These guys have a five-ingredient challenge.
Father and son are each going to cook
their versions of a five-ingredient dish.
You know, of course they have pantry items.
But they have to use pork chops,
bacon, apples, broccoli, and almonds.
It's kinda like you doing 30-minute meals.
Yes like a 30-minute meal.
Right? Exactly.
But we only have 8 minutes.
(Audience claps excitedly)
Yeah.
(laughs)
Right.
EJ?
Yes?
You have been working in Dad's kitchens now
for, what, a year, a little less, a little more? What?
A little more than a year now...
Well he grew up in the kitchen.
Yeah, I mean I grew up...
Well I grew up in the kitchen too, obviously
Yup.
My mom worked in restaurants
for 60 years.
But you started legit working with a chef coat
and all that. Look at the two of you.
Oh God that's glorious.
Um, you started working in there over a year ago.
What is your style?
Can you describe it for the audience here?
Um, you know I like taking classic dishes
and kind of...
Setting them on...
Yeah giving a new spin to them and stuff like that.
I like taking his old dishes that are old, of course.
(laughs)
(audience laughs)
And, uh, and change them up.
(laughs)
Uh, because everything...
You kind of have like a little bit more
of a French style...
Yeah. For sure.
Oh you're blanching your broccoli.
Yeah I'm blanching the broccoli.
That's very interesting.
Do you have more of an idea of...
You see...
...of where you're going now
with your dish?
I'll tell you what, you're having to waste
time and blanch, I went in the back,
you were on a phone call earlier,
I made a romesco in this prep kitchen.
Whoa!
(audience cheers)
Because we don't have time to mess around.
OK..
Actually...
First of all the fact that a teenager
in today's world even knows what romesco is
is pretty cool.
That is a sauce with the almonds and
instead of pureeing peppers, he pureed the
broccoli with the almonds.
Anything else rolling in that sauce, EJ?
Ah, just a little honey,
'bout to put a little lemon juice in there.
A little acid...
Jazz it up a bit more.
A little sweet.
I'm going in with my thin pork chops
in this sort of bacon...
So these look like thin, uh, loin, uh
center-cut pork loin chops, thin cut?
Yes. You can see how this is sort of
turning out.
It looks beautiful, Em.
The pork fat is just like whoo,
just getting all of that.
I love...
Yeah.
EJ what are you doing?
I just reglazed my pan a little bit
with a little, uh, cider that I'm using.
Um, we're going to bring it all together
over here with the apples and all that.
Really?
Yeah, how are you doing over there, babe?
Oh I'm doing good. I just added
a little flour to my pan here.
Did you?
Yeah, because what I'm going to do now is
I'm going to sort of use Rachael's...
A little thickening agent.
Yeah. I'm going to use Rachael's
stock real quick, now that the bacon is soft.
And, um...
Not a bad idea.
Yeah. Watch this. (laughs)
You two are having fun,
that's all that matters in the end.
Oh we're having a blast!
(sizzling pan)
How is Emeril as a dad? Was he the softie?
Or was he the toughie?
He tries to be the toughie, but he's so...
No, Mom's the toughie.
Yeah but, you're a teddy bear.
He really is.
I figured you would say that.
Emeril, is there a favorite gift,
or thing, or day, a favorite Father's day
memory that you have?
Well besides having my children, my wife
bought me a fishing boat.
And I don't know if that's good or bad.
I don't know if she's telling me, "Bye, bye."
She's trying to get away from you, dude.
She's trying to get away from you.
So, okay you see? You see how the broccoli?
This is a one-pot wonder.
It's a one-pot wonder!
It's a one-pot wonder.
(Audience cheers and claps enthusiastically)
That's too much for me Rach.
Oh you're using the whole almonds?
Yeah.
Whole almonds, and he's got almonds
in his romesco.
Oh! Bam!
(audience laughs)
Emeril you've gotta! Come on, you've gotta say it!
Come on, give us a bam! It's Father's Day.
Bam!
(Rachael and crowd cheering)
That was good. That was good.
OK, this is all coming together now.
Awesome.
So there are a lot of, uh
there are a lot of gentlemen in the audience.
And I just want to say to all of you
Happy Father's Day.
Mmmm!
Happy Father's Day guys!
(audience claps and cheers)
Happy Father's day.
Love you buddy.
Good?
I love both of these dishes.
But what I love the most,
and what I love about food,
is that it brings us together.
Yes it does.
It brings together generations
Yes it does.
It can take you any place you've
ever wanted to go in life.
I mean it is the most basic way that we nurture one another.
I love you both for being here. And that's what matters.
Thank you.
Thanks Rach.
(audience cheers and applauds)
I love you.
Love you...
(audience cheers enthusiastically)
(shimmering transition sound)