 Start the video today. I just want to send a special shout out to Dominique a.k.a. Ms. Toot 7. She's a fellow youtuber and I just want to say thank you to her because she gifted me a ring light a DIY ring light which I absolutely love I'm actually using it right now for this part of the video so I just want to say Dominique I don't know if you want me to say your name or not but Ms. Toot 7 thank you so much for the ring light y'all she did not have to do it but she is just a sweetheart that she gifted me this ring light and it is definitely a blessing and it's definitely going to help with my channel she saw a need and she wanted to support and just show love and for that I'm really grateful and very thankful to her for that just a very sweet lady she is a fellow youtuber and I will put her information below and I'll turn it on but she also gifted me the tripod as well and this is the ring light this is again a DIY ring light and the great thing about it is just as good as a regular ring light and I'm gonna turn it on so this is what it looks like turned on and I'm gonna kind of put the camera behind it so you can kind of see but never mind the face because like I said I'm working on my skin so never mind all of that you know focus on the light so we focus it on but I want to show y'all and I got it kind of prop I do have something to put the camera on to put behind the ring light but I'm just holding it for now but I want to show y'all just kind of you know what it looks like please go check out her channel she's all about natural hair which she has the most beautiful natural hair she's all about vlog she's all about nail art and she's all about crochet so if you interested in any of those things please check it out she has a really she has a lot of really great content so please check out her channel so once again Ms. Toot 7 Dominique if you're watching from just Janine thank you so much for the DIY ring light yes I'm using it yes I love it and again thank you so much alright guys let's get this video started back to my channel it's just Janine and in today's video I will be doing something a little different that I haven't done in a while which is a recipe very quick and easy recipe which is the Texas caviar and for those that don't know what Texas caviar is it is basically a chunky and crunchy salsa and it's good for any side dish it's good for just snacking it's very healthy it's very delicious you know get-togethers barbecues picnics what have you it's just a very nice easy recipe that you can just easily make it goes a long way it makes a lot and everybody will sure to enjoy it so I want to show that to you and how I make it and the ingredients and everything right now so follow along with me alright so what we have here I'm just gonna show you the ingredients of what we have so the first thing we have are the chives for the recipe and you chop these up you also have your black eyed peas which you will drain these and rinse these off because you'll only use the peas not the juice then you've got your diced chilies these are mild I think yeah these are mild right there and then you've got your shu peh corn and we've got our tomatoes and onion and we have our green onions we have our zesty or our Italian dressing you can actually use any Italian dressing this is the one I happen to pick up which is the Tuscan house Italian but you can also use zesty Italian as well and then of course we have our tortilla chips which you can get any tortilla chip that you want or choose what you say all right so my mom is waiting for the food to be done and yes she's starving too so we're gonna get right to us I'm gonna show you the recipe and how I make it right now just finished making the Texas caviar so as you can see here we've got the finished product so basically all you're just gonna do is just mix it up after pouring everything in the bowl you're just gonna mix everything make sure that the dressing is fully covering all of the ingredients you're just gonna put this in a refrigerator for two hours to marinate that's it make sure it's nice and chill and then you just serve it with the um you have a nice little snack so it's healthy it's delicious it serves a lot as a matter of fact my sister just took some on her way out so it's actually a little low because I gave her some on the way out but yeah that is the Texas caviar and it's really really good y'all I'm telling y'all it's great for the summertime just hot summer days when you want something just cool and crunchy nutritious and that's a good snack to go to Texas caviar very good so thank you guys so much for stopping in and just watching my video today on the Texas caviar and I hope you guys try it out tell me the comments below how it turns out how you like it so if you like this video please give a thumbs up please comment and click that subscribe button it's just Janine bye