and cooking show hosts and cookk
author Joel Gamron is here.
Joel was recently diagnosed with colitis,
and now he's sharing what he's learned
about his own gut health to help others.
Welcome to new day.
Thank you for having me.
I feel like I are like, here. We
learned that we grew up
really close to each other.
I'm in Kirkland originally, Merr
Island Kid right here, insiders.
But I learned you don't cook.
I don't cook. I know I. But maybe I will.
Well, after you know, they're gg
to really walk me through it.
So what are we making today?
I feel like it's a salad
from where it's a beautiful summer salad.
The salad is amazing.
It's got a little twist to it.
So we're going to do a grilled avocado
salad with a basil vinaigrette.
It's so easy.
It's incredible for your gut,
which is what I'm really I've teamed up
with the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation,
an incredible.
Foundation dedicated to finding
this cure to this disease that
I have and a lot of people have
that we just haven't found yet.
So they're incredible.
We've launched this new part
of the site called gut friendly
recipes and this is one of them.
So what we have is like all
the usual suspects, right.
So I've got a little bit of red onion
love. I love everything that wee
doing over here. Yeah, really
easy. Good.
You just shave a little red oni.
You've got a little tomato.
So this is like.
Eat your tomatoes in the summer,
people. OK.
But if it's not summer because
it's Seattle, right?
Not like a roasted red pepper from a jar,
OK and you can make the
salad during the winter. And
what makes this so gut friendly?
Yeah. You know, when you eat
fruits and vegetables with skin on them,
they're really easy to digest, .
And when you cut things a little smaller,
that easy to digest.
But there's a lot of things that are really,
really much easier for the body to absorb.
And you just use those ingredie,
which are typically whole ingredients,
like healthy stuff. And
how did you know? That's someth,
you know, was a little off.
And, you know, you went and
checked out if you had colitis.
Well, my sister had it.
Unfortunately, she's no longer
with us and my mom has it.
And so my grandparents.
So it's like it kind of just,
it's hereditary in a lot of way.
And I started to get a lot of symptoms,
a little nausea, stomach aches.
And I realized a lot of what I s
eating was not making me feel g.
So I went and got screened and I have it.
So I had to
change it. So if you if you change your diet,
this is something that is like e
number one thing that could hel.
It's huge. It has a chef. I got really
nervous because I was like, what do I
eat? Right. I really want flavorful food.
You don't want to, like, not have flavorful.
So how do we bring flavor?
This is one of them.
So we've got some avocados.
Kelly, grab them. Olive oil, whh
you love. I feel like this
is something you love. This
is the hottest olive oil, right?
I'd say. So give it a little dre
on this. Yeah. OK. OK.
Right over. I told you, don't.
I don't know what I'm doing. And
then you just kind of rub that .
Just go with me, OK and we're just gonna.
I put it in the pan like this.
Okay. Yeah. You want all four i.
Yeah. And what this does is
by grilling the avocado,
which I know so many people don't do,
they just kind of scoop
it and throw it in there.
By grilling it, it makes it
fudgy and kind of caramelized.
You have a little towel there.
I can see. She's like,
I know it's like, what do I do
now, Joel? I love it. I love
it. The claw, yeah. So it reall,
this is an example of like,
avocados are fantastic for digestion.
You should be getting avocados,
but it's like kind of
boring to scoop them out.
So how do you give them
a little more pizzazz?
Yes. Flavorful, I love it.
And in the summer you could do s
maybe on your like BBQ actually
like out and about like 1000% pe
are gonna think you're fancy.
Like they're gonna be like Kell.
Yes. But all you know is grill about.
That's it. So
Speaking of fancy is really important
especially when you have digeste
issues to look on the back of bottles.
And a lot of us buy salad dress,
but it's really easy.
To rock out your own. So you're
ready to go? I'm ready,
I'm ready. We're making it.
This is like, the first Cuisinart ever.
This is called a pestle and mor.
I love this. You're gonna grab
a handful of basil handful.
Just pick it right off the stem.
OK. My God, I'm not the stem. Tw
it in. OK, beautiful. A pinch of salt.
OK. And I want you to just go to town.
That pinch. That pinch was
a that was a nice pinch.
So really pound it.
There you go. I want to hear it.
There you go. OK, OK. Do it.
Even with a cool laser. This is.
Smell that I do. It's so fresh.
It's amazing. Right? Vibrant.
So then we're going to add a le.
OK, the whole thing.
Just squeeze it,
squeeze it right in,
squeeze it in.
And by the way, you know how tot
the most juice out of a lemon? .
Bite the back of it. Bite the go for it.
Oh, no. Yeah. You're lying. You're lying.
I'm dead serious. I can't on the
on TV. Oh, my God.
OK, you're right. You didn't lie
to me. You didn't. I was like,
Joel, I'm gonna go viral, alrig?
I'm gonna add.
So the same amount of lemon jui.
I add the same amount of olive .
And that's why I love this
little squeezy bottle.
Just, oh, yeah.
So kind of, yeah, move that.
OK, beautiful. And you kind
of mix everything up. Oh my gos.
That lemon in my mouth smells
so good. That's so amazing.
And then just drizzle that.
Hopefully we can kind of get
a beautiful shot of that.
But you can see the avocado,
we kind of scooped out and it's charred.
Yeah. And it's got like this.
Chocolatey note going on.
And this salad is just on a
different level of addiction.
Like, it's amazing.
My gosh, yeah. And for people tt
don't know how common is colitis
for people, it's actually fairly
common. One out of 100
people in America have it,
and again, there's no cure.
It's also known as IBD, OK,
and there's also something called Crone.
So those are the two most commo.
OK, and what would your
advice be for someone that's
dealing with food sensitivity,
you know, and gut health issues?
I mean, obviously to maybe go
on and look at all of your
recipes 500 now friendly gut
gut friendlyrecipes.org.
It's an amazing website super fd
with inspiration, so start ther.
But I would like lose the process stuff.
So lose the bread,
lose the pasta for a minute,
see how your body feels.
See if you get less headaches,
less nausea, all that stuff.
And then you have to go find
an amazing gastro Dr.
and get screened.
And they'll let you know.
They'll let you know.
And it's OK you can live
an amazing life with it.
I was
just going to say you're proof that you can.
You're still making amazing foo,
not tasting with this,
and you're living your best lif.
I mean, I know I'm going to drizzle this
over the times. My gosh, look
at that green color.
And that's stunning.
I know I can't.
I know you're going to try it.
This is so healthy and deliciou.
I have 100%. I'm gonna try it.
Just because I'm a bad cook doet
mean that I won't eat food.
Okay. Yeah, exactly.
You gotta get a tomato in there.
Yeah. Cheers.
MMM. See. You can do it.
My girl Kelly can cook.
I mean absolutely cook amazing n
if you have Crohn's or colitis or IBD.
So check it out gutfriendlyrecipes.org.
You partnered with the Crohn's
and colitis and I love it.
Thank you for everything that you do.
Oh my gosh, this is.
Dole is just the best.
This salad is also 10 out of 10.
So thank you so much for the sur
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