[both chuckle]
- All right. You guys ready?
- We're ready. - Ready.
- [laughs] I'm so nervous. - Let's go on vacation.
[engine revs, knocks]
- Wait, what happened?
[engine revs] Oh! Okay, we're good.
[tires screech] Oh, my God.
- Put your blinker on.
- Please don't backseat drive, Papa.
[upbeat music]
Summer should be filled with sunshine,
fun, family, friends, and food.
both: Whoo! - Whoo-hoo!
- And what better place to enjoy all of them
than at the beach?
I wanted to go to Malibu because I feel
like it's one of our favorite spots,
and we never get to spend time here.
- Yeah. - I'm just excited
to be in a different place.
- There it is. There's our home.
- Oh, this is so nice. - Oh!
"Selena + Chef" take Malibu.
- ♪ Even in the sun, you know ♪
♪ I keep it icy ♪
♪ You could take a lick ♪
♪ But it's too cold ♪
♪ To bite me ♪
♪ Love so good ♪
♪ Yeah, love so sweet ♪
♪ Baby, you deserve a treat ♪
Okay. Great.
This year, I'm getting out of town
and even more out of my comfort zone,
continuing to learn all I can about cooking
from the best chefs in the world.
Let's see what we got. - Ugh.
- And if I've learned anything so far,
it's that you can cook a great meal together
even if you're apart.
- There's a card. - Oh, perfect.
- Yep. - "Very excited to be
"cooking with you today. Before we get started,
please have your..."
- Mise en place. - Mise en place.
Oh, I remember that. - [laughs]
- Why does it just say "from Chef"?
Normally they tell us.
- I know, but I don't know who Chef is.
- That's kind of weird. - They're torturing you.
- "Selena + Chef," season four.
- Whoo. - Yay.
- Surprising us in Malibu.
- Dialing. I'm nervous.
Here I go.
♪ I'm tryin', I'm tryin' ♪
♪ I'm tryin', I'm tryin' I'm tryin' ♪
♪ My feelings on fire ♪
Okay, let's see who it is.
- Good afternoon.
- [gasps]
[both laugh] - It's Ludo!
- Ça va? You good, Selena?
- I'm so good! I'm so happy to see you again.
- Thank you for having me back, Selena.
- Today I'm excited to have Chef Ludo Lefebvre
back in the kitchen.
He is a restaurant owner,
a cookbook author,
a James Beard award finalist,
and most important,
my very first culinary instructor.
I can't wait to show him how far I've come...
Sorry.
If I have, and see
what he's got cooking.
This is my best friend, Raquelle.
- Hi. - Hi, Raquelle.
Comment ça va?
- I heard lots about you. - Yeah.
- [giggles] - Yeah?
- Ça magnifique? Ça bien?
- Yes. both: Ça va bien.
- Ah, Selena, I see your French is better now
since you're cooking now. - I don't know.
You might have to teach me a few things.
Wait, I want you to see my grandparents.
They are here again.
- They are here again. We are back!
Yay! Whole gang's back... - Hi!
- Back again.
- It's so good to see you. - Yay!
I can't wait to cook
for you today to see
what new skill you have now.
- Uh, I'm nervous.
Uh, but let's see... - You are?
- If I do well.
- So today I'm going to teach you
how to do a beautiful meal on the grill.
I'm going to show you how to make
grilled whole sole.
We're going to serve that
with a burned tomato salsa
and sorrel.
And then we're going to do
a whole grilled pineapple
with vanilla,
and a spicy caramel
with banana.
- Okay, that'll be--
- Okay, yeah.
- Okay, okay.
- Bon. Are you ready?
We're going to start to cook, guys.
- Yes! - You have your knives,
your cutting board? You have everything?
You good? - Yes, yes, yes.
- So first, I want you find the pineapple.
- Okay. - By the fish.
Find the vanilla beans.
- Right here.
- Okay, good. - Ooh, it smells so good.
both: Ooh. - That smells good, eh?
- Yeah, it's-- - Amazing.
- So... Try, uh--
Selena, in the kitchen... - Yes.
- To try a bread knife.
[utensils clatter]
- Ooh! - That's good, perfect.
So what we're going to do now, Selena--
we're going to peel off the skin of the pineapple.
- Okay.
- No, no, look at me first.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
- Okay, Selena, so you go over there.
