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Hey, it's Neil Savedra. You're listening to KFI AM six
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forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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How are you happy Saturday? To you, I'm Neil Savedra.
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Thanks for hanging out with us today. This is a
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place where you can come a sanctuary if you will,
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every Saturday for three hours from two to five right
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here on KFI, we get to celebrate food, the people
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that make it, the culture behind it, all while enjoying
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whatever you want to enjoy on a Saturday. All right,
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Technique of the week is how we start. Technique of
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the week today is dealing with salads. Don't wait, don't
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don't a bunch of dudes reach for knob there, don't
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turn us off. Hold on a second. So there's this
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trend going on, and yes, of course shows up in
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social media and the tick and the talk and everything
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else about diy salad bars. And I thought, you know what,
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At first, I kind of rolled my eyes. What's a
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diy salad bar? Is just a bunch of stuff that
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you put on a salad? Right? But I thought about
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this more and I kind of I kind of dig it.
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So we're going to get into that and then I'm
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gonna teach you some simple things about making salad dressings
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as well, and vinaigrettes, and how easy it is to
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do this stuff at home. So this trend is basically
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showcasing how to prep your fridge to keep your family
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stocked with fresh, healthful, nutritious options. And the guide kind
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of breaks down this way. You end up having this
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wonderful fridge full of toppings and additives to your salad.
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So you start with base greens, of course, mix of
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leafy greens. You can use romaine, red leaf, lettuce, ridikio,
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whatever it is. You wash and dry them well. You
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store them in a seilable bag with paper towels to
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keep them fresh longer. And that's going to be your base.
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Pretty simple. And then you go onto veggies. Your prep
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a variety of vegetables, shredded carrots, radishes, beats,
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thinly sliced
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red cabbage. You can add in other veggies like chopped
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broccoli or cauliflower. I like bell peppers. Cucumbers are also
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really great. Tomatoes and cucumbers, though you want to keep
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whole until you use them. You don't want them to
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lose their freshness, and you know you're going to be
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turning this stuff over depending on who's using it in
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the house, but you want to make sure that everything
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is fresh. You get your proteins so you can make
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your salads more filling, give you a little more energy
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boost with proteins, like grilled chicken. You can use tofi
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tofu rather I like grilled tofu. Otherwise you know it's tofu.
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It's more like a dense substance than it is anything else,
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And tofu really takes on the flavor of other things.
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So maybe I'll do a little tariaki or something like
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that and seer off the tofu. You do beans, canned fish.
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Some people like sardines or salmon or tuna. Tuna's fine
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for me, Salmon's fine for me. Sardines aren't really my jam.
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You can also use crunchy seasoned chickpeas, homemade roasted tofu,
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like we talked about crumbles, or things like that. If
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I'm going to do if I want a little green
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a different kind of bean in there. Something you can
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also use at a mummy, which is great. Okay. As
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far as extras go, you can put things like crotons,
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of course, dried avocado or diced avocado rather pomegranate seeds,
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if you're into that. Nuts, you can use different cheeses,
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and you can be creative with some leftovers as well,
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like if you've got sliced steak or roasted veg cheese
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or whatever, you toss that in there as well. Now,
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when it comes to dressings, dressings are great to make,
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and I'm going to teach you that in just a second.
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But you can buy store abot stuff. That's there's no
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problem with that. It's just when you're controlling. If you
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want to control the things in there, whether it's salt,
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whether it's sugar or anything like that, the preservatives, then
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you can do it yourself. But there are some great
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dressings out there as well, So you keep your refrigerator
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stocked with all these essentials and it just makes it easier.
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And you can buy these little trays like, for instance,
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sometime ago, I got this long like toppings tray and
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you can get it at your you can get it online,
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but you can get them at your local restaurant supply
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store as well. And they just have little containers set
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into like a metal sleeve that they kind of sit
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or container. They all sit in and then it has
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a plexiglass lid that goes down on them. And sometimes
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when I'm making you know, when we have kids over
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for my son Max or something like a birthday party
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or gathering, then I'll put pizza toppings in there, and
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I'll make custom little pizzas for everybody, and the kids
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get to point to whatever they want. Right. Well, you
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can do the same thing here. Another thing is is
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that you can use this so called refrigerator salad bar
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as a way to dress up your sandwiches as well.
