- What's up Delish and welcome to my kitchen.
I'm so, so excited to have you guys ever, because you,
yes, you the viewer at home,
you are the first guests I have had over at my place
since probably the beginning of March,
so this is really, really exciting.
I even lit some candles for you guys.
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Let's get started on this kitchen tour.
First things first, I really love the tall ceilings
in this room, but what really sold me on this place
was the kitchen, actually.
I love that the kitchen is situated in the middle
of the living space.
At some point in the evening, no matter who comes over,
we always find ourselves sitting on the bar stools
at the kitchen island, maybe having a glass of wine
and just sharing stories and memories.
We have these bar stools, as you can see,
we have this kind of like sky, baby blue accent color.
I love these candles.
These are from Target.
Mm, you know when you go to Target and you just can't leave
without buying like 20 things.
Another thing that I love about the kitchen space,
in general, are these custom movie posters we had made.
These four posters are some of our favorite movies.
So we have "Birdman," "Blue Valentine," "Fight Club,"
and, "The Wizard of Oz."
So on the, "Wizard of Oz," poster, I don't know if you
can see this, but the tornado in Kansas is actually,
if you look at it upside down, the tip of the witch's hat.
I just think that is really, really cool.
And this is our snack corner.
Our home is also our office,
and so something I love to do, just to make people feel
more comfortable is have open crafty at all times.
So we fill this with all our favorite snacks,
and all of our editors here eat snacks.
I don't actually drink coffee,
but Garrett and our amazing editors, Silas and Madeline,
they go through many K cups per week.
It is a coveted piece of the MK channel's success.
Next to it, we have this blue toaster.
I just thought it was really cute.
And again, perfectly matched the apartment, so I got it.
One of my favorite snacks is fresh bread toasted,
specifically when I go shopping,
I will always reach for homemade loaves of bread,
and a good piece of toasted bread,
with a little balsamic and olive oil.
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Perfect.
This is also a key staple of the kitchen.
On the bottom here, we have all of our coffee cups,
which are very well used.
I have an area just for my water bottles
because I drink a ton of water, always moving,
using my body.
So hydrate.
Next, over here, we have a lovely candid photo
of our editor, Silas, utilizing the Keurig.
What a beautiful moment.
This was the bottle of wine that Garrett and I had
on our first date.
I cook a fair amount, so I have a lot of pots and pans.
I love the Teflon Ware set.
It's just so beautiful and looks so good.
Also very long lasting and sturdy.
Balsamic and olive oil are everything.
I think they go great on anything.
Always go for the olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
This is our spice cabinet.
Some things that you'll always find in here are kosher salt,
rice vinegar, honey, look, it's almost empty,
Mediterranean sea salt.
We also use our Ninja blender all the time.
This is sort of like my fitness supplement cabinet.
So in here we always, always have protein shakes.
Recently, I've been really enjoying the Orgain
vegan chocolate shakes.
Also been using lately, the Muscle Pharm lemon BCAAs.
They taste really good and I believe they work.
Another thing that I always have is Nuun tablets.
I just throw them in some water
after a really big workout, it is really,
really helpful for rest recovery,
and getting a little bit of electrolytes as you
are re-hydrating after a big energy expenditure.
We also have these One bars
that are nutritionist recommended.
These are also really great.
They taste really good.
So, I am so obsessed with fresh peaches.
Currently blaze through them.
Fresh fruit, that's the everything.
I love these Japanese yams.
Guys, I didn't know this until recently,
there is a baked potato, which also applies to yam,
setting on the microwave.
So I just throw it in, hit the baked potato setting,
and in like 10 minutes, a freshly steamed yam
is prepared for me and it is a perfect,
very filling snack and very healthy.
Some of my favorite cookbooks.
So this is a cookbook that I love;
it is called the, "Feed Zone Table: Family Style Meals
"to Nourish Life and Sport," and it's by Biju Thomas
and Allen Lim.
This is actually a book created by people
who are very outdoor and cycling friendly in Colorado.
