 Hey y'all, it's Timmy with Colored Valley Cooks and finally I am caught up enough to say praise the lord of the kitchen. I have emptied the dishwasher. I just put something in the crock pot. I'm going to show you that recipe once I finalize it because nobody wants to see a video of the start of a recipe. They don't get the end of it. But I'll let y'all take a peek and I'm going to show y'all how I've got the kitchen arranged just for fun today live. I hope y'all are having a blessed day. It is Friday. A couple more days. My girls will be here. We have sold our house in Dallas already to the first person who walked through. How amazing is that? So that should close around maybe 11 and we're just going to start having a really fun time here in this Colored Valley Cooks kitchen. So I'm going to bring y'all over here and let y'all watch me work. Why? Because this is just how I used to do things. I still got a few dishes in the sink and this is what I put in the crock pot this morning. It is, let me unwrap it for you. I always use a crock pot liner but it's two chicken breasts. I've got pepper in there, a little bit of butter, a cream of chicken, two cups of milk. I have got a cup of rice, just regular to long grain white rice, a teaspoon of sage, and my favorite bodega poultry seasoning, two tablespoons. So that'll be separate of night. I don't have to work hard. I just walk off and leave it, which sounds good to me. So that is cooking in there and me and Chris will have some greens with it. So I'm just going to show y'all what I'm doing because I can. How's that? So right now I'm just putting up my dishes. I'm trying to decide what view I want y'all to have. And this is just a fun live video. What's fun about it? Just because it's something to watch while you're quarantined at home. Don't have nothing to do. Now if you'll see my silverware, I love it. It's got roosters on the bottom of it. And so I've got it here now. And so this is my silverware drawer. Of course you want to put your silverware next to your dishwasher. And you want your dishes near your dishwasher. A lot of people I see doing their kitchen, they'll put their silverware across the kitchen or away from the dishwasher. They'll also do the same thing and put pots and pans by the dishwasher instead of cups and glasses. So right now we're just going to take these out. This is a miscellaneous piece. You could tell it don't have the rooster on it, but it's a serving spoon. So I kept it. And in my silverware drawer, I like to keep serving spoons. This is a piece of silverware that I bought at Bell's until we could get in here. And I keep this over by the coffee pot. I'll show you all that in a minute. There's a couple of these in here. They actually go by the coffee pot because they don't match my roosters. Yes, I am that way. This is my forks. And I put my forks. See, this is another flat spoon. And I put, oh my goodness. I put my little spoons and my big spoons forks, of course separately. Then in this little container, I always keep a couple of lids for my mason jars and here handy. In this container, I keep my scraper for my, I use this on carrots and sweet potatoes. It works good for, this is my turkey injector, which I'll only use once a year, but I don't know why, but I keep it in here. I put my paring knives in this section. I put chopsticks in this section, chopsticks come in handy when you're poking holes in cakes and trying to do, get the icing down in there. They just, they're all, I use them for all kinds of things. And I also have a milk frother in here. So you'll see that. And I've got my old pampered chef peeler in here as well. And of course, my nutcrackers. And really the nutcrackers in a turkey baster could go somewhere else, because I only use them once a year. But I've got one for them. So I keep them in there. This is a paring knife. It goes in here. If y'all haven't got my little black paring knife that I sell on the website, and this is not just, I mean, these are not my products. It's just products that I like. This is a, it's got a German blade on it. It's really sharp. If you get a paring knife, let me give you a pointer. If you go to the store and pick one out, instead of using the website, try to get one that has a beak point like these. This is not quite as good as this point. But this is the one I do sell on the website. It's the one I use the most. Now I'm hoarse. Y'all just going to have to bear with me. But anyway, they just peel better. And I'm going to show you the difference in these and the knives that are on my chopping block for the paring knife. Now these are very expensive, high dollar, a thousand dollar set of knives. These are cutco. And this paring knife, you can tell, yes, I use my knives and yes, I don't treat them like a lot of people would. So I've broke the tip off of this one. This had a pointed tip. I hate this paring knife. Even if it came with my cutco knives, it is a horrible paring knife. The way that I hold it in my hand, it bothers my arthritis. I don't like the way this is shaped. I like the flat blade at the bottom like this. And this one curves and see how this one is flat as well. So I'm just giving you a couple of pointers for paring knives. I'm going to