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You kind of have this built in sandwich shop in
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your refrigerator as well. Okay, when it comes to toppings,
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not toppings, when it comes to dressings. Rather, I want
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to talk about very simple salad dressings because this is
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one of the things that a lot of people, maybe
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not you because you listen to the program and you
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may make this yourself, but a lot of people don't
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think of making themselves. And it's pretty easy to do.
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You control everything, it's fresh for one, You control the ingredients,
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and it can be very simple. So here's what I like.
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A Dijon mustard dressing, so honey mustard dressing, things like that,
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fantastic but it's super simple. You just need olive oil
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and now in acid. Lemon juice is what I prefer.
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But you can use vinegar if you want, garlic, some
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Dijon mustard, some salt and pepper and that's it. It's
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very easy to put together your own salad dressing and
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you mix it up in like five minutes. Works pretty
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much for everything and anything that you're going to be
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putting into your salad bowl. So the cool thing about
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this basic recipe is that you can change it up.
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You can use different vinegars, you can use different mustards,
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throwing some herbs here and there, you know, for your
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fancy self. You can even make a large batch and
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use it throughout the week. On the dietary end, these
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the breakdown that I've given you. The dressing is naturally
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gluten free, it's vegetarian, and it's even vegan, so you
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can kind of control those things if you have dietary
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restrictions or desires there. So what you need is three
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tablespoons of good olive oil. It does make a difference
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if you have the good stuff. California olive oil is
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very good. Don't a lot of the Italian stuff and
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the things you see in the store are garbage, and
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try and get you in on the fact that they're
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imported or they're Italian or something. California olive oil is fantastic.
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One small garlic clove minced, or you can use a
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half teaspoon of garlic powder if you're in a rush
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and that's what you have on hand. One tablespoon of
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fresh lemon juice, or you can try like a red
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wine vinegar, one teaspoon Dijon mustard, half teaspoon salt, quarter teaspoon,
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black pepper, and just kind of throw everything into a
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bowl and you can toss it together with a little
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whisk there, or you could put it in a jar
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if with the lid, you put in the jar and
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just shake it up. You want to mix it really
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well and pling those things together and that's it. And
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you can keep it in the fridge for a few
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three days whatever and bring it out when you want
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to enjoy it. And it's quite simple. Okay, I'll come back.
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We'll break down a little bit more about the solid
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dressing and a
very simple way to memorize how to
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make a vinaigrette. When we return.
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You're listening to the fork report with Nil Sevedra on
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demand from KFI AM six forty.
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How do you do? Thanks for hanging out today, all right,
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we were talking about technique of the week. We're talking
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about this trend of having salad bars in your refrigerator,
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basically breaking down all the elements of a good salad
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and having them set aside in your fridge, quick and
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easy to go, and how it can make it easier
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to put nutritious food in your body simply there at
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the house for you and your family. We got through
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that and we started getting into making salad dressings, which
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is super duper easy and the cool thing is you
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can control all the flavors yourself. So it's something I
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think that is worth learning to do because it's not
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that difficult. I got into a particular one that I
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came across online that is delicious and it's just a
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simple Dijon mustard salad dressing. So you can go back
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and listen to that at KFI AM six forty dot
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com in the podcast area, or of course I Heart
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Radio dot com as well, so you can listen to
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that when you wish to break that one down. But
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one of the tips I want to talk about because
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it does have they do have acids in them. In
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this case, I say, using a little lemon juice as
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your acid. You can use other things like vinegar as well.
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Just think of it this way though. If you're using
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a vinegar instead of lemon juice, you can keep it
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in the fridge fro up to a week. And that
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is because the actual natural or fresh lemon juice is
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going to break down after a while, and the acid
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in the vinegar is gonna hold up a little longer.
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If you want it sweeter, you can add a little honey.
