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And then I'm making more and then we're all trying it.
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No?
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No?
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That's my French no. Hey Vogue, it's Gigi.
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We are here today to make a couple of my favorite things, an Arnold Palmer and a pasta dish that I make more than most.
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Can't wait to show you.
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The ingredients for today's Arnold Palmer are pretty simple.
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Black tea, honey, lemons, water.
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You can always kind of mix and match flavors with this, so it's fun.
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Let's start with boiling the water.
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Now we wait it out.
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The running theme here today is that Gigi doesn't measure a lot.
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It's going to be a lot to taste.
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You need a cook from the heart, people.
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That looks good.
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It's a huge pitcher.
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Let's just say four for this.
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We'll go about halfway up. That looks good.
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That's a big cup of tea.
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Just make sure again that the sugars from the honey are breaking down.
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My first memory of modeling, it was a baby guess campaign.
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I remember funny things like looking into the sun and thinking
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that if I could keep my eyes open while looking at the sun, that made me a really good model.
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I think that with experience and time,
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you just start to really understand your place in the process and also how to make everyone's job easier.
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And then of course just like being and becoming more confident in myself as I've gotten older, especially with a child now.
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I think that so many life lessons come from obstacles
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and getting through things and once you find those new confidences in yourself from your personal life.
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I think that they kind of trickle into every part.
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Our honey is dissolved in the bottom.
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We're going to put this in the fridge so
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that it starts to cool down and become the iced tea while we make lemonade.
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Let's get our lemonade supplies.
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How cute is that?
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I mean, anything yellow just gets me.
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And look at this.
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You knew, Jess.
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Did you know my favorite color was yellow?
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You can just feel it.
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We're gonna chop some lemons, halfsies.
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Music when I shoot is really based on the creative of the day, the storytelling, the character, what she would listen to, what I want to feel,
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what I want my eyes to show.
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So I need to be excited about the creative.
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I have half the time I used to.
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I am so lucky to get my baby girl half the time.
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And when she's with her dad is really when I work.
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So I fit in jobs that inspire me that I'm creatively aligned with.
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And that's kind of the non-negotiable these days.
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All right, we're going to start juicing these babies.
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Get everything you can.
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It's really wild to think that I've been on 50 international Vogue covers or just like 50 covers at all.
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When I really think about that, I think about like how many days I've spent with these teams.
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Each day comes down to like an experience, right?
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I don't see just the photo of the cover.
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I remember the trip and the hotel we stayed at and just the personalities behind the image.
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Okay, last one.
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With our juice king here.
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That's what it's called.
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And me, the juice queen.
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And that will be four cups.
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Perfect.
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All right, time to put it all together.
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This is going to be a tasting situation.
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Let's add some lemon and see how we go.
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I'll just go faster.
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You know, we get messy.
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That's part of the fun.
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We're going to add a little more water there.
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You can add water.
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You can't take it away, so it's like salt.
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I'm going to put more honey in it, too.
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All right, guys.
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We're going bobbing for tea bags.
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Well, I think one of the best things about being a
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mom is just getting to experience all of life through little eyes.
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How present they are, how excited they are, and the questions they ask makes you look at everything in a new way.
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Did we put four in there or three?
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Oh, four!
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An amazing part about being a mom is
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that at times we're all gonna feel like maybe it's something that we can't handle or can't get through, and the more that you do it,
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the more confidence you have in yourself and it's just an amazing feeling.
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That's really good.
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A little one of these, a little one of that.
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Heaven.
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Pasta, shall we?
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This recipe came into my life during COVID.
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It was kind of towards the end when you could start traveling a bit.
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And we hosted my mom's best friend and her husband who made us this recipe.
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So now in our house, we call it Tim's Pasta.
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Shout out, Tim.
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It's Tim's Pasta, Gigi's version.
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Prosciutto, tomatoes, cilantro, or parsley.
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And spaghetti, you'll need Parmesan cheese, olive oil.
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It's really an olive oil, garlic kind of sauce that then you crisp up the prosciutto in.
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And red pepper flakes.
