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Picadillo

Quick and easy to make, Jon's mom tells him how to make this slightly sweet and very savory Cuban dish for the 1,001 time.
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00:02
Hello.
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Hi, mom.
00:04
Hi, John.
00:04
Hi.
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So, uh, here's the thing.
00:06
I'm making a tonight.
00:08
You can.
00:09
Yes, because there's a get together at friend's house.
00:13
They want to do a potluck thing.
00:14
Yeah, I need your help.
00:18
You know, you've been like, on my side when I made it 1000 times
00:22
before I know, but I feel like I miss details every time you
00:30
need olive oil, a small onion about a half of a green pepper
00:34
not the whole thing.
00:35
About two cloves of fresh garlic ground beef, like a pound
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and a half salt pepper, cumin and oregano and then a small can
00:44
of tomato sauce and then a small can of tomato paste, two different
00:48
things and then about a quarter cup of fried white wine, four
00:53
tablespoons of the can stuffed green olives and then a small
00:59
box of, ok, so you're gonna take a little bit of olive oil with
01:05
a pan of meat and heat place on the pan and then you add, ok, and
01:13
hold on.
01:14
Am I like just chopping until I can't chop anymore or chopping
01:18
Like you get the sort of the same size as that, you know?
01:31
The, the, the mince maker uh where you put it in the thing and
01:35
it comes out as like a little baby spaghetti.
01:38
Yes.
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You're kind of cooking those until the onion is like translucent
01:45
OK?
01:46
So then you can add the ground beef and ground that also over
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medium heat.
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OK?
01:52
Got it.
01:53
OK.
01:53
Yes.
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Until it's not pink.
01:57
Yes, I know that.
02:02
Thank you.
02:03
And then you add the, which would be like the spice in it with
02:07
the salt pepper and the oregano che is the thing that gives
02:12
it the very feel made of sauce is made of paste, made of paste
02:17
the whole thing up and that explains why restaurants make
02:22
it weird.
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Uh white wine with the dry wine and the thing and yes.
02:27
Yes.
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Yes.
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The cheap, cheap dry wine.
02:30
Um then when you add the four tablespoons of and then to stuff
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green olives, they're gonna be sliced up.
02:40
You're gonna add a little miniature box of raisins.
02:43
Ok.
02:43
So do you really need raisins in it?
02:46
Oh John, we always have it.
02:50
I know.
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And again, the reason is to give it like a sweet you juxtapose
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with the olive.
02:57
You've got sort of quality to it.
03:01
All right.
03:01
So it it came out really good.
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Not as good as yours.
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Do you think I will ever be able to be a good cook?
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Like you?
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Of course you're going to be a good cook like me.
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Thank you.
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I can't help it.
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It's in your DNA.
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Ok.
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So I got a head on out and thank you so much for helping me next
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time.
03:25
Just bring your people over here.
03:27
I'll make it.
03:28
You got it.