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MOULIN ROUGE's Ricky Rojas Bakes Something Spectacular Spectacular!
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Oct 29, 2022
In Backstage Bite with Katie Lynch, come into Katie's kitchen with some of Broadway's brightest as they eat, drink and merrily mix it up. See your favorite stars out of their element as they whip up dishes inspired by their Broadway show. Watch what happens when these actors trade belting for baking!
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This episode of Backstage Byte is brought to you by the In the Raw family of sweeteners
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Woo-hoo! It is quite the spectacular day here because we have Ricky Rojas, who is Santiago in Moulin Rouge
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I am. But this is more than a nightclub
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The Moulin Rouge is a state of mind. Welcome to my. Thanks for having me
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Oh, my goodness. I am so happy you are here. I'm excited
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I know that there's hype about Moul-Enrius, but the hype in my head about having Ricky on the show was just like..
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Oh, stop it. Stop it. Your dancer. Your performer, were you always a performer
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Yeah. My earliest memory of singing was when I was in Chile. That's where I was born
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Yeah, I started singing in like talent quests and things like that. You kind of never looked back
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What was your first talent show? It was at the Orange Blossin Festival
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and I sang Valare and La Bamba. I have to hear La Bamba right now
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No, you can. You can't do this to me. Yes, I can. To do la bamba
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to do you say, I need a poca de grasse. Okay, do you know what I want to know
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What? How much you know about cooking and baking? Lots. I know nothing
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Walt, do you want to know what you're making today? Yeah, what are we making? Because you crank, crank, cranberry bars
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No way, see. Because you go, Grim, drink, don't jump around too much
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Well, I think we should get started. Yeah. Oh, kiddo. To start off
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you are going to do two cups of flour into your bowl, please. So in there
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Now we need half a cup of sugar in the raw. Looks like diamonds. Diamonds are a girl's
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best friend. Now we need two sticks of room temperature butter. It's a squidgy butter
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It is squidgy. It is squidgy. The more squeaky butter. Now you are going to cut your butter into your flour and sugar, make little pebbles, and then you're going to basically make it into a dome
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I will cut this butter, squish! I'm obsessed with you! If you like Christian had to write a love song what would it be called You are the fire in my heart That just came to me That was amazing It going to make millions Ricky Martin going to record it
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Ricky, if you're out there, you know, two rookies are better than one
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So you think I'm joking, but I'm actually going to go to the theater now
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I'm right it on my guitar, and I'm going to send it to you. You have to. Look at your perfect dough ball
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Do boy. So now you're going to take your dough and pat it into your pan
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The mortals of the revolutionaries in Mulan Rouge are freedom, beauty, truth, and love
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What are the four pillars that you, Ricky, would say? Love is definitely up there
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Family. I do like freedom as well. If I don't say food, my wife would get upset at me because I'm one of those people that if I don't eat, I get grungry
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Grungry, no, grungry. Do you like grungry? And I'm like, mm-hmm. Until I eat
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And then I'm like, hey. This bakes twice. Okay. So we are going to stick this in the oven right now at 3.50 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes
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And while we do that, we're going to make our cranberry sauce filling. Question for you
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Okay. All of the lovely ladies of the Moulin Rouge. They all have some sort of gimmick to them
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What would your gimmick be? This is hilarious, alright, because I only ever do this for Karen Olivo
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Actually, Danny Bursing does this really well as well. I can make a fart noise with my hands
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Ready? That would be it. So people would come to the Mulan Rouge? Yeah
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To see you do that. To see that to the hand farting man. Every fart's got like a different character
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Do you know what I mean? Like, you can get the ones that are like really fast or like, or they're just like, the ones that just come out and surprise it, you know
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You're gonna be a bit of washing my hands, yeah, and just squeeze, and there's air in there and just squeeze your hands. Damn
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It's a practicing. So reading. half a cup of frozen cranberries. Why frozen? Because you want a little bit of that extra moisture
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Go ahead and put it in. And then you need half a cup of water. Water. Mm-hmm. The juice of a lemon
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The juice of a lemon. Mm-hmm. Die. Die. Sorry, I'm just... So now that it started to bubble a little bit with all of your ingredients it time to mix them together Stop it And it time to mix them Yes God we made That was great
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Ow! Do I need to smash them or anything or like mash them or just mix it
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You mix it. Exactly. You are going to give me half a cup
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That is exactly half a cup. Do you know how to crack an egg with one hand
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No. Would you like to learn? I'm really nervous. I know. In, out. In..
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It's going really well. That one was beautiful! That one died. Frankie! Yay
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You are going to add more of our favorite ingredient. Two cups of the diamondly beautiful sugar in the rock. Right. Beautiful
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Then we need your cranberry. All of it. Yep. Right. So half a cup of cranberry juice
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I mean, the show truly is, for lack of a better term
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spectacular, spectacular. What's the most spectacular thing about being a new lunerge
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See, I'm biased because I've seen top of act two. Yes, you do
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Bad romance, and I think that's my favorite one. It is so good
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It's a fun number. I mean, like, it's like you're shot out of a cannon. Like everyone is, it's like, and go, phton
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You're done. you're finished and everyone's like, we're done, we're finished. And there's people clapping and everything
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There are not people clapping. There are people going crazy, crazy. Yeah, it's nice
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Sometimes we get a standing ovation as well. Oh! At the top of Act 2, which is, it's pretty nuts
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All right, now you're simply going to pour perfect. Great
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Evenly distributed. Exactly. They added such cool pop songs and amazing iconic music If you were to add a song for Santiago what song would you add to the show I think it has to be Ricky Martin
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I like La Bomba. You were saying it! No, it's not that one. It's not La Bamba. It's La Bamba. I can't believe I spit all of this
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Like 50% of like what we've talked about is Rippy Byrd. Now it's time to put them in the oven now for a second time at 350 degrees
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for 15 minutes. And while we do that, we're going to play a super fun game
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to get to know you super-dooper fast. Oh God. Called quick fire questions
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Okay. Ooh. Ready? Yep. Set. Go to karaoke song. Bon Jovi. Salad or French fries
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French fries. Half full or half empty? Half full. Live anywhere other than New York. France
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Jazz or ballet? Jazz. Loud or quiet. Loud. Drink of choice. Beer
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Last thing you do before you fall asleep. Close my eyes. Uptown or downtown. Uptown
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Nod or nice. Nauty. Noddy. Your butt, your ear, and your nose. Butt, butt
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Favorite sore? H&M. 50 plus 3. 53. Favorite role? Santiago. Favorite musical
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Miller Rich. What do you do on the subway? Ride it. Bunt, butt, butt, butt
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These look amazing. They look amazing, but we're not quite fair yet
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We're not finished. No, you have to finish them off with some powdered sugar
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I've learned how to crack eggs. You've learned how to crack eggs. to make fight noises with your hands
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I knew you were