Oh my god, I give up!
Merry Christmas everyone and as it's Christmas, we're gonna be making some
mince pies today.
Gennaro, come on.
I got the meat
For me?
Yeah.
What do you mean meat?
Well you asked me to get some mince meat
We don't use minced meat in mince pies We use fruit.
They used meat like 100 years ago but this is what we use for mince pies.
So do you know what?
I make some lovely meatball in tomato sauce and then I make
a lovely spaghetti with the meatball.
So if we're gonna make them easy mince pies.
This is puff pastry here.
Just cut that in half and then we're gonna roll this into a
nice flat rectangle.
It's Christmas.
Look at that beauty... yeah!
Tell me when...perfect So now we're going to make our
minced meat but not real meat, just fruit So we've got a bit of a hack here.
We're going to use this mince meat that we got
from the shop and we're going to use that as a bit of a base
and we're going to make it so much better with all our dried fruit.
And got some tangerines and some almonds and
some pistachios and it's just so much more tastier and easy and it's really
fun.
So Gennaro, do you wanna help me chop up some fruits?
Course, let's do it.
so, cranberry this one is and
apricots... apricot, yeah.
I actually got a question.
Gennaro.
Yeah.
What do you eat in Italy for Christmas
We eat so much everything.
We also do turkey Christmas.
We make a nice big lasagna as well.
We make lot of dessert, you know.
Lots of vegetables Pizza and pasta?
Not really Christmas but we can do that as well.
If you want to see me and Gennaro make some pizza, comment down below.
Pop that in our mixture.
Yeah.
You want to add some nuts.
Yeah A little bit of pistachio, just crush
them a little bit.
Pistachio is so good Yeah, I love them.
Gennaro, should we do orange zest?
Now it smells like Christmas.
I wish you a merry Christmas, I wish you a merry Christmas, I wish you a merry
Christmas and a happy new year and a mince pie and mince
meat Oh, it's raining and the water's coming
We're okay.
We're good.
Feel good.
Right, we're nearly there.
Can I cook with you.
I love it.
Okay, perfect Tell me if I do wrong.
You've done it perfectly Gennaro.
Okay, we ready to roll?
We're going to leave a little bit of space for
our egg wash We're leaking!
We're going to crack our eggs.
Sorry, there's a little bit of water today.
Where we left a little bit of a gap right, get a bit of
egg wash.
I wish you a merry Christmas I wish you a merry Christmas.
Okay now we're gonna mark it out.
Oh my god Just cut that.
This is wonderful.
This is the tray.
Perfect.
Should we make a tree?
Tree's coming up.
What else we can do?
We could have made a star shape, a Santa hat
So now we're just going to egg wash it, right
Like this.
Yeah.
Best recipe ever and I believe so.
River, should we put some nuts in
good boy!
Yeah... what a lovely job he's done.
Gennaro, you can stay here in the dry.
I'll take this to the oven and guys we're going to put this in the
oven at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes, so bye
How can I stay in the dry?
Cooking buddies cue the VT of me and Gennaro 10 years ago, so you get the idea.
We're going to try and do another one Clementine, no?
Okay, just put a little bit of pepper on yours, shall I?
You already put a lot of stuff on top.
You want another clementine?
This one here on the right is yours, with a little clementine, just to show that
it's yours.
That is beautiful This is for you.
You've got a little bit of pepper now
This is black pepper, ground up with Dorset Naga which is the hottest chilli
in the world.
It's going to blow his head off so I'm going to put it just in this
one here, okay.
So I'm going to take quite a big pinch like that
He'll have 3 or four 4 and he won't notice
Make sure he takes the first one.
If he goes for any of these say... no, no, no, it
has to be the top one because that's good luck, yeah
Okay, now you take that and I'll just be in the background okay
Buddy, are you ready yet?
Hello.
Oh bless you.
They look amazing.
I just love it Should we try them?
Yeah.
I want to try them.
Take this top one, it's good luck.
Yeah Smells so good.
Oh gosh Oh God!
Is your dad on this?
You alright?
I don't know if I'm alright Hope you enjoy our lovely mince pies.
I dont think I like
the first one but the second one is delicious, merry Christmas.
And we send all our love from me
dad and Gennaro.
What does it say here?
Cooking Buddies Merry Christmas everyone
Merry Christmas.
Let's have one, done a good job there mate