Cooking A Toddler A Gourmet Meal

Today will be a typical day in the kitchen. I'll be running around cooking all sorts of delicious food. But there's just one twist. I'll be cooking all this food for a three-year-old. This is Ella. She's one of the most famous toddlers you'll ever meet, with millions and millions of fans online. Isn't that right? Yeah. Ella here rules any playground she graces her presence with. I don't know what that was. She rose to fame after doing her daily morning hair routine with her mom, where they decide how to style Ella's hair for the day. I'll be cooking a three-course gourmet meal in hopes to impress Ella today. What is it? I'm ready to make. She's ready to cook. Since she has prime seating here at what we call the chef's table, she can watch, critique, or do whatever she likes. Let's just say I'm the boss. And I'm also going to give her some crayons in case she gets bored. Ella, you can draw right on the tablecloth. Should we get started? Yeah. The first course today is going to be fancy gourmet dino nuggets. But they're going to be in the shapes of piggies and bunnies, the same way she does her hair. For those of you that don't know this, I eat chicken nuggets almost every single night. Besides rotisserie chicken, it's probably one of my favorite foods out there. Look at that chicken. That is some seriously bad a** chicken. And in my opinion, Manny, can you help me out here? In my opinion, the best way to get those really soft and tender and juicy nuggets is to put some milk-soaked bread in the mix. But we also need to crack in an egg. Ella, do you think you can help me out? Yeah. Just go ahead. Yeah, just crack that in. Uh-oh. Just crack it right in. She's putting all the shell right in the bowl, Manny. Ready? Just hit it. Hit it harder. Harder. Uh-oh. Oh. Each egg is a mover. Can you open that for me? That's salt. We need the salt. To season up these gourmet nuggets, we're going to put a little bit of smoked paprika as well as some garlic powder. Put a bunch of salt. Yeah. To prepare for frying off our nuggets, we're going to go in with some oil and then mash up all of our chicken nugget mix to make sure that it's evenly combined. Go ahead and mash that up for me. Why? Just because we need to mix it up. It's so sneaky. That's perfect. At this point, we'd spread this chicken onto a tray and let it freeze, which we've already done because Ella does not want to wait for her food. Now, we need to take our piggy and bunny cookie cutter and make sure we get those nice nugget shapes. This right here will be the perfect bunny chicken nugget. Look at that. It's a chicken nugget in the shape of a bunny. No, don't touch it. Don't touch it. And just like that, we've created our nuggets. Ella, look, which one do you want? We're going to fill one bowl with panko breadcrumbs, then into our middle bowl, a few eggs, and in our last bowl, some potato starch. You want to pour that into this bowl right here? Yeah. Ella seems to think the potato starch is powdered sugar. Is it good? No, it's not. I think I've found somebody that loves potato starch as much as I do. The chicken is so incredibly crispy with that potato starch. Cheese it. I think she's going to rub the cheese in it. Potato starch. To dredge our nuggets, I'm going to start by coating them in potato starch, then into our egg mixture, and finally, into the panko breadcrumbs. Are you going to save room for all the other food or are you going to eat cheese the whole day? Eat bread. How about while we're frying our bunnies, we have a little surprise for you. Open it up and see what it is. Doesn't it look just like the chicken nuggets? Yeah. It's like yellow. It's a lot of colors. We're going to fry our nuggets at 350 Fahrenheit to get the perfect golden brown. It's finally time to have our first course, but we're going to start it off with a nice sparkling cider. Not alcoholic, of course. I'm in. I have a vintage Martinelli. It's 2022. Would you like to try it? I don't know. How would you like this? At this point, we are all set to start with our chicken nuggets course, and for the bottom, we're going to make a nice forest for the piggies and bunnies to sit in. I heard you love broccoli. Now, here we have the bunny chicken nugget, and then we have the pig. What do you think about your chicken nuggets? Do you want to try? You hear that, Manny? Smart. It's good logic. Are you ready for your second course? Okay, Ella. It's for the second course. This is an 80-pound wheel of Parmesan cheese from Italy. I want it. It's Parmesan cheese. Do you like cheese? You told me a second ago you like cheese. I'm going to use this knife, Ella, to cut into the cheese. You have to be very careful with knives, though, because they can cut. So I'm going to go all the way around the cheese wheel with my knife. We have to open it up. Don't you want the cheese inside? Yeah. These are the fanciest noodles that you'll ever get to eat. Ella, look. I'm opening the cheese. I want to see the puppy. There's a whole 80-pound wheel of Parmesan cheese here, and you're looking at the puppy outside? Yeah. Ella, look. I'm going to use this giant knife to keep cutting our cheese, okay? Go. This is cheese. Here you go. Here you go, Mommy. Thank you, baby. What does it taste like? Cheese. She's not wrong. I'm going to need your help clearing all the cheese into the pot. For our pasta, I'm just going to carve a nice hole out of the middle of our cheese. Ella's going to be eating the cheese out of this Parmesan wheel. She has no idea yet. We're going to make our pasta now. I need you to put the salt in the water. You're like a little angel. Look at you. You're like a salt angel. Now it's time to cook our pasta. Do you like pasta? Yeah. And I want to do like that. Now I need you to gently drop the pasta in. Look how cool that looks. Ella, first we have to melt the cheese in the Parmesan wheel. You're ready to put your pasta in the big Parmesan wheel. I'm going to take a giant big scoop of noodles. You like noodles? Yeah. We're going to put them in the Parmesan cheese wheel. No. Why not? I want to eat it. This whole thing is for you. Look at this. Put that in the cheese. And then, ready? You take this and you mix it around. Boom. Cheese sauce. Grate some cheese. Here you go. Will you taste a little bit of the cheese that you just made? You made it. Ella, watch this. That is so good. Ready? How does it taste? Do you like it? Is it good? A little more? Are you ready for these for dessert? No. Do you want these? I want to eat their eyes. You want to eat their eyes? No. Are you ready to eat their eyes for dessert? No. For the final course, we're going to be doing a Nutella chocolate fountain. Yes. First, we're going to empty all of this Nutella into a big giant bowl so we can heat it up and melt it. And then put it on that tuna. Yep, exactly. Do you want to taste it to make sure it's okay? Yeah. It's yummy. It's your favorite? My favorite too. Have you ever seen this much Nutella? Yeah. You have? Yeah. Have you ever eaten this much Nutella? If I really eat it, I will not do that. This right here is going to be your own personal Nutella chocolate fountain. Are you ready? Yeah. Ella, this is your last course. Do you want to make one of these? Just dip it in the chocolate? All right, taste it. I like it like that. Okay, will you take a big bite? That one, that one. Here, I'll switch with you. You can take this one and I'll take this one. Bite the top of it. Take it, take a nice bite. Thank you, Mommy. No, I don't want it. This is for you. How does it taste? That's it. Was your favorite the chicken nuggets, the noodles, or this? This. I could have guessed that. We also have M&Ms that have your face and your name on them. You can put them onto the chocolate. It's you. Look, this is your face. I want to give a great big thanks for Ella to having this big three-course meal today and for giving me all... and for giving us all that great feedback along the way. If you haven't seen her, make sure to go check out Ella because she posts lots and lots of TikTok. We'll put the link to her channel in the description below. Buy me a cookie. Heart cookie! Ella, I need you to close your eyes. I have one more surprise from you that I promised from earlier. Say hi to Pepper. You wanted to meet the puppy. Do you like her? Check this out. I'm going to send this to Ella in the mail. She's going to freak out. Close your eyes. Do you want to see it? Your very own Nutella. That's her name. It says Ella. That's me. Do you want to eat it? Yeah.