Today we’re going to show you three dishes from our dream wedding menu. ((Laughing)) Babe, that was your line. What am I supposed to say? You’re supposed to hit him with the Lil Jon. Yeah! Yeah! ((Intro Music)) Everybody, welcome back to Mythical Kitchen. My still fiancée, not yet married, Julia Levy. ((Applause)) Everyone, now, now, now, you all saw her. Probably about two years ago after we got engaged. Tell them what you’ve been up to since then. Well, okay, I feel like since that last episode, we were, we were newly engaged. We were in love. Oh, the good old days. No, well, when we were in love. We still are in love. And, but now, now it’s serious here because, we don’t have a wedding yet, and, you know, so I feel like we were just like, Oh, we’re gonna get married and look how cute we are, and now it’s like, we gotta get down to business here. We actually created our dream wedding menu, this is absolutely true, to send to caterers to be like, how much would this cost? It ended up being about 16 different courses, and every caterer simply said, good luck finding another caterer. So what we’re gonna do, we’re gonna cook a couple, no! This is serious. This is very serious, guys. We have no idea what we’re doing for our wedding. We need help. It’s so expensive. Why? We’re gonna elope to the Taco Bell Cantina in Las Vegas. But today we’re taking some of those things from that menu, dishes that have a lot to do with the story of our relationship, and we’re gonna cook them right here while we try and live plan our wedding. And since wedding planning is stressful, weddings are even more stressful. We might have a couple little sabotages and distractions. Coming our way. ((Music)) You can’t talk about our love story without talking about shrimp. It all started with shrimp. Oh, I thought you were gonna do it. I’m sorry. Oh, apron promo. I was so ready. I thought you were just feeling yourself, I was like. I was so ready. I love story about shrimp. We have a new apron out and we’re both wearing it right now. It says life’s too short to cook on medium. You can see that I have a pan smoking right here. I firmly believe that burners should have one setting, on and off. Always cook on high. Figure it out. It comes in a lovely cream color, and it comes with a nice model that touches you gingerly. Preorder it! Shrimp. Shrimp. We talked about the time that I showed up to your home with a pound of raw shrimp on our like second date. Yeah, it was definitely like super early on, really set the stage for the rest of our, our relationship thus far. And one of our most memorable Christmases as Jews is we created a giant seafood tower filled with several pounds of boiled shrimp. – [Julia] Yes. And at our engagement, we ate a bunch of seafood, including something I think that is similar to what we’re making today. The thing that we ate, it was called Lobster Gringa. We were in Baja, California, and they made us a lobster quesadilla. One of my favorite dishes, tacos gobernador. This is a lovely appetizer. I’m so excited! Yeah, well, so, this is an appetizer for our wedding? Appetizers are constantly the best thing on the menu. We’re going to start charring up a bunch of veg right here. I’m going to split the petals a little bit. I think my favorite thing about any wedding menu that we’ve been to is that, is like the pre dinner food. Babe, help me strike this garlic. The pre dinner food is always better than the actual dinner food. Which is why our wedding should be all pre dinner food. Well, but they’re. – [Josh] No, no, flip it, flip it this way, flip it this way, baby. Babe, remember your training. You’re gonna stack the elbow, drive the elbow up, then you drive. I feel like this is not, you know a fun fact? You know a fun fact? I was a black belt in karate. Once a black belt, always a black belt. There never was a black belt. You’re like a marine. Oh, God! You did it? No, you did it! I really, I really smushed it. We got that going. We’re making a chipotle salsa right now. Pop it right, yeah, throw it in! Tacos gobernador literally means, like, governor’s tacos, so it’s kind of like a celebratory dish. We’re gonna start sweating. Because we’re celebrating. – [Josh] Yeah! How can I help? I feel like I’m not really doing much over here. This is literally every night, cooking dinner. Yeah, I come, I go, I go, How can I help, sweetie? And he’s