hello friends welcome back to my Channel today we are doing something a little
bit different we're doing a cook with this video this is my boyfriend Brandon
you've met him a couple of times on my channel before he's gonna show us how he
makes his famous steaks so good it's super easy for you to do that home as
well and then I'm gonna be showing you how I make my pasta so let's go ahead
and get started all right so we'll walk you guys through
the steak making process here pretty much all I do for a rub salt and pepper
I used to salt my steaks after I cooked them cuz I always heard that salted it
before it made it tough myth salt your steaks before and if you can we're not
going to for this video but if you can salt it the night before put it in a bag
and let it marinate and it actually keeps all the juices in the steak that's
your hack for this video in this case we're doing it for right before we cook
it evenly spreading it throughout the steak and then I'll take the pepper put
that on you can be pretty generous with it cuz at the end of the day it's just a
rub and then I kind of just pack it in and then I flip it over and I'm gonna do
the same exact thing I don't exactly know what salting it prior is actually
like scientifically doing but it makes a big difference and just like maintaining
the moisture so those we're gonna let relaxed we're gonna be cooking them in
the oven today and we get to that step I'll kind of show you guys what we're
doing there so key thing when we're cooking the steak is we do want to make
sure that we bring the steaks to as close to like room temperature as
possible it'll just give you the most even cook so next I cut
sweet potatoes and I made them about this thick because we're gonna toss them
in the oven we haven't preheating right now to about
400 degrees but I have some avocado oil we have a couple big ones of avocado oil
that we pick up from Costco that I really like my trick to spreading it is
actually we'll take a slice we actually don't like using foil for
this because we just it gives you a crispier potato right sometimes with the
sweet potato because of the sugars in it it'll actually end up sticking to the
foil and it'll be a pain to get it off afterwards yeah and if she has some time
she'll put some time on there too Brandon suggested that I kind of make
sure I evenly coat both sides of the little potato slices just to make sure
that they get a good bacon I shouldn't tell from him and giving me like all the
tips he is the cook in our relationship we have a role where he cooks and I
clean you know you're chopping asparagus over there something some spirit we are
trying to time this so that everything is done around the same time his steak
takes around 25 minutes to do stopping somebody not normal by the way either
the steak time is gonna vary depending on how thick the steak is depending what
you're cooking it on I've been using an air fryer lately which is like my
preferred method I think I put it on 400 degrees
and depending on the thickness anywhere from 3 to 6 minutes on each side and
then we have some veggies here these are all just pre-cut so it just makes it
really easy for us I feel like Brandon always buys these types of vegetable
packs so in here is red bell peppers cilantro oh it's a bejita mix good
little mix but you could obviously buy everything individually and just cut it
up yourself and then in here is red onion asparagus and mushrooms we also
bought some ground beef for the pasta that we're going to be making later
bell peppers i actually prefer to get them whole
then you actually know what you're dealing with but we've got these little
packages about the market it's super easy but we're just gonna cut these up
into little like inch or so pieces probably a little less than an inch and
all these veggies were actually planning to saute as well so there'd be really
good on the side plate okay next we are going to start with some of the pasta i
have these two here but you can really use any type of pasta Brandon's mom
actually prefers gluten-free so since we're cooking dinner for the whole
family tonight gluten-free pasta so I have a big pot of
water here and I filled it about halfway my tip is to actually salt the water and
I heard somewhere that you want to make the water taste as salty as like ocean
waters and it helps the water to boil a lot faster and it also adds a little bit
of flavor to the noodles as well so we just want to wait for the water to boil
and then I'll go ahead and add in the noodles Wow everything is in the oven we
have a little Q&A portion so I had you guys ask us some questions almonds
stories the other day I have so many pages of questions but we're not gonna
have time to do everything we're just gonna do it quick Q&A session but we
actually have a full Q&A video we answered a ton of questions in that
video so go ahead and link it down below or up in the corner if you haven't seen
that yet that videos super long and we went really in-depth about like our
breakup our relationship some of the struggles and like how we met and stuff
like that so if you guys want to see a more in depth Q&A I will link that video
and I also have all the questions that we answered time stamped as well so to
make it as easy as possible for you the first question is for Brandon and
is what makes him think you're a game changer what's that you mean it's tough
to just pinpoint one thing but I just like how we can I feel like we can just
focus ourselves and like like I'm not pushing her to do anything that she
doesn't want but we're okay with like our differences I don't know how loving
and caring yes so we have the potatoes in there for about 25 minutes and he's
checking on them they look ready okay a couple more minutes for those Oh steak
is done okay so he earlier popped in this happen earlier that fell out we
fell out oh my did something did we lose some asparagus
Oh Brandon lost back in yep okay so then he puts in the steak for
another 12 minutes and we set a timer every six minutes so that he can check
on it so if I were to answer the question I think what makes Brandon
different is he's so genuine and like supportive of me when we first started
dating I didn't have a YouTube channel I wasn't serious about social media or
anything like that I wanted to be like a real estate agent so what I wanted and
what I am now is completely different a lot of that is thanks to him it was like
almost everything that I wanted to do he was always super supportive and he was
one that convinced me to start my youtube channel and convinced me to
pretty much go after my dreams which being raised by like traditional
Vietnamese Chinese family that was just like unheard of he's always like super
honest as well and there will be times are all like film a video or do
something and he'll be like hey honey like the way that you filmed that video
or I think you should have done this different it makes me better to really
like going off of that yeah going off for that Christine definitely like
pushes pushes me as well just to not I guess settle I think I've strength as a
couple is that he's almost kind of a free spirit
super creative and kind of inspires me to do things that are standard or like
normal and I think I was just raised to be super a hardworking and so I think we
really balance each other out where I help him to be a little bit more of
hard-working and he inspires me to kind of go outside of my comfort zone from
