Mother's Day Breakfast in Bed

Join Rhiannon and The Food Dude, Kevin Roberts, to find out a simple but delicious meal to make for your mother to enjoy from bed on her most important holiday.

Mother's Day Breakfast in Bed Audra Lowe: Hi everybody and welcome back to Better, coming up next is get your button gear before you hit the beach and also, help your parents face their financial future, but first treat mom right this Mother’s Day. Rhiannon is in the kitchen with the Food Dude, Kevin Roberts, and they’re cooking up a brunch that’s worth staying in bed for them. Rhiannon Ally: Kevin Roberts, restaurant owner, TV chef, cookbook author, also a super guy. Kevin Roberts: Yes. Rhiannon Ally: Because guess what, he loves his mom and his nana. Kevin Roberts: Nana just turned 93 actually Rhiannon. Rhiannon Ally: Well, happy belated birthday and today you’re helping us make breakfast in bed for our mothers. Kevin Roberts: Absolutely. Breakfast, the most important meal of the day, so we’re going to start off with my rosemary roasted red potatoes. So obviously, we need the potatoes, right. I’m going to do is quarter them some— Rhiannon Ally: How much salt? Kevin Roberts: Let's go. Let’s go a little bit more, because you want that nice kind of salty crunch. Here we go, a couple of tablespoons worth. Rhiannon Ally: All this got garlic? Kevin Roberts: All garlic, we love garlic, right? Rhiannon Ally: I love garlic and so does my mom, so she’d be very happy. Kevin Roberts: Good, good. Rhiannon Ally: Okay. Kevin Roberts: And some rosemary now, and you actually kind of chop I up, you kind of want to like break it up, break it up through your fingers. You don’t want Nana gagging on rosemary. Rhiannon Ally: I think you're trying to kill her. Kevin Roberts: Yeah, yeah, I'm throwing that and add some good olive oil, right? That nice and coated, get some garlic brown, black pepper. Rhiannon Ally: This is pretty easy. Kevin Roberts: Now, does your mama Nana like spice? Rhiannon Ally: Yes. Kevin Roberts: Okay, if she likes spice, obviously you know, I'm a hot sauce freak guy. I put on everything, so-- Rhiannon Ally: Yes, my mom likes it spicy. Kevin Roberts: A little Franks RedHot, so just a little, just to kind of give it nice manic kick. Rhiannon Ally: Give it a kick. Kevin Roberts: You mix it all up, how easy is this? Now, obviously the new name is called -- Rhiannon Ally: Roasting, not baking, it's roasted rosemary potatoes. Kevin Roberts: Nana still calls it baking, but as I said, she’s 93. But yeah, the new term, the new fancy new term is roasting, you put those in the over, 350 degrees for about 40 minutes, you'll smell the rosemary and the garlic. Rhiannon Ally: And just leave it alone. Kevin Roberts: Oh yeah! Don’t touch that yet. And they turn out to be that lovely little roasting right there that little piece there. Rhiannon Ally: That does look delicious. Okay, what else are we making? Kevin Roberts: Well eggs, eggs obviously go with potatoes. Here’s just my twist, obviously you do scrambled, pouched, Nana loves sunny side up. I just do a little trick; I just made a white omelet, so it's egg whites, so pure protein. Rhiannon Ally: Very healthy. Kevin Roberts: And I just add a little Philadelphia cream cheese in there to give it a nice kind of hot creamy kind of taste, texture. Rhiannon Ally: Oh, mom is going to love that one. Kevin Roberts: Easy, yes, so omelet, roasted potatoes. We’re all set and now if the grandkids are around, or the kids are around. Rhiannon Ally: A lot of people have kids. They'll be there on Mother’s Day. Kevin Roberts: Exactly, I grab some little lenders. Rhiannon Ally: These are so cute. Kevin Roberts: Aren’t they the cutest little things? Rhiannon Ally: Yes, they're adorable. Kevin Roberts: But you actually—super healthy, obviously—you know, trustworthy, these are my go-to bagels and you actually find them in the refrigerator-freezer and fresh aisle. So like if they're not somewhere you like, they’re everywhere. When you walk in the store, they're sitting right there. So this is my breakfast bagel sandwich. So let’s throw some cream cheese on there. Let me grab my little thing too, I want to build one myself. I make these literally all the time. So a little cream cheese. Rhiannon Ally: Okay, oh, on both sides? Kevin Roberts: Oh yeah. Common don’t skip on the cream cheese. Rhiannon