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I think that's also one of my additions, but I love a little spice.
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Add that too.
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Let's start.
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Chop up your tomatoes however you want.
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I'm going to cube them, but tomatoes taste the same in any shape.
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The natural chef in my household is my dad.
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He can cook for 50 people like that, and the biggest thing I learned from my dad is cook with your heart.
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He's not a big measurer either.
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It's really about tasting and smelling and feeling it out and just cooking as another form of being creative.
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So let's just get all our tomatoes together.
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I've just been a student of television cooking for my entire life.
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Any day I was home from school, if I wasn't watching Forensic Files, I was watching cooking.
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I remember when I first came to New York, one of my biggest goals besides anything in modeling is that I wanted to be on cooking shows.
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Over the years since learning this recipe I've cut prosciutto a lot of different ways.
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I'm going to show you my technique of how I've figured
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out a way to get different kind of like stacks
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and thinness on the prosciutto you'll see because
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when it then fries up you'll have kind of like thicker chewier parts
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and then thinner crispier parts and all of those coming together is really great.
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So I call this my prosciutto flower.
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We are going to start taking them singularly
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and as we put them down on the board we're going to rotate them into a flower.
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Don't ask me more about why this works
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because I don't fully even know why I came up with this but it's just what I do.
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Whenever I land in New York there's a couple things
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that I can eat at any time of day regardless of my jet lag.
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One of them is the Soondale North bean and cheese burrito.
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I also can get a acai bowl from Sun Life which is an OG Malibu spot
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and was also my sister Bella's first job.
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She worked at the smoothie counter so I used to get friends
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and family discount on that and that acai bowl is nostalgic for me.
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So first we go here And now we go the opposite.
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So in the middle here, you're getting kind of like chunkier pieces.
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And then on the edges, they're thinner.
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Usually if I have time to cook, it's when I'm on mom duty.
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So there's a lot of yapping with a five-year-old.
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Sometimes she wants to help.
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Sometimes she just wants to see the food appear.
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In which case we do a lot of art on the countertop.
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So I'll be cooking here she'll be watercoloring crayons play-doh
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that kind of stuff on to our cilantro i do not have the the genetic disadvantage of cilantro tasting like
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so oh i've also done it with arugula before
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when i've been out of this stuff that's also good it's kind of anything
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that gives it like a peppery freshness start my first chop
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we're gonna get into the flames of it all i'll see you assume.
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All right, time for pasta.
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So there's a method to the madness.
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Let's start with getting the pasta cooking because we really want that done before our prosciutto is done.
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Shooting the Vogue France cover is always exciting.
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Willie Vanderpere is someone who I've had amazing experiences with.
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Load our pasta in there.
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Willie shot my first Prada campaign.
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I've done some wonderful creative
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editorials with him and I just find him to be such a calm lovely spirit
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and I can't wait to see it we're gonna toast our pine nuts this is something
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that you want to stay close to pine nuts can
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burn quickly a lot of my dad's cooking is beautiful Palestinian food
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that of course my teta cooked a lot and she was the chef
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that taught him
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so anytime we're making Middle Eastern food Palestinian food um she's with us it's comforting to me
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and i love an eggs and zaatar
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and i have a huge uh jar of zaatar in my kitchen
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that i cook with a lot please hold on the pine nuts
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but don't hold too much like you you can get a
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little bit distracted you can be like oh those need more time
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and then you'll turn around they're burnt okay i can kind of start smelling oh these are browning There we go.
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Olive oil.
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Let's go like half a cup depending on how much you're making.
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Please hold again.
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You want to make sure
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that it looks like however much oil you put could really coat all of the pasta you're making.
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We're going to let that start to heat up
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and then i always take a little piece of prosciutto
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and see if it starts to sizzle that's
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when you know it's ready let's try the pasta huh yeah that's perfect
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so we will see this when the prosciutto is done okay that's starting to bubble
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and crisp up so let's add our prosciutto two utensils can also be two forks whatever you got
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and kind of start to break up the parts that are too stuck together.
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We're getting different textures, different chunkiness, chewiness.
