Welcome back to Tween create everyone
it's Gabby
I hope you have had a absolutely
wonderful week
Maybe you've been in the kitchen making
a delicious treat you've been out in
nature walking around and doing
something cool with the things you see
maybe you have made some fun bouncy
balls like Whitney's experiment
The possibilities are endless am I right
it's fun to create
well I'm here today and I want to share
with y'all
a fun and easy recipe that y'all can
make at home
In fact I'm making it too because I want
it for with my dinner
I'm making mexican for dinner when I
think mexican food one of the things I
love most
is guacamole you know avocado and
cilantro and lime and I can put it on
nachos or tacos or eat it just with
chips
well I think it's a great recipe for
y'all to learn
why do I think that one thing it's
simple and who doesn't like simple
I don't care if you're 8 or you're 80.
simple
is great but you can also learn some
very essential kitchen techniques
that will serve you well as you get
older so
if you guys remember last
time I did a video I taught you guys a
word that word
Is mise en place do y'all remember what
mise en place means
that's right everything in its place and
so
I have all my mise en places let's see i've
already chopped up my avocado
I'm gonna need an onion lime
jalapeno tomatoes salt
and cilantro making sure I have it all
together is gonna help me
okay so now that we have that all
together
I think we're ready to get started fun
tip
if you've got long hair like I do why
don't you pull it up because nobody
wants to get a piece of hair as they're
digging in
and wanting to eat yummy guacamole
okay so in my bowl I have taken one
avocado and I've put it in there
and it's kind of roughly chopped up my
avocado wasn't super super bright yet
ripe yet so it was a little hard to work
with but that's okay
we'll make it work all right next thing
I need
is an onion now
yes onions will make you cry
it just happens so roll with it it's
okay
that's why I always have a towel nearby
but what I want you guys to do is with
your adult's permission
I want you to get out a nice kitchen
knife this
is mine it's been in my life for over 10
years
it was a very special birthday present
and I use it all the time
and I'm going to teach you guys how to
safely handle a sharp
knife now I would not handle
anything sharp without an adult's
permission or if you're also younger
make sure they're around too because cut
fingers
can't happen but I want to teach you
guys how to safely handle it
so I want you guys to get your pointer
finger
and we're going to rest it here on the
spine of the knife
just like that then I'm going to wrap
all my other fingers around so they're
protected they're not just
willy-dilly and dancing no I want them
nice and secure
and then we're going to practice so on a
cutting board I want you to rock back
and forth
leave the point of the knife on the
cutting board
and don't let it get up you go back and
forth
back and forth back and forth good job
so now we're gonna get an onion what i'm
gonna do
is I'm gonna do my onion and I'm gonna
cut it in
half lengthwise okay so
be very careful but what we're gonna do
is we're going to put the point of the
knife on the cutting board
leave it there protect all your other
fingers
and come down carefully
oh nice
there we go I put the other half away to
use for another time
now for the rest of it I'm going to peel
off that top part of the onion
it is hard and nasty and nobody wants to
eat that in their guacamole now do they
all right so then what we're gonna do
is we're gonna do again safety with her
knife and I want you to curl your
fingers make like a c
and turn it upside down and then you're
going to use that
to hold the onion
why do you think I want our fingers
protected
that's right I want them protected
because
if they're out like this and you start
cutting you're probably going to get
blood all over the place
so make your c go down hold the onion
and cut away
and as it gets closer to where your
fingers are
gently scoop them back good
good good perfect
now i'm going to put all the onion
together and i want to go
the opposite way we cut them long-wise
now we want to cut them into pieces
so again see
curve it
good it's hard and now see mine did are
gonna flail out a little bit and that's
Okay
but I make sure they are far enough away
from the knife so there's no danger of
them getting cut
perfect all right and then for scooping
up the onion
what I like to do is I do use the flat
part of the
and scrape it under the onion put in my
