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With 3 million views, come, Cook and Eat in English with Me.
Every year for the last four years, I have baked something with my kids and eaten it
with my family, and you have been invited to join us.
So today you get it all, two hours of joining my family for some meal time.
And like always, I've created a free PDF worksheet with all of today's vocabulary, grammar, and
pronunciation so that you never forget what you've learned in this lesson.
You can click on the link in the description to download the free English worksheet today.
All right, let's go back in time to 2017 when my oldest son was not even two years old yet.
Come join us for this lovely meal.
Let's go.
Want to come over to my house for lunch?
We're not having anything fancy.
I'm just going to make some quesadillas, Vanessa Style.
Usually we have leftovers for lunch, but today I thought we'd make quesadillas because I
have a lot of cheese here, so I hope that you enjoy it.
I'm going to cook some food first, and then you're going to join me at lunch with my husband
and my toddler, Theo.
I hope that you'll enjoy it.
Let's talk about some of the ingredients that I'm going to use.
Of course, we need a tortilla.
I'm going to make three of these.
This is just one tortilla.
I'm going to use some butter in the pan.
You can use whatever you want.
Olive oil, I don't know, this is just what I usually use with a quesadilla.
I have some mozzarella cheese and I have some kimchi for a very traditional quesadilla.
Just kidding.
This is not traditional at all.
Usually whenever I make a quesadilla, I just throw in whatever I have in the fridge.
So I already sautéed some kale that you can see in here, and I'm just going to kind of
push it into the quesadilla.
So first things first, got to turn on the burner.
And we'll kind of let that warm up a little bit and put my little piece of butter into
the pan.
Stir it up a little bit.
I'm sorry if you come from a country where quesadillas are your traditional food, this
is nothing like that.
This is purely Vanessa Style.
All right, because I already sautéed the kale, the pan's a little bit hot, so I'm just
going to put the tortilla into the pan.
Kind of mush it around a little bit.
Now comes the fun part, grating the cheese.
So this is a grater, and we use the verb, which is almost the same thing as the item.
I'm going to grate the cheese with a grater.
So I am just going to do this.
And that looks pretty good.
And I'll probably just push it around the pan a little bit because it will evenly melt.
If you weren't watching, I would probably use my hands.
But because you're watching and this is going to be on the internet, we'll do it a little
bit more of a sanitary way.
During lunch today, I plan on playing a game called...
Or not really a game, just using this item called TableTopics.
It's this little box that has a bunch of questions in it, and Dan and I often use these questions
just to talk about stuff during a meal because sometimes you don't want to think about your
day, or you don't want to just talk about the same things you usually talk about.
So we're going to be using these TableTopic questions.
If you think it's a good idea, if you like it yourself, you're welcome to use the link.
There's a link in the description where you can buy it yourself.
I just think it's a cool item because it's got lots of questions in English.
All right.
The next thing is to push this kale into the quesadilla.
And next, I'm going to put some kimchi on this.
I don't know if you've ever had kimchi, but whenever I eat it, I feel so refreshed.
There's something about it that just makes me feel cleansed inside.
And we have a lot of kimchi in our fridge, maybe a little too much.
Sometimes I go a little kimchi crazy whenever I see kimchi at an Asian supermarket or here
in Asheville we have a Korean food truck.
It's like a Korean fusion food truck, but there's a Korean family who run it, and they
sell kimchi.
This is their kimchi.
So whenever we go there, we always buy more jars of kimchi because we go through it pretty
fast.
All right, I'm going to let that sit there for a second, because usually I like the bottom
of the tortilla to get a little bit crispy or hard a little bit so that the inside is
nice and melted, and the outside's a little bit crispy.
If I had any leftover chicken, I would put that in here.
Maybe fish, put it in there.
Whatever we have.
Broccoli, put it in there.
It's a very simple way to make a nice lunch.
Because I work from home as your English teacher, I can eat lunch at home, so it's convenient
to cook things like this.
But I know a lot of people eat lunch at the office or you're not at home when you're eating,
so of course you could make something like this for dinner if you wanted.
It's a fun way to use your leftovers like kale or just kimchi that you have sitting
around.
All right, let's check the bottom of this.
It looks like it could probably be turned up a little bit.
I'm going to do that.
I don't want to burn the bottom.
I have done that before one too many times.
But if you kind of carefully turn up the burner, it's not a big deal.
It looks like our patience has paid off.
You can see I put the ingredients only on half of it because now comes the important
part.
We need to fold it in half.
I'm going to use my fingers a little bit.
Fold it in half so it becomes a nice little shape like that, and I'll just put it right
on the plate.
All right, That's one.
You want to see what we made?
Da da da!
Nothing super fancy, just a simple lunch.
Now I'm going to make two more, and then I'll tell Dan and Theo they can come back inside
because Theo is always really loud whenever he plays so they always go outside whenever
I film a video.
So I'll tell them to come back inside and we can have some lunch together.
Well, welcome to lunch.
I'm glad you could join us.
We're eating the quesadilla that I just made.
Dan: Yes, we are.
Vanessa: How is it?
Dan: It's very good.
It has kimchi in it.
Vanessa: Yep.
Dan: A kimchi quesadilla.
That's special.
Vanessa: Yeah.
Fusion.
Theo, what do you think about the quesadilla?
Is it good?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Good.
What do you like about it?
Theo: Cheese.
Vanessa: Cheese?
Okay.
Dan: He said cheese.
He loves cheese.
Vanessa: Good.
Well, today, Theo, I have something special.
We're going to be talking about some questions.
Do you want to talk about some questions with us?
Theo: Mm-hmm.
Vanessa: Okay.
This is TableTopics.
It's like a question, conversation starter box.
Dan: Theo wants to ask a question.
Vanessa: Oh.
Theo, you want to choose a question?
All right.
What's it say?
Can you- Dan:
Can you read it?
Vanessa: Can you read it?
Dan: What's it say?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: You want me to read it?
Okay.
It says, "What's your favorite..."
Theo, we'll read some more after we finish this one.
Why don't you eat your quesadilla?
Dan: Yeah, let's do one at a time.
Vanessa: What's your favorite song to play in the car?
Theo: Rock you.
Dan: Look up-
Vanessa: What'd you say?
Theo: Rock you.
Dan: I got-
Vanessa: Rock you?
Dan: Oh, Theo has a song.
Number one for Theo is We Will Rock You by Queen.
For me, I like the song I Belong In Your Arms by-
Vanessa: Chairlift?
Dan: By Chairlift.
And two- Theo:
Barbara Ann.
Dan: He likes Barbara Ann too, by The Beach Boys.
You like Barbara Ann?
Can you sing it?
Theo: Bicycle.
Vanessa: Oh, and the bicycle?
Dan: Oh, the Bicycle Song.
Vanessa: There's a little kid's song about a bicycle.
Dan: Yeah.
And my second song I like to listen to in the car is by Kero Kero Bonito and it's called
Break.
Vanessa: All right.
Dan: Look up the video.
It's cute.
I like cute music sometimes.
Vanessa: Yeah, I feel like I don't really have a favorite
song to listen to in the car, but we listen to We Will Rock You a lot, because Theo always
requests it.
He sits in the backseat and says...
What do you say in the backseat?
Do you remember?
Dan: Can you sing it, Theo?
Theo: We will you.
Vanessa: (singing) Yeah.
He loves that song a lot.
Should we go to the next question?
Dan: Sure.
Let's see if we can make it through all of them before-
Vanessa: All of them?
Dan: Well, before Theo wants to get up.
Vanessa: You want to read it?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: All right.
Dan: All right.
What's it say?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: Oh, you don't know how to read yet?
It's okay.
Theo: Another one.
Vanessa: Let's take a new one after we finish this
one.
Dan: Look at this one.
Vanessa: Excuse me.
Dan: Bless you.
Vanessa: Which piece of land would you preserve forever?
Theo: Back.
Vanessa: Excuse me.
Yeah, we'll put that back when we finish it.
We can maybe make a little pile here.
Dan: Which piece of land would I preserve forever?
Theo: Barbara Ann.
Dan: I'm going to go with-
Vanessa: Barbara Ann?
Dan: I'm going to go with Cinque Terre.
Vanessa: Oh, okay.
Dan: Just keep it the same as it is right now.
So it's in Italy on the coast, in the Mediterranean, and there's five cities.
Is it five?
Vanessa: Yeah.
Cinque.
Five.
Dan: Oh, yeah.
Vanessa: Cinque Terre.
Dan: Maybe it's recency bias because we went and
saw it, but it was so pretty.
I just want to keep it how it is.
And I love the Mediterranean.
Vanessa: My initial reaction is to say the rainforest,
but we just watched this- Dan:
Of course.
Vanessa: Documentary about the water, like coastal
waters, and it said that kelp forests are just as valuable as forests with trees, and
how a lot of the coastal waters are being overfished.
So I kind of feel like I would want to preserve some coastal waters.
It's not really land.
It says land, but I think that's what I would choose.
Dan: The land goes down into the water.
Vanessa: Yeah, it's all good.
Dan: Yeah.
Something coastal.
I agree.
I'm changing my answer because- Vanessa:
Theo, what about you?
Dan: The ocean can be in trouble if you fish too
much.
And many people do.
Vanessa: Theo, what piece of land would you preserve
forever?
Theo: Roar.
Vanessa: Oh, that?
Really?
Okay.
Dan: He makes a good point.
Vanessa: A good point.
All right.
Let's go to the next one.
Theo, I want to know who taught you how to ride a bike.
Theo: Opa.
Vanessa: Opa?
That's Dan's dad, and Theo- Dan:
My dad taught him how to ride a bike.
Vanessa: He doesn't know how to ride a bike yet, but-
Dan: But he might.
Vanessa: He sits on the backseat of the bike-
Dan: That's true.
Vanessa: With Dan's dad, who we call Opa, so.
Dan: Theo, do you like riding on the bike?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Yeah.
Dan: He says, "Yeah."
Theo: What.
Dan: What?
Vanessa: Yeah.
It's lots of fun?
Theo: High five.
Vanessa: High five?
Dan: Would you like a high five on the bike?
Yeah.
Vanessa: All right.
Oh, yeah.
One time when he was riding Dan high fived him while he was on the bike.
Dan: Who taught you?
Vanessa: What about you?
Who taught you how to ride a bike?
Dan: I mean, I don't remember.
It's probably my dad.
Vanessa: Yeah, probably.
Dan: Probably my dad, yeah.
I was young.
I remember having training wheels.
Vanessa: Oh, yeah.
Dan: You get the little wheels on the side.
And my bike was green.
It was leopard print, but it was green.
Vanessa: You remember your bike?
Dan: Yeah, I loved my bike.
Vanessa: But you don't remember who taught you how
to ride it?
Dan: No, I don't remember who taught, I was a little
boy.
I cared more about the bike itself.
My parents, pft.
Who's teaching me?
I don't know.
Vanessa: Theo, Who's going to teach you how to ride
a bike?
Theo: Nana.
Vanessa: Dan's mom.
Dan: His nana.
Vanessa: Oh, I know that definitely my dad taught me
to ride a bike, because I saw a picture.
I don't really have a memory of it, but apparently I ran into my parents' bedroom and said, "Today's
the day I'm going to ride my bike."
And they're like, "Okay."
And we went to tennis court, I think, or a basketball court, and there's a picture of
my dad helping me to ride a bike.
Dan: Cool.
We're all sneezing today.
Vanessa: I don't know why.
Maybe it's- Dan:
You get the real life.
Vanessa: Pollen.
Theo: Life!
Dan: Real life.
Vanessa: Theo, I have a very important question for
you.
Dan: You listening, son?
Vanessa: Are you ready?
What would you miss most about your home if you moved?
Theo: I want more.
Vanessa: More questions?
We'll ask more questions when we finish with this one.
Dan: Theo, what's your favorite room in the house?
Theo: We rock you.
Vanessa: He's on the "We Will" train.
Dan: He said, "We rock you."
Vanessa: Are you kissing that card?
Dan: I don't know if you can hear him, because
he doesn't have a microphone.
Vanessa: Theo, I don't want you to eat this card though,
because it's pretty- Theo:
Read it.
Vanessa: It's not tasty.
Dan: He's reading it.
He says he's reading.
Vanessa: Oh, you're reading it.
Dan: Are you reading it?
Vanessa: Okay.
"Eat it" and "read it" sound very similar.
Dan: What was it saying?
Vanessa: Yeah.
What about you?
What would you miss most about your home if you moved?
Dan: Ironically, we probably are moving soon, so.
Vanessa: We definitely are moving soon.