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You can add a little maple syrup to your dressings
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there if you like it's spicy, some red pepper flakes
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or maybe a little siacha in there will do you
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Just write, play around with different herbs, different spices and
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things that you like. You make it your own, and
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then just make sure you write everything down, your proportions
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if you're adding to something, because you may just stumble
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across the perfect salad dressing for you and your family
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and everybody's oh, I love it, I love it, and
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then you can't remember how to make it again. But
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give it a try. Now I want to talk to
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you about making your own vinaigrettes. Not only did this
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blow my mind. Some time ago, I learned about ratios
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and Michael Rohlman wrote a book called Ratio and it
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basically breaks down I've talked about it on the show before.
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I've even had Michael on the program before. Bright just
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super smart guy, and he basically breaks down the concept
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of any recipe for the most part into ratios and
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everything from a basic cookie to a bread to a
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cake that are basically ratios. And we come across this
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and things like pound cake. Pound cake was originally pound
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of butter, I think pound of flour, pound of sugar,
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something like that, and that's why they call it pound cake. Well,
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those are ratios. That's a one to one to one ratio. Well,
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when it comes to the ratio for vinagrette, it's just
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three parts oil, one part vinegar. That's it. So three
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parts oil, one part acid, So the oils can change,
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the acid could change, and then the things that you
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want to put in there to add whatever you want
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is how you build it. So it's super easy to remember.
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And I've seen chefs whip this up before and I've
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been blown away, like just at the table they go Okay,
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well we've got these things. We're going to throw this together.
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So that's all you need to do. You could play
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around with it if you want it tangier, maybe a
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little less oil you want if you're using lime juice
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instead of vinegar, you might want more oil. It's all
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about that taste in the balance. But you can do
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it based on that three to one principal. Three parts oil,
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one part vinegar. So if you want to get an
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idea of whipping up some of these vinegrettes, just start
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thinking of it this way. Start with two tablespoons of
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sherry vinegar and six tablespoons of olive oil as your base,
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and then you can do all kinds of things. You
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can mix in cement, minced shallat, some salt, some pepper,
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add to your vinegar, you give it a quick stir,
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you whiske in your oil. You want to make sure
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that it's moving fast because it's not going to be
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like a it's not going to be an emulsion like
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a mayonnaise or something like that. But you just want
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to kind of bring them together. They will separate in
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the fridge and then you shake them up and they'll
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be good. A tarragon, mustard vinaigrette. You take that first
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recipe two tablespoons of sherry vinegar six tablespoons of olive
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oil as your base, and then you add some whole
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grain or Dijon mustard, You chop some fresh tarragon, and
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you drizzle it over fish or a salad or whatever
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you're doing. Grabche vinaigrette, maybe a little fancier if you want.
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You start with that cherry shallat base. You add some mustard,
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then you mix in chopped hard boil egg, tiny little
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those tiny little pickles, some capers, and you could put
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that on pork, or you could put it on a
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salad with bacon. And the cool thing is that once
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you get comfortable with these ratios and building these things yourself,
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like a salad dressing, then you're kind of in control
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of all of it because oftentimes you're going to have
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these things in the fridge. How many times do we
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do that? I know I do this a lot at
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the house. When you go to the refrigerator for a
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dressing and then you pull them You've got like ten
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of them and you pull them out and they're all expired,
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and I mean expired expired like nineteen. No, i'd be
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way expired, like twenty twenty. Let's say almost like my
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mom's house, is this spice from nineteen forty, so this
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you'll be able to put them together. They're quite simply,
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and you could try different oils as well. Tons of
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different oils out there. Walnut oil, there's avocado oil, there's
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different herbs. Sometimes you can even get flavored oils. I
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love great flavored oils as well. So think about that.
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And this is how you put something fun and delicious
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together and more helpful because you're controlling all the ingredients.
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At home, you're listening to The Fork Report with Neil
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Savedra on demand from KFI AM six forty.
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Hey, everybody, Happy Saturday to you. It's the Fork Report.
