Today on the exam room. I feel like you're almost like the Bob Ross of the kitchen, you know, there's no mistakes.

Well, here's the thing. The nice thing about cooking is if there is a mistake you get to eat your mistake.

Some of the most wonderful recipes that I've created or that I've heard other people create have come

from mistakes or from leftovers or from actually running out of an ingredient.

So just feel free to color outside the lines.

I will say, especially in my book,

if you're doing a baked recipe,

like if you're baking the cake,

please follow that recipe because with baking it's a science, you know, you can't just say,

well, she said I could do what I want, so I'm going to put a cup of baking soda in.

That won't work. I did something once I put too much baking soda in. This was hilarious. Thank God for my husband.

And I was blending it and I didn't realize I put too much.

And it's just like I love Lucy. It just kept rising to the top to the top it overflowed it messed up the whole

kitchen so for baking you kind of want to follow the recipe and my advice is in general

when you make a recipe if you have the ingredients follow it the way the chef

intended or the recipe created the first time and then make your own variations.

But with things that are like raw or uncooked, there's no reason you can't play around with this recipe and tweak it to your liking.

Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs,

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Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.

This is episode 20 of season 7 number 519 overall and Chef A.J. is on the show with us today.

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