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Last-Minute Holiday Gifts + Geoffrey Zakarian's Cooking Tips | Dr. Oz | S7 | Ep 70 | Full Episode
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The Christmas countdown is on.
Tips to stay calm, cool, and collected this holiday.
We have last-minute homemade gifts for everyone on your list.
I love this gift.
This is a gift that every American needs.
Plus, how the most stressed-out TV anchor found peace of mind.
You want to teach people right now?
Absolutely.
And three things Iron Chef Jeffrey Zakarian wants you to know before you cook for the holidays.
How beautiful that looks.
coming up next we'll save lives today We are bringing a healthy family.
It is official.
Just one week until Christmas, which means the rush for last-minute holiday gifts is on.
But I don't want you to panic because today is all about the solutions you need to keep you cool, calm, and collected throughout the holiday storm.
And we're going to start with last-minute homemade holiday health gifts that are easy to make and make everyone say, wow!
They're so good.
Then, healthy hostess gifts that don't involve cookies or fruitcake, which I don't like very much.
And then Iron Chef Jeffrey Zakarian is here with his secrets to cook.
I love Jeffrey.
But he's got these wonderful secrets to cook in for a large crowd this holiday season, which you're all gonna love.
But first, the malls are open around the clock.
And many of you are stress shopping.
So I wanted to see just how busy the malls were this year.
So I caught up with some last minute shoppers to gauge their stress levels.
Hey Dr. Oz, the holiday season is well underway, but before the joy and the fun of the gift giving actually begins, we first have to deal with the stress that comes with picking those perfect presents, all within your budget of course.
So let's see how folks are doing as we come down to the wire.
What are your thoughts on holiday shopping?
Torture.
How much more do you have left?
About maybe six more people.
One, two, three, four.
Are you getting a little nervous?
You getting a little stressed?
Well, I'll tell you what.
I bought these.
You don't even know what you want to show me.
I see some sweat on your brow.
It's the first day.
I'm running around.
Who's the hardest person to get a present for?
My daughter.
My sister.
My grandson.
Your grandson?
Yeah.
Why is that?
Because I don't know what he's into.
He's three and a half.
Did you get me a present?
I did.
You did?
Yeah.
Where is it?
Right here.
Oh, perfect!
Happy holidays, Dr. Oz.
I don't want you to be stressed out like those shoppers.
So, whether you need a last-minute gift for your kid's teacher, a neighbor who drops by unexpectedly, or the family member who has, well, everything, but don't worry, because we've got you covered.
Now, I need a little elf to help you out, so you might remember her from Trading Spaces, but now she's an interior designer and a DIY queen.
Genevieve Gorder is here, so come on out.
Hello!
Hi!
Thank you, Genevieve.
Thanks for having me.
They all want your advice.
They're high-fiving over there.
They got some advice from someone, finally.
So, first off, what makes you the queen of DIY? How'd you learn about it?
I love the queen.
I'm going to put this on my business card.
I've been doing this my whole life, and it kind of happened accidentally.
Television just, well, probably like you, too.
We give service, and we do what we do, and we're passionate about it, and television just came beckoning.
I grew up doing this with my family since I was five.
DIYing, restoring, Old homes in the 80s.
I learned it accidentally too, but I love it.
It's what wakes me up.
You're a mom.
You work.
You just saw that big tape.
Everyone's all stressed out.
Why are DIY gifts the solution for a lot of folks' stress for holiday shopping?
I think that DIY, if you prep appropriately, it's meditative.
This can be a trance.
This can be something that actually relaxes you during the most hectic time of the year.
I really enjoy these, and I'm going to show you how to do it.
Come on, let's start with this.
So she has last-minute gifts.
You can make it like this for everyone in your life.
The first is a gift for someone who has everything.
We all know someone like this, right?
You can't give them anything.
They have everything.
So what's your surprise?
You know, I am one of these people.
People hate buying gifts for me.
I think grandparents fall into this category and people who are in the service industry already.
If they cook, this is an easy, inexpensive gift that's also healthy.
So what I did here was a dollar, a dollar for these little glass ornaments you can get at a craft store.
You all know these things.
And what I did is filled them up with a series of different kinds of salt.
We have a sriracha salt, we have a margarita salt, we have a basil salt, a black saddle, pink salt.
Together they look beautiful and it's typically what a cook wouldn't buy for themselves.
So I want to show everyone exactly what it costs in practice.
I mean, seriously, a dollar and then all of these salts you can buy in bulk, you can buy small containers, depending on how you want to do this, you could do 10 sets of these for a really low cost.
A funnel and some salt.
Let's just do it.
The funnel is reusable, but these things, where do you find these little glass balls?
