"I sure would have macked you up in the back of the subway looking like that." "(Snoop) Tonight on "Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party"..." "We're talking about family favorites today." "Watch how I roll." "No, let me see if you really know how to roll." "My type of girl." "Let me get out the damn way." "I have some photos of Martha." "Check this out." "(all) Ooh!" "♪ You're now cooking with Martha and Snoop ♪" "♪ Welcome to the party ♪" "(cheers and applause)" "Straight out of the burbs of Jerz and the mean streets of Long Beach, it's the awkward family you never had but always wanted." "Please give it up for Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart!" "(applause continues)" "And welcome, welcome to "Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party."" "But when you're here, you're family." "Since food reminds us of our childhood, let's make some family favorites." "And if we gonna be talking about our families," "I think we gonna need a drink, Martha." "Come on." "(hip-hop music playing)" "Soo..." "I'm going to make a traditional Polish cocktail." "Well, I grew up as a daughter of Polish immigrants..." "Mm-hmm." "...and straight vodka, on the rocks is de rigueur." "De rigueur." "De rigueur." "So we're gonna do it over ice, because it makes it a little easier to" "I'm gonna just use my fingers if you don't mind." "I like it when you keep it hood, Martha." "(laughing) Okay." "So, just pour over the rocks." "Mmm." "This is elegant." "It is smooth." "And it is going to get you drunk." "And that is part of the reason we drink it." "(laughter)" "Wedge" " Wedge of orange." "We're gonna just say "na zdrowie"." "Na zdrowie?" "Na zdrowie." "Na zdrowie!" "So, Snoop, what's the best advice your parents ever gave you?" "It was to get out of their house." "You know, start my own mission and becoming a, you know, a young man and just trying things in life." "I think I'm doing a good job of it." "I would say your parents are probably really proud of you." "But I got a question for you, Martha." "Yeah?" "When was the first time you seen a pimp riding in a Cadillac eating some chicken wings and driving at the same time?" "That's a very hard question." "What's a pimp?" "A Player Into Making Progress." "(laughter)" "Well, now that we're nice and loose, at least I am, uh..." "Martha loose?" "Let's bring out our guests." "Mmm." "They're both famous and they both come from famous families." "Now they have their own." "Please welcome Evan Ross and Ashley Simpson-Ross." "(cheers and applause)" "♪♪" "Oh!" "It's a money tree." "Oh, a money tree." "Have a drink." "Start off the day." "Thank you." "We have drinks for you guys." "We'll put our glasses up one more time, everybody." "(all) Cheers." "Here's a toast to success and nothing less." "We're talking about family favorites today, so we're really glad that you could be with us." "And you have a new family." "Yes!" "You have a baby." "She's so cute." "She's almost 14 months." "You both grew up in really famous families." "Um, what was that like?" "I don't know anything else." "He definitely doesn't." "I don't know anything else." "For me, I'm from the South, and my family kind of came up into this world and we moved to California when I was, like, 13, so..." "For you to meet the boss, Diana Ross." "Right." "How was that, you know what I'm saying?" "Were you nervous?" "Uh, I was." "She had just played a show at the Staples Center, and I was Evan's new girlfriend." "She did this." "I like that." "Yes, so I was the new girlfriend." "She took to me, though." "My mom was obsessed with her, yeah." "Yeah." "I tried to, like, dress cool for her that night." "My mom was obsessed with the way" "To this day, she's like, oh, she's like, loves the way" "Ashley dresses, everything, so, you know." "So food and family, you know, go hand in hand." "What were your favorite childhood foods?" "What did Diana serve you?" "We had a lot of salt and a lot of hot sauce." "He eats the craziest food." "Yeah?" "And caviar." "I never had caviar." "I'm from Texas." "We eat, like, Tex-Mex." "He won't touch truffles." "What?" "!" "He won't touch caviar." "No." "He is a plebian." "Y'all gotta teach me how to" "Martha's trying to teach me how to learn right now." "Oh, that's not good." "I'm on your team." "Thank you." "Well, tonight, I'm making something that brings me right back to my childhood." "It's my mother's stuffed