Szechuan Chicken with Angel Hair Pasta

This is one of our passport dishes, y'all

It's food adventure without the luggage. That's exactly right. Oh, God. You did that to me

Szechuan. Szechuan. Whoa! Now that it's gone. It's Szechuan Chicken with angel hair pasta

So Gordon has some chicken breasts. Cutting the strips. That we have cut into strips

He's going to, let me see if your eye's on. Yes, it's on. I'm going to put a tablespoon of sesame oil in here

Of sesame oil. Flip your top. Yes, dog baby. You're worried about me up here, right

No, I'm not. You're so worried. Whoa! Watch me freak mama out

The producer is cooking. Okay. My favorite producer. All right, okay. Oh, he's my only producer

I was about to say. All right, while you're doing that, Gordy, I'm going to get your vegetables ready for you

And for this dish, you're going to need red bell pepper, a yellow bell pepper, and some green onions and broccoli

Right, right. And let me know if I cut your heat up too high. Woo-hoo

Here, let me take your, oh, my God. Hey! He looks like he's getting ready to fight, doesn't he, y'all

Oh, I'm loving this. But you know what? I was very proud and happy to be the first person to ever take you overseas

We took you to London and Paris. Yeah. You never got on an international aircraft

I got to see everything. That is the outside of everything. They wouldn't allow..

I never got to see anything from the inside because they wouldn't allow our cameras

And then I tried to take her to the Ritz, and Michael was very excited to go to the Ritz in London

except he was wearing a pair of flip-flops and kind of board shorts. I don't remember that, Gordon

Oh, I do. We turned up. They wouldn't let him in. You wouldn't let him in, do you remember

No, no, I do not. A very large man in one of these enormous coats with gold braid and a top hat said

pardon me, sir, what were your plans? I said, well, I'd like to take my friends in for afternoon tea

I'm sorry, one of your friends doesn't appear to be wearing a correct attire

What he was really saying was, why don't you get your nasty, shuffling friends off our property with those flip-flops and those things

I do not remember, Gordon. It's okay. We went and had a nice time

Remember we went to that lovely restaurant? You took us to a restaurant where the ceiling folded back remember That was in Paris darling Oh Well where are we right now Well we in London but I Oh we still in London Wasn that gorgeous

It was a beautiful meal. Oh, my gosh. This restaurant, y'all, we, uh, they actually hit this button in the ceiling

Opened up in the middle of dinner. Opened up, and you were eating under the stars and all this fanciness

All right. What else can I do? All right. I'm fixing to get your onions

You just tend to your chicken. Do you want me to make the sauce? No. Okay, I'm good

Don't hurry me along now. You're going to cause me to cut myself. Okay, I'm sorry

And I got a knife in my hand, and I just cut my fingernail

Oh, slow down. All right, so, yeah, slow down a little bit

I know you get excited. I know you get so excited. I was really happy and very excited to take Polaroa to the seas

because I figured no. He was taking country to town, y'all. He's way too kind to say that

I'm going to put a little bit of pepper gourd. And, you know, I'm afraid about the salt

I'm going to put a little bit. Okay. But we're using soy sauce

That's very salty. And the sesame oil. Yeah. So it's salty on its own

So I'm not going to do much to you. And then chili garlic sauce, too, will be pretty salty

Yes, yes. So what are you doing? Grating up some ginger there? I'm grating up

We're going to need about a teaspoon and a half. Okay. Okay. And I can either mince this garlic for you, or you can grate it. You tell me what you want

You mince it, baby. Okay. So anyway, getting back to Paula, who'd never been overseas before. So I'm waiting for her at the airport

She arrives late from a flight she'd just come in on from Canada. Michael and I were so stupid, y'all. Finish your story, Gordon. I still think about what I did to you, and I just want to cry every time I think about what I did to you

Right, so I'm standing there. We're literally running late. We've got to run for the plane

Michael and I have spent three hours sitting on a bench eating ice cream. Waiting

Just sitting around. Waiting for Gordon. Waiting for me. And so I eventually came up to them

I said, okay, so you've checked your bags. And they said, no, we just gave them to them in Canada

They said, yeah, but that was a different airline. It was a different flight

They don't just know where you're going. Did you tell them you're going to Paris? No, I don't believe I did

Did you tell them you're going to London? No. I said, so where are the bags? We thought the airlines just knew where we was going

