(upbeat music) - And back to school time
isn't just about moms and kids.
I am so inspired today.
I've got Gail and Lily here with me.
These two young ladies are starting to explore
their culinary skills, so I'm actually looking forward
to seeing if I can learn a thing or two about you guys.
So, good morning, girls.
- Good morning.
- Good morning, how are you?
- Good, how are you?
- Doing great.
I love experimenting in the kitchen.
Now that I'm off to college and on my own,
it's nice to have a bit more freedom.
(laughs) With that freedom comes
doing your laundry, doing your everything.
(laughs) Welcome to adulting.
How about you?
I understand that you're an amazing baker
and a really little top chef in the kitchen.
- Thank you.
Well, you can't have cupcakes and cakes
for three meals a day.
That would not result well.
- No, that would not work well, which is why I'm
gonna show you guys how to do super easy, five
ingredient or less recipes, stuff that you
can do on the fly, on the go, in the
dorm, wherever.
We're gonna be doing this beautiful
tomato and mango mozzarella bruschetta.
Do you guys know how to chop a mango?
- Could be better.
- Yeah.
- Could be better?
Let's do it.
Mangoes are always, you know, you always see people
trying to peel it and then cut it,
and then guess what?
It becomes a slippery slope, one that you can't win.
So, I always say, find your mango,
look at the little, this we call the eye, touch that.
- Okay.
- It's got this little bubble over it.
That is the eye.
What does that mean?
That the pit is right behind it.
So what we want to do is do the cheek to cheek dance,
and by that, I mean we're gonna cut out two cheeks.
So if the pit is right behind it,
that means we go slightly off-center,
going into making that cheek.
Beautiful.
This is super easy.
Ideally, when you want these for a recipe like this
that we're not cooking it, you want it to look pretty
cause it's gonna be a bruschetta.
Try and find the mango where it's not too ripe,
because it becomes very stringy.
So the less stringy it is, the prettier the dice will look.
Now, how about you scoop it out?
All you have to do is put this into,
go in like that, and keep taking it out,
and you want to be putting it in here.
- [Gail] It looks delicious.
- Juicy Lucy, yum.
Now, what's nice about mango is that
it's gonna give you that slightly sweet, slightly tart,
but it's going to add a lot of fiber to the recipe.
So now, how about we mix everything up?
So you guys see, we've got yellow tomatoes,
yellow, orange, whatever you want to call them.
Why don't you girls just put everything in?
Go ahead.
We add some of the cilantro and some of the mini
mozzarella balls, which we literally quartered.
Go ahead, girls.
And now, we're gonna make this recipe pop,
and this is gonna be very simple.
The fruity olive oil, and the Star golden balsamic.
This is what's gonna take your recipe to the next level.
And it's all you need, it's few ingredients,
but really good quality ingredients.
And we're gonna toast the bread for about eight to 10 minutes,
so I'm gonna take that.
- I'm gonna mix this one more time.
- You guys, yeah, finish that off, thank you.
- This would be a great recipe to make
when friends come over cause everyone can really help
putting it together.
- Yeah, absolutely.
Have a little cooking date.
- I will be making this.
- Now, the magic of television.
We've got these.
Oops, careful.
Nice and toasty.
Put them on here.
Now, I need you girls to start scooping those up for me,
and in the meantime, I want to show you guys
these other two super easy recipes.
So we got the black pepper popcorn, how fun is this?
Delicious, great for study night,
great for movie night, or perhaps date night.
Moms, I didn't say that out loud.
And this other, this is a brilliant recipe
because this is our Mediterranean bruschetta.
With one jar, you have almost all the ingredients
that you need for this beautiful Caramia artichoke salad.
Right in a jar, all you have to do is toast some bread,
put it on, and voila, you're like a little top chef.
So, how are we doing here?
- Good.
- Great, it looks delicious.
- It looks like we're almost ready to just drizzle
some of the fruity, fruity delicious olive oil on top.
And so now, we're using the same oil as a finishing oil,
and that's the beauty when you're working with
a versatile product of high quality.
You can use it to cook, but you use it as a finishing oil.
It'll just marry everything together.
Okay, guess what?
Time to taste.
- Time to taste.
- Who's going first?
- Oh, I will.
- Who's on first?
Let's do it.
- Take this one.
- Okay.
I want to taste a little bit.
- It smells scrumptious.
I'll take this one right here.
- And look at the colors, beautiful.
- Wow, it's amazing.
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