You're gonna go over there and really follow the skin.
Okay, you see like that?
- Yeah. - You know how to use
a knife now, I heard.
- [chuckles]
- Oh, wow. - The dance in and out--
Yes, exactly, Selena.
Do you like pineapple, Selena?
- I love pineapple.
- Ça va, it's good. It's pretty.
- Okay. - Wow, not bad.
- So clean your cutting board now.
Clean. Work clean, okay?
Remember, I teach you how to work clean.
- What's he saying? - It's hard to understand.
- Oh, clear the board off.
- Voilà. C'est bon.
- [mumbles]
- Voilà?
Bon. Now, Selena,
we're gonna take the vanilla beans.
- Yes?
- Eh, do you have lardoir?
- A lever?
- A lardoir?
[light music]
- Yes. - A lardoir.
- [mumbles indistinctly] - [chuckles]
- Show me what you have. Show me what you have.
I don't see very well.
Why is-- you is very small.
- [laughs]
- What is that?
- I don't know what to do.
- What we're going to do first, Selena--
This called a "lardoir."
It's to put the vanilla beans
inside the pineapple.
- Oh, okay.
- So you take the vanilla bean--
you're gonna cut the vanilla beans by halfway.
Put in the lardoir.
And now you're gonna go inside the pineapple.
♪ ♪
Okay? - Okay.
- And after, you leave the vanilla beans
and you take out the lardoir. - Okay.
Okay, guys, I'm gonna cheat.
- Why is she putting the vanilla bean
in the pineapple?
- It's gonna give a lot of flavor
to the pineapple when we grill it.
- Amazing, wow.
- How many vanilla beans do you have?
- I have two. Should I do two more?
- You have two? That's it?
- I'm...[groans] I'm--I'm trying.
- You got more than two. - She's taking
an interesting approach.
- It's just a different approach, that's all.
- Okay, so we're gonna put a lot of vanilla beans.
Okay, Selena? - Okay, okay.
- We're gonna be very technical to this,
Selena, very technical.
- Okay, very technical.
- What we're gonna do today... - Pfft!
- Is not easy to do for my line cook sometimes.
Just so you know. - Oh, wow.
- Wow. - Wow.
- Yeah?
- Okay. - Okay?
- I think I'm making this up.
- Okay, ça va? Show me your pineapple.
Selena?
[laughs]
[laughter] - What are we laughing at?
- The little tails hanging out.
[chuckles] - That's good.
Put that on the sheet tray.
Keep the pineapple, okay?
- Put it on-- Put it on the sheet tray.
You have a sheet tray? Put it outside.
- Tray. On a tray.
- We'll get to take it
outside later, so...
- I'm taking it. Hi, Selena!
- Hi! What's going on?
- You know, I'm here to assist him
and to help translate when there's problems.
- Thank you so much,
'cause I don't know what he's saying sometimes.
- But that's-- that's the beauty, Selena.
That's the beauty.
- That's the beauty of being married for 25 years.
I don't know what he says.
- [laughs]
- Don't run off too far.
- Now we're prepping the sauce for the pineapple.
- We're gonna do the "carmel" now, the carmel.
Did you ever make a carmel?
- No.
- Seriously?
- I've never done that before.
- You never did a carmel, Selena?
- I don't know what you're saying.
- Carmel. You know the thing,
brown sugar...
- Caramel. - So--
- Yes, yes, yes. Okay, yes.
- Bon. Now we're going to take some ginger,
and we're going to peel the ginger with a spoon.
Okay? Like that, Selena, okay?
- Okay. Oh, I hate this.
- Selena, are you gonna go surf in Malibu?
- I'm gonna try.
- Please, no. - [laughs]
My grandparents don't want me to, though.
- I would love to see you try to surf.
[both chuckle]
- That's good. No, that's great.
Okay, Selena.
Now you're gonna take your banana.
Two banana. Peel them.
We're going to slice the banana now, okay?
- Okay.
- Did you see how nice these knives are?
From--"Selena" season four has a new knife collection.
- Yeah, thank you. I did not receive
a collection for me.
- Oh! - Oh, sorry.
- Aw, touché, yeah.
- Ah... - It's coming.
It's coming. - Just slice your banana
1/2-inch thick.
- Okay, inch-thick.
