- I hope I pressed the record button.
- Good morning, almost afternoon.
Obviously, we're doing
another What I Eat in a Day.
But it's really late in the day.
I had to get up and get
a bunch of stuff done,
so I'm starting my day
up a little bit late,
and I already have my makeup done.
But I'm starving now,
and I figured that I needed breakfast.
I'm just going to whip up a
really quick smoothie bowl
because then it's the
quickness of the smoothie,
but it has more sustenance
because we're adding a
bunch of stuff in a bowl,
almost like a cereal.
Anyway, let's just make it.
I'm just going to go for it.
Like Corey Feldman says,
you've just got to go for it.
Let's just start throwing things in here
and see what happens.
I'm going to add some leftover greens.
Usually, I like to add more,
but this is all I have left.
Caffeine's great.
And if I add matcha to the smoothie,
I don't need to have
coffee in the morning.
It also makes it more green.
And mango.
Oh, I have some ginger.
Don't go anywhere.
You're still there.
Yay.
So I have some ginger.
So I'm just going to cut off
-- maybe not towards my face.
I'm going to cut off just a little bit.
Let's mix that together.
Two bowls.
Now, you can't very well
have a smoothie bowl
without chia seeds,
so we're going to put a
ton of those on there.
It's like super Instagram goals and trendy
to put everything on your
smoothie bowl in a straight line,
including this delicious maple granola
because I'm obsessed.
(sniffs granola)
Oh, I wish you could smell it.
It smells so good.
Grapes on a smoothie bowl.
Usually, I see blueberries, not grapes,
so it's a bit weird.
But I think it will be delicious anyway.
These are very cool.
It is dried apples but mixed
with strawberry powder.
So I think you're supposed
to mix this in with granola,
but I've just been eating it by itself,
and it's really good in smoothie bowls.
I bought this really cool --
says it's a superfood trail mix,
but barely anything in
this that's big enough
to grab for trail mix.
So I've just been putting
it onto my smoothies.
It's almonds and goji
berries and cacao nibs
and some coconut and a bunch
of other really small stuff.
Mini vegan chocolate
chip and goji berry mix.
We're going to add some to my breakfast
because I'm an adult,
and I can decide if I want to
have chocolate for breakfast.
Mm.
I know that I made it, so
I shouldn't be surprised
that it's really tasty
because it's all the things
that I love.
So what's new with you?
Hello, I'm a cucumber.
We did a shoot the other
weekend for a buffer video.
And I bought everybody
hummus and naan bread,
and we have all this leftover naan.
So I'm trying to figure
out ways to use it up.
So I figured we could make
some manaeesh out of it.
- Manaeesh is a traditional
Middle Eastern dish
that includes pita or some
kind of naan-ish bread,
just like this, cheese,
sometimes meat, and zaatar,
which is basically Middle Eastern thyme.
- I found some vegan mozzarella,
so we'll use the rest of that.
It's going to go bad in a couple days.
I also found this minced garlic.
I never buy pre-minced garlic,
but I bought it for a
shoot over the weekend,
and I should probably use it.
I'm going to put some olive
oil on each one of these.
Then I'm going to add some garlic.
James is Arabic.
He's Syrian.
So we do eat a lot of
Syrian food in our home,
and we have a lot of Syrian
food products in our home.
Now I'm just going to top this guy
with lots and lots and lots of zaatar.
You may think you have
enough, but you don't.
Keep adding more.
All right, you crazy kids,
let's put these guys into the oven.
I have this cucumber
that really, desperately
needs to be used.
A German cucumber salad?
This end was super mushy
and starting to get moldy,
so I just cut it off.
The rest of it's fine.
Now, James is a total stickler for safety,
so he's forcing me to use this.
It's the safe way to protect
your hands from the mandoline
from slicing off your
fingernails and fingers.
And put the cucumber in
there and then mandoline it.
Traditional German cucumber
salad uses white sugar,
white vinegar, and a bunch of spices.
I'm going to use apple cider vinegar
and maple syrup that my dad made
and some salt and some spices.
I'm going to use some dill.
It's dill-icious.
Parsley is fun.
Maybe just a little bit of basil.
All right.
So we're just going to
salt the cucumbers first.
I love, love, love cucumber salad.
My mom always made it
for us when we were kids,
and my grandmother always made it for us.
So it kind of reminds
me of living in Germany.
And it's nice, and it's
fresh, and it's very yummy.
Oh, the sweet aroma
wafting, wafting.
Now, I know, to a lot of you,
these just look like spherical,
round disks of brown.
Don't let their simple
appearance fool you.
These are insanely delicious,
and you definitely need to eat them.
So make them.
I'm going to go eat my lunch.
Then we're going to go to
the grand opening of Greco,
which is the gym here in Toronto
that we're always going to.
And then I have to figure out
what we're doing for dinner.
We just worked out.
We rushed home.
I have some peppers and a
very sad, lonely carrot.
Let's make Chinese fried rice.
Cook the rice like you
would normally cook rice,
one cup of rice to one
and a half cups of water.
Yeah, let's do that.
James, are you going to want seconds?
- [James] Yes.
- I'm going to make twice the amount.
Calm yourself.
I need to see the meniscus.
That rice is going to
take about 20 minutes,
so let's take 20 minutes
and chop up our vegetables.
Hopefully, it won't take that long.
- So this October 1st is
International Vegan Day.
I thought it would be a great idea
to try to do the vegan challenge again.
I'm doing the 30-day challenge,
except that this time,
I've extended it for myself
to be for 45 days.
So I invite all of you guys to join us.
- Yeah, you got all of your
friends involved this time.
What about after 30 days?
Are you going to stay vegan?
- I'm going to try.
(putting on German accent)
So follow me and join
the 30-day vegan challenge,
and we'll all do it together.
- Can I finish cooking now?
- Okay, you can finish cooking now.
- Okay, well, battery on the camera died,
and it got darker.
So now we have lights.
Yay.
Going to heat up some coconut oil.
First thing I'm going to do is just fry up
the onions and the mushrooms.
I'm also going to add more of this
pre-minced garlic stuff
because I have to use it.
All right.
We can't have fried rice
without a really awesome sauce.
I have a quarter cup of tamari.
You can use soy sauce if
you don't have tamari.
Quarter cup maple syrup.
Two tablespoons of sesame seed oil.
And everyone's favorite, sriracha.
I also have some rice
vinegar, which is suitable
because we're cooking rice.
Right?
Yeah.
Mm.
We're going to add the rice now
and then a little bit
more sesame seed oil.
And then we should be good to go.
- All right.
- Oh, hey.
Ah, it's hot.
- Oh, hello.
- Let's try this.
I'm so hungry.
- Mm.
This is incredible.
I like my Asian food like
I like my fiance: spicy.
- All right, guys, there you have it,
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Bye.
- Bye.
- And then you just want to
toss them on the cooling rack.
You can enjoy them just like that,
which is great but boring.
For these, I think I'm going to top them
with some coconut bacon that I have.
