- Hi, I'm Henry Phillips
and I've been cooking for almost six years now,
and I've been teaching it for even longer.
And when the folks at Thrillist approached me
about making my own master chef class,
I took this as an opportunity to share
the vast amounts of knowledge that
I've accumulated over the last six years.
In case you're not familiar with my work,
we've handpicked some of my more
popular recipes to show you.
Check out this favorite,
Henry's family-style baked spaghetti.
(solemn piano music)
Hello, everybody, and welcome to Henry's Kitchen,
where today, we're gonna be making Henry's
family-style baked spaghetti.
Spaghetti,
or spa-ghee-tti,
is a long, thin cylindrically shaped form of Italian pasta,
which is made from flour, durum, semonola, and water,
and goes back to the 12th century,
according to the Tabula Rogeriana of Muhammad al-Idrisi.
All right, the ingredients we're gonna use are
two-thirds of a pound of lean ground beef,
14 ounces of tomato sauce, 14 ounces of diced tomatoes,
three ounces of tomato paste,
one-half a teaspoon of rosemary pricks,
half a teaspoon of ground mustard seed,
a quarter of a teaspoon of parsley flakes,
half a teaspoon of oregano,
half a teaspoon of basil,
red pepper, but I have cayenne pepper,
we'll do a half a teaspoon of that,
some salt and pepper to taste,
half a teaspoon of garlic salt,
and of course our one package of spaghetti,
half a cup of Parmesan cheese,
half a cup of mozzarella cheese,
pepper diced, one-half white onion diced,
two cloves of garlic, two large mushrooms,
two tablespoons of olive oil.
(clattering)
We're gonna start by greasing up our
saute pan here a little bit with the olive oil.
I've got a brand new, 12-inch
aluminum core, nonstick saute pan here.
I found that if you have a really good saute pan,
you really don't need somebody to share your life with.
Let's throw our onions in there.
(sizzling)
Along with the ground beef.
Now let's throw in some of our seasonings.
Now let's add our tomato sauce.
Now let's just stir it all up.
They really don't make movies like they used to.
I always thought a good movie would be
about a lovable loser-type guy,
but he makes planes for a living
and he's always drunk, so his planes are always crashing.
And then he meets Gwyneth Paltrow's character
and they fall in love and she motivates him.
And then eventually like she helps him win
some kind of big plane contest or something.
I haven't really figured out the ending.
We're gonna let our sauce simmer for about 30 minutes.
Meantime, let's start cooking our noodles.
So, as you can see I have kind of a small pan,
so I'm gonna have to break these.
Ow.
F*ck.
(cracking)
Sh*t.
OK, we're gonna cook these spaghettis.
Let's just drain our pasta.
Let's add our pasta to our sauce,
and again stir it up a little bit.
(loud clattering)
That sucks.
(solemn piano music)
(sirens blaring)
- [Announcer] He may lose his head in Vietnam
or by an atomic bomb.
- [Man] I said communism was our enemy.
Now the communism is killing your sons in South Vietnam.
I said there was communism on college campuses (mumbles).
- [President Kennedy] Ask not
what your country can do for you,
- [Man] The high school and college students
who are experimenting with LSD
will be running many of our institutions
and guiding public policy.
They are not drug addicts.
- [Man] Henry Phillips, you're an asshole.
You ain't going no place in this business.
- [Man] Educated, the most creative,
and like it or not, they're going
to build you a new civilization.
(sizzling)
- OK, well, it looks like I forgot to
put the mushrooms in, which is fine.
I had to throw that batch away, but I guess that
I'm gonna make another one.
The lesson here is that cooking is never easy,
and it's never fun,
but if it were, then they wouldn't call it cooking.
Thanks for joining me.
F*ck this sh--
(solemn piano music)
(siren blaring)
(crunching)