(alarm beeping) (upbeat music)
- Stop, stop!
Jesus Christ!
Hello everybody. It is me Elise, hello.
Today I am worried about my cholesterol.
I am eating like "The Boondocks" for 24 hours.
I particularly enjoy "The Boondocks"
because of its commentary on a variety of issues
regarding black people.
It provides a lot of nuance, satire, and comedy,
which I find delightful.
I am excited with caution today.
The first dish I will be making is the Luther,
which is an interesting looking breakfast burger
that granddad makes for Huey and Riley in the episode
"The Itis".
The Luther isn't too complicated.
It's a pound of beef burger patty,
all seasoned and cooked up nicely with cheese,
all melted together with some bacon.
And then the key to this sandwich
is that the burger buns are donuts.
It looks crazy amazing. I won't lie.
Honestly, it's a pretty sandwich,
but it also looks like a heart attack on a plate.
Donuts being the buns of my burger does not entice me.
I'd rather just have the bread,
but I'm gonna give this a taste
and hopefully I'll be alive to tell the tale.
Ahh!
You know what? I'll tell you something.
It's actually kinda good.
Honestly, the sweetness, the sugary sweetness of the donut
is canceled out by the savoriness of the bacon,
the cheese, and the burger.
And everyone knows like sweet, savory,
sweet, salty goes together, so it works.
Like I'm probably gonna go replace the donuts
with regular bread though.
It's not bad so I'm gonna eat this
and then I'm gonna come back for lunch
and we'll get it going, but breakfast.
For lunch, I'm gonna be making the peach cobbler
that Ms. Dubois made and Riley said it looked like vomit.
See, I'm making peach cobbler for lunch
because I'm still kind of full from
the whole donut burger mess
and I need something easy.
So I've never made peach cobbler before,
but it's not too complicated.
Just some sugar and the peaches
and you melt everything down.
And then you got to make the cobbler,
which is flour, and cinnamon, some baking, soda, milk,
butter, all that good stuff.
Mix it all together and pour it in your pan.
And then you bake it. And it's apparently amazing.
So I'm seeing that I've made too much cobble
and not enough peaches, but,
definitely not enough peaches, but it's cute.
All right. Okay.
It is here. Get a good look at it.
It's not the prettiest peach cobbler in the world,
but for my first time making it
never having made peach cobbler before,
I think I did an okay job.
Let's give it a taste.
Peach, a little peach and a little cobble together.
Delicious.
Peach cobbler, A plus.
This will be my lunch for today, I guess.
I'll be back for dinnertime.
For dinner, I'm gonna be making fried chicken
and mac and cheese that is part of the feast
that Huey was talking about in the episode "The Itis".
Alright, y'all, it's dinner time.
And I want to show you guys how I made this
beautiful plate of mac and cheese and fried chicken.
Now, when it comes to mac and cheese,
I want to tell you guys a secret.
I don't really like it. Ahh!
I know, I know. Call the police.
It's just like, I never make it at family gatherings.
I never make it at Thanksgiving
'cause I don't really prefer it.
So in the process of making this,
I was just kind of like, you know,
doing everything haphazardly.
Threw a bunch of cheese into the pot,
melted it with some heavy whipping cream,
and said, you know what?
I hope this works.
I added a little bit of seasonings here and there.
And after my noodles were done boiling,
I went ahead and added the liquid-y cheese mixture
to the pot.
Mac and cheese was formed.
Then of course, as a black person,
you have to bake your mac and cheese.
Yeah, did I burn it a little bit on the top? Yes.
But it's for the aesthetic. It looks good.
And so I have my mac and cheese and, you know,
fried chicken is very simple.
Chicken, egg wash, flour,
make sure you season everything, fry it up.
And then you have a fried chicken. That's not complicated.
So here is my meal and it is beauteous.
It's mac and cheese.
Ahh, ahh! It's hot.
Now, if you take a bite of mac and cheese
with a bite of fried chicken.
Let me tell you guys another secret.
I don't think this was actually on the list of things
I was supposed to make this episode.
I think I made this by accident.
Somehow I confused myself with my notes
because nowhere in the episode
do I actually see mac and cheese.
Fried chicken lasagna. That is what I was supposed to make.
I have to make it, don't I?
Of course I had to, but I was not about to make it.
So I ordered some,
got my leftover fried chicken, microwave that,
put everything nicely together
and boom, I got my fried chicken lasagna.
- Fried chicken breakfast lasagna?
- Yup.
- Fried chicken lasagna.
In the episode, granddad just offhandedly mentions it
and I was like, you know what, that's interesting.
And I'm sorry,
but just the idea of sitting here and cooking lasagna
after cooking that mac and cheese,
it simply was not going to happen.
Let's just give it a taste. I'm sure it'll taste good.
I like lasagna.
It's good.
As long as you're someone who enjoys lasagna
and you're someone who enjoys chicken,
I don't see how you could dislike this.
Some challenges that I've done in the past,
the things that I had to cook were really intricate
or more difficult to make.
All these recipes were relatively easy.
I'm getting a little bit of heartburn as we speak.
Overall, it was a pretty fun challenge.
I love "The Boondocks" and it was nice making the food
from this episode.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
I will be back soon for more food challenges.
Me and my fried chicken lasagna say goodbye.