Any craft store has these art stores around the holidays, seriously under a dollar.
You can get this online as well if you want to buy a hundred of them.
Really inexpensive.
Do you want to try one?
Are you crafty?
I'm very crafty.
I'm going to give my staff these for Christmas now, now that I know it.
Sorry, guys.
I need to make 200 of these, if you don't mind.
There go those holiday bonuses.
We're going to ask a big question, because we actually went to you, doesn't it?
So we asked everyone on DrRoss.com, who is the most difficult person to buy a holiday gift for?
And you had three top answers.
You had a lot of answers, but three top ones.
Coworker, which I was sort of surprised by, now it sort of makes sense.
A postal worker, they come to your house all the time.
And a child's teacher.
So come on over.
I want to ask the audience who they find the most difficult person to give to.
What do you normally give as a gift for those kinds of folks?
So what do you think?
Gift card.
Gift card?
I know.
It's like giving a guy a tie.
It means you don't really know him that well.
I don't know if I really like him that much either.
What do you give as a gift?
Depends on the person.
But always put in a gift receipt.
So they can return.
It's the most conservative audience.
If you want to get something that makes it clear you care about them, you know a little bit about them, what would you give them?
I do a scarf sometimes.
Holiday, festive, makes sense for the season.
Scarfs are nice, but it's hard to knit them.
Come on over, you got an idea here.
This is a gift for the unexpected giver.
Now, listen, I love, love giving gifts, but there are a lot of people who bring me things that I didn't expect to get gifts from.
Then you feel horrible.
Have you all been there?
Yes.
So you need a solution.
What is the key here?
Okay, beyond having these prepared, which you can do very simply, I love this gift.
This is a gift that every American needs.
How to detox, how to take that moment to rest and to be taken care of.
And you can do this in five minutes for hardly any money and give it away to everybody and anybody unexpectedly.
So take a look at how to make this before you show exactly, but I have another reason why you want to keep this in your home.
Take a look.
Take a look.
So Anne is here.
She actually made these detox bath jars.
You know the reason I love these?
Tell me.
It's because if you don't have someone give you a gift you don't expect, you can just use it yourself.
Right?
This is something you can buy, and you're buying them in bulk, right?
You can make big boxes of Epsom salts and oats, and just use them on your own body.
It's a grocery store gift.
Yes, this is great.
I got a gift like this once.
I work in a gym, and this is a great gift if you have a gym teacher that you really like, a teacher at your kid's school.
I don't know anybody that doesn't like to take a nice, relaxing bath.
The mail worker would be good too.
The mail worker.
I gave this to my UPS driver and I never got such good service after that.
He came back again.
He loves me.
Yeah, he carries my boxes in for me now.
He loves me.
It sure beats the stress of feeling like you have to offer a monetary tip as well.
And again, it's a little more thoughtful.
Give me a gift of health.
I like it.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Thank you.
Come on over.
Finally, we've got the best resource, the best resource of all for homemade gifts.
Please walk us through why you think we have to have tea.
Well, we all know the health benefits of tea.
And it's also something that really brings down the stress levels.
When you take a moment to sit with your tea and curl and stop doing for just a moment of pause, the most beautiful points of the day, tea is a great excuse to do this.
I give this gift to my grandparents.
They are somebody who has everything.
They're both 95 and they're drinking tea, so just keep that in mind.
Good for them.
What I did...
Repurpose an old jewelry box.
These are perfect containers for tea.
If you make people a set, they feel like it's special.
So what we did is we bought a lot of loose teas.
We bought the tea bags and the twine.
Again, this keeps the costs a lot lower and you can make a lot more of them.
We simply just put a little label.
This is chai.
And we organize them in the containers of the box.
This can be a bait and tackle box.
This can be an art store container.
You can find these anywhere for hardly anything.
And as a host, like we all are, you just basically offer this to your guests and they can select one out.
And it's a really sweet gift.
I love your idea.
I love this so much that I said I'd compete with it.
You got crafty?
I got crafty.
This takes a lot for a surgeon, but we're good with our hands.
I'm impressed.
So I made this.
I found that on Pinterest.
This is a tea wreath.
I don't believe you made that.
Oh, please.
Obviously.
Only I could have.
And this my friends is how you make a tea wreath
*music*
*music* As many potential uses, necklace, it can solve all your problems.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for having me.
This is fun.
The gift giving to teens when we come back.
Stay with us.
Next, it's one of the biggest holiday traditions.
I want to eat dessert every day.
Baking sweet treats for gifting.
We've got great homemade edible ideas that don't involve cookies or fruitcake.
Healthy hostess gifts.
You'll feel good about giving.
Coming up.