cabbage, which is called golumpki." "Oh, yeah." "What is it called again?" "Golumpki." "I think my auntie had that disease." "And what are you making?" "Well, you know, I'm over here doing my thang-thang." "We gonna put together that spaghetti bola-gnese." "Oh!" "Yeah." "How do you spell your Bolognese, Snoop?" "How do you spell your Bolognese?" "I spell my Bolognese B-O-W-L..." "Uh, N-A" "N-A-Y-S." "Bowl 'o nays." "(laughter)" "(Ashley) Bowl 'o nays." "Now, look, my recipe was inspired by Uncle Rio." "Ah." "Here." "I like to call him out right now if you don't mind." "My main man, Uncle Rio." "(cheers and applause)" "♪♪" "He blended in with the-- with the appliances over there with this purple suit on." "He said... (Ashley) Nice suit!" "Ladies and gentlemen, this is my Uncle Rio." "Hi." "Hi." "I like your suit." "Hey, man." "Hey, look, I got some jewelry already." "I might need to get another one." "Hi, hi, hi, hi." "And he manages to cook in a suit like that." "If you's a good cook, you don't have to worry about that." "Okay, Uncle Rio." "What do we do first?" "Number one, we-- we come with the vegetables and start chopping real fine." "And this is carrots, celery, onions." "When you put all that in there, you getting all your vitamins." "All right." "You are?" "And how many vitamins do they got?" "You go from A to Z." "If there's another alphabet, please let me know." "And what's the secret ingredient?" "Well, the secret ingredient, when you got Jesus in it, you don't need nothing else." "(church hymn playing)" "(Ashley) That's right!" "My man!" "I'm learning." "There we go." "I'm learning so much from Rio." "Yeah." "So you want to get this blended all up in here." "So what do I do, Martha?" "Press "on."" "I push "on"?" "On!" "One of the most essential tools in the kitchen." "That's good." "Where's the pan at?" "Well, here, you have to put some oil in there." "Some-- What kind of oil, this?" "Olive oil?" "A little olive oil." "No, not in here, in there." "Oh, in here?" "Yeah." "There, okay." "There we go." "There we go." "It smells so good." "(Rio) Then you gotta just stir it up and put a little season in it, give it that flavor." "You gotta put your ground beef in it." "That's a lot of beef." "You gotta let this brown a little bit." "What kind of tomatoes are those?" "So these are diced tomatoes made by Uncle Rio." "(Evan) He made those?" "For real?" "He made those himself." "Look, 28 ounces." "Put some music on so Uncle Rio can sing a little something while we're in this kitchen, man." "I got something for you guy s to sing to, hold up." "(funky melody playing)" "Come on, put your hands together!" "Ooh!" "♪ See we havin' ♪" "♪ What I do, baby ♪" "♪ Dripping sauce all over your body ♪" "♪ When I'm in the kitchen cooking ♪" "♪ We gonna drip some sauce all over the spaghetti ♪" "♪ To make sure it's nice and ready ♪" "♪ Make it taste so good ♪" "♪ And when it's ready you'll know it's ready ♪" "♪ Pass the Bolognese ♪" "♪ Drip it, drop it ♪" "♪ Drop it, drip it ♪" "♪ Drip it, drop it, drip it ♪" "(audience hoots and applauds)" "That was a moment." "That was such a moment." "I'm so hungry now." "(Martha) Don't go away." "We've got more with "Martha and Snoop's" "Potluck Dinner Party" when we come back." "(applause and music playing)" "Watch how I roll." "No, let me see if you really know how to roll." "My mom, she put soap in my mouth, because I" " I called her the "B" word." "What?" "!" "So" "And that's all she did, was put soap in your mouth?" "(laughs)" "♪ You're now cooking with Martha and Snoop ♪" "♪ You're now cooking with Martha and Snoop ♪" "("We Are Family" playing)" "Woo, woo, woo!" "Welcome back." "Well, it does smell really amazing in here." "Look at that." "Looking good." "Snoop, you have not stopped stirring for ten minutes." "So, Snoop, I have a surprise for you." "I like to call it a "Snooprise"." "Let's just say I was snooping' on Snoop." "I took some time on the Internet last night and I found some photos that are going to bring you way back." "That's so cute!" "Look." "What is on your ears?" "Aww!" "Them is earmuffs, homie." "That was 1985." "I was at a camping trip called Poly North where we went to-- we went camping with the homies and I had earmuffs and gloves." "As you see, they wasn't mine." "You already looked like you had ideas, though." "I knew what I wanted to be." "You were sitting there, you were like," ""Yeah, I already know what's