Cooking with Paris (2021) s01e02 Episode Script

[Western music plays]
[bird calls]
[wind blowing]
- [music stops]
- [horns honking]
[horn honks]
[Mexican folk music plays]
[Paris] Fresh tortillas!
I'm getting corn and flour.
I wanted to get the cheese.
It's called Cortorono or something?
- [woman] Corterano?
- [Paris] It starts with a "C."
[woman] Queso Cotija.
[Paris] Yes.
Excuse me.
What is a tomatillio?
[woman 2] Tomatillos are right here.
- [Paris] Those? The green ones?
- Yes. The green ones.
[Mexican folk music continues]
[Paris] Ugh.
- Hate these bags.
- [music stops]
[grunts]
[sighs]
Beyond.
[upbeat whimsical music plays]
[Paris] I love cooking.
But I'm not a trained chef.
And I'm not trying to be!
I have a few go-to dishes.
Sliving nachos.
Jello shots.
Lasagna.
But I want to mix it up,
so I'm expanding my repertoire.
I found some brand-new recipes,
and I'm inviting my friends over
to test them out.
Will we create culinary magic?
- [woman] Moment of truth!
- [Paris] Wish me luck.
- [woman] Yes!
- Yes! Oh my God.
[Paris] Anything's possible.
- [sensual jazz plays]
- And tonight is Taco Night.
I love tacos.
Always have.
I like my tacos to be very American-style.
Crispy shell with ground beef and cheese,
especially if it's from Taco Bell.
But I'm ready to try something
totally outside my taco comfort zone.
So I invited hip-hop artist Saweetie
over for dinner.
I told her she's got to teach me
how to make her famous shrimp tacos.
The dining room will transport us
to one of my favorite places.
Tulum, Mexico.
We're also going to make roasted salsa,
and for dessert, Funfetti cake
topped with classic Mexican flan.
Good thing I'm serving up
some mean margaritas
to give me some culinary courage.
I'm gonna need it.
All right, Funfetti Flan.
So it's a layer cake topped with flan.
Flan? I don't know how to say it.
- [Mexican folk music plays]
- How to make Funfetti Flan Cake.
"To a large bowl, add all cake mix."
"Three eggs."
Get outta here.
"Half a cup of vegetable oil."
"One cup of water."
"Whisk for two minutes until smooth."
[music stops]
Smells so good.
Gonna need more sprinkles.
[romantic music plays]
All right.
Yes.
[romantic music continues]
[hums]
[music fades]
Cotton candy. Probably taste better.
- [breezy pop plays]
- Cooking tip.
Cotton candy is just sugar
with more personality.
Try this.
- Hmm.
- [music fades]
Mmm.
So good.
"Make the flan layer."
"To a blender,
add four ounces of cream cheese."
[whimsical jazz music plays]
"Two eggs."
"One can of sweetened condensed milk."
It's the weirdest milk I've ever seen.
Hope it's supposed to be like this.
"One teaspoon of vanilla extract."
Oops.
Smells good.
- Let's blend this bitch.
- [music fades]
[blender whirring]
[blender screeches]
[blender powers off]
Ugh, I hate that blender.
- "Pour flan mixture all over cake batter."
- [whimsical jazz continues]
Yes.
- Oh No!
- [music stops]
This is not the best outfit to cook in.
Nothing I wear is, really.
Ugh.
Okay.
What else?
"Cover with foil."
[whimsical jazz continues]
I love baths.
All right, time for you to take a bath.
"Bake for one and a half hours,
cool completely,
then refrigerate overnight."
[timer ticking]
[dings]
[music fades]
[upbeat jazz music plays]
[automated voice] Four, three, two, one.
- Get ready!
- [camera clicks]
[automated voice] Four, three, two, one.
[camera clicks]
[Paris] So happy I got a photo booth.
I always wanted one.
- Hi, guys.
- [woman] Hey, Paris!
- [Paris] Looks awesome.