- Alf--alf--half.
- Oh, half. - Okay?
- Half. [chuckles]
- Yeah, I know it's good that she take--
she holding the knife very well.
I don't have too much hard time to give you.
- [laughs]
Oh, I'm pretty sure you'll find something.
- Now we're going to dice the ginger.
Okay, can you dice the ginger? - Okay.
- 'Kay. - Bon. Now,
we're gonna take the green jalapeño.
- Okay. Have it. Yes.
- Just take off the little trim here.
Trim it--trim it both side.
Voilà.
We're going to cut it in half.
So now we're going to take out the seed.
Okay, Lena? - Yes, yes.
- No seed--it's too spicy.
Selena, we're going to just slice
the jalapeño, okay?
- Okay.
- We'll just slice that and put it
with the banana and the ginger.
- It's fine. - Bon. Okay.
Selena, now you're going to take a saucepan.
- Like this. both: Yeah.
- Yeah, that's a saucepan.
Yes, exactly. Yes.
- Good job. - What do I do?
- You're gonna put the butter in the saucepan.
- 'Kay. W--oh, my gosh.
I'm a little rusty. - Yeah, my God
I mean, I want to go faster, but--
- No, please don't.
- And now we're going to take our sugar.
Take the sugar with you.
And now you're gonna go on the stove.
- Okay, so do this-- - The stove.
You know the stove? No! No, no, no!
I say we are going to go on the stove.
Don't put the sugar yet.
- I'm sorry! I'll try it again.
- Go on the stove. - No, no, it's okay.
He just wants--no!
- I'm gonna do it the way Ludo wants it done, okay?
Okay. - Melt the butter,
and then we add the sugar.
- Try it again.
- You're going to put on medium heat.
- Okay. - And once the butter is melt,
we're going to add the sugar.
And we're going to give a coloration to the sugar.
- Okay.
- I want you to weight
2 cup of water.
Now, 2 cup of water.
We need 2 cup of water. - Okay, okay.
- No, I want the mineral water, like very nice water.
- I have never--
You want me to use bottled water?
- Normally we use a good water, you know?
- Not everybody could have that.
- [laughs] - Just sayin'.
But whatever...
What do I do? - Okay. Keep one aside.
And bring the banana, the ginger, and the jalapeño
next to you. The mise en place.
Don't burn the board, okay, on the stove.
Be careful. - Oh, yeah.
This is a little risky the wood on the--
- Yeah, it's a little risky, Raquelle? Raquelle?
- [chuckles] I'm living on the edge over here.
- So good to melt the butter now.
When the butter is melt, we're going to add the sugar.
Your butter is melted? - Yes.
- No, I don't see-- No, is the butter? No.
Oh, yeah, you're right. Sorry.
Okay, put the sugar.
Don't shake your head!
[laughter]
Now put on a high heat. And now we're going to cook
the butter and the sugar together.
You can set up a blender now. Do you own a blender?
- Yes, I do.
- I see the blender over here, yeah.
Blender. - There we go.
- Yes.
I'm dead at your text.
- Oh, my gosh. - [laughs]
- What are you doing with your phone, ladies?
- Oh. - [giggles]
- Boys.
- Boys? - Yeah, I'm--men.
- Oh! - Ah!
- I was thinking you're looking for a recipe
or something that we're cooking now.
- No. No, no, no. You do that.
- How did you two meet?
- I was a chef in the restaurant
and she was a customer. - I was on a date,
and I fell in love with the chef.
- Whoo! - Aww.
- Whoo. - That's so great.
- Well, you got a hot wife.
- Voilà! - Thank you.
- Okay. - Get the caramel.
Pick up the caramel! both: Oh!
- Pick up the caramel from the heat.
- It's not on.
- I turned it off.
- Okay--oh, good job, Selena. Good job.
- Whoo! Proud of you.
- Okay, Selena, now you put the banana, the ginger,
the jalapeño in the caramel.
- Into the caramel?
- Yeah. - Whoa.
♪ ♪
This is odd.
- You stir it very well after, okay?
Voilà. So now put back
to your heat. Put on medium.
Smell good, eh? Smell good, eh?
- It smells really good.
- You're dripping the sauce on the floor.
- Sorry. Ugh.
- Now, Selena, you get to deglaze with your water.