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From eating supposedly healthy foods.
I was pre-type 2 diabetic and I put on 19 pounds.
How to spot sneaky sugar bombs before they blow up your healthy lifestyle.
Let's walk you through this.
Plus, big changes are coming to your favorite foods.
All because you all demanded it.
See the new and improved healthier versions on the next Dr. Oz.
That's coming up on Monday.
One of the biggest holiday traditions is to bake cookies.
And it's a tradition that I absolutely adore.
And in an attempt not to eat them all yourself, you know what you do?
You pawn them off as gifts, don't you?
So today, I've got healthy hostess gifts that don't involve cookies.
And joining me is the woman who is the number one source for healthy desserts on the internet with up to six million viewers each month.
Unbelievable.
Her name is Chocolate Covered Katie.
It's a fabulous name.
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm glad you're here.
You dressed up very Christmassy today.
This is really exciting.
So, balanced diets for me means, the thing we talk about in the show, you actually argue it means having dessert every single day.
Why?
People tell me, they say, well, why healthy desserts?
Why not regular desserts in moderation?
And that's fine if you want to eat regular desserts in moderation.
I can't do moderation.
No, it's hard.
I want to eat dessert every day.
And not be limited.
All right, and to stay like this, you've got to have tips.
So walk me back through some of them.
Come back over here.
We copy these from some of the ideas you talk about all the time.
This one thing, it's called the dark chocolate dipping spoons, and there's a lot of magic here.
So walk us through why you make them and how to do it.
So I like easy desserts.
I like desserts that are faster to make than to eat.
I don't want to spend all day on a dessert and then eat it in five seconds.
So these are super easy, and this is dark chocolate.
So you take a spoon, you take that one, I'll take this one.
You can teach me you're really talented.
You want to really get in there.
And you kind of go like this.
So you heated this up a little bit?
Yes, you melt the dark chocolate.
Notice I have more chocolate in mine than yours.
Mine's a spoonful of chocolate.
Yours is a chocolate-covered spoon.
Well, I would be eating some of the stuff, too.
And then you can take, you know, these are almonds and pomegranates.
You can do, like, chia seeds.
Whatever sounds good to you.
You kind of put a little bit on there.
I'll do yours, you do mine.
Yeah, okay.
I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine.
And it's fun, and this is, you know, kids can do this.
It's not super hard.
And you put it in the fridge, the chocolate hardens.
Oh, you don't have to cook it at all.
You're just right in the fridge from there.
Oh, yeah, exactly.
No bake.
No bake treats.
And there you go.
I wish the audience had some of these, don't you?
Okay.
Since you dress so beautifully, it goes with your outfit.
It goes with your outfit.
All right, next we're going to talk about, just can't point one thing out.
You know how many calories are in this thing, everybody?
This decadent little spoon here, it's 100 calories.
That's the whole dessert.
So, to be clear, you can put this, for example, if you want it, in your tea that you're making.
Ooh, that sounds good.
Yeah, it'd be fantastic.
In the coffee, mix it in there.
You know exactly how many calories you're giving yourself.
It's a little decadent feel to it.
All right, next up, something that everyone's going to enjoy.
You can use your holiday cookie cutter.
And since my oldest daughter Daphne, she hosts a Chew You All member, these little things are her favorite Christmas present to get.
I would get these for her.
I was a little girl.
And she'd make all kinds of cookies for it.
But you want to use it to use cookie cutters for protein bars.
Yes.
So, these are peanut butter protein bars.
You don't have to do peanut butter.
You can do almond butter.
And basically, this is protein powder.
And you can use, this is Sucanet, which is unrefined sugar.
You can use coconut sugar.
Sucanet?
Sucanet.
It's unrefined sugar.
I've never heard of it.
Have you guys heard of Sucanet?
No wonder you have so many views every month.
It doesn't have to be, you don't have to find specialty ingredients.
You can use regular sugar, and there's still less sugar than in your average sugar cookie.
And then this is salt?
That's actually baking soda.
Baking soda?
So, a little bit of baking soda.
And your peanut butter.
Here, you mash this up.
Okay.
I'll mash that.
Here, I'll do this.
You can do this part.
Everyone can do that part.
All right.
See, I like to use not some fork.
I use a masher.
A manly masher to get in here like this.
There you go.
All right, we do this.
We mix these together.
And then you put it in a bag.
I do.
This is called, I call this the plastic bag trick because it's so much less messy.
You just put the ball of dough into the plastic bag, you smoosh it up, and then you roll it out, just like regular cookies.
And then, yeah, roll it out, and then you can use whatever cookie cutters you want, and just like you're making sugar cookies, except these are actually healthy.
