolls price wrappers and you can find these
either in the international section in a grocery store or you can even order them
on Amazon because I look that up and they even have round rice rappers as
well so what I like to do is I normally take two of them and they really do feel
like paper
you're super thin and I just have it is
hand of water right here and I like to work with something that shallow so I
really just stick these in and pull them out easily
one at a time just dip them in the water it's good if your water is kind
Luke warmish I'm not just a little
I have my first rapper right here and I'm going to lay the second one
directly over the top and now it's time to fill up our spring rolls and you can
pretty much put what ever you want in here but i have about some shrimp
so I'm just going to take a couple of these since these are kind of small and
lay them down that I just have a sub basil here you can also use Thai basil
if you want a slightly different flavor
I couldn't find any so I just want with regular basil I also have some fresh
mint because i love freshman not a huge fan of artificial - but freshman is
amazing it really adds a crisp freshness to the entire spring roll
and then I just have some romaine lettuce and cheese sauce from our
communities recipe
I'm just taking up the basal i'm going to break it up and just kind of lay it
on here
this just reminds me of being a kid
because i would really regularly especially on the weekend
my mom and my grandma would make these and they would do different variations
love to them you can see that this
it's like a very crisp fresh simple dish from here you just want to wrap it all
up and you can see the rice paper is just really flexible now
like that and you have a really pretty little spring roll their you've made
yourself and you can see like the green and the shrimp and it's perfect sure
they are
and you can make as many or as little as you want you can keep them in the fridge
you can make these for your friends you have them for lunch snack
they are awesome and super customizable I am really excited because this is like
my childhood right here a little piece of my childhood that I'm sharing with
you guys it's a very nostalgic thing for me
alright this last thing is going to be ridiculously easy but I wanted to make
something a little bit sweet and slightly indulgent so i'm going to be
showing you guys how you can kind of sweeten up your popcorn
so I just have plain unsalted popcorn here that I've already caught and then I
have a bowl with a bar of white chocolate this chocolate right here so i
just took an entire bar broke it up
put it in this microwaveable bowl with a little bit of butter and this is just
like a little tiny slab of butter and that's going to help everything melt
together when I common in the microwave that this is gonna go in for about 30
seconds or until you see all of the chocolate kind of mounting the chocolate
is melted here in this bowl and I'm just giving it a little stir to make sure
that it's nice and combined with butter
so now i'm just going to drizzle it over the popcorn here and i love how the
white chocolate just kind of lens and with the popcorn and if you want you can
toss this all together but it will sink down to the bottom so it's not something
that you absolutely have to do
but I absolutely have to lick my fingers for sure
delicious
now from here I like to take a little bit of salt because it just kind of
brings out the extra flavor in the white chocolate and the sweetness in the rocks
that I have right here so you can use any kind of dried fruit that you want
but apricots come into season starting in the spring
so these are really awesome to have around and I just love the color that
they add but I've also made this with cranberries
so you can use whatever drive for you want bananas would work to sprinkle it
over the top like that
and it's just a fun different way to eat popcorn
so instead of doing something that's savory and salty and buttery or like
Kirby you can make it pretty and sweet little hints of a salty kick
going on so that's that I my home oh right here
good stuff you have the crunchiness from the popcorn the chewiness from the
apricots and the sweetness from the chocolate a little bit of saltiness
it's like an awesome combination and you're hitting all of these differences
that's gonna be it for today i hope you guys enjoyed learning how to me is
really easy recipes if you try any of these recipes out yourself I want to see
your photos on Twitter and Instagram so make sure you can meet trying things out
but until next time I'll see you guys later
I'm gonna go wash my hands right now because I have salt and apricot and
popcorn on the cell
I'm gonna go do that peace out guys
no now wash my hands over yours
yeah