Can These Chefs Turn This Elf Drawing Into Real Meals? • Tasty

Hello, my name is Marilee, I'm seven years old and today two

chefs

are going to compete to make the dish of my dreams. Hello, Hello, I'm Ellen, I'm Alvin. There's a group of elves behind us and I heard that

this

is food for the elves. Is that true? Yes. Okay, hello, my name is Ellen Bennett, I used to cook professionally and now I'm the founder and CEO of Hedley and Bennett. I'm excited, I want to see what you're going to do, what are these you're going to do? you're

drawing

here they are tiny meatballs these are hats oh like Santa hats I have no idea how to make that happen what is your favorite type of food lasagna oh I love lasagna it's so good oh maybe some tacos because those are Very Well, what is that green thing you are?

There is a kind of noodles. Those are some interesting noodle shapes you have there and I see some smiling faces so they're happy noodles yeah and the noodles have faces like. What the hell? I think the elves will love

this

and are spying on us, so you can go ask one behind us. Did you ask the guy up there on the left? I think his name is Greg, so Greg, oh, you're sleeping with Greg. sleeping These are colorful little gifts. Do they have something delicious inside? It's a surprise and then she throws these gifts on top.

What am I going to do with that Marley? What are you

drawing

now? What's that? It's like a kind of edible tinsel. tinsel, I got nervous very quickly, okay, more tinsel, more tinsel in a different color, this is getting complicated, everything will be fine, cheerfully, you made a fantastic drawing, I think we both have a lot of ideas of what we want to cook for you , so let's get to work, we'll put on our chef aprons and prepare you something delicious, okay, yeah, good job, see you soon, hello, how are you? Oh, well, well, well, so this is my plan.

I'm going to Start with a bed of creamy tomato sauce topped with tricolor pasta for your noodles for your Santa hat meatballs. I'll use frozen meatballs with cherry tomatoes and cream cheese for the gifts. I'm going to fry mozzarella and tie it. with a chai bow and topping it with a bow tie spread, all topped with edible chives and paprika tinsel, so here's what I'm thinking: the happiest Christmas nacho snowball for the base. I'm going to use refried beans and cheese on top. my noodles doodle pumpkin, sweet potato, bell peppers and tortillas to make everything happy.

I'm going to use kalamata olives as smiley faces for Santa's meatballs. I'm going to make meatballs with chorizo ​​and add a tortilla chip on top as a hat. Gifts. It will be an avocado box with a guacamole surprise inside on top for the ribbon. I'm going to use thinly sliced ​​tomatoes and finally make snow mounds with sour cream and cotija cheese on top before I start cooking. I brought you a very important tool, the first one you largely invented, yes, it's from the line of your apron, right, yes, that's amazing, yes, wow, let's tie it in the front, amazing so you can stick a towel through.

I feel like Superman appreciates it. Okay, so with my apron. I'm going to start cooking, the first thing I'm going to do is start with some fresh pasta, so I have some flour and I make a little hole. It's called a well. I like egg yolks. I think it will make the pasta very yellow. I'm going to use six whole egg yolks and then season a little bit of salt by whisking the egg yolks into a nice little paste. I'm making doodle worms for my secret experience, what does that mean? Well my plate isn't just a plate it's going to be a the whole world is an amusement park maybe you're not going to take on ellen she's a professional chef he knows what he's doing she'll probably blow me out of the water so this is going to be quite a tough time alvin is a super sweet guy,

real

ly nice, i'm going to crush him, he's just a lovely young man who's about to be murdered.

Okay, those seem a little dry and I'll add a little bit of water. I'm going to cut sweet potatoes. I like to use a mandoline because it makes it cut perfectly. Look. that boom is so perfect I'm going to move on to my pumpkin that's huge it's the one from area 51 whoa look that's so satisfying so wow okay you know pasta dough is a labor of love man we just appreciate all of this right , my pasta dough is nice, it's soft, it's great, I'm going to wrap it and make two more look at this, this is the best mango ever, it's like a melon, look how pretty, yeah, now I'm moving.

On my tortilla shapes she

real

ly had all those fun doodles that she made and I want to recreate them, so I'm going to fry tortilla chips and bake butternut squash and sweet potatoes. Oh, doodles like in the picture, so I look. Ellen has many. things and I'm a little intimidated because I just need my little dumpling and she already has mountains of color next to her, Alvin, can we take that drawing so I can see it? Sure, let's do it. I'll put it here just for inspiration oh yeah, now I'm going to throw my garlic in bell peppers, a touch of yellow and red salt, pepper, a little bit of lemon juice, a little bit of apple cider vinegar, I'm just throwing them in and I'm just going to do it lightly because I want them to have a shape because I'm going to stick them in the refried beans before, so I'm going to stick them in, that's aggressive.