Dan: We're definitely moving soon.
Vanessa: So what would you miss most about this home
when you move?
Dan: I think everything in the new home is better.
On the inside, everything is better.
I'll miss this home's location because we live right-
Theo: Back.
Dan: Next to three grocery stores-
Vanessa: I'm going to put it back.
Dan: And we live in a very-
Theo: More.
More.
That ones.
Dan: Walkable neighborhood.
Although the new neighborhood we're moving to, it's also walkable.
It's just different because we're used to living in cities, and this is kind of like
a- Vanessa:
I'm going to put that one back.
Dan: City.
It's kind of like living in a city right now.
Theo: Move it.
Dan: But we're going to be living more suburban.
Theo: More.
Dan: Which is a little bit sad.
Vanessa: We'll get another one in just a second.
I need to answer that question first.
Dan: But the house is much better.
Vanessa: Do you want to choose the next one for us?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay.
Can you choose this card right here?
There you go.
Theo: Back.
Dan: Well, what about you?
Vanessa: I think-
Theo: Ooh.
Vanessa: Theo was ready for the next question.
I think, oh.
Dan: Don't eat it.
Vanessa: Theo, I don't want you to eat it.
Yeah, let's put it back.
It's not food.
Theo: There.
Dan: Yeah, put it there.
Vanessa: Oh, you want us to put this here?
Theo: Yeah.
And open it.
Vanessa: Let's save that card so we can read it the
next time.
Dan: He said, "Open it."
Vanessa: Oh, you want to open it and put that card
there?
Theo: Over there.
Vanessa: Over there?
Okay, that's a good spot.
Theo: There.
Dan: I hope people can't hear me chewing.
Theo: There.
Vanessa: That's the worst sound.
Theo: Put it there.
Vanessa: You want to put it there?
Theo: There.
Vanessa: Okay.
Well, I think I would miss, what am I going to miss most about this place?
I would say the routines- Dan:
Location.
Vanessa: That we've had in the last four years, going
to the same park, walking to the grocery store.
We walk to the grocery store a lot, maybe too much.
Dan: The location is very, very good.
Vanessa: Yeah.
We know this neighborhood.
We know our neighbors.
Dan: It's also kind of fun to live in an apartment,
even though you don't get much privacy.
The flip side is you get to see a lot of people.
Vanessa: All right.
We got a little situation on our hands over here.
Dan: And we have neighbors who can-
Vanessa: All right Theo, we're going to choose one.
Dan: Help watch our cats and stuff.
Vanessa: Let's just choose one.
You want to read this one?
Theo: That one.
Vanessa: That one's a good one for you, Theo.
Oh, but I don't want you to eat it.
Dan: I think he's confused-
Theo: Give it back.
Dan: About the purpose of the cards.
Vanessa: There.
Yeah, Theo, are you done with your lunch?
Theo: Yeah.
No.
Vanessa: You going to eat more?
Okay.
It's a good idea.
All right.
Next question.
Dan: Distract him with food.
Vanessa: Next question.
What did you get into trouble for when you were young?
Theo. Dan:
Theo, what do you get in trouble for?
Vanessa: Eating paper.
Do you get in trouble?
Dan: Do you get in trouble?
Theo: Mm-hmm.
Dan: He doesn't know what trouble is.
Vanessa: What did you get in trouble for?
Dan: When I was young?
Vanessa: Mm-hmm.
Dan: I don't know.
Probably just fighting with my siblings.
I used to tease my sister a lot.
Vanessa: Yeah.
Dan: Yeah.
That was probably the main thing.
Fighting with my brother or teasing my sister, because my brother was older and he was bigger,
but sometimes I would come up to him and, okay.
I teased both of them.
I'd tease my brother too and try to make him a little angry.
And sometimes I would take my sister's dolls and I would take the dolls, and I would say,
"I'm going to take it to the bathroom and give it a swirly."
Vanessa: Which is putting it in the toilet.
So mean.
Dan: Putting the head of the doll in the toilet.
I didn't really do it.
I just threatened.
Vanessa: Oh, that's so bad.
Theo: Oh!
Vanessa: I think that it is the same for me, that-
Dan: I was a little bit naughty, I guess.
Theo: Wahoo.
Vanessa: Yeah, you think that Daddy was naughty when
he was little?
Dan: Good news for my son.
Vanessa: I know.
I remember distinctly.
Theo: Ha ha.
Dan: Whoa!
Vanessa: There was one Mother's Day, or for my mom's
birthday, some kind of holiday like that.
And we asked her, "What do you want us to give you?"
I think I was like six years old.
So my sister was like three or four.
And she said, "All I want is one day when you girls don't fight."
Dan: Wow.
I guess everybody fights with their siblings.
Vanessa: That's so bad though.
That means that she must have been so annoyed every day with us fighting.
Theo: Barbara Ann.
Dan: I can't really imagine-
Theo: Barbara Ann.
Dan: You and your sister fighting.
Theo: Barbara Ann.
Dan: Although, her sister can be tough sometimes.
Theo: Barbara Ann.
Barbara Ann.
Dan: Vanessa was a perfect angel, let me tell you.
Theo: Barbara Ann.
Vanessa: I don't know about that.
Theo: Barbara Ann.
Vanessa: Theo has something important to tell us.
Dan: You know the truth.
Vanessa: He wants to tell us about Barbara Ann.
Dan: All right.
You want to sing the song?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: Ready?
(singing) Okay, now he's not going to sing it.
Dan: He just wants to hear it.
Theo: Bicycle.
Vanessa: Ready, set, go?
Dan: No, he said bicycle.
Vanessa: Oh, bicycle.
Okay.
Well, Theo took out a bunch of these cards, so I'll just choose one.
Let's do this one.
Which historical time period would you most like to visit?
Dan: I think we answered this one recently.
Vanessa: Oh, yeah?
Maybe we already did this card.
Dan: It's a good question, though.
I think I would say pre-history.
I want to see cavemen men, and when they discovered fire, and how stupid were they?
Or how smart were they?
I don't know.
Were they like, "Ug, make fire.
Ah."
Theo: Ah.
Dan: Or were they like, "I believe I have created
fire today."
Theo: Ah.
Dan: Ah.
Vanessa: I was going to say something similar.
I was going to say, I want to go back to see one of my ancestors.
Theo: Ah.
Vanessa: Who was a hunter gatherer.
Maybe they sounded like Theo sounds right now.
And just to see what was their daily life like?
What was hunting like and gathering like?
And they had to live outside all the time, and they had to fight wild animals and live
through thunderstorms and all of that type of stuff.
Dan: We really want to go back far.
Vanessa: Who did I descend from and what were our lives
like?
That wasn't that long ago.
15,000 years ago.
What was- Dan:
Nah.
That's just yesterday.
Vanessa: I think agriculture was 10,000 years ago.
Something like that.
Dan: Something like that.
Vanessa: Yeah.
Theo, what about you?
What time period do you want to go back to?
Theo: Bowl.
Vanessa: Bowl?
Dan: Bowl?
Vanessa: Okay.
You want to go back and see when bowls were created?
Theo: Mm-hmm.
Vanessa: Okay.
Dan: He wants to see the creation of the first
quesadilla.
Vanessa: Oh, really?
Dan: He wants to see the invention of cheese.
Vanessa: I would not doubt that.
Dan: Theo loves cheese.
Do you love cheese?
Theo: Yeah.
Dan: He said, "Yeah."
Vanessa: Okay.
I'm surprised that he has been patient sitting through all of this so far.
Let's do a shallow, simple question.
Maybe simple.
If you knew you wouldn't get hurt, would you rather skydive or view sharks from an underwater
cage?
Theo: All done.
Vanessa: Oh, I spoke too soon.
Theo, are you all done?
Theo: Meat.
Vanessa: You want to eat some meat?
Theo: I want meat.
Dan: Meat.
Vanessa: If you're all done, let's go into the other
room and you can wash your hands and then take a nap.
Dan: I don't believe I would get-
Theo: Nana.
Vanessa: You want to go see Nana?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Oh, Nana's coming after you take a nap.
That's right.
Let's take a little pause and I'm going to help him take a nap.
Or maybe we'll just let him play in the other room for a second.
You want to go play in the other room for a sec?
Dan: Yeah, let's let him go to the other room and
wrap it up.
Wrap it up.
Wrap it up.
Anybody remember that?
Theo: Hi.
Dan: You want to see?
Come here.
Vanessa: Do you want to sit on Daddy's lap?
Dan: Theo, come here.
They can't see you.
Come right here.
You have to be lifted up.
Let me pick you up.
Vanessa: Oh, yeah.
So if you wouldn't get hurt, would you like to skydive or see sharks underwater?
Dan: I feel like seeing sharks underwater isn't
even that dangerous, so.
Vanessa: Oh, yeah?
Dan: Yeah.
Vanessa: Theo, if you want them to see your truck book,
you got to come over here and sit on Daddy's lap.
Dan: Yeah, I have to show them.
All right, ready?
Vanessa: Yeah.
They can't see you over there.
Dan: You want to show them your truck book?
Vanessa: This is Theo's favorite book.
Dan: You going to show them the truck?
You see the camera up there?
Vanessa: Yeah.
Dan: Show them the truck book.
Vanessa: You like that truck book?
Dan: You like trucks?
Vanessa: Yeah.
Dan: He does love trucks.
Vanessa: You can read that book if you like.
Dan: You want to sit here for a minute and look
at the trucks?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay.
That's a good idea.
Dan: So I guess I would, well, skydiving would
scare me even if I knew I was going to survive.
Vanessa: You know what?
When I first saw this question a couple seconds ago, my instinct was sharks.
Dan: Really?
Vanessa: Yeah, because I feel like I would be, it's
not often that you can go deep under the water and see cool things.
Theo: Wow.
Vanessa: You like that book?
Dan: He wants me to point at all the trucks.
Vanessa: This is what happens when you have dinner,
or try to have a conversation with a toddler.
Dan: Yeah.
We're probably going to have to cut this conversation short.
Vanessa: Yeah.
Well, I think that's a good question to end on.
Dan: Let's ask Theo.
Theo, would you rather skydive or see sharks?
Vanessa: See sharks.
Theo: That.
Vanessa: He wants to ask-
Dan: You want to skydive?
Skydive!
Theo: No, no.
Vanessa: You want to get back here?
Dan: He wants to come back.
Vanessa: Well, thank you so much for joining us for
this lunch.
I hope it was an eyeopening experience.
Dan: Nope, nope.
Vanessa: If you have had kids, you know exactly what
this is like.
If you have never had kids, it is a joyful experience.
Do you want to wave goodbye?
Dan: Look at the camera.
Say bye bye.
Vanessa: Bye.
See you later.
Dan: You want to say bye bye into this?
Say bye bye.
Theo: Bye bye.
Dan: Bye bye!
Vanessa: Bye.
A couple months ago, I made this video talking about 120 kitchen items, and I showed you
my kitchen.
A lot of you asked, "Can you make a cooking video?"
And I thought, this might not be that interesting, but I know a way to make it a little bit more
interesting.
I wanted to combine this with another video that I've been wanting to make for a while,
which is how to talk to kids in English.
So if you have kids and you would like to speak with them in English, I hope you'll
enjoy this lesson because I'm going to be making these muffins.
These are some broccoli cornbread muffins from this toddler cookbook.
I just got this cookbook and we've made a lot of stuff from it already.
I love cooking with Theo.
It's my two year old.
It's fun to make things with him, see how he focuses on the tasks.
It's just a bonding moment, and we're also doing something useful.
We're making food, so we're going to be making these things today, and I'm also going to
be talking about what we're doing.
So even if you don't have kids, I hope that you'll be able to learn some cooking expressions,
things that we're doing.
You'll see some of the items.
This is not a professional cooking show, so I am quite unorganized.
All of the ingredients are all around the kitchen.
Yes, so there's a lot going on, but I hope that you'll enjoy it.
If you would like to make this, feel free to, you can check out the link.
I'll put an Amazon link in the description if you want to make the same muffins that
we're making.
They're not sweet.
They're kind of a savory cornbread, broccoli muffin.
You're going to also see my two year old using a knife in this video.
Don't worry.
These knives are toddler knives, so they cut pretty well, but because they're made of silicon,
it's like a type of plastic, and they're serrated, so they have those little ridges on them.
They cut pretty well, but they don't cut fingers.
If you cut yourself with it, you feel it a little bit, but it never breaks your skin.
It's a great thing for a child.
So you'll see him using that, but never fear.
He's fine.
He's used them a lot, and he loves cutting things.
That's like his dream come true.
He wakes up in the morning and wants to chop things.