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I am your well fed host, Neil Savedra. How do
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you do. Thanks for hanging out on this Saturday. Happy
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to be with you. I can't believe it. I'm looking
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at some of my notes and coming up in the
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three pm hour, we're gonna talk about Octoberfest, and I'm like,
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October October. It's already September twenty first. Can you believe it?
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We're looking at October. I've already and she's I think
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probably in August and stuff for Halloween. But any who,
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October is coming. I can't believe it. So we're gonna
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be talking about october Fest in just a little bit. Plus.
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I think on the fifth of October, I'm going to
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be out at a Piqito Moss broadcasting live. It might
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even be here in Burbank, but I haven't gotten the
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confirmation just yet. We'll let you know where that's going
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to be. What else is coming up? Oh Amy King
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from Wake Up Call and Yours Truly, we will be
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going over the Edge this coming Friday, like a week
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from yesterday. We will be going over the Edge at
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the Hilton off the one to one freeway there in
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Universal City, right by Universal Studios. Why are we doing that?
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That is for
the Union Rescue Mission. Just help one
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is their goal. And you know, if you what Mother
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Teresa said, if you can't feed a thousand, feed at
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least one. And so we're part of the Union Rescue
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Mission to get awareness out there and to build awareness
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that they need your donations desperately. They are a dry mission,
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which means people that go to them for help commit
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to not using drugs, commit to not using alcohol and
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go in there and really want to change their life
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and get off the streets. And isolute that so much
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so that when I saw their presentation for this project,
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they became one of my regular charities, one of my
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regular local charities, and I've data dedicated some money to
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them each month, and if you feel moved to do that,
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I encourage you to do that as well. But to
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get awareness, we're going to go over the edge and
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we're going to repel down the side of a twenty
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five story building approximately two hundred and fifty feet. It's
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scary as heck. I looked over it and I'm scared
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of heights, but I am down to do it because
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I think it's a fantastic cost. Now, if you want
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to donate, super duper simple. All you do is go
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to just Help and the number one just Help one
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dot org dot org and you'll see donate and you
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can click on donate. Then you can look for the
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teams and you go to the team and it says
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iHeartMedia and our buddy Patrick set that up here, and
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you can donate there and we're really just you know,
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whatever you can spare would be great, And if you
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want to go. You ever thought, wow, I want to
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repel down a building. I think if you raise one
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thousand dollars you can repel down the building as well.
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So that's kind of cool. I'll tell you more about
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it coming up as well. But if you do that,
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just help the number one, Just help one dot org
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and donate. That would be very very cool. All right.
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Trader Joe's. Who doesn't like Trader Joe's, Right, Trader Joe's
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has great food, great prices, horrible parking, you know the
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one I'm talking about. Well, there is also a lot
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of well, let's not say frustration. But here's some tips
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on what not to do. And this is from a
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former employee of Trader Joe's and I thought they were
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pretty reasonable, probably good tips for all of us to know.
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One is complaining about the crowds, they can't do anything.
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The whole thing about Trader Joe's, and the reason why
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their parking lots are so small, by the way, is
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because their stores are small, and the store dictates how
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many parking spaces you have. So when they go to
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fill a store somewhere, and usually it's a building that's
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already been built, but sometimes they go into a place
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that they build. They're looking. They don't want to compete
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with the big grocers. That's their whole thing, right, So
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they have a smaller store, which means smaller parking, which
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means bigger crowds. Because everybody loves them. Don't complain to them.
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There there's nothing they can do, and you're just part
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of the problem as well. But they're help They're there
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to help you if you need anything, to point you
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in the direction you need to go. One of the
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things that I thought was cool is one of their
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pet peeves is skipping on the samples. You got to
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take advantage of the samples they want you to and
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this is a cool thing. This is beyond even sample stations.
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The crew members can often provide, if you ask nicely,
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samples of new products too. And if you don't like something,
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there's no need to return it because you can sample
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it and they, you know, often get to enjoy the leftover.
