- Hello and welcome to another episode of Baking Bad,
A show which I, Jessica, a girl who loves to bake
attempts to teach her wife Claudia
that baking is fun.
- That's why we going to make pancakes
and raspberry ice tea, because it's not baking,
and therefore it might be a little bit more bearable.
Let's begin.
Oh, we thought we'd do a challenge.
Every time we do Baking Bad, anyone who's seen it,
it takes Jessica and us,
just takes us long to get everything done.
- That's not, hey.
I have like disabilities, okay.
And it takes me a while to get anything done.
- [Claudia] Anyway, we've given her the easy recipe,
which is the raspberry tea.
And I have Jamie Oliver's super spinach pancakes.
- Oh.
- So I'm quite excited and I'm quite hungry,
so this is good. (laughter)
It's actually the first time I've been excited
about a Baking Bad thing, because it's savory.
- Wonderful.
Today's episode is an honor of Stand up to Cancer
who are raising money this year
through Sunday Brunch because, er,
you can't really go anywhere.
2020 huh?
But there will be a link down in the description
where you can donate.
We should also say that today, the debut...
- Of my hair.
- Look, where's Claudia's hair gone?
Huh, who knows?
- I like this is nice.
- It's so nice.
- I just really didn't like how the back of my,
like on my back.
So I used to always just like sweep it to the side.
The solution was cut it off obviously.
- She didn't like hair on her back
and yet it's taken you 10 years to cut it.
- Because every time I had it cut short,
it would end up being like, ba-doom.
Anyway, I've had this hair dresser,
you put these invisible layers in
and that was like a bit like not so.
- Yeah. - Challenge on.
- My recipe, brew tea.
- Peel and finely slice an avocado.
- That's going real mushy.
- Yeah, you can't really thinly slice something
when it's like, oh, very...
I mean, what textures is this?
(kettle whistling)
in that time that you have boiled the kettle,
I have halved, de-stoned, peeled
and finely sliced up my very squishy avocado.
And now I have quartered already three tomatoes.
- It's not a competition.
Oh, isn't that what we said at the beginning?
(laughter)
Ingredients.
- [Claudia] One ripe Avocado,
some tomatoes, spinach, three spring onions,
extra Virgin olive oil, coriander,
300 grams of cottage cheese, hot chili sauce.
- [Jessica] 330 milliliters of water,
one Raspberry Indulgence tea bag,
40 grams of raspberries,
half a tablespoon of honey,
fresh mint, ice cubes.
- Jessica can't eat onions
but she can't eat spring onions,
but she can't eat the white part of the spring onions.
And so we tend to just chop it a little bit off.
- I can't have garlic either.
- I mean, it's quite a lot of stuff you can't have.
(Jessica laughs)
It's not just those things.
- Yeah, and lactose and wheat and sugar
and alcohol and other grains but rice is okay.
(garbled sped up talking)
And peanuts.
- When I first met Jessica, she literally had
bags of frozen spinach filling up her freezer.
- Everyone knows about the bags of spinach
and the leeks, okay?
- Leeks in her fridge,
and what else did you have in your fridge?
Oh yeah, that horrible, like fake onion and garlic sauce.
- Yeah, don't try it.
- It was just really weird, she was eating leeks
with a fake onion and garlic sauce.
- Oh, I can't eat leeks now.
I know that. - Yeah.
And then wondering why she was being sick every day.
- You say wondering why,
like someone had taken the time with me.
No one took the time with me until you came along.
- I think most people would know
that a diet of two frozen spinach,
leeks and some weird onion and garlic sauce
was not healthy.
What else did you have?
You had...
- Jelly.
- Jelly, yeah.
- I love jelly.
- You had a lot of caffeine free Coke,
which completely defeats the point of why Coke
is good for Jessica because she needs the caffeine content.
Frozen berries, you used to eat frozen berries every night.
And actually that's not meant to be good for her either,
because she's got a slow gut,
frozen cold things take up so much of your energy.
She's got chronic fatigue and she's like,
"Hey, body, warm up this frozen food for me."
- Okay!
Method, brew Raspberry Indulgence teabags in a tea pot,
add the raspberries, mint and honey to a pitcher.
Allow the tea to steep for approximately 20 minutes.
When brewed, add tea to the pitcher
and then place it in the fridge until it's cold.
- Half, de-stone, peel
and finely slice the avocado and quarter the tomatoes
then place in a salad bowl with a quarter of the spinach.
Trim, finally slice and add the spring onions
and pick in the coriander leaves.
Then squeeze over the lime juice.
Drizzle with one tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil,
season to perfection of sea salt and black pepper.
(upbeat music)
Look how nice it looks.