I have my yellow pasta dough, so I want to work. my second one which is green so I'm going to put egg yolks in it again and then I also have some cooked spinach in the drain hoping that this will give it a green color. It looks very green. I like it a lot. okay, dry ingredients, salted flour, check it out and you'll see, oh, that's workable, oh yeah, that feels good, let's make this table flour so the dough doesn't stick and then the same thing, we'll just knead this until it's

turn

into a nice, soft and flexible dough.

I feel great, although it's a lot of fun to make fresh pasta, so I feel like I'm in my lane, so now I'm going to my oven. I have more salt. I'm going to run out and grab my sweet potatoes and squash. the oven and I'll be right back. Will you take care of my station while I'm gone? I'll do my best thanks promise thanks promise okay, I'll be right back okay red pasta same a lot of egg yolks and to make it red I was thinking of tomato paste because it's very red. Do you need more?

I'm going to add a little paprika to make it more red. It's quite red. Well, with the flour. Well, that's like more orange. Next, I'll rehash. beans, I just took some garlic, I crushed it a little, I'm throwing in some onion and I just canned refried beans and I'm just judging them by re-frying the refried meat, so taste, taste, fry and, squared , Yeah. -refresh, I'm going to add some cheese, I'm adding fontina cheese that melts so cleanly it's glorious, so as my granny would say, I'm adding some chicken broth, which is really just chicken broth, stew or soup.

I really like the color of this, it's orange and it's a little bit dark which is great so yeah I'm going to finish this off the pasta doughs are done and then I'm going to move on to something else so I'm going to use a skillet of molten iron. and they're coming out a little brown things happen, you make mistakes and that's okay you just have to move on quickly so I'm not going to let this cast iron skillet get in my way I'm just going to change pans and move on. rolling around making little Santa hats for my happy meatballs these are just frozen meatballs I reheated them I would have made fresh ones except I think the kids like frozen meatballs for me I think frozen meatballs taste great Alvin is making pasta from scratch but I just saw him bring out frozen meatballs, that's crazy, meatballs are easy, they make them so much more delicious, so I'm just saying you could have made meatballs.

I'm like, dude, frozen meatballs taste really good. I'm going to make a little creamy custard mixture with some cream cheese. and heavy cream to use as the white parts for the Santa hat, all good, new approach, switched to stainless steel pans, feels like the best move, that cast iron was getting too hot and starting to brown my tortillas and I have My back in the oven I hope we can get some good fries out of this. I got my tortillas out and now I'm just going to quickly sprinkle a little bit of salt on them, so I have a piping bag here just to plan a little bit of festive planning. animate under these Santa hats with a tomato right there and then put a little bit on top, that's cute, that's a Santa hat, okay, this didn't

turn

out the way I wanted, okay, that might come to bite me later , OK.

I feel more confident with my tortilla chips now that they are starting to look good and I'm even moving on to my meatballs now. I have chorizo, onion, garlic, a little cotija cheese, breadcrumbs, a little salt, a little pepper, cilantro. and then I'm just going to make balls alvin, how are you going to make your gift? Well, I think kids like cheese and he cheerfully said he wanted to have a surprise inside, yeah, and I thought maybe I could make mozzarella cubes. gift size but I eat fried so when you bite into it it's like cheese inside like a mozzarella oh I like it I think this technique is pretty clever okay I have a lot of cubes to choose from so I'm going to bread in flour, eggs and panko to go, so they look great.

Things are going pretty well. I'm going to make some guacamole real quick. Lots of really delicious olive oil. Maldon salt and lots of lemon juice. Take my other avocado and I'm going to cut it with the mandoline so that there are perfect slices, I'm going to put lemon juice everywhere because I don't want them to oxidize, season with a little salt a little kosher salt and then I cut them into cubes small ones so my oil is pretty hot keep me at 300 so I can cook the cheese so I'll try to throw in a cube and see if that works and then we'll do some more oh we're frying here we go.

I'm literally making a glock. It is a very precious box. I think it's not going to work. I'm getting a little scared because this doesn't look pretty. I don't like this box of avocado. It simply does not maintain its shape or structure. looks a little flimsy, oh those glock boxes, my backup plan is potatoes, you know, sometimes you just have to decide something didn't work and move on. I want to see if I can tie a bow with a chive, so chives aren't as flexible as I thought these gifts are really giving us a run for our money what the heck man why did I do this to myself?

