Leah’s Cucina talks Growing Up Italian in Howard Beach, Cooking and Lifestyle

EPISODE 304. Sabino and Rocco sit down with Leah Victoria to talk about growing up in How You Doin Beach, her passion for cooking and her rise to social media fame.

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W we’re rolling by the way right we are rolling all right cool Leah last name oh you don’t want it’s a secret Le her name is Le cuch Victoria cucha is close to my last name CU my last name is k oh it’s beautiful it looks kind of

Similar Victoria Leah’s cucha wait so what does cuchina mean kitchen K cucha means kitchen or cooking no no no no cooking it’s cuchina yino listen I’m sure somebody will call us out so someone will correct us you speak Italian no I do not speak Italian so I

Heard you’re from how you doing Beach I am that’s why you got invited here today for sure I’m sure I forgot I forgot how I heard that you you’re from how beach too see he’s an original Howard Beach guy me too it’s just people from Howard Beach are just different breed yeah

Especially when you’re raised dad you’re just you live in Jersey now I live in Jersey now yes so what’s the biggest difference between living in Jersey and then how you doing Beach do you like how you do on beach so what what do you I don’t think we’ve ever had

Any I’m trying make it a thing from Howard Beach what do you think about the name how you doing Beach I mean that’s been around how you do really yeah you wait wait so you’ve heard how you do in Beach yeah it’s been No Maybe not maybe

Not how you doing Beach you heard how you doing yes how you doing all right I mean it flows cuz like you know like we always say cuz I live there now I’ve been there for a couple years but you’re on the old side that don’t count no I’m

On the new side I mean you’re on the new side that’s all C what are you you mean what are you talking about well the old side listen the old side the for those of you that are listening if because you know in Howard Beach now when I go to

Deinos all these pizza spots they go crazy for me they how you doing Beach how you doing like they call me from the rafters I love that I got to at least say this for people that been there ate there whatever whatever your situations with Howard Beach you got to realize the

Old side and the new side they’re two different kind of creatures two different so I would say we’re like the Sicilians and you guys are The Classy ones which one we’re the Sicilians you guys are The Classy one yeah I was going to say like I feel like the people in

Old Howard are just like built different we are that’s cuz we also have Hamilton next door yeah and also cuz you guys get flooded all the time you you know how to deal with when you know it’s raining your car better go in the driveway all

The way in the back or you beat yeah you would gone the morning with old Howard is one way in one way out too so people some people I like it you see who comes in like what you stand you stand on 159th looking or back in the day people

Used to back in the day not anymore you know what do you mean back in the day years years ago you know well there was stand who’s coming in my neighborhood you never know you never know over there there’s a lot of shady [ __ ] that went on

In that neighborhood no I’m not GNA Li I mean I’m not going to touch it you I’m not going to argue that one you’re right you could just go to Google so explain a little bit like how you made the decision to move to Jersey

Well I was living in how Beach and then Hurricane Sandy happened so my home got destroyed and we I ended up moving into Sten Island which my um boyfriend at the time husband now was living we lived there for like five years and it just hard to buy a house over there like

There’s no property the cost of living yeah cost of living is insane for no property like I wanted a yard you know I wanted some space I didn’t want to be on top of my neighbor which is why I moved to Jersey because I also couldn’t afford

Howard Beach I mean what part of Jersey are you East Brunswick right over the bridge I could confidently say like I don’t know much about Jersey so right right over the give me give me a okay over to hour you know where you know where cousins is in New Brunswick no

Really do you know where cousins is do you know where cousins is we’re real queens Brooklyn guys yeah you are you are oh my God I’m turning into a Jersey girl yeah pretty much but how was like dating a guy from sanan like that Bell Parkway how was that oh that was trash

We actually it was trash in the beginning we actually stopped stopped talking for like a little bit that’s a nightmare because it was a nightmare plus he was working night so it was like our schedules just were not meeting up and then you realize you’re never going to find another how beach girl

Obviously you never found another how you’re doing exactly once you go how you’re doing you going go it’s true it’s true cuz we’re a different bre we’re a different breed but so yeah so my my big thing I’m on the Bel Parkway all the time too it’s terrible yeah but Howard

Beach or san Island which is better Howard Beach of course so why didn’t you like I’m sorry Sky Island you should have convinced him to come there yeah no we couldn’t it just wasn’t working out after the hurricane that that that that neighborhood needed like a few years to

Recoup you know like my mother just moved back like six six years later yeah well old Howard got destroyed how it was destroyed like my whole garage was covered with water M it was not good over there that was a bad time remember it was bad it was real bad what what

Year was that 2014 before that I believe 13 we had to get literally sco team came to my house they get us out of the house wild times it was the craziest thing they took us to like the neighborhood school and that was like The Little

