Felicia Day & Robin Thorsen Get Piggy with It!

FELICIA DAY: Heya, welcome to the Flog fluga flag.
That's the Swedish chef impression that I
presented to you.
This week's segment features me and Robin cooking moon
cakes to celebrate the Chinese mid-autumn festival.
What is that festival?
I still don't know.
But I thought it was a nice coincidence, because tomorrow,
Mists of Pandaria comes out.
Who is rolling a panda?
Me.
I mean, yeah, the Diablo III monk is pretty hot.
She's got that haircut I really like.
But me and my character, Chunk Lee, are going to get in
there, level, and we're going to beat the crap out of Hogger
with out bear paws.

On to trio mio.
Number one this week is called Feast of Fiction.
It's a web series hosted by Jimmy Wong and Ashley Adams
where they take suggestions from the audience on what
fictional foods to make every episode.
They've made Skyrim sweet rolls, Harry
Potter butter beer.
Last week, they made the big burrito from Adventure Time.
My vote is to make some of those edible construction
sites the dozers made from Fraggle Rock.
Remember those guys?
They were really creepy, right?
Just like--
who would win in a fight, dozers or garden gnomes?
Go.
Number two this week is a side-scrolling game called
Mark of the Ninja.
Picture the original Prince of Persia game, but instead of a
sissy lovestruck prince, you're a mystical bad ass who
prowls through the shadows and stabs his prey in a gushing
spray of blood.
Yeah.
It's a stealth mechanic game.
So you're rewarded with how stealthily and quietly you
stab as many people as you can.
It's an awesome game.
Check it out on Xbox Live Arcade.
And finally, number three is The Naked Scientist Podcast.
You probably want to not Google that and just
listen to me speak.
The Naked Scientists are group of educators and lectures from
Cambridge University who strip down science like the saucy
minx that she is.
They basically make science really easy to understand.
If you want to listen to some seriously fascinating lectures
on all sorts of scientific subjects that give you facts
to throw into dinner parties and sound really smart, then
check out thenakedscientist.com.
OK, time for the segment.
Me and Robin are going to cook stuff.
That way.
Not really that way.
We're just going to cut the film and just
go to another segment.

Welcome to my kitchen.
Robin's back.
ROBIN THORSEN: Hey.
FELICIA DAY: You love that opening phrase.
I dressed like Robin today.
I got my boobs out, and I've got dangly earrings.
Sweeps month!
Robin Thorsen, do you know what the
mid-autumn festival is?
ROBIN THORSEN: I do not, Felicia Day.
What is the mid-autumn festival?
FELICIA DAY: It is a festival
celebrated in Eastern cultures.
It coincides with the autumnal equinox.
ROBIN THORSEN: Wow.
FELICIA DAY: There's matchmaking and barbecuing,
fire dragon dancing.
Most importantly for us today, moon cakes.
I found a recipe on a really cool blog
called House of Annie.
We're going to try to make some traditional moon cakes,
except some of the ingredients aren't right, because I didn't
plan ahead.
How am I supposed to get lotus root?
ROBIN THORSEN: Oh, OK.
FELICIA DAY: We've already measured out the ingredients,
because Robin loves using the scale so much.
ROBIN THORSEN: I'm a big fan.
Old time's sake.
FELICIA DAY: Let's measure my coffee.
ROBIN THORSEN: All right.
FELICIA DAY: So first step.
We're going to put it in the vegetable oil.
Then we have the baking soda.
Watch this.
This is fun.
Blub, blub, blub, blub, blub, blub.
And then we're going to add alkaline water.
ROBIN THORSEN: It's supposed to be really good for you.
I do know that, though.
FELICIA DAY: I've heard that it can cure cancer.
That's not right, actually.
ROBIN THORSEN: You don't have a teaspoon?
FELICIA DAY: I don't have a 1/2 tablespoon.
Look, I've got 1/8 of a teaspoon.
ROBIN THORSEN: All right.
FELICIA DAY: I've got 1/4 of a teaspoon.
ROBIN THORSEN: You don't have to read all of them to me.
FELICIA DAY: No.
I have 3/4 of a teaspoon.
I've got a teaspoon.
And then I've got a tablespoon.
ROBIN THORSEN: OK.
FELICIA DAY: OK, we're going to mix this well.
This is supposed to be superfine flour.
I don't know what that is.
So we're going to mix this, and then we're going to, like,
blah, blah.
ROBIN THORSEN: Well, that's too high.
FELICIA DAY: Oh, I'm sorry.
ROBIN THORSEN: No, that's good.
FELICIA DAY: It's on a two now.
Ooh.
What's going on?
What's going on?
What's going on?
ROBIN THORSEN: It's mixing.
FELICIA DAY: Why is it moving?
ROBIN THORSEN: It's because you didn't lock it.
FELICIA DAY: Always lock your mixer.

