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[speaking softly] Wanna get up?
[whispered] Ya
[speaking softly] It's getting light outside.
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Good Morning guys!
We are going to
bike to the studio,
and also to Robin's University which is on the way.
So we usually bike together
But I thought I'd do a video that's a little bit different than usual,
which is just kind of bringing me on my day.
So you can see what we're usually up to a little bit of kind of behind the scenes.
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[silly voice] Dweee
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It is so incredibly cold outside,
I feel like it's easily freezing if you're in the shade
now most days, not all, but some days when I come to the studio
I usually have to go to the grocery store first just to get things that we might need for making recipes.
But this time I think hopefully we have everything we need. So for now, I'll just show you
kind of what the morning looks like and how we just set things up.
I also wanted to say thank you so much for the two million,
you guys are seriously so incredible, it means so so so much. Okay I'm out of breath.
[quick breath]
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The first bit of work I do in the day is to go over my bullet journal,
which is something I started doing about eight or nine months ago,
and I absolutely adore this thing.
If you guys think you might be interested in how to bullet journal or how I bullet journal,
let me know in the comments below
I'm gonna tell you right now it's not as amazing and immaculately designed as some of the other youtubers
who've done videos on this topic, but I love the system we have it's really minimal,
it's effective, helps me organize my thoughts
and know what I need to do in the day.
So today what we're gonna focus on is
something I haven't introduced to you before.
So this will be the first time we have created, or we're in the process of creating
an E-book and it's gonna be a compilation of all of the recipes that we have on the blog to date
plus an exclusive 20 recipes that you won't find anywhere else.
And we've poured so much love and hard work
into this and it's incredible to see it come together.
It's over 200 recipes over 500 pages with colored photos for each recipe
and yeah, really, really something I'm super proud of.
I know a lot in videos I say we, and we get asked all the time
in the comments, "who is we", "what are you talking about"?
"You're the only person we see on the screen." We're a team here at Pick Up Limes,
so let me introduce you to everybody.
We're seven people in total
so myself I work full-time because I eat, live, breathe, sleep Pick Up Limes
and then there's Robin because even though he's working full-time on his ph.d,
he helps out a lot with everything all the time.
And then everyone else is part time on the team and everyone couldn't do anything without them.
So the first person we brought on was two and a half years ago.
Her name is Mitra, she lives in Vancouver.
She's actually my cousin.
She's super cool. When she started off she was studying Dietetics,
but now she's a full-out registered dietician,
and she's worn many hats in the last two and a half years
but for the last year or so
she's been working together with me on a secret project.
But more on that another time.
Then about a year and a half ago here in the Netherlands,
if you guys remember I posted a video saying that we were looking for an intern.
[swoosh] We're actually interested in bringing on some interns into the Pick Up Limes team
So if you think it's something you might be interested in,
feel free to check out the link in the description box below to learn more. [swoosh]
One of the people who applied to that was Suzy
and we just skipped the intern phase and went straight to hiring her on.
You want to show them our soon-to-be other team member,
our mini team member?
Yeah there he is!
[laughter]
She's helped with so many things:
recipe development, responding to emails, filming,
and then earlier this summer, we were looking for somebody who could help us
with writing nutrition articles and we brought on two girls both from Vancouver both Dietetic students
Alyssa and Sophia.
And you might be wondering what nutrition articles are you talking about? Sadia?
Well, okay.
Let me show you.
This.
This is a list of all of the nutrition articles the girls have helped me to write
I just have to post it, so that's all on me.
And then the newest member of the team we brought on just about a month ago.
And it's Alex.
He's helping us with filming recipe videos and also editing recipe videos.
Up until now, I've done all of the editing videos myself
and I love it, and I'm still doing it.
I'm gonna continue doing it.
But I needed some help,
and the reason being I recently started taking some Dutch courses
and it's intensive,
so a lot of my time is spent studying Dutch and going to classes,
and so yeah, I just didn't have as much time.
So alex has been helping me out.
[Speaking Dutch]
Was that right Alex?
'kay?
Yes!
So that's everybody,
that's the whole Pick Up Limes team
Now you know who I mean when I say we
four people in the Netherlands
three people in Canada
seriously couldn't do it without them.
So, yeah.
The other thing I have on my list for today is to water the plants.
Very important.
You guys know how much I love my plants.
So you can join me if you'd like.
So we've got two jugs,
a big one,
[laughter off camera]
Now, I don't know what to say
now you're gonna laugh.
Which we use to water things with.
Obviously.
[attempting to suppress laughter]
[laughing]
[off camera voice] I'm crying!
I'll introduce you to some of the plants.
Um, I haven't named them because I'm not that weird,
but not that it's weird,
I talk to my plants.
Is that weird anyway, um
this one when we got it. I think it's just a banana leaf plant.
These two are totally new and there's a third one coming in, which is great!
This one needs a lot of water.
Like a lot and a lot of water.
And then this one is a massive ficus which,
when I got it at the plant store, it was heavily discounted because it was dying,
and we luckily brought it back to life!
So that's very happy.
It's just that it's hitting the ceiling.
So there's not much room for it to grow anymore, but it seems happy.
It's been here for a little while.
One of the corners of the studio I'm really proud of is - is this corner.
Also, there's one over there, but it's the propagation cor-corner.
So this is little pancake plants that came off of another plant
and then I repotted them
and I've been giving them some love and some water
and they're growing really big which is really nice.
It's one of my favorite things about pancake plants
and also pathos is that they propagate really really nicely.
So there's like 70 or so plants in the studio.
I think more than that
so whenever it's plant watering day, it's a solid 20 minutes,
I think of my time to water all the plants.