like, no, no, nothing, we’re good. – [Josh] Oh, you can dump the chipotles into the blender. So, we’re making chipotle salsa right now. I’m charring the heck out of a bunch of garlic, onions, and tomatoes. We’re gonna see how those are doing. And then we’re sweating down onions, poblanos, and some diced, red bell pepper in there. ((Timer Ticking)) ((Timer Ringing)) Babe, say something endearing to the camera. Endearing? That’s pretty good. That was pretty endearing. Well, this is, this is not the time to be cute. This is the time to, like, get serious about planning our wedding. That’s why I’m here. She’s all freaking out. Because all of her friends are like, when are you going to get married? When are you going to get married? Oh, not just my friends. None of my friends are. – [Julia] My mother. Hello, hello, hello. My name is Penelope. I’m your day of party planner. Hi, nice to meet you. My name is Penelope. Hi. Alright, so we got some, information here. Okay. So your great Aunt Cheryl from Poughkeepsie. She has walking pneumonia, you do not kiss her, okay? I know she’s a hugger, only shaking hands with her. Number two, hold on. Go for Penelope. Oh, this is Penelope, so, I contracted her while you were away. You weren’t familiar with. No, no, no, she has an allergy to azaleas. Baby’s breath, baby’s breath. This is crazy. Baby’s breath. This is gonna be, I’m already stressed out. Can you calm Penelope down? She’s freaking out. I’m sweating. Penelope’s freaking out. I’m freaking out. Baby’s breath. We have cooking to do. – [Julia] Okay. Okay. – [Penelope] Reminder. Reminder. The quartet is playing Ed Sheeran’s Perfect For You when you walk down the aisle. Oh, okay. And Josh, for some reason, here it says. Wait, no. That’s, no, no, no. That is not what we agreed to. According to this, according to our chart, it says you wanted a, an acoustic, slowed down version of Toxicity by System of a Down. Is that still correct? Oh, that is so correct. That is so correct. Pablo! Oh my God, Pablo! Pablo! Oh God, this is so stressful! I’ll tell you what, Penelope, her bedside manner is terrible, but she does incredible work. She’s been really fantastic for us. We got our aromatics sweated down. We’ve added the shrimp to that. This is gonna cook. – [Julia] That looks great. We added a seasoning blend to it. Typical stuff. A little bit of cumin in there. Some chili powder. Onion, garlic, stuff like that. I’m gonna add some MSG to the salsa. Whenever I cook at home, I always try and dump MSG into the food, and Julia always tries to stop me. You can’t do that here, I’m at work! I mean, as long as it makes it taste good. If everybody thinks that. Wait, we need water. Oh. I’ll just talk to no one. See, I’m trying to cook. I’m sorry. I’m here. I’m trying to cook. Blend it up. I kind of, okay, where’s the thing? I feel like as long as everybody likes the food, even if it’s just filled with MSG, then like, great. Well, add actual ideas that I had. Yeah. Tell me. I really want to make this wedding feel, yeah, it’s it’s on high. It’s on high, you’re doing great. I really want to make this wedding, here, I’m coming around you. I want to make it feel like a music festival. Dump some oil there. I want a dubstep DJ. I want a dubstep DJ on the dance floor. And I want to see Susan jam out to some dubstep. – [Julia] Oh, okay. Is it good? Ooh. Wait, that’s so good. Ooh, yum. Oh, it’s spicy. That’s so good. Just like our love is. Make out with me. Do it. Baby, baby. Excuse me, excuse me, we need to save it for under the chuppah, under the chuppah. Alright, it looks like Pablo. Oh, that’s so good. No. She needs some. What’s her name? Penelope? She said Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran’s coming to our wedding? Yeah, yeah. Oh, that’s great. No, I booked, we booked, Eddie Sheers. Eddie Sheers. ((Laughing)) I just hit 12,000 steps. ((Laughing)) Oh God, okay, okay, we gotta start making tacos, we gotta start making tacos. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s do it. – [Josh] Baby, enough messing around, okay? We gotta get serious! I’m gonna start making some tacos. We’re gonna get some tortillas heating up in a pan right now, and then we’re gonna. – [Julia] This looks so good. – [Josh] We’re gonna smash some shrimpies in there. – [Julia] Baby, baby, we have to pick our wedding song, like our first dance song. Wait, what do you want it to be? It’s an easy answer. What? It’s the easiest answer ever. I think I actually know what you’re talking about. Wait, what is it? Say it, say it. On three, on three. One, two, Creep by Radiohead. Okay. – [Julia] I wanna have a. I’m trying my goddamnest to make tacos right now. What, you can’t multitask? No. This is your job. I’m trying, I’m, okay, go. No, here, tell them while I do it. Okay, I’ll just talk at you while you make me tacos. – [Josh] Yeah, yeah, yeah, do it. That’s startling. But. So, I was thinking something like, like a Frank Sinatra song. And it would be, it’d be like, start in a slow dance. But then it would be like, everybody join us! And then it’s like, super cheesy and like, it’s so cute. And we profess our love to each other. And then you like, dip me. We spin. Fly me to the moon! Yeah! Come sail away, sail away with me! Right? That’s Frank Sinatra? That’s literally the only line you know. All right, so we got the tacos gobernador. They’re toasting up right now in a pan. I’m just smearing grease on your shoulder. We’re gonna flip these over, get them nice and toasty, garnish them, throw some avocado, cilantro in there, plate up the salsa. You want to cook more things? Yeah, let’s do it. You wanna sing more? What’s the, yeah, let’s dance, baby, let’s dance. ((Slow Dance Music)) Are we gonna get to do a? Oh, oh. ((Dubstep Music)) Different than what I was expecting. ((Music)) We’re making peri peri chicken. Julia and I, last year we traveled to South Africa, which is where my family’s from. Got to visit some cousins, had an incredible trip there, ate some incredible food. Yeah, it was incredible. International travel is really important to you. You always said you’d never marry me. Unless we went on a big international trip together. Turns out we didn’t kill each other. Yeah, and it’s the furthest you can go from L.A. Literally. Traveled halfway around the world, and we ate peri peri chicken, which is delicious grilled chicken. It has Portuguese influence. It’s also very big in Mozambique, which is right next to South Africa. Alright, okay, so we got some chicken thighs here. We’re gonna lube it up with some oil. – [Julia] Okay. – [Josh] We’re gonna get some lemon juice in there to marinate it. Dump all the spices. I’m Georgian, here for The party! Happy, can I give you a hug? I’m, happy quinceañera, girl. You are as pretty as pretty does! I just thought I didn’t want to outdress you, but I feel like. – [Julia] I love the dress, girl! I love the dress, girl! I thought we were gonna do a quinceañera, so. I’m gonna keep seasoning the chicken, you guys figure it out, alright? You deal with that, I’ll season the chicken. It’s hotter as six shades of hell! I’m gonna go ahead and toss the chicken in there. There you go, okay, yeah. There you go, queen! Is this what are you cooking for? You are like a goblin! You are like a witch! I love this. I’m gonna go find the open bar. Alright! Cheers, love! You look like every bachelorette in Nashville. Which of our friends is gonna be most like that at the wedding? Oh, oh! That’s a good question. It’s gonna happen. Is it gonna be like your group of friends or my group of friends? That particular one is gonna come from your group of friends. My particular one is gonna be a bunch of dudes with their shirts off, dancing to Versace. Can I get a refill, please? I need a refill. Come here, come here, come here. Penelope! I am so sorry about her. Which one do you like more, this one or that one? This is going to be so similar to the actual wedding. I’m so glad we’re getting the training ground right now. I know. I just want to hire Penelope for the real, for the real deal. – [Julia] I know, kinda honestly. Yeah, wait, wait, wait. If somebody wants to just like give us like a free wedding or just like plan all of it, do all the things. – [Julia] Well, okay. That’d be huge cause, it’s really tough. What decisions do we need to make? Like, maybe, maybe the internet can help us. Where the wedding is, where the wedding is. Where the wedding is, okay. That’s a big one. I think somewhere in California. Solid. Big state. Done. Check. What, what about his and her cocktails? His and her cocktails? That’s good. Okay, what would be your cocktail? Jägerbomb! Jägerbomb! You get a Jägerbomb! You get a Jägerbomb! Jägermeister is like, kinda good. I love Jäger. We, I was drinking straight Jäger in New