Ally: This is going to be good. Kevin Roberts: Okay, now a little red onion, you do turkey, black forest ham, a roast beef goes really well. And actually, it's funny. You're getting your carbs, your dairy, your life foods and your protein. So basically you're eating all four food groups literally in one hit. And I like Roma’s tomatoes because they're little less acidic than a regular tomato. Boom! Breakfast bagel sandwich. Rhiannon Ally: Oh that is so cute! Kevin Roberts: Breakfast in bed, they're they are right there. Rhiannon Ally: The finish product. Kevin Roberts: That’s it. Rhiannon Ally: That looks delicious. Kevin Roberts: Make mom and Nana happy. Rhiannon Ally: All moms might want a bagel sandwich. Kevin Roberts: Mom and Nana. Rhiannon Ally: Okay. What about the drink. We need a drink for mom. Kevin Roberts: Right there, I just had champagne and a little a pomegranate juice, mix it up, that’s it. Instead of old Jake, because that’s the—you know what the mimosa? Rhiannon Ally: Yeah. Kevin Roberts: Just mix it up. Get creative, that’s what cooking is all about. Rhiannon Ally: And pomegranate is so healthy for you, I love that. Kevin Roberts: There you go! Rhiannon Ally: Perfect. Thank you so much Kevin, these are delicious. All these in your cookbook, also we’re going to add these recipes to our website, Better TV.com. Kevin Roberts: I'm going back to bed. Audra Lowe: It looks good guys. I’ll definitely be checking out those recipes. Alright, now that you’ve served up breakfast in bed, it's time for some toning up, and we all have our stubborn spots when it comes to getting our bodies in shape. And one of the biggest offenders is the bottom. But how can we get the rear in gear? Better’s fitness expert Andrea Metcalf shows us how we can tone that butt in today’s Getting Fit. Andrea Metcalf: You know everyone wants to answer to that question, especially with Hollywood telling us what a bottom, curvy side we need to have. So I've got four moves that we can do to help build your bottom line and Juan Pedro from Equinox, in New York is going to show us some of his as well. First move I have is a side lounge. Step out to the side, press down into the hips and push back in. You want to make sure that your toes stays forward and the weights into your heel really push and extend and press it back in together. It's a simple move but you can make it a lot harder with adding resistance or a step. Juan Pedro: You know Andrea. I actually have a really good one that my clients end up enjoying a lot. What I like to do with people is a split squat and what I like to do is drop to one knee, you want that heel really close to your knee, load the front foot and you want your navel right over that front heel. As you come up, you want to extend this left foot forward, putting all the weight unto our left glute, helping you firm up the butt as much as you want. Go back down. Andrea Metcalf: As you want? I want it a lot, squeeze it! Juan Pedro: Full squeeze, all the way up. Andrea Metcalf Well, this reminds me of another exercise, a single-leg touchdown with a demi pointe. So we’re going to lift that back leg, that’s going to give us some glute work, bend the knee and reach down. Now, this is a really good one, you can do it at home, when you're picking up toys or clothes, or whatever it is you find on your floor and just reach, press, and down. Now, all three of these exercises you should do on both sides in about 12-15 reps. Got anything else? Juan Pedro: Yeah, definitely. I like going down to the floor. You're going to lay, heel right at fingertips length. You want to have your feet hip width apart, positioning your hip up, squeezing your butt at the very top. Fold this, not overarching the back, getting full extension on the hip, tightening your butt firmly. Andrea Metcalf: Yeah, this is a great one. Bridging is one the best ways to help support that lower back and opening up the hip flexors. And as you get more advanced, you can put your feet on a bench or a ball. And we can also do it single leg. Juan Pedro: Definitely. Andrea Metcalf: These are great exercises to build a better back side. And this is Juan at Equinox, now I'm Andrea Metcalf. These are our four tips on how to build a better back side. Audra Lowe: Thanks Andrea and if you guys have questions for Andrea, just email her at askandrea@bettertv.com.