Today we're making Halloween guacamole. Now, this is a recipe that I made 11 years ago and I thought it would be time to bring it back to all of you, bring it to the forefront. It's a great recipe. The guacamole is excellent. And today I'm doing it with a Halloween theme. We're going to put these into individual servings and it's great for adults or a kid party, whatever you want to do. Healthy for kids, fun for adults. I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to make it right after my chef joke. Okay, so here's chef joke number one. Number two will be a little bit later in the video, so stay tuned for that. All right, so what was Elvis Presley's favorite Mexican snack? The Jailhouse Squawk. Here's the ingredients I'm using to decorate. Some blue corn tortilla chips. I have a red bell pepper, canned sliced olives, canned black beans, some shredded carrots, and some provolone cheese. Okay, so we're going to start off making our fantastic guacamole. So we're going to start off by cutting up some onion. I'm using a yellow onion here and I'm just going to slice it up really small to begin with. That way there's less chopping later on. It just makes it so much easier. I'm using some diced green chilies here. These are mild. Feel free to use, you know, jalapenos if you like to add a little heat to this. Sometimes I like to add a little hot sauce. Do whatever you like. You want to keep it for kids. Make it nice and mild. Then we have some tomatoes I'm using. So you want to get your proportions right. So for example, if you're going to make say two avocados worth of guacamole, you never would do that. You'd probably make four or five, but let's just say two. Then you can double it. You want to use one medium tomato for that amount of avocado. And then I'd add, you know, some, I just kind of eyeball it, some onion and then some of the green chilies. Then I throw it all together on the board and then I chop it up again. All right. I don't want to make it super fine, but I want it fairly fine. It's still slightly choppy and then we'll place it into a bowl and then I'll cut the avocados in half. And then I will add the avocado to it and I'd like to remove a lot of the brown spots just because that's just how I have always done it. And then we'll mash it up and you have to add some salt and feel free to take a little taste too. So you know, if you have enough salt in there, salt is really important. And then the only difference that I made to my recipe compared to the one that was 11 years ago is I never used to add lime juice to it or lemon juice to it to keep it from turning brown. Today I'm going to do that just because I'm making these for a Halloween kind of appetizer that sits out. And so I'm going to add a little bit of lime juice to that. It's totally optional. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you, you know, you're worried about it turning brown, of course that might make it more interesting for Halloween, right? A little dark guacamole, I don't know. But you want it to look appetizing. So add a little bit of lime juice and that'll keep it nice and fresh looking. Okay, so maybe you make your guacamole ahead of time and you want to keep it in the fridge for a few hours before you actually make it up, let's say. Okay, so put some saran wrap on top of the guacamole and press it onto the guacamole so that you're keeping the air out basically. And that will also help with keeping it from turning brown. So just do that, put it in the fridge and then when you're ready to fill your little avocado cups, you're ready to go. All right, it's time for chef's joke number two. Here we go. What did the half avocado say to the other half of the avocado? Without you, I'm empty inside. All right, so we'll take our guacamole, our delicious guacamole out of the fridge and give it a little stir. Look how beautiful that is. All right, we're going to fill up our shells. Now you want to mound the guacamole just a little bit, not, you know, so it's completely flat, but just a little bit of a mound to it. And make sure you fill the cups all the way to the edge. It just looks nicer. Now I'd like to just take a shell. Once the shells are filled with guacamole, we can start making our scary faces. So this first one I'm making is a little witch and I'm using the shredded carrots as her hair and the chip on top of course is her hat. So now take a small knife and cut out circles in the cheese to make the eyeball. Then I cut a third eyeball and cut that one in half to use as sort of eyelids on the eyeball. Okay, so here I'm cutting the black bean in half to make the pupil. Then we'll place her eyeballs right on her face.  So now you can take sliced olives and cut them in half and then trim it a little bit to make eyebrows. Then I took a small piece of carrot and used that as her nose. Then I used a small piece of bell pepper to use for her lips.  