- [woman] Ready for some tacos?
[Paris] Yes! This is awesome.
Always matching, color coordinated.
I love Tulum.
It's, like, my favorite place.
I like it!
- I have a surprise. In the kitchen.
- Yes. Let me get Baby Love.
- Baby Love's probably gonna start peeing
- [Charlotte] Baby Love!
- Ta-da!
- Oh my God!
This is hilarious.
- Does that sit?
- Yo quiero Taco Bell.
[Charlotte] I don't think there's a hole.
How the hell
do they expect candy to go in?
[laughs] Let's stab a hole in it.
[whimsical jazz music playing]
What? Yes!
Yes! My God.
[Charlotte] Oh my goodness!
- Yes!
- Yes!
Careful.
- [grunts]
- [Charlotte] It's literally 50 pounds.
Here we go. Okay.
[music fades]
- Killing it.
- Okay.
[Charlotte] I'm excited to see
how this flan turned out.
[Paris] Me too.
Moment of truth!
Yes. Wish me luck.
- Here we go.
- [grunts]
[Charlotte] Yeah. Oh.
- Okay.
- [Paris] Won't fit.
- [Charlotte] Oh!
- [Paris groans]
[Charlotte] Yes.
[both] Yes!
Oh my God!
[upbeat music playing]
- Sick.
- It looks good!
It's so cute.
[Charlotte]
It's like a huge, massive doughnut!
[Paris] Looks insane.
[Charlotte] Saweetie's gonna be here
in less than an hour,
so let's get you changed.
[Paris] Baby Love!
[kisses] Come on, Baby!
[doorbell rings]
[sweeping romantic music plays]
Hello!
- [screams]
- Yes!
- Oh my God, this outfit is
- Yes!
Give me love.
- Yes!
- You look good, girl.
- So do you. Wow!
- Oh my goodness.
[Paris] I heard you know how to cook.
[Saweetie]
I know how to do a little something.
[Paris] Okay.
[Saweetie laughs]
[breezy jazz plays]
[Paris] I met Saweetie during New York
Fashion Week a couple years ago.
She's a super-talented hip-hop artist,
and she's always posting
insane cooking videos.
I cannot wait for Saweetie to teach me
how to make her killer shrimp tacos.
Ooh. [rolls tongue]
Ooh! Ah!
[Paris] Start it off with a little marg?
- Oh my gosh!
- Do you like?
- I think we should pop it off this way.
- [Paris] Hell yeah.
Cooking with Saweetie.
So cheers to being rich,
boss, bad, beautiful,
smart, intelligent-ass bitches, okay?
- [laughs] Yes!
- [laughs]
- Ooh, I love you.
- Cheers! I love you too.
[Saweetie] Hmm.
- You know how to make a margarita, girl.
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, so what you wanna make first?
- Okay, let's look. So, roasted salsa.
How to make roasted salsa.
- I've never made salsa in my life.
- [Saweetie] It's a first for us both.
[Paris]
Tell me and I'll grab it from the fridge.
Let's go.
- In her fabulous expensive-ass dress.
- [Paris] Oh yeah.
[Saweetie] This is how bad bitches cook
in the kitchen, okay?
So we got, "Six tomatoes."
"One red pepper."
[Paris] Loves it.
"Cilantro leaves."
[Paris] Oh yeah.
[Saweetie] I love it.
Fresh out of the garden.
"Preheat oven to broil."
Oh, that's strong. Okay.
Is that, like, higher than simmer?
- [Saweetie] Yeah, all the way.
- Okay.
- [Saweetie] Let's rinse these bitches off.
- Okay. Like it.
[Saweetie] You have to rinse the tomatoes
to make sure there's no dirt on them.
- [Paris] There's no what on them?
- No dirt. 'Cause we're clean.
- Everything clean.
- [Paris] True.
I know, I don't trust, like, in markets
when people are fingering everything.
You cut the tomato,
I'll do the spread thing.