- Oh, I hope this is big enough.
- Okay, now you're going to stir and bring to boil.
- You got it.
- We're gonna cook it for five minutes.
And after, we're going to blend.
- You got it. I'm putting it on five minutes.
- Are you texting your boy again?
- [laughs] - No!
I'm putting the timer on.
- It is a good excuse to use a phone, huh?
- "Oh, timer." Bolts to the drawer.
- Yeah. - I'm gonna be alone forever.
Anyway.
- So now you're gonna take your cherry tomato.
We're going to cut the tomato now by half.
- How many?
- I would say, Selena, at least 40.
[liquid bubbling] - Check your sauce.
- Oh, my God! The caramel's overflowing--
- Oh, no!
- You said put it on high.
- Yeah, good job. Good catch, Selena.
Good catch. - Oh, oh.
- That was just in time.
- Two years ago it would be a disaster.
- Um, it's--but it's been five minutes, Ludo.
- Okay, so now, put that in the blender.
- Oh, even with it boiling?
- Yeah, don't burn yourself.
Just be careful. Don't burn yourself, eh?
- Need me to do it?
- Okay? - She got it, she got it.
Good job.
- She got it. - [chuckles]
I did that really fast. - And she didn't even
burn herself. - Okay.
- Okay, now we're going to blend it slowly.
[folksy music]
You good? - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Do it a bit faster. Keep your hand on the top.
If everything is blend very well...
- Yep.
- How you know that? You did not test it yet.
- Oh, well, I didn't know I could.
- All right, test it.
♪ ♪
- Oh, my gosh.
- It's good? - This tastes so good.
- So now you're gonna put the caramel sauce
into a saucepan. - Okay.
- Nice texture, good job.
Nice color, Selena. Good job. - Thank you.
- And now we're going to let the sauce
on the stove like that, okay?
- No--don't turn it on.
- No, this for later. It's for later.
So our pineapple is ready.
- Yes. - And the sauce is ready.
- Yeah.
- Now we're going to take a cast iron pan.
Do you have a cast iron pan? - Yes, I do.
- Now put the high heat on the cast iron.
- Okay. - We're going to do
the little marinade tomato salsa, okay?
Good. So now we're going really heat the pan,
the cast iron pan,
very, very hot. - Okay.
- We're going to burn the tomato.
- So we just have to wait till it gets hot.
- Yeah, exactly. Very hot.
- Okeydokey.
- Oh, my God, "okeydokey"?
We retired that word. - Sorry.
- So now you're gonna take one shallot.
Voilà, you're going to peel the shallot.
- Yes. - Peel?
Peel? - Yeah?
- Peel the shallot? - Peel, ah.
Well, son of a [bleep].
Oh, sorry. [chuckles]
- [laughs]
- Selena.
- Ludo.
- So now you know how to dice,
we're going to dice the shallot.
- Okay. - So you go fast like me.
♪ ♪
- Pffft!
- Let me see what you're doing over there.
Oh, my God. - I know, I know.
- You--you look like you're fighting with the shallot.
- This way? - Uh-huh.
Yeah, here we go. - Yeah, girl, you got it.
- And now you're going to take 20 piece of capers.
- Capers. - 20 piece of capers.
♪ ♪
- No! La la! - What the--no.
- What? It works.
- Whoa, the pan is smoky?
- It's hot. - Okay, so put
all your tomato, okay? - Okay.
- I want them black.
I want them to caramelize. - Okay.
I'm gonna-- I'm gonna get some water.
- For what?
- Ugh, for me, Ludo.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Did you try the wine, Raquelle?
- It's delicious. I did try it.
- You know why it's good?
- Tell me. - Well, it's French.
- [laughs] Of course.
- Okay, let me see the tomato.
- Yes, they're burnt.
- Okay, good. Turn off the heat.
- Okay. - Okay?
And we're going to add the shallot.
- Add the shallots? Okay.
- Yeah, put the shallot. - Okay.
Put the capers--
- What do I do with them?
- Well, take them outside and take them for a walk.
- [snickers]
- You are such a smart aleck. - You see?
When you want, you understood me, Selena.
You understand exactly what I was saying.
You're going to do a 1/2 tablespoon of sugar.
We're going to put 100 milliliter
of Chardonnay vinegar.
- Ooh, it smells so good.