time to time which I think it's really great Gisele said do you guys ever have
fights or misunderstandings if so how do you guys solve it when we first started
dating we fight a lot but now we don't as much you guys don't know him and I
broke up when we are about two and a half three years into our relationship
and as you know we're now nearing five and a half years and before our initial
breakout we used to argue all the time and I think after taking a little break
and coming back together we kind of learned that those little fights aren't
really worth it so whenever we have any type of like disagreement or fight we
kind of just talk about it and we're a little bit more patient because we know
that in the grand scheme of things like the little fights do not house in there
do you both play video games no definitely used to be a gamer though
yeah but not like said because he's one of SIDS friends
so he's like asking gamergate Rachel said who sweats more at ihb you are
Brandon oh so she a hot you're the person so this is a girl that actually
goes to our hot yoga studio and we go to a place called hot yoga
but he sweat so much it's ridiculous I already spent a lot he sweats more than
me like he'll come out and leave like footsteps of suck my ring might sell out
so what are you doing in here so just make sure that it in there for
about 8 minutes 10 to 12 minutes but I like to check on early because last time
we accidentally overcook them a little bit and xanga said marriage in the New
York future we talked about all the time we know
that we're going to get married eventually and honestly we get popped
that question more often than not usually from his mom or my mom we just
want to be on our own we want to have our own place we want to be set up once
the time is right we know that we're going to yeah but we just want to make
sure we're above everything financially stable because we as a couple are ready
for that it's just like are we ready to move out have a wedding that we want and
I compare mortgage alone and all that stuff so it's just kind of like time
it's Lolo said not relationship related but what mix is Brandon so I am mostly
from my dad's side is Chinese Native American and then on my mom's side is
where we really get lost in the sauce and I'm a whole bunch of stuff on her
side like Irish Italian German but we tell people white white he's technically
quarter Native American quarter Chinese half way I'm technically fully Chinese
and my whole family is Chinese but they moved to Vietnam so my parents born in
Vietnam but raw originally Chinese so I think that makes me Chinese but I feel
like I don't really look Chinese need you a test to figure out like what
I am someone said what's your favorite activities to do together quick
I love playing card games we recently got into playing card games or like
binge watching a favorite TV show right now is Breaking Bad I like working out
honestly how can we work out or like like a what yeah go shopping thrifting
yeah where do you see yourself settling down city or state
I'm Susan California for a while but also it's kind of a crazy place to be
with like so many people we're actually originally from Seattle
and I love Seattle I love the people there
I feel like California is fun especially while we're young but I would love to
move back that who knows I mean maybe in five ten years from now although that's
nice that might change yeah we do know we want to go to New York at some point
for a little while and Japan in Japan so we'll see Michael there you'll see
you'll see what happens is that effort and care you put in for your significant
other the same now as when you first started dating obviously I think we put
in more effort in care because now we didn't now this is I mean after the
meeting ready put in zero effort Sarah Lee wants to know are your love language
is the same no our love languages are not the same I
feel like mine is quality time and acts of service
I feel like yours is physical touch and your waist length
oh please here's access service physical touch yes we're the back formation
quality time oh yeah wait how many do it to probably touch
and call it time so what throw into the wall not to do this I like to do it
because it just prevents the noodles from sticking together if you want it
you can pour like a little bit of olive oil instead so you're lovely we're just
quality time and physical touch yeah yeah see that quality time is so
important and sometimes I feel like you're not super lying with me because
quality times me is not him watching TV while I'm working or him golfing while
I'm like organizing my makeup or whatever quality of time to me is where
you're not doing anything else but like spending time together and I feel like
sometimes he thinks because we've been with each other all day that it counts
as hanging out and today it does it so we talk about that all the time around
like honey we haven't spent quality time yet who was a better cook and who is the
most annoying to cook with me and she's the most annoying person
honestly we don't really together to bat Popkin and when we did cook together off
who knows like in the early stages of our relationship so maybe like yeah
let's cook together yeah anyways the rest of our food is finishing up so
we're just gonna go ahead and finish up dinner all right so I forgot to tell you
guys when I put them in there originally we kind of forget to go over that whole
part but here the six are we cook them for about 24 minutes we did it on 12
minutes on each side and now most important part you do not want to cut
the steak you want to let it rest and it's actually gonna still cook a little
bit through and then you can cut into it
okay so next we're taking our trusty avocado oil and I usually have to look
at the percentage how lean the meat is 15% fat so this one
actually has a little bit more cut than what I normally use I usually like to
use 10% so since this one has a little bit more fat I don't need like quite as
much oil salt pepper I don't like to get too crazy with the ground beef
reciprocity like the sauce is already gonna give breaking it up
it's been about ten minutes I usually go anywhere from like eight to
ten minutes and now we're just gonna cut nice little
slices as you can see we like our steak to come out like medium-rare I even
might have cooked it a hair too long I let it sit for too long nonetheless
still a pretty good steak you can see how juicy it is that's like from just
that little bit of salt makes like a big difference
steaks it all done we have potatoes he grilled up some veggies the sauce is
pretty much done you know we got some asparagus warming up all six that we
have left we're actually cooking for Brandon's parents tonight and they're
outside we can plate up there
so Christine used to be a server so we left her the duties of holding more than
one plate and we're going to surprise my mom juicy is a little excited as well so
that is our finished little meal I hope you all enjoyed the video and a little
Q&A session if you like videos like this don't forget to give this a big thumbs
up and let us know down in the comments what you'd like to see next is there any
other videos that you want to see from us Brandon also it's on Instagram so
make sure you guys follow him he's going to be more active and that is it you're
all so much for watching and we will see you in the next one bye
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