They are actually the creators of Skratch Labs,
which is another hydration product
that I am obsessed with, all natural.
This cookbook is amazing because I used it a lot
for cycling too, because they make these recipes
that are just really filling and really beautiful,
but also there's a lot of really hearty meals,
and Biju is also Indian, so there's a lot
of Indian inspired stuff.
I'm half Indian, so I love that.
We've also been using a lot of Home Chef.
Not sponsored, I wish they would sponsor me.
Hello, I'm available.
Now, we're at the fridge.
I'm just one of those people that loves having memories
on the fridge.
This is from when Garrett and I went
to San Francisco last year.
It was really fun, I love this picture.
This is a picture of me and Philip DeFranco,
who is one of my favorite YouTubers and I was really excited
to meet him and be on his podcast.
This is a birthday card to Garret from his
little sister, Maddie. - Oops.
- We love you.
This is from my cousin's wedding.
This is just a little Polaroid of me and Garrett.
(laughing) Another candid photo of our editor Silas.
And this is a menu, and something really sweet
that Garrett did was, he actually cooked the meal,
homemade that we had on our very first date
and made a menu, "Ristorante di Gary Bug,"
and had prepared, like all the things that we ate
at this Italian restaurant together.
I like being reminded of happy memories.
Okay, so in the fridge, some of my favorite things
that I always have in the fridge are pesto.
Pesto just goes on everything.
So I love to have a pesto here.
I have like three bottles of lime juice
because Garrett uses it in his cilantro lime vinegarette,
and I mean, I just throw it on salads, put it on everything.
My two favorite salad dressings
are Annie's organic shiitake sesame vinegarette.
I love mushrooms and I also just love vinegarette,
so this is the perfect combination of both.
And then I also love the Whole Foods sesame ginger dressing,
no oil added.
I also love Health-Ade kombucha.
I'm not a coffee drinker, but there are some days
that I definitely need a little pick me up.
Honestly, the level of caffeine deprivation
that I experience comes in very handy
when I do need caffeine, because bam, it works.
I always have eggs in the fridge because I love having eggs
for breakfast, just like simple two eggs.
I really like this brand, the pasture raised Vital Farms.
They're certified humane.
And also I just think the eggs taste really good.
Also have our Orgain protein shakes here,
so that they are nice and ready and cold so I can
just grab them before I go to a workout.
We eat a ton of bison steaks,
and these apparently are just like really protein rich,
they are amazing.
We actually eat steak for lunch guys.
We have steak for lunch every day.
We pretty much just sautee these steaks
and eat them all the time, and I love it
because they taste really good,
and it's obviously a very filling lunch.
My favorite food, probably are mushrooms.
I love mushrooms and I always love having them in my fridge
to just add onto whatever I'm cooking.
A couple other things I love are ginger and garlic.
I just always have these in the fridge
because again, similar to mushrooms,
they are something that I feel like I use in 99%
of the recipes that I work with.
And then we always just have like a ton of vegetables
and these like little pre-made salads from Whole Foods.
And then other than that, we just have a bunch
of leftovers because whenever we cook,
we cook literally at least four to six portions.
Sometimes we eat all of it in one sitting.
I like cooking as many portions as possible,
so that I can have lunch for the next day
and it's already made.
This is our dining table.
I love, love, love this dining table.
We got it at this little furniture store called Modernism
in Studio City.
It has this really nice, like curved edge to it.
I just love the deep colored wood.
So many amazing meals, and bonding, and D and D sessions,
and game nights have happened on this table.
Thank you guys so much for coming over to see my kitchen.
That was really, really fun,
and also just a great trip down memory lane.
If you guys want to see more kitchen tours like this,
be sure to check out the rest of the videos
on Delish's page, and if you don't know who I am,
or want to check out more of my stuff,
be sure to head over to my YouTube channel,
Michelle Khare, where we do a lot of extreme stuff.
Thanks so much for watching.
Bye.