I'm thinking the same thing. Now I'm making the cheese. I'm going to heat this up, I'm going to add my half and half with my fancy French cheese and then I'm going to add the Monterey Jack velvet and the cheddar cheese, I've got some little bows here one, two, three, that's nice, yeah, okay. moving on to my potatoes with conviction they are my backup plan it's very official now it's the potato gift boxes we won't talk about the avocado gift box I don't even know what you're talking about don't tell anyone zip These are definitely going to keep their shape.

Remember my words. The potatoes are inside. They've been simmering for a while. They are going out. I'm going to cut them. I will make them in perfect squares. Throw them in the fryer. That's where I am, how are you? I just trimmed myself, tell me, tell me where, tell me how you are. I'm pretty good, my bow ties, I trimmed them to make a nice bow shape and then I'm going to finish my presents I need to finish my potatoes I need to conquer those gift boxes the dough has been resting they're soft I'm going to cut them into pieces there's something super satisfying in just making fresh pasta yourself I'm feeling a little bit more hopeful about my potato squares, so I'm taking the edges of the bell pepper that looks like wow, these potato boxes are turning out perfect, they're exactly what I wanted, they have structural integrity and they look amazing, yes, in the drawing, I think they are like these wider, thicker noodles, not very long and have a funny curve to them.

I don't think any type of traditional pasta fits like that, so I'm just making it by hand, okay. If it's a little wonky, you know, I think the texture adds a little bit of flavor sometimes, so that's dough number two, the green one, this dough is amazing to work with with a very nice, nice little golden one that might even throw in my guacamole box. Are you going to make it in the eggs? Are you going to make it really special? could you do it these are the red ones the tomato and paprika paste so for my smiley faces I have olives and some small tweezers that I'm going to use to place the eyeballs like this, okay, I think this is enough paste for one serving for a cheerful yellow, green and orange, orange, red, I think it will taste very good, the water is boiling, let's cook these noodles, man cooking for children, I know this is difficult and it is really tiring.

I'm so tired I feel like we need to take a nap. What if we lean on each other? Well, okay, I see you, I'm going to lay the foundation. I wanted to make a structure, so hers is a little bit spread out, so I'm. I'm going to take a similar approach and the last thing I need to do is make the edible tinsel so I'm going to chop up some chives oh my goodness yours looks crazy. Holy Moly, okay, lastly touch the green and red tinsel, I think a little paprika, okay, boxes of guacamole, it worked, little cilantro palms, oh my Godmine, I almost forgot about my potatoes, not the potatoes, oh yeah, cool gift boxes, I think I'm good, I'm ready to show him this, yeah, are you ready?

Yes, good job, so I think Merly will probably like it. This is because of this wonderful colorful magical explosion of different shapes, textures, heights along with their happy faces, little mounds of snow, the palm trees made of cilantro, everything. It's there and it's a party overall, I'm really happy with the way the pasta and sauce taste, I think the colors are great, I think the meatballs look really great, I'd say I did a good job recreating how they look I would see her dish in real life, so I really think Marilee will enjoy eating this, bring to my elf dinner, wow.

I definitely see little gifts and I guess the lasers are supposed to represent big noodles and a little samson meatball here and this is a happy face. I'm so excited that she's picking up on every little element, not a single detail she missed, whatever it may be. it tastes easy it tastes like potato that's good it tastes like a meatball with cheese it's a little spicy but in a good way spicy and she likes it yeah it tastes like it has avocado in it and I don't like avocado all that time for the glock box and her He doesn't like avocado of everything here, what I like the most are Santa's meatballs.

I thought dad's gifts were a really good idea. I feel like I have a good opportunity. Wow, where do I start with this? It looks like spaghetti with little Santas and some gifts and colorful noodles. I'm excited about this. We've had a good start. It tastes like some kind of grass. Oh, these chives will be for me then. Man, I don't know what it is. inside the gifts, he takes another bite of the cheese cube and still doesn't know what it is. I thought kids love cheese, it tastes like tomato, I don't like tomatoes, it tastes like a normal meatball, very good, he says it tastes normal.

I think I'm going to beat it in the meatball department. I really like noodles. Is very good. My least favorite Finnish is probably whatever it is. She likes some of my things. She doesn't like some things about Ellen. I think we both have. Hi, hi, okay Marilee, you had two dishes today, which one did you like best? The nachos or the pasta. I liked the ganachos. Yes, I'm very glad you like my dish. She's Alvin's turn, but hey, I have an apron. a win in my book because i like your dish here i love it yes thank you marilee it's beautiful i won woohoo it feels amazing maybe i should go back to making giant food right?