(gentle music)
- [Brad] Hey guys.
And welcome back to Soy Boys
where this week we're taking a look
at my broken hands.
And these potatoes,
which we're going to make into a Southwest-inspired hash.
We'll start that by cutting these guys in half.
Just like so.
And then we're gonna flip this guy over.
And...
Oh, this is hard.
I, ow!
- [Chris] Brad, what's the matter with you.
Get outta here.
Go. I got this. - [Brad] Okay.
- [Chris] You don't have to...
Go! Shoo! - I'm gone. I'm gone.
(gentle music)
I was at my parents' house
when I heard my dog start screaming.
She was outside the fence being attacked, I thought.
The gate was on the other side.
There was no time.
I had to jump it.
But that didn't go so well.
Now, Chris is here on his vacation,
cooking the meal we planned to make together
because of this girl.
She's fine, by the way.
And since Chris is doing all the cooking,
talking you through it is the least I can do.
As you can see, this recipe starts with artfully cubing
our baby red potatoes.
Isn't that shot beautiful?
Chris did that too.
I can't take any credit.
My hands are broken, remember?
Next up, we'll season our potatoes
with neutral oil, smoked paprika, garlic powder.
Too much, probably.
But it pours fast.
Ancho chili powder, black pepper, and salt.
Then we'll get the potatoes onto a tray
and place into a 450-degree oven for 15 minutes
while we ready our other ingredients.
Or you can just feed these to your dogs now.
They won't mind.
For the rest of the vegetables we'll be roasting,
Chris is removing the kernels from three corn cobs
and chopping one green bell pepper.
Both of those go into a bowl
and are seasoned similarly to our potatoes,
with neutral oil, salt, fresh cracked pepper,
and ancho chili powder.
(gentle music)
Once 15 minutes has elapsed,
we're removing our potatoes from the oven
and giving them a stir
or scrape off the pan
before placing our corn and bell peppers
onto a separate sheet tray.
And placing both back into the oven
until everything is browned or blackened to your liking.
Wait, where are the dogs?
(gentle music)
While those roast, we'll assemble two more things
to make this bowl banging.
The first of which is a simple salsa that we'll make
by chopping three Roma tomatoes, half a red onion,
and one jalapeno that we'll place into a bowl,
season with salt and pepper, and stir to combine.
And lastly, what I'll timidly call a Southwest aioli
that we'll make by combining plant-based mayonnaise.
Yes, that's something you could buy at the store.
With smoked paprika, fresh-cracked pepper,
salt, and lemon juice
in more or less indiscriminate amounts
until it tastes delicious
and has a viscosity by which drizzling is easily achieved.
And with our sauces complete,
so be our veg
that we will combine on one sheet tray before plating.
Or bowling.
Roasted veg, in.
Fresh salsa, on top.
Drizzle with Southwest aioli.
And I'm out of directions to give you because we're done.
It's that easy, folks.
Especially when you have someone else make it for you.
(birds chirping)
And I found some irony in needing so much of Chris's help.
Considering this project started
with Chris asking me to help him get healthy.
And I remember him saying that wasn't so easy.
So once Chris made it back to Austin,
I decided to talk with him more about why that was.
What was it that made you resistant
to letting people help you
or letting me help you lose weight?
- I mean, a lotta times
I just didn't wanna be anybody else's problem
or be a burden to anybody.
You know, like,
to be a bother.
People wanna seem self-sufficient.
And that's always been my goal
is to seem like I know what I'm doing
when half the time, I definitely don't.
- [Brad] Having broken my hand,
I understand these feelings better.
I wanted to do things for myself,
but it was too hard or impossible.
I feel less in control, at the mercy of others.
As I was with Chris for us to enjoy this meal together.
And I've definitely felt like a burden.
I felt bad asking Chris to do everything.
At one point, I tried to adjust the tripod
before a jolt of pain forced me to accept his support.
I wonder if Chris felt a similar kind of pain
after his stint in the hospital before accepting my help.
And while part of me felt bad
watching Chris do all that work,
a larger part was incredibly thankful.
Thankful to have people (gentle music)
in my life to help me do things I can't on my own right now.
Thankful to have people care about me.
Thankful I'm not alone. (gentle music)
I have to remind myself that getting Chris's help
and so many others' is what will give my hands
the rest they need to get better
so that I can do more for myself and them in the future.
And in that way, getting help doesn't make us less.
It makes us more.
But you probably already knew that,
getting help from YouTube videos to learn something new,
like say how to cook.
- I just wanna say like, you know,
like if there are people who watch this
and don't feel like they can ask
their people around them for help,
then either they don't have the right people in their life
or they just need to build up the strength
to ask the people in their life, you know
for that help.
Reach out.
Take that help.
'Cause it can literally change your life.
- Now that you're talking about it,
could I have about $800 for this doctor's visit
I'm about to go to?
(gentle music)