All right.
Let's get into our cooking video.
I hope that you'll enjoy the process.
I hope that you'll enjoy some of the things that, some of the expressions that you learn.
My child, Theo, doesn't say that much during this video because he's so focused.
He wants to stir.
He wants to chop.
He is very focused, but I hope you'll still be able to have some good language that you
can use as well in your daily life.
All right, Let's get cooking.
Theo: You're all done?
Vanessa: I am all done.
But do you know what we need to do?
We need to get all of the ingredients ready.
Theo: You did it for me to put them.
Vanessa: Let's see.
Okay, we got to open to the right page.
It's page 90.
There it is.
Okay, this is the ingredient page.
Okay, it says we need broccoli.
Do we have broccoli out here?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: We do?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: Not yet?
Okay, so I got to get broccoli, milk, apple cider vinegar, cornmeal.
All right, let's get the broccoli.
Theo: I'm going to put in the broccoli.
Vanessa: Okay.
Can you put that on the counter?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay.
We have cornmeal.
Can you put this on the counter too?
There we go.
What else did it say?
We need milk.
Okay, we got milk.
I'm going to take this with me while I look for the ingredients.
We need apple cider vinegar, which is up here.
Theo: I'm going to open that.
Vanessa: We need some flour.
Theo: I need to open that broccoli.
Vanessa: You need to open that broccoli.
Theo: We need the cutting board.
Vanessa: We do need the cutting board.
You're right.
Theo: What's that?
Vanessa: That's the apple cider vinegar but I'm going
to put this over here because it's a glass container.
We need some baking powder.
Baking soda.
Theo: You think that's a glass container too?
Vanessa: That's not a glass container.
That's probably made of paper or cardboard.
Right, we got those things.
Theo: It's too strong.
I can't open that.
Vanessa: Is that a little bit tough to open?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Yeah, that's because we haven't opened it
yet.
It's new, so I probably should do it.
All right.
We're going to need some butter.
Theo: Why we need cow milk in there?
Vanessa: Why do we need cow's milk in there?
Because that's part of the ingredients.
It's going to make it tasty.
We need some eggs.
Wow, there's a lot of ingredients for this, you think we're going to be able to do this?
Theo: Rubber.
Vanessa: And we need some cheese.
Theo: That's a rubber band.
Vanessa: You found a rubber band?
Yeah, that rubber band is keeping the corn.
Oh, where did it go?
It's keeping the cornmeal in, so I'm going to put this over here.
That could be a big mess.
All right.
I think we have everything.
Are you ready to get started?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay, let's take a look at the first ingredient.
The first thing, first instruction says preheat the oven.
So we have to preheat the oven to 375.
Is that something you do or I do?
Theo: Me do.
Vanessa: You do that?
I think that's something that I do.
I'm going to preheat the oven.
Bake, 375, start.
Okay, so that's going to be starting.
Fill muffin tins with paper cupcake liners.
Well, we're not going to do that, but we can use our muffin tins.
All right.
The next thing says, "Ask Theo if he wants to cut the broccoli."
Do you want to cut the broccoli?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay, so I'm going to help you do that.
Let's put the cutting board.
Theo: Why you going to help me?
Vanessa: Because the broccoli's a little bit hard,
so we have to use an important tool first.
Your hands.
Theo: We going to-
Vanessa: Let's open this up.
Can you help me rip it?
Rah.
There you go.
Theo: Going to take off the rubber band.
Vanessa: Good idea.
Can you get that?
Pull it off.
All right.
Let's leave the rubber band here.
I'm going to put the cutting board, actually, I'm going to move your chair.
Theo: Why?
Vanessa: This way a little bit closer.
Theo: Why?
Vanessa: To the cutting board, and we have your special
kid-safe knives.
All right, I'm going to take off some of these pieces and do you know what I need you to
do?
This one is a little bit more tough to cut.
I need you to.
Vanessa: More tough to cut.
I need you to...
Oh, good.
Yeah.
Cut it like that.
Cut it like a saw, like you're sawing a tree.
Nice.
Is that okay?
Nice.
All right.
And those knives, it's almost impossible to cut your fingers, so we're all good.
I'm going to break off the little stalks and you can cut them for me.
Wow!
That one went flying.
All right this is the stalk, Theo.
This part, this is the stalk, and we don't need that part for the muffins, so we're going
to put that part on the plastic bag.
But these parts, we're going to keep.
All right, keep cutting them.
Oh, nice.
You know what that's called?
That's called a top chop, because you're putting your hand up here to chop it.
Good.
All right.
So we need about three fourths of a cup of broccoli.
That's probably about three fourths of a cup, if you cut all of this.
Do you think you can keep cutting it?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: All right, keep cutting.
I'm going to get our measuring cups and let's see what we need here.
We need milk and vinegar together.
Oh, we don't have a bowl.
Do you remember where we keep our bowls?
They're up high.
I'm going to get one.
Okay let's use this bowl and it says, "Pour the milk and apple cider vinegar together".
I bet that that is going to curdle.
What do you think?
Theo: You think the big cup is going to put down?
Vanessa: Oh, we're probably going to put the broccoli
in there in a little bit, but let's cut a little bit more first.
So this is the one that you finished down here.
Let's see.
We have to fill up this cup.
Can you fill up this cup with broccoli?
Theo: Yeah, I'm-a do it.
Vanessa: All right.
We need some little pieces, like these little pieces.
That's great.
Let's cut this big piece one more time.
All right it says "Finely chop it".
Probably going to need some really small pieces.
Don't worry, these knives are very safe.
You're good at using that knife, bud.
All right I'm going to rip this up into little shreds.
Good work.
Theo: Pushing down is a little bit hard.
Vanessa: It is a little bit hard.
Is it too hard for you?
Do you need some help?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay.
Theo: I'll cut it.
Vanessa: Okay.
Why don't you cut these little ones here and I'll cut this big one with my hands.
I'll break it up.
Theo: Why?
Why you not cut it?
Vanessa: Well, I think I can use my hands probably
just as effectively.
There you go.
Okay, you want to put that one in the measuring cup?
I think we probably have just enough broccoli and we'll save this broccoli for another time.
Oh, I think that's probably all we need.
We probably don't need that one unless you really want to cut it.
You want to put that in here?
Thank you.
Okay, can you put those little pieces in there?
Right here.Can you put those little pieces inside the cup?
Good work.
Okay, let's set that aside.
We're going to set that right there while we wait for the other ingredients to be finished.
I'm going to clean off this cutting board.
Theo: And we have one more cups.
Vanessa: We do have more cups, and we're going to need
to use them, too.
So let me put the cutting board back down.
Can you lift that up?
All right the next ingredient, it says we need to pour the milk and the vinegar together.
So can you hold a cup really carefully?
Let's see.
What does that measurement say?
This says half a cup.
Let's see.
How much milk do we need?
We need one cup.
Do you think you can use a one cup?
We need to use the big one.
All right, we need to use this milk.
So let's open it up.
Okay hold it really carefully on top of the bowl.
Good.
All right, pour it in.
Good work.
All right, now we need to put a tablespoon.
So not very much.
Let's use this tablespoon.
Can you hold that?
We need to put a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar.
What do you think is going to happen?
I think the milk is going to look really funny.
It's probably going to curdle because this is like an acid.
Can you hold it over the bowl?
There you go.
Hold it carefully.
Okay, pour it in.
Whoa.
All right, it says we need to just do that and set it aside for five minutes.
So let's set this over here for five minutes.
Oh yeah, let's just leave that cup there.
All right, time to turn the page.
Are you ready?
"Measure cornmeal, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl".
Okay, we need our large bowl.
Are you ready for that?
We're not going to put the broccoli in yet.
We got to mix the other things first.
We need our cornmeal.
So let's see how much cornmeal we need...
One cup.
Can you use a big cup?
There you go.
Okay, hold it over the bowl.
Okay, dump it in, hoo-rah.
Let's see how much flour we need.
We need one cup flour.
Good news, we probably have one cup flour.
Can you hold that cup again?
Okay, dump it in.
Good work.
Okay, now we need baking powder and baking soda.
That's probably really small increments.
Teaspoons, oh yeah.
So you're going to need to use this one.
Okay it says we need one-and-a-half teaspoons baking powder.
I always mess this up.
So we're going to do it well this time.
One-and-a-half teaspoons.
So what I want you to do is I want you to dip it in here like that, good.
And then we're going to slide it.
Good, okay dump it in.
Good work.
Now we're going to use a half one.
So we're just going to kind of put half a one in there.
Good, dump it in.
Good work.
Now we need to use the baking soda.
And it says just a half a teaspoon.
So we're going to use half of that.
If we put too much of this in, Theo, it's going to be really yucky.
So let's be careful how much we put in.
Theo: I'm 'a get it.
Vanessa: Okay can you dump that in?
Good work.
Yeah, those are really tricky ingredients.
Okay, we need some salt.
You love salt.
Let's put some salt in.
How much salt?
Theo: I'm 'a put salt in there.
Vanessa: Yeah, can you give me that teaspoon right
there?
We've got to use that teaspoon.
You can dump it in.
We need the little one.
That's the teaspoon, there we go.
Okay, hold it over the bowl.
All right dump it in.
Good work.
Oh, we need to mix them together.
So I'm going to get you a special tool called a whisk.
Are you ready to use it?
Okay.
Theo: Where is it?
Vanessa: All right.
This is the whisk.
Can I show you how to use it?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: No, you think?
Let me see how you use it.
Okay make sure that the whisk touches the bottom of the bowl all the time.
Yeah, there you go.
That way the ingredients don't fly out of the bowl, because these are all dry and powdery.
Theo: This is all done.
Vanessa: Do you think you can do it a couple more times?
Okay, let's see.
While you're doing that, I'm going to read what happens next.
"In another bowl, makes the butter, eggs, and honey".
Wow, how many bowls do they think we have?
Okay, so it wants us to add this mixture.
So what I'm going to do- Theo:
Dump it in.
Vanessa: Dump it in, you're right.
But we're not going to dump it in quite yet.
I'm going to put this in another bowl and we're going to melt our butter, because it
says we have to melt the butter first.
But I did not do that.
So we're going to take a little pause.
I'm going to melt the butter.
Oh, that's fine.
I thought that was baking soda.
Yeah, you can put all of this in there if you want.
You want to work on that while I melt the butter?
All right, let's do it.
We're going to put that in in just a moment, but first we have to mix these wet ingredients
together.
Theo: Do you think it's time to cut it again?
Vanessa: Is it time to cut again?
I think we already finished all the cutting because you cut that broccoli.
I think you like cutting?
Theo: Do you think the broccoli is next?
Vanessa: I don't think the broccoli is next, but it's
coming soon.
So if you leave it over there, it'll be all ready soon.
We need to get the eggs and the honey.
Do you think you can help me with the eggs?
Let's see how this is doing, if it is ready.
See that butter?
I melted it in the microwave.
Theo: And you put it in there?
Vanessa: Yeah, we're going to actually put the other
ingredients in this little bowl.
Theo: And we need the broccoli next?
Vanessa: Not next, it's really close though.
Next we're going to put in the eggs.
Can you help me with the eggs?
The eggs are a little bit fragile, so we have to be careful with them.
We need two eggs.
So let's open our egg carton.
Theo: No, I'm 'a open the egg carton.
Vanessa: Alright I want you to put your hand on mine
like this?
Yeah, and we're going to crack it together.
Ready?
1, 2, 3.
All right, and open it.
Done.
You help me crack it.
We have to do one more.
Okay can you put your hand on mine?
I want you to put your hand on the top of my hand.
There you go.
We're going to smash it.
3, 2, 1.
Great.
Oh, do you know what that timer means?
What's that beep?
Is it ready?
It means that the oven is hot and we can put all of our stuff in there when we're all done.
All right it said we need to put the eggs and the honey.
Let's find the honey.
Two tablespoons honey.
Well, I don't want to measure that, so we're just going to pour it in.
Do you want to tell me when it's enough?
Theo: I try some.
Vanessa: Is that about enough?
Theo: I try some.
Vanessa: You want to try some of this honey?
Here, why don't you try it from my finger?
Ooh, how does that taste?
Theo: Good.
Vanessa: Good yeah, honey is really good.
These are savory muffins, but they're still going to have a little bit of sweetness in
them.
Okay I'm going to mix this up.
Theo: I'm 'a mix it with my whisk.
Vanessa: With your whisk?
When we put all of this together, then you can help me mix it.
We're almost there, almost there.
Okay, "Add the milk and whisk".
Okay, this is the part where you can help.