talk to y'all for a while today. And I'll probably download this video and repost it. Okay, let me tell y'all why I do that. And I haven't fixed my makeup this morning. So who knows what I look like. But I did put on some clothes and wash my face. Okay, so Facebook does not let me monetize. And right now, yes, it is important that I monetize. And I hate it. If it bothers y'all, I hope not. I hope you want to support us. You don't have to pay to support us. All you have to do is watch an advertisement. So when I come live on Facebook, because I hardly ever do it anymore. Mainly because of that. And the resolution isn't as good as YouTube's. But if I do that, then I'll probably download it and repost it. So if you got something really important to say something you really want me to see, then wait till I do a repost and make your comment. And then I'll see it for sure. I'm sorry that I have to do that. But it's either not come live at all or come live and download it and repost it. So that's what I do. And right now, we're trying to save as much money as we can get these girls through college. And we've actually got Amy's best friend, Kasia. Y'all can pray for her. She's really, really intelligent. She got accepted to Georgia Tech. But she cannot afford to go to Georgia Tech. And she was going to have to borrow every penny for her college, every penny. So she didn't have any help coming in from family for tuition books and cost of living. So Chris and I have told the girls if they all go to Georgia Southern, it's in Savannah near where we live. It is a state run college. So it's not real pricey that we will send them all three to school. So yes, we have adopted another child to go through college, but she's a blessing to us. I hope that y'all are thrilled about that and understand that. So when you have the patience just to watch up an advertisement, YouTube Facebook has tried and tried to get me to have fan subscriptions. And fan subscriptions means that y'all would have to pay monthly to see my content. And I do not want to do that at all. So just, I hope that y'all at least understand it. Hit the like button. And that's all I'm going to say about that. Okay. Anyway, for my knives, y'all got that. This is on the website. And everything you order through the website, whether you order toilet paper or the link you clicked on, as long as you're in there from my website. And I direct you to Amazon. I don't get a small percentage. It's not a lot of money, but it adds up. Every little penny adds up. Okay. So I hope that was long-winded enough. I'm going to show you what I'm doing with these things because I'm showing y'all around my new kitchen. Now, this is a little jar I keep right here by the coffee pot. Why do I have the coffee pot in the laundry room? Because there's no water. Because our water is hard water. I can't put it in my coffee pot. So we have to get bottled water. And that's what we have. So this is my coffee bar. And some of y'all haven't seen this. So it's next to my washing machine. And it's just a little coffee bar right here. And I got my little coffee cups next to it right here. And while we're standing right here, I've got all my paper products in this cabinet. And in this cabinet, I have some baking things, my salad drainer, which I love. It really makes my lettuce stay better longer. I've got my hand mixer in here because I don't use it that often. But I use it often enough. I wanted it not in the garage. This is where coffee cups go. And you can tell we've been drinking coffee because there's not any left. They're all in the dishwasher. This is a vacuum seal. So my dishwasher has a lot of the cups in it. This is the new Collard Valley Cook office. And I love it. This is my office. I have a few pictures in here hanging over my desk. And I love them. This is actually my high school diploma. This is a May's high school diploma. I haven't found Chris's, but when I find it, I'll put it in here as well. Then you've got May when she's little and May as a senior. You've got Amy and Kasia at prom last year. They both bought dresses and bless their hearts. They can't go this year. Amy. This is May and Amy at the beach back at St. George Island where we used to go all the time when they were little. There's Amy's graduation picture. And this is Clint. Clint is an avid fan and he cooks up a storm. He sends me emails. He sends me photos and I love Clint. So a big shout out to Clint. And this I found is my niece and nephew. And it was just so precious that I had to hang it up. These are my girls while they were in middle school acting goofy in a photo booth. So you can see that we're putting packaged books up high and we've got mailers in here for our cookbooks, labels in here and mailers and et cetera, et cetera. There's my wonderful man. Say hello to Colour Valley Cooks Live. Colour Valley Cooks Live? Yes, Live. This is Facebook, just a general video. Now we're headed back into the kitchen. And I'll show you all around other parts of the house. But today, right now, mostly I'm just showing you all the kitchen and where I've got things and why I've got them where I put them. Because lots of times if you will just organize your kitchen and put things in easy to reach