But I love it!
We get asked as well pretty often if these plants are real.
They're definitely real and I can show you
because I'm about to water them.
They're probably the trickiest things to water
in the studio because I just get up on the table
and then...
There we go.
I feel like getting a ladder would be safer
and also probably more hygienic,
but I'm just lazy.
I've definitely almost fallen back a couple of times.
But so far so good.
You gotta clean the table cuz otherwise,
that's kind of gross, right?
So Alex is busy editing away
and Suzy and I for today are going to be doing some recipe development,
which is always one of my favorite things to do.
Usually when you guys see a YouTube video of a recipe it's something that we've probably already made
two if not three or four times already,
because you don't always get it right on the first go.
So today,
Today we're gonna be making,
if we've got time,
three exclusive recipes
that if go well are gonna be featured in the ebooks,
and one of them is going to be like a grain and squash salad
the other one's gonna be a chocolate tart,
and we're also, if we've got enough daylight, now we're constantly fighting with daylight,
especially as it's kind of going into winter months,
The days are getting shorter and we like to film and shoot everything with natural light if we can.
So if we've got time, we also want to make like a noodle dish
with some yummy baked tofu.
But let's see how it goes.
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Taste testing time! [sing-song] Ta-da!
Oh, it's so cute!
Cheers!
I like the filling.
I don't know how I feel about the crust.
A little plain.
This one on the other hand looks
[assistant] very beautiful. Can we cut into that?
Oh that looks so good.
This one is really beautiful.
I though I would like the shortbread one better.
This is a clear win.
mmm!
A little bit more Dijon.
I agree.
Yeah, mm-hmm.
We're just going in there
no one else is gonna eat this anymore.
Nope.
We've spooned into it will you still eat it?
Yeah, really?
one big happy family
People always ask Sadia of that is who eats all the food?
all of us
and the little baby.
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One of my favorite things about
creating recipes
and being creative
and pretty much is working at Pick Up Limes
is the food presentation
the food photography part of all of this
because it makes it feel like, I don't know, you can make it a story make it inviting.
It's just how you present it and just just sparks joy for me.
So now we're gonna decorate all of this and start taking some pictures and videos.
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And these are looking really good!
So yeah, one of the recipes made the cut the other one didn't
but that's just the nature of what we do.
We only want to share what we think is the best one of the lot.
We've surprisingly wrapped up all of the recipes with a decent amount of daylight to spare, so...
So now I'm gonna take this to Robin.
He's gonna be so excited!
Definitely one of the perks of what we do is
there's always leftover to be enjoyed,
and we've got some plans this evening,
I think we're gonna be meeting up with some friends,
but we'll see if everything goes according to plan.
Just glad it's still light outside
a little bit
Hello?
Hi
Are you hungry?
Am I hungry?
Yeah.
Yes. I am hungry.
It's heavy, take it, take it.
Wow, what did you make?
Whoa, that looks beautiful!
It's a lot.
Damn!
You don't need to move it!
So, this is Robin's lair, this is where he spends all of his days.
What is this?!
This isn't where are one of your notebooks?
I want to show you, I want to show you something.
may I?
Look at this.
This is like another language.
I took physics in university
That is not physics.
Is there more?
Look at - this is like literally,
literally like learning another language!
Am I giving away any of your secrets?
They're not secrets.
Have we told them what you're doing a PhD in?
I don't think so.
Explain it in like,
here's a challenge,
in one to two sentences.
That's mean,
that's really mean.
I'm an engineer that specializes in controls,
So if anything that's automated
there is some smart software, smart algorithms
that control the machines.
And my PhD is on how to make the machines learn.
So how to make them
improve their own process.
So is that essentially AI?
Some people would classify it as AI.
It's very like narrow focus on learning for machines.
I'll let you finish the noodles, but I just want you to test these two.
We made two different kinds of tarts.
This is my life.
I get to test all of the good stuff.
[Alex] Sometimes not so good. [Sadia] And...
Exactly.
Okay, two tarts. Which one do you like more?
I like this one better.
Yeah? Okay good.
[Alex] Nuttiness. [Sadia] That's one we chose.
There you go.
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[Grunt of exertion]
[Rhythmic music] [Encouragement from off camera]
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[Upbeat music]
So, hope you guys enjoyed this video.
It's a little bit different than the usual variety.
But yeah, I thought it was it was really fun to make
and I think it's gonna be a long one.
So if it is been long, I'm sorry.
We are gonna finish up the food and watch some Netflix, and
if you enjoyed the video give it a thumbs up, it always means a lot.
Thanks a lot.
BYEE!
He's over here.
Will I feel him kick?
I think so.
Give him a minute.
Wait for it. Wait for it.
Has he been kicking a lot.
He's been...
[excited gasp] Oh, there we go.
Wow!
That's so cool!
[joyful gasping]
That's so cool!
Should we turn the camera away to the light?
Probably.
I need to get a new camera.
Yeah.
She looks really over exposed.
Probably.
Family photo.
[laughing]
Hey! How're you doing? Okay!
since making that video for you guys
and since editing it
the e-book, it is actually now finally finished
which is so so so exciting.
A lot more work than I had anticipated if I can be honest.
We actually created it as a way to celebrate Pick Up Limes upcoming three-year anniversary.
So we just wanted to compile all of our recipes in a standardized format in one place.
So it'll be available just for a limited time.
If you click the link in the description box It's going to take you to our webshop,
where you can download the e-book for a small fee.
That's gonna help to support us to be able to continue to create more content and recipes for you guys.
Thanks in advance.
And we also created a fun little video just to kind of announce that the e-book is live.
So here we go!
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