 Hey y'all, it's Tammy with Collard Valley Cooks. I went on the wrong platform a few minutes ago. And I didn't even realize it until I'd been probably on here for 15 to 20 minutes. So please let me know if this is working and if this is on Collard Valley Cooks. So y'all let me know if I'm on Collard Valley Cooks platform right quick, please. Because I have a new app for Facebook. And the app also uses all my platforms. Is this Collard Valley Cooks platform? I believe it is. Because now I see more people. Yay! You are with Tammy with Collard Valley Cooks live. For real today. Chris does not feel good. He does not feel like videoing. We are finally home. I have ate so much, so much fast food. We have no idea. I could not wait to get home and be in my kitchen and cook. So with that said, I've been on the wrong platform showing them my groceries. I'm going to walk you over to the table. Let you see a few of the things I bought. Then we're going to walk back over here. We're going to start cooking up a chicken. I'm not going to do a whole lot today, but just chat with you guys. It's going to be kind of like a fun video. Just a fun live video with Tammy. That's all it's going to be. Because Chris said, how's that for a change? I know a lot of my viewers are new and you haven't seen me a lot live. I used to be live all the time on Facebook, but they changed the quality of the video. So I don't like to do a lot of cooking anymore live. But today I'm letting it be a special day. So I'm going to turn this around and let you guys see what some of the things were that I got at the grocery store. You can tell I'm tired of fast food and junk. I got apples, spinach, some nice squash. Chris wanted these potatoes, these little baby potatoes. We got sweet potatoes and they're nice and red. So they should be sweet. I got some corn. I got some green onions. I got some nice celery. We've got some Caesar. What do you call it? Romaine. Hearts of romaine. We just got some regular onions, some on the vine tomatoes, and I normally hang those up on my little sands. I got some mixed peppers. One's already cut up for our chicken. We're about to cook. This is asparagus and then we've got some Brussels sprouts. Now, today, I'll let y'all see me do this right quick. We're cutting up groceries and we're actually cooking at the same time. Chris got his favorite coffee. I got a little bit of onion soup mix because, you know, we put that in our meatloaf and different things. They had their butter like $2.60 something cents. And these are the meats I got. I got the Italian sausage because I'm going to make those meatball surprises, what it's called in the cookbook. It's so good. It sounds the craziest, like the craziest thing you could ever make, but it is delicious and y'all should try it. We got some good center cut pork chops, and we're going to throw these things in the refrigerator, but first we're going to start our chicken. And then I got some chicken that was the weekly special. It was only $0.99 a pound to see that. And they have wonderful chicken there. And so it is split chicken breast on the bone, which is what I like to cook, and it was $6.34. I'm actually going to make chicken salad out of this for a party we're having at church this weekend. Chris got him some cinnamon crackers, and you can see he's already broken into them, come in here, and got some cinnamon graham crackers. So I like their coffee creamer. I know that there's not a lot of Aldi's in other parts of the United States. They're mostly just in some southern states, but they have a coffee creamer that I'm in love with. Yes, I like it better than coffee mates. It is made with hydrated coconut oil. Now, most of the coffee creamers you can get online, it's made with hydrated coconut oil cost a fortune. But of course, their coffee creamer does not. And it's delicious. It makes the best coffee. And of course, I got me some cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup because it's that time of year. We got us some potatoes. But I was going to show y'all how I put my tomatoes. Let me flip this thing back around because I can't see what I'm doing if I don't. Be to be home. I'm goofy. I'm always goofy, y'all. Y'all have no idea. My kids say their friends come over here and I start acting crazy and I start singing. And they just look at me like I'm crazy. And I'll go, you're going to do that? And they'll say, no. And I'll say, well, I do it all the time. And so they just say I'm crazy. But they all want to come over here. And they don't really eat a lot of my cooking because they're teenagers and they're finicky. Most of them are used to eating hamburger, helper and stuff like that. So when they come over here and try my food, they don't even know that it's good because they don't even know what's good. I'm serious. But anyway, I'm like tomatoes on the vine when I can't get mine growing, you know, when mine's not growing. So when I buy my tomatoes on the vine, look, that one was still green. I try to get the ones that aren't so ripe. Okay? And then what I do is I hang them. I love this little thing I got. I always buy stuff marked down. I always go to Ross or Marshalls or somewhere like that. I did go to Home Goods just to make a cute little video for y'all this morning. You won't see