In this episode of “Hey Dad, I’m Hungry,” Chef Spike Mendelsohn takes on the role of a culinary superhero as he whips up a mouthwatering French bread pizza for his son Ace. Chef Spike transforms a simple family meal into a gourmet experience, showcasing his love for both cooking and fatherhood.
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From Hey Dad I’m hungry it’s celebrity chef and family Cook Spike melon Hello everybody welcome to another episode of Hey Dad I am hungry I am Chef Spike Mendon and we are masika and we are going to make something delicios so delicious we’re going to make something
Really really good I’m going to put my pizza Ola hat on today just because you know I’m feeling feeling it you guys know the drill at the house limited things to cook with is our thing quick meals is our thing that’s right we don’t edit these
Videos right we got the wifey and the kid just hanging out enjoying the rest of the evening it was a big day they at school lot of work and uh want to make something uh delicious but quick so we have some leftover bread from Super Bowl uh this fresh bread this fresh
Baked french bread so I figured one of the things I grew up eating back in the day just to verify it is French bread CU it’s thato in the bag um you know we could call this a la Pizza theal maybe or something like that I I remember just you
Know making these back in the day at home um you know I love pizza of any kind of course I have a pizzeria uh called we the pizza we do a bread dough there um that is absolutely delicious it also uh it really holds up to um the toppings that we like putting
On our pizzas so it’s kind of a New York style but it’s a spike style you know a little bit different a little bit different so here I just butterflied our French loaf as you can see um what I like to do is I take a little I like to
Do is I take a little spoon and uh you know some of these recipes you know uh that call for uh digging out the center of the loaf I don’t really do that with this this preparation what I do is I kind of I try to push some of
The some of the inside to the edge um but I don’t dig it out cuz I like the crispy crunchiness that these will develop into so it’s kind of like you know a pizza crust I’m kind of trying to build I’m tearing away from the middle and developing a pizza
Crust uh on the outer edge of it a little bit it’s going to be bumpy it’s going to do it thing all right so first thing first when you make pizza it all starts with the sauce so we got some tomato sauce in here open another little jar okay uh for
Those of you watching uh get your oven on at 400° okay very important okay we got a little bit of oregano a little bit of olive oil there a little fresh oregano okay we’re just going to go ahead and just put that right inside the sauce like
That we’re going to add a little bit of olive oil in there okay A little bit of olive oil in the bread not too much just just a little drizzle olive oil over the bread okay now we’re going to mix our oregano with our sauce keeping a nice
Raw tomato sauce uh we’re going to season it with a little bit of salt and pepper okay salt pepper hey bab do we have any special type of cheese like do we have any Mals or anything else actually was at the bagel shop this morning and I was listening to a young
Lady ordering her bagel and she didn’t know how to pronounce aago and she uh was fully self-aware and embarrassed she’s like I don’t know how to pronounce it but the AI ego Bagel okay I’ll take the ASA Eagle bagel oh boy okay and then the cashier which is
The same exact age as she is she goes yeah like no one ever pronounces that right and I’m just like yo yo you guys have been spending way too much time on Tik Tok on Tik Tok and YouTube actually like having culture yeah like how do you not know how to
Print out aago guys for you out there no hate just here to educate is aago you like that no hate to educate this yeah that let’s make a note someone someone capturing this yeah you are yeah YouTube YouTube ironically all right so yeah but I call this long form influencer yeah Def
I’m a long form I’m not in just for the short you know if you’re watching these shows um you’re in it you’re dealing so on the top shelf there’s some I mean there’s vegan mozzarella might not be exciting for you Chef the views just logged off
Yeah all the viewers I just lost all viewership did you look in the cheese thing what did you look in the cheese container oh what you just do did you just do that on purpose bab no it literally all over your apron and all over I don’t know how you did it but
All over there on the cabinet by the sink what did you do how’ you wow there a pizza everywhere go day where’s the do outside man get the dog in here she need to start licking up some stuff oh wow wow babe don’t make such a big deal of
It I’m on TV no no I’m on YouTube I’m on the internet stop it I’m on the worldwide web right now I clearly am a Sagittarius yeah we drop and spill everything do you know what that has done to me in my life in my in kitchen a
Lot of cleaning that one time I dropped the clarified butter I’ll tell you this story it’s working at lirk which is one of the finest restaurants to have ever hit the planet the restaurant tour Siri masion and his sons Moro Marco masion uh anyways I worked at the U newest iteration of
Lerk in New York City Is At The Bloomberg building and uh yeah I mean I don’t even know where clarified butter oh yeah clarified butter so first week in working the the kitchen and they had like this huge piano and beautiful kitchen like 60 people in the kitchen right cooking for
Like I don’t know 200 yeah it’s like ridiculous and like my clarified butter my Sue chef at the time which was a pain in the butt wanted me to keep my clarified butter on the stove with a ladle in it like so so we can just literally have it for quick