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This is the piece that I added first so it's a little bit more red, brown and that's how you know it's getting to the right texture.
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I do not wear an apron when I'm cooking.
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I don't usually look like this when I cook at home.
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okay this is getting nice and crispy but see how like there's pieces
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that are chunkier like this those get really chewy
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and then the smaller pieces get really crispy it's
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so delicious we're almost here with the crispiness
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so we're gonna add garlic per person let's add like a clove
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and a half we're doing this for about four people i'm gonna say that's oh
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so so good and gonna go like a good pinch
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that will start to get the oil spicy now it's time
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for the pasta we're gonna turn the heat off go for it coating all the pasta in the oil
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if you just pour it in
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and leave it right in there then the pasta will start to get crispy
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so we're gonna start to add our parmesan We going in with the big guns.
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Then I like to add my pine nuts.
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There's crispiness and then there's a lot of freshness with the greens.
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I've definitely made this for my man.
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He loves this.
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Okay, we can plate this.
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All right, guys, let's taste it.
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You want to give your guests, obviously, the pasta, but the best part and what everyone will come back for are these crunchies, I'm telling you.
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They're heaven.
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A little tomato on top.
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A little more greens.
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A little pine nuts.
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A little cheese.
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It's good every time.
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I swear.
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Can I make more bowls?
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You guys ready?
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Dimitri!
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Oh my god.
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See?
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Oh my god, this is so good.
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Mmm.
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Pardon my thingies, but they're clean.
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Ladies' voice good right girl talk about the textures what we getting what we getting that tomato girl
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period cheers cheers cheers cheers cheers maria cheers thanks everybody we're gonna finish this off camera
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so you don't have to watch us all right guys
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that was so fun thank you
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so much for joining me my dream come true of hosting
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my own cooking show i loved it i hope i don't have cilantro in my teeth, but please make your own version of me and Tim's pasta
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and let me know if you add any cool substitutes to it.
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Cheers.
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Love you all.
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Why Practice Speaking with This Video?
Learning English with videos like Gigi Hadid's pasta-making session is a fun way to practice real-world conversation. The casual, conversational tone mimics everyday speech, making it perfect for english speaking practice and shadowspeak (repeating phrases aloud to match rhythm and tone). You’ll hear natural pauses, informal expressions, and personal stories—contexts you’d encounter in friends’ kitchens or casual chats. Plus, the mix of cooking steps and life anecdotes keeps the language relatable, helping you build confidence in both practical and social settings.
Grammar & Expressions in Context
The video is full of useful structures to notice. Here are a few:
- "We are here today to make a couple of my favorite things": The present continuous ("are here... to make") sets a friendly, immediate tone—great for introducing activities. Practice using it to explain what you’re doing in the moment.
- "You can always kind of mix and match flavors": The phrase "kind of" softens statements, making speech sound more natural. Native speakers use it often in casual talk—try adding it to your own sentences instead of being too formal.
- "I think that with experience and time, you just start to really understand": The structure "I think that..." is key for sharing opinions. Notice how Gigi connects ideas with "with experience and time" to add depth—copy this to make your speech more detailed.
Common Pronunciation Traps
Improve English pronunciation by watching out for these tricky parts:
- "Arnold Palmer": The "r" sound in "Arnold" and "Palmer" can be hard—try rolling it slightly but not overdoing it. Listen for how Gigi links the two words smoothly ("ArnoldPalmer").
- "Lemons, halfsies": The "s" in "lemons" is soft, while "halfsies" has a zesty "z" sound at the end. Practice saying them quickly to match the casual pace.
- "Non-negotiable": This long word has stress on the third syllable ("non-ne-GO-ti-a-ble"). Break it down and repeat to avoid tripping over it.
Use shadow speak to mimic Gigi’s rhythm—pause the video, repeat her lines, and focus on matching her tone. It’s a simple way to make your English sound more natural, one pasta dish (and Arnold Palmer) at a time!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've gotten · I've been · I've spent |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is dissolved · is really based |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | Life which is · someone who I |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.