- Now we're going to put a little bit of soy sauce.
- Okay.
- 50--50 milliliters.
And now we're going to add 200 milliliters of olive oil.
Ça va? - Yeah, it's great.
- And now you're going to put a little bit salt, okay?
Pinch of salt. - Pinch of salt.
And now first taste it to see if it's enough salt.
- It smells so good.
- Does smell good.
- Wow. - That's good, eh?
So now, Selena, you're going to take the fish, the sole.
♪ ♪
- What? Now what?
- Nah, it's great. I love your move.
- Oh, okay.
- Should we unwrap your fish?
- Oh, dear.
- Ohh. - [gasps]
- So make sure you're going to have some scissors.
You need scissors.
- Is his head on there? - Scissors.
- Okay, okay. - Oh, my gosh, Sel.
- So this fish is called a sole.
- A sole.
- And she's from France.
- Oh, I smell it. It's really strong.
- Really? Mine don't smell.
- No.
- I don't smell it.
So now what we're going to do--
we're going to take off the skin.
So take some scissors and a knife--
A knife?
Good.
You need two towels. Two towels.
- One... two.
- So it's very easy. You're gonna take a knife
and you're going to cut-- you see the tail here?
- Yeah.
- You're gonna cut a little bit of the tail,
like, a little bit gently.
I'm going to scrape the skin, now.
Do the same.
- It's got some thick skin.
[chuckles] - Yeah.
- Okay, now what you need to do, Selena--
one towel on the tail, okay?
So you need to put pressure.
And with the other towel
you take the piece of skin you have--
You have a little piece of skin?
- Let me see.
I don't know if I did it right.
- Here, let me interpret for a second.
So he's just trying to--
he's just trying to do it so you can just pill up
a little piece of the skin.
See? So you get a handle.
Like, you know, if you were peeling back
your gel on your fingernails.
Have you ever peeled your gel off?
- Yes. - Just get the little
edge of it.
You're gonna peel the gel off,
and then you just want a little handle.
- Yeah, I'm-- I got you with the gel.
- The way that girls can talk to each other.
- She got it, she got it, she got it.
- Yeah, vasi! Yeah, go!
- Whoo-hoo-hoo. - Go, go.
Yeah, you get it, Selena.
Yeah. - There it comes, whoo!
- Go strong.
Yeah! - Whoo!
- Oh, I really didn't think I could do it.
- I'm so proud.
I think I got fish underneath my nails.
- Ugh.
- That's the head? - Yeah, yes.
- Yeah.
Good job, guys. Good job.
- Oh. - Are you throwing up?
- No, I'm okay. I've got it.
- Oh, is she throwing up?
- Ugh. - [chuckles] You're so funny.
- Okay, so good news, Selena, is you made it.
- Yeah, but the bad?
- The bad news, we have to do the other side.
Flip it.
- Okay. - Flip.
You do a little incision.
♪ ♪
- Okay, come on, Selena. Come on, come on, come on.
- She's got it. - She's got it.
- Take a--it's better if you take a towel
that that is not slippy.
It's not slippy? Yeah.
Slippery--it's not slippery with a towel, yeah.
- Give me that. Hold the tail.
- Oh, my gosh.
There it is! - Yeah.
Good job, guys.
- Yay!
- Pretty good for a Texan never done it before.
- Yeah, good job, Papa.
Okay, so now take your scissors...
- Okay.
- So you see the bone on the side
and you see the meat? - Yes.
- You're gonna take the scissors
and cut out the bone next to the meat.
You see? - Yes.
♪ ♪
- It's very satisfying to watch.
- Voilà. - You good?
How you feel? - I feel good.
- Take off the tail.
Wow, you're good.
And now, Selena, we're gonna cut the head.
[light music]
Okay? Right, cut the head off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Parfait.
Eh, voilà. - [gags]
- [chuckles] - Okay, voilà.
- So now we're going to reset everything, okay?
- Oh, wait, before we do that,
could you tell us about the charity organization
we're donating to?
- So you get to donate the money, thank you so much,
to World Central Kitchen.
It's a charity created by my friend José Andrés.
And it's a charity where they are in
the front line in the community crisis.
They are feeding people.
They're just on the spot and they're feeding people,
you know, everybody.
- That's so wonderful. - Amazing.
