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(lighthearted music) Anthony: Cuckoo, cuckoo.
(bird song) (up beat music) Anthony: I'm Anthony Anderson and I'm on a mission
to find the best home cooks in America. (lively music)
Anthony: I'm in the beautiful mid western plains.
Where are we again?
Stage hand: Cedar Rapids, man.
Anthony: Oh, okay, Cedar Rapids, Iowa where there's no body of water but,
we're going to cook seafood linguini from an award-winning
recipe by engineer Craig Hazelbaker.
Lassie!!! (lively music)
Scene 2A, take one.
Craig: We're going to pan sear some scallops and make some garlic shrimp
to go with it, but it's going to be over a bed of linquini
with brandied cream sauce.
Anthony: Brandied cream sauce?
Craig: Yes, and that reduced brandy's going to help bring out the
natural sweetness in the scallops.
Anthony: Must we reduce the brandy?
Craig: Yes.
Anthony: Can we leave the alcohol content in it?
Craig: I can pour you a little something on the side.
Anthony: Sounds like a plan to me.
Craig: Okay. (lively music)
Craig: I also work in engineering, so you're going to find me doing some
rather obsessive-compulsive things.
Anthony: Such as?
Craig: Using an infrared thermometer and an instant read
thermometer on the scallops. (lively music)
Anthony: This recipe that we have, I understand, is award-winning.
Craig: One of the local grocery stores, Hy-Vee, has a seafood recipe contest.
My girlfriend Diane encouraged me.
When I'm less generous I'll say she nagged me into entering it.
Anthony: Shh, you know she's right in the next room?
Craig: I do, I know, I do.
She has heavy things to pick and throw at me too, so I got to watch that.
(lively music) You want a good sear on it.
Anthony: Um-hum.
Craig: We'll see how hot this thing's getting here.
It says 392 degrees Fahrenheit, that's pretty warm. (lively music)
Put a good *** of butter over there in that last pan.
That's too hot.
Anthony: Yeah, how do we ...
Craig: Yeah, I'm going to get another pan for you.
Anthony: Hold on, hold on,hold on, let's see, let's see how hot it is.
Craig: Hot stuff.
Anthony: Four hundred, four hundred and four.
Craig: Four hundred, no.
Anthony: Too hot.
Craig: Too hot, too hot.
Anthony: (singing) Oh, it's too hot. (lively music)
Anthony: See they're going to flambe, I almost lost an eyebrow.
(lively music) Craig: Yeah, see how this is doing here.
That'll do.
Anthony: I got to check and make sure now.
Oh, my God.
Craig: There we go, you see.
Anthony: I could eat a bowl of this by myself. (lively music)
Craig: You see how I just kind of like the different shapes?
Anthony: Yeah.
Craig: Put a little dollop here and there, you know.
Anthony: I'm not mad at the presentatiaon.
Craig: You're not mad at it?
Anthony: No, my vernacular's from the inner city.
We say, "Not mad at it."
Craig: I'm from the inner city of Dillon, Montana, how's that?
Anthony: Ha, ha, ha, ha. (lively music)
Craig: Now this is a family show, but a nice Pinot Gris
would go with this so well.
Anthony: Families drink Pinot Gris.
Craig: Then we're going to get it out then aren't we?
Anthony: What is he talking about? (lively music)
Now tell me, how long have you been playing the bagpipes?
Craig: Something like 46 years.
Anthony: Forty-six years?
Craig: Forty-six years.
Anthony: You know what, I think we need to get in our dinner formals. (bagpipe music)
Anthony: Craig, you know what?
Craig: What?
Anthony: It never fails; every time I put on a kilt, this music plays.
Craig: I thought it was just me.
(bagpipe music) Craig: I'm anxious to know what you think.
Anthony: This brandied cream sauce, I love the flavor on it;
I love the texture of it.
I've been eating scallops while you were getting dressed.
These scallops are delicious. (lively drums)
What got you involved in cooking?
Craig:It was my mother.
I remember one time, she looked at me the in the kitchen.
She said, "Son, learn how to cook."
"Two reasons, one, you never know how long you're going to be single."
"Two, women love a man who knows how to cook."
That, that sold me right there.
Anthony: Excuse me one second.
Diane, is that true?
Diane: That's true.
Anthony: Ha, ha, ha, ha. (lively music)
Anthony: Craig, I want to thank you for inviting us into your home today.
Craig: It was a lot of fun, it was a lot of fun.
Anthony:This was some of the best food that I've had.
You got pretty legs up under your kilt.
Craig: Diane, do I have pretty legs up under my kilt?
Diane: Yes.
Anthony: Are mine prettier, Diane?
Diane: Yes.
Anthony: Ah, ha, ha, ha, you got a smart woman like I said. (lively music)
(clapper) Anthony: Wait a minute, I didn't take my drawers off.
You're not supposed to wear drawers when you're wearing a kilt.
Yeah, I'll leave them on though, I'll leave them on. (wooshing)