So we are going to pour this into here, and then do you think you can mix all of these
wet ingredients together?
All right now it's your turn.
Mix.
Good, yeah mix them gently so that they don't fly out of the bowl.
Theo: Do you think it all done?
Vanessa: It's almost done.
Can I do it a little bit or are you still going?
Theo: You do it.
Vanessa: Okay do you want to put your hand on mine
and we can do it together?
Okay the next instruction says that we need to take this out.
Can you put that on the counter?
And we need to pour it into the dry mixture.
That's all of our dry ingredients, so we're going to get our spatula.
This is a very prepared cooking show, and we're going to pour the liquid into the dry
and mix together.
Okay I'm going to pour this in, and do you think you can mix in here?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay, there we go.
Here let's try to get all the last little bits out.
Can you scrape in there a little bit?
Okay let's scrape it out.
Good work.
Okay, now let's mix.
Oh, is that kind of hard?
You got it.
Good work.
Theo: Your thing is all done?
Vanessa: It's almost all done.
Oh, there's some bubbles forming.
That's good.
I bet that that's the vinegar that's kind of reacting with all the other ingredients.
Good, good.
Okay I'm going to mix it a little bit and then you can put the broccoli in, but I'm
going to mix it a little bit first.
Okay can you get the broccoli ready?
This is your chance.
Are you ready?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay dump it in.
Awesome.
Okay can you mix the broccoli in?
You can mix that up.
Oh, we need to put some shredded cheese in which I am also not prepared for.
All right, get the grater, get the cheddar cheese.
Okay we also need to put some cheese in here.
How much cheese does it say?
A fourth of a cup.
Oh, okay.
All right I'm going to put some of this in there.
And can you help me keep mixing?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay let's grate it in there.
Should I put a little bit more, or should I stop?
Theo: Stop.
Vanessa: I should stop?
Okay.
Theo: I make a little hole.
Vanessa: Nice.
Can you mix all of that together?
The cheese, the broccoli, and the ingredients for the muffins?
Yeah.
Theo: Do you think the muffins are almost ready?
Vanessa: Is that your favorite question?
Is it almost ready?
Yeah, they're almost ready.
That was one of the last steps.
Can I mix it a little bit when you're finished?
Theo: Now you mix it.
Vanessa: You want to mix it now?
Okay.
All right let's mix all together.
Theo: Do you think we can still cut?
Vanessa: You want to keep cutting stuff?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Oh, I know.
Well, we have a lot more food in the fridge, so maybe you can cut some more for lunch and
for dinner.
You want to be our official chopper?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay.
Let's just make sure that we used all the ingredients.
Looks good.
Okay now comes kind of a messy part.
Are you ready?
Let's put all the cups away and we're going to bring the muffin tins over.
Hoo-rah.
Let's see, do you have a spoon?
I don't think you have a spoon.
Why don't you use this spoon, and we're going to put this mixture...
Here, I'll do it like this.
Into the muffin tins.
It says to fill it three-quarters full.
There you go, good work.
Okay can you fill another one?
That's a good amount for that one.
I'm going to get a spoon too, and help.
If you use your fingers a little bit that's okay.
I wonder how these are going to taste.
We've never made these before.
Oh, why are you wiping it on your shirt?
Theo: Because I don't want it.
Vanessa: Oh, you don't want it in the tin?
Here you want me to give you a little towel?
Why don't you use this towel instead?
There you go.
Okay, if there's some on your shirt that's okay.
That's kind of the effects of cooking.
Let's put some in another hole.
Can you put some in that muffin tin?
Because we want to make a lot of muffins so that we can eat these for
a long time, or at least today.
There you go.
I like how focused you are when you do this.
Two year olds are not often focused, but when it's something they want to do, they can focus.
Okay, thank you.
I'm going to put a little bit more in these.
Do you think you can fill them up a little bit more too?
Theo: I'm all done.
Vanessa: You're all done?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: All right I'm going to use the rest of this
batter so that we don't waste it.
Do you think your baby brother is going to like these muffins?
Are you going to give some to him?
All right it's almost finished.
We used almost all of the batter.
Good work.
Which one are you going to put that one in?
Theo: That one.
Vanessa: That one?
Okay I'm just going to top these ones off.
And that's all of the batter.
Great, which one should I put this in?
That one.
That one looks a little bit lonely.
It needs some more.
Okay.
All right.
So the last step is I'm going to try to kind of clean off the top so those parts don't
burn too badly.
Theo: I'm going to mix it?
Vanessa: We already mixed it, so we're done mixing.
Where do we put this now?
Theo: I'm 'a cut the dinner stuff.
Vanessa: You're going to cut the dinner stuff.
You're ready to cut for dinner already?
Where can we put this, Theo, where's a good place for this?
Theo: There.
Vanessa: Over there?
It's going to going to bake over there.
Where can this bake.
Theo: In there.
Vanessa: In there, in the oven?
Yeah?
Okay I'm going to put it in the oven and it says we need to set the timer
Theo: I cut the dinner stuff.
Vanessa: You're ready to cut the dinner stuff?
Here, why don't you keep cutting this broccoli?
That's a great idea.
Let's move some of this dough.
Go at it, my boy, go at it.
All right, we're going to put this in here.
Actually, I'm going to put this on a cookie tray because it's a little bit flimsy.
Okay I'm going to put this in here for...
Let's use this timer for 15 minutes.
Wow, that's not very long at all.
All right, and that's it.
Wow, we just have to wait 15 minutes and then it's all done.
What happened?
Did you cut yourself a little bit?
Oh, you cut yourself a little bit with that knife.
Do you need a kiss?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: No, it's okay?
There's no blood.
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: It's okay.
All right what should we do while we wait for the muffins to finish?
Theo: Play Legos.
Vanessa: Play Legos, okay.
All right let's wash your hands off.
I'm going to pull the chair over to the table so you can wash your hands off.
Come on over here.
Wash your hands and then you can go play Legos.
And I'm going to put all this stuff away.
Great work.
Okay, you got broccoli in your hair.
All right, we've got to check on our muffins.
And let's see what it said.
It gave some instructions for how to know when they're finished.
It said until you can insert a toothpick into the center and it comes out clean.
Well, we don't have a toothpick, so we're going to have to use the next best thing,
which is...
Theo: It's a toothpick.
Vanessa: A chopstick.
Okay, I'm going to do something, this is going to be really hot, so we're going to put aside
your apples.
Theo has been busy cutting all of these apples.
I'm going to give you that chopstick, Theo, and watch.
I'm going to put the muffins right here, but it's going to be pretty hot.
So I want you to stand back a little bit.
Can you do that?
All right here's the hot pad.
We're going to set them right there.
I'm going to use this hot pad to get them out.
Theo: Do you think it's all done?
Vanessa: Let's see.
I'm going to bring this over.
Okay, step back.
Thank you.
Okay, I want to make sure you don't touch it.
All right I want you to help me, but I'm going to hold you so that you don't get hurt.
Can you step a little bit closer?
Okay.
We're going to put this inside here and let's see if it comes out clean.
Oh, it still has a little bit on it.
Let's try another one.
Oh, that one still has some dough on it.
That means it's not finished yet, so we can put that chopstick right here.
Okay can you step back?
All right I'm going to put it back in the oven for a couple minutes and then it will
hopefully be finished.
Theo: Do you think it's all done?
Vanessa: Do I think it's all done yet?
Theo: I see it with the light.
Vanessa: You want to see it with the light?
Should I turn on the oven light for you?
Okay.
Can you see down there, there's a little light.
Wow, can I try some of your apple?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: You cut this apple really well into lots of
little shreds.
Is that a piece I can have?
Okay, thank you.
Theo: Now I have two knives.
Vanessa: You do have two knives.
What are you going to do with them?
Ah, you can't chop with two at the same time.
Whenever you use these knives, you have to be really careful.
So it's good to use only one at a time.
Which one do you want to use first?
Theo: That one.
Vanessa: That one?
Theo: No that one.
Vanessa: Okay, I'll put this one over here.
Theo: Unicycle.
Vanessa: That's a unicycle?
Is that the man?
You really like unicycles, don't you?
You've been talking about them for a while.
Cool.
Theo: I was finding the unicycle with the girls.
Vanessa: I'm sorry, what did you say?
Theo: What were the girls' names?
Vanessa: Oh, those two girls that came over?
Emmy and Lucy.
Theo: Emmy and Lucy, we were trying to find a unicycle.
Vanessa: Oh, where were you trying to find a unicycle?
Theo: The cars and things that go book in my playroom.
Vanessa: Oh, the cars and things that go book?
Yeah, did you find it?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: Oh, maybe we can look another time for that
unicycle?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: All right, Theo, I want to make sure that
you don't hurt yourself with that chopstick, so I can't let you walk around while you're
eating from it.
But you can stand here and eat from it.
I just don't want you to stab your throat.
Theo: Whoa.
Vanessa: Whoa.
Well, let's give it a try again.
I'm going to try to set them here again.
And remember they were really hot last time, so this time what I need to do is push this
over a little bit and I want you to take a step back.
Thank you, because I want you to be safe.
I'm going to put the really hot muffin tin here.
Are you ready?
Okay.
Theo: And I'm 'a...
Vanessa: I'm going to hold you so that you don't touch
it.
And together we're going to stab it.
Theo: Mom, I stab it by myself.
Vanessa: You think you can do that?
I'll make sure you're careful.
Okay, pull it up.
Going to stab another one, pull it out.
Let's check it.
Let's check the chopstick.
Do you see anything on the end of the chopstick?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: Let's try one more.
How about that one?
Okay, put it all the way down, pull it up.
Oh, what is that?
It seems like you just grabbed a little crumb.
I think they're finished.
All right, are you going to stab all of them?
This is not for a gourmet dinner, so it's all good.
Okay.
All right they're all finished.
So now what we need to do is we have to set a timer.
Careful, I don't want you to touch it.
I'm going to set a timer.
Oh, watch out that pan is really hot.
Okay I'm going to set a timer for five minutes, and then after five minutes when they cool
down, we can eat them.
You ready to eat them?
Theo: Cool them down there.
Vanessa: I don't want you to touch that with your finger.
This here is really hot.
Remember Opa's pancake pan and you burned your finger on that?
If you touch this, you'll also get burned, so I want to make sure you don't touch it.
Yep, stay over there.
I'm going to put this out here a little bit to cool for five minutes, and then we're ready
to eat it.
Are you ready?
You want to eat it?
Yum.
Okay let's wait for a couple minutes and then we'll eat it.
Theo: Why do we need two?
Vanessa: Probably one plate is fine.
Can we share a plate together?
Theo: No.
Vanessa: Okay, you want to have two?
Do you think Daddy's going to want one?
Should we bring one to him?
Theo: Yeah, now.
Vanessa: Now?
Theo: I bring.
Vanessa: All right don't touch the pan.
Theo: You bring one to him.
Vanessa: You want me to bring one to him?
Maybe I'll use this plate?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Can we share this plate together?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay, let's wait just a moment.
What can we do while we're waiting?
Theo: Play Legos.
Vanessa: Play Legos?
Always play Legos.
Theo: *drumming on plates*
Vanessa: It's kind of like a drum.
All right I think the muffins are ready.
Can you turn over the plates?
We're going to try to carefully get these out.
Maybe I'll use this fork.
Which, let's pull this a little bit closer so everyone can see.
Can you tell me which one do you want?
Theo: I want that one.
Vanessa: That one?
Okay I'm going to take it out.
Thank you for pointing so carefully so that you don't get hurt.
Wow, that looks great.
Now it's going to be pretty hot.
Do you think you can cut it open with your knife?
Cut it in half and let all the steam out.
Okay, that's good.
We don't want to cut it too much.
What does that smell like?
This smells good?
Okay, it smells like broccoli to me.
I'm going to eat this one.
Theo: Why?
Vanessa: Wow, and which one should we give to Daddy?
Theo: That one.
Vanessa: That one?
Okay.
All right, I'm going to put Daddy's right there.
Okay.
Theo: You think it (is) all done?
Vanessa: Well, let's see.
You don't need to cut it more though, because it's probably just going to crumble into pieces.
Do you want to take a piece and try to eat it?
I'm going to cut mine open too, cause it's pretty hot still.
Can you blow on it?
Theo: Who is that?
Vanessa: That one's mine.
That one's for Daddy.
I didn't cut his open yet.
Okay I'm going to blow on it.
Oh, you're going to cut it?
Okay.
Let's just- Vanessa:
Oh, you're going to cut it?
Okay.
Let's just cut it that one time.
That's fine.
Did you eat it?
Oh, what do you think about it?