Shelter that they had in place at the time but going back there the next day going back to your house destroyed like that was crazy his stories too I mean I’m not going to I’m not going to say names or anything but when I first moved

Into hauan Beach I would order from this place yeah this has been months now years years years years so someone told me because I was ordering from this place every day someone told me oh no you can’t order from them and I’m like why like because during Sandy he charged

Double you got to call new Pac yeah that’s that’s that’s real how Howard Beach [ __ ] right there cuz you know what Howard Beach we always stuck together yeah and that was not that [ __ ] was not nice with they they did over there you don’t forget that [ __ ] that’s not I’ll

Ask you guys off camera which one that is yeah we’ll tell you um by the way when I was getting ready for this interview say all like what could I ask her getting ready you Michael Jordan in theck yeah I was like I was getting

Ready for this one cuz I’m a fan so the accent is it played up oh my are you kidding me you live in how you do it Beach I think people assume that I’m from New Jersey and maybe New Jersey people do you know sound a little

Different when you grow up in Queens everybody over there sounds like this yeah but in the beginning I got that a lot it’s made up you know you you’re it on your comments on social media don’t isn’t that the number one comment so bad social media and honestly Instagram is

So much worse Tik Tok is a little nicer to me really oh really is opposite no Tik Tok is like chill and I have a way bigger following on on um Tik Tok and Instagram is ruthless they’re freaking ruthless over there now with now with Instagram reals I guess it gets out some

More people maybe yeah I mean it works in your favor yeah I don’t care either way you can talk [ __ ] all day because it still help W what do they say just mean [ __ ] exaggerated accent you know um 97th generation Italian oh I am born in

America I never you know I get that one all the time see I get made fun of the roll in the back of my head a lot oh we actually switched camera angles to help me out a little bit but like it’s sometime like the other day it was like

A little heartbreaking for me he was crying he I wasn’t crying but I was like damn because someone made a comment on my this thing right here and they were like and they got like a thousand likes I was like you know you could probably get

That sucked off though you think so yeah for because I was honestly going to Google it you could definitely get that or they cut it no or you do like a face lift but to that but then have this but then it’ll just be [ __ ] bring they

Cut some skin and then they pull it down it’ll be like a helmet if I get it blown up I don’t think so cuz I wear honestly I didn’t notice it until you pointed it out I mean did you ever see any of our Clips no because when I people that’s

Not what I like I don’t automatically go wow this guy got a a roll on the back of his NE that’s the problem be fair though that is the first thing you notic though you she’s like a classy nice person because she’s saying that for the camera

Like you’re such a liar no I don’t believe that I don’t believe that listen there’s obviously first things I’ll noticed teeth is number one and eyebrows those are my two things those are the first things I’m looking at yeah what about schnaz like big schnaz so I I can’t you know

I’m used to it I feel like I got a big schn stillo so what what got you into cooking like what made you want to start start making these videos and when did you start well I grew up in an Italian household so you kind of just like

Cooking straight out the womb you know and then it like became a hobby of mine so I just started to teach myself more of the trade and then I started to make like gu rice balls I would do Savory and sweet and I started a catering company and I just

Focused on rice balls at the time this was way before Co okay I feel like I’ve seen it you remember that LE is Italian apples I used to call them Italian apples so what we did was when we started the business we went dor the Sanara we bought like a 100 business

Cards I made mad rice balls I wrapped them in plastic and I stapled my business cards to the to to the rice balls and we handed them out during during the feast like I literally was just hand them to random people and I’m like all you got to do is post me on

Instagram and that’s how I started to build my following there for like the catering page and then it kind of transformed into like then I started having kids I got married you know and the did anyone ever tell you that you weren’t allowed to sell rice bowls like that’s big Howard Beach Vibes

Like you’re not allow to sell rice bowls in his neighborhood I never had an interaction like that and I was selling in how Beach for years right when I moved to Staten Island I was still I started doing holiday markets I was doing them in Queens and then I also

Started doing them in in um you know Staten Island and there was this other company that I’m not going to mention any names but they were like stealing my [ __ ] they had a huge following so I was like a nobody they were just doing regular Sicilian rice balls for man long

I came by with the dessert I was doing like bacon cheeseburger I had like crazy ass rice balls right and they had this whole AR array of [ __ ] things and it was all the ones that I was making now right now you see Leck smiling right I’m

Not going to say Le’s idea but I’ll tell you the I’ll tell you L Le has a retirement plan with right you’re Sicilian I’m assuming yeah the Sicilians something with rice balls they think like they created like they cured cancer or something can I ask you something

Yeah the one that’s like a comb that’s a sicilian arini I think it just depends on where you’re from where they where they shape it because it’s you know what I’m talking about right yeah they’re like roll they’re like you know rounded at the bot they got a little tip yeah I

Think it just depends where you come from but I could be wrong how do you how do you make yours I do mind in a bow well simpler nice bow it’s just easy they got nice and crispy you could fit more in the fryer at at one time so what