Oh, you cut through the plastic?
Well, no, no, you take the, so here.
You've got to break it down for me.
I don't cook it a lot.
You don't want plastic in your...
So I go like this.
This is, as I said, this is the plastic bag trick.
It's just, it's so much easier.
In our house, I use garbage bags because we have to make large quantities of this.
Then you take little babies.
Yeah.
You make some cookie cutters.
And we end up with these.
Are they good?
Yes.
Then you bake them for how long?
So those are, these are, you want to, you can either freeze them to make them harder, or those are, these are baked.
And those are large, so they're a little bit breakable right now, but they make small ones.
Gotcha.
One last idea.
This is my favorite of all.
I have to admit because it has the perfect marriage of all the ingredients that I adore.
This is how you use a slow cooker to make gifts in bulk.
So please explain what you're making in here for us.
So these are cinnamon pecans.
And this is basically, I mean, it's so easy if you have a slow cooker.
And if you don't have a slow cooker, you can actually make them in the oven.
But if you have a slow cooker, you just put everything in the slow cooker and it does the work for you.
And there you go.
Now you have a...
It's a Christmas dessert that you can give to people.
It's a gift.
People appreciate it because it's homemade.
And all you did was throw it in there.
It's the best present.
I have thoroughly enjoyed having you on the show.
It was so much fun to be on.
Now we're going to feed the audience.
Now they've been applauding for you all the time.
We'll be right back, everybody.
Next.
It was embarrassing and terrifying.
How a stressed out anchor found peace was something he was completely skeptical about.
And how you can too.
Next.
The question I get asked all the time is how can you find balance in your life?
That's why I introduced my blueprint for balance.
It's a year-long project that will get your life from burnout to back on track.
No one knows just how important balance is than ABC News anchor Dan Harris.
He found that out one day on live television, and it changed his life forever.
It was a sunny day in June of 2004 when I had a panic attack on national television.
In the year 2000, at the age of 28, I was really insecure about being green.
And my way of coping with that was to become a workaholic.
How good was my last story?
What's my next story going to be?
Is somebody else getting some story that I want?
And then 9-11 happened not long after I got to ABC and I volunteered to go cover whatever happened next.
After one long run in Iraq in 2003, I got depressed.
At this point, I did a toweringly stupid thing, which is I started to self-medicate with recreational drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy.
It was enough, according to my doctor, to artificially raise the level of adrenaline in my brain and prime me to have that panic attack.
After the panic attack, I realized I needed to stop doing drugs, hacking voice that we all have in our heads.
And so ultimately, in a weird and windy way, I did find something that really helped with that, and it was something that I never would have foreseen.
Dan wrote about his meltdown and recovery, his great book, 10% Happier.
I want to welcome Dan Harris to the show.
Thank you for being so open about a challenge that 40 million Americans suffered through.
So tell us more about what happened around that panic attack.
Afterwards, I made a smart decision, which is I went to go see a doctor.
And he really gave me the advice that helped me get on the right track.
I mean, the no-brainer advice was don't do drugs anymore.
And I agreed to go see him once or twice a week indefinitely.
It must have shaken you to your core.
It did.
It was embarrassing and terrifying.
Embarrassing because to lose...
Because I'm a masochist, I actually asked the research department to find out how many people were watching.
Oh, please.
And they came back with the vastly reassuring number of 5.019 million.
So no big deal.
So that was embarrassing and terrifying because I didn't know if I was going to be able to continue to do my job.
I thought, is this going to happen to me every time I go on TV? So it really did shake me to my core.
If you're not alone, obviously, I'd love to show everybody what happens when you have a panic attack.
It's not just an accident.
We're actually sort of hardwired bizarrely to have panic attacks.
Part of the question I have is, why don't we have more of them?
So, stress and anxiety, they both cause this fight-or-flight response, right?
So deep inside your brain, there are these two almond-shaped structures, and they're sort of the alarm signs.
They're sirens of the brain, and they're making lots of noise deep inside the brain saying, watch out, be careful.
Right now, you're all doing it to yourselves.
These signals are sent to the middle of the brain, and then Thank you for saying it again.
Anxiety doesn't travel by itself.
It often lives very closely with depression.
Yes.
And that was something I had experienced firsthand and, you know, somewhat embarrassingly was insufficiently self-aware to even know it.
I was having trouble getting out of bed, felt like I had a low-grade fever all the time.
And it was at that moment, with an undiagnosed depression, that I began self-medicating.
So, you talk about this beautifully in the book.
If I can just read a little line.
Sure.
Your words.
I realize the source of my problems was the very thing you always thought was your greatest asset, the incessant, insatiable voice in my head.
Explain that.