it for a few days because I have to edit it just to show you some beautiful things they have. But they are expensive. They're not a cheap store. So I don't really have anything from that store. But I like to go in there in Windows Shop, if you know what I mean. But this is a something I got at one of those stores. And so when I buy my groceries, I mean one of the discount stores. So it's got three levels. And so when I buy my groceries, I come home and I hang my tomatoes here. And if I don't have these hung up here, because I can hang these on the fridge or put them somewhere else, I'll put my bananas on the other side. I've got to walk in front of y'all. Let me just stand on this side. Me and my big self. I want y'all to be able to see. Aw, y'all couldn't see the hook when I hooked it on there. We all see it now. And then my bananas, my monkey bananas, cute, cute. Now on the top, I use it for onions. And when I put my onions in there, I always, because I'm a little bit picky, believe it or not, I am. So just, is it justine smith? I know I love you. You're on here all the time. And I don't know if I'm seeing your name right. But she says teenagers don't eat real food and know they don't. My kids, when they were little, used to eat all the food I made. And they liked it. And now they don't eat nothing totally I make. So I usually take off that outer thing just because it makes a big mess. You know what I mean? In my holder, the messy parts, even if it's good for them or whatever, I always take it out. Now, if you don't use your onions fast, like I do, like I should have used this one this morning because it's already split. And I probably should have cut it up first. But if you don't use your onions quick, buy you some pantyhose, not pantyhose, but knee highs. And you know what I'm talking about? And the women's section, knee highs. And drop your onions down in the knee highs and hang them up in your kitchen. Your granny probably did it. And they will last a whole lot longer in those knee highs, okay? So don't put them in the refrigerator. Don't put onions or potatoes in the refrigerator. All right? So my onions always go on the top. I usually keep my garlic over there on top of the microwave. I cannot wait to design our new kitchen when we go somewhere. I'm probably going to lay these in here with these just because it's cute. And I'm not going to take those out of the bag because if I did, it would make the biggest mess. Now, these are sweet potatoes. I always put them usually in the middle or the bottom. I guess I'll put them in the bottom. And I'll take them out, but I'll take them out later. It's taken too long to show y'all everything. And some of y'all ain't in a hurry though. Y'all like to watch me, right? Because y'all don't get to see me live much anymore. So let me show you the view more down. And I'm going to pour these potatoes down in there. Down in here. And there we have it. Now, it looks like I'm back home. Right? You could tell we went to the grocery store. Now let's get over here and cook the chicken. How about it? I told them when I was on the wrong platform four or more ago, a crazy person. But I told them. Let me show you. Here's my sink. And typically I have this right here. So when I get out of the chicken, I always move it because you don't want the chicken to splatter. This is wood, which means that it can absorb things. You don't want to get chicken juice on wood. So you're going to move that out of the way good. You got a nice area to get your chicken out. And then when I buy chicken at the grocery store, I always get a bag. They should have bags available in the grocery store to put your chicken in. Try to find where the bag is. If you have to go at the produce, just grab a couple of extras and put your chicken in a bag. A lot of people don't even buy whole chickens anymore. But I'm telling you, if you want some good cooking, buy your chicken. So for all the flavor, yes. You want the whole bird. And you know what? I don't care what people say about me touching my trash can. But look, you want to be a good cook and you want to cook like me. Do what I do. And don't listen to those crazy people. I put a new trash bag in here and I'm about to give you all an example. This is a new trash bag. It has not been touched by hardly anything except the industrial machines that made it. So it's not sanitary like a... I mean, I'm just going to be real like a sanitary napkin or a tampon. But it is quite sanitary. And let me tell you what I'm talking about. I'm going to put it right there, but I touched it. But that's not touching a nasty trash can because I just put the bag in. Okay? Now, the reason I want to tell you that is because people get on to me for touching things like my trash can. When I pick up my trash can, I pick it up by the rim like that. That's how I pick it up. So I don't touch this part of the can. So if you go to your kitchen refrigerator, okay, when you go to the grocery store and you pick up a gallon of milk and you bring the gallon of milk home and you put it in the refrigerator, do you wipe the handle off? I don't. When you take it out of the refrigerator to pour you a glass of milk or to make you some cereal, do you wipe the handle off? I don't. When you buy a box of cereal, do you come