Orleans. – [Julia] Yeah, yeah you were. What was it called? – [Josh] What? – [Julia] What were they called? Like, something weird? Oh, uh, uh what was it? A tooter! A tooter! For $2 you get Jägermeister tooters on the streets of New Orleans. We go, what’s a tooter? And she’s like, it’s just a smaller shot. You can drink on the street. – [Josh] You can drink on the street. We should have our wedding in New Orleans. Honestly? Fair wedding in New Orleans. Not a bad idea. We love drinking on the street. Wait, no, we just had California. – [Josh] Can I, can I take this over? Why? Baby, I’m not doing a good job? No, you’re doing good. Just, you know, kind of like spread it, mash it, get it like flat in here. You have a good amount of surface area. There it is. You’re so good. Just don’t hurt yourself. I hate this. It looks like you’re at a bachelorette party right now. Where’s your bachelorette happening? – [Julia] I don’t know. Oh, where should I go? – [Georgian] Is that food ready yet? I’m hungry. No, the food’s not ready yet. Penelope, what the? How does she slip out of your grasp? I just want a little bite of that. That is raw chicken. Don’t eat that. – [Penelope] Get back here! I need my tiara back, actually. Wait, where’s my quinceañera? This is my quinceañera. I’ve never had a quinceañera Wait, where should I go for my bachelorette? I don’t know, woman. – [Julia] Wait, were we supposed to put that on it? – [Josh] I don’t know anymore. No, we’re gonna bake it off, and then we’re gonna glaze it while it’s in there, and throw this in a 525 degree oven. We’re gonna get this nice and crispy, then we’re gonna glaze it. God, I hope that swamp creature never comes back. ((Timer Ticking)) ((Timer Ringing)) Gotta chop some lemons, I’m gonna pop these in there, I’m gonna take the chicken out of the oven, I’m gonna get it sauced up, going back in the oven. I’m ready. I’m ready for ya. You’re so ready. Wait, no, I’ll do that. You read our original wedding menu. Oh yeah, okay. We tracked it down. Yeah, so we, we sent, we. Hot swinging behind, right? And we thought of all of the things that we’d want on our wedding menu that meant a lot to us, that told a story of our love, and the catering company, Foley, was like, no, thank you. Yeah, yeah. But I’m gonna read it and, we’ll decide. So, first of all, we said we wanted it food festival style. Definitely. Still do. I still do. That’s still a great idea. – [Julia] Wedge salad with Peter Luger’s bacon. Iceberg shaved red onion, thick bacon bits. Cherry tomatoes, blue cheese dressing. Charred broccoli, Caesar salad, that’s what we made in our last video. Soups, there’s a whole soup section. Chicken tortilla soup. Wait, okay, taco bar late night. Fish taco inspired by Manta, where we got engaged. Birria taco, possibly sourcing birria. Shrimp quesadilla. What we just made. I’m dying from the char. I’m. I don’t have a utensil. Oh my God, I’m dying from the char. Oh, that looks good! Okay, okay. Salsa bar with tortilla chips, cheese steaks, and then there’s a seafood bar. Shrimp cocktail, raw oysters, hamachi aguachile. And then there’s a whole section on getting saucy, which is just a variety of bottles of hot sauce. I’m starting to hate us now. Mezze dips. With a bunch of stuff. A Lodge bread. That’s a good one. There’s like the mains and sides. We just got to that section. Peri peri chicken. Poppin’ choco laca. Seared lamb chops and romesco, which we made in our last one. Ravioli. Why ravioli? You said there needed to be a pasta dish for vegetarians. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Roasted carrots, which we’ll get to. Inspired by the cheese. And then desserts. There’s a dessert section, which oddly is the smallest section. There’s ice cream, strawberry shortcake cups, s’mores. There’s no cake? What happened to us? What are we talking about? I don’t know! I don’t remember any of this! And there’s fruit! And there’s fruit on the menu. And anyway, okay, so that’s our list that we sent to a legit caterer and then the caterer comes back, one, she says thank you so much for sending this detail. We love couples that are passionate about food and wine as we are. However. ((Laughing)) In the near future it would be best for chef to focus on his own culinary creations, before we start having him venture into others, and custom menus that we’ve already, that have not already been put together. So, they