- Hi, I'm Carter.
- And I'm Drew.
- We're seven years old.
- And today we're going to have two chefs
- [Drew] Compete to make our
- [Together] Dream dish!
Alakazam!
(whimsical music)
- [Alix] Hi boys!
- I'm Alexis.
- And I'm Alix.
- I'm Carter.
- I'm Drew.
- Nice to meet you!
- [Together] Nice to meet you too.
- So boys, we have a question for you.
What would a wizard serve at a feast?
- Like a dragon feast? (crackling fire)
- So Carter and Drew said they wanted a dragon feast
and I can already tell that this is gonna be crazy.
So is the dragon eating this feast or--
- No. - Or does it taste
like dragon?
- No.
- The bad dragon the good dragon were brothers
and the bad dragon eats meat
so that's what he's trying to get.
But the good dragon only like eats fruits and vegetables.
(triumphant trumpet music) (Alexis giggles)
- Alright I think I need a little help picturing this.
Would you boys draw it for us?
- [Together] Yes.
- [Alix] What's this pink you're drawing?
- [Carter] It's like the evil stuff.
- [Alexis] And so what does that taste like?
- I don't know what it tastes likes because
like if you eat it, you turn evil
so I don't wanna turn evil.
- The purple which is evil...
I don't even know.
- And pizza. - And he has one,
two, three, four, five, six eyes.
- Six eyes? - Six eyes?!
- I'm lovin the detail here on these dead eyes.
So I'm really gonna try to incorporate that into my dish.
So the wings, here we go. - [Alexis] Wings, okay.
- [Alix] Do you know what those taste like?
- They taste like a meat bar.
- Meat bar? (laughing)
- Meat bar.
- Wing's that taste like a meat bar?
I've a couple of ideas,
but still really weird.
- [Carter] The legs are bacon.
- [Alix] The legs are bacon! - [Alexis] Bacon legs, love.
Okay, finally something easy.
I'm gonna put straight up bacon on the plate.
Like what are your favorite vegetables?
- [Drew] Broccoli.
- [Alix] Broccoli? - [Alexis] Broccoli?
I think Drew and Carter are the only kids I've ever met
that actually like broccoli,
and not just like it but love it.
- [Alix] So do you like broccoli wholed,
or do you eat it cut-up, or...
- We eat whole.
- You eat it whole. - We eat it whole.
- Okay! - Parents must be proud.
Wow, this is a masterpiece.
- [Drew] And then this is the sauce.
- I think we have our work cut out for us.
- I think so too. (laughter)
Alright, let's go make some magic!
- Okay. - Okay.
- [Together] Alakazaam! (magical trill)
- Where'd they go? - Hey, where'd they go?
- They gone. - That's impossible!
(light mysterious music)
- So here's my plan.
For the body of my dragon,
I'm gonna use a giant chicken nugget.
For the head, I'm gonna try to make a quesadilla
and I'll dye the cheeses the colors of the drawing,
so purple and green.
For the wings, I'm gonna make burger patties.
And for the legs, just some bacon.
For the evil stuff, I'm gonna make mashed potatoes
and I'm gonna dye them purple
and, to keep it consistent with the drawing,
I'm gonna put three pieces of broccoli,
some pieces of pineapple,
and the very oddly specific lines of BBQ sauce.
- So here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna make a dragon out of meatloaf
and then I'm gonna make wings out of
like a maple bacon hard candy?
And then make a kind of like a fruit broccoli
salad around and then have the bacon
as the legs all around.
They said the purple stuff was evil,
and that you'll die if you eat it,
so I'm just gonna omit it.
Like why even give them the option?
(magical trill)
(Squeels)
- Hey! - Well that was weird.
- So, I'm gonna start with my giant chicken nugget.
Gonna put two pounds of meat in my bowl.
Onion powder and some garlic powder.
I'm gonna keep the seasonings for this pretty basic.
I really gotta get this into the freezer
so it has some time to firm up
and I'm gonna just form kind of a patty
or, not a patty, the body of the dead dragon.
(laughter)
- Um, it unfortunately does look like cat food right now.
- Ew!
Ugh, I hate cat food.
Once I ate cat food by accident.
(record scratches) - What?
- Yeah, it was disgusting.
- Why?
- I don't know.
It was like on a fork.
- So for my meatloaf, I'm going to caramelize
the onions and garlic a bit.
So while my onions start to caramelize
I'm just gonna get everything else ready.
Ground beef, breadcrumbs, eggs, ketchup,
salt, pepper, paprika, and Worcestershire sauce.
- I'm going to start on my mashed potatoes
and I'm gonna pop them in.
This feels like my wizard cauldron.
(magic spell effect)
Alright, so now I'm gonna start on my meat wings.
Just like you would shape a burger patty,
I'm just gonna shape this into like a wing.
- So, I've won a couple of these
and it doesn't take away the anxiety,
but I feel like I'm starting to understand
the process a little more.
A lot of times the meatloaf, you brush ketchup over it.
The boys have been explicit that they hate ketchup
and they like BBQ sauce,
so that's what I'm going to glaze the meatloaf in.
- I've never colored potatoes before
so I'm a little nervous.
Let's try...
Oh yeah, it's looking pretty cool!
- Alix is making these purple mashed potatoes
and I had this moment of panic where I thought
like, "oh god, maybe this is really crucial,"
but I think I have to stick with my gut and totally omit it.
The boys said they weren't gonna eat the evil.
I'm not gonna make the evil.
So the boys love broccoli, so I have to have it on there.
I'm gonna cut some fruit.
I've got papaya and kiwi.
I've got some dragonfruit which is very fitting.
Dragonfruit in the dragon salad, wham! (snaps fingers)
- You gettin' fancy over there!
- For vinegarette, the ratio should be
about three parts olive oil to one part acid.
I don't love the idea of broccoli and fruit together,
but maybe the maple vinegarette
will tie it all together.
- I hope they don't put the broccoli like in it,
but like maybe like decoration.
- [Carter] I wonder what it's gonna taste like.
- Okay, so my chicken nug is frozen solid
and I'm going to first do a little bit
of a dry coating in this flour
and now I'm gonna dip this in my egg, wiggle that around.
Abrakazam! (laughs)
Okay, so I'm gonna put my chicken nugget in my hot oil.
I've heated this up to about 350 degrees.
Yeah, I'll just have to be very careful.
Phew.
Okay, there we go.
I'm a little bit worried about making
this giant chicken nugget because I haven't even made
a regular sized chicken nugget before. (laughs)
- So, I'm really excited about this.
I'm gonna make the maple hard candy
so I'm gonna add - Wow!
- Corn syrup, maple syrup, and then sugar.
And then I'm gonna bring it to a hard crack.
- So so far my strategy has been sticking to the picture
and using flavors that I know kids like
and that's worked for me this far,
so I'm gonna do that again.
Double double, toil and trouble!
So, my chicken nugget looks pretty good.
It's golden brown and I'm just gonna take it off
and put it on this rack to drain off the excess oil.
I had this crazy idea to try to dye
the cheese for the quesadilla purple.
Just gonna add some food coloring
to this shredded mozzarella cheese
and mix it up to dye it purple.
Food coloring and cheese is not that weird.
Have you ever cooked for kids?
- Okay, so this has reached 300 degrees
and you can see that it's become
like this kind of thick and syrupy
and this is my signal in addition to the temperature
that it is ready to go.
I'm gonna add the bacon to the maple
because they didn't like things super sweet,
but hopefully this'll kind of like tie it all together.
- The dye kinda spilled out from the cheese
onto the tortilla, but I'm not mad at it
because you're able to see the color a little bit more.
What kid actually colors within the lines?
- So, I'm making this maple vinegarette,
and it's actually really really good.
You wanna try? - Yeah.
Get me some of that frui-- yeah.
Mm!
- Right?
- I actually love that.
That wizardry!
Am I right? (magic spell sound)
I'm just gonna put my BBQ sauce in a squeeze bottle,
so that it's easier to control.
- Oh God.
(squirting noises)
(both laugh)
(beep)
So, it's time to plate this very weird creation.
- So I'm gonna start with my chicken nugget.
Honestly, when I'm putting together my dish,
it's pretty spot-on.
I have to say, I'm looking down at my dish,
I'm looking up at the picture,
and it's lookin' pretty accurate.
Then, I'm gonna add my meat wings.
- We have very different aesthetics going on.
I have absolutely no idea which way this could go.
I'm gonna make some incisions to try to put
the wings - Incisions?
- into the meatloaf.
Once I put those wings into the meatloaf,
I was like "I mean, there's no way they can't chose this".
(Alexis laughs hysterically)
Okay, this is hands-down the most ridiculous thing
I have ever made.
- [Alix] I'm done.
- [Alexis] Me too.
- Alright!
Let's go drag on these over to those kids.
(magical trill)
- When Drew and Carter were making this drawing,
I was really skeptical.
And, as I've been cooking, I've just gotten really into it
and I actually love how it turned out.
I feel really optimistic about this one.
It's definitely not what they drew,
but I think Drew and Carter are gonna like
that it's really imaginative
and it's like a dragon came to life.
- I think the boys are gonna love it!
I also am confident in all the flavors on my plate.
I know there's a lot going on
but, in my experience, kids love all these foods too
so I think we got ourselves a winner.
Now let's hope it tastes like their imagination.
- [Together] Bring on the dragon feasts!
- [Carter] Oh that looks good!
- This looks like a huge chicken nugget,
these look like steak, and these look like
bacon legs. - Bacon legs.
- Oh and that's the head, and those are the two ears.
- This is mashed potatoes with food color?
It's like Play-Doh or mashed potatoes.
If it's mashed potatoes...
- 'Cause I do not like mashed potatoes.
- I'm just gonna (vomit sound)!
- Really?
Who doesn't like mashed potatoes?
- It doesn't really look like a dragon
- but looks good.
- It looks just like our picture
- [Carter] Yeah.
- Is this like food coloring that's baked?
- I don't know.
I have no idea.
- I don't really know what it tastes like.
- [Carter] It smells like a tortilla.
- Tortilla with cheese?
- [Carter] It looks like pizza.
- They're so fixated on the color of the cheese
that they're missing that it's even cheese.
- Okay, I'm gonna try the broccoli.
- It's really so good!
- It's so good!
- So good.
Oh and the middle.
- It's a chicken nugget.
- It's a chicken nugget!
Yum!
My favorite part is this head.
It's my favorite
out of all of them. - My favorite
is the bacon, and maybe the chicken nugget
'cause it tastes like a Dorito.
- It's just a very simple flour breading,
so I'm not quite sure where they got Doritos from,
but they said that they like Doritos.
- That looks just like a dragon!
Look, the head! - [Drew] That looks just
like a dragon.
- This is a steak,
- And this is like the wings. - A head dragon.
- And this is like the feet.
- There's no evil part?
Maybe that's good.
- It looks better than what we drew.
- Okay, they said it's better than what they drew.
I feel like I got this.
- Tastes like chicken with BBQ sauce?
But I never had meatloaf for a long time,
so can't really describe it.
- This one's probably like a lollipop candy thingy.
- They're very good, but, I think it'd be
a little better without the salt.
- The pineapples just not taste like a pineapple,
they taste better than a pineapple.
- Okay, when the boys said that the pineapple
tasted better than pineapple,
I was like, "that's the vinegarette".
- What is this-- is this a strawberry?
Blackberry? - (Carter) What?
I'ma need to eat that.
- Mmm, a dragonfruit!
'Cause we're eating a dragon feast.
- My favorite part is this.
- This might be our dinner today.
- Yeah, this is gonna be our dinner today.
- They are really impressed with Alexis's.
I'm sweatin' here.
- [Together] Alakazam!
(magical trill)
(Alix and Alexis gasp)
- Oh, hello! - Hi boys!
- Hello. - Hi!
- So you two had two very different dishes.
Which did you like better?
The chicken nugget or the meatloaf?
- [Together] Meatloaf!
(victorious music)
- That's mine. (laughs)
Oh, Alix. - Rats!
I guess this time I didn't slay the dragon,
the dragon slayed me.
- Because you won, you get to have our prize.
- [Together] Congratulations!
- Thank you so much! - [Carter] You're welcome.
- I think the magic was in my favor this time.
It's a beautiful drawing.
- [Together] Thank you! (magical trill)
(Alix gasps)
(energetic rock music)