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Play With Your Food

Produced by Bon Appétit with Krusteaz | Co-owner of James Beard Award winning Restaurant Guelaguetza Paulina Velazquez, along with her three daughters, show us the key to making Sunday brunch a little more fun! To learn more, visit krusteaz.com

Released on 11/13/2020

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Good job guys, y'all get pancakes at the end.

[Interviewer] Yes.

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My name is Paulina Lopez, co-host of Super Mamás podcast,

co-owner of Guelaguetza Restaurant,

co-owner of I love Micheladas as well,

I'm also a mom, a wife and everything in between.

I have three beautiful daughters:

a nine year old, her name is Krista

a six year old, her name is Savina

and Sixta who's my baby,

I call her my baby, but she's three years old already.

Now that we're at home more,

we try to find activities that we can all do together

we try to squeeze in as much family time as we can.

Every Sunday is pancake day at home

and the girls are always looking forward.

I don't know who's more excited, the girls, or my husband

to be honest with you.

I try to make it creative in a way that's more play-based,

adding a little bit color on the food,

or you know, shapes.

The kids are like, Oh my God, this time it's a rainbow

or this time it's a bunny,

making it fun for them so that they are interested.

It doesn't always look perfect, but we're all here.

So that's all it matters.

Really looks like a piece of art.

It's actually allowed me

to learn about my kids' personalities,

they are totally different

and you can see that at a breakfast plate.

With Christa we are going to be doing

shapes of letters and numbers.

We're gonna mix the butter together,

then we're going to put the butter in squeeze bottles.

She's gonna draw it onto the griddle and then flip it.

After that, she's going to be decorating them with fruits

and then we're ready to eat.

Sounds fair to me.

Sounds fair to me too.

With Savina, we're going to be doing the animal pancakes

and for that, we make different shapes,

we put them together and we make the faces with fruits.

With Sixta, we're going to be doing

some amazing rainbow pancakes,

we're going to be using some gel color.

Be careful, okay?

The best tip that I can give is go drop by drop,

until you find that perfect color that you like.

We're going to get a rainbow.

She's going to stack them up easy, colorful, fun.

It's our way of just closing off the week

and starting a new one.

I see you sneaky chocolate in your mouth.

Pancakes have been a challenge for me for a while.

So Krusteaz changed my life.

It's super easy to use, super fast.

Once I mix the butter,

I let it sit two minutes until it's ready.

And then when it's ready, then I start cooking them.

Once you start seeing the little bubbles pop,

it's time to flip them.

We let them be for probably like another 30 seconds

on one side and they're done.

They are super fluffy, they're really easy to flip

they don't get stuck, we're all happy,

I'm happy, everyone's happy.

If mom's happy, everyone's happy.

If you look at things from a child's perspective,

all they want to do is have fun

and just eat good food

that's what it's about, right?

It's about spending time as a family.

It's about being grateful. It's about being together.

Doesn't matter how it looks as long as it tastes good

and it always tastes good.

Are they yummy?

Yeah very yummy.

It has allowed my daughters to get more creative.

It has allowed them to be more curious.

They get more excited, every week, when we do this.

I'm really, really excited to see the progress

that we've all made through this pancake journey.

I want to create these memories for when they are older,

they can pass them on to their children.

There you go, Big ol' heart

Just like mommy's heart.

Why do you have such a big heart?

Because I have three beautiful daughters.