You know, I really believed, and still to a certain extent do believe, that any success that I was achieving was directly linked to the intensity of my anxiety loop.
What was the last story I did?
How good was it?
Who's getting some story that I want?
Et cetera, et cetera.
What's my relationship with the bosses?
Blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum.
And, you know, I think that what happens with a panic attack is the voice in the head, the nonstop conversation that we're all having with ourselves all the time, goes out of control.
So then you get this assignment you don't want.
It's on faith and spirituality.
You know, you're a hardcore news guy.
You're out there covering war zones.
Now you discover this thing about meditation, which probably wasn't something you wanted to learn much about.
So, yeah, I didn't really have any interest in doing that, but it turned out to be a great thing for me because I spent a lot of time in mosques and megachurches and Mormon temples, and I made a lot of really good friends, and I, you know, I learned, I saw the value of having a worldview that transcends your own narrow interests.
That being said, nothing spoke to me personally until several years after I got the beat and several years after I had the panic attack, I stumbled on meditation.
And initially, my attitude was bad.
But you changed.
That bias is gone.
So you've gone from being someone who's pretty hardcore around science, which I think a lot of us are.
And you're not about science, you're about other things in life, but hardcore material things in front of you.
What makes it all click for you?
Meditation.
So, initially I thought it was only for people who lived in a yurt and are really into aromatherapy and collect crystals and Cat Stevens records.
But then I found out that there's been an enormous amount of science that strongly suggests a tantalizing list of health benefits.
And so that got me interested.
That allowed me to start exploring meditation.
And so what do you do when the voice in your head doesn't slow down?
I mean, it builds more stress, right?
If you don't.
So does it really work to slow it all down for you, to take you to a place?
While meditating or when in the rest of my life?
In the rest of your life.
Look, the voice in your head is going to do what it does.
Meditation is not about stopping the voice in the head.
It is impossible to, quote-unquote, clear the mind.
That is one of the big...
PR problems that meditation has.
People say, oh, I get it might be good for me, but you don't understand.
My mind is so busy I could never clear it.
You're only going to clear your mind if you're A, enlightened, or B, dead.
And so what meditation does is give you a different relationship to the voice in your head.
So when that voice says, hey, you should eat the 18th cookie, or you should say the thing that's going to ruin the next 48 hours of your marriage, you might be able to say, ah, bad idea.
I'm not going to do that.
So, how do you tame the voice in your head and reduce the stress?
dance playing when we come back.
Next, why does the voice in our heads play such a big role in anxiety?
Dan has simple steps to stop your multitasking and bring calm to your day.
Meditation for fidgety skeptics.
The plan to reduce your stress and find peace.
Next.
From fit to fat.
From eating healthy foods.
I was pre-type 2 diabetic and I put on 19 pounds.
How to spot sneaky sugar bombs before they blow up your healthy lifestyle.
On the next Oz.
That's coming up on Monday.
If you had told me a couple of years ago that I was going to end up as a traveling evangelist for meditation, I would have coughed my beer up through my nose.
This is kind of the last thing I ever thought would happen to me.
That is ABC News anchor Dan Harris.
He originally wanted to call his new book, The Voice in My Head is an A-Hole.
True.
So what's with this voice in our head?
Why does it play such a big role in the stress we sense?
We have this...
If you close your eyes just for a second, you will see, you will have a full frontal collision with the chaos that most of us don't even know exists, that we are having this nonstop conversation with ourselves.
We are constantly wanting stuff, not wanting stuff, judging other people, comparing ourselves to other people.
Here's one of the hallmarks of the voice in the head.
Thinking about the past or thinking about the future to the detriment of whatever's happening right now.
And here's the deal.
When you're unaware of this nonstop conversation, it yanks you around.
This is why you find yourself with your hand in the fridge when you're not hungry, you're losing your temper when it's strategically unwise, or you're checking your email in the middle of a conversation with your kid.
Let's change that.
Dan's new book, 10% Happier, discovers a way To truly achieve what we're talking about today, to get a plan for you right now that will help tame that voice in your head and reduce your stress.
So the first task is to stop the multitasking.
You touched on this, but we all say it.
What is the big flaw with our multitasking culture?
The big flaw is it's impossible to do.
It's a lie we're telling ourselves all the time.
Multitasking is a computer term.
We have one processor.
Neurologically, it is impossible to do more than one thing at a time.
So when you multitask, you are in essence toggling back and forth between one, two, three, four things.
And every time you do that, your brain has to ramp up for each new activity and you waste time.
Step two.
And Dan was a skeptic about this.
It's to meditate.
What is the skeptic's view on meditation?
How do you get them to think about it?