So here she is with her big nose. I like it better. What do you think? So here's my next Halloween creature. This is Dracula and here's our finished Count Dracula. So then I made a cat and a bat. So feel free to get as creative as you want and make any, you know, Halloween figures that you want. Let me know which one is your favorite in the comments below. So that's my guacamole recipe with the Halloween theme. If you'd like to leave me a comment, let me know what you think. Try the recipe. I think you're going to love it. I've got another Halloween treat recipe for you to try if you're interested in something a little different. These are chocolate covered marshmallows, simple to make. Kids will love them. I'll leave a link for you right here on the screen. 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The Beloved Messenger of Allah, He's in Isra'at Miraj. He's literally traveling through the heavens with Jibra'el alaihi s-salam on Isra'at Miraj. And as he's traveling, the Prophet, alaihi s-salam, smells something so beautiful, he can't ignore it. And I want you to imagine this because the Prophet, alaihi s-salam, when he arrives, right, and he's granted the opening, literally the skies open up. The Prophet, alaihi s-salam, is greeted by angels up on angels sending salawat. Can you, first of all, we know that the Malaika love good smell. So I'm just saying, Suha'Allah, what the scent must have been like. Right from that, just the smell of the Malaika. Right, the smell of the first heaven and the second heaven and the third heaven. And he sees, seeing Suha'Allah of Jannah, what that must have smelled like. But then for the Prophet, salatullah s-salam, alaihi s-salam, to have a smell that exceeded that, that made him stop in his tracks and say, ya Jibra'el alaihi s-salam, what is that smell? What is that? And he says, oh, this is the smell of the hairdresser of the daughter of Firaum. He doesn't even mention her name. He says, this is the smell of the hairdresser of the daughter of Firaum. First of all, this is like, okay, now I'm really bad at this so you guys have to help me out.  Yeah, blue collar worker? Okay, you're not like CEO of a company. You're not like, you know, some high status. You're not coming from like some high status. You're the hairdresser, not a Pharaoh's wife, not like the hairdresser of the queen. No, you're the hairdresser of the daughter of Firaum. And so, Suha'Allah, the hairdresser of the... So the Prophet, the Malaika send him, is like, I need to know like what is so wonderful and significant about her. That Suha'Allah, I can smell her. I can smell her while I'm traveling, right through on my journey to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So tell me, tell me about her. And so he says, well, he begins to narrate to our Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, that basically one day she's combing the hair of the daughter of Firaum and she drops the comb. And then she drops the comb, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, she goes and she picks it up and she says Bismillah. So the daughter turns around and said, what did you say? She said, I said Bismillah. She said, are you talking about my father? She said, no. No, child. I'm not talking about your father. She says, Allah rabbi wa rabbuk wa rabbil anameen. That Allah is my Lord. You know, you probably don't know. Allah is your Lord and the Lord of the universe. And so the daughter becomes angry. She's like, I'm going to tell my father what you said. And the hairdresser said in my southern accent, go run tell that. And so she goes and she tells her father, right? Like a pompous princess, right? Daddy, my hairdresser said Bismillah. And so he says, what? She said, yeah, she's been infected with this religion of Musa. So, you know, in father fashion, in tyrannical father fashion, he says he's got to prove to his daughter, right? Who he is. So he says, well, you go, you come here. You tell her to report to me. So she comes, right? Here I am. He said, do you believe in the Lord of Musa? She says, Allah rabbi wa rabbuk wa rabbil anameen. She's talking about speaking truth to power. She's not doing it from like behind a, you know, a screen, typing Facebook, hitting that change button.    She knows all the men that he's murdered. And she says, Allah is my Lord and your Lord of the universe. And so he says, okay, I see your boldness.  I'm not even, in this moment, I'm not even going to address you directly. Because I see your, you know, how you're presenting yourself.  