Service right I like to keep it behind on the station and it kept on moving moving it and sure enough I went to go reach in to go get a pan and the clarified butter Ladle got hung up on my chef coat and then spilled all over the
Maltini and the whole I think this was like opening day the whole maltini went in Flames if it wasn’t open day it was opening week explain a maltini maltini is a huge imagine a huge stove like with double sided and ovens and like all this cool stuff um that’s what a maltini is
Any went up flims they L thought they were going to have to like close the restaurant and I was like the clarified butter just like Burns away the bark is better but yeah those so uh what I got some tricolor cheese here um basically it has a basketball
Practice today which uh I’m looking forward to uh it’s always a joy uh with that little guy obviously no we’re looking forward to it so we’re just doing a quick little snack so we have some cheese here I got my oven on again just using a leftover bread I’m
Like why not there’s some sauce in the kitchen you have cheese I did a little paresan here you know I love ordering pizza again I’m a pizza guy but sometimes I love like these like homemade concoctions of pizza you know whether it’s like homemade pizza pockets
Or French bread pizza for instance o the Greek Pizza you make with the feeling oh I’m make a pizza with f it’s my mother’s recipe good and it’s fantastic yeah uh it’s a very good but it does take a lot of time yeah no no that be like a you
Know we roll L on with a broom we should do some Greek recipes we should do some Greek recipes all right we have to spark this up just a little bit here okay we can’t just leave people you did oregano did oregano we got Meo what’s this this Brie triple
Cream oh do you like this probably not it’s probably to too heavy forg bab look I found you have cheese sticks yeah homemade cheese sticks uh anything else you want on this pizza bit I mean I’d say chili crunch but Stephanie Stephanie’s chili crunch Stephanie isard that’s uh Bas that’s mint no mint
There I think we’re good put this in the oven sometimes you just have to know how to what’s going on bro what are you doing coming in scene over here yeah all right well you’re coming you’re coming just in time take a big juice what just
I bet I hope you wash your hands I did did you wash your hands yeah you did okay great mom is like no all right listen get your knife out you you’re on salad Duty you’re on GAR you’ve been you’ve been demoted to Gar now okay now remember you hold your
Knife nice and stiff right I am holding it okay not like you’re about to you know stab somebody all right nice like this you hold it like this okay there exactly all right now I need you to cut can I show you need you to cut like that
No hold no no hold hold that okay oh okay slice what no chop it’s slice look hold your hand here so and watch your thumb so you don’t cut yourself and slice through okay now I know okay watch it yeah there you go nice and easy Don’t Force It Too Much yeah
Like this so you’re going to cut your fingers remember when you hold food okay beautiful job okay easy easy easy who who no like this keep your fingers like this not like that like this remember there you go like that see how you you kept your fingers out of the way there all
Right all right this what else we got should we put some broccoli fettes in there yeah our pizza’s in there why not right we got a little time want C put some broccoli florettes in there shave a little broccoli fettes hold on hold on I’m scream what I’m scream your scream
Okay all right chop up the florette a little bit but watch your fingers e your broccoli you love the broccoli all right we’re going to use daddy’s home homade ranch or Greek Ranch Greek Ranch oh we got olives right don’t we have olives somewhere yeah do what
Yeah yeah did you say duh yeah I’m going to smack you up son Daddy what duh okay Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy do we have we don’t have olives could you chop some of the please some of that broccoli in there right put put it in there go like this
What that’s good too sometimes when you need that’s a good way of doing it also yeah but you want to control see that’s a problem with doing that way so you create but make sure you’re putting some in here while that happens all right get get some of that broccoli in
The salad right is get some of that broccoli in the salad all right that’s good for you okay what you’re okay now you need to season it this no just a little bit of olive oil not very little cuz we’re actually going to use Ranch who that’s not how
You shake do nice in circles with olive oil okay you got to take the top off okay very easy okay let me that’s enough that’s enough boom put a little a little bit by the way you never dress the salad you dress the bowl okay you understand what I’m
Saying so look you don’t put dressing on the salad ever in the kitchen you put it around the bowl and then you fold the salad in okay put it around the bowl just a little bit yeah little bit little bit little yes look at that that’s perfect okay good good good whoa all
Right right see now see the good thing about dressing on the bowl is that we could take some of it out like uh you know what I don’t think it that bad all right you mix it up together okay homemade ranch dressing cheese little parmesan just doing stuff mix it nice
All right you’re going to season it with salt and pepper eggs keep mixing it up big mixing okay perfect you season it good day at school today oh put season your hand first remember what I told you with that it comes out quick and then take it from your hand
