- Our next guest is one of the most famous chefs in the world.
Her new book is called "Happy Cooking."
- Oh. - Please welcome
Giada De Laurentis.
What're we making today?
- We are--we're gonna start with zucchini spaghetti.
I love zucchini spaghetti.
- Okay, do you know how to do this?
- No, but I'm gonna-- - You cut the ends off
of the zucchini... - Yep.
Okay, do you need help or--I'm gonna watch you guys.
- Spiralizer. - I've never done it.
- Okay, so stick it in there. - Uh-huh.
- You just go? - Do that really hard and go.
- Yeah, I hold--and yeah. - I'm racing, Ellen.
- Race. Go. Go. Who's gonna go faster?
Come on, David. - Is mine doing anything?
- What're you-- [laughs]
Go. - Don't give me the broken one.
- [laughing]
Come on, fast. - This is amazing. Look at that.
- Oh, my God! Look at her. Oh, man, David.
What're you doing? - All right.
Where do you get one of these? - You can get 'em on Amazon.
You're making a mess. - I need--
- It's hurting me. - Isn't that fun?
- I just need a bigger bowl is all I need.
- Yeah. He's stuck. - How's Ellen winning?
- I need to get a--what is it called?
- [laughing] It's called--
It's called a Spiralizer, so you can spiralize--
- All right, well this is not going to be as easy to eat
when you put it in like that. - Yeah...
- No, but I think, maybe you wanna practice a little.
- All right. - Keep going.
- On this? - Yeah.
- I'll spiralize-- - Just keep practic--
but don't spiralize your fingers, okay?
- Don't put your-- - I know what I'm doing, gang.
- You can get them for $9-- - [screams]
or you can get 'em for $25. - You stay here.
I think you got the $9 one and she got $25 one.
- Leave it alone. - I got it.
You guys go ahead. I'll catch up.
- All right. [laughter]
All right. - Zucchini spaghetti.
- With what? - Okay, tomatoes.
- Uh-huh. - So, we're gonna
cut those in half. - Uh, why? They're sm--
- Do you wanna do that? - They're small already.
- Okay. - I know.
- I'm not a good cutter.
- You're not a good slicer--cutter.
- I don't know how to do that. Is that good?
- Yeah, that's good. Come on, let's go.
- Oh, look, those are already sliced.
- Yeah, we're gonna take those. - Hey, how convenient.
- Take the tomatoes. - Yes.
- Okay, come over here. - Yes, yeah.
- Are you doing all right there, David?
- If you-- - Mine--yeah.
- Yeah. Yep.
- We put some olive oil in the pan.
- Okay. - Okay?
If it comes out--go, dump the tomatoes.
- Careful. Don't-- - What're you doing?
- Don't put your finger near the blade.
- I know, but Ellen it's-- - Just leave it alone.
Come with us. All right.
All right. - Take the tomatoes.
Put 'em in the pan. - Who knew this job would
be so hard. - Yeah.
- Yeah. Listen to you guys. Okay.
- All right. Isn't that pretty?
- Yes, that's beautiful. - All right,
let's dump everything in here. Ready?
- Oh, okay, this part? - We're gonna add--no no, wait.
- No, David, no. - Don't do that.
- Yes. - One star anise.
Have you ever smelled one of these before?
- I have never heard of an anise, I mean...
[laughter]
- It's lic--it's like licorice. - I've seen that before.
- You actually have, but whatever.
What did he say?
- Don't--you don't wanna hear what he said.
- Did you smell? - Smell the anise.
- No control. [all laughing]
- All right. - Chili flakes to spice it up.
- I don't know that I-- - Garlic, garlic.
Keep going people, keep going. - All right.
- Oh, this stuff? - A little sherry vinegar
for sweetness. - No, not yet, that's for later.
- Oh, Ellen, you-- - That's parmesan.
- Oh, no, yeah--taste the parmesan. Go ahead.
Go ahead. - Is this a joke?
- Now this smells like anise.
[laughter]
- That's vegan parmesan. - Are we good?
- Oh, man. All right.
- Some salt--I can see who's doing the cooking, that's fine.
I'll just do it. Okay. - Yep, all right.
So you sauté that all together. - Yes. Okay.
What was that you jus--was that? - Salt, pepper, garlic--
- No, garlic, yeah. Okay. - Star anise, some chili peppe--
- Is this anise gonna go away? Because--
I mean, I don't want a big chunk of that.
Why--does it-- - Okay, so this is what happens,
okay, we're just gonna sauté them just for, like,
a couple of minutes until they soften, right?
- Okay. Right. - Then you take
the star anise out. - Mm-kay.
- Here you go, David, this is for you.
- Oh, it's just there for show? - Yeah.
- You know, show and tell. - Mm-kay.
- Okay. - Just like that. Okay?
- It just gives the flavor. - It just--yes.
It just gives the flavor, just like that, okay.
- All right. - Will you hand me the zucchini,
please, David. - Yeah, there we go.
Dump. Dump all of your hard work.
- Go, go, go. - Okay.
- Is that a big enough pan for that?
- No, but that's okay. - Okay.
But that--you do that--you don't have to cook it,
like, in anything. - No, no, no, no.
You just cook it like this. - That's amazing.
- You could always add a little olive oil if you wanted to.
It ends up like this. - While you're doing this,
you have a new restaurant, where is it?
- Las Vegas! - Las Vegas.
- Hey, ya'll. - You go to Las Vegas.
- Yeah. - Can we go to Las Vegas?
- Yeah, where is it though? - Where?
- On the strip, next door to the Flamingo.
- What's the name of it? - The--Giada.
- Uh-huh. - The restaurant's Giada.
The hotel's The Cromwell. - Fantastic...
- Yes. - And that's open now.
- It's open! It's open! - Perfect.
- All right. - You keep playing with this.
- I got this. Yeah, yeah. - This is part you can do.
- Now, when people come to your house for trick or treat,
then they know it's your house.
Do they expect, like, delicious things?
- I disappear. - Oh, so you don't...
- Yes. - Give out candy.
- I'm one of those people that shuts the lights off.
- Oh. - Great.
- And I leave. I leave town. - All right.
- Well, we're gonna-- - You sound like a blast.
- [laughs]
No, popcorn. I like to do popcorn.
Like, a nice s'mores chocolate chip popcorn.
What're you doing? Why're you making that face?
- I'm taking over. - David.
- It's really good. - There it is.
- Here, David, taste that. - Here.
Taste that, and if everything goes well, we'll taste it.
- This is the done one? - Yes. Taste it.
- Uh-oh. - Spir--
just go like that like spaghetti.
- Yeah, have you ever eaten-- - I got it. I got it.
We're running out of time. - It's the same way.
- Have you ever had spaghetti before?
- It's good.
[laughter]
- Anise. - It's anise, it's not--
- Oh, yeah, is it? - Yes, it is.
- Put some cheese on top of it. There.
- This is great. - Do you like it?
Yeah, yeah. It's very good. - All right.
Wow. You should do commercials. - Nailed it.
- You're really good. - [laughs]
- Good sales. - Everyone in the audience,
you're going home with a signed copy
of Giada's new cookbook.