just flat out said no. Yeah. I should just cook the food for our own wedding. I don’t think that’s a good idea. That’s a good idea. Ooh, this is looking nice. – [Julia] Ooh, yeah! Chicken’s done. – [Julia] Wait, that looks great, baby. That looks amazing. And it smells great. – [Josh] Spicy peri peri chicken skewers. You can serve that with some grilled lemon. You gotta make saucy carrots. Oh, saucy carrots! ((Music)) This is the crux of our entire relationship. It is. It was the moment I fell in love with you. Oh, I didn’t know that. It was about 45 minutes after we’d met, which now seems a little damning. Wait, I’m gonna get these charring in the pan with a bunch of oil. Wait, 45 minutes after we met? Yeah, well, we didn’t meet, but I was watching you. You were in your car, and I had binoculars. No, it was on our first date. It was on our first date, we got a dish. Nightshade, Chef Mei Lin, fantastic restaurant. Am I doing this? Yeah, crush up some grains of paradise. We ordered the carrots with tamarind caramel. And I eat like a slob. You have all met me, that is not a bit. That is something I do in life. And then Julia is trying to be prim and proper. And then we’re in a heated discussion on whether or not there’s any inherent meaning to life. Yeah. She grabs a carrot covered in caramel and goes. Nothing matters, and that’s fine! And that was when I fell in love with you. That’s so true! Aww! Saucy carrots have kind of become a bit of a mantra for our relationship. – [Daisy] Hey guys! Oh my God! Let me tell you guys, what’s up? My name is Daisy, I am the flower girl. From what I heard, you’re supposed to have flowers here, here, here, and even here. But you guys need to tell me what kind of flowers you like. Wait, is this supposed to be a wedding? Why are you guys cooking? Where did these flowers come from? I missed the meeting earlier, because some shorty, uh, her name is Puh, puh, puh, leh, leh. Penelope, I missed the meeting because I saw this tree needed a desperate hug outside! Oh, my God, he was so depressed, and I took his flowers and, I don’t know, I might have made a more depressed. Oh, here, this, you know what, this one, it matches your eyes so well! We paid you $9,000 to do this? You know, you know, you know, did you guys see? Weddings are a scam. Did you guys see that crazy girl? She was drunk earlier. – [Georgian] How dare you? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Oh my God, wait, is this one of your bridesmaids? This is not a quinceañera Not my quinceañera You’re so cute, oh my God. I need a drink, I need a drink. I need a Jägerbomb. I need a Jägerbomb. Why isn’t she listening to me? Oh my God. It’s that crazy. Go over there. Go over there. Leave them alone. She’s so stressful. Carrots got some nice color on them. Not to stress you guys out, but, cocktail hour is starting very soon, so chop chop. – [Josh] We’re going, Nicole wants to go home. I mean Penelope wants to go home. This is actually so stressful, man. I’m gonna get, I know cooking’s stressful. Oh, so good! – [Josh] Deglaze that in some chicken stock. Got some nice color on there. This is what I’m good. This is not stressful to me. This is perfect. And this is going great. I might add a little bit more sugar. – [Julia] You know that the saucy carrots are something like when I, my friends asked me what I wanted my like wedding vibe to be, and the theme and whatever. I said saucy carrots? And that really confused a lot of people, but I think you hit it on the head. Like the essence of, relationship and honesty is what it’s all about. And even if you’re, you’re not your best self, even if you got caramel sauce all over your, your hands. You know, that’s, that’s the essence of it. So, but I don’t know how you interpret that into a wedding, but. No, not at all, not at all. One of the things is, the reason we work is because neither of us make a lot of sense. Yeah, no, zero sense. And so it’s, it’s kind of troubling when you’re trying to like get things done. ((Timer Ticking)) ((Timer Ringing)) – [Josh] The carrots look incredible. You know, when they, I know we put these out for the guests because we don’t want them to, well, they might not want to. They’re going to eat the caramel with their hands. I’m going to plate them up and we’re going to be happy. Wait, wait, why do we need this? What’s this? What’s that? Oh yeah, you’re taking too long, so