Makes a good rice bowl a lot of fresh parsley black Peppa are we talking about like a sicilian one like a reg Sicilian if it’s a classic one you got to have a lot of black pepper fresh parsley pecarina romano and it just has to be

Super cheesy you got to have a good meat filling with peas some people tell you that peas aren’t supposed to be there but peas is supposed to be there what about what about saffron you you ever throw saffron in there you know some people use the aboro too I don’t use the

Aboro I just use like honestly I use sushi rice oh cuz it sticks a little better Works love me too so good works perfectly and that’ll give me the 97 generation combat so before before I knew you and I think it’s one of your bios you have S A

Hm you know I literally had to Google what that was did you yeah what is s ahm stand for so I taught you something what’s the all right watch watch what’s is there context after that or it’s her bio so St St American Island I got it I got it I got

It I just figured it out though right now see stay atome mom yeah okay okay so why people always question like oh you do nothing for a living well because I I think people think that social media is not a real job yeah and there is so much money to

Make on social media there’s so much room to make money and people just don’t take it serious they really don’t I think it’s because they Envy what you’re doing so that I can sit home and do my job but they also think you’re doing nothing you know well let them think

That you know what you’re doing so I started on Instagram and then once I became came is ha home parent with my second daughter I had more time to be consistent and consistency is a big thing on social media so I dedicated all my extra time to building my platform

Can you give us like a day in a life like timetable like on a school day yeah on a school day wake up usually around 5 I usually get around 5 you maybe like 4:45 depending it’s my internal alarm clock I just didn’t you don’t set an

Alarm no it’s just my internal alarm coock okay not setting an alarm is like my worst night yeah it’s terrifying oh you think you’ll sleep through no no instant instant wake up I don’t I don’t understand I think it’s just routine that I got you know I get my little

Workout in do my you know edits answer my emails and then by at 5 in the morning you’re doing that yes usually answer my emails on the treadmill editing at 5 in the morning yeah I have no choice when else am I doing I have two [ __ ] kids yeah I mean you’re not

Wrong I have a six-year-old and a one-year-old God bless godess God bless so when my six-year-old is in school I still got my baby home oh I’m not staying home with no kids I still have a kid there um 6 o’ I get saraphina up I

Do my lunch thing usually I share my lunch videos love that name saraphina my other one’s Mariella I get a lot of compliments on their names saraphina and Mariela they’re not super common they’re not super common names they’re not and that was I did not want common for my

Kids I didn’t want Samantha I’m sorry to all the Samanthas but I wanted something a little original Gana you don’t like Giana it’s just growing up with how Beach everybody was a Giana Gana gi gi Bella EXO EXO what was your screen name oh God

Do you really want to know Lee Le babes with three Z’s uppercase lowercase uppercase lower case were your EAS threes or no oh I also had piff head princess that was another one piff head piff head princess piff head princess yeah that was what does that mean like

Puff no he doesn’t smoke so oh okay okay that’s pretty gangster that was you just earned like H cred with me a good name it’s a good name that was back of his when screaming were like a thing you know so you wake up 5:00 a.m. get my kid ready for school

She’s in school early like before 7:30 she got to be in school drop her off come home and then I got to feed my other baby breakfast feed her breakfast play we usually some reading mommy and me always got her in something and then I come home and usually her her nap is

When I do the most of my editing like I’ll record a ton of [ __ ] in one day just so I have content for like the week you know you have like one day you film every day fil every day PR what do you mean like I just record like little

Dishes of stuff I record recipes all day I just like the night before I’m like what am I making tomorrow I stay Super Creative yeah and I do a lot of recipe videos like I am like a mom page I do share a lot of mom life but my kids are

Not the focus on my content like I you know I have my kids on the internet because they’re part of my life but it’s not just for my kids you know like I see these kids blasted all over that’s not going to be my kid yeah but a lot of

Cooking what what’s your favorite style of video to make because I noticed you post some ASMR in there too so I love to do asmrs I love to do the mukbangs because those are like easy to film but I do love to do the recipe tutorials because it gets

Like a lot of people interacting with me too like maybe my mom didn’t use this but oh I get that all the time you know you got to put a disclaimer in the beginning like this is how I make it your brother your sister your cousin may

Make it different you know but um I love doing the recipe tutorials the most honestly because I love to teach cooking like I love to teach what I know where’s your on noisy eaters there’s a there’s a term for that like ASMR cuz I think I think we said

That on opposite OPP people don’t like it yeah yeah there is something like sometimes when I eat like with my mom and dad and my sister I’m just like to close your mouth why the H you guys so loud but then I know I eat loud you know