- Mine is also beautiful. - Ta-da!
This bag is 450 grams,
so going just by visual sight,
I would say 50 grams is probably like that.
- What?
Why can't we just use a scale?
- There we go, look.
Now we mix it in.
Oops.
(laughter)
- Mm-hmm. - It's a fun experience.
I tell you what, I'm enjoying this Baking Bad episode
way better than any of our other ones.
- You've not baked anything!
- Exactly.
- So from eyeballing this,
you are convinced it is 50 grams of spinach?
- Yeah, from eyeballing that that bag was 450,
I deduct that that is 50 grams.
(laughter)
Whoa! - Oh shoot, it is!
- It's literally like, right on the 50 gram mark!
- Okay, okay, you've got some skills.
- Crack the egg into a blender.
Add the flour, milk, remaining spinach,
and a pinch of salt and pepper,
then blitz until smooth.
♪ Shake it, shake it shake it shake it ♪
Okay.
Cook on one side only for two minutes
or until lightly golden,
and then stack up on a serving plate and repeat.
I love green stuff.
Green's my favorite color,
but like, I love green food.
- When you were a kid, did you love eating vegetables?
- Yeah.
- Me too.
- Broccoli, my favorite.
- Like little trees. - Yeah!
- I keep trying to convince my nephew of this
and he doesn't buy it.
- And I just really liked broccoli
when it's been sone in noodle soup,
and it's absorbed all of the nice noodle soup flavor.
And then you take it out and you suck
on the head of the broccoli
and get all of that lovely juices.
- Woo! - Woo!
- [Jessica] Oh my god, you actually did it!
- Yeah!
(humming)
Okay, this might be getting a bit inappropriate now.
- This is what we do all the time.
(laughter)
- This is a family friendly program, guys.
(screaming)
(slow motion screaming)
Darling, don't need to scream.
Oh my god.
- Why is that my natural reaction for everything?
- Get yourself a plate, it's all right.
It's salvageable.
Top each pancake with dollops of cottage cheese,
the avocado salad, a few good shakes of chili sauce.
- [Jessica] Serve tea over ice,
and enjoy!
- And then,
it says chili sauce.
Yeah!
Whoa, I mean that was a bit much maybe, wasn't it?
I like it hot.
(laughter)
Want some chili sauce?
- I'm good, thank you.
- Pancakes and homemade raspberry iced tea!
(cheering)
It's really healthy.
- Go us!
- Right, now-- - High five!
- Now it's in the tasting.
(relaxing music)
Oo, let's try.
- Okay, okay.
- I'm gonna have a sip of your,
I'm gonna have some.
I mean, have you even tried your own tea yet?
- Yeah, it tastes like cold raspberry tea.
- Mm, it's very refreshing.
I like it.
That'd be so good in summertime.
- Good.
I'm pleased you're happy with my artistry.
- It's very good, darling, icy.
Right.
Let's try the pancakes.
- Yes.
We're just going to try it,
we're just making sure
we've got a little bit of everything on our fork.
- Oh no, how did I make it look so offensively ugly?
- Mm.
That is really good.
I like that.
- That is genuinely really pleasant.
- Yeah, it's like, really fresh.
Again, it's very summery.
- I think that's a mint leaf.
- How did the mint leaf get in there?
(laughter)
- The mint is everywhere.
- We're gonna be finding mint in our bed tonight,
from out of Jessica's hair or something.
Anyway,
you don't need to watch us
just eating the entire pancake.
- Unless that's something you're into.
- In which case subscribe to our...
- Eating channel.
- Eating With Jessie and Claude.
- Thank you so much for watching.
If you would like to know more about these recipes,
I mean, yeah, mine was super complex,
and Stand up to Cancer in general,
and if you'd also like to donate
to their wonderful efforts helping to stop cancer,
then check the link in the description down below.
If you've enjoyed this video
and you'd like to see more of us
attempting to bake stuff.
I'll admit, it doesn't generally go as well as this.
- Or just making, that's because it's not baking.
- No.
- I think this is what people would call...
- There was some flour, it got cooked, it's baking.
- I think people would call this food preparation.
There was no cooking involved.
Wait! I just-- - there was flour.
It got cooked in a pan.
- Ah, I fried something, yeah.
It's cooking.
- Cooking, baking! (clapping)
- Was Baking Bad, or...
- Yeah, because if it's flour, it's baking, right?
Like on bread week in the Great British Bake Off.
- That's true, I think pancake
could be classed as baking.
- It's baking.
Thanks for watching!
- Bye!
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(kissing)
Oh, I left lipstick all over you.
(groaning) (laughing)
(peaceful music)