[Saweetie]
We're cutting it into four pieces.
[Paris] Love it.
Ugh.
- There you go.
- Okay.
[Paris] Is it hard to cook
with those nails?
Um, no, life is easier with long nails.
- They match my sliv gloves.
- They match your outfit. Ooh.
[Paris] My nails look so boring
next to yours.
- [Saweetie] But the gloves!
- [Paris] The gloves are my nails, I guess.
- [Saweetie] They do everything.
- [both laugh]
So I just, like, throw these somewhere.
Here, I guess.
- Throw 'em in there, girl.
- All right.
[Saweetie]
"Cut onion in half, remove skin."
"Remove skin from the tomatillos."
Uh, it's so weird
this is called a tomatillio,
and it, like, looks like
A tomato?
a weird apple or something, I don't know.
I've never seen them before.
- Me neither. I was confused.
- A fruit or vegetable? I'm confused too.
At the market yesterday,
I was like, "What is this thing?"
[both laugh]
Okay.
- [Saweetie] "Cut jalapeño in half."
- [Paris] Do you like spicy things?
Girl, I'm Black and I'm Asian.
I love spicy everything.
Yes.
- [Saweetie] Now it's time to drizzle.
- [Paris] Loves it.
[Saweetie] Drippin' in jizz.
My type of party.
- [laughs]
- Loves it.
I feel like we should put truffle oil too,
because truffles are sick.
- [Saweetie] If you with it, I'm with it.
- [Paris] Hello.
- [Saweetie] Rich bitch shit.
- [Paris laughs]
I love that you say that.
I've never called myself a rich bitch.
But I love that you, like, can say that.
It's so fun.
[Paris] News flash.
Truffle oil is rich bitch shit.
Saweetie should totally trademark that.
- Are you ready? 'Cause I'm ready.
- [Paris laughs] Yeah, let's do this.
[Saweetie] Mmm, mmm, mmm.
- Oh, yes.
- [Paris] Yas.
We're going to let that broil, not bake,
okay?
[Paris chuckles]
- [Saweetie] Mmm.
- [Paris laughs]
[Paris hums]
- More?
- Mm-hmm. Always more.
[Paris] Yes.
- I heard your mom is from the Philippines?
- Yep.
- I love the Philippines.
- You been there before?
- Yes, Manila.
- Really? [gasps]
Have you been to any other islands?
No. I'm always there for work,
so I never have time.
I heard it's incredible. I've seen photos.
- Manila's like New York. It's, like, fast.
- Yeah.
But you need to relax,
'cause a bad bitch needs to relax.
- Yeah, I know. I never get to relax.
- You be working hard.
- [Paris] Mm-hmm.
- Let's do it.
[Paris] Yes!
- Cheers. [chuckles]
- Cheers.
- [producer] Can you check your salsa?
- So
- [producer] The oven.
- Wait, it's, like, broiling! [laughs]
- [laughing] Oh, my God.
- Oh shit!
- Oh!
- It's worth it.
- Oh, it's it's bomb.
- It's hot.
[producer]
Paris, will you turn the hood on?
Hood? I can't even lift my arm
in this dress.
[Saweetie] I got it.
[Paris] Loves it. [laughs]
Don't get this twisted,
it's not burning, it's just
well done.
[whimsical Mexican folk music plays]
G'ling-g'ling! Badda-bing, badda-boom!
Y'all wish your vegetables look like this.
Don't be hating!
Yes!
- [Saweetie] This smells delicious.
- Is it supposed to be burnt?
- [Saweetie] Yes, girl, it's cooked.
- [Paris] What?
- [Saweetie] See this?
- [Paris] I don't know.
- Do we cut off the burnt stuff?
- [Saweetie] No, girl. It adds flavor.
Oh.
- You've done that? Like, that part, or no?
- [Saweetie] No, girl, I'm just guessing.
- [Paris] Okay.
- [both laugh]
[Saweetie] We gotta put it
in the processor.