Okay, so part of it, and this is no disrespect to the people in your art department, you don't have to sit like this.
That is the first thing to know.
You don't have to sit in a funny position.
I have terrible posture.
I'm not very flexible.
Yoga never agreed with me.
You don't have to hold your hands like this.
You don't have to join a group.
You don't have to wear special outfits.
You don't have to believe in anything.
It is simple, secular, and scientifically validated.
And that That is what convinces a skeptic.
You willing to teach people right now?
Absolutely.
It's simple.
The three steps, we broke it down to that, three steps that you can all do right now to meditate.
This is, you know, Dan, your perspective on this, and I actually agree with you.
I think this is a very sharp way to get going.
So three very simple steps.
The first is to sit up straight.
Everyone do it right now.
Just sit up straight.
We're not going to have you meditate, but at least get the feel.
You can get close enough.
You sit up straight.
Most people close their eyes, although you don't have to.
The second step is just to notice the feeling of your breath coming in and out of your body.
You're just feeling the breath coming in and going out.
The third step is the key.
This is the whole game, because as soon as you try to do this, As soon as you just simply try to feel your breath coming in, going out, your mind's gonna go nuts.
You're gonna start thinking about, what am I gonna have for lunch?
Do I need a haircut?
Why did I say that dumb thing to my boss?
Why did Dances with Wolves beat Goodfellas for Best Picture in 1991?
Whatever.
It doesn't matter.
But the whole point is to notice when you've become distracted and to start again and again and again and again.
And every time you do it, it's a bicep curl for your brain and it shows up on the brain scans.
You are changing your brain.
Come on over.
Dan is so passionate about this whole movement that he's actually created an app for beginners.
Yes, it's called 10% Happier Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics.
So I'm really, I'm going hard at the skeptical audience, which because I'm basically, the app is designed for me before I started to meditate.
What would have convinced a skeptical, hard-charging, type A, neurotic news anchor to meditate?
That's how we designed this app.
And why, at the end of the day, Because it comes down to finding just a few minutes to do this.
Do you make that a big part of this push?
You argue that finding those five minutes is where the whole battle is won and lost.
I think this is not something that you should add to your to-do list that is going to further stress you out.
There are lots of times during the day to find this time, and the return on investment is extremely valuable.
That's the big challenge, really.
Are we willing to admit to ourselves that we're so disorganized in our approach to life that we can't carve out five minutes?
Which is literally nothing when it comes down to this claim you think.
Wonderful job.
I appreciate it very much.
Thank you very much.
And I've created another blueprint for balance scorecard for taming the voice of your head where you can try new behaviors and track your progress on DrRoz.com.
I want you to post your progress on my Facebook page.
Stay in touch for a chance to be featured on the show.
Dan's book is called 10% Happier.
Go get it and go check it out.
And you know what?
Just to make sure that we make a lot of people happy today, what do you think?
Should the audience get some?
Yes, absolutely.
They're all going home with it!
Yes!
We'll be right back.
Next, world-famous Iron Chef Jeffrey Zakarian shares his secrets on entertaining a crowd.
Alternative dishes for your big dinner that don't have to be turkey.
Oh, look at that.
You're really good.
Affordable, healthy, and simple to make.
Coming up next.
All week long, we have been showing you healthy and affordable ways to entertain your crowd during the holidays.
So I called in one of the best to help us wrap things up.
He is the host of The Kitchen, a chopped judge, and a world-famous Iron Chef.
My friend, Chef Jeffrey Zakarian is here.
Thank you for being here.
You're so busy.
How are you?
It's got restaurants in New York, in New Jersey, Miami.
Describe for everybody.
Greenwich, Connecticut.
Greenwich, Connecticut.
Just opened yesterday, yeah.
You'll be everywhere.
So what's your style of cooking?
Thank you, thank you.
How will folks describe it?
Well, I was born really in a French kitchen, so it's very classical, but I try to put some modern touches on it.
And I love nutrition.
I'm very much, I have a nutrition degree, so I'm very much like into this food.
A long time ago, I was into real healthy stuff.
So it works.
So you're wrapping up our week of cooking for crowds.
Yes.
What is the biggest mistake the average person makes when they try to cook for a lot of friends over the holidays?
Well, I mean, the holidays, it's one day, people.
It's either a Thanksgiving, a Christmas, or a New Year's Eve.
So don't use them as guinea pigs.
Don't test something you haven't done before, right?
Because just pull out the tried and true stuff you know and do it really well.
And that's what people want.
That's what I want.
I want to go to my in-law's house or my grandma's house and have what she does best.
So just do that.
Experiment on the kids sometime else, you know?
Okay.