home and wash the box because somebody touched it? Somebody touched it when they put it on the shelf and somebody touched it when they put it in the pantry and somebody touched it when they made the cereal all week and now you're touching it again? Are you going to wash the box? No, you're not. So the people that say things like that are not thinking logically with their head. They're just trying to pick apart somebody and make themselves feel smarter, but in fact it makes them look more, in my opinion, like they don't know what they're talking about. So think about what you say when you say it to Timmy with Colorado Valley Cooks. But I'm just saying, we go out to eat, we pick a salt and pepper shaker up off the table, we pick up a tomato ketchup bottle, you know, we go to Long John Silver's all the time, we pick up the malt vinegar, we don't run into the bathroom and wash the malt vinegar bottle off. I mean, give me a break. This is my house and you go in public places every day and you touch things that you eat from it and this is my house. Anyway, I'll stop. Let's go to the chicken. I love all y'all. I really do. But I'm not crazy about the haters. I'm really not. But you know, that's part of it. I mean, I gotta deal with them to have the show, but all of y'all make it worth it. All of the good ones make it way worth it. All of the good comments I get, I get comments every day about how much they love my show and how much I remind them of their greenie or their mama. I'm using these scissors, but I will wash the scissors. And it's a blessing to me. And so I want y'all to know that. And I do recognize when y'all comment and y'all comment more than once and your regular comment or I do recognize, I read the comments. Now, I don't always respond unless it's a specific question because I'm getting, my platform is larger than it used to be. And it's hard. It takes a lot of time. And so normally I read all the comments at night. I make sure I can get to the comments at night. And I try to respond to questions, but I can't always. This week we have been buying and selling a property. We've been so busy and we've still tried to respond, but don't get your feelings hurt if I don't just be patient with us and know that we love you, okay? Let me try to cut up this chicken. I haven't sharpened a knife in a while. And this is another pet peeve that some have gotten on to me for. Because a lot of times when I got to cut up a chicken, I'll sharpen my knife before I do it. Now, did I wash my hands with really good soap? Probably not. Let me do it before I touch this knife. Really well. All right, here we go. We're going to switch sides. Yes, I had to touch that, but I got soap all over my hands. See, I even have to do this because Chris is sick today. I haven't told you all about Chris. Let me wash. I had somebody this week say, you wash your hands all the time, but I don't ever see you rinse them. And I'm thinking, my goodness, I edit my videos. Most of my videos are not live. A lot of things I do, you don't see. You know what I mean? You know what I mean, Jelobani? All right. Chris is in bed sick, y'all. He don't feel good. He's under the weather today. He went with me to town and he helped me shop. And then all of a sudden, he started feeling really, really bad and Chris never feels bad. Never. So the only time he normally feels bad if he's getting a flu, and I sure hope he's not. May's coming in tonight, so we don't need the flu in our family. Water on the bottom of this. This is a knife sharpener. I am going to sharpen my knife before I try to cut my chicken. I'm going to cut it right in half. So I'm going to put this on my counter right here. This is my favorite knife sharpener. Of course, it's on my favorite kitchen items on my website. But you wet it just a little bit because it has a suction cup on the bottom. And you put it here. You flip this lever down. It's really tight now on the counter. You put your knife. And you pull it towards you. And yes, there's shreds of steel from the sharpener. But I'm going to wipe them off. The last time I did this, I did it, and I wiped it on my apron. It just blew people's minds, that I would wipe it on my apron. A lot of them didn't think I wiped it on anything. I'm just who I am. I'm always going to be tamed with color by the cooks. I'm never going to change. I don't plan on never being on TV or having any. I don't care. I'm serious if they call me. I always just want to be on Facebook and YouTube. I like it. It makes me comfortable. I'm not physically in a lot of good shape because there you go. See, I don't even see nothing on that. But it's going to be sharper. I have a lot of physical things, so I would never have the physical. I just don't think I could ever do anything like that anyway. And now we're going to get this off. See, it really sticks, don't it? That thing is amazing. It works good. But I just don't care anything about it. Now, I'm going to try to see if you guys can see this. And remember, I am working with a chicken. So once I get your view the way I want it, I cannot move this camera again until I wash my hands thoroughly. So I think what I'm going to do is move y'all to this side. That way I can reach the side to wash my hands better. Okay? I'm going to do splitter in half. And