[Paris] I need, like, sparkly tongs.
[Saweetie] "Add two peeled garlic cloves."
"Add a small handful of cilantro leaves."
[Paris] Okay.
[Saweetie] "And juice from one lime."
[Paris] And now the salt and pepper.
"Pulse until desired consistency."
[Saweetie] Let me grab my drink
for good luck.
[Paris] Yes.
Okay. Okay, are we ready?
I'm gonna go over here
in case it flies all over. [laughs]
[blender whirring]
- [blender crunches]
- Oh shit, was that ice?
[blender whirring]
[blender straining]
[Paris] I feel like
there was something plastic in there.
- [Saweetie] Really?
- [Paris] I saw something clear and weird.
- Let me look with this little spiky thing.
- Okay.
I don't know what it was, but I saw
- Oh.
- [gasps]
[Paris] Oh my God.
- Are we gonna die from eating this?
- I think we might.
- Girl
- Let's pour it into a bowl and look.
Let's see what Let's fish it out.
Where is that shit?
But
Oh! What is that?
Oh, shit! It was the salt thing.
[upbeat jazz music plays]
[yells] Paris!
But it's not bad, because look,
it's not, like, disintegrated.
[both laugh]
It's fine.
[Saweetie laughs]
[upbeat jazz music continues]
- Okay, so, let's make tacos.
- [Paris] Mm-hmm.
[Paris] How to make
Saweetie's shrimp tacos.
Can't wait to learn
how to make your shrimp tacos.
- [Saweetie] I got you, girl.
- [Paris] Never cooked a shrimp in my life.
[Saweetie]
Girl, I live for some shrimp. Yes.
So what we're gonna do is
we're going to clean the shrimp off.
I'm putting gloves on because
I hate the smell of the fish.
[small laugh]
Will these fit over my gloves?
- [Paris chuckles]
- [breezy jazz music plays]
[Paris] Dope.
Killing it.
[Saweetie] Girl, I cannot believe
I am peeling shrimp with you right now.
- [Paris] I know.
- [Saweetie] It is life.
[Paris laughs]
- It's insane! So good.
- It's insane!
- [Paris] Do you live in LA now?
- Mm-hmm. I live in The Valley.
I love LA.
[Saweetie] So, I went to USC.
I was renting rooms off of Craigslist,
something you probably never done.
Renting the room to strangers
or living with strangers?
Living with strangers
and renting a room from them.
- Was it weird? Were you scared?
- Just to get going.
Yes, I was scared!
You gotta do what you gotta do
to make it in LA.
- And then got signed by Warner Brothers
- [Paris] Mm-hmm.
- like, two years later.
- Wow.
I wonder if they ever see me
and they're like,
"Wait, she used to rent a room from me."
- Probably.
- I think we have enough shrimp.
- I'm gonna put one more
- Yeah.
and then we're gonna rinse it.
Preheat.
[Paris] Yeah.
[Saweetie] Add some oil in.
Whoo.
[Paris] Yes.
[Saweetie] We're going to add some onion.
And then I love me some garlic.
- Some I'm gonna put garlic in there.
- [Paris] Nice.
[Saweetie] And then I love me
a savory lime,
- so we're going to let that in.
- [Paris] I'm learning from you now.
So you keep the whole thing in?
Yeah, 'cause it adds to the flavor.
- And I love butter.
- [Paris] Okay.
[Saweetie] So I'm gonna put
some butter in there.
And we're going to mix that in.
[Paris] Love butter in everything.
[Saweetie] And then,
do we got some seasoning?
[Paris] Yes! All my sliving spices.
We're going to add some onion powder.
[Paris] Okay, I'm taking notes,
remembering all of this.
- [Saweetie] Parsley.
- [Paris] Okay.
Cilantro.
- Taco Bell seasoning? Lawry's?
- Oh no, we're good, girl.
Just add that
to give it a little woop-woop.
A little wap-wap.