So I went outside, I gave 50 bucks to a cab driver

who was dropping someone off at the Parches and told them to run me around at a Canadian airline I grabbed your bags which were locked up by the way threw them in the cab and just made it back to the plane Gordon I know

You were so funny. I remember. You were so funny. I felt so bad

I said, well, I guess I've just taken maybe five years off my producer's life

Well, the problem is we had crews waiting. We would have been a day behind on the shoot. Oh, God

Oh, you left the tongs sitting on the pan. Rule number one

Who left the tongs? sitting on the back. I'm sorry, honey. That's just quite all right, my precious

Rule number one. Give it to me. Give it to me. It's hot. It's hot. It's a firecracker

I got it. That is too hot for you. So, carrying on with the sauce

Let's start with a tablespoon of honey. Jamie Prescott, this your favorite dish

Do you find it has a little sweetness in it? Yes. I've also got the juice of one lime

Yes. turn it that away so your juice will go through your holes. I knew that

I know that you did. I knew that. Alright, our tongs have cooled off

Would you remember that argument you got into with that British woman? She wouldn't give you mayonnaise? Let me tell you something, y'all

They have a sandwich over there. You know, potatoes are like my favorite

vegetable. How much of this? A quarter cup? A quarter of a cup. Oh, here, I've got your

measuring cup. Let me, um. That was a fourth a cup of your

soy sauce, and there you can use that to measure your... That's about

a quarter of a cup. No, no, a quarter of a cup would be that line in your measuring cup. You just carry on and tell the story. I know what I'm doing

So I love potatoes, y'all, and I was so excited when we went to the open

market that they had something called a chip buddy. A chip buddy is

white bread with butter with french fries. It's pretty good. I eat my

french fries with mayonnaise. So I asked the lady if she could fix mine and add mayonnaise to it

I said, no, please, I eat my French fries with mayonnaise. And it was an absolutely dead no

So I ate my chip buddy just like they do over there with just butter

What did you think of it? All right, it was okay, but it would have been fabulous with mayonnaise

Let's do that thing. All right, so there you go. Yeah, let's make a chip buddy with mayonnaise

There's your sauce. I'm gonna turn that frying pan back over to you

So you just wanna take your tongs and start the old toss Thank you for not putting the tongs on the heat Oh you just so welcome All right now take your pasta Gordon Yes my love

You did that to me. You did that to me. That was payback for the tongs

You did. I forgot to tell you that your pasta is staying warm over here

I bet you forgot to tell me. She comes off all night on television

I'll tell you. You do something with this girl, she doesn't forget it. I swear

I didn't think about... And while I was chastising you, I left this thing on the heat

and I really put this in again. Oh, God, what am I doing up here

Art, you're just tossing your pasta into your Szechuan chicken. All right, let me get that all together

Yeah, there you go. Okay, good. All right, this is beautiful. This looks so healthy and so full of flavor

I've been lucky enough to eat in some fabulous places and work with the most talented chefs in the world

I'm telling you, Gordon has really... I've really been happy. He taught me so much and has shown me so much, y'all

He's given me wonderful gifts. Thank you, baby. Of exposure. This is fabulous

Is it good? Oh, I love a dish that bites back. I want Jamie to try it

This is one of his favorite dishes. Give me the camera. Oh, God

He's gone from producer to cook to now cameraman. You can open up what

All right, Jamie. Get in there and eat it. Sorry. That's okay. You're good

You're good. You ready, Jamie? All right, but let me ask you this

Should I have more juice in it? I don't think so. It's just very, it should be like red like this

It's good, though. Would I try it? Okay, so we didn't put enough, Gordy. Well, you know what

You can always add more. You can't take it out. Can't take it out. So you can always have a little of that stuff on the table

How is that, Jamie? It's very good. Good? Yeah. It is. Yeah, very good

I wish Michael Gruber was here. Thank you, Jamie. Okay, Gordon's taken over the camera

Uh-huh. So I don't have a cooking partner, so I guess it's time to sign off on this particular recipe

Uh-huh. I have found out today just how talented my precious producer is

He went from the director's chair to the stove to the camera

Uh-huh. Now, a girl can't ask me any more than that. Nothing like a control freak who eats too much

That's me. Thank you, baby. Our passport dinner. There you go