Oh, it's good.
Oh, it is good.
Kind of tastes like cornbread with broccoli.
Theo: I'm going to try another piece.
Vanessa: Okay.
Try another piece.
Good idea.
Taste like a cornbread muffin.
You want to take that one to daddy?
What about mine?
Don't give him mine.
Okay.
Can you take that plate to daddy?
All right.
Thanks for your hard work.
High five.
Yeah.
Theo: I'm a fan.
Vanessa: Which one's yours?
This one's yours.
Yep.
That one's yours.
Do you like it?
Good.
I'm glad.
We worked hard for that.
You focused a lot.
You mixed a lot.
Good work.
And now we get to eat the results.
Success.
Today I'd like to invite you to join me on a special baking adventure.
My three year old son Theo and I are going to be baking chocolate chip cookies, mixing
the ingredients, putting them in the oven, eating them, dunking them in milk.
It will be a long journey.
I hope you will enjoy it.
But along the way, I'm going to be using a lot of phrasal verbs for daily conversation
that we often use for baking, cooking, eating, and drinking.
So you can use these phrasal verbs in the kitchen, but also in a lot of other situations.
I hope that this natural setting will be a great way for you to remember the phrasal
verbs and also be able to use them yourself.
So make sure you check out all the phrasal verbs that I put up here on the screen, and
enjoy this wonderful baking time.
All right, we're going to make chocolate chip cookies.
Do you remember the first thing we got to do?
Theo: What?
Vanessa: Got to suit up.
You got to put your apron on.
Can I help you?
All right.
All right.
Turn around.
I'm going to tie it on.
Here we go.
Make sure you don't trip on it.
What about me?
Should I wear mine too?
Okay.
All right.
The first thing we got to do is check out our recipe.
What kind of things do you think we need on here?
Can you tell me what it says?
Yeah.
We need flour.
We need corn starch.
I forgot to get that.
I'll have to get it off the shelf.
We need baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, eggs, brown sugar, regular sugar,
vanilla and chocolate chips.
Theo: Whoa.
Vanessa: That's a lot of stuff, isn't it?
Now I already got out the butter.
We had to soften it up first, and I got out all of the ingredients, except I forgot to
get the corn starch.
Do you know where it is?
Theo: Where?
Vanessa: I'm going to have to take it off the shelf.
All right, before we do anything, we got to look at the first step, preheat the oven to
350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Theo: With parchment paper.
Vanessa: Where's the parchment paper?
Theo: Down here.
Vanessa: All right.
Well, why don't you get that out while I heat up the oven.
Theo: This one?
Vanessa: Yes, that's right.
Can we bring it up to the counter?
Theo: Is it this big?
Vanessa: Why don't we try to measure it out?
Can you set it up here, please?
Theo: In there.
Vanessa: That's right.
All right.
Climb on up.
Let's measure it out.
Is that a good length?
All right, I got to tear it off.
Okay.
Theo: It's a really good length.
Vanessa: That's good?
All right, we're going to set that aside.
Theo: And then we're going to open the thing?
Vanessa: Now we got to see what the next step is.
Sift together the flour, corn starch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
All right, so we're going to put that in here.
The first thing is the flour.
Oh, that's a nice loud sound, isn't it?
It says we need three cups.
Wow.
These are going to be a lot of cookies.
Yep.
Scoop it up.
And what we got to do?
Level it off.
Okay.
Dump it in.
Good.
You want to pat it a little bit to make sure that you got it all out?
Great work.
Okay.
Scoop it out.
Remember what the next thing is.
Level it off.
That's right.
How's that feel?
Theo: Good.
Vanessa: Okay.
Make another scoop.
Oh, make sure it's all full.
Otherwise, we're not going to make good cookies.
There you go.
Okay.
Level it off.
Whoa.
An important part about leveling it off is that you don't want to pad it down.
You just want to push it.
Whoa.
There you go.
Otherwise, you might get too much flour.
Okay.
Dump it in.
Okay.
It says the next thing we need is the corn starch.
How much corn starch do we need?
Two tablespoons.
All right.
Can you scoop?
This one is a very...
Oh, we got lots of it.
Here, let's put a little extra bonus flower.
All right.
This is very important that we don't take too much.
So do you remember what to do?
Scoop it and then try to level it off in there.
Theo: Like the flour?
Vanessa: That's right.
Okay.
Dump it in.
That's one.
This is going to help make them extra fluffy.
All right.
Level it off.
There you go.
Theo: I level off when I scoop it.
Vanessa: That's right.
Okay.
Let's see what the next thing says.
Baking powder.
We need one and a half teaspoons.
All right.
This is one teaspoon, and we're going to do baking powder first.
Now, do you know what this one has?
It has a little piece of metal here to help you level it off.
Why don't you get a good scoop, and I'll show you how it works.
Almost.
Let's get a bigger scoop so that it's all full.
There you go.
Theo: I think we almost used all of it.
Vanessa: You did it.
Yeah, you're right.
There's not much left.
Right now we need a half scoop.
Theo: Of this?
Vanessa: Yeah.
How can we get just a half?
Theo: This.
Vanessa: Hmm.
Yep.
Let's try to dump half a bit back.
That's good.
All right.
You level it off?
How is that?
Theo: Good.
Vanessa: Okay.
Now we have baking powder or baking soda.
We're going to only get half a teaspoon.
So can you do a half of one of those again?
Theo: This?
Vanessa: Yeah.
The small ones, but this time, oh, it doesn't fit in there.
You know what we can do?
We have another one that's thin.
So why don't you stick it in, scoop and then you can level it off, but we only need half.
Oh, that's great.
Great.
Good work.
I'm all right.
Now we need a little salt.
Theo: I'm flattening it out with this.
Vanessa: We're going to do this the scientific way
and just do a couple twists.
You want to help me twist it?
Squeeze and turn really hard.
There you go.
One more time.
There we go.
Don't want them to be too salty, huh?
All right.
Now I have an important job for you.
I need you to mix it up.
Stir it very gently, and put your hands here to hold it steady.
There you go.
Mix, mix, mix.
Theo: Are we going to do the chocolate chips?
Is that the last thing?
Vanessa: Yep.
The chocolate chips are the last thing.
All right.
I'm going to clean off some of this.
Here, bonus.
Okay, next we're going to set this aside.
Theo: And then we're going to do this bowl?
Vanessa: Yeah.
Do you know what goes in this bowl?
Theo: What?
Vanessa: The wet ingredients.
You know what was in that bowl?
Theo: Dry.
Vanessa: That's right.
The dry ingredients.
So it says in a separate bowl...
Theo: We can put the eggs in here?
Vanessa: Yeah.
Do you want to help me crack them?
Theo: I'm going to get this one.
Vanessa: But first, we have to do the butter first.
So can you feel this butter?
Does it feel hard?
It's a little hard.
So we need to squash it in our hands.
You think you can do that?
Because it said it needed to soften up a little bit, but I don't think I let it soften up
enough.
So let's do this.
Oh, yeah.
Squeeze it Theo:
To make it melt?
Vanessa: That's right, to make it melt a little bit
so that it's not too hard.
All right.
That's probably good.
It's just going to be really hard to mix it.
This is a lot of butter.
Good for fattening you up.
Theo: Right?
Vanessa: Wow.
Theo: Let me take it all out.
Vanessa: All right.
You want to take it out?
Can you take off the wrapper?
Hold the wrapper and shake it in.
Plop it in.
There you go.
Theo: Next the eggs.
Vanessa: Next we have sugar.
There's two different types of sugar.
We have brown sugar, which is just regular sugar with a little bit of molasses in it.
Yum.
And this sugar.
Which one should we do first?
Theo: That.
Vanessa: The brown one?
Okay.
Let's see.
It says one third cup.
Can you give me that big cup over there?
Theo: This one?
Vanessa: The big white one.
Theo: This one?
Vanessa: No.
Theo: This one?
Vanessa: That's right.
Theo: Can I scoop it?
Vanessa: All right.
I'm going to dump it in there.
And what I want you to do is to pack it down.
Theo: I want you to.
I want to dump it in.
Vanessa: You want to dump it in while I hold this?
Theo: No, I want to hold it.
Vanessa: You're going to hold it.
Okay.
Theo: And I'm going to dump it in too.
Vanessa: Really?
Here.
Why don't you help me with it?
There we go.
Whoa.
Okay.
Now, what I want you to do is use your fingers and pack it down.
That's the thing about brown sugar.
When it says three-fourths of a cup, it always means pack down really hard.
Push it really hard.
This is different than the flour.
Oh, that's a good amount.
All right.
Let's try to wipe it off your fingers.
Theo: Dump it on the butter.
Vanessa: Dump it on the butter.
That's right.
Hold on tight to this.
I'm going to pour it in.
Are you ready?
Oh, you got a little bit of stuff on your face.
Ready?
Ooh.
Okay.
Dump it in.
This one, we don't need to pack down.
You can just dump it in.
Theo: In the sugar?
Vanessa: That's right.
Theo: And the brown sugar?
Vanessa: Yep.
I'm going to put this butter in here.
We're not professional chefs.
It's okay.
I'm going to throw it in the microwave for a couple seconds, and then it'll be nice and
soft for us.
Theo: We're good chefs.
Vanessa: We're what?
Theo: We're good chefs.
Vanessa: We're good chefs.
Wow.
All right.
Now our butter is a little bit soft, maybe a little too soft.
So they might not be super fluffy cookies, but it's still going to be a little bit easier.
Theo: Is it going to be really good still?
Vanessa: It is going to be really good still.
And when you're baking together, sometimes you just have to make concessions.
All right.
I'm going to pour this in, and it can be your job to mix them together.
You think you could do it?
Okay.
Theo: Maybe we should make banana cookies with it.
Vanessa: Banana cookies.
How do you make banana cookies?
Theo: You put bananas in it.
Vanessa: Oh well, of course.
That makes sense.
I'm going to scrape out the last little bits of butter.
And now, can you use that spatula or the fork to mix it up?
Theo: I'll do this.
Vanessa: Okay.
Theo: Whoa.
Vanessa: We're going to still mix that in.
Theo: We'll be mixing with it?
Vanessa: Yeah, you can just...
You want me to mix it a little bit?
Okay.
Do you want to put a hand on mine while I do it?
Okay.
We'll do it really fast.
How is that?
Theo: Good?
Vanessa: Oh, do you know what that is?
What?
The oven is ready.
It's heated up enough, but we have to finish making our cookie batter first.
All right.
The next thing is we got to put in our eggs.
Crack the eggs.
Can you help me with it?
Ready?
Wait.
You want to put your hand down?
Mine.
3, 2, 1.
Crack.
Whoa.
That was a pretty big crack, wasn't it?
Theo: I'll get the rag.
Vanessa: Oh, here.
All right.
Thank you.
We're going to do a big crack this time.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Watch out.
I got to do it first.
Ready?
Three.
So what?
Oh, you did it.
Whoa.
That was a kind of good crack.
All right, next.
There's one other thing we have to add, and that's some vanilla.
Theo: Quick, quick, quick.
Vanessa: I never measure out vanilla.
I always just eyeball it.
Theo: When are we ready?
Vanessa: Well, it's going to be ready in just a moment,
because remember that other bowl with the dry ingredients?
We got to mix them together.
So now I'm going to scrape down the sides.
Everything looks mixed together really well.
Blend until smooth and fluffy.
Does it look smooth and fluffy to you?
Good.
Okay.
The next thing is to add the flour mixture to the butter mixture.
You think you can help with that?
Theo: I'll dump it, right?
Vanessa: Let's see.
It says a little at a time.
You think you can dump a little bit at a time?
Okay.
Theo: Why dump it?
Vanessa: Well, the recipe says a little at a time.
That will probably help it to not be too hard.
Okay.
Let's mix this in and then we'll do it again.
Thank you.
Okay.
You want to do it?
Theo: No you can.
Vanessa: You want me to do it?
Theo: I want to scrape.
My job is to scrape the batter off with the fork.
Vanessa: Okay.
You can do it when I have it on the spatula.
All right.
Theo: We're good chefs.
Vanessa: We are good chefs.
Thank you for scraping that off.
Ready?
Mix.
Theo: Really fast?
Vanessa: Well, I want to make sure that the flour is
incorporated before I go too fast so it doesn't fly away into the air.
Theo: Fly away to North Carolina.
Vanessa: Yeah.
I mean, we are in North Carolina, but I know what you mean.
All right.
Let's pour in the rest.
Do you want to dump the rest in?
Good work.
You bought two different kinds of chocolate chips.
So, which one do you think we should use?