Then we're gonna add our shrimp.
So good.
[Saweetie] It's gonna have so much flavor.
[Paris] Do we need
any salt or pepper or anything? Or just
- [Saweetie] Definitely.
- [Paris] Is this good?
- [Saweetie] See, my girl knows.
- No.
[Saweetie] We love to season the meal
to make sure it has
[Paris] I don't know how much to put in.
You're, like
- [Saweetie] I kinda like to eye it.
- [Paris] the pro on this.
[Saweetie] And then we can kind of
heat this up to start our tortillas.
[Paris] I'll get those.
- What kinda tortillas do you like?
- Flour.
- [Paris] Flour?
- Uh-huh.
I got these yesterday.
They literally were making them fresh.
Yes.
[Saweetie]
Nice, delicious, and ready to go!
That looks insane.
- You like it?
- [Paris] Mm-hmm.
- If you like it, I love it.
- [Paris] I love it.
Hell yeah.
Look at you having my back!
[Paris] Yes!
Those is done.
["La Carrera" by Leda Moreno plays]
[songs fades]
[Paris] Buen provecho!
That's "bon appétit" in español.
This looks amazing.
- [Saweetie] Oh my gosh, amazing.
- [Paris] Sick.
[breezy jazz music plays]
It's so bomb.
Mmm. I'd buy this.
Oh my God, this cheese is insane too.
- [Saweetie] Mmm.
- The corta something?
"Cortellina" I think it's called.
- What's that?
- Cora
I don't know. It's, like, "Coreaneau" or
C-O-R something.
- Oh my God.
- [producer] Cotija!
- [producers] Cotija!
- Cortita?
[producer 2] Co-tija.
- Corweeta?
- [producer 2] Co-ti-ja.
- [Saweetie] This is really good.
- It's corrita.
- Corri Corrita.
- Girl, you did your thing with this.
[Paris] I literally went so far
to get all this.
Have you been to Tulum?
No, I haven't.
You have to go.
- Is it bomb?
- Yes.
It's insane. It's like Ibiza
mixed with, like, sexy island.
It's just amazing. I love it.
So let's go.
Girl, I've been working,
so time to dip off
and go to a white-sand beach
- so I can wear this bikini.
- Let's do it.
I can't wait to try your shrimp.
[Saweetie] Oh my gosh. I'm really hungry.
Mmm, mmm.
[Paris] Mmm.
It's so good.
The shrimp is insane.
- [Saweetie] Oh my gosh.
- [Paris] Do you like it?
My tacos don't ever taste like this.
- Oh my gosh.
- So bomb.
It's all about the tortillas
and all the special things.
Noted. Mmm.
- Do you wanna try the flan layer cake?
- Yes.
[dreamy, romantic music playing]
[Paris] So, in the top, this is the flan.
I actually put it on the bottom
and it went up, which was really weird.
So I'll try a piece.
- [Paris] Yes!
- [Saweetie] This looks really good.
- I love sweets.
- [Paris] Me too. I just love food.
If you make this,
you need to do what I did.
It's not on the recipe, but, like,
put in cotton candy and more sprinkles,
and, like, you'll get this vibe, and it's
Whoa!
[Saweetie] Mmm.
- Mmm.
- [Paris] Good?
Mmm. It feels like something
I shouldn't mention on camera,
- but you get the gist.
- [Paris] What?
- [laughs]
- You can You can tell me.
[whispers] It feels like an orgasm.
- Yes!
- [laughs]
Cheers!
To my flan.
- Cheers to your flan, girl.
- And shrimples.
This has been one of the best dinners
I've ever had in my life.
I know, I love it.
- Well, you did a bomb job tonight.
- We did.
- I'm gonna get me another piece.
- [Paris] Mm-hmm.
[Paris] Yes!
Buenas noches!
Fuck, I forgot the piñata.
Shit. Ugh.
Ugh, too many margs.
[sweeping romantic music plays]