going on."" "I'm gonna be something." "Oh!" "(Rio) I remember that one." "Yeah, that's me and my lovely wife." "I took her to the prom." "That's her prom that I went to." "You guys been together since then?" "Yeah, since 1990." "I think I knew that." "That's amazing." "It's a beautiful picture." "Yes, sir." "Oh!" "I love the hair." "And that's not a wig, either." "Nah." "Oh, no, I like it." "That's that real hair right there." "That's the real deal." "Well, let's start with the golumpkis, okay?" "Golumpkis?" "Yeah, golumpkis." "Let's follow your lead." "The cabbage has been steamed so that you can remove each of the leaves to make these little pockets, and then the-- the filling is" "You want to scrape that into here, Snoop?" "Mm-hmm." "Two cups of cooked white rice." "Um..." "Am I scooping all of it here?" "Eight ounces, half a pound." "And that's the pork." "I got a technique with this thing here, Martha." "I see what you're doing, man, I see what you're doing." "You like that technique?" "Yeah, man." "And then a half a pound of freshly ground beef." "Steak tartare." "That's ground beef." "Beef, yeah." "And two ribs of celery, finely diced." "That look good." "One medium green pepper, one tablespoon of parsley, chopped, and salt and pepper." "Do you want to stir that up, Snoop?" "I got you, Martha." "Yeah, I got you." "Yeah, yeah." "Salt and pepper." "And then you could use your hands." "I could?" "You want me to keep it hood?" "You could, you could." "You wanna" "Yeah, okay." "Did I mix it up right?" "Okay, and now shake off all the excess, we don't... ♪ Shake it off, shake it off ♪" "♪ Shake it off, shake it ♪" "If you want uniform golumpkis..." "Right." "You put a scoop in each leaf." "Now, you put one scoop right here." "Okay." "Hey, don't mess up, babe." "I know." "She's not gonna..." "My husband is the cook, not me." "Okay, so now..." "It's just like scooping ice cream." "I make all bad dips." "Okay, so watch-- Watch how I roll." "Now let me see if you really know how to roll." "I'm rolling this way and then I'm turning in the edges like that." "Okay." "It's a little different from what you roll." "You roll-- Snoop." "Look like you rolling a Backwood." "Is that what they call that?" "Yeah, that's a Backwood roll, that's a Backwood roll." "(Evan) Oh, my goodness." "And then you have a perfect little roll." "That was amazing, Martha." "See?" "That was amazing." "Oh, my gosh." "Her roll game is amazing." "Okay, how's the sauce coming?" "They ready to be mixed." "It's ready to be mixed up." "Now, Martha, you know what?" "One thing about me and you is that great minds think alike." "And last night, I was stalking out Stewart." "(audience cheers and laughs)" "I have some photos of Martha!" "What" " What did you find?" "Oh, Martha!" "Aww, you're so cute." "Look at little Martha." "Look at her." "Look at the little cute little baby Martha." "In my little-- My little Western shirt." "How sweet are you?" "I would wear that shirt right now." "I would too, if I had it." "I would wear that shirt right now." "Yea, yea." "And there" "Oh, there's the country girl." "Okay, you look" "So now I just feel like we gotta do a movie about that." "Hippie!" "Look at that." "That's when she was on her hippie trip." "Where was you at, Woodstock?" "That's my hippie." "That's Woodstock." "I love it." "Well, you were super fly." "Yeah, Martha!" "Oh..." "Oh!" "There I am." "Are you reading the newspaper?" "Oh, Martha, were you going to see him, or had you just finished seeing him?" "No, I'm going" "I'm going to my first job on Wall Street, can you believe it?" "I looked like that." "I sure would have macked you up in the back of the subway looking like that." "Wow!" "You do look very young there." "Great memories." "Thank you, Snoop." "So the golumpkis, look, look." "The golumpkis are in here." "Oh, wow." "That's looking good." "Baby, look." "Yep, and now you pour over four cups of tomato sauce right over, and then you add a little bit of the cabbage water that you steamed the cabbage in and cover." "And bake in a, like, a 300-degree oven for about, oh, about two hours." "Let's move to the table so that we can all make some family memories, new family memories." "We'll be right back!" "("We Are Family" playing)" "♪ Woo-hoo ♪" "I decided to save the best photos of my girl Martha for last." "Oh." "Now check this out." "(all gasp)" "♪ You're now cooking with Martha and Snoop ♪" "♪ You're