Making Oscar-Worthy Macaroni And Cheese With Wolfgang Puck

Our next guest is one of the most influential chefs in history. Have you ever heard of California cuisine? Well, this man practically invented it. He has been the head chef for the Governor's Ball for 26 years. That's the annual dinner following the Academy Awards that every winner attends. Please welcome chef, TV personality, restaurateur, and best-selling cookbook author Wolfgang Puck, y'all. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Look at that. This is an amazing spread. I know, you know the Oscars, it's the biggest event in California, in the world probably, you know. Meryl Streep has eaten your food. Everybody, everybody. So what are we serving today? Okay, let's start over here with the viking. Okay. Thank you. Okay. I'm a huge fan, so I think this is great. So you'll finish our Oscars here. So we always make something which is related to the Oscars. So we have our smoked salmon Oscars. Now over here, you can see the chocolate Oscars. So we use the best chocolate, Valrhona chocolate infused with strawberries. So make everybody gets one to take home. Okay. And you, my famous comedian here. I love that you sound like a Bond villain. Okay. I hope I will be one day one of these guys. What does he do? The Bond villain? I don't know. He's, I don't know. There's a lot of credits here. I don't know. Okay, okay, excellent. So we gonna make a vegan spring roll here. Okay. We have the apple slicer here. Yeah. You know how to do that. You hold it here. Okay. I'm gonna do the apple slicer then. And then you roll it up. You can see it. Look at that. Nice slice. Wow. Okay. Oh, thank you. Beautiful. Jewelry. It's my Valentine's day gift. You're right. All right. So I. You know, you can eat it. Hold on. So I'm gonna roll these up the way you would a joint, which I don't know how to do. So I'm gonna guess. That's not what you said yesterday. All right. And I gonna make our famous macaroni and cheese. Yes. Caterpuffe. Oh, yeah. So I have a little butter in my pan here and I'm gonna add some freshly ground pepper because I like a little spice in it. So we put a little bit of that right in here. How is the right thing with one hand? Take the hand out of the pocket, please. Oh. Okay. Excuse me. Sorry, okay, I'm sorry. He's putting all your food. He's putting the caviar in his pocket. He's like, take this with me. I know, what you're doing with the hands in your pocket there, huh? So what's next with this? All right, so a little cream and I made a little tiny bit of cheese sauce here. You can use a mushroom soup, for example, to put in here. Wait, he's not allowed to put his hand in his pocket, but you can lick your fingers. I'm like. You're like, it's my dish. I took a shower this morning. I don't know. The viking smells. Fair enough, fair enough. This one likes horse crap on his face, I don't know where the viking has been, you know? It's like working with Blake Shelton. Okay, a little parmesan, a little cheddar cheese. Yes. All right, you throw it all in here. And then, what are you not working? I'm done. I'm sorry. What more do you want from me? Get to work, you lazy viking. They're like just watching. What do you think we are paying you for? All right, now, we'll mix it together. Now, Kelly doesn't have to work. Oh my gosh. Okay. I just want to be a supervisor and eat. I'm a taste tester. Okay, good, good. Look how cheesy. Yeah, look, get cheesy, even a little bit more, since you like the cheese. A little more parmesan. Now, this is why people love your food. Yeah, that's right. This is straight up Southern, what you're doing. I know, total dietetic. You eat that, you lose five pounds right away. All right, we're going to bake it. So, fill them up nicely. I love your accent. A little, a Southern accent. No, it's not Southern. Can you do a Southern accent? I'm from Southern Austria, so it's the same thing. All right. So, wait, it turns out and it looks like this, right? It looks like that, exactly. Did you want? We bake it in the oven. Everybody, y'all want to taste some? 10 minutes. Oh, until it gets nice and brown. So, you want to taste some? You want to pass down? I mean, it looks delicious. Oh, my God. Here, I got my fork here. Oh, my God. Oh, I didn't give him the fork. Apparently, I'm wanting you to eat with your hands. Okay, you eat with your hands. Okay, it's all right. No, I'll eat with a fork. It's all right. The Viking's rubbing off on me. I mean, I got to try this. Oh, my God, it looks so buttery. Oh. Does this pass the Southern taste test? Oh, my God. I know. Okay, I just want somebody to invite me to the governor's ball so I can eat. That's all. All right, anything you want. I just want to go.