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getting our kids to eat healthy let
alone their veggies isn't
always easy but a new show on netflix
could help encourage kids
to explore foods from around the world
and here to help us make one of the
recipes
from netflix's waffles and mochi
i believe we have guest chef zach
schweig of hamilton walkers
located in downtown champaign hanging
out in the r ci kitchen welcome back
hi how are you well great so this is a
great new show coming to netflix
encouraging kids to eat healthy maybe
try some new flavors that they haven't
tried before
i know you've got kids i do three three
and a half five and a half and they are
uh
young aspiring chefs as they would tell
you when they want to be of course
like any like any other child but do do
they try those new flavors are they
absolutely chicken nuggets and mac and
cheese
we do a lot of baking at home drawers
full of fresh vegetables we always have
the staples garlic onion carrots celery
we make soups from scratch my wife
actually does
most of the cooking at home really since
you do all the cooking at hamilton
walkers
yeah it's it's not necessarily a break
she's just she's better than i am
oh so you are a good husband
you've learned we're doing all right i
think the most important thing is just
to expose your kids at a young age to
the
the wealth of offerings in the in the
culinary world and it really just
can help develop their palettes over
time yeah and help them appreciate
food so well and this is one of the
recipes actually featured
on the show so what are we making
exactly this is uh
salmon no strats version of an awesome
summer tomato pasta we're gonna
candy some cherry tomatoes cook off a
short noodle for folly short noodles
refer to
short not long pretty easy
how do you candy tomatoes uh sure so
we're looking to
develop the just the the overall
sweetness on the outside
essentially making uh making a shell so
to speak
so the way that she's written this
recipe
is to take a couple tablespoons i'm
sorry
a couple half teaspoons of olive oil and
when we say she
are we talking about michelle obama oh
no no miss
miss nostrom okay because i know this is
a
michelle obama inspired show so i wasn't
sure well i know she's certainly an
advocate for
child health and just early childhood
childhood development so
we've got a little granulated sugar and
we're going to take
a half teaspoon of sea salt the rest of
the sea salt is going to go in our pasta
water
so these tomatoes get tossed and the sea
salt and sugar
essentially what's that what that does
uh within the recipe you'll see that
you bake these at 225 degrees for about
five hours
oh my gosh low and slow stirring
intermittently and what that sugar does
is help to form a kind of a crust on the
outside that keeps all the juices locked
in
and that's the candy aspect as it bakes
the sugar melts
yeah so super cool so we're going to
take these put them in the oven
and you want to come back to them every
30 minutes
and just jostle the tray as such
don't they start to like break down and
they'll shrivel
i'll gra i'll grab the ones through the
magic of television
yes that took five hours
yeah here's what we end up with you can
you can see that there's no juice on the
tray
that that sugar as it roasts candies the
outside of the tomato
all that juice is locked in and intact
so you still get that fresh tomato
flavor
okay well we're gonna let our pasta get
to work over there
and then we're just gonna combine all of
this together
you got it we're gonna take the tomatoes
we're going to drain the pasta
finish off with a little more extra
virgin olive oil some fresh
parmigiano-reggiano fresh basil
maybe a little bit of the starch water
just to help the cheese melt
in with the noodles so should be
fantastic stick around i have
no doubt about that all right if you
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