now cooking with Martha and Snoop ♪" "♪♪" "Welcome back to "Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party."" "We've got some beautiful golumpkis and Uncle Rio's Spaghetti Bolognese." "Before we eat, though," "Snoop, why don't you make it official." "Oh, yes." "(church hymn playing)" "Oh, Lord, family is blood and blood runs deep." "But mostly family asks you to lend them money to buy that Jeep." "Amen." "Amen!" "(laughter and applause)" "Now, we can eat now." "Yeah, yeah." "All right." "A golumpki for you." "Oh, thank you." "Uncle Rio said he wants a golumpki, too." "Oh, good." "Let me get my husband's." "Oh, yes, here." "She how she took care of her husband?" "I like that." "Look at her, see?" "She does." "Thank you, baby." "There you go." "Here, Rio." "Look at that, too, I just drop it like it's hot." "Evan, he puts, uh, Red Hot on his spaghetti." "Oh, he do?" "Yeah." "So after I make spaghetti, he always does Red Hot." "He makes it Red Hot." "Let me tell you." "We've been attuned to that." "I remember going to the movie theaters with my mom and she would have Red Hot hot sauce in her bag." "So we always had" "We had it basically on everything." "So this is delicious, Uncle Rio." "This is amazing." "Peasant food." "I'm just eating Martha Stewart's food right now." "Aww!" "Food and family, you know, go hand in hand." "What TV family is most like the Snoop family?" "I think it would have to be, uh, "Good Times."" ""Good Times." Yeah, the Evans family." "What about you down in Texas, Ashley?" ""The Simpsons."" "Which ones?" "I guess my sister would be Lisa and I'd be..." "Who's the little one?" "With the pacifier in my mouth." "Now, look, I know this show is about family favorites, but now let's get down and dirty and talk about the family worst." "Ohh!" "Like, what was the worst family tradition?" "Worst-- Do you have one?" "I can't talk about it, even if I had one." "You're sworn to secrecy?" "Have you met my mother?" "(Martha) Do you have something?" "Let's see, worst" "Gosh, I don't..." "I did get it one time." "You did?" "My mom, she put soap in my mouth, because..." "That we got, too." "...." "I called her the "B" word." "What?" "!" "Ohh!" "So..." "Well, you guys..." "And that's all she did, was put soap in your mouth?" "I was like" "I was like, that can never happen in my life." "My mother was not going to deal with anything other than "thank you," "yes," and..." "Hello!" "Me too." "What's the worst family vacation that y'all took?" "I never went on vacation." "For real?" "Yeah, we didn't have it." "Aww!" "We couldn't afford-- We couldn't afford" "We couldn't afford vacations." "You know, a day at the lake or a day at the shore." "Well, my worst family vacation was when we had to go visit my cousin in the penitentiary." "That was the vacation." "Yeah, we all drove out there to see him, a two-day trip to go see this dude locked up in jail." "Nice you did it." "It wasn't nice." "I could have been doing other things." "What about the worst chore?" "Chore?" "I know mine." "Go ahead, baby." "Turn the lights off." "'Cause, like, this is an old house." "At night, we'd have to go downstairs and turn the lights off, but you have to turn the lights off in the back and then as you do it, you're in the dark, and I would run so-- clicking lights" "like I was a madman, I was, like..." "You didn't learn where the fuse was?" "No, I'm not going in-- The fuse room?" "If you ever even knew what that looked like." "That thing was so old." "One" " One little switch." "My mom was like, "Baby, you gotta go figure it out." "You gotta go in there, look at where the switches are,"" "and I'd be like, "No, I'm not." ""Mom, you gotta get somebody else." "I can't do it."" "My worst, going to see my auntie." "Oh, she used to make me so mad." "She'd cook a whole pot of chicken heads and she put it off in the grits and they just looking at you." "You know, you had the eyes, the bill, the comb and everything." "It was rough." "And you have nightmares at night where you think the chicken in the bed with you." "(laughter)" "Don't go away, because when we get back," "I got a couple more photos of my girl Martha, and they're guaranteed to make you say, "Damn!"" "(laughter)" "♪♪" "♪ You're now cooking with Martha and Snoop ♪" "♪ You're now cooking with Martha and Snoop ♪" "♪ We cooking, baby, hey ♪" "(cheers and applause)" "Well, we had a great night, and thank you so much for coming"