lots of times I get out my board and I splitter on the board and people are like why do you do that? Why do you get out of board? And I do it because it's easier to clean. And I think it's more sanitary. And I'll show you what I'm talking about. So I'm just going to cut her in half. So I'm going to do it. I just like to do it this way. And they're like, it's bad for your knife. And I'm like, I don't care. I mean, I'm going to have this knife for the rest of my life. I got a short run sharpen it. See how I am y'all? That's just me. I mean, if you can't live and use something every day and do the things you want to do without treating it like it's some kind of you know, I don't know what then why have it? All right. Now I got to wash my hands again. I just touched the dog on the cheek. I'm just going to touch the knife. All right. So I washed the knife. Actually, I don't want to splitter that way. I'm trying to think how I want to splitter y'all. Do I want to splitter? Yeah. I think I'm just going to take the back out of her. And then some people will tell me that I butchered my chin. I got to wipe my hands off because that can get me a purple towel because I didn't go to culinary school. Now I could get on the internet probably and watch a bunch of videos and stuff and probably do a better job of things. I'm just cutting her back off. I'm just cutting the spine out of her what I'm doing the most. You can pick her up right here and look for her tail and go around it. That worked just perfect. I won't be able to see this when it's good. Just go in between the joints. That's what you should be able to do. So there it is. She's backless. She's backless. So there's our beautiful chicken. Now, a lot of people have a heart attack if I don't rinse my chicken. You can if you want to. You don't have to if you don't want to. If your mama done it and you want to do it and it makes you feel good, of course, rinse your chicken for heaven's sakes. If you don't care, because if I go to rinse her, then her juices are going to get everywhere all over this area. But if I just pick her up and put her in my pan, then she's not going to get anything anywhere except for on this knife in my hands where I touched her. On this pan, which is stainless steel, it's easy to clean. That's why I like to put her on this pan. I can just move this pan over there. Wash my hands. We're going to preheat the pan. When you wash your hands after handling chicken and you've got nails, then make sure you know what I like to do? I like to have a toothbrush laying here. It's good to have a toothbrush near your sink. I try to put stuff like that up for it and I should leave it out. Because I've always got them over there in the drawer. I put them in the dishwasher and run them with my dishes. It's good to have them so that when you do something like that, you can brush under your nails. Lord, you can't even see what I'm doing y'all. Can you? I don't even know how much of that y'all's seen. Lost my mind. Well, I couldn't touch it. I had jurors on me. So, we're going to get over here and we're going to turn this pan on. We should have had this preheat already probably. Probably not going to do a whole lot with this chicken as far as spices. I'm probably just going to use my favorite spice blend. And let me show you what that is right quick. Let me rinse, let me dry my hands. Really good. My favorite spice blend for chicken. 100% no matter what ends. If I'm going to do a chicken like rotisserie type chicken or like this. I like this. Now, this is called poultry seasoning y'all. But this is not the poultry seasoning I like in my chicken and dress it. No way. It has a kick to it. Not enough of a kick. Now, it's going to be backwards for y'all. So, let me turn the camera around just long enough for y'all to see this part. Y'all can see me for a minute. Get this. And it's delicious. I have a whole section. Lots of times it is in the international section. But sometimes it's not. It's just corn. But it does have a kick. So, it's not the type of poultry seasoning you're going to want to use in your chicken and dressing. You're going to want to use McCormick for that. But it is great on chicken for like a night like tonight. In a pot. I'm going to turn this around this way now that y'all aren't really looking at me anymore and that way things won't be backwards. How's that for change? Kind of think they have this too which I really like. They're garlic. Now Chris won't eat anything with garlic powder. I mean garlic salt. But he does like this roasted garlic. But I can't use much of it. He does not like fake garlic in anything he likes. Well, even if it's garlic powder he just likes me to use fresh garlic. Okay, so most of the time I have fresh garlic in the refrigerator. I do today. And that's what I use. I'm just letting this get hot and then we're going to throw our chicken in there. You know what we could do while we're waiting on that. If y'all don't mind real quick let's open up this refrigerator or veggies in. Y'all, I have not wiped off the shelves. So I'm going to wipe the shelves off real quick. The new house we bought over in St. Mary's. I cleaned my refrigerator out once a week. The new house we bought over in St. Mary's I didn't even look at the refrigerator. I didn't