- Like this, right.
- You go for it. Yes, yes indeed.
- Boom, boom, boom.
- It's messy like my relationship.
- Oh man, we gotta fix that.
(soft music)
- There's one page that I've been kinda keeping an eye on,
called Cooking for Bae.
It's just like a bunch of like meals that don't look great.
If I have a significant other,
I wanna make sure that it at least looks nice
so that he can post it on his socials
and people will be like, okay your girl can cook.
But also even just for myself,
I wanna make sure that my meals look nice.
I'm self partnered and I wanna impress myself too.
I'm bae, you dig.
I brought in my friend, chef D,
and he's gonna help me figure out
how to make a meal that looks really aesthetically pleasing.
And it's truly the essence of food porn.
Chef D, come on in.
- What's up Freddie, how is it going?
- I'm good, how are you? - How have you been?
- How are you? - I have been great.
I got your voicemail man about this situation going on.
From my understanding,
you've seen the Chicken Alfredo online.
- I would never go as far to say that mine
would look better if I were to cook it.
But I brought in the friend that posted the Chicken Alfredo.
- Okay.
- I want you to teach both of us.
- Okay.
- Before we get started, how long have you been cooking?
How can I trust you?
- I've been cooking 14 years now.
I got a restaurant that I just opened up in Koreatown in LA.
We do everything from scratch to house.
So you know this dish right here.
We'll do for scratch as well.
- Cool, I'm excited.
Come on in Sasha.
- Hi. - Hey girl.
- Hey, thank you for having me.
I need help, this is what I end up cooking.
I thought I was doing good,
like I was proud of it at first
and now like I can see why I'm single.
- We will help you today.
This will never happen again.
- Thank you.
- First thing first, let's get rid of this.
- Okay.
- And let's just start all over, okay?
- We're gonna start all new.
- So today we're gonna teach you
how to keep bae for the rest of your life.
Come on over.
Let's place that into the water.
Let's place it right on in there.
- Like this?
- Keep it whole, don't crack it.
- Now you know, I really don't know what I'm doing.
- You get a little demonstration
so you can understand a little better.
- Yeah, cause I'm afraid of--
- Just working on in there.
Let it all work out.
Keep it moving like every two minutes.
And then we'll move to the next segment Freddie.
- Yes.
- What I need you to do is, dice a tomato.
Protect your fingers. - Okay.
- Cut away from your fingers.
Take the ends off, cause it has the core.
We don't want that.
So we're gonna go here,
cut the slices and go for like a one fourth inch dice.
Put that to the side.
- Okay. - And then you can go here.
Give it a little turn.
I need you to turn the pan on.
Start making some sauce.
- Oh, it's gonna get saucy.
- Show you how to make this sauce.
Let's move your pasta a little bit more too.
- I'm always on the go,
and I'm always answering emails and stuff like that.
What is the timing?
So it's every two minutes that I have to.
- Yeah, so it's in its first stages.
You wanna keep it out of those sticking stages.
So you keep it moving.
You shouldn't answer emails after your four minutes.
- Okay.
So no cooking and working at this.
- No cooking and working all.
- We're busy working women, chef D.
- Right?
- I don't know what to tell you.
- But the thing is, you gotta put your love into it.
So you got to give it your full attention.
Like how you would do bae, when you're not cooking.
- Oh. - You're right, you're right.
- So next.
Freddie you're gonna season the bread.
So with a good Alfredo,
you have some type of toasted bread.
So you're gonna take some olive oil.
- Hmm-mm. - With this spoon.
- Okay.
- And you gonna lightly drizzle.
- [Sasha] And what kind of bread is this?
- This is the French baguette.
- Ooh.
- What you gonna do next,
is you're gonna take a little white pepper.
When you sprinkle Freddie, go up high.
- Oh, I did put too much.
I put too much on this.
- So when it comes down and fluffs out,
you know how salt bae does.
- Yeah, yeah, like that.
- Yeah, just what you did.
- You take a pinch of this, right?
- You salt bae it from like here.
- Oh, yeah. - Like this.
- Oh my goodness.
- Look at how it's fluffing out.
- The only thing kept her from making a perfect dish
is trying to do work on top of work.
- Right.
- She can't do that anymore.
- Okay, that's fair.
What's next.
- So now we're gonna put that in the oven for 350 degrees
for eight minutes.
- All right.
Now we are moving on to the sauce part.
- We're moving on to the next step.
Take a tablespoon.
- [Sasha] A tablespoon, okay.
I don't know why.
- Let me help you.
Let me show you how it goes.
- Thank you, thank you.
- There you go, I know you needed a little assistance.
Put oil on it so it doesn't stick.
Next step, let's start to build
this wonderful classic sauce.
Ready to be an all-star.
- Yeah.
- [Sasha] We did a tablespoon of oil.
- Shallots.
One fourth of garlic.
And your goal is to keep that moving.
Cause you want the oil to get on everything in there.
Get some color on those onions.
And then from there, we turn it up some.
That's our bread.
So you're gonna do a quarter cup of wine.
- I don't know how much that is without a measuring cup.
- Okay cool let me help you out.
- Oh, so like a shot. - Like a shot.
- You know I should have been talking
to you in alcohol terms.
- Alcohol terms.
- All right guys, I'm coming in it's hot, it's hot.
I'm gonna place it right here.
- Good job, look at your bread.
- Yeah. - Wow.
- Have you ever drank wine while cooking?
- You know what, that's a good idea.
Cause we got some processes going right now
and I think we should, we have enough wine left don't we?
- Yeah.
I think that having, you know,
wine and more of my meals could really,
you know, up the ante.
- Also you making five stars meals at home.
- Exactly.
- Freddie, we're gonna need that lemon wedge in there now
looks like we reduced by half.
Just make sure you squeeze it outward,
so you don't drop the seed in.
And you grab that heavy cream while you at it.
- Love it.
- And you put, how much is that, one pint.
Typically a pint is 16 ounces, which is two cups.
So I asked Freddie to put a half a cup in there.
So you would put probably one fourth
of that container into your sauce.
- In other words, tell me when to stop.
- Yeah cause I'm like I don't even know.
- [Chef D] Go, go, go, go, go, go.
Stop Freddie you put too much.
- You lying. - Why did you let her do that.
- Well, I didn't know.
You were supposed to tell her.
- Sorry you're doing great. - He lying.
- We got that sauce working the sauce is coming together.
You're gonna take into a pinch of black pepper.
- Do we like move it?
- You already know keep it moving.
Get on that love and that flavor right up in there.
- [Sasha] Like this right? - [Chef D] You go for it, yes.
- [Sasha] Boom, boom, boom.
- That's a perfect pinch.
Oh my goodness look at bae.
Give me five from you.
- Five? Okay.
One, two, three and I feel like,
I'm going to become an expert right now
with the fourth one and five star chef what's good.
- You're killing it.
- And then we're gonna take two tablespoons
of Parmesan cheese.
- Let me just. - Go for it.
- I'm gonna go for it. - The whole thing?
- Yeah, I like it cheesy.
- Next step, add tomatoes.
- Add tomatoes.
- [Chef D] Put half in it.
- [Sasha] Half, okay.
Oh.
- That's perfect, right.
- Now I'm starting to see like the consistency.
- [Chef D] We let this reduce by half.
Next step is we need to cook chicken.
- Yeah.
- We got to cook chicken.
We can't put it together without the chicken.
So now we're gonna go into the chicken mode.
So I'm gonna jump in now and do some cooking.
You can tell when a pan starts to get hot
you'll see the oils start to move.
Start to agitate.
So let's get this going.
Start working.
- Now we're observing, while I'm drinking wine.
- Toast to that.
I can do both, I can multitask.
- The question is you can multitask in the kitchen,
but can you multitask in a relationship?
Can you balance? How's your balance?
- Oh, we got deep real fast.
Cheers to balance.
- Cheers to balance. - Cheers to balance.
- In the kitchen and in life.
- Yeah. - Oh my goodness.
We'll take it. Add a little bit more.
Oil.
Yeah, that's it.
- [Sasha] It's almost like I'm making it snow on it.
- Now as you see, the chicken starts to cook,
you'll see the white develop around the sides.
You can always pick on it and see if its got color.
We're looking for color right now.
- How do I know it's not pink in the middle?
Cause usually what I'll do is I'll stab it.
- Let it go for five or seven minutes,
coloring it up and then add your sauce to the chicken.
Sauce is usually at a temperature of like 200 degrees, 190.
Chicken cooks at 165 degrees.
So you have to 180 plus you're definitely cooked.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Let's get this on the bowl.
- Let's plate this dish we want to use the bowl.
So it can capture the sauce, pasta's our base.
You know, so we do is we loosen this up a little bit.
Loosen that up, give it a little twirl.
Try to get some uniform pasta up in there.
- [Freddie] Okay, so you're twirling with the fork.
- [Chef D] Inside the spoon.
- [Freddie] Oh, inside of a spoon.
- Yeah, when you eat pasta,
you should use a spoon kind of situation.
- Nice, looking good.
- Then we take a couple of these pieces of chicken.
- [Freddie] Okay.
Oh, look at you.
You're like putting chicken all around the circumference
of the pasta.
- Cause it's all one big family.
- [Freddie] I've never seen that before.
- Get it.
- Good loving, we call this one good loving.
- I love it.
- Next, we'll do some of this green stuff.
You said you like green on, right.
- Yeah, add some color.
- Color right?
- [Freddie] Yeah.
- We put lemon there, just for some color.
So this is our finished product.
- Wow, that looks so good.
- That there a wonderful collaboration it's time to eat.
- It's time to eat.
So are we all gonna just dig in?
- Why not?
- Okay. - Let's do this.
- I'm gonna break this thing.
- Wow.
- You might get married the next time you cook.
- This is really good.
The sauce tastes really good and authentic too.
- Team work will do what?
- Team work.
- Make the dream work.
- You wanna see more of this kind of content
and you may struggle with cooking like I do.
Show me your photos on Instagram
and #cookingwithfreddie.
- I just wanna say thank you for saving my life
for my future bae.
I gotta be bae first for me.
Then bae for someone else later.
- Yep. - Absolutely.
- Cheers to cooking healthy, nice,
beautiful meals for ourselves and for others.
- Yes. - That is a fact.
- I love it.
- [Freddie] Thank you chef D.