bowl and run my finger carefully over
the top it doesn't touch the blade
it touches the knife okay
ready same thing there you go
okay so next thing is a jalapeno now
jalapeno
is a pepper here we go
and yes peppers
have capsaicin in them and it
is a spice and I advise being
very careful when you deal with peppers
because if they do get on your skin
it hurts it burns I speak from
experience
I have rubbed my eyes way too many times
afterIi've chopped a jalapeno
so what I do try to do is use
a glove when handling a jalapeno if you
don't have a glove that's okay
I just hurry and go wash your hands
after you mess with it so what we're
going to do
is I'm going to chop off the top again
trusty knife skills
here you go finger is on the sturdy part
and I cut down because I don't need that
top part
I'm also going to cut off the bottom
and I'm going to cut it in half so here
we go
there we go
okay so there we go
now I take the seeds out why do I take
the seeds out
that's the spicy part so I'm going to
carefully again use my knife
protect my fingers and i'm going to
slide the knife
underneath the seeds
you got to be very careful because
especially you're working in close
proximity
all right there we go guys
see so then what we're gonna do how to
how do you cut a jalapeno again we'll go
lengthwise
and then we'll go with twice so c
curve it under protect those fingers
good job all right put it all together
go lengthwise as the blade gets closer
to your fingers what do you do
move them back excellent job
all right now
I might add more jalapeno I'm going to
set it off to the side because i'm going
to have to taste it and see if I like it
now we're going to get some tomatoes
now I have had already from the store
these little grape ones
but if you've got tomatoes from outside
in your garden that works too
so for these we're going to cut them in
half and then we're going to cut them
in to smaller pieces again
lengthwise and then width wise and
always
have your finger on the top
of the knife okay
now it's going to take some time
learning knife skills and definitely
ask an adult on how to do it there's no
shame in asking an adult and especially
with these
little one tomatoes they like to wiggle
around on the cutting board
so be very very careful because again
you could cut yourself
all right so now
we're gonna do that I think that's a
good amount
all right next thing we need
is some salt now
I don't measure salt that well
what i'm gonna do is I'm just gonna pour
what i think looks
a decent amount into my bowl and I'll
adjust later
cooking is a science it's all about
adjusting
and moderating and tweaking until you
get it
just right and now we're gonna get our
lime
again careful with the knife and
I have my juicer you guys maybe
remember seeing my juicer in our
chocolate chunk time cookies
that had tangerine juice in them so what
I'm gonna do
is I put the lime in there we're just
gonna
clamp down and go
perfect all right and then
I might want a little more so i'm gonna
get the other half
and squeeze it again all right
so now that we've done that what do you
think we do
that's right we mix it up now some
people
use a food processor and put it in there
i like mine a little chunky
so I use a fork and I do it by hand now
this avocado isn't quite ripe so it's
going to be a little difficult
but what I often do in fact what i'm
going to do is I'm going to take a knife
and cut my avocado into smaller pieces
that will help me do it all right
okay so I'm going to keep mixing that up
and then real quick
if i want to before I fully mix it up I
am going to use the cilantro now
I'm curious I want you guys to pick off
a leaf of cilantro and taste it
remember cooking is all about the senses
what do you taste if you taste soap
that's okay
some people cilantro tastes like soap
I don't know why it tastes like soap to
my dad
me I love it more cilantro the better I
say
so again good knife skills
c curve it under we're going to rough
chop that cilantro
all right oh my goodness
look at that into the bowl you go
all right guys and then you just mix
away
you mix you taste you tweak and enjoy it
with some chips
I know I'm going to so one thing I want
you guys to practice
with an adult is these proper knife
skills
there's all different types of knives
but the important
thing remains be careful around them
they're a sharp object
I hope you guys have a great time making
guacamole or practicing cutting with
your
adults let me know what you guys have
made in the comments below or tag us
@meridianlibrary I will see you guys
next time bye