- We're happy to donate for sure.
- Did you understand? - Yeah, of course.
- Oh, yeah, you got it!
So now we get to head to the grill.
Now we're gonna go outside...
- Okay. - And we're gonna go ahead
to the grill! - Whoo!
- The grill!
We're gonna go outside, take some sun...
- Okay. - And learn to grill.
It's gonna be fun now.
- Let's take it all outside.
♪ Summer ♪
♪ Oo-whoa-oo-oh ♪
- Did you set your grill? You good?
- Yes, it's a little cold. So I put on my jacket.
- Aw.
- Oh, I'm just being a baby.
What do I gotta do?
- Where's Papa and Nana? Where they are?
- They're on the beach, relaxing.
- What, they leave you alone? Seriously?
- Yeah, seriously. [laughs]
- Wow, okay.
Thank you very much for staying, Selena.
Thank you very much.
Did you grill before?
- No, I have never grilled before.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God, it's making a noise.
I think that's the wind.
- So I want you to take your sole...
- Yep.
- You should have some mayonnaise.
Do you have mayonnaise?
- Sure do.
- I want you give a little bit massage
with the mayonnaise on the fish.
- I love mayonnaise, but this is disgusting.
- You need to do both sides, sweetie.
- Okay.
- Imagine that's the boyfriend
who is texting you.
- [laughs] - Ew.
Oh, my gosh, this is repulsive.
- [laughs]
- So what we do in France--
You know what I do, Selena? I use a brush.
- You see? - Wait.
I just used my hands.
- I do it with a brush. It's more easy.
- So you just made me do that for no reason?
- I want you to feel the fish.
You want to go clean your hand?
- Yeah, I do. Thanks for that.
- Now you're gonna put some salt on the fish.
- Selena--I'll wait for Selena to come back.
- Okay. Just--okay.
Just wait for Selena. Okay, I can.
What she's doing, Raquelle? She's taking a shower?
- [laughs] - I'm back.
- Yes. - Okay, let's go. Focus.
Let's go put some salt. - Okay.
Salt. - On both side.
Now put your grill on low heat.
- It is. - So now we're putting
the fish on the grill. You ready?
- Okay.
- Close, close it. Close, close.
- I did!
- So now we're gonna cook the fish
around five to six minutes with this side.
You know, we want to be very gentle with the fish.
- Of course.
- Okay? That's why I don't put olive oil.
If you put olive oil or butter,
it will be, like, a lot of flame
and the fish will be burning.
- Oh, interesting.
So we use mayonnaise instead.
- Now we do flip the fish now.
- Okay. - Okay, you ready?
- Oh, gosh.
- Okay, we flip to the other side.
- I'm scared.
Ah! No!
Just kidding.
- Wow, nice. What we're going to do now--
we're going to cook the fish
for three or four more minutes, Selena.
- Okay. - You have the sorrel, too?
The sorrel?
- The sauce? - Yes, we do. Yes.
- No, not the sauce. The sorrel.
- The s-- - The fish. The sole?
- Oh, the sole.
Yes, we have the sole in the grill.
- No, Selena...
- Yes.
- That. - Ah.
- Yeah, good, okay. You have it? Okay, good.
You're gonna take your pineapple.
Wrap the green.
- Okay. - In aluminum foil.
- [gasps] - [laughs]
- All righty. Doing great.
- How did this happen? - I don't know.
Why does--how does anything happen to me?
- So cover the green, okay? Like that.
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Do you have a little brush with olive oil?
- Yes. - I want you to baste
the visible pineapple with olive oil.
- All over it? - Yeah, all over it.
Yeah, go ahead.
So now we're going to grill the pineapple.
Each side we're going to grill the pineapple five minutes.
- Okay, great.
- I think my fish is done.
- Okay. - It's coming out.
It's good. - Yeah, it's great.
- Perfect! - Bon. You ready?
- Okay, sorry. I'm just staring at it. What?
- We're gonna clean the fish now.
- I'm watching. - So you're gonna take
the spatula-- look what I'm doing.
You follow the bone and you cut.
- With a knife. - No, no, with a spatula.
With a spatula. - Oh, okay.
- Yeah. So try to go the middle.
Follow the bone.
And do a-- good, like that, exactly.
Lift up the fillet now.
Yeah, yeah, Selena, yeah. Right, like that.