Now you can make turkey and more traditional holiday beer, but you actually asked to make pork.
Yes.
Why is that good for the holidays?
I love pork.
And you know, there's all this fallacy about pork.
It's not healthy.
It's really not.
It has more monosaturated fat, this actual pork here, than the other stuff.
So it's good fat.
You know, and this is farm-raised.
It's organic pork, mangalista, Hungarian.
Mangalista pork?
Mangalista pork, yeah, and we brined it.
So what we've done here...
Is that really expensive pork whatsoever?
I've never heard of it.
It's slightly more expensive, but it's a holiday, right?
You go a little bit more for the holidays, right?
Just a touch more.
And, you know, turkey might be a little more expensive this year, you know.
We're not sure yet.
Hey, and newsflash, turkey is getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning.
You've got to baste it.
It's two and a half hours.
Newsflash.
This is 10 to 12 minutes, and you're happy, right?
Oh, gosh.
Okay, so these are cipollini onions.
I've just cut them in half.
Very simple.
Would you help me?
Put them on a sheet pan with radishes, right?
Who's cooking with radishes?
These are really amazing.
You roast your radishes?
You roast the radishes.
They take on this turnip, like, very beautiful turnip, like, oh, look at that.
You're really good.
I love radishes.
I've never roasted them.
No, you're roasting them fantastic.
About a half hour, 375. All right.
And then we have our pork chop.
So we take our pork chop out.
We're just going to put a little drizzle of olive oil here.
You can grill it in a pan, saute it into a pan, okay?
And this is a grill pan.
You can put it in a saute pan.
I like cast iron also for pork.
Anybody out there, cast iron's the best, really.
Cast iron, you actually get a little iron out of it for your bloodstream.
And pregnant mothers or people who are nursing are asked to eat spinach and cook in cast iron.
Everyone asks, how long do you cook things?
And I say, I always tell them to the temperature.
It's really important.
This is everything here.
So the finished product looks like this.
You pointed it out.
You got some horseradish sauce.
We have two sides.
Another beautiful side, roasted sweet potatoes.
This is incredibly good for you, right?
Incredibly good.
Just olive oil, lemon, rosemary in a pan.
Just similar to that.
Roast it and I have a little pomegranate ginger syrup that I've reduced here with a little bit of ginger ale.
A little drizzle on top of that.
Lisa puts maple syrup on it.
You could do that.
It's unbelievable.
I like pomegranate syrup just because it's just an incredible amount of antioxidants.
Speaking of which, we have another antioxidant salad.
We have frisee, mint, pine nut, and pomegranates.
We have a beautiful, simple vinaigrette and a little Parmesan cheese, which I like to grate table side for the show.
But at all, I'm not.
Not at all.
Listen, I posted all these recipes from Jeffrey on drhours.com.
Jeffrey's going to stick around.
I'll thank his three most important tips when it comes to entertaining a crowd.
These are not bitter at all.
Not at all, right?
They're delicious.
Next, it's 5 o'clock somewhere!
From healthy cocktails to potluck meals, Jeffrey and I make entertaining a crowd real easy.
Feel the beat.
The three things you need to know before cooking for the holidays.
Coming up next.
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That's coming up on Monday.
All right, Chef Jeff Zakarian is here.
He says there are three things you need to know before you start cooking for the holidays.
The first, it's 5 o'clock somewhere.
It is, isn't it, somewhere?
It is somewhere.
It absolutely is all the time.
And I want to make a really, really healthy drink.
What's it called?
This is called a Beats...
What's it called?
I'm sorry.
Feel the beat.
I renamed it.
I'll tell you why.
You're going to call it some chef-y kind of thing.
Feel the beat.
This is called feel the beat.
Different kind of beat, though.
You like this beat.
Okay.
So, again, we try to get healthy, and we're going to do something that's good for your heart, which is beet juice, right?
Show off.
Show off.
And your liver.
And then we're going to add alcohol to it to take all those benefits away.
It's a balancing act.
It's a balance, right?
So we're going to have fresh beet juice here.
I'm going to make this for you.
Which I really do adore.
You're going to help me shake this up, right?
Yes, I will.
Agave.
Agave has low glycemic, and it's twice as sweet, so you have to use less than simple syrup.
Okay.
Agave syrup in here.
Notice how he's light-handed on the agave, but he's going to be heavy-handed on the triple sec.
The triple sec.
Would you pass me the tequila, doctor?
Yes.
Pass the tequila doctor.
We are not in the operating room right now.
And finally, for acid, I'd acid balance, some fresh lime.
Okay, really good benefits.
So it's not bad.
A few things bad, but you know.
No, actually, tequila, this drink's one of the best drinks I can think of because the calorie load's not crazy.