And sprinkle it in there no no with the other hand okay that’s okay you good we’re good on top we’re good on top don’t put on that top we’re good oh boy okay okay chef says he’s he’s seing no more Sal no no no no get give me that s oh my God
Oh my gosh pepper you got pepper remember I put parmesan cheese remember parmesan cheese is salty right that’s why we don’t use as much salt mix it around I think it’s good I think you did a good job me too I think you did a really good job it’s like looks like a
Nice chop I’m a chef you want to put it on says Chef not Chef SP boom ring D just got boom ring tasted really good A little maybe a little bit more pepper no little more pepper tell them tell them why you sees it and you taste tell them why you SE it
And you taste does Chef Ace have tips for the kitchen does Chef Ace have tips for the kitchen just tasty come give him some knowledge drop drop some Stu knowledge oh always test your food if it looks gross that doesn’t mean it tastes gross okay always add carrot even past I always add
Carrots always add carrots always why because carots are very healthy well that’s right what about what else what else what what else are your favorite ingredients um lots of salt well salt to make it taste good right all right put the ranch back are you getting this crack that
Open for Daddo here no do the right way don’t don’t disappoint me you’re a nice tea drinker show the camera show them the brand come on go talk about the ingredients where do we get our tee from is Mo be right and it’s fair tray Fair tray what is that fair trade
Me come on camera what is fair trade me ooh did you hear that pop can you come here can you come here show them show them Fair Trade Fair Trade is when you trade money no if I trade a Pokemon no okay remember what we talked about it’s when that we
Pay Fair wages to people we pay the money that they should get and we go help the communities out come on bro okay oh yeah’s looking pretty toasty give a shout out to Wesley big shout out all right do your shout outs cuz we’re about to wrap this up right
Now by the way shout out to Kobe Harris okay brle Lou M and Pierce Williams Pierce Williams three shout outs today a fre shout out and Goldie M I need to play play theop okay you’re not just a pretty face here let me get you some let me just get you some plating
Utensils okay Chef B show B please this food properly okay just grab just’s two spoons sure a little salad here nice and neat make sure you you know tinier cuz you’re tiny I that’s Daddy’s spoon and that’s you no I’m the bigger SP boom roasted I’m always bigger because I am bigger
Okay you know how to pick up lettuce it’s not like I give you Chopsticks nice nice placement nice placement right clean plates clean plates people are paying for this food don’t drop it like that play it nicely bring it down say can I hear a WEA
That’s as much as I can no come on do I hear a WEA oh you gave yourself some nice broccoli can I can you give Mom some broccoli please nice nice okay try try not keep so messy leave them for the pizza okay oo I taste that Dill in that
Ranch sauce guys go check out our Ranch episode if you haven’t checked out we made five different versions of ranch dressing for you strip one a remember who wants ice cream after here oh me excuse me me what me what me who wants ice cream me H what do you got
To do oh okay oh well not getting chocolate chip there goes one flavor there goes one flavor oh they’re on their way or two flavors put this Mo back oh and also who is happy that the Chiefs one W wo wo boo San Francisco 40 boers what you wipe your station
Please Sal is really good okay we’re like little animals here okay who San Francisco what kind of IC te is this honey and we only get the best iced tea all right guys this this is wrapping up hey sweetie are you here want to bring the the Bell is for
Dinner where is oh yeah is it theapp yeah oh here we go whooo they want to see the pizza not your face hey watch you move back oh don’t break the Bell did you just break my bell all right here we go check it out they said
A smile I’m smiling how many more looks can I give you dad I didn’t break it there’s a hook okay we’ll hook it up get it hook it up that jokes Pizza just get all the angles oh look at that F pizza ice you are a super
Taster I’m going to cut you little slice is Mom ready for pizza I got it I just Mama ready for pizza night okay nice toast toasty French bread pizza takes absolutely no time okay we could have basically ordered Domino’s and my pizza would have been done before
Domino’s and we use some leftover French bread it’s not in the B which is always fun it’s not anywhere and interesting yeah that’s what I was telling you isn’t it cool has egg on it no eggs there’s no eggs yes the yellow and here we go it’s really it’s really hot so give
It a second to cool down cold this is hot so this is cold this is hot got the three different types of cheese in there tomorrow’s opposite nice seasoned tomato sauce great little French bread crust didn’t have to leave home didn’t have to order anything used leftover stuff absolutely delicioso I to quick
Meal a take a bite I kind wanted to order pizza oh that’s nice why don’t you take a bite blow on it take a bite and you are out is you steal the shell take the Shelf M’s right there I that crust hey should they go do this
Recipe um yeah should they like and subscribe and do this recipe and also buy from plant bger all right buy from plant Burger we the pizza all the restaurant support go check out the website wws Spike uh Chef spike.com WWF spike.com go check out the website see
What I’m up to see the products see the restaurants see the policy we get involved you can read my resume we had chat gbt come up with my resume day just kidding my wife did it was amazing and uh yeah we are out I think B
You want to do the uh the honor bye this has been a Los Angeles magazine Studios Production