even look at it. It comes with the house. I've lost my money. This was leftovers and Amy didn't need them. It was cream potatoes and peas and she didn't need them while we were gone. So that's going to have to be put up somewhere. But anyway she is a refrigerator there but it is she ate hot dogs while we were going. I've got some teacakes in here that I mixed up by my teacake recipe. Those are so good. I'm going to make some Halloween cut out cookies. Maybe we'll do that soon, soon, soon and very soon. I'm just going to wipe out a little. It's about empty because we've been gone. I've always got drinks in it though. I've got a lot of apples. I need to make something apple. Alright, so this is where I put up my veggies. This is some old lettuce. See, I have garlic in here. I do put my garlic in the fridge and I don't use it enough that it don't kind of get old. I want to start growing sprouts. I got me some fresh green beans today. I'm going to put them in there. Now you've got to be careful about these new refrigerators and I don't know why they're like they are. They want to freeze stuff when you put it in the very back. So lots of times what I do is just make sure if you're going to put something back there if it freezes it will still be good. I'll give you an example. Corn. Corn, if it freezes, still good. So put it back in the back. Don't, you know, don't put squash in the back because squash ain't worth a flip if it gets frozen. Um, broccoli if it gets frozen and it's fresh, gets bitter it tastes real bitter. Okay, so don't put broccoli here where it would freeze. That's asparagus. I got asparagus today. I got spinach. I got some good stuff. Oh, it's hungry for something decent to eat. Lord of mercy, this refrigerator is huge. It holds a lot of proteins in one drawer. It surely does. See that? And then our meats I typically put all the way back. I usually look at the dates when it expires and then I put what expires in the very back. You can pull these shelves out a little bit if it's hard to reach. It's not hard for me to reach. I got long arms. I'm like five foot five, so I'm average. But if it's hard for you to reach you can do that in my fridge. All right, let's get on here and cook. Enough of the refrigerator lessons, right? Let's do something fun. I'm gonna throw it in there and she's gonna sizzle. And then I gotta go wash my well, I can use tongs and that way I won't have to go wash my hands. Why don't I do that? Now, we do have some veggies that I washed here. Let me see what kind of view you got. Fine. Olive oil. Let's grab her, y'all. When I pick up this tray, this is another good reason to use a tray. You gotta look at how I'm holding it if you can real quick and then I'm gonna zoom y'all back in. But I can pick it up on the bottom where I know there's no juice or anything. Pick her up, put her in there and go put it back down and I haven't spread any real germs, okay? So many people would like why do you put that chicken on that tray? I'm like, well, why not? But we're gonna put her face down to first. Okay. That's all right, girl. You can pop and get my hands. Pop and get my hands. Now, after she sears good, we'll flip her over and put a bunch of salt on her. We're gonna put all those seasonings on her and that way she will taste good. She'll be salty. Tastes good. Now, I'm gonna go ahead and put this side of her. And you can use anything you want. Now, if you want to do a sweet and sour chicken, I got a recipe on my website, not on my website, on YouTube and it's not in my cookbooks. I tried to find it the other day. I don't know why I didn't put it in there. But it's called Tangy's Chicken and I use French Dressing and I mix it. It was just a bright idea I had one day and it was delicious. And so if you want something different, try that one night. And I may not have the recipe written down and that might be why I was too lazy to put it in the cookbook. You might have to watch it and write it down. Sometimes I'm tired. I'm so glad to be home. So I can eat something decent. Oh my lord, you have no idea. I need to put on some pentose and my pressure cooker so I can have something decent to eat. Or even better yet, some I'm putting on a little salt and pepper. Some big butter beans. That's what I'll make. You can make them fast. You can have big butter beans done in a few hours. I think that's what I'll do. So anyway, Chris wasn't feeling good today. So he's laying down. I got the door closed just in case. We're letting her get a little bit brown, y'all. I can't think of nothing to do while we're letting her brown. Once she browns this is the lid that goes with this cookware. And what I like about it she's a little bit tall right now but when she starts cooking down she won't be. But it has silicone and it makes a good seal and it makes the best, best chicken. Now that that's got raw chicken on it I've got to lay it this way. On my iron skillet. I had cornbread in it. But what I was going to tell y'all is this is a master class something you cannot buy online something you cannot buy in the store online. I did see some today at HomeGoods. You can find it at HomeGoods. You can find it at Marshall's and TJ Maxx and stores like that. It is a everybody thinks it's cast iron but if you look really close I'm going