Theo: First we're going to make two of them.
We're going to put two of the kinds of chocolate chips in.
Vanessa: Oh, okay.
Two different types of chocolate chips in.
Oh, that's one way to open it.
Let's see how many it says to put in.
Two cups.
That's so many.
What if we do one cup of this kind and one cup of that kind?
Okay.
Can you put them in this cup first so we can measure it?
Theo: First I'm going to scoop it out.
Vanessa: Okay.
That's the exciting part.
You want to gobble up a couple?
Theo: This one.
Vanessa: Whoa.
Okay.
That's going to be your secret stash.
Okay.
Theo: And I'm a get a little bit of this one too.
Vanessa: Okay.
Theo: A little bit of each.
Vanessa: You can eat a little bit of each.
All right.
Let's try to measure out one cup of that.
I'll eat a couple, too.
Let's pour them in.
Theo: A little bit.
Those are better.
Vanessa: Those are better?
Which one do you think is best?
These ones or those ones?
Theo: Those ones.
Vanessa: Those ones?
Hmm.
They're both chocolate.
Theo: Now, I have to get another one.
Vanessa: Oh.
Cause I took some from your pile?
That's fair.
Theo: Now I need some water.
Vanessa: I agree.
That was really a lot.
The recipe says that we can't just mix the chocolate chips in here.
We have to fold them in.
Do you know what that means?
Theo: What?
Vanessa: Is it like folding your clothes?
We got to fold this like our clothes.
Theo: No.
Vanessa: No.
You're right.
We're not going to fold it like clothes, but we have to do it gently.
That's the idea.
We have to mix it gently, kind of like you fold your clothes gently.
So I'm going to fold this, scraping the outside and carefully tenderly our precious little
chocolate chips.
Are you okay in there?
Theo: Mm-hmm.
Vanessa: Is that what they said?
They said yes?
Wow.
I didn't even know they could talk.
What else did chocolate chips say?
Theo: Eat the chocolate chips that are right here.
Vanessa: Oh, they're telling us to eat more?
Oh my goodness.
That's a silly chocolate chip.
All right, now that we've added in all the ingredients, next we got to use our tray.
We need to line them up on the tray.
Theo: And then this scoop with that?.
Vanessa: And what?
Theo: Scoop with that?
Vanessa: Oh, they scoop them out with that?
You know what?
I was just thinking we could use this.
Theo: No.
Vanessa: Because this will make gigantic cookies that
might not cook very well.
They might be kind of raw on the inside, so it's good to use one little spoon.
Theo: No, do this one.
Vanessa: That giant...
This one?
Theo: No, this one.
Vanessa: That one.
Okay.
That's a great idea.
Why don't I put this a little bit closer so you can get it over there.
Theo: Whoa.
Vanessa: Now it says to keep them two inches apart
because these are going to kind of fluff up.
Theo: I'm going to make that big one.
Vanessa: That's going to be yours?
Theo: I'm going to make lots of big ones.
Vanessa: Are you going to eat that one too?
I bet.
Theo: Whoa.
Vanessa: Wow.
That might be a little big bud.
Theo: No.
Vanessa: Let's tone it down just a bit.
Theo: Just smash it down with my thing.
Vanessa: Well, I was thinking you could break off a
little piece.
Theo: No, smash.
Vanessa: Just smash it down.
Well, let's see what happens.
Usually the first batch is kind of an experiment anyway.
All right.
Theo: I watch.
Vanessa: You want to watch?
All right.
That's a good idea to stand back like that because the oven's really hot.
Thank you for doing that.
All right.
Okay.
Now I got to turn on the timer.
Theo: I need some more wrapping paper.
Vanessa: Wrapping paper.
Oh, you mean the parchment paper?
Okay, let's do that.
Theo: Now I'm going to make a little foot, a little
fingerprint in there to make fingerprints.
Vanessa: Fingerprint cookies.
Wow.
Right.
I don't want you to smoosh down all of these because the more you touch it, probably the
flatter and the harder and the crispier they're going to be.
And these are supposed to be fluffy and light cookies.
Theo: Look at this.
I'm poking the hole in that.
Vanessa: Is that a volcano cookie?
Theo: This is the volcano one, too.
Vanessa: All right, Well, something we need to get
ready so that when the cookies are done, we can eat.
We can drink some milk with the cookies.
That's kind of a classic combination as you get your chocolate chip cookie and you dunk
it in the milk.
Have you ever done that before?
Theo: No.
We can put some milk in a bowl.
Vanessa: In a bowl.
Oh, not a cup?
Oh, we could do that too.
All right.
We could put some in a bowl and then we can share it together.
Okay.
Usually you put it in a cup.
But I'm up for a bowl.
Do you have a bowl on your shelf that we can use?
Okay.
Theo: There's certainly lots of bowls.
You got those two bowls.
Vanessa: There are certainly lots of bowls.
Theo: Look, there's two bowls.
Vanessa: Two bowls.
Certainly lots of bowls.
What was I thinking?
You know what that is?
Theo: Cookies.
Vanessa: Cookies.
All right.
I got to clean off the dry rack or the cooling rack.
All right.
I'm going to take them out of the oven.
You want to take a look and see if they're ready?
All right, Theo.
You know what?
I think these are not done.
They need to be brown and crispy on the edges.
So let's put them in for two more minutes.
All right.
I heard the timer go off.
Let's check on our cookies.
Theo: And put these ones in.
Vanessa: You know what?
Our cookies are kind of bigger than what they called for, so let's just give it a try.
I need you to step back for a second.
And can you pick up your book?
Because I'm going to put these cookies on this tray.
I'm sure there are better ways to do this.
Theo: But mine are really big.
Vanessa: Your cookies are ginormous.
We're going to get a bowl of milk.
We're going to give them a try.
Are you trying them with your fork?
Can you go get a bowl from your shelf, please?
Theo: I'm going to use that fork and a spoon.
Vanessa: Wow.
Have you ever met a three year old who eats chocolate chip cookies with a fork and a spoon?
I guess that's you.
Theo: I just got it?
Vanessa: Oh, I got the milk right here.
Theo: Why?
Did you get already?
Vanessa: All right.
I got it ready.
All right.
Usually you dunk them in a cup of milk, but you want to use a bowl?
That's fine.
We can share it together.
All right.
Can you choose one cookie?
Choose which one you want?
Theo: This one.
Vanessa: That one.
All right.
I'm going to choose this one.
Theo: It's really big.
Vanessa: Oh, it is big.
Oh, it's melting.
Chocolate chip's melting on my fingers.
All right.
I poured in the milk.
Now it's time to dunk them.
Theo: Well, we can eat them here.
Vanessa: They are so fluffy.
Theo: Whoa.
Vanessa: Wow.
So that's your last cookie.
Okay.
All right.
I'm going to eat your little mini cookie.
Oh, whoa.
It just jumped into the milk.
Theo: I can taste it.
Vanessa: Wow.
How's it taste?
I'm going to dip this little mini cookie in.
That is great.
You want to cheers our cookies?
Cheers.
Theo: Cookies and milk.
That's the best.
Vanessa: Cookies and milk.
That's the best?
That is right.
Thank you so much for joining us on this baking adventure, all of the ups and downs of baking
with a toddler.
And now I have a question for you.
What kind of cookies or desserts do you like?
I hope you have a chance to try out baking these cookies sometime soon.
It is extremely simple and fun and tasty.
Theo: I'm just touching it with my fork.
This is really fun touching in with my fork.
Vanessa: Yeah.
Does that feel good?
Theo: I'm trying to see what the temperature is
and see if it's done.
Vanessa: Oh, what's the temperature?
Theo: It's good.
Vanessa: Good.
Okay.
Today I invite you to my home to make some pancakes with me and my four year old son,
Theo.
We're going to be mixing the ingredients, making the pancakes, and then we'll be sitting
down at the table as a family and attempting to eat them together.
It's a little bit chaotic.
I have a four year old and a one and a half year old.
As you can imagine, meal times are a little bit chaotic, but that's daily life.
And that's what I want to show you is real life English.
All of the English that you hear while we're baking and while we're sitting at the table
is what real American speakers use.
All right.
Are you ready to bake some pancakes with me?
Well, first things first, we have to go to the chicken coop and collect the eggs.
Let's go.
Dan: Oh my goodness.
We got four.
Vanessa: Whoa.
Dan: Nice.
Vanessa: Thank you, chickens.
Theo: There are our eggs.
Vanessa: Oh, nice.
Theo: Look what you got.
Look what you made.
Vanessa: Thank you, chickens.
Theo: Thank you, chickens.
Dan: Thank you, chickens.
Freddie: Thank you, chickens.
Vanessa: What'd you say?
Thank you, chickens?
Dan: Can you say, "Thank you, chickens?"
Freddie: Thank you, chickens.
Vanessa: Thank you, chickens.
That's right.
Theo: Do you think they'll know it's a bowl?
Vanessa: Well, you can tell them.
You think that would be helpful?
Theo: It's a bowl.
Vanessa: It is a bowl, yes.
So today Theo and I are going to be making pancakes.
And the first step is I got to turn on this skillet.
It's called an electric griddle.
Do you know what this is going to be?
Theo: What?
Vanessa: Super hot?
Theo: Yeah, it's going to be super hot.
Vanessa: Yep.
So we got to push it to the side.
And I think I have all the ingredients for us.
So let's look at our recipe.
Mix the milk and vinegar.
Do you know which one of these is milk and vinegar?
Theo: Milk and vinegar.
Vanessa: All right.
Milk and vinegar.
So we're going to put it in the biggest bowl.
We need three fourths of a cup.
Can you hold that out?
Theo: That's milk?
Vanessa: And we're actually going to double our recipe,
so we need a cup and a half.
Yep.
That's milk.
Hold it really tight.
It's going to be heavy.
We're going to fill it all the way up.
All right.
And then we're going to do a little bit more, a half.
We're going to eyeball it.
That means that we don't use the measuring cup perfectly.
Okay.
And the next thing, it says vinegar.
So we're going to need this.
It's a tablespoon.
We're going to have to use four of those.
So can you help me count them?
Theo: One.
Vanessa: All right.
Hold it a little bit closer so it doesn't splash.
Theo: Two.
Three.
Four.
Vanessa: All right.
And now it says we have to set that aside because this is going to curdle.
Theo: What's curdle?
Vanessa: Curdle means that it's going to kind of become
clumpy.
Usually you don't want milk to become clumpy, but in pancakes, it's going to make it great.
It's going to ferment it a little bit.
Theo: I need to mix it.
Vanessa: Let's set that aside because we have another
bowl we got to fill.
Are you ready?
It says mix the eggs and oh, mix the dry ingredients.
Okay.
So we got to mix the dry ingredients, which is flour.
You want to be the scooper?
Oh, there's milk in there.
Let me get a dry one for you.
Theo: Oh.
I dumped it on there.
Vanessa: That's okay.
Okay, let's use two full cups of flour.
Good job leveling that off.
Okay.
All right.
Level it off before we use it.
Okay.
All right.
Pancakes are very forgiving, so even if you have a little bit too much or not enough,
and that's okay.
You know what I realized we forgot?
Your apron.
I'll tie it.
Theo: Because you have your apron?
Vanessa: I have my apron, so I bet you can have an
apron too.
There we go.
All right.
Next is the baking soda and baking powder.
This one, we're going to use the tiny scoop.
We're going to use two of those.
Theo: These?
This?
Vanessa: Yeah, it's kind of clumpy in there, so can
you smash up the clumps a little bit with that scooper?
Kind of just smash in there?
Yeah.
Do you kind of have a funny feeling in your mouth when you use this?
Theo: Huh?
Vanessa: You kind of taste it in the air?
All right.
Yeah.
Level it off.
One more scoop.
Okay.
That will make one full.
Okay.
Actually, I think...
No, that's good.
You're supposed to use baking powder and baking soda, and I only have baking soda, but I'm
afraid to use too much of this because it will make the pancakes yucky.
So let's just use that.
All right, salt.
We need two of two scoops of that too.
Before we use it, I'm going to wipe this off, or maybe you can wipe it off because it has
some that baking soda on it, which is really yucky.
Yeah, that's good.
Clean it off first.
Theo: Is that enough?
Vanessa: That looks great.
Okay.
One.
Two.
Okay.
And then we have one more dry ingredient, and it's back here.
Ooh, I feel it getting hot.
Do you feel that?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: All right.
Now we need some sugar.
So let's use this bigger scoop.
Can you dry it off a bit?
Put it in here.
We used that for...
Oh, we used that for vinegar.
And we definitely don't want vinegar in our sugar.
