All right.

Start with some onion.

I am gonna make beef kokkinisto with macaronada.

This dish is a very traditional Greek dish.

It's almost like a ragu over macaroni type noodles.

There is a braised beef.

I'm using tri-tip today for mine.

I'm going to cook it in the pressure cooker.

Get the beef nice and tender and we're going to sear it first.

The sauce will come from all of the ingredients that I'm going to put in the pressure cooker with the meat.

How are you doing?

Good.

Good.

So I'm doing a braised beef and a tomato base sauce, so, in Greek, it's kokkinisto.

Kokkinisto.

Yes.

Kokkinisto.

Kokkinisto.

Kokkinisto.

What I'm going to do at the end with the sauce, I am going to take the immersion blender and thicken it up.

I brought my own noodles from Chicago, so it's like a bucatini, but a little bit thicker.

So you get all the sauce in-between?

You are going to get all the richness of the meat.

I am very much looking forward to tasting this dish.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This is something that is very special to me because this is something that my mom made growing up all the time.

And it's one of those dishes that brings me back to that time when she was still around.

Oh, yeah.

Just what I want.

My mother passed away years ago, and unfortunately, right as she was losing her battle with cancer.

My father became ill, and when she passed away, he died of a broken heart.

After our parents passed away, we made it a point to celebrate life and to rediscover those recipes and traditions and make sure that we pass those down to our kids.

So this is one of those ways that we can keep their memory eternal.

Should be enough cheese.

Sticky.

Abby.

Hello there.

I'm making a sweet noodle kugel, a traditional Jewish dish.

I hope you love it, because there are those that prefer savory and there are those that prefer sweet.

When I grew up, my mother made a savory noodle kugel, and I never wanted to tell her, but it was not my favorite.

Well you know what, you were very polite as a child.

Yes, I was very polite.

So when I got older and I inherited a lot of my grandmother's Jewish cookbooks, and I found there was such a thing as a sweet noodle kugel.

How would you describe it?

A kugel is white egg noodles, and basically you make an egg custard with some sour cream, some cottage cheese and I add cream cheese for a little richness, a little bit of sugar.

I add a dash of vanilla.

That's great.

I'm excited to give this a try.

Thank you, Abby.

Thanks.

Noodle Kugel is a big casserole.

Most people make it in a 13 by nine pan.

It takes 45 minutes to an hour to bake.

So I decided to make it an individual ramekins so that we could serve it in the right amount of time.

Noodle kugel is a very polarizing dish.

You either love it or it's just like noodles and it is taking a risk.

But YOLO, you only live once.

My daughter had to tell me what that was.