K: Hi guys this is my girl Lena and she is such a badass. She's been like keeping me
well nourished for years and now she's teaching me how to cook, but just so you
can see like in my fridge she has prepared delicious meals, a week's worth
of gorgeous food in there and all my other random crap and now we're gonna get busy with this pie.
L: So today we are going to start with a sweet potato pie, and its a purple sweet potato
K: We've got this gorgeous purple sweet potato L:Check this out
L: Look at that color K: It's so colorful. I feel like this is is something that like must be genetically
modified it's like too colorful and beautiful L: We're gonna chop these up when
she's done peeling and we're gonna steam it and you just put about an inch of
water in a steamer, in a pot, with the steamer basket and you dice it into like
1 inch dice and really it only takes like 8 to 10 minutes, if even that, and
you do till it's fork tender and then you put it aside to cool and then while
that's happening we're gonna work on the crust which is going to be made just
from the pecans and dates. So now we're just gonna chop this up
K: Thats also such an art, like watching you slice. You have such confidence in the motion. I'm gonna like make you nervous nere
L: No, not at all
L: So cutting something that's big and hard like this can be dangerous and it's
actually more dangerous to have a dull knife in it a sharp knife and people are
afraid of sharp knives. If you're trying to cut something round and you have a
dull knife it's not gonna cut through but it's gonna roll and it's going to slip
and you're going to hit your fingers, and its going to be a disaster. So for something like this
for example I cut it down into more manageable pieces right so it was big I
cut it into four pieces and that way now it has a flat side yeah and I can kind of manhandle, or
K: Womanhandle it, I'm just gonna let Lena handle it. L: So basically it's about getting it down into manageable pieces
and then from there it's a little bit easier. Instead of using your forearm
and your wrists you want to think about using your weight, like all of your
weight in your shoulder. So it's better to kind of get on top of it and you're
nice and tall so you have that advantage. Short people in the kitchen
unfortunately have a harder time because it's not, you can't really put your
weight into it. So you want to always keep your fingers behind your knuckles
so the trick is the fingertips should be behind the knuckles and then the
knuckles act as a guide. So then when you're cutting possible cut your
fingers. So we are just going to transfer this. There just about an inch of water and you can just toss them directly in
K: So what, what is um. I mean I love that this has been in my
kitchen for, this little contraption has been in my kitchen for years, but
I've never used it nor know what it is. What is this? L: This is a steaming basket and you can
can put it in any pot that it'll fit into. This is a handle so that you
when you pull it out you should, I'll show you when we take it out, but you can
pull it out and there is a little stand at the bottom that keeps it separated from the water. If you were to have it directly into the water it would boil it. like eight minutes very careful steam
burns are real Stina that you know get out hardcore like in the kitchen that's
true so check if they're done you just want to take a fork and see if they come
apart made it all right beautiful little
Paulina sorry this is the problem with cooking with a six foot ten or look lady
if I'm like oh no that's gonna reach for the pecan I know but you can see even
regional suffice with all Rio and what we are about we're gonna start crust yes
these gorgeous States and gorgeous pecans here so we have the food
processor here it in I have been living in this house in this kitchen for years
and never realized there was a plug on the side of this little so and II love
it we're gonna start with the dates and we want to get them because if we were
to put them both in together you just end up with a piece but if you start
with the David's first they they're you know the consistency of them is a little
bit thicker they'll take longer to break down so you
want to start with the dates and I'm get them down to a smaller size and then
we'll start adding the
I definitely guys yeah that's part of the joy of cooking it's eating along the
way but I have you know about half that is actually what my ion into cooking I
was like just so obsessed with food and I was like how do I have all access all
the time and then I learned how to make it exactly the way I wanted it I think
if I was a chef I would be faster like a mojo
I just love food and put all your use Brussels sprouts thank goodness you're
in my life otherwise I would be out of a job
I would be like garbage just kind of pulse cha I don't need to be a piece but
to be broken down so that they're not really recognizable as dates and then
we'll add the pecans and you know what I'm just gonna go for it and add the
entire side of whole thing just you know we told you it's gonna taste good that's
what looks good so we're gonna add a little vanilla
see I'm starting to get a little bit needed something to come yeah yeah I'm
also gonna put so I also love to put a bit of just a pinch of salt in anything
that has sugar in it because it just takes it to the next level
se5 oh this level I would just say young fingers yeah we're gonna take these
steamed yams they're hot your phone
Georgia's purple sweet potato mm-hmm it looks like about three to four
cups we used one large one you could use smaller ones a quarter teaspoon of salt
this is more than that but we'll measure it out this is a quarter cup of maple
syrup
I'm using and I love that you use fresh grated ginger like real ginger here we
have raw coconut oil and so this is a third of a cup of coconut oil so this is
how the pie gets of structure we can actually add everything okay how much
fun we're used about 1/4 teaspoon right
really no throw it in here we go
okay so I guess is probably good to go oh and yeah so we'll just Jonas scoop it
in that so beautiful so colorful it looks like a dough that would have to be
thick with butter eggs sugar like you it's I mean in this texture it's like
silky it's separate up
kind of Halloween asked to I waited for police true
it's actually made Muskrat oh where do I get inspired answer me
it looks great and we're just gonna pop it in the fridge for a couple hours and
coconut oil will Harden and then it all slides really beautifully
I'm not pleased that's funny because I would actually lead to show you but yeah
actually I'm like that and then it takes a little more than personality we're
gonna stick our pie in the fridge for an hour or two so that it cools and the
minute okay so we have patiently waited for corrector but one day I got a little
impatient son you know maybe we'd you know tell
sometime wait for that pie that thought or congeal yeah anyways the pipe should
be firm by now I'm gonna pull it out see how it looks it looks gorgeous it looks
like oh look at its othor oh my gosh this is crazy
Hey
it's been a long day this is another being a trick so hot either
similar to like scooping ice cream if you were to stick that scoop into a bowl
of hot water and then scoop it it's a lot easier when you cut I would make
sure you go all the way down through the crust oh look at that we can pick it up
wow it really came out is for me it's you look at look at the edges look out
food now Wow here we come baby well you know how it
is serving pie it's never a perfect right in other ways like here's your
crust on top that's that's the good I'm sorry we're not Murray County guys it's
gonna taste good screw how it looks it looks amazing it's gonna look good and
taste better okay and now this amazing coconut cream
it's almost too pretty to eat oh my god fit the crust I was taught lay
below that like we chewiness of the dates in there and the prawns guys this
pie is insane and like I'm really impressed with us this is crazy it's
really easy to make huge I saw it's like really simple ingredients really quick
easy and delicious so make this try it for your friends giving for just like
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doing alright bye guys Cheers