Look at this, guys.
Look!
When I get my boobs out, I'm a much worse cook.
I don't know how you do it.
My dad is a plastic surgeon.
And this feels like a breast implant.
So for the next step, we're going to take some duck egg.
What?
ROBIN THORSEN: I don't want to do this.
I'm going to do this.
FELICIA DAY: Are you serious?
ROBIN THORSEN: Yeah.
Hard-boiled eggs freak me out.
But let's do it.
FELICIA DAY: You seriously don't want to do this?
Go have a cocktail.
This is not the way you should be doing this.
ROBIN THORSEN: They're, like, oozing.
Hm.
FELICIA DAY: Ugh.
Now you said they're oozing.
I don't want to use them now.
Let's just skip this part, huh?
ROBIN THORSEN: Yeah.
FELICIA DAY: You want to get rid of this right now?
ROBIN THORSEN: I'm good.
FELICIA DAY: This is where you would take the salted duck
egg, boil it, remove the beautiful red center.
We're not going to have that today.
You can also, and you should, make these with lotus paste.
We're using red bean paste, which I think is really yummy.
We're going to take this.
And we're going to make a ball.
And we're going to pat it out and then envelop it.
But there is also a tradition of making little piggies,
little piglets.
That's what we're going to do today.
Babe is my favorite movie.
ROBIN THORSEN: Is it?
FELICIA DAY: When James Cromwell dances for that pig,
I'm in tears.
But we're going to take three little pieces and set them
aside for the ears and the tail.
ROBIN THORSEN: And the tail.
OK.
Slow and steady wins the race?
I'm not sure what you're doing.
FELICIA DAY: Flatten out my little piggy.
Oh, god.
So we're going to envelop our red bean ball.
And that's going to be his little body, and
this'll be his head.
The ball should be in his butt.
ROBIN THORSEN: OK.
FELICIA DAY: How can you not like Babe?
ROBIN THORSEN: Well--
FELICIA DAY: Look at that.
Look how cute this guy is.
Oh, yeah.
ROBIN THORSEN: OK.
I love pigs.
I had a pig.
FELICIA DAY: You--
ROBIN THORSEN: I had a pot-bellied
pig when I was little.
FELICIA DAY: Are you kidding?
ROBIN THORSEN: Yeah.
FELICIA DAY: What was his name?
ROBIN THORSEN: Jimmy Dean.
FELICIA DAY: What happened to Jimmy Dean?
ROBIN THORSEN: It's going to sound weird, but we gave him
to the science center.
But it's basically like a farm.
FELICIA DAY: Are you sure?
ROBIN THORSEN: Yeah.
FELICIA DAY: My mom said she took my bunny
to the rabbit farm.
ROBIN THORSEN: No, we did.
FELICIA DAY: Found out that was a lie.
I used coffee beans-- which is not official, but that's the
only thing I had that looked like eyes-- to put
his little eyes on.
I think, I have to say, these are very attractive piggies.
ROBIN THORSEN: Yeah, they're cute.
FELICIA DAY: Hello.
How cute are those tails?
Look at that?
We're going to bake these, and then we'll show you what they
look like after they're done.
Why are they not baking?
It's just so soft.

I just wanted to see if it was done in
there, which it wasn't.
And look.
Now he has a bullet hole on him.
Poor little piggy.
[MUSIC - "IF I HAD WORDS"]
FELICIA DAY: It's the Babe song.
ROBIN THORSEN: Right.
I'm going to leave.
FELICIA DAY: OK.
So it's been twice as long as the recipe said.
What happened?
Robin's actually turned out cuter because mine has a sort
of a brain tumor on the right hand--
I think what they cool, it might be tasty.
Bottom line, to celebrate the moon festival, lunar festival,
mid-autumn festival appropriately, follow the
instructions.
And you're going to have a good time and learn something
about a new culture.
If you need red bean paste, I bought enough for probably a
herd of piggies.
And we have extra duck eggs.
Happy mid-autumn festival.
See you later.
Bye.
ROBIN THORSEN: That was good, huh?
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, it was.
ROBIN THORSEN: Like [INAUDIBLE]

FELICIA DAY: And our question of note this week comes from
Kib, who asks, if you could play matchmaker between two
fictional characters from video games, literature, or
TV, who would they be, what would they do on their first
date, and what would they name their first child?
Dear Kib, I've always believed that in order to make a match
up work, the circumstances have to be just right.
That's why I would match up Aquaman with the chick that
gets eaten at the beginning of Jaws.
He would race in, riding on the backs of adorable angry
sea otters and pull her from the water before the shark
could get her.
A dramatic rescue, plus the fact that
she's are already naked?
Ice breaker.
Their first date would be at the bottom of an ocean in a
massive bubble of air.
And their first child would be named--
Clive.
Or Seaweed.
Clive Seaweed.
It's almost like Little Mermaid, except, you
know, no, it's not.
Wistfully yours, Felicia Day.

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