Vanessa: ... used that for...
Oh, we used that for vinegar, and we definitely don't want vinegar in our sugar.
Yuck.
Hm.
Okay.
Theo: Is that enough?
Vanessa: That looks great.
Can you get two?
Theo: It's still wet.
Vanessa: It's a little bit wet.
Yeah.
That's okay.
Could you get two scoops?
That's two tablespoons.
You know what?
Freddie put some banana pieces on this griddle earlier before it was turned on.
I can kind of smell them burning a little bit on there.
Oh, I see it steaming too.
Theo: Look.
Vanessa: Oh.
Okay.
That's great.
Is that the first one?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay.
Let's do two.
That looks great.
And now- Theo:
Can I try some sugar.
Vanessa: Yeah.
A little pinch.
Theo: This is so both of us can have some.
Vanessa: Oh, I don't really want any, but could you
eat it over the bowl so we don't get ants?
That's a dream come true for any kid right there.
A pinch of sugar.
You'll mix that up.
Can you just wipe it on this towel?
Theo: Oh, yeah.
Vanessa: We don't want to gross out our students too
much.
Theo: What does that mean?
Vanessa: Well, usually it's not a good idea to lick
your fingers when you're cooking.
But you know what?
You're only four years old.
That's okay.
If I did it, it probably would be not a good idea.
There you go.
Can you help stir that the rest of the way?
And then we will go on.
Theo: Will you mix it with this, and I'll mix it
with this?
Vanessa: Okay.
Now that one can kind of thwack the ingredients all over the place like that.
So let's use it really gently.
Okay.
It says the next thing is to mix.
Oh, Freddie did get a bunch of stuff on here.
Let's see if I can rinse it off.
Oh.
Usually the griddle does not steam so much, but there's burnt banana on it.
Yum.
Okay.
So what are we doing next?
We did the milk and vinegar, the dry ingredients.
Mix the egg and the butter into the milk.
So let's set aside the dry ingredients, and let's check on our milk.
Ooh.
It's looking thick.
So usually when you bake pancakes, you use buttermilk, which is already thick, but this
is a good way to kind of make it at home.
Ready?
Theo: Good.
Oh.
Vanessa: Woo.
Good save.
All right.
Let's put those in here.
Theo: (singing)
Vanessa: And we need one more.
Theo: (singing)
Vanessa: Yeah.
All of our chickens lay slightly different colored eggs.
All shades of brown.
But one of them, the black copper maren, has really dark eggs like this, which is super
cool.
Some of them are really light, and some of them are kind of medium.
All right.
Theo: Could we do three eggs?
Vanessa: This is the kind of recipe where we can't
add more eggs.
Okay.
Now comes an important job.
Oh, the butter.
We got to add butter.
Theo: Can I do it?
Vanessa: Yep.
Okay.
I'm going to scrape the last bits out.
And can you use that fork to break up the yolk in there?
Theo: This fork?
Vanessa: Yeah.
I think this might be our most prepared cooking show, because when we made broccoli cornbread
muffins, and when we made chocolate chip cookies, I had the ingredients all scattered around
our kitchen in every place.
But this time I put them all on the counter.
All right.
I think the next step after you mix this is to add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
But there's a special note in our recipe book.
Theo: What is it?
Vanessa: It says, "Don't over mix."
Do you know what over mix means?
Theo: What?
Vanessa: It means mix it too much.
Theo: Okay.
Vanessa: Because if you mix it too much, you're going
to have rubbery pancakes.
And we want fluffy pancakes.
So I'm going to pour this into here.
Theo: Can I do it.
Vanessa: Just a little bit at a time.
There you go.
Okay.
Let's mix that in.
I'm sure some professional bakers will be upset at us for using a fork, because you're
supposed to use other tools.
But I like to use a fork.
All right, go ahead.
If you pour it a little bit closer to the bowl, then it won't explode like that.
Okay.
A little bit more, Chef Theo.
All right.
Usually recipes say, "Mix just until combined."
That means when all the ingredients are just combined and not afterwards, that's when you
stop mixing.
Okay.
Let's add all the rest.
Even the bowl.
Do you think this bowl would be tasty?
Theo: No.
That's an little accident.
Vanessa: That was a little accident.
Theo: That was a big accident.
Vanessa: Well, you know what a big accident would be?
If I dropped all of this on your head.
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: That would be a super big accident.
And then what would we teach our students?
We teach them that to make pancakes, you dump it on your head.
Oh my goodness.
Is that flour?
Theo: Yes.
Vanessa: Oh, okay.
Okay.
Theo: It's yummy.
It's yummy.
Vanessa: Don't eat the flour like that.
Do you think it's combined, Theo?
Does that look good?
Theo: Uh-huh.
Vanessa: I think it looks good.
What do you guys think?
This looks just combined.
Okay, now it's time.
Theo: Is your students real combined?
Vanessa: The word combined?
What do you think the word combined means?
Can we teach them?
Theo: Uh-huh.
Vanessa: What's it mean?
Theo: Teach them.
Vanessa: You want me to teach them?
Yay.
Yay.
Yay.
Yay.
Yay.
It means till everything is mixed together.
So I'm going to get a cup.
But you know what?
We're going to have to wash your hands before we make it.
Theo: Why?
Vanessa: Because you were licking your hands.
Theo: My cup.
Vanessa: So let's take a little break.
Theo: What cup?
Vanessa: The cup measurement to scoop into here.
So let's take a little break and wash your hands, and then-
Theo: Could you-
Vanessa: ... we'll make the pancakes.
That's the microphone.
Don't touch that.
All right.
Can you go to the bathroom really quick and wash your hands?
Theo: My sponge!
My sponge.
Vanessa: Here.
Theo: My sponge.
Vanessa: Okay.
So we're back.
And we're going to make the pancakes on the hot griddle.
Okay.
Theo: Could you make snowflakes and stuff?
Vanessa: You want me to try to make shapes?
Theo: Like snowflakes?
Vanessa: How about I try to make a snowman?
Theo: Make a snowman.
Vanessa: Okay.
All right.
Here we go.
I'm going to make the head and the body.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
And then, once we let it cook, we'll put some chocolate chips on it.
Theo: That looks like snow angel.
Vanessa: Ooh.
There's some videos of people online making really fantastically shaped pancakes, but
I think they have a different type of batter.
This batter makes really fluffy pancakes.
Theo: With glee.
Vanessa: Do you know how to tell when we should flip
it over?
Cover your mouth.
Yeah.
Oh.
There you go.
Baking with children is an exercise in teaching.
Teaching many things, cooking, patience and hygiene.
Those are special chocolate chips that were made in Asheville where we live.
Theo: They were from, what's that called?
Vanessa: French Broad Chocolate Lounge.
So it's this really amazing chocolate shop that-
Theo: I want to put some in.
Vanessa: ... gets cocoa beans.
You can put them on top.
And they have a bean to bar factory, basically.
Theo: I want to try my chocolate for the afternoon,
some of these.
Vanessa: You can try a couple pieces and you can have
chocolate bars, hot chocolate, sipping chocolate.
And this is the kind of chocolate I got for- Theo:
I think daddy got it.
Vanessa: Daddy bought it for me.
Yep.
For Mother's Day.
And it's chai masala milk sipping chocolate.
So you can melt this and make it into like drinkable chocolate.
Theo: Hot chocolate.
Vanessa: Hot chocolate.
Theo: Let's make this to our hot chocolate tomorrow.
Vanessa: Oh, okay.
Well, we're pretty excited because tomorrow is going to be the first snow of winter.
And at first they said, we're only going to get this much.
And then we looked this morning.
Okay.
That's enough.
That's enough.
Theo: I'm putting them on the pancake now.
Vanessa: Okay.
And then they said this morning, we're going to get this much about 6 to 10 inches.
And that's a lot for us where we live in North Carolina.
So it's quite exciting.
Dan: Here he comes.
Nice.
There he goes.
Whoa.
You want to try to do it by yourself, Freddie.
Vanessa: Okay.
I think this one is ready.
Let's check underneath.
Looks good.
Theo: Lift them.
Vanessa: Oh.
That one's the perfect color.
Okay.
Theo: How much is that?
Vanessa: All right.
That one's looking good, too.
That one's looking good.
I think we're going to try this giant chocolate chip one.
Ready?
Theo: Uh-huh.
Vanessa: All right.
That one probably could use some more time.
I am curious what's going to happen with this snowman.
Do you think I can flip him without him breaking?
Theo: Do you think?
Vanessa: I hope so.
I'm not sure, because these two parts might fall apart.
But I'm going to hold onto the spatula really well, and we're going to try.
Theo: That one probably will not break.
That one you're holding now.
Vanessa: Oh, I kind of smooshed it.
Whoopsies.
Theo: (singing)
Vanessa: All right.
I'm going to give it a try.
Theo: (singing)
Vanessa: Are you ready?
Theo: Don't tell ne,
Vanessa: Can you count down?
Three, two- Theo:
Don't tell me what happens.
Vanessa: Oh, okay.
You worried about your precious snowman?
All right.
I'm going to try to use a little thing to help him get on.
Here it goes.
Oh, I did it.
Theo: Yay.
Vanessa: Okay, now we just got to wait a moment and
we are going to put them on here and finish making these.
And when daddy comes back, we are going to eat them.
Theo: But I want to eat one while he's gone.
Vanessa: Maybe one of these small ones you can.
See if it's good.
Theo: It's good.
I'll flip one.
Vanessa: I'll see if they're done.
You want to peek under one peek?
Peek under that one.
I think it could go for just a moment longer because they're pretty thick and fluffy and
looking great.
But I have one other thing on the stove over here that I'm making for these.
Theo: Tell me.
Vanessa: It is a syrup.
Now you can use a regular maple syrup, that's fine too.
But I'm also making a syrup with blueberries.
Raspberries.
Theo: I need syrup.
Vanessa: Blueberries, raspberries, and banana that
Freddie cut up.
That he burnt onto the skillet.
All right.
Ready?
Theo: No stop.
Vanessa: You going to do it?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Let me get you your plate really quick.
Oh, it's a lucky day.
We get so many chocolate chips in here.
Usually, we get like 10 chocolate chips and mix them into the batter.
And it's kind of like a mystery which pancake will have chocolate chips?
Maybe one will have five, maybe one will have none.
But this one, hmm, has a lot.
Maybe it's a special occasion.
Theo: Maybe it's a special occasion for Christmas.
Maybe we're celebrating the day before snow.
Vanessa: The day before snow.
Snow eve.
The eve of the first snow.
That's right.
We're celebrating that.
Whoa.
It's all gone.
Tell me, how was it?
Theo: Yum.
I want another one.
Vanessa: Well, that's a good sign.
I guess it was good.
Let's check on your snowman.
All right.
He's so cute.
Hi, Theo, are you going to eat me?
Theo: Put him on my plate.
Put him on.
Vanessa: Aww.
I think you need some syrup.
Do you think you need some syrup?
Theo: Uh-huh.
Vanessa: Yeah?
Okay.
Theo: I put some syrup in here.
Vanessa: Well, we have three different types of sweetener
you can put on.
Excuse me.
You could put syrup, maple syrup, from Vermont.
Very exciting.
Oh, it's from Canada.
Or you could use my berry syrup.
It has no sugar in it.
It's just berries.
So you could do both if you wanted, or you could put half.
Theo: I'll do that and this.
Vanessa: Okay.
Sounds like a good time.
Theo: Pour some on mine.
Vanessa: All right.
We're going to put on his head.
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Whoa.
That's a lot.
Okay.
Usually we're a little conservative with the syrup in our house, but I guess it's a special
occasion.
You're a licking machine today.
All right, there you go.
Can you wipe your hands off on this, Theo?
Yeah.
Theo: Yum.
Vanessa: I know it's yummy, but it's not a good idea
when you bake or when you cook, especially when you cook food for other people.
Theo: We're not cooking it for other people.
Vanessa: Well, what about me?
Am I going to eat it?
Theo: Are you?
Vanessa: Yeah.
What about daddy?
Theo: Daddy is.
Vanessa: What about Freddie?
Theo: Yeah.
Vanessa: So that's other people.
When you're making something only for you, that's when it's probably okay to lick stuff.
But if other people are going to eat it, they might not want you to lick it.
We make pancakes maybe once a month.
And it's a special occasion sometimes for breakfast, sometimes for brunch, sometimes
for lunch like today, depending on how busy our morning was.
All right.
Well, all our pancakes are done.
Theo: Is that mine.
Vanessa: Whoa.
Well, even yours, because you ate it.
And we're going to go sit down at the table with daddy and eat them.
