It's time for a brand new game we're calling
Who Knew You Could Cook?
We are spending too much on money--
on money?
Songs.
All right.
Who better to play than two people
known for their amazing culinary skills?
Please welcome Andy Lassner and our friend Kym Douglas.
[APPLAUSE]
Ellen!
Hi!
Hi, Ellen.
Look how cute you look.
All right.
You look you cute too, Andy.
Thank you.
All right.
To be honest, how often do you really cook?
This is a game.
It's not really something you're known for.
Do you-- how often you cook, Kym.
Look at me.
I cook constantly.
I mean, Ellen, all the time.
OK.
Never stop.
How does that show me that you cook constantly?
She has an apron on.
I have an apron on.
I see.
OK.
Cute dress.
Yeah.
But you lifted it up and I didn't know what you're doing.
OK.
Andy, how often--
Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.
Whatever, Andy.
Just cook.
Andy, how often do you cook?
A couple of times a year, but what I make is really good.
OK.
Good.
So we asked both of you to make a dish using ZENB pasta.
For people who don't know, ZENB pasta
is a delicious pasta made from 100% whole yellow peas.
It's gluten free and with the same taste and texture
as traditional pasta.
So I am going to judge whose dish is better.
Y'all have started already.
What are you both making?
Kym, what are you making today?
Ellen, you know what I thought I would do?
I thought I would be very creative.
And you know I've been through a health journey.
So I like to have my pasta as healthy as I possibly can.
Yes.
So I'm going to do a lovely lemon burrata.
OK.
Lemon burrata.
Doesn't that sound good?
Yes, it does.
And what kind of pasta will you be using?
Penne?
I will be using the penne pasta.
OK.
And Andrew, what will you be doing?
I am making my kids' and family's favorite dish that I
make which is my four cheese macaroni and cheese.
And what I've done to make it fun
is I've combined the penne with the rotini, which
is the corkscrew.
I didn't know we could do that.
And it gives it a little more texture.
You can do it.
I wasn't told that.
That makes it real fun.
That's a blast when you're eating
two different kinds of pasta.
And here's-- here's what I'm excited about.
I made this last week with the ZENB
when they mentioned we were doing something with ZENB.
Yeah.
My kids, very picky, had no idea it wasn't regular pasta.
No, I know.
It tastes just like regular--
and it's peas and it's gluten free.
A lot of people have the problem.
And even if they don't have the celiac thing--
it's celiac right?
Yeah.
And they still don't want gluten.
Yeah.
All right.
So what kind of cheese are you putting in yours?
Burrata.
I'm putting in burrata.
Yeah.
He has a lot of cheese.
Mine is a little high in cholesterol.
A lot high.
It's basically just cheese.
So you're having something healthy with the pasta--
You have never cooked, have you?
I have cooked a ton.
Because I'm waiting for Ellen.
Does your husband Postmates every night?
No, he does not.
I don't see much happening here.
Well there is.
I just was going to share with you this is lemon zest.
OK.
This is the key.
Once you boil the pasta, you put it in here.
And this is where it's different from like a Kraft
macaroni and cheese.
We like the firm as opposed to the soft.
So what I--
I'm sorry?
[LAUGHTER]
What we like to do--
I mean, who doesn't?
--is take the pasta out of the water
into a pan with a liberal amount of butter.
And what you want to do--
A little amount of butter and four cheese.
Yes, and four cheese.
And you get the pasta.
It's a treat.
That's why I do it only twice a year.
OK.
Oh.
And what you do is you get it to brown.
And so that starts--
Wait.
It's a treat, so you do it twice a year.
Is that what you said?
Yeah that's why it's healthy.
Unlike Andy, Ellen, I know you and I both enjoy a tiny bit
of white wine with our pasta.
We do.
So I'm going to put in like a half a cup.
Maybe a cup.
Maybe even a cup and a half.
OK.
There you go.
OK.
So it's perfect.
I've got my roux here that I'm doing.
Maybe it's not a roux.
I heard that once.
It's a roux, so you heard roux once.
So what I've done here is I've added a little bit of all four
cheeses.
What are the--
Once the pasta which isn't working as well
here gets really browned.
What are the four cheeses?
It's a Monterey Jack.
It's a pepper jack.
It's a mozzarella.
And it's a cheddar.
And you are welcome to use whatever cheese you want,
even vegan cheese.
As soon as it gets gooey, you take this entire oven
safe thing, and you put it in the oven
for about three minutes until it gets a really good crispy
brown.
Add a little cheese color if you want.
I want you to taste that.
A little sleigh ride for the tongue, right there.
Oh my gosh.
Please.
But how is the ZENB pasta?
Were you able to tell that this--
No, I know.
I've had ZENB pasta before.
I love it.
It's delicious.
It's amazing, right?
Yeah.
So good and healthy.
All right.
The winner of Who Knew You Could Cook?
Is
Thank you.
She didn't say your name.
It's a tie.
I want to thank ZENB.
In addition to their pasta, today we
can exclusively announce that ZENB
is launching their new gourmet pasta sauce line.
Yes, look at that.
Delicious.
All right.
I want everyone watching to be the first to try it
by going to the link below.
Everyone in the audience is getting $150 ZENB gift card.
You're going to love this pasta, you guys.
We'll be back.