locations, it's just faster for you. Now these are coffee cups that go over the coffee maker. And I'm going to show you what I did yesterday for that. I'm going to try not to make y'all too drunk. I'm going to point this up. You can see I bought some command hooks. It's telling me to rotate the device. Anyway, I bought command hooks and they're the little hooks that hang, they actually hang down and I can put my coffee cups on them underneath my countertop. Now these only cost a few bucks. You can get them anywhere, even at the grocery store now. And you can put your coffee cups and different things and hang them in convenient locations. I also did the same thing in my China cabinet. Yes, I did. These little cups are hanging on command hooks. And these command hooks are clear. And then the the hook part is not clear. Let's see if you can see them from up here. So the command hook is clear. And then of course the metal part is not. So I think that's really neat. I've got so many things to show y'all. It's going to be a lot of fun. So all we're going to do today is dishes though. I'll just do one room at a time and why I did the things I did. So this dishwasher I'm not crazy about. I have to say it is a whirlpool. But I had a Bosch. Now let me say that Bosch is amazing on the dishes. You don't have to rinse them off. You don't have to worry about a kind of grit on them when they're finished washing. It is just amazing. This is it holds a lot. I'll have to say that. I bought this at a Goodwill y'all. It's a stainless steel bread pan. And I love the size of it. It had this ring on the bottom where somebody sat something hot on it. But I love this pan. I put my pots and pans in the dishwasher yesterday. But I'm going to show y'all real quick that I've got my plates right above my dishwasher. If I had regular cabinets because everybody don't have an open shelving, I would put my plates over my dishwasher. But as close to it as I could get them. Okay. And this is my square white plates. Now I only bought one set of these and I could keep myself for it because these are JCP home collection that I bought on Goodfried Black Friday. I got them for cheap dirt cheap. Okay. And they don't even have them anymore. And now I only have four and I'm so disappointed that they're not selling them anymore. When they get all enough, I guess I might get them on Etsy. But they had a, I did get a set that was round with a set that was square, but square ones are just beautiful. So I put all of this over. Let me see what kind of view y'all've got. Yeah, y'all can see me. I put all of this over the, let's go in a second. Things up on the shelf, the little elephant is just there to remind me of mama. I do miss my mama. I so wish she could have seen this beautiful home. She would have loved it. But you know, she's with heaven and heaven and she's with Jesus and that's better than being here. I can guarantee that. I kept this. What did I keep this for, Chris? Popcorn. Popcorn. I told Chris, I said, I'm not going to throw this away. I'm going to say we have popcorn. Not loose popcorn, but after we pop popcorn. Let me show you where I'm putting my glasses in my kitchen. Sorry y'all. Y'all just got to bear it with me. The drawers you see right here, that second drawer is where my glasses are. I'm going to pull y'all over there so y'all can actually see how I'm putting them in the drawer. You'll also see on the counter my wonderful air fryer, the toaster. You can see that I've air fried some slithered almonds and toasted them at 350 degrees until they're just nice and toasted. It only takes about five minutes. Y'all, I serve that over chocolate ice cream because when I was young, and y'all know what I'm talking about, Mayfield used to have a wonderful chocolate almond ice cream. Well, they still have it, but it's not near as good as it used to be because they skimp on the almonds. Well, I just buy plain chocolate ice cream in a tub, put the slithered almonds on it, and that's how I eat my ice cream. Here are my glasses. I like turvus cups. Why? Because they never, the seal is never broken. They last forever. I got these dirt cheap because they say best man on them. I bought them online. I do have the best man in the world, so why not buy the cups, right? Correct, correct? And so this is where I put all the glasses. I even got a mason jar in here. Y'all, this thing holds a lot. At first, I was laying them down, and then I realized that these drawers were deep enough for me to actually put them upright in it. And look at all that room. And so that's how I'm doing that. In the bottom, Chris is going to run the air fryer. It's going to be loud a little bit. In the bottom, I have my baking. I'm going to move y'all so y'all are not right on top of the air fryer. Okay. I have all my baking stuff down here. Now, if you have an air fryer, eight inch cake plates, I mean cake pans, not nine inch, have to be eight inch will fit in your air fryer. And that's what I use all the time to make nachos and stuff. This is a drawer I use all the time because I bake a lot. And this is my baking drawer. I use this little pen to do my almonds in the air fryer. This is a six inch Wilton cake pan. Okay. Now, over here, they're getting a real tour today. In this box, I have reduced my gadgets on the counter because I just did. These are metal gadgets that I use all the time that are metal. And then these are gadgets that I can use in a nonstick cookware. So, and of course, I put my spatula over here as well. And on this counter, you'll see that I have my mixer, but when I mix up something for y'all, we're going to run a drop cord and let y'all watch it on the bar so you can see good. And my larger spices, of course, are over here. My dehydrated spices are here. I actually thought about using this today, but I didn't because I know a lot of y'all won't have it, but you can get it on my website under the spice aisle. And that's these gourmet collections. They do have them in, but y'all can't go anywhere right now. They do have them in the discount stores like Ross and Marshalls and TJ Maxx, but this is a Thai curry, green curry, and it's going to be hot. And I was going to make our chicken and rice with this today, and I know Chris would have loved it, but I did not because I wanted to use things that I thought other people would have. Look, Chris, there's some cooking spray. Yeah, right there. Right there. We've been looking for it. We're so crazy. All right. And then over here, I have got some oil. This is the oil that I fried my fish in. Probably almost a week ago. I just strained it with a larger strainer, which is this. And I just let it sit here on the counter because I don't have flies or nothing in the house. And when I make salmon patties this week, when I mean them get here, I'll use it. And I can use it for other things because the oil, there's nothing wrong with it, but because I did use it for fish, I can only use it for certain things. So it's sitting over here. And y'all got to see my wonderful little hood that used to be on the refrigerator at the other house. It stuck to the hood. And these are really handy, which will save me from getting burned. And I'm excited about that. And here I have my sifter. It's very convenient to me. Most of my baking stuff is in this cabinet, just basic baking stuff. The salt's actually supposed to be up there with the pepper. Okay. And then of course I've got spices in here. I've got my pie plates up here handy. And extra stuff way up there because I have to use the footstool to get to them. And then I've got all my flavorings in this container because I've got just about anything you can think of in there. Then I put all my sprinkles and things like that in the other pantry. So I put the things I use the most in here in the kitchen and then anything extra that I need to use, I can just go in there and get it when I need it. Let me show y'all one of the very favorite things I love about this kitchen. Because a lot of y'all are kind of, you know, like, oh, I'm gonna, I loved your old house. Well, let me just say this. I'm older. It's harder for me to cook than it used to be. And get around the kitchen. This cabinet and this cabinet. Y'all know what I like to make the most? Cornbread biscuits. So I put things instead of in the other pantry, I put them convenient to me so that when I make cornbread, all I've got to do is pull this out. Here's my cornmeal. Here's my cornmeal, my biscuit mix, my southern biscuit mix. This is the cornmeal that I like to use. Chris, will you give me a bag of southern biscuit mix? Let me show them. Okay. All the pantry. This is white lily, white cornmeal mix enriched. Now, this is not like Jeefy cornmeal mix. And the cornmeal mix is they come in small boxes. There's no sugar in it. The only thing they've done is make the cornmeal set with some self-rising flour. And it's delish. And I always like to get buttermilk. So I can keep an extra pack of this. This is white lily in this drawer and just perfectly fits in the bag. Convenient to my canisters. Okay. And the bottom I have all purpose, a bag of all purpose. And I'm going to have my self-rising right now. Amy kept it because she's cooking at home and she's bringing it home with her when she comes Monday. So this canister's missing for self-rising but she's got it on this side. Oh, and this is my biscuit mix we like to use. Southern biscuit, biscuit mix. Now make sure you go to get this. You do not get southern biscuit flour. They have all purpose and self-rising. Make sure you get formula L biscuit mix. It's typically in every grocery store, even Walmart, on the bottom shelf. So do not mistake this for biscuit. It's completely nothing but flour and shortening bits. It's so different than biscuit. Don't have all those preservatives and all those extra things that biscuit has in it. Now it probably does have a few but I looked at the ingredients on this compared to the ingredients in the flour and it's the same thing. Okay. So that's that. But in this one, this is so convenient for baking for me to stand right here, grab my flour, grab what I want out of this top cabinet, pull this out. These are my sugars. This is powdered sugar. This is really supposed to be granulated sugar. I don't know where my regular sugar is. That's being the bottom drawer. This is brown sugar. I've got molasses, the southern favorite golden eagle table syrup. This comes out of Fadmore, Alabama. If you've never had this on a butter biscuit, you need to get you some. It is on our pantry items. Go buy you some today. Make you some biscuits, you'll be pleased. And of course, my K-Roserts in here and honey. Okay. So that's my sugar drawer. All this weakness. If the aunt wanted to get in my house, this is where they want to go. This is sugar, Crisco, and coconut oil. And I've been putting a little bit of this on my tongue because it's supposed to be good for my thrush. I don't know if y'all have ever done that or not, but I still haven't gotten rid of it. But I've been here for a while. Chris has made him some leftovers. Let me show you how good the air fryer works. He stuck this leftover barbecue in the air fryer. Oh, just the French fries. Okay, so he put the French fries that were leftover in the air fryer. And they're just like hot and crunchy, aren't they, Chris? How many minutes did it take? About three minutes. So if you want to warm something that you have that's leftover, don't use the microwave. Don't use the oven. Heat up your house in the summertime. Get your air fryer, pop it in there, and it's done so fast, y'all. I hope you've enjoyed my kitchen tour. I haven't done the other side of the kitchen, but I've been on here for a while. So I think I'll show you on my trash can right quit because y'all know I'm a trash can girl. So this has prevented me from picking up my trash can every time I want to make something. But this is a drawer, pull out. This is my dog food in this bin. And this is my trash can. So now I don't pick up my trash can anymore and bring it over to the bar. I just walk over here and throw it away. Okay. And then over the trash can, I have all my plastics and my extra jar lids. So we are just loving it here. So you can tell in this kitchen, mostly dishes wise, I have got the dishes we eat off of, my hot plates that I can't live without to put stuff in and mix stuff up in. I've got my baking stuff in the bottom drawer, my things that I've used the most. Frequent use. I've got glasses of course in here, my coffee cups in the other room. Oh, I didn't show y'all this. I promise one day I'm going to be off here, but it gives y'all something to look at on it. This is where my other utensils are. Let me see if I can give y'all a better view. So I've got all my handy utensils here and all my baking type utensils here, like my cake slicer and my blending fork. And my ice cream scoop. Why? Because it's just convenient. I use it all the time. My wests, that kind of thing, my extra spatulas, my blades to ice cakes with, and then the utensils that I use the least are in this drawer. I use them, but not daily use. And then this is my regular salad master pots and pans. Okay, all sizes with lids. This is my heavy cast iron and skillets. So I'm loving it. I've got my vegetables next to me and I've not put in the potato chips on top of the refrigerator anymore. I'm putting them over there in those baskets. And I guess that's it for now. And remember what I said, please, about that I will delete this post and repost it. And there's a big description of why in this video. And I'll go ahead and tag it at the end. We are trying to save as much money as we can to get our girls through college. Facebook wants us to do fan subscriptions. We do not want to charge our fans subscription fees, neither on here or YouTube. So all you have to do is watch the advertisement. Doesn't cost you anything, but a few seconds of your time makes a big difference. It also makes a big difference if y'all would hit the like button. There's so many people that miss out on our videos, because they do not hit the like button. Facebook is notorious for giving you ad after ad after ad. And so if you want to see our content, the way Facebook works, you've got to hit the like button or comment or comment now or dislike or no, there's not a dislike on Facebook. On YouTube, it's important that you hit the like button, but what's great about YouTube is they recommend our videos all they want to do. So we get a lot more views on YouTube. But Facebook doesn't recommend a video to anybody unless you pay them to do it. And I'm not paying them to recommend my videos. I hope y'all have a blessed day. I hope that you guys tune in and see the rest of my chicken tonight. I'll show that full video. And I also want to do for Clint, he was wanting some lemon cookies. I've actually had several people ask me about lemon cookies. I love lemon cookies. So I'm going to use my TK recipe, alter it just a little bit and make it a lemon cookie dipped in a little powdered sugar. And you don't have to do that if you don't want to, the powdered sugar part. And I hope to have that on here soon. We're also going to test out some lava cakes because I've had a request, but I'm waiting for the girls to get here because I'm not going to make lava cakes without looking at all the girls here. So anyway, hope y'all have a blessed day. Hope you're ready to get to see a lot more color belly cooks in the kitchen. Y'all might have to see a lot of teenagers as well. I can still call them teenagers because they're still 18 and 19, but we'll catch y'all later. Thanks for watching color belly cooks where we cook. A lot of mama dead. Bye y'all. Love ya.