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So they open them up and if you want them
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to open you as nicely and they can open something
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up for you to taste it. Okay. Another thing not
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to do? What not to do? So, says an
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A former employee of Trader Joe's overstepping with employees. So
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grocery workers at Trader Joe's are specialized, their folk. A
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lot of the things that they do you may not notice.
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maybe even chefs, things like that. And if they're looking
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at something in their hand or they're looking over they're
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looking for code. They know what the product is, they
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know what they have there. Keep in mind their experts
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and that you can ask them questions. Any social media
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trend that comes their way is going to clean out
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certain parts of the store. If there's some sort of
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TikTok trend on cheese, those cheeses are going to be gone.
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They're going to be wiped out. And don't complain to them.
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Ask for alternatives. They'll do what they can. Hoarding products.
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You don't need to stockpile items, and this is something
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I think people miss. If you know you're going to
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have a party or you want something a lot of something,
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go ahead and ask. And I think you can do
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this at any store if you give them enough time.
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If you need large quantities of something special, order it.
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A lot of people don't think you can do that.
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you say I want a certain amount of this, and
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they will help you set that aside or take care
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of that, because otherwise what you end up doing is
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cleaning out the store of that thing, and now other
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people can't get it because they're not planning for your party.
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They're planning for the regular usage and all of that. Okay,
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so don't just order more of something. Call store and
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say I need a large amount of this. Can we
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order it? And they will take care of you. Discount
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discontinued items. Don't take it personally. Things come and go
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at Trader Joe's. And even if you love them, sorry,
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reausable bags are great. A couple of things to
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about is keep them clean, keep them organized, don't put
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them on you don't put them on the table there
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to check out and then put all your growth she's
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on top of them. That defeats the purpose. Cart etiquette.
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Don't share carts without separating items at checkout, or have
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the kids sitting on the groceries or things like that.
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Let them kind of take care of it, because if
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you're sneezing all over the food and then handing it
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to them, that's kind of gross as well. And respecting
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personal space. Keep in mind that sometimes I've seen this
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actually personally. You'll have somebody that works at Trader Joe's
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and they're up on a small step stool or something
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reaching for something, and people reach between their legs or
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cross their body, cross check their body a little bit,
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say excuse me, not during the reach, but before the reach.
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Excuse me, may I reach here or whatever? And last,
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but not least, one of my all time favorites, don't
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assume that because the cashier is being nice to you,
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they are flirting with you. Their demeanor is supposed to
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feel warm and inviting. It's not flirty or coquettish look
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at me using the big words. It's just being kind.
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So unless you're super, super handsome or beautiful, who knows.
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ugly normal folk, it is just them being kind, all right.
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Stick around. Another thing that kind of ties into Trader
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Joe's because they have fresh syrup as well, is something
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you should not do with real syrup because it can
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make you sick. I'll tell you that when we come back.
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You've been listening to the Fork Report, you can always
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hear us live on KFI AM six forty two to
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five pm on Saturday and anytime on demand on the
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iHeartRadio app. This is where we get together every Saturday
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and just celebrate food today. Yay food. So thanks for
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hanging out. We got a lot to get to today.
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As I said, we're going to get into some october
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Fest celebration in southern California. Here I want to get
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to the border's head stuff. Some of the conclusion of
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new information that came out this week a week some
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issues with cinnamon, what spicy food does to your body.
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All kinds of things coming up, So go know where
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right now. Syrup. I love syrup. I love real maple syrup.
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Who doesn't now. As a kid growing up, I liked
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the not so real maple syrup, you know, pancake syrup
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and things like that that we had. It tastes yummy,
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is sugary and sweet, but it's not necessarily the real stuff.
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And we sometimes accidentally poison ourselves in the pantry because
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we don't know what goes in the pantry and what doesn't,
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so you might be causing problems. There's a story that
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was in the news about a week or so ago
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of a woman named Anna, young woman she learned surprising
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lesson about her maple syrup. She's a TikToker, of course,
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aren't they all, And she had a growing following, and
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she shared a video she basically revealed this big blunder
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that was making her sick. She had been keeping her
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Trader Joe's ties into her last segment, Trader Joe's Maple
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Syrup in the pantry. I know you're probably thinking, well,
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what's wrong with that? It actually needs to be refrigerated.