to let y'all see it up closer since we're waiting on her to brown. It is the speckle. So it is like a granite nonstick coating and so that's how it looks. Okay. And they had they had something similar to it at HomeGoods today and it was a different brand but they typically if you want to get one I would recommend you making sure you get one that has the silicone lid. Now I have a pan that's like this picked out on my website with the same type of coating and then I have a universal type of silicone that would fit on the pan I picked out so if you want to buy them separate you can or if you want to go try to find one you can go try to find one but they are wonderful. I'm telling you, they're wonderful. I have had Dutch ovens and I like this better. I like this better than a Dutch oven. I just do. It's simple. Pressure cooking. I'm about to turn her up and give her a good fry but she's been on about a low simmer for a few minutes so we're going to turn her up and let her get real hot and brown and then we're going to flip her over while we're waiting on that I guess we could sometimes when I'm using these like in an instance like this and I don't really know where to put them I will take them in this new stove and it has like let me turn my light on so you can see it has like slots right here in between the iron and I'll close it and put it in between there like that so that I don't have to put it out on the counter I'm going to show y'all we've been out of town and look at our look at all this stuff I got to do because we had to move out of our little the kitchen bag rental oven bags and I brought some Reynolds ramp and I brought some slow cooker liners I brought stuff I didn't think that young girl would use in the kitchen but most everything I left down there for her so anyway I got so much work to do y'all have no idea how much work so that's why I decided to come on here live today I thought you know what I'm going on here live today and they can watch it and I don't know how the quality will be but they can just watch it get their collar belly fixed and then I'll see you over next time see if can y'all see good y'all got a good view see y'all in just a little bit maybe see if she's getting browner a little bit I might be burnier I want to try to pull her apart good for some reason I haven't been able to find I have two sets of these and I can't find the other one it's like it just disappeared don't you just hate it stuff like that happens can you pull this over on her I've got to get her laid out good see that's already want to separate come apart she's already getting soft already want to do a split I'll move this over here and let her do a split that's what she wants to do now the biggest deal is that I can get this flatter so that she so that I can close her up y'all so I'm going to smash her like with I'm just going to use my magic yes I could have cut her a little bit better right down through there but I think she's down low in us think about the way this thing sells if you're thinking well you should have cooked her breast down so that the breast would stay moist that don't happen when you've got a silicone lid when I put this on there listen I'm going to bring y'all closer so y'all can hear it y'all listen I'm just going to let y'all listen we're different see how it does it's going to seal that in there and she's going to cook up so juicy and so moist and so delicious oh we got to put our seasoning on her Lord I about forgot Lord I'm crazy when I'm live I wonder why I don't go live all the time because Chris when he videos me he reminds me to do stuff sometimes my favorite here we go now let me get me just a little bit of water or what we ought to yeah because I don't have any chicken broth and she's going to make broth that's a whole chicken now if you didn't have a whole chicken and you were using chicken like breast then you would need to put some real good stock in there okay but that's not what we're doing when you add your water make sure you don't pour it on top of your chicken and take your seasonings off alright now we're going to turn her all the way down on low and I'm actually going to move her to the other burner so that it's not as hot because this is a really really large burner these make me some beans potatoes and we're going to have supper I'm going to leave it on a low simmer for about a couple of hours and we'll have a good supper and that'll be that that'll be that in a nutshell now I got all this stuff to put up and stuff to do I hope y'all have enjoyed being live I did a pumpkin latte video yesterday y'all are not going to believe who won the best pumpkin um coffee creamer I was quite shocked and I think I will be too it was one of the best I think comparison videos I've ever done and I think I did a good job comparing them too so y'all look forward to that I think I'm going to post it on YouTube and Facebook on Saturday night or evening talk to y'all soon and thanks for watching Card Valley Cooks where we cook like mama did bye y'all love ya and remember this is not a recipe it's just a braised chicken and my braiser so if you want to see how I cooked it then rewind it and write it down I've been on vacation for two weeks and I did this live so I wouldn't have to do that today bye I love ya