The Gourmetborhood

Full Episode description

Familiar things can be great! Sometimes it’s nice to know that there won’t be any surprises, and that things will turn out exactly as we expect them to. But if we never try anything different, we might miss out on discovering something awesome.

This week, we’re welcoming a couple of new friends to the Neighborhood! Molly and Mitsy can usually be found in the Mystery Recipe podcast from America’s Test Kitchen, but today they’re joining up with us to make a brand-new TV show all about interesting recipes! Everyone’s getting involved—Alakazambra and Gruncle Vaxie made appetizers, Princess Donnasaurus and Doctor Apocalypso made main dishes, and Macho and Mitsy are making desserts!

Everything is going great until Macho finds out that Mitsy has baked a special kind of cake—one that is made without any flour! Mitsy’s family eats flourless cake every year at their Passover holiday celebration, but Macho doesn’t think a cake without flour is a real cake. In fact, he’s worried that a flourless cake might be slimy, or stick his mouth closed, or—worst of all—it might not taste good!

Will Mitsy and Macho destroy the kitchen with their spatula showdown?

Does Gruncle Vaxie’s bare-bowl appetizer accurately convey the emptiness of our cold, hollow march through time?

Is Macho truly macho enough to try something new?

For Mitsy’s cake recipe, plus great activity ideas and conversation starters, have your grown-up sign up for our newsletter—but right now, get the answers to all these important questions by taking a great big bite out of this week’s scrumptious installment of The Imagine Neighborhood™!