 Going live today in the kitchen. I've been cooking all morning. I just thought I'd come in it's a little bit early, a couple minutes early. I'll wait until people can come on and then we're going to get cooking. Here we go. I guess it is Thanksgiving in the States right now so people are busy eating with their families so that's cool. I'm just waiting for people to join them a little bit early. You're going to be cooking today. I'm excited to show you. Okay, do you like this hat? You're not good at me but we got this at the American stores so American like walk around like this. So do people just assume I'm a Trump supporter when I wear this? Can you hear me okay? You love the hat? Okay we'll put it on. Crystal, we'll put it on. I'll do my best to read. I don't live in Auckland. I live in Wellington so yeah it's a beautiful day today. Quite windy for you in Wellington but yeah tomorrow's not looking good. I'm going to have so many people here so that's a little crazy. So happy Thanksgiving. Let's go. It's going to be great. I'm just going to wait to 11 just everybody joining. So if anybody has any quick questions I can start with some questions and then we'll jump in. I thought we could make some pumpkin pie together and I've been cooking charcoals. I've been cooking so many things that I'm going to show you. Someone just said you better have Wattie's tomato sauce. I don't. Sorry. So you think I need to have that? I am having 50 people here of which most are Kiwis. Kiwis and Americans I guess. So do I plan on staying in New Zealand forever? Yeah well we are once we are here for one more year so next year we can become citizens and so that's cool. So we'll have dual citizenship with the U.S. and oh gosh and yeah I have no plans on leaving at this point so you know I don't plan my whole future. Okay it's not a very quality hat. You love the hat? Yeah so we got this at the American store when I got all the pumpkin puree. Okay sorry. Okay it's like literally a piece of crap. Where was this made? We all know where it was made. Okay okay it keeps busting anyway so maybe we won't do that. For all of you who's just joining me I was wearing this happy Thanksgiving. Oh you have your last uni exam in 30 minutes. Well you can watch the replay it's fine. Two dollar shell pet yes. I actually got at the American store so I played an enormous amount of money for it so there's that. Oh thank you thank you Bobby that's great. Okay so let's get started. Welcome to my Thanksgiving day. So I thought I would go live today because you guys we are I'm cooking all day and so I haven't been live forever on YouTube so I thought yeah let's go live with the cooking see where I'm at at 11 o'clock because I don't want to be totally in my kitchen at noon when I know my family will be eating. So I've been cooking all morning so I'm going to do a couple things with you today. We're going to I'm going to show you what I've been making. I got one of the turkeys in the oven. I'm making two turkeys and I thought we could make the pumpkin pie together so here we go. My daughter made this beautiful pie crust so it's just literally a simple butter so it's a flaky pie crust just butter flour salt a little bit of sugar and ice water. She made that we're actually going to make four pumpkin pies so the other three are in the fridge right now so I will make those later but let's get started let's make some pumpkin pie together so now you can you know roast your own pumpkin puree it yourself. I did that my first year here because I couldn't find this you know you're just not familiar with the store so this is Libby's this is what people make pumpkin pie with in the U.S. This is like if you want a U.S. tasting pumpkin pie this Libby's there is off brands that's fine just get it out of a can I don't know so I made it with pumpkin the first year just you know it's fine it just doesn't taste like what you're used to because you're used to it out of a can so you know just like my kids I made homemade mac and cheese this week and they liked it but you know it's not craft see like when you're used to it as craft then it's craft okay uh pumpkin pie is sweet so here we go so what's great about it is the recipe is right on the can and so I just follow that this is one so you basically need pumpkin puree some evaporated milk always shake it up some spices you know cinnamon nutmeg sugar some eggs and some salt that's super easy to make it's actually really really high in fiber and so and not that many calories like the yeah so 45 calories per serving of this you know so it's actually it's really good I like to make pumpkin bread with it I actually really like to make I'm hoping I have some very left because I make the pumpkin spice latte syrup for my coffee with it maybe that's another video it's so good I'm hoping to make that for tomorrow as well so tomorrow we are having a big Thanksgiving here and it's going to be around 50 people last year was around 70 so it's less so that's good and I'm making two turkeys lots of people are bringing some chickens we have a huge ham that's always delicious kumara you know like instead of sweet potatoes we have kumara and it's so good it's actually my favorite dish then we have we have green bean casserole we have all the traditional American foods we don't we have some kiwi foods but we I try to just focus on like let's have a real American Thanksgiving if we're going to go through the hassle right so rolls creamed corn lots of vegetable sides salads and then people bring the lots of desserts so you have I'm making four pumpkin pies and then other people are bringing pumpkin pies so I don't need to put all of them out because you don't even understand how much pumpkin pie my family eats so yeah so we have fruit pies lots of desserts lots of drinks so it's going to be good and people bring the food okay so don't worry I'm not making all of that I end up making a lot more than I ever plan on because I'm always filling in for what you know is needed but people are great here they bring everything so I'm making pies I'm making I have one of the turkeys here I'm going to show you what I did to it my friend is down the street is going to cook it though just so I don't have to have my oven running for two days and then because I got to make all the pies and I have one I have a wall oven it's just so one oven and then yeah so it takes a while and then uh yeah so I'm making the turkey I made a cranberry salad which I'll show you how I did that and made um I'm going to make it in the pies and then some stuffing and gravy you know because that all makes sense because I have all the gravy stuff because I made the turkeys got it okay so let's make the pumpkin pie so you have you make a pie crust I don't recommend buying the ones of the sweet ones that they have here it's not good with it hi happy Thanksgiving welcome to join us um we are making pumpkin pie so you don't bake the crust ahead of time and you guys this is so easy so you literally can you see me okay sorry I this is my first cooking show I mean I've done some cooking videos but so you basically take all of the pumpkin puree out and you really want to get all of it you know don't leave any in there because this was outrageously expensive because I had to get it at the America store and of course because it's like it's giving they give you a limit you can only get two of them so there's okay so we have that then you shake up the evaporated milk that's what it looks like I got this at the American store but they saw that new world here you can get I think at any new world I don't know sometimes the small towns are different okay pour that in simple simple okay and then you just mix it a bit just you can see it I'm just yet you can see me can you see me okay yep just mix it a bit I probably just need to get a this is just my kitchen this isn't professional I'm not oh this is not all really cleaned up for you okay I don't know about you but do you guys have trouble with whisks I think I bought like 20 whisks why can't they ever last so yeah whisking it that's better none of mine have handles I've even like went to the store like okay I'm just gonna spend the money get an expensive one still doesn't work so hold on let me read what it says so I'm gonna do it wrong because I'm talking okay then the sugar so three fourths a cup of sugar just white sugar here we go and then what is it a half a teaspoon of salt okay how easy this is so because I'm a pro baker well I have a fourth so I'll do two of these can't find a half here we go this is this is real cooking guys this is how it's done okay so half a cup of salt and then a teaspoon of cinnamon okay so do you guys like cinnamon I know like a lot of kiwis don't like cinnamon here we go here we go here we go I feel like we can't have too much cinnamon I'm sure we can boom there it is cinnamon mixed in can you see so beautiful it's just a very pleasing so then I think we have a half on the other two so I don't have that much ginger I just found out so I need a half a teaspoon of ginger so let's see how much I had definitely have a half a teaspoon I'm just gonna need more for the rest of the pies one here we go two here we go and then a half a teaspoon of fourth a teaspoon of cloves and then I always add nutmeg it's not on the recipe this is my secret ingredient ooh turkey's ready sorry close one up my nose okay so we have nutmeg and so I'm just gonna do a half a teaspoon of nutmeg as well stir it I think that's it oh no eggs eggs don't do good things all right you got to make sure that the spices are evenly good morning okay two eggs here we go one go two egg it up here we go you guys see it's like this here I'll show you oh it's beautiful smooth beautiful color it's just a beautiful color with all the spices throughout and then if you just pour it see pour it into the pie crust and we'll see what it's a perfect amount so make sure that you scrape all the sides so I always do that so get your scraper make sure you get all of the deliciousness out this is the big one okay so another tip so when you cook this you have to cook it at like 210 for 15 minutes and then it goes down to 170 for like another 20 minutes so uh yeah no for well 30 40 minutes but my oven's not so I'll do 20 so what I do is let me just show you a little trick so beautiful look um and it'll get thicker too is what I do just to keep the crust perfect because you take aluminum foil and you know you just feel like well that one's gonna work okay here we go so what I do is I just cut you know why is it that like whenever I'm in the kitchen I can't find any super stuff here we go okay here we go so the strips you get strips of it and you wrap it can you see me maybe better this way wrap it around hi well hi uh we can't see you on the screen my daughter needs to get food for work so you put this around the edges so um it protects them because it's really hot when you do that first 15 minutes I leave the tin foil on I do it all the way around I leave the tin foil on until like the last two minutes and take it off and then I just don't have like those burnt edges you know because otherwise you get the burnt edges and nobody likes the burnt edge so I know that there's things that you can buy that just go right on it so um I'm just going to move this because then I'm going to show you the other things that I made here we go okay so that's pumpkin pie now you're ready to make the pumpkin pie welcome Lexi to my live go to briscoe's big sale today hello Tara's daughter wave to us this is Lexi she made the pie cross so I can't take any credit for that have a great day at work you have everything okay uh okay so let me show you the turkey okay I'm making two turkey so here's one that's not cooked yet so I want to show you the last big turkey okay so I follow who is it Jamie Oliver hi hi um so I have one in the oven that I'm going to take out and show you this has been in the oven for two hours this is before and I just want to show you a little bit about what I did so what's really cool is you can take a knife can you see I don't know if you can see and you can put it in and open up all underneath the top layer skin and I made butter it's butter cranberries you can use time I use rosemary because I have so much rosemary in my garden and you cut it up and you just mix it together and so it kind of looks like this like just butter this is just an example of it butter time or rosemary and cranberry and you just shove it in the cavity and so what that does is it base the turkey while it's cooking and it adds so much flavor okay so and then I put some rosemary here in the cavity and you know and we're going to use all the juices for um it's really pretty because it has the cranberry the green and the red and then yeah and then you cook it for three hours so what I do is I cook it for two hours and then secret we add some bacon because why do we add bacon because bacon makes everything better so here we go I'm going to move this I'm going to take the other turkey out of the oven and we can see where we're at I know that this turkey is really big I think this is a 6kg turkey and I think it's going to take longer it might be longer than three hours but let me see if I can get it out and show it to you we'll check it out hopefully you guys can hear me can you hear me okay okay let's see let's put it on something it's heavy okay close it nice clean oven clean the oven yeah is it hot in there that's good it's working earlier this week I thought that my oven broke my dishwasher isn't working so this is great of course it happens so we get Thanksgiving okay so this is the turkey it's looking great you can see it you can see the beautiful pink there's not much juice in there it's a little bit of juice let me squirt that out baste it a little bit yeah I just feel like it's going to take a bit longer than the three hours so we can see there's not that much juice here so pretty this is the turkey that I got from Gilmore's you want to see the story of what I go through to get these turkeys every year it's on TikTok it's so funny there's not a lot of juice in here there we go so then what we do now for the last hour of cooking is we're going to put on some bacon don't worry I've washed my hands we are all legit in this kitchen so we're just going to all you're doing is just placing some bacon on the top and so then it just cooks right into it just like so only like like four strips is fine I don't really need more than that the other strips I'll use for the other turkey and yeah I might add a little bit of water to this actually okay so that's it so then what you're going to do is you're going to put all of your tinfoil back on yeah this is a really big turkey put your tinfoil back on and we will pop it back in the oven another hour and see where we're at at that point then for the last 15 minutes you'll take off so that it gets you know that beautiful color so I'll baste it again and uh we'll get that pretty color at the top so if you want to see pictures of everything just follow me on instagram I'll probably posting those uh do some videos so that'll be good so we have turkeys we've got pumpkin pie what more do we need right so I'm going to show you another thing that I made this morning cranberries let me show you so here so what this is this is my grandmother's recipe from Ohio so this is cranberries so you I got frozen cranberries at Moore Wilson about two cups of those because I made this I made two things of it I have a really big thing in a nest and you cut up uh grapes so so you basically this is what you do you take the cranberries two cups of water some sugar and you boil it to the cranberries start popping and getting soft and then you let it cool for a minute you add some jello jelly they call it jelly yeah jelly here so I use raspberry jelly two packets of it dumped it in because I doubled the recipe and let it cool for a bit and then you add grapes crushed pineapple and mix it together and then let it sit so it'll be like a jello jelly I guess type thing but it's so good the sweet and the sour with the cranberries is so good so it's actually my grandmother used to serve this with whipped cream on top as well with a little bit of uh walnuts so you can or you can put walnuts inside as well happy Thanksgiving so um do you have any local taste testers yes you know I got plenty um so yeah so this is so good but kiwis were very uncomfortable with my first Thanksgiving when I brought this and I put whipped cream with dinner like it just doesn't feel right doesn't see feel like something that we actually do um and I'm like welcome to America we like to have dessert with dinner but it's like a sweet sour it's so good with the cranberries and it's just so beautiful so it's so when you're having your Thanksgiving plate and you have the turkey and you have the mashed potatoes and gravy and then the the the green beans are beautiful and green and then um tada and then and then this beautiful red this deep breathing so much don't get this uh cranberry sauce like no make this this is so good do I have this recipe anywhere let me know if you want it I'm happy to give it to you no secrets about this but you know you know if you even want to make it maybe you don't um yes make the turkey for Christmas so good they also had just um at I saw it at countdown and at Gilmore's they had where you could buy a pretty big just turkey breast that's stuffed with uh cranberry it was like cranberries and cheese or something I got that too I don't know if I'm going to make it tomorrow I think I might have enough meat because I have a lot of meat coming so I might save that for Christmas but like that would be a really nice thing depending on how big your family is so yeah so um yeah so that is what I'm making for Thanksgiving so tomorrow I'll be making uh the stuffing and so how do I do that I just cut up white bread overnight I'll just let it sit out so it gets stale and then um just onions and celery and some chicken broth and mix that together and put cranberries on it mix it pretty it's delicious and then yeah I'll make gravy with the stuffed leftover from the turkeys and should be pretty good what else I oh and then I'll just make some corn and stuff tomorrow easy we are celebrating tomorrow so it's Thanksgiving in America today so as private we probably don't have a lot of Americans with us right which as they shouldn't be with their family so but I we're having it tomorrow because it's Saturday and so what we do is everybody comes we eat around two and then we go and play American football we have a real game of American football and then we always have like a a unique activity at everything's giving so this year let me show you what we're doing hold on I'm getting it it's okay I'm coming this is what we're making so we have our Christmas tree up with the lights and full confession it's been up all year uh yeah good morning to me okay so what we're going to do is yeah I don't want to get the food let me show you we did an example everybody's going to come and decorate a Christmas bulb and put it on our tree and they can draw on it they can cut up these things and put it inside it's like a lot of decorations that they can do and it's just like a fun activity so our whole tree will be decorated this year I told my husband that I like blue and silver and then oh maybe red and now it looks like I'm going to have a red, white, and blue tree and there's that um yeah so let me put that down so yeah so everybody comes and they'll make a bulb and it'll be great so that's the Thanksgiving that we're doing this year so you guys all cut the heads up on what's going on yeah so to make sure that you're stuffing I got a question about stuffing being crumbly um is you just have to have enough uh what did I what do I use use this you just need to have enough real chicken stock for it to be good and then it's fine it just has to have enough moisture on it uh and maybe she just used too many um pieces of bread so that happens to it's to happen to me too yeah I'm happy to send you the cranberry recipe that's no problem actually I will just post it how about I post it in the community board for anybody that wants that and it'll just be up there it's super easy this is my grandmother's recipe right here look at her cute little handwriting can you see that so sad anyway yep so maybe I'll even just take some screenshot well I'll write it out because she has funny words for things but maybe that's what makes it endearing right so um yeah add more butter to the stuffing thank you yes yeah no problem I'll put it up there so just let me know what you need okay so just a couple pop some questions in I have a few minutes I don't want to take up everybody's time and be like forever on a live so I thought I would just do 30 minutes plus I gotta get back to cooking but um yeah so put in some questions that you have I just want to highlight a couple things I have Black Friday sales going on right now if you want my American recipe book at 70% off so I think it comes to like $2.40 just on my a website kiwiamericans.com click shop it's right there I'm running that all week so go ahead and order that if you're interested in that it's so cheap cheaper than a coffee um and then if you are interested in getting on tiktok I am running my course for free it's a two-hour course normally $59 and it's free this week if you want to do that also on my website um under my consulting so and if you don't know if you are coming over now that borders are opening uh coming to New Zealand I've gotten lots of emails so yeah I do consulting I'm happy to chat with you you know I've thought about coming out with actual products to help you guys traveling around or moving here and some tips and that sort of thing but it really is it's kind of custom to each person's situation so it's kind of hard to put it all so contact me if you want to meet up and we can talk by zoom and I can help you with your specific questions otherwise yeah so the pumpkin pie recipes in my American recipe book and other recipes that are in there are going to be the Chicago style deep dish pizza ranch dressing biscuits and gravy so lots of fun things so check that out um if you're interested but yeah so yeah so make some delicious food or think about making it for Christmas probably uh for you guys it's so good it smells so good in this kitchen and I cannot wait to get the pumpkin pie in there because the smell with the pumpkin pie is so good so there'll be lots of people here I'll try to take some video next week and or tomorrow and maybe I'll put that in the video I don't know so yeah pop any questions that you have do we do sweet potato pie I personally have never made sweet potato pie so we make a sweet potato there's a sweet potato casserole that my friend from Canada makes she actually obviously uses kumara but it is literally my favorite dish it's so good I know I'm so hungry too bye have a great day thanks Bobby um so yeah anyway I don't want to keep talking forever I just wanted to show you a little bit of our Thanksgiving so thank you for joining and uh yep always reach out to me with any questions or anything that you need I'm here for you biscuits are like scones and there's the debate there's been lots of talk about this also just a highlight of my video coming out this week I'm talking about 20 things that surprised me about New Zealand that's totally normal here so some of the points I had talked about in previous videos but it's all in one video now and there's a couple new ones and a couple stories throughout and so it's good it's a little bit long but um oh thank you happy Thanksgiving to everybody and you guys have a great day