Tequila generally is a pretty safe way to go in.
Clear alcohols, you don't get the hangovers as much.
That's right.
And I thought you were adding cinnamon.
You ready?
You want to help me shake?
Yes, ready?
Ready?
Okay.
That's it.
Reverse.
That's it.
Only one shoulder.
A one shoulder shake.
Okay.
And then we just, look at that beautiful color.
Oh.
And then a little cinnamon.
A little cinnamon because we all know cinnamon is really good for you.
Well, cinnamon very specifically is a male aphrodisiac.
I'll have another one.
Yeah.
I don't know how to let that slip out.
All right.
Share that with people in your life.
We'll sip this as we go along.
Absolutely.
All right.
Another Iron Chef tip is a potluck is okay tip.
If an Iron Chef says it, guys, listen carefully.
Why do you like potlucks for holidays?
I love potluck.
I mean, you know, you're working all the time.
And why not?
Why not just do the turkey, do the stuffing, and then invite seven or eight people and say, you know what?
You do the sweet potato, you do the salad, you do the green, and everybody can participate.
And you don't kill your host.
I mean, the host has to enjoy.
You don't want to be in the kitchen all day.
And I think it's really great.
I love potluck.
Now, okay, the last tip may be Tell me that doesn't go for everybody, but I want you to talk about this because I think it's a very clever concept if you have the ability.
Well, you know, again, it's stressful.
So if you can't do potluck, it's a lot of work.
You're up at four the whole week.
I would say the actual day of, find a vocational school or find someone online, a Craigslist, or a culinary student to come over and help you.
Pay them a little bit of money.
They'll be thrilled to help out.
They can put it in their resume, and it's a good thing to do for the community and for the school.
So hire someone for that day just to help you for a few hours.
If it's not just prepping, cooking vegetables, or actually cleaning, right?
I like the look.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Be right back, everybody.
Really good.
I'm a little choked up.
I'm sorry.
It's been a year of some big ups and downs.
Yeah.
The interview you'll be talking about tomorrow.
There's always a challenge when you have the kinds of tragedy you've lived through.
Raw.
Real.
Emotional.
I've been holding up with God taking away some of those blessings you've had.
I damn near came close to giving up.
That's coming up on Tuesday on Dr. Oz.
So I want to be honest now for a moment.
It's one week until Christmas, but how many of you still have Halloween candy in your house?
Let me see.
All right, you're coming down here.
You come on down here.
How are you?
What's your name?
Vanessa.
Vanessa.
So what's with the Halloween candy?
You can't get rid of it?
Well, my son.
Your son wants it.
He don't like candy.
He don't eat candy.
Oh, so you don't want him to eat it?
No, he just doesn't like candy.
Oh, so you have the candy handing it home?
Yes.
Oh, you're going to love this.
It's just sitting there.
This is perfect.
I know a lot of you are starting to plan a new diet, right?
New year, new diet, new you.
And you get tempted.
Maybe not your son, maybe you're tempted.
There's others in your family.
Are you tempted?
Yes, I am.
You are.
Every time I go to that bag at night.
Oh, you do?
Oh, I take him to my job.
How convenient, Vanessa.
So this is a new DIY that is sweeping the country.
It's homemade gingerbread kits.
It's a great gift.
I'm going to show you how to do this.
Are you ready?
Yes.
So you have all the Halloween candy.
Does that look sort of like the bowl you have at home?
Yes.
But more Snickers.
More Snickers.
Okay.
So everyone loves it.
What you need are the Halloween candy.
Then you're going to buy yourself some graham crackers.
Okay.
Right?
And then you're going to get something called royal icing.
Nice.
Icing that's sort of sticky.
And then you just need a tin.
That's it.
So very simply, you put the tin.
You put some nice little feathers in there.
Take the Halloween candy.
Okay.
Dump it in there, Vanessa.
Just dump it.
Yes.
A bunch of them?
Yep, take the whole thing.
You can dump the whole thing if you want.
That's it.
Now, without spending any money, because you already had these hanging around, including the extra stickers bars, you got them in there.
Then maybe you want to put something that's a little bit more Christmassy in there.
You know, maybe some colors that are more reminiscent of Christmas.
And that's it!
And you are done.
Now, this part is important.
Here's the part.
Some grand Christmas in there.
And you give them some of the icing, and they're going to build themselves a graham crack house with the Halloween candy.
You won't be tempted because it's out of the house to someone else.
Awesome.
Get rid of that Halloween candy.
Everyone is going to love health for you.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you.
Thank you for being here.
This DIY digital podcast at DrRoz.com.
Happy and healthy holidays.
I'll see you next time.
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