I did it without it. I was ready. Oh, those look great. Right, baby? You can grab some garnish, grab some mint. Oh, okay. Also, if anybody wants to know any of the ingredients that we put inside these carrots, we had tamarind paste, we had vinegar, we had butter, we had a little bit of chicken stock. Here you go, baby. Wait, wait, wait, hold on. Let me pour some more caramel sauce on it. You really didn’t really, okay. What? – [Julia] It’s, an interesting plating. – [Josh] Yeah, I didn’t know what my vision was. Oh, okay. That looks great, oh, that looks yummy. It’s just a little yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just like squeeze it in there. There we go, wait. – [Josh] What are you trying to do? – [Julia] I’m gonna line them up? No, don’t line up the carrots it’s gonna be rustic. All right rustic, rustic wedding y’all. ((Music)) Here you have it, we have our tacos gobernador with that shrimp, Oaxaca cheese, chipotle sauce, a little bit of avocado, we have our roasted chicken thigh skewers with peri peri sauce and some grilled lemon. Then we got our saucy carrots with the tamarind caramel, grains of paradise, and mint on top. We are no closer to planning a wedding. No, I think we are. That’s what this is for. We didn’t do any of it. No, I think we got somewhere, and I. We got a florist. I don’t want that florist. – [Josh] I want that florist. I liked her energy. Talks to trees. That was a lot. Grab the tacos gobernador. I’m gonna dunk in the salsa. – [Julia] Yeah, this looks great. Wait, I want some salsa. Didn’t I make shrimp quesadillas like a week and a half ago? Wasn’t that yesterday? What? It’s really good. One to ten? Like, what’s your rating? That’s a nine and a half for me. It’s one of my favorite foods in the world. Okay. Guests will love it? Yeah. Should I have a little shooters of salsa? – [Julia] Little tooters? tooters of salsa. You just like spit salsa in my eye. Alright. – [Julia] Do it. How do people eat this? I think it’s, no, people at our wedding should act like it’s a state fair and just walk around. ((Laughing)) I want some of this one. Oh, I guess Lady and the Tramp, that one. That’s so good. That is really good actually. I’m gonna play a dangerous game. Oh, don’t do that. I hate that. Can we still eat at the actual wedding? Cause people say that like, you don’t eat at your own wedding. And I was like, of course not. Of course we’re gonna eat at our wedding. You should have seen us eat at the last funeral we were at. Yeah, no, we. We ate like a pint of egg salad. We’re gonna cross our arms and do it. We’re gonna cross our arms and do it. We’ll do champagne toast. This way? No, wait. You’re left handed, so you gotta go right handed, or I gotta go left handed. Oh, there we go. I was like, how do arms function? Man, brings me right back to our first date. When you were so cute and charming. What was I wearing? And now look at you. I’ve gotten worse. I’ve gotten worse as a person and I’ve gotten worse looking. And that’s fine. We all do. No, no. I meant the sauce on your face. Oh. So, so, okay. These are all winners for the wedding. These are all definitely gonna be featured at our wedding. We’re gonna have a dubstep DJ, we’re gonna have a couple sword swallows, and we’re gonna have all of our favorite guests there. Penelope is going to plan our wedding. What was your name? Georgian? Georgian! Oh, come on! Hey, I thought you were a Latinx and that you were going to quinceañera This is my quinceañera That’s her quinceañera Gaby Heron, this is for you. You broke your tiara. Everybody’s going to see the flower girl. Here’s my bill. You guys take forever to. Don’t open it right now. Do not open it. Like, what’s up with that? I’m so overwhelmed, y’all. Thank you so much for making our wedding incredibly special, and thank you so much for watching and continuing to support, and one day, if you want to see us videotape our wedding and upload it to Mythical Kitchen, comment, I don’t know what to comment. Yeah, help us, just help, just like, let us know, what do you think, like, should be at the wedding, that’d be great. Or, yeah. Since they’re no help. I’m gonna keep eating tacos. Alright. Hold my food. Oh, oh God, no, you don’t do that. I do not get paid enough for this. – [Josh] Life’s too short to cook on medium, or whatever Ratatouille said. 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