- Welcome back to our Keep Calm and Mom On hour.
I can guarantee nearly every mom in the world
will hear these three words whined today,
and every other day after,
"What's for dinner?"
It's super exciting to hear all the time
after a long, hard day at work.
Well we've got you covered tonight y'all.
One of my favorite moms in the world is here
to share a super simple recipe
that recently took over Tik Tok.
Please welcome cookbook author
and mama of two, Danielle Kartes everybody.
(audience applauding)
How you doing?
- What's up, girl?
- What's up?
So, hey, what are we making?
- Before you make dinner today,
every mom out there tell yourself
no matter what happened 20 minutes before
you're doing a really good job.
- Absolutely.
- Okay, we're making this crazy pasta.
I don't know if you've seen it,
it's like everybody's seen it.
It even caused a shortage of feta,
which is not a bad thing
'cause feta isn't my total favorite.
- It's a travesty.
- So we switched it up a little bit.
So what I want you to do,
we're doing the Tik Tok craze pasta.
Grab your pan.
- [Kelly] okay, got it.
- Yep.
You're gonna put your tomatoes-
- Okay, all of 'em?
- [Danielle] In the bottom of your pan.
- [Kelly] Okay, yeah, sure.
- Like you said, making dinner is a struggle,
and feeling your kids,
and then having your kids cry at the dinner table
after you've made it is also a struggle.
So this is really a lot of fun.
You literally set it and forget it.
You set it into the oven for almost 40 minutes
at 400 degrees.
We chose a different kind of cheese
because feta was gone.
I literally couldn't find it at any grocery store,
I went to four of them.
So I've got one that sort of rhymes with lansend.
- [Kelly] Okay, okay, so this goes in the middle?
- You can do cream cheese,
you can do ricotta, you can do feta if you can find it.
So there yo go.
And then what you're gonna do
is you're gonna take your olive oil
and pour it all over the top.
Make sure that you get the cheese too,
'cause that's gonna actually help promote some browning.
And then now we're gonna season this bad boy up
with some garlic.
- I will eat anything with garlic in it.
Almost anything on the planet.
- The more the better.
You can do thyme, you can do rosemary.
I mean anything you like the flavor of.
This is really sort of like
a choose your own adventure pasta too.
- Oh choose your own adventure, I love you.
- So I like it spicy.
My kids are not gonna eat this,
but they don't eat anything anyways.
(laughing)
Yeah, you're using more seasoning
than you think it needs.
It's gonna need a lot.
And lots of kosher salt.
And then look how pretty that is.
You made that.
- I am amazing.
- Now this is,
this guy, after you're done seasoning
is gonna go into the oven.
You're gonna throw a pot of water on to boil.
Well you're not, but at home you are.
- No, I'm totally doing that.
And look how amazing I am.
- [Danielle] (indistinct)
- Boom, TV magic y'all.
- [Danielle] The TV magic.
- Through the magic of television,
I have baked it right here.
- Then you take your potato masher.
Do you have a potato masher?
- Hell yeah.
- If you don't have a little hand crank potato masher
you can just use a fork.
And your kids can get involved too.
And it looks crazy,
but it smells like heaven.
- It smells amazing.
- [Danielle] It smells so good.
- Wow.
- Then you take your pasta,
we have eight ounces of cooked pasta.
- Okay.
- Smoosh all that in.
- Okay.
Get off of there.
- And then stir it up
to get the pasta in there.
- [Kelly] Okay, wait, I'm gonna mix it up.
And now I wanna try it.
- Smoosh it all up.
- Okay, I'm gonna taste it.
Oh, where's a, okay.
- [Danielle] Then you get to dive in and taste it.
- Okay.
- And you know what,
I know I joked earlier my kids aren't eating this,
my kids will totally eat this.
- Oh damn.
- It's just cheesy pasta.
- This is really good.
- Isn't that good?
- Yeah.
All right, well other than this amazing recipe,
which is really tasty,
you should try it,
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(audience cheering and applauding)
Hey, thank you so much, Danielle.
This is really good, I'm not kidding,
it's amazing.
Thank you so much for teaching us how to make that.
And you can find this full recipe
in "The Kelly Clarkson Show" Instagram story
and Facebook, you're welcome.
And you can get Danielle's cookbook,
"Rustic Joyful Food," wherever cookbooks are sold.
You're gonna wanna check it out, it's awesome.