Theo: Now.
Vanessa: Now.
I just saw Daddy come back with Freddie.
Let's go.
So here we are with our pancakes.
Dan: Hurray.
Vanessa: Yay.
Thank you, Theo, for helping me make these pancakes.
We are going to put some goodies on them.
Dan: Thank you for making them, dears.
Theo: Dear.
Vanessa: Dear.
Some of them have more chocolate chips than others.
Dan: Ooh, surprise chocolate chips.
Theo: I do them.
Dan: That's exciting.
Vanessa: This one has a lot.
Yep.
But while we're eating, I also have some questions to ask you guys.
Theo: I want some questions.
Freddie: I want some.
Dan: Oh, boy.
Vanessa: Okay.
Dan: I want some.
Vanessa: You want some, Freddie?
Dan: You want some questions?
Vanessa: In case you're wondering?
Yes.
Freddie has a black eye.
He fell and he hit a chair with his face.
Dan: If you can see it.
Vanessa: Yeah.
So anyway, it's not syrup in his eye.
It is a black eye, but it's getting better.
This is day two, so probably in two days it will be gone.
Dan: It actually almost looks worse.
Vanessa: I know, it's getting black.
Dan: Because it's getting darker.
Vanessa: Okay, I have a question.
This is from a game called Table Topics, and we did this when Theo was one and a half.
Theo: I want to do it.
Freddie: Want some.
Vanessa: Okay.
Are you ready?
My question is, what was your favorite game to play as a child?
Theo: Right now, my favorite game is the Dinosaur
Escape.
Freddie: Breakfast.
Vanessa: The Dinosaur Escape game.
Dan: Dinosaur Escape.
Vanessa: All right.
Dan: You are a child.
Vanessa: Yep.
So that's what he likes now.
Freddie: Dino gape.
Vanessa: The Dinosaur Escape game.
Dan: What's your favorite game?
You like the Dinosaur Escape game?
Freddie: Yeah.
Vanessa: Yeah?
Okay.
Dan: Freddie likes it too.
Vanessa: What about you, hun?
What was it your favorite game as a kid?
Dan: I don't know for sure, but the game that just
came to my mind was Twister.
Vanessa: Twister.
Okay.
Dan: Remember Twister?
Vanessa: Yeah.
So you put your hands down and you try to step on the stuff.
Dan: You spin a wheel, and there's a color, and
you have to put your hand on the color or your foot.
Vanessa: Oh, yeah.
Dan: Isn't that called Twister?
Vanessa: Yeah.
Yeah.
I kind of like that game, but I feel like every time we played it, it was with people
I didn't really want to play with.
Dan: Oh, yeah.
Vanessa: So I didn't really play it with my best friends.
Dan: Well, I had two other siblings and a family
of three kids that were our best friends.
So we were all comfortable with each other.
Vanessa: Yeah, I think you should tell them about the
alligator game.
Don't give our kids any ideas.
Dan: Well, that's not an official game.
Vanessa: It doesn't have to be an official game.
Freddie: I get game.
Theo: What's that?
Dan: The alligator game was when you stacked two
mattresses on top of each other.
Vanessa: Oh boy.
Dan: And then the little kids get in between the
mattresses and the big kids jump on top.
Theo: I do that?
Vanessa: You want to do it?
Oh, Freddie, that's the microphone, we don't touch that.
Dan: You need at least six children though, so
we don't have enough.
Vanessa: Oh, boy.
Would you be a little kid inside the mattress, or would you be jumping on the mattress?
Theo: I would be jumping on the mattress and Freddie
would in it.
Vanessa: Okay.
Freddie would be in it.
Dan: I was a middle child, so I got to be both
in the mattresses and on top.
Vanessa: Oh, boy.
I think when I was little, my favorite game was just playing in the backyard, digging.
I think we dug in the backyard for half of my childhood, which is always fun.
Dan: What about a real game?
Theo: Howdy.
Dan: Like a board game?
Theo: How deep-
Vanessa: A board game?
Theo: How deep did you dig?
Vanessa: Well, we dug lots and lots and lots of holes,
shallow holes.
I think my favorite official game was Uno.
Dan: Uno.
Vanessa: We played Uno all the time.
And Uno's a really great way to learn English too, because we've got numbers and letters-
Dan: Definitely.
Vanessa: ... and simple game.
Dan: Very simple.
Vanessa: We used to play that at the swimming pool-
Dan: That's a good game.
Vanessa: ... with our friends.
Dan: I think Theo might be ready for Uno.
Vanessa: Yeah, I think we could play Uno.
Theo: Uno, dos, tres, cuatro.
Vanessa: Yeah.
That's right.
You can count a little bit in Spanish.
All right.
I have one other question.
Are you ready?
Dan: Yep.
Vanessa: If you could have any view from your back
porch, what would it be?
Dan: This one?
Vanessa: Yeah.
This is your dream view?
Dan: No.
But it's pretty good.
Theo: This one.
Dan: Well, we did one time, see a bear running
in the neighbor's lawn.
That's pretty special.
Vanessa: That's a good view.
Freddie: See you.
Dan: Well, I already answered this in another video,
but not this one.
I would take the ocean from a cliff.
Vanessa: Oh, so there'd be a cliff outside your door
or somewhere out there.
Dan: Yeah.
I love ocean views from a high vantage point.
Vanessa: That would be nice.
I think I would like- Dan:
I like that more than the beach.
Vanessa: Oh yeah.
I think I would still like the mountains, like a big mountain view, where it's like
the mountains just open up in front of your window.
But I don't want to be isolated.
I still would like to live in a community, but maybe like a mountain community.
What about you, Theo?
Theo: I like a cow.
Dan: Well, here you go.
We could have an ocean view from the back and a mountain view from the front.
Vanessa: Wow.
Dan: Who can make this happen-
Vanessa: What country can make this happen?
Dan: ... for us?
Vanessa: A lot of countries.
Dan: Korea.
Vanessa: Yeah.
A lot of countries have mountains.
Dan: California, probably.
Places in California.
Vanessa: Oh, yeah.
Lots of places have mountains.
Dan: And oceans.
Vanessa: What about you, Theo?
Theo: Lots of places have mountains?
Vanessa: Do you want to live near the beach or the
mountains?
Freddie: The towel.
Dan: Paper towel.
Theo: Beach.
Vanessa: The beach.
We did have a good time at the beach this year, didn't we?
All right, I have another question.
Oh, what would you most like to do for someone if you had the money and time?
Theo: Share my water bottle.
Vanessa: Share your water bottle with Freddie.
Dan: If you had money in time, you'd share your
water bottle with the world.
Vanessa: So Theo's New Year's resolution is to share
his water bottle with Freddie, which he often doesn't like to do.
But you said this year you're going to try to learn to be okay with it.
Okay.
That's very, very generous of you.
Dan: If I had all the money in the world and time.
Vanessa: Yeah.
What would you like to do for someone else?
Dan: For somebody else?
Vanessa: Yeah.
Freddie: Yummy syrup.
Vanessa: Maybe while you're thinking-
Dan: I would probably-
Vanessa: Oh, go ahead.
Freddie: All done.
Vanessa: You're all done?
Dan: You're all done?
Freddie: Yeah.
Dan: You want to just sit there or do you want
to go for a run?
Vanessa: Go play?
Freddie: Run.
Run.
Dan: Yeah, let's wipe your hands off.
Vanessa: Our kids go for a run around our house when
they're done eating.
Freddie: Done eating.
Dan: That's a lot of syrup on your fingers.
Freddie: Done.
Dan: You sure you're all done?
Freddie: More syrup.
Dan: More syrup?
No, you got enough syrup right there.
You can dip your pancake in it.
Theo: Do you want to run with me, or run by yourself,
Freddie?
Dan: Okay.
He's going to eat that.
Vanessa: Okay.
Dan: So yeah, I would probably-
Freddie: I'm done.
Dan: ... start a bunch of schools.
Freddie: I'm done.
Dan: Kind of like with Theo goes too.
Vanessa: Oh.
Like nature schools?
Freddie: I'm done.
Dan: Nature schools, or even nature schools for
kids who are not very little, all the way through elementary.
Better schools than we have now.
Freddie: All done.
Dan: Because I think school, controversial take,
I think most schools have kids- Freddie:
I'm done.
Dan: You're done.
Okay.
Uh-oh.
I think most schools have kids sitting around too long.
Vanessa: Especially little kids.
Dan: Yeah.
Vanessa: Yeah.
Dan: And it doesn't seem like the public schools
are going to change anytime soon, at least in our country.
Vanessa: So I would fund-
Dan: I would fund and...
Yeah.
But then I'd probably have to do a ton of research to really make sure that that's exactly
what kids that age need.
Vanessa: Well, I think that's a noble cause though,
because- Dan:
It's a noble.
Vanessa: ... usually in the US, outdoor schools are
pretty expensive and a lot of people can't afford that, but-
Dan: Or they just barely exist.
Vanessa: Maybe there's not many of them.
Yeah.
So if they were cheaper, because they had an angel donor, Daniel.
Dan: Maybe just an angel.
Vanessa: Maybe an angel, Daniel, then that would be
nice.
Yeah.
I think if I had all the money and time in the world, I think I would add one more thing
here.
And power- Dan:
Oh.
Vanessa: ... and influence.
Dan: President Vanessa.
Please, America.
Might be pretty well off, I think.
Vanessa: I don't know about that.
Dan: I'd vote for you.
Freddie: This.
This.
Vanessa: Okay.
Well, thank you.
You did vote for me.
Freddie: This.
Vanessa: You married me.
Freddie: This.
This.
Vanessa: Freddie wants to water our plants with-
Dan: Go ahead.
Squeeze it.
Vanessa: All right.
We took a little pause so our children can spray our ferns.
Nothing better than kids and spray bottles.
Freddie: Spray ferns.
Spray ferns.
Vanessa: And I wanted to answer this question before
we said goodbye.
Freddie: Spray.
Vanessa: I feel like if I could help someone else and
had all the money and time and power in the world, my first thought for this.
Freddie: Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Dan: Oh, someone else.
I thought it was grander.
Just one person.
Vanessa: Well, it could be anyone else.
Freddie: Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Vanessa: You're spraying Freddie?
Freddie: Yeah.
Vanessa: Okay.
Freddie: Spray.
Vanessa: Is I would like to free North Korea.
Freddie: Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Vanessa: Oh, I was thinking about right now-
Freddie: Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Vanessa: ... we already...
He's spraying.
Yeah.
Dan: You don't need to do it too much.
Vanessa: We donate to a charity every month-
Dan: That's probably fine.
Vanessa: ... that helps North Koreans-
Freddie: Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Vanessa: ... who have escaped North Korea to kind of
reintegrate into daily life- Freddie:
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Vanessa: ... wherever else they are.
Freddie: Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Vanessa: He's very into spray.
Dan: Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
It doesn't work unless you say spray.
Freddie: Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Spray.
Vanessa: That's the magic word.
Anyway, I feel like that's something that's a cause that's very close to my heart, and
I feel passionate about.
Freddie: Mine.
Mine.
Vanessa: So yes, I would like to help people in North
Korea.
That'd be awesome.
Yeah.
Well, thank you so much for joining us today for our slightly hectic, but-
Dan: A normal-
Vanessa: ... very normal-
Dan: ... meal at our house.
Vanessa: Making pancakes and children spraying plants
while we try to eat.
Theo: Bye.
Vanessa: Bye.
Freddie: Bye.
Theo: Bye.
Vanessa: All right, Theo, are you ready to make some
pancakes?
Theo: Yes.
Vanessa: Okay, I'm going to get our measurements.
Do you think that Freddie's going to be ready to help make pancakes soon?
Theo: Do you think may?
What's after one?
Vanessa: Two.
Theo: He's going to be two after he's one?
Vanessa: Yes.
Theo: May when he's two he could help.
Vanessa: Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Theo: What's after two?
Vanessa: Three.
Theo: Probably when he's three or four.
Vanessa: Okay.
In the south, where we live, some people make chicken and waffles.
There's restaurants called Chicken and Waffles.
And there was a restaurant I used to go to when I was in college called Gladys Knight's
Chicken and Waffles.
And you have a waffle and they put fried chicken on it.
You think that would be good?
A lot of people think so.
Personally, I think I like my waffles and my chicken separate.
Maybe waffles for breakfast and chicken for lunch or dinner.
But put them all together and it's a southern delicacy.
Thank you so much for cooking and eating with my family.
Now you are part of our English family.
I have a question for you now.
What is something that you like to cook or eat at home?
Let me know in the comments.
And I can't wait to hear about Amazing Food from around the world.
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