- I just really--
that was really satisfying.
- Yay! Good job. Put that on the side.
- Aah!
- Some still attached. - It's okay.
- Okay, good. Good job.
So now I want you to--
You're going to-- where the head now.
I'm taking the bone,
and with my spatula I hold the fish,
and I just take the bone like that.
Voilà, you get it. You get it, Selena.
- It's not as pretty, but I did it.
- Yeah.
- Voilà. - Good job.
- Okay, but gross. Can I wash my hands?
- Is not finished yet, so don't wash now.
So now you have some little bone here
that I want to scratch the fillet
with a little spatula and take off all the bone.
- I heard a "voilà."
- No, it's not done. - [laughs]
- Sorry.
- Selena, I'm very proud of you.
It's not easy to do that. Good job.
- Thanks, I don't know what I'm doing.
- Put back the top fillet on top of the fillet.
Like you want to bring back the fish in the shape.
Yeah, voilà. Exactly like that, yes.
And now we're gonna put that on the plate.
You have a plate you can put the fish?
- Yes. Actually--
Hey, Raquelle?
- Where is Raquelle? What's she doing?
- I don't know.
Can someone bring me a plate?
- That's what I was doing.
I was upstairs looking for the plates.
I got-- [screams]
- Whoa! - I got lost.
Beautiful.
- Nice! Look at you.
- Yay!
- How's the pineapple? Rotate.
Baste a little bit with olive oil.
Baste it again. Baste.
Let's go finish the sole now.
And we're gonna put the tomato on top now.
- Okay.
- You know, it's, like-- almost like
marmalade tomato.
- This is gonna be so good.
- Now I want you to take another sheet tray.
Put on the grill.
Put it there with olive oil.
And now you're gonna put the sorrel.
So now you crack the sorrel like that.
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And put the sorrel on the sheet tray.
With a little bit salt,
it's gonna give a lot of acidity to the dish.
- Okay.
- So, Lena, look at me.
I'm going to put some little leaves
of sorrel on the top.
- Like this? - Parfait, yeah.
- All of the pineapple is grilled.
- Yeah, it's good. It's good. It's good.
You have a cutting board? A cutting board.
You have a cutting board or no?
- Yes, I do.
- Okay, so put your pineapple on the cutting board.
You're gonna take the pineapple
and we're going to slice just like that.
Like if you're slicing a big piece of meat.
- Wow. - Like, very thin.
So you put a little--
the pineapple slice here on the plate.
Taking your sauce-- so this is
our spicy caramel with banana.
And we cover it--I put a little vanilla ice cream.
- Oh, my gosh. Now we have ice cream?
- And you're gonna put it on top.
Voilà.
Good job.
So dish number two is finish!
- Yay!
- So last time I cook with you,
was very less, less mise en place.
- Yeah, definitely. - It was way more easy.
But today you really cook like a real chef.
- Thank you so much. - I'm very proud of you.
It was a very, very complex dishes today.
Very technical. Good job on that.
Very proud of you. - Thank you so much.
I really appreciate it. - [whistles]
- So now you need to set a beautiful table
for your family, and enjoy the meal.
- Yeah, so I think that's what we're gonna do now.
Thank you so much for everything.
- Bye.
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- What if we ate dinner like this every night?
Sunset.
- I was so happy to see Ludo again.
- You didn't understand a word he said.
- Because I don't understand what he's saying,
you're right. But it means so much to me
because he was the first person I worked with
when it comes to cooking.
It was a full-circle moment for sure.
- Yep.
- Mmm.
- The fish is amazing.
- That was worth everything.
- Mm-hmm, it's good. - I know.
- You did a good job.
- This pineapple dessert, guys?
- This is really good.
- Oh, my goodness. I think you came a long way.
- Cheers to a great summer vacation.
- Whoo! all: Cheers!
- To Ludo!
all: To Ludo.
[upbeat music]
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- I just opened a new restaurant
in Sherman Oaks. both: Ooh!
- We'll be there.
- I already have a restaurant
in Sherman Oaks called Petit Trois.
- I love Petit Trois! That's your restaurant?
- Wait, that's yours?
- Why can't you-- yeah, that's me, guys.
You know, you don't Google my name?
- Oh, my God, we love that spot!
- We love Petit Trois!