So her husband also worked in the court of Pharaoh. So he brings her husband. They go bring her five children from her home. One of them is an infant baby, like a baby in her arms. And they then, he then orders a cauldron pot to be boiled of oil. Not just water, oil. You know, the difference between water and oil is that when it boils, if it touches you, it's going to stick. So even if you wipe it, it's going to, the skin is going to come with it. So they boil this oil until it's bubbling. And he asked her, say what you said again. She looks at him and she says, Allah Rabbi. Rabbuk Rabbil Anamin. And he looks at her husband and he says, you allow this? You let this happen? You let her be infected with this religion? And her husband says, Allah Rabbi. Wa Rabbuk Wa Rabbil Anamin. And Pharaoh becomes infuriated. He orders his clothes to be ripped off and thrown into this boiling oil.  And she's standing there watching. I can't imagine. I can't imagine the tears in her eyes or the lump in her. I can't imagine how she must have felt. And then he asked her again. She answered the same way. They started with her oldest child. He asked her again. She responded the same way. He put the next child and the next and the next until she's holding the baby in her arms. And he asked her again. You want to change your mind yet? And at that moment she looks down at her baby. And of course with the mother heart, she holds the baby a little bit tighter. And Subhanallah, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala manifest a miracle in her arms. This is the first child that we know to speak.  And literally even in that, even with Pharaoh hearing that, he then becomes more angry, rips the child out of her arm and then Subhanallah boils her. Boils the child in this pot. And he asked her again. And she says, I just have one request. Bury us in the same grave that we could be together in the Akhira. I'm not afraid. I know you're only sending me to my Lord. This is a whole level of Iman. A whole level of taqwa. And Subhanallah, though, he does the same thing to her. He boils her. All of them alive. And so when the Prophet, Salaam, hears this, he's just overwhelmed. He's just overwhelmed. And of course then the question becomes, when he tells the companions, the question becomes like, who is she? How does she learn about? How does she know the deed? What happens, Subhanallah? What happens next?  Queen Asiya runs. When she hears the story, she runs the feral. And she said, did you murder her and her entire family? She's asking him like, I know that you're cruel. I know that you've done some horrible things, but tell me you didn't do that. And he says, I did. She was talking about this religion of Musa, saying that Allah was her Lord. She said Allah was my Lord. And he began to laugh. And at that moment, Queen Asiya confesses. Queen Asiya says, Allah rabbi. Wa rabbuk. Wa rabbil ahnamin. And this is the moment where he literally orders all of her clothes to be ripped off. He drags her by her hair. Hanks her off the balcony. And initially the people are screaming, O Pharaoh, this is the beautiful, the Queen Asiya, the kind, the merciful, the generous, please. And he says, you know what she said? And then immediately the people back off and say, O Pharaoh. He murders her, Subhanallah. He literally leaves her first in the desert naked for three days, expecting that the animals would eat her alive. And he sends the soldiers to go find her after three days. And when they find her alive, they literally drag her back by the horse. They drag her back.  So then he orders a horse to be tied on one side of her and another on the other. And he keeps whipping the horse. Until it's literally separating her limbs and the skin from its bones. She begins to make a dua that's mentioned in the Quran. She says, my Lord, build with me, build for me with you. A house in Jannah. And she's like, build for me with you a house in Jannah. And Subhanallah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala literally shows her in that moment the manaiqa building her home. She smiles. She smiles. Pharaoh becomes enraged. He says, how dare you?  I'm torturing you after everything I've done. And you smile? Why you smile? And she says, and save me from Pharaoh. And in the evil, his evil folks, his evil people who come with me, come with him. And in that moment, Subhanallah, he's so angry that she smiled. She makes this dua. Like, save me from him, Ya Rabbi. So he then orders a catapult to crush her body. Right before the catapult comes, this catapult to rock a stone, a boulder to crush her. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala removes her soul. Now you might be wondering, why do I tell you this story tonight? Because in these moments, what will you do for Allah? What will you withstand? To say Allah, I will not deviate from this day. I am, how will you say I'm not concerned about the people? I'm not concerned about their opinion of me. I'm not concerned about my perceived notion of what they might do to me, whether imagined or real. I don't care. What I care about is what does my Lord think of me?  Will my Prophet, Salamu alayhi wa sallam, smell me coming with a beautiful sin? Subhanallah.