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The difference is because this syrup is fresh and real
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and without a bunch of preservatives that depending on where
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you're storing at once it's open, it should be in
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the refrigerator. So even though the expiration date on it
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is in the clear, it may be growing mold on
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the inside and causing a problem. And the thing with
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Anna is she had been using this syrup on the daily.
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She does the overnight oats, you know what those are,
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overnight oats, and she would make chia seed dishes, homemade granola,
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all those things, and she put them together and every
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time she had
her oats that she would put syrup on,
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she would feel nauseous by the time she left for work,
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and she thought maybe it was the energy drink or whatever.
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I love when people have all that real nutritious stuff
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and then suck back, you know, nuclear energy drinks, So
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she thought it was that. But it wasn't until she
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was finishing the bottle of the syrup that she actually
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saw these little floating molds in the last drops, and
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it finally hit her. The bottle was well within its
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expiration date. The expiration date was probably years away at
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that point, but she did not see where it said,
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please keep refrigerated after opening. And that's a big deal.
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Two things you should be looking for keep refrigerated after opening.
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For instance, mayo and ketchup. Often you put them in,
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you know, especially for mayo, you put them in the
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refrigerator after you open them. So look for these two things.
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Refrigerate after opening. And then the other thing you should
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look about and look at is use within seven days
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use or freeze within seven days of opening, or things
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like that. When they say these these are giving you
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reasons to keep them refrigerated or to use them by
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a certain time. So you don't just look at the
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expiration date. Because the expiration date. Oftentimes if it's not
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usually an expiration date, it's a best by date or
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a spoiled date or something like that. Those are it
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for the sealed product, usually not for the open product.
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So after this young lady Anna, who was talking to
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her mom and talking about all that, her mom was shocked.
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She's like, I didn't even know that you're supposed to
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put syrup bottles in the refrigerator, But that is the case,
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especially if you're using the good stuff. So the deal
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with maple syrup and refrigeration. Unlike fake syrups that we
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probably grew up on, they got tons of preservatives in it,
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a bunch of artificial sweeteners. Real maple
syrup doesn't have that,
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and so it's more prone to spoilage. It can spoil,
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especially goshther, I know it's cooled off, but whether we'd
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been having about a week or so ago that it
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was so hot outside that even with your air conditioning on,
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it seemed like it was still warm everywhere. That these
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things can change a lot of people don't think about
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that catch up, especially if it is organic soy sauce.
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It won't spoil, but it can lose its freshness after
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a while there's a lot of sodium in that. Nut flowers,
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whole wheat flowers, they spoil faster because the wheat germ
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in there and some of the oils, and they can
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go rancid. Citrus fruits, womonds, oranges, limes, they last much
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longer in the fridge. Butter. It's dairy, so it benefits
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from refrigeration. But for me, I don't flip out about that.
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I keep the long term stuff in there. But the
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stuff that I'm using on the daily for my you know,
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toast in the morning or something, I don't worry about
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that because it's not going to be out there very long.
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Just isn't you're using it on the daily and there's
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enough of you in the house that it turns itself
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over and you're fined. Organic nut butters they can go
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ran sid if left out too long. That's for the
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same thing. They keep four about four months at room temperature,
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but you know a year or so if they're in
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the fridge. Tortillas stay fresh much longer when refrigerated. So
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as far as expiration dates, they're not always right because
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sometimes they're best if used by best before you know
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the quality is going to change, and your tongue should
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tell that, tell you that. But the stuff that will
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make you sick is the stuff that gets moldy and disgusting. Yeah,
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so keep that in mind with your fresh creator Joe's
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maple syrup or any organic or maple syrup that is
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the real deal and not coming in a bottle shaped
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like an old woman or something like that. All Right,
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more to come, we come up, coming up. In just
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a few minutes from now, we'll get into Octoberfest here
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in southern California, So go know
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Where you're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Sevedra
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on demand from KFI AM six forty