Market District Recipes: Chicken Quesadillas & Hot Chocolate

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UPMC for Life IN TODAY'S COOKING CORNER, AS THE TEMPERATURES ARE COOLING, HEATING THINGS UP WITH MARKET DISTRICT CHEF CRYSTAL BALDWIN, SHOWING US HOW TO SPICE UP OUR HOT CHOCOLATE

OH, YEAH I LOVE EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE HERE NICE CUP OF HOT COCOA I'M SO GLAD TO HEAR THAT I WAS TELLING YOU MY PARENTS ARE IN MEXICO

IT'S RAINING IS IT REALLY LIKE JUST JEALOUSY? BUT I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WHY NOT, YOU KNOW, HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A PARTY MYSELF IT'S GREAT, SO YOU HAVE WARM FOOD AND HOT CHOCOLATE, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE I LOVE IT SO, IT'S GOING TO BE GOOD AND I THINK, WE ALWAYS HAVE PEOPLE STOP BY THE HOUSE FOR HALLOWEEN AND ALWAYS COMING IN AND TRYING TO FIND OUT DIFFERENT THINGS TO MAKE

OUR FUN LITTLE TREAT THIS IS A GREAT THING TO MAKE AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S EASY TO EAT, IT'S WARM, IT'S NOT JUST GOOD I AM GOING TO COLLECT OIL LET'S MAKE OUR DRINK FIRST, YOU KNOW I LIKE DESSERT FIRST SO, WE ARE GOING TO MAKE MEXICAN HOT CHOCOLATE

CITY A VARIATION, A TWIST ON ONE, TOO, SOMETHING TRADITIONAL AND THEN SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT SO, I BROUGHT IN A LOCAL MILK, OKAY SO BASICALLY MEXICAN HOT CHOCOLATE YOU NEED TO HAVE CHOCOLATE, MEXICAN CHOCOLATE WHICH IS DIFFERENT THAN THE CHOCOLATE THAT WE SEE ALL THE TIME, YEAH, IT'S A SWEETER OR SEMI SWEET CHOCOLATE, IT HAS A GOOD BIT OF SUGAR IN HAND GROUND OR COURSELY GROUND, SOMETIMES IT HAS ALMOND IN IT CINNAMON IN IT

SO IT HAS A DIFFERENT TEXTURE, BUT I THINK THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT SO MUCH DIFFERENT YEAH, DIFFERENT SO IT'S GOOD SO WHAT I HAVE HERE, I ALREADY HEATED UP THE MILK AND THE CHOCOLATE

BECAUSE IT IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, TAKES ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 8 TO 10 MINUTES TO ARE THAT TO HEAT UP I LOVE, SHOULD WE MENTION THAT YOU USE LOCAL MILK IT'S THE LOCAL MILK SO I HAVE LOCAL MILK HERE HOW COOL IS THAT, IT'S A GLAD JUG IT'S SO OLD SCHOOL

YOU CAN RETURN THOSE AND THEN YOU GET, YOU KNOW, DEPOSIT BACK THEY DON'T HAVE THE MILK MAN TO COME AND DO IT YOU ARE THE MILK MAN YES SO HERE THIS ONE IS IT'S LIKE I PUT IT ALL IN THERE

WHAT MAKES MEXICAN HOT CHOCOLATE YOU HAVE TO FROTH IT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WE ARE GOING TO TAKE OUR WHISK, YOU ARE GOING TO TOWN HERE WE WANT — YOU KNOW LIKE COFFEE SHOP AND THEY HAVE ALL THE FOAM ON TOP WE JUST WANT TO WHISK FOR AWHILE IS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN QUICKLY BECAUSE OF THE HEAT — WELL IT HAPPENS QUICKLY BECAUSE WE HAVE THE WHISK IN THERE, THAT IS ACTUALLY TOOLS IN MEXICO — THERE IS NEVER — NEVER A DUMB QUESTION

THEY HAVE TOOLS TO MAKE IT AIRY AND FROTHY YOU COULD GET A POT ESPECIALLY MADE FOR HOT CHOCOLATE AND THE WHISK THAT THEY USE FOR IT TAKE IT AND WHISK THAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO THAT BECAUSE THIS IS YOURS, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE USED TO SEEING YOU GO TO AN AMERICAN MEXICAN RESTAURANT, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FIND THIS — THIS TO ME LIKES LIKE AN EMPANADA, SO THIS DOES NOT LIKE WHEN I HAVE ORDERED QUESADILLAS

IT'S DIFFERENT WHAT IT IS, IT HAS CORN DOUGH, WHAT CITY WAS I TOOK — IF YOU GO INTO THE STORE YOU WILL SEE IT IN A COUPLE DIFFERENT BRANDS AND THIS IS ALREADY A COOKED CORN, OKAY? OKAY SO IT'S A FLOUR, SO IT'S ALREADY READY TO GO SO I ADVOCATE HOT WATER TO IT I ADDED SOME LARD

IT'S WINTER WE ARE HYPER NATEING YOU NEED TO SO A LITTLE BIT OF LARD, SALT TO SEASON IT IT'S REALLY EASY, IT COMES TOGETHER QUICKLY

LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR FILLING, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE YOU CAN PUT WHATEVER, I MADE A COUPLE DIFFERENT ONES I PUT COOKED CHICKEN, PABLANO CHILIS, ONION, CUMIN IN THERE, LEFTOVER PORK, ANYTHING AT ALL YOU PUT THAT IN THERE, OKAY? SO THEN ALL I DID CAN YOU USE A ROLLING PIN, I HAPPEN TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A — A PRESS TO BE ABLE TO DO IT, TAKE A BALL, PRESS IT IN THERE PUT YOUR, YOU KNOW, PLASTIC ON TOP

PRESS IT ONCE YOU PRESS IT THEN YOU HAVE YOUR TORTILLA I HAVE THAT FILLED PINCH THE ENDS PINCH THE ENDS

WHAT ARE YOU FRYING IT IN? CANOLA OIL AND LARD, IT GIVES A LOT OF FLAVOR I'M NOT MAD AT YOU THEN YOU GO AHEAD AND FRY ON BOTH SIDES NICE AND LIGHT AND AIRY I HAVE A COUPLE OF I THINK CHEESE THERE, THOSE ARE THE CHICKEN RIGHT THERE

AND THEN VIA LITTLE BIT OF SOUR CREAM? TO PUT ON THERE THERE CILANTRO HOT SAUCE IF YOU WANT IT LOOKS GOOD

CHEESE SO IT'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT CAN YOU PUT ON THERE AND FUN FOR A PARTY SPEAKING OF PARTIES, IF YOU ARE HOSTING ONE FOR HALLOWEEN, HAVING THE KIDDOS OVER BEFORE THEY GO TRICK OR TREATING MARKET DISTRICT HAS GREAT CAKES MY DECORATOR WERE SO EXCITED

THEY WERE SO HAPPY SO THEY IMMEDIATE MUMMY CUPCAKES, THEY MADE THE CUPCAKE CAKE ALL SORTS OF THINGS, THERE IS THE COOKIE MESSAGE CAKES, SO REALLY NEAT THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO AND THEN IF YOU WANT TO BE — HAVE THE THEME MORE, TRANSYLVANIA CHEESE

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