What I mean of course yeah like let’s say if I’m just sitting and like we’re sitting in a room and I’m not eating misophonia misophonia that’s the people that cannot stand so I will say to sabino’s point I don’t mind it like ASMR Style mukbang but if I’m eating at a table

With you and I hear it’s like bro this is that’s a little exaggerated though I mean come on who really eats like that or or people or people that like when they do one of these like and and then right after well there’s people that go to YouTube straightly for that like that’s

All they want to do was watch people eat sounds drinking sounds they tap the microphone tapping got to stop like those are the people where like I think the people that hate content creators are looking at those people like this girl’s rubbing peanut butter on her microphone and she’s

Making millions of dollars I would say the one I like though was the soap You It’s So Satisfied that when you cut they like a soap bar and they’ll just cut it it’s like a or when they’re throwing bottles down the stairs and like you’re wondering when when it’s going to break

Oh yeah those are good too those are good as aali Americans though there’s like a certain joy that I get when I see someone eat no I love I think sometimes why isali Americans like let’s say cuz everything is surrounded with food like me like okay she’s going to understand

Like on this level because when my kids eat like eat all their food I get so happy like they eat everything cuz sometimes my kids are like I don’t want this I want your kids I have twins they’re eight wow but like now they’re starting to like eat more yes but I feel

When I see them eat everything and they’re just like you feel like you’re accomplished I’m like yeah yeah yeah I think it’s why I love cooking too because I love to cook and then I love to like watch the person enjoy my food like maybe it sounds creepy but like I

Just like like wow that’s good you know like what I made was actually delicious I love asking Cooks this question are do you take criticism well meaning example when my wife at home she’ll make a meal she’s like oh what you don’t like it you say it’s delicious and you walk the [ __ ]

Out the room yes no I’ll be like oh it was really good but I think you could have done this not every time most I think it depends who it’s coming from okay this this is where this is where my husband knows he will not say that [ __ ]

To me this is where the Dilemma comes in all right perfect example literally you just hit it on the head stayathome Mom right your your husband he’s working but you’re making content that you want to make viral for inst because that’s your job now when you’re making dinner do you

Say to him are you in the mood for this or you just like this is what I’m cooking because this is what I need to make he doesn’t he knows he’s going to come on something good I never ask him because he’s like I don’t know what are

You in the mood for obviously if I was in the mov I wouldn’t have exed you what you wanted you know it’s easier to just wing it every you have a schedule or you no I just W Monday fry gam this what do

I got in the house what do I got in the what’s your favorite food to order out sushi dumpling soup like soup soup dumplings what’s your sushi Ora look like I like like the Sashimi ple the salmon Naruto rolls it’s like just salmon over a b sushi rice oh Sashimi it’s like sashimi

Um just all like the raw fish I love all the raw fish how many rolls can you guys house in one cting you think I this is the issue I could definitely this is the issue for me with sushi and I want to hear what you guys think but I actually

Think if I’m eating rolls like I never really get full cu no you have to eat the just the fesh yeah cuz it’s just it’s the rice it’s all empty empty cobs yeah yeah exactly you get like a roll and then like a Sashimi plate you know

Also because I’m not the biggest fish guy oh well then why we you don’t even I do eat sushi though shrimp churo thinks I sushi I’m the guy like when we get sushi I get chicken teriyaki nice but then I’ll get a couple R but I’m saying

What wait wait I need to know your roll order California roll wow don’t tell me a street potato roll no no no and then the Philadelphia roll okay which is usually lck chees spicy spicy that’s cook spicy spicy tuna yeah okay that’s like the most R that’s the

Most from from Kawai and uh Lindenwood we The Lion King roll Kawai is still there yeah wow she misses it now they make good sushi listen lyonwood was a cool neighborhood to hang out in it still is was a cool neighbor it’s F full over there yeah you’re right and by the

Pink Houses is where you got the best yeah she knows that’s real how you doing Beach right there yeah spicy mayo mandatory no just a little soy with a little Wasabi mandatory I don’t need the spicy mayo M The Taste don’t that thing like Shack in

The so I don’t know if this is like a thing in every sushi spot but they also make the Dragon Ball not the Dragon Roll crab salad or something in it’s like crab salad andoc avocado yeah yeah yeah it’s just like a nice uh Apple they have all those things

They usually covered in avocado right yeah do you like Chinese food yeah of course but Jersey they have chines like Chinese food in New Jersey so where I live there’s a huge like Korean area they have really good like soup dumplings and like traditional Korean foods but not Americanized Chinese like

It’s not the same you know like sweet and sour chicken or like the real Chinese [ __ ] like non-existent it’s just it’s not the same and when you grow up in like an area where there’s really good Americanized Chinese food you just can’t comp was Danny’s there when she was there of

Course Danny we used to go to we didn’t go to Danny’s we went to hoan I don’t know how H is that was on Li Avenue lien now it’s on Cross right’s still there is it the I think it’s different owners though I you know what else I love how

Italian Americans talk about this stuff eat me West used to be really good too I don’t know if they’re still there but there East Meets West in every neighborhood though oh really yeah there’s one here is thereo is that what I was thinking about yeah cuz that’s why

He’s thinking oh it’s so good yeah cuz it was on [ __ ] Metro right here there is one down there though I don’t know if it’s still there was that one called hole in one [Laughter] whole out of your [ __ ] mind no but they say like uh no that place was dope

Though like when we were younger we would go there and like he we used to order coffee at the end he just put the whole sambuk on the table like Italians love Chinese food and they know that they know that so they take care Satur Chinese food day yeah they take care of

You no rainy days calls for Chinese food yeah like right now there’s nothing more I want BR they’re always open too I feel so bed it’s like no matter what they love that they live to work they love that cash cash too they’re big cash

People no but we uh when we when we ordered Dan’s they literally show up in 8 minutes I’m like what are they cooking in the weeds I’m like timing them out like this is crazy now but Danny’s is yeah Danny’s is good Danny’s was like the expensive

Place like if you wanted to get Habachi that’s when you went to Danny if you wanted just good like regular Chinese food to your door you got hoan so if you want to put the scar padels on you go to Danny exactly that’s kind of you want be

Your F you go to Danny yeah yeah and you know talking about like owners and stuff that’s the always thing with Dan’s people always saying like oh yeah yeah he’s going to sell it or he did sell it he didn’t sell it did he sell it that’s

What they’re saying I know he used to live in the neighborhood I don’t know if he still lives there I mean he looks like he’s from the neighborhood yeah yeah yeah he’s he’s a guy you know it’s amazing seeing Howard Beach come together I’m like outnumbered Cil right

Now and you how long you lived there you like you 29 years you still there yeah he’s still there where where in Old I’m in New Howard new he in New all one and rais all right eater for Life wow that’s literally I didn’t know you guys were

Affiliated with how Beach I feel like I’m home we’re very excited to announce a long-term partnership with the S gromia out from Australia these guys got a really really interesting restaurant theodo has a very interesting story so their first generation Italian Australians they’re basically Us in Australia the zodo was created in their

Parents and grandparents honor so that they can pay their legacy forward 100% of their proceeds goes to people in need Charities and the Arts do SoDo will be supporting us this year so you know the content is going to be even better bro and who knows maybe at some point we’re

Going to have to take a trip down under H I was always curious how the Italian Australians made food it’s time we find out out Crispy Crunchy Savory and sweet order what you want on Uber Eats listen guys from now to the end of the year

December 31st on the Uber Eats app you go to Anthony sanini shop and you get a nice $25 off when you use the copini got to use the copini terms apply C app for details I heard you had some secrets to go viral and you know we’re in content

Game so I was hoping oh no we’re not talking about none yet what do you mean What secrets you said like you said uh I think when I was like messaging you I was like yo you’re going viral I forgot how it came about you like I have

Secrets to going viral oh like to making your video I thought you said something that I was working on that I wanted no no no we could get to that later I no no we’re not talking about that yet but um consistency consistency is the number

One thing you need to post like three four videos a day three four videos a day we just spoke about to be on the FP if you want to stay on the fyp and have your videos go viral you need to be posting do you have like a #you want to

Give us a I just do like the trending ones fyp for you Vlog is is Italian Italian how you doing Beach hash Italian then we get roasted for being 47th generation no you can’t you can’t you have to you have to hashtag Italian American because they will correct you

It’s big no they’re going they’re going to come for you now a podcast before this one I said people that post that many times a day you’re going to hate me now I said they definitely have a little narcissistic quality in them why is that I just feel like

I gota I gota just own up to it I gotta own up you think it depends on what they’re posting yeah like person’s posting videos of of them [ __ ] hooking up with the camera and singing the songs and doing these Tik Tock viral dances girls like spinning on Fifth

Avenue completely agree so the context was people who like do selfie mode videos four times a day I’m like yo that’s a little excessive but like what’s the video about is a quality content we were talking about content creation and I assumed my thought was somebody who just likes recording

Themselves yeah yeah like just [ __ ] no one car you’re a little different because you’re recording your food like I’m not paying attention to every single one of your posts of course of course I don’t mean that disrespect no I understand I understand I don’t know exactly what you’re posting every single

Time but most of the time what I see is a food a recipe or a little ASMR concept yeah yeah yeah right I don’t know what’s in between but if you see valian three or four times then keep doing it’sing I feel like it’s working all right I have

A fun question what’s the correct order of Sunday dinner like the food anti past okay pasta mhm your Meats whatever you have in your meat your potato your vegetable and then a salad see this is that was my what I want to know because I want to know if the salad comes before

The pasta or after the pasta who the hell has it before you have it at the end then why in restaurants do we always do salad before the me yes always catering hall restaurants though just get and get you I mean even even in like let’s say we go to eat somewhere the

Salad is before everything else always so it is like that’s their structure I think it just depends on what you grew up with we could be doing it wrong no well sometimes they would just give you the pheno at the end and not even the salad just to clean your palet for the

To eat the dessert did you say that what it’s for the pho the fenel oh yeah yeah yeah that’s uh the green yeah with a little olive oil very very tasty little olive oil and oranges that’s like a cleans you or makes I mean maybe it does for me it just is

For feed vegetables snack why you trying to get cleaned out no no no I you said the way you said it was like yeah you know little fanel to end the meal it like cleans your palet you need a little XX yeah for real no but so okay so then

Like after that what’s the rest of the order coffee coffee fruit and dessert usually the same fruit and dessert same time yeah and coffee Italian space it out though wait hold on I mean all that spaced out you have an anti past then you have a pasta then you have give give

Me that the last three again give us the whole order the whole all in one okay go go like this with it anti past pasta and like your meatballs whatever then you usually have a meat dish some sort of roast maybe a roasted chicken a roasted pork chicken CET

Chicken CET uh vegetable and potato I don’t know why we always do potato and we also have pasta but it’s a thing and then we do salad at the end then you have you know your coffee your little zambuka and your desserts and a little fruit if you’re feeling happy nuts

Nuts is like the holiday we didn’t do the nuts all the time you’re thinking of Carbone right now they come out with the oranges and walnuts yeah we didn’t do that on you know Thanksgiving Christmas you always had the nuts around but we didn’t have that all time speaking of

Salads this was a question I felt inclin I have to ask you because for me right I have this shop downstairs when is the right time to eat Iceberg vers mesculin vers arugula versus mixed greens like what’s the vibe for each of those is strictly for wedge

Salads and like only wedge Sal and maybe sandwiches MH like the shredded lettuce sandwiches cuz shredded it has to be shredded for a sandwich yeah like like like this you’re talking about right stringy yes yes for sandwiches Iceberg um mesculin I see with probably like a little octopus salad can of like a

Little bean salad underneath the bean and like red red onion salad arugula usually a nice like chicken cutlet on to that arugula like on a bed of like a Melise you know yeah like a Melise well arugula is also good on like a nice fried eggplant sandwich yeah aruga is very peppery very

Underrated I’m really into micro greens lately so you get into that it’s like auga on crack no it’s like it looks like it’s in the ocean it belongs in the ocean okay but let me tell you something it’s 10 times it does nothing 10 times the amount of nutrition than in regular

Arug but it’s like Airy there’s like not much green to it so good and it’s beautiful it looks beautiful it looks I think it’s more like a Decor did you taste have you ever taste it yeah yeah yeah is there certain dressings you think should never mix with those greens

Like if you’re making a sour I mean you can’t put Caesar on rugala yeah or Ranch be like fresh lemon Ranch I mean and I like Ranch but there’s a time in a place a time in a place so you’ll never eat ranch with arugula that sounds terrible

But why is that now that I think of it but that’s why I was like thinking about this why does why is that not a good combo though got balic lemon Olive fresh lemon juice yeah yeah simple salt and pepp olive oil good olive oil go get her

Olive oil yeah yeah the Greek olive oil those Greeks I mean I was surprised with that that olive oil is the best it’s pretty impressive what um for stuffed mushrooms right what’s got to really go in there stuffed mushrooms yeah breadcrumb fresh parsley garlic grated

Cheese um olive oil is the base of it really I also put some red pepper in mine I fry up a pepper onion and garlic and like a stick of butter and I put that in my my sentence was just incredible by the way the way you said

The way you said it a stick of butter that was amazing so you fry that all up and then got it nice and sauteed like nice and caramelized and then you put that in your stuff thing it’s really good instead of stuffed mushroom though for me not even CL you want choke baked

Clams why not get rid of the mushroom I’m tired of mushrooms stuffed mushrooms are fire disgusting I I think you just oh well you don’t like mushrooms yeah I’m not a fan of at all I know they have a lot of health benefits but they’re also delicious this yeah they it’s one

Of the best things to eat the right mushrooms make you bug out too yeah right that’s why they’re very powerful but sometimes they won’t make you bug out if you don’t eat that much it just make you chill you know got micro do I’m going to ask you a question that I’m

Going to put you on the hot seat okay I need I need you to name three celebrity chefs that you can cook better than oh I cannot even do that no Gores you think you got a shot I’m not touching that one yeah what that’s like that’s so we can’t do that

She like super classic let’s go after the non- Italian chefs you know Gordon Ramsey yeah right he’ll have I feel like he might not be a good cook I’m not gonna lie you know there is I’m not going to name it I’m not going to

Name a name but there is a really big food food blogger that just got called out for that she sells thousands of cookbooks she has millions of followers and it turns out she can’t even cook fraud wow how did she get away with that I don’t understand I think she started

Doing like these online cooking classes or something and people started watching I like this [ __ ] has no idea what she’s doing that’s funny that’s basically me he has no idea how have podcast yeah exactly no but like it is a certain skill to cooking because look I’ve been

In the food business my whole life but I can’t whip up certain dishes but I’m a short order cook like I’ll grill a nice burger you know I’ll yeah hard that’s tough gr some grilled chicken I think if you enjoy cooking it kind of just comes natural to you like

You know what like flavor combinations go because it’s just like you like want to do that you know you like when you’re doing it you kind of feel like I don’t want to really [ __ ] be doing this yeah get out Le I got a question for you

What you cook mhm who cleans that was a I was literally going to ask that honestly I’m not going to lie my husband helps me so much he really does because I am I’m cooking all day at home like a like most of the time number one I have

A dishwasher so dishwasher so you actually use it it’s not for storage no I use that [ __ ] two two three times a day it’s running how’s that water billing it’s it’s actually way better than than queens way better electric too is way better than queens um but my husband

Does help me a lot that’s good that’s good when he comes home are you like here here’s your door when he comes home I’m like see you later I go in the basement I go in the room I go go to Target or something just cuz also being

You know on God 24/7 with kids you do need that like mental break out of the house especially when I’m also working from home too cuz people think I’m just sitting at home home twiddling my thumbs yeah so I think once they see your videos they know so you really would be

Surprised three four times I get all the time but sometimes I’m not filming three four times a day I’m just like I take days where I film a chunk of stuff yeah and honestly the editing is longer than than filming filming for me is easy I

Set my tripod up I got my lights and that’s it I just film a ton of videos and I just put them all together at the end you know the filming is easy it’s end what’s the musthaves if you have a a garden at home I feel like I’ve seen tomato

Obviously yes I can’t wait I am an avid Garder okay and it sucks living in a in a plate where you can’t you can’t do it all all year you know but Tomatoes obviously I got all the herbs I usually do eggplants uh this year I did Japanese

Eggplants and I did Italian eggplants what’s the difference the the Japanese ones are long and skinny and we have the and the eggplants are nice and Stumpy you know taste wise is there a difference are ours more bitter I think it depends if there’s a lot of seeds

It’s usually very bitter that’s the Italian one with a lot of seeds it’s usually very I think I like the Japanese one better the Japanese one is very very buttery I wouldn’t like fry it for eggplant Palm you know but you grow oh you can’t you can fry it I wouldn’t I

Mean if you’re going to make a plant pom you need you need an Italian plant in my but that’s also you have to drain the freaking you have to Salt it and then you let it sit for like at least a few hours and it takes all the moisture out

Do you peel eggplant that’s my question for you skin on or skin off skin on or skin off circumcised or not I like the stripes oh little he and he yeah go well because I feel eggplant parm should be skin off but then like eggplant Tower

The skin should be on why why is that I don’t know that gives a texture like a grilled eggplant can stay on you know what I mean like balsamic uh olive oil garlic yeah yeah I feel I love that grilled deplan like I love that but I

Take the skin off SK always always [ __ ] especially homegrown sometimes the Skin’s very tough yeah that’s true true without the all that extra good stuff yeah it’s it’s it’s tough uh peppers I usually do a variety of peppers this year I did the long hot the green and I

Did jalapenos can you spell zucchini gagua yeah g can I smell no no you can you spell Peppers the way you p e p p a s or a aaps oh my God that all right so on that topic I want to give you a little situation okay you got to bring

Out the best what accent do you affiliate yourself with Queen girl what do you want me to say queen give me your best Queen’s accent but I can’t give you an accent this is literally just all so talk normally this is me talking normally but get into I want you to get

Into full character you want me to get like my customer service voice yeah no no no no no so I’m going to give you a situation ready okay you’re at an Italian Supermarket okay okay you’re on the phone with your mother okay talking about uh talking about what you’re going

To make for dinner on Sunday that she’s coming over okay okay and somebody somebody keeps bumping their cart into you action what the [ __ ] are you doing back up personal space back the [ __ ] up that’s what I would saying no but you’re on the phone with your mom I don’t give

A [ __ ] my mother would say back the [ __ ] up no I want you to be like Mom getting the soul she you know what I mean like give you want me to do a full skit yeah you do the skit you do the skit yeah she

She does the cooking come on um what were your expectations coming in here like what did you think we were G to ask you I don’t know because honestly growing up with the how you doing boys you get you know it’s like mixed mixed reviews you’re either like super snobby

And like not nice to people or you’re like super loving and welcoming and like nice where do we fall on you guys are definitely on the nice side for sure all good you know I mean coming from how Beach you’re always on God you don’t know is there one question that we

Didn’t ask you that we wish You’ we did like you know like cuz if it was me getting interviewed I’d be like they’re going to ask me me this they’re going to ask me that honestly lately I don’t know what anybody’s going to ask me anymore

They I people always ask me what’s your favorite thing to cook and I cook all day but I still cannot think of one thing that comes to my mind like what’s my favorite thing to cook yeah cuz like I was going to say what is your the dish

That you make the best love to just cook everything so it’s like just cooking in general cuz in our family we all have a different Zia to make different dishes so like onia brings the rice onia is known for the best lasagna one like my mom I think she makes the best chicken

Collets so like when you go to someone’s house what do they say like bring this I feel like rice balls and zucchini pie are like the two most requested things for me honestly on a holiday it depends on what the holiday is you know the

Seafood salad was a was a big was was a big deal but you might be an official face of seafood salad Christmas Eve and then I was getting dragged on the internet telling me that that was um what’s the what’s the other seafood salad what’s the name of the

Other sea ceviche I was getting dranked for that and it’s like I grew up calling a seafood salad that I’m calling a seafood salad but it’s supposed to be called cich not if you’re Italian see I think they have like it’s just like dumplings you know Koreans have dumplings we have

Raviolis you know Germans have perogies or Polish people have peris it’s just everybody has their own thing in their nationality and people can’t accept that something you know maybe a little different than theirs was that your biggest video secret salad no it a few blow

Up um which was the one that went the craziest like the first time like which was the one the one that got me viral was the stupidest video it was I was sitting down with my when my youngest da had eaten fresh madal and pouta it was

Like a 7c video you say pouta p not P just P I never heard anyone say P I always hear P well I’m a female so P feminine it’s a female it’s a female it’s a female piggy that Pig was a female exactly that’s funny so you just eating

P I literally was just sitting down eating it was like a 7sec video were you like doing something on purpose or nothing my daughter was like grabbing the plate so it was like funny I guess yeah but I am providing like tutorials three four minute videos and that’s what

The [ __ ] goes viral you know it usually is like that though always but it’s really just to get the the foot traffic to your page you just need to land on the right side of the internet you know yeah so true so what’s next for you

You’ve been doing this a while so you never know what’s next for me you know maybe a cooking show maybe I’ll put out a few cookbooks I see the cookbooks yeah cookbook for sure with but it has to be a audio cookbook with your so listen you

Grab the olive you don’t put too much don’t put too much and I’m going to do a little pinch of this a little pinch of that because we don’t like real Italians do not MH up like unless you’re baking certain things and even with baking not everything it depends on what you’re

Making but I feel baking is more delicate though like if you put a little extra baking is like scientific you know cooking is like you could always save it like if you put a little too much salt you could put a little acid you know there’s always ways to turn it around

Yeah I like to say Italians measure with the heart exactly they’ll measure by that and you could tell if someone made that dish and they actually enjoyed making it or if they hated making it can you it would taste like [ __ ] for sure so making it with love is the x fact that’s

That’s a real thing especially when I cook for like my kids my family like I know that I’m feeding them good food like I enjoy doing that you know do your kids have a favorite dish my mine what I loves sushi sushi and like red sauce is

Her favorite okay plain red sauce she loves clam sauce she loves Seafood my daughter my my oldest I mean the younger one is one she basically eats whatever I give her at that age you know but saraphina loves Seafood muscles octopus galma all of it that’s good you started

Them young on that because then if you try to make a kitty fish later want they turn out like me I said them like that the since six six months I did the baby lead weaning with them were you nervous like with allergy test or you just I

Really you know I don’t have some people are very nervous and I think it maybe depends on what they’re like around normally I don’t have any allergies my husband don’t have any neither like my my family and you ate everything when you were pregnant ate everything when I

Was I even ate sushi when I was pregnant so the world people like worry about that oh yeah it’s no raw fish right you can’t eat raw fish what about cold cuts were you eating like moreell in your not every day but I was okay I was honestly

When my first daughter I was like a little more all organic and crazy crazy by the book by the book but my second one I was Sushi Coco sandwiches blt’s as long as you’re happy right yeah and you know everything n months lat was I can’t even imagine there’s people in the world

That are smoking crack when they’re pregnant okay A little coca sandwich is not going to kill my kid or a little glass of wine you know to relax no what no not when I was pregnant okay cuz I know some that is the thing no people

Say you can and I don’t judge you half a glass but my anxiety could never cuz I would lose my kids ended up all right I’m sure glass of wine they little you know it happens I love it listen um is there anything else you wanted to say no

I think you guys covered all of it all right well I feel like you got to yeah like holding back on something she has she has like some like yeah knock call me back in about three months listen okay we’ll have her back we’ll have her

Back in three months then but uh thank you guys all for tuning in make sure to like comment subscribe see you all soon bye