She is here today to help us celebrate Mardi Gras.

Please welcome Martha Stewart.

It's so nice to be here.

It's nice to be here and now we're at a time.

That was great.

What an entrance.

Thank you so much for being You Ever been to a party girl?

No, I have not.

I have never been diverted.

Grown?

No, I've never been there.

I don't like big crowds.

What?

I don't get you going.

Not Thio crazy Know you're here.

We're gonna make some stuff in celebration of Mardi Gras.

No, let's take a break.

Yes, I would love too.

Let's what?

We gonna D'oh?

Well, I thought, you know, if you're going to go to New Orleans, you have to have gumbo gumbo.

Yes.

So you want to make a gumbo?

Let's make.

See.

Look, look, look, look.

Pay attention.

Okay?

Okay.

You can chop up the okra.

I will chop the essential essential part of the This is a roux.

Okay, hour and butter brown.

You add your undoing Sausage look, huh?

Yeah, Zooey and chicken and Dewey sausage.

And then you add chicken and it's it's okay.

And what's in there?

You said it's Ah, rue hour and butter cooked until it turns of nutty brown.

Okay.

And then you have the bill pepper and the onion and celery.

That's called Trinity.

Okay.

I didn't know that trilogy.

Well, okay.

Just brought me back to my childhood.

Uh, now what am I doing?

Is this okra cut?

Yeah.

Is that the right dimension?

Very particular.

Is this the right dimension doing it perfect?

Is it okay that my hands are all over us?

And I'm glad that you took away the chips.

Oh, tips make.

Don't put that in yet.

That's the last thing you do.

Get out.

Don't overcook.

It gets it gets old, you know?

So they make you crazy.

If he's wanted.

Yes.

Then you add the tomato sauce.

Do whatever you want.

Yours used to get so upset about these things in the past.

But, you know, I've I've mellowed.

Oh, yeah.

I used to make a crazy Yeah, well, now what is this happening?

Chicken stock and herbs.

Bay leaf and thyme.

Bay leaf in time.

Perfect mixture.

And cook that until it is like this.

You wanna taste.

Yeah.

Oh, this is I love it when it's all gone.

A dropout?

Why did we even do that?

Because you have to have step by step.

Oh, look at this store.

This is your calico.

Beautiful.

It looks Yeah.

Okay.

It doesn't look good.

No, it does.

It's your likes to No, no, I like stew.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know all about Mardi Gras in everything, right?

Fat Tuesday?

Yeah.

This you eat on fat Tuesday because you have to eat a lot all day long because for the rest of lent, 40 days, you're not going to No.

What do you think?

This is amazing.

This is Reuben.

I'm talking with my mouth open.

Don't you want a crawfish?

Huh?

Cross it is our office here when you must have a Sazerac.

What is this?

It was this This'd Sagara way.

Uh, wouldn't we have done this earlier?

No, no, no.

On fat Tuesday, you eat and you drink yourself silly and you're you're gonna wear a mask because you're going to get drunk and hideous.

Oh, yeah.

No one will notice this with a mask on.

All right?

I just looked like Conan with a mask on on their chase.

That what is in here?

This is a Sazerac made out of rye whiskey.

Good.

Right.

This is why you're so mellow.

Uh, thin king cake cake.

And you have to have a king cake.

Yes.

In the King cake, there is a little baby Jesus, one of those little plastic.

It's an odd tradition to hide.

A small baby is in food.

I don't know where it is.

So if you if you bite into and break your tooth you around, baby.

Jesus cart Blanche is a choking hazard.

Tear this apart.

We got to get that way.

Plastic.

That was in your mouth.

Every latest dream.

Really nice.

Michael.

This was fantastic.

You enjoyed it.

They didn't see there.

And we don't even have to go to New Orleans for a great big Mardi Gras party.

This was fantastic that you'll finish the show nicely.

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