- Hey y'all in the south,
the holidays are such a busy time.
Luckily they're a few weeks away
and I have a few tricks up my sleeve
to save me time later this holiday season.
We're gonna make cheese straws
that make perfect hostess gifts,
the best ever chocolate chip cookies
that are perfect for santa,
and I'm gonna share with you my family's secret recipe
for lasagna that we eat every year on Christmas Eve.
Let's get cookin' and start savin' time for the holidays.
(electric guitar strum)
My family eats lasagna every year for Christmas Eve.
I'm gonna go ahead and get a headstart
on the recipe for this year.
For my lasagna, I have some pre-shredded mozzarella cheese,
but I also have some sliced mozzarella.
It's a food styling trick that is perfect
to make your lasagna look super cheesy
and then, like any good lasagna,
a hefty amount of shredded Parmesan cheese.
We make lasagna every year on Christmas Eve,
because my dad grew up eating it
every year on Christmas Eve.
He learned the recipe from his grandmother
who's from Montreal, Canada, and goes by Memay.
My Memay taught my dad the chant that said:
meat sauce, cottage cheese, cheese, noodles.
So, there's kind of a debate in my family
that my dad did not hear that chant right
and we think that whenever she was saying the recipe,
she was really saying ricotta cheese
and I think, even though my dad got it wrong whenever
he decided that cottage cheese was part of the recipe,
that actually it made this lasagna super yummy.
So to follow along with my Memay's chant,
we've got meat sauce, cottage,
and ricotta cheese, then the regular cheese.
We have the slices,
just kind of tear them in big pieces.
Once I get enough sliced mozzarella on there,
I'm gonna sprinkle it with some Parmesan cheese.
So, meat sauce, cottage cheese,
ricotta cheese, regular cheese, and now noodles.
We like the boiled noodles with their ridges the best
and we like to parboil them just enough
so that they are kind of pliable
because they're gonna cook a lot
whenever they're in the oven.
I like my lasagna to be three layers.
So three layers of everything.
With another really cheesy layer
on the top to make it really pretty.
It's really important that the top layer
of lasagna is extra, extra cheesy
so that it bubbles up and gets brown and puts
a crust of cheese that's melty
and good whenever you cut into it.
Even though we normally only make lasagna on Christmas Eve,
I'm excited to have this one ready to go
when I'm busier later this holiday season.
(upbeat bells)
Y'all, cheese straws are perfect
for making ahead for the holidays
because they make great hostess gifts.
I'm gonna grab my baked cheese straws
out of the freezer and show you how to make
a simple, quick, and easy hostess gift.
The reason I love cheese straws for hostess gifts
is because they're quintessentially southern
and so easy to whip up.
When I know I'm about 30 minutes out
for leaving for my Christmas party,
I go in the freezer, pull out my cheese straws,
and get my craft paper out.
I'll grab 10 or so cheese straws
and one of my cute little Dollar Tree ornaments.
It really is the thought that counts
and not the money that goes into these hostess gifts
and I think I really only spent
about 50 cents on this thing.
The hostess would never know,
and look how cute these are.
When I'm hosting my own Christmas parties,
I like to mix and match the
ways that I wrap the favor gifts.
So I'll mix some in with the brown,
and then have the clear bags.
Y'all this took me less than a minute, and it's super cute.
These are perfect for giving away
as favors or as hostess gifts.
(jazzy drums)
These chocolate chip cookies are seriously
the best chocolate chip cookies
you will ever eat, y'all.
It is not an oatmeal cookie,
but it is a chocolate chip cookie with oats.
There is a big difference.
I'm gonna add brown sugar to my butter.
It's important whenever you're baking
cookies, or cakes, or dessert
to cream your softened butter with your sugar
before you add any of the rest of your ingredients.
Y'all this KitchenAid mixer has
been with me for almost 10 years.
It's my favorite Christmas gift by far,
or maybe close tie with the golf cart
that I got when I was eight.
Y'all that thing taught me to drive.
But this is probably the Christmas gift
that has been with me the longest
and gotten me through a lot of times.
In a small house like this, y'all,
it's really style and functionality.
I built this wall so I could keep my
dry ingredients like flour and quick cooking oats.
It's decorative but it's also super functional.
Santa, if you're watching, the recipe
for these chocolate chip cookies that
you're gonna be eating at my house
are on our website at southernliving.com
With my mixer going on low speed,
I'm gonna put my flour in gradually,
you don't wanna over mix this because
you're gonna mix it again when
you add your chocolate chips.
Another secret to these chocolate chip cookies, y'all,
is the mixture of two types of chocolate.
This is about 12 ounces of bittersweet chocolate,
but I also like to put in the semisweet.
So, mixture of bittersweet and semisweet.
I think this is the perfect balance
for the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
One final stir for my chocolate chips,
(mixer whirring)
and y'all, that's it.
Get in here and see how the chocolate chips
are perfectly distributed throughout this soft dough.
We're gonna scoop these out,
and put them on a baking sheet,
and freeze the balls of dough in the freezer
until they're rock solid.
When you're forming your balls for your cookies,
you need to make them a little bit
larger than you would normally think.
Put them in the freezer,
pop 'em out whenever you need a cookie fix
during the busy holiday season.
(slow folky music)
Y'all today has been a busy day
getting ready for the holidays,
but I've got a lot of great things in the freezer,
ready to pull out for anytime.
I went ahead and snuck a cookie,
that I'm gonna enjoy now that I can relax,
and know that my holidays are gonna be a breeze.
Bye y'all
(folky music)
For more infomation >> Getting Ahead For The Holidays | Hey Y'all | Southern Living - Duration: 6:09.-------------------------------------------
Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Her Decision To Talk About Her Rape | TODAY - Duration: 9:55.
For more infomation >> Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Her Decision To Talk About Her Rape | TODAY - Duration: 9:55. -------------------------------------------
Family Of Alabama Man Fatally Shot By Police At Mall Demand Answers | TODAY - Duration: 2:36.
For more infomation >> Family Of Alabama Man Fatally Shot By Police At Mall Demand Answers | TODAY - Duration: 2:36. -------------------------------------------
Cyber Monday Steals And Deals: Shop Products 80 Percent Off | TODAY - Duration: 4:19.
For more infomation >> Cyber Monday Steals And Deals: Shop Products 80 Percent Off | TODAY - Duration: 4:19. -------------------------------------------
Horóscopo hoy, 26 de noviembre de 2018, por el astrólogo Mario Vannucci | Un Nuevo Día | Telemundo - Duration: 2:59.
For more infomation >> Horóscopo hoy, 26 de noviembre de 2018, por el astrólogo Mario Vannucci | Un Nuevo Día | Telemundo - Duration: 2:59. -------------------------------------------
Agents Fire Tear Gas At Migrants At The Border | TODAY - Duration: 2:44.
For more infomation >> Agents Fire Tear Gas At Migrants At The Border | TODAY - Duration: 2:44. -------------------------------------------
22 اختيارا يؤدوا إلى حياة جميلة - Duration: 4:27.
For more infomation >> 22 اختيارا يؤدوا إلى حياة جميلة - Duration: 4:27. -------------------------------------------
White House Plays Down Alarming Climate Change Report | TODAY - Duration: 3:15.
For more infomation >> White House Plays Down Alarming Climate Change Report | TODAY - Duration: 3:15. -------------------------------------------
Riesgos al tramitar la ciudadanía con récord criminal | Un Nuevo Día | Telemundo - Duration: 5:43.
For more infomation >> Riesgos al tramitar la ciudadanía con récord criminal | Un Nuevo Día | Telemundo - Duration: 5:43. -------------------------------------------
Connie Britton Talks New Role In 'Dirty John' Thriller | TODAY - Duration: 5:12.
For more infomation >> Connie Britton Talks New Role In 'Dirty John' Thriller | TODAY - Duration: 5:12. -------------------------------------------
From Rock-Bottom Drug Addict to High-Flying Fitness Star | Jay Maryniak - Duration: 6:50.
My life just went down
a crazy path, and
I chose
that life over
every person that I cared
about,
everything that meant anything
in my life. And I took that, like,
fast track to
this dark bottom
where I felt like there was
no way out and there was no
hope for me.
I grew up in Northern
Westchester.
I grew up in a very suburban
town.
I played sports as a kid.
I played everything: football,
baseball.
You know, I was a gamer. You
know what I mean. Like most kids,
you know, I played video games.
And as I got a little older,
I started getting into trouble.
And by the time I was nine
years old I was stealing
cigarettes from my grandmother.
As a young kid I was already
kind of going down a bad
path.
Amidst getting into trouble I
still stuck with the sports, and
probably until I was about 13
years old.
And that's when
I started to drink
and get high.
That was the thing that I
wanted to do most.
By the time I was 14
I quit every sport that I
played.
By the time I was 15
years old I was already
taking OxyContin.
Getting high every day,
taking acid,
snorting a plethora of
different substances, and
just getting blackout drunk.
By the time I was 20 I was
completely unable
to hold a job anymore.
I couldn't work,
stealing from my family and
friends,
selling drugs,
just so I could just keep
getting high.
Drugs and alcohol completely
took over my life.
There was no more having fun
getting high and enjoying life.
That didn't exist.
I reached a point where I truly
didn't care if I lived or died.
By the grace of God, you know,
I had a moment of clarity.
There were so many times where
I was like, "How?
How did I get this deep?
Selling drugs,
hanging out with people who
were carrying guns and tons
of money around;
how did my life become this?"
And that's when I was like,
"Man I can't do this".
But, it had such a hold over
me I couldn't stop.
So at about 20 and a half years
old I reached out for help.
And I reached out to my father
and I told him I'm going to
die. I need help.
He helped me get into a
facility where I could get some
treatment.
I got into a 12-step program.
You know, kind of started my
recovery.
And I still, at that
point,
I didn't feel like I had any
purpose.
So here I was, sober,
but I still had all
these things wrong with me.
I still felt like I had this
big hole in me that I
needed to fill.
I was always an athlete growing
up as a kid,
so one of the first things I
did was I got into martial
arts. I was like,
"Yeah that would be cool" and
so I got big into
that.
And as time went on with the
martial arts training,
while I was training for a
fight, I was introduced to
Crossfit and started
doing crossfit.
I got into some competitions
and that kind of thing. Just
like small competitions.
And I'd place pretty high at a
bunch of competitions but I
just wasn't winning.
And I remember,
just being so determined
driven. I was like, "I have to
win something man,
I have to".
And I started training for this
small in-house competition.
I went to the competition,
some fierce dudes in there,
and I won.
I won and I remember just being
so happy.
"I did it man.
I really laid it out on the
line." At the same
time I remember, I remember
looking around after that
competition, I remember feeling
so weird.
Fast forward two weeks,
I remember I kept stepping on
the scale.
And the scale kept going down,
and down, and down.
I lost, like, 15 pounds.
And I remember being face-to-
face with my girlfriend at the
time, and she looked at me and
was like, "You look really
skinny".
My vision started to get really
blurry.
I was becoming disoriented and
I felt like I was under water.
I felt like I was kind of
drunk.
I don't know how I even drove
myself to the hospital, but I
went.
They tested my blood sugar and
my blood sugars were so high
they could not even read them on a
meter.
So my blood sugars were over
1000.
Within
two minutes, my life
completely changed.
And I was diagnosed with Type 1
diabetes.
I remember sitting there
in the hospital bed.
None of my family had arrived
yet. It was just me strapped up
to an insulin drip and just
being like,
"Oh my God.
This is going to completely
change my life.
What is going to happen?"
All these different things, I
knew it was a very serious life-
threatening disease.
So, of course I was scared.
I had doubts like,
"I'm not going to be the same.
I'm not going to be able to do
all the things I want to do in
life," and all this stuff. And I
realized that this is something
that I can really embrace,
and, being someone who's already
fit,
really potentially inspire
other diabetics or other people
to take their hardships,
man, and wear them like a badge.
I still have days where I have
anxiety and fear and
I feel off, man, and all that
stuff. I still have that stuff
man, I'm so human.
But I can honestly tell you
that I have not had a bad day,
it's got to be like eight
years, because my perspective
on life has completely changed.
Because I choose not to look at
life that way anymore.
I think one of the things, like,
my philosophy on training, is
to be good at everything.
So I don't want to just do
crossfit or just be a
bodybuilder;
I want do some powerlifting and
do a backflip, and then a
triple-clap push-up, then jump
50 inches in the air.
That just excites me.
Like, it's just, it's cool, man.
I just want to be
the strongest that I can
possibly be.
I want to be the fastest.
I want to jump the highest I
possibly can.
All this stuff, yoga, all of
this, all the stuff is awesome.
You know, we can take something
from all of it. So, like, for me,
training style, like, I
do everything, man.
I am so driven just to
be better, man,
to keep helping other people.
Sometimes I need to just chill
out because I'm just, like,
going, going, going.
Cause I'm, like, fired up, man.
Like, fired up in life.
I was so beaten down
as a kid, with the drugs and
alcohol, and feeling like I just
wanted to die and like I had no
purpose. To be the man I am
today,
and to be able to share and
inspire people all over the
world, is
incredible man.
-------------------------------------------
How To Make a Christmas Wreath | Michaels - Duration: 1:34.
Make it Easy Holiday Santa Wreath
Fluff the wreath
Set the Santa inside the wreath.
Cut a piece of floral wire about 20 inches long.
Loop the wire through the back of Santa's belt.
Attach the wire to the top of the wreath.
Cut two piece of floral wire that are about 10 inches long.
Wrap one of the wire pieces around Santa's leg then attach it to the bottom of the wreath.
Repeat with his other leg.
Cut 10 inches of wire and set aside.
Make two continuous loops that are 10 inches wide.
Each tail should be about 10 inches long.
Cut.
Use your 10 inch piece of wire that was set aside to bind the center of the bow.
Use the floral wire to attach the bow to the wreath.
Push berry picks into the bottom of the wreath on each side of your bow.
Push the pinecone picks around the top and side curves of the wreath.
Use hot glue to hold picks into place.
Trim the tails.
Wreath
Floral Wire, Santa Decor Figurine, Pine Picks, Pine Cone Pick, Glue Gun
Subscribe to our channel and share your projects with the #MakeitwithMichaels
-------------------------------------------
Like A Boss Amazing Moments 3 | Amazing 10 Minutes | Like A Boss Compilations | People Are Insane - Duration: 10:13.
Like A Boss Amazing Moments 3 | Amazing 10 Minutes | Like A Boss Compilations | People Are Insane
-------------------------------------------
Jeff Daniels Stars In 'To Kill A Mockingbird' On Broadway | TODAY - Duration: 4:54.
For more infomation >> Jeff Daniels Stars In 'To Kill A Mockingbird' On Broadway | TODAY - Duration: 4:54. -------------------------------------------
Fe del Mundo Google Doodle: "Fe del Mundo Biography" Fe del Mundo's 107th Birthday 2018 Google - Duration: 1:26.
Fe del Mundo Google Doodle: "Fe del Mundo Biography" Fe del Mundo's 107th Birthday 2018 Google
Fe del Mundo Google Doodle
Fe del Mundo's 107th Birthday 2018 Google Doodle
-------------------------------------------
¡Mariana Seoane rompe en llanto ante nuestra pregunta! | Un Nuevo Día | Telemundo - Duration: 4:49.
For more infomation >> ¡Mariana Seoane rompe en llanto ante nuestra pregunta! | Un Nuevo Día | Telemundo - Duration: 4:49. -------------------------------------------
[FREE] XXXTentacion x 6ix9ine Type Beat/Hard Trap Beat "SUICIDE" (Prod. By LuciG x PxrpleBeatz) 2018 - Duration: 3:00.
MUSIC
-------------------------------------------
MINI URBAN-X | Meet Lunewave in 30 seconds - Duration: 0:31.
We really want to change the future of mobility
and give people more freedom.
We had built this great radar sensor
that would change the way
autonomous vehicles would see.
URBAN-X is a startup accelerator.
They helped us on some of the tactical things that
we needed to learn as a startup.
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét