 Channel people screaming outside. I live near a really rowdy bar and this happens, so Welcome back to my channel Not a lot of people know this about me, but I'm really passionate about cooking. I cook a lot. I love cooking Uh, I take it fairly seriously and I grew up Cooking for my family cooking for my friends I'm definitely the only person who can really cook in the family And why I even wanted to start this channel was so I could share my recipes with you guys I just cook and I literally haven't done that at all. Oh, also I have a hair mask in so I've not done many cooking videos I've incorporated my steak and my chicken. I think an aposta salad and My vlogs, but I haven't done any strictly cooking in the kitchen with Paige. So here we are So if you follow me on instagram, I have a few updates For you guys. So I have decided to go gluten-free. Also, if you watched my last vlog I talked about that I'm trying to lose weight. So I am Five pounds over what I like being which is totally fine. It happens especially when I'm drinking a lot which I have been doing so There's that but there's also the fact that completely unrelated to my weight. I have been so bloated I would show you guys a picture of my stomach when it's really bad, but it's honestly offensive My stomach's rock hard and it looks like I'm literally pregnant and it's not just like all bloated like no it's literally like absurd both my parents are doctors and I send it to them and they were like uh You need to get that check out so I've decided I think that it's from gluten A lot of gluten is a super process I don't think our body in general likes gluten and I think I think it's really hard for our body to digest Especially mine So I'm cutting out gluten and I'm also trying to be very low carb Uh, I really want to get super fit again. I want to be super lean I'm like starting to work out again. I'm doing a gluten-free diet But I but also by being gluten-free. I think by default you end up cutting out a lot of carbs So I'm doing that. I'm also not having very much sugar sugar Especially for women. It really messes with your metabolism. I think sugar Is the biggest thing that we gain weight from I mean, that's just what I think So I'm making changes in my diet and my lifestyle. So that is exciting for me It's exciting because I feel like I'm just ready to start taking better care of myself. I love to cook and Just being more aware. I really let go I have always looked at packaging labels I've always been very conscious and I just honestly haven't been for the past six months and I can tell I'm not super comfortable And just it's not a good feeling. So I'm getting back into things. So tonight for dinner I'm gonna make something that I make I So I've made this kale salad for a year So I'm gonna show you guys how I make my kale salad the only thing I'm missing is dried cranberries Which is fine. I'm going to use carrots in it I've kind of replaced the cranberries with carrots. Not that I can't have cranberries anymore I just really like the carrot and the salad adds the sweetness To it. So I'm going to show you guys the kale salad that I make and then I'm going to make a steak Um, I'm going to make a steak and I'm going to cook it a little bit differently than I normally would I put my steak kind of restaurant style on a skillet with clarified butter And I'm not going to use butter because it is Not as healthy But I'm going to cook it the same way and kind of just show you guys that yeah I haven't done a cooking video before so kind of bear with me, but kale salad Is easy to fuck up I want to people hate kale because they haven't had a good kale salad And in order to make a good kale salad there are definitely steps You can't skip so I'm excited to share this with you guys a lot of people like kale in restaurants But not at home. So I'm going to show you how to make kind of a restaurant kale salad At home. Oh also completely unrelated. I already opened these but these vegetable chips are really great Um, not much sugar not much carbs. It is vegetable chips. They're a really good snack Are they an important part? I'm trying to be healthy again Trying to lose weight or just trying to feel your body properly Is getting rid of temptation. I can't have anything in the apartment Like junk food or shit because I know I'll eat it keep healthy snacks. You actually like in your apartment Okay, so there are a few tricks to making a kale salad Good So this is the difference. I think the mistake that people make with kale salad is the preparation of the kale I think that people buy chopped kale in that bag. That's already pre-made the thing that that's going to be Okay, it's not I don't think you need to get ahead of kale like this And you literally have to single-handedly pick the kale and the issue that I have with chopped kale That's pre-chopped already from Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or wherever you shop. They have them Is they leave in these stems the stems are disgusting. So if you have something like this You need to literally Take a big bowl and really finely Rip this apart off the stem in little pieces So you're gonna already have chopped kale because you've literally picked this off just like this So it takes a second Not gonna lie So I will pick all this kale off Or as much as I want and put it in this and then after all this I will go on again and just pull it apart I like my kale pretty finely chopped So that is the first step This is all I'm gonna do because it's just for me tonight After I did that again, I'm just gonna go in And kind of just pull all of this apart even more So I'll tell you guys about the next step, which I think is equally as important I am really into salad dressings. I make all my own salad dressings And I think with a kale salad it's super important your dressing So What I do is is before I even do the dressing I will Put olive oil on the kale and I will massage it So I don't know how much time I have but I really like doing that It's a very important part of this And when I make my salad dressing I actually don't put olive oil because it's already all over the kale. So I'll show you guys That too I'm just gonna take olive oil and I don't go crazy kind of like that I don't have exact measurements for any of this Which might be unfortunate for some people But so then I just take my hand And I Massage it I guess So I will just take a handful and just squeeze it if I didn't do this step the salad will be shit So don't forget this part after this. I'm just gonna let it sit. I'm gonna start the steak and right before I have dinner Or if I'm serving I do the dressing last But this salad that I make I mean obviously I throw in different things depending on what I have But it's really a dressing kale focused salad. I don't Love adding too much I really think that when you have a really good dressing And you have well chopped soft kale You don't need a ton of stuff in the salad carrots are really nice in it, but I don't add too much to this salad. You guys watch my favorites video for last month. I mentioned this pan This is what I cooked meat on And this is what I'm going to cook the steak on tonight The most important part of cooking meat in general across the board Whether I'm making steak chicken anything it is so important to cook at a very high temperature The goal with steak especially made on a stove at home Is to get your pan really hot Because you want it to be more rare on the inside and kind of crispy Nicely done on the outside and I think that a lot of people don't know how to cook a steak at home So I hope this is helpful So my best steak I make is a bone-in ribeye With ghee and it's just covered in this clarified butter and it's so crispy and so good. It's like this rosemary garlic thing Uh, I'm not doing that today I will still have that just I mean, I'm on a kind of diet now And it's it's not that I would still have that on my low carb diet Um, and I will still be eating that. I just am not going to tonight during the week I'm really trying to keep it super clean and healthy Uh, not too much fat. So I got a really lean cut steak. It's a strip steak. I'll show you guys. It's an organic grass-fed beef And so what I'll do is I'll put all the oil in and I'll just take a paper towel and kind of spread it over everything It's not just like too much excess oil And then I'm going to turn this on high get this Hot and I'm going to season my steak. So here we have it I will probably not finish this whole steak tonight, but this is a grass-fed beef Um steak no antibiotics no growth hormones All good stuff So I love this company. I'll bring you guys over here to season the steak I'm going to get salt pepper and then I'm going to get garlic powder and that is all I use on my steaks Uh, sometimes obviously I said I'll use fresh garlic and rosemary But that's not what I'm doing today a good amount of salt pepper on both sides Then a lot of garlic powder kind of like a nice coating over everything a lot of it burns off Um, so you can kind of go Crazy with it. I also just love the flavor of all this stuff. So another note is that Steak cooks best at room temperature. I didn't have the opportunity to do that today Uh, but that's just something that I will do sometimes. So this is getting hot. I'm going to turn it down To medium heat. I'm going to wash my hands Turned on my fan So I'm just going to put the steak right on here And don't touch the steak a lot of people make that mistake Do not touch the steak. You want meat to be crispy. You want it to get nicely cooked Put it down and don't touch it It will really be able to cook better that way. I don't really know why that is Uh, but don't touch it. I'm going to leave this for probably Seven minutes and then I'm going to flip it Okay, so we're gonna flip this. I like using tongs, but I still don't have any in my new apartment So that looks great I like the way that looks I'm happy with that. I'm gonna leave it again for seven minutes Okay, so before I do the dressing I'm going to do the carrots So how I've been normally doing it recently is I as I take a peeler and I'll just peel a bunch of Shreds into it, but I'm actually going to do it different tonight Uh, I because I'm more in the mood for bigger pieces of carrot So I'm just going to cut it like this I think I'm going to get one more carrot. I think that how a vegetable is cut Actually, I'm going to do both because I feel like eating carrots like this shape But I'm going to do also the shredded So I'm just gonna It's really a carrot kale salad and some parm too I'm honestly not even going to do that tonight. I'm gonna add some cashews. I think that's all I have And then the parm and then the dressing Just gonna peel this So just fill up the first layer that's kind of they just take this Like this mean it's kind of tedious, but let's make the dressing. Okay first take a lemon Full just fishing out the seeds. So I have the lemon juice. I'm just gonna add some pepper Salt a little bit of garlic powder And then I'm going to add a little bit of Dijon mustard Maybe less sugar so the smallest amount and then just gonna mix it with a fork I really like to toss my salads with tongs But apparently I don't have any which is very weird. I might have left them at someone's house But I really like tossing it with tongs But you don't have that right now, so I'm just gonna use I think your salad is so important like really thoroughly tossing it There's nothing worse to me than salad that comes untossed It's literally the worst So I really like to add hemp seeds to this salad, hemp hearts But we don't have any I don't know what happened to them I think I might have thrown them out because I was worried the mouse I have a mouse problem We're getting into if I do chia seeds, so I'm gonna sprinkle chia seeds on top Then I'm gonna add some honestly usually do add nuts so I don't think I want any I like fresh parm better usually. I usually have a grater and I I grade it But I already had this parm and I'm leaving soon. So I thought I'd just use this So I'll just kind of sprinkle this and hemp hearts are so good in salad Peas will do too. I just like the texture honestly Okay, guys, this is the finished product I'm happy with it and I always put a one sauce on my steak This is probably the most ratchet thing out of everything that I've mentioned. I just love a one sauce and It is what it is. Okay, that's all I'm leaving on the 24th My trip with RuPaul I'm really excited about that. I have so much to do before I leave But that's okay. I'm just busy right now in my life in general And it's good I just might need help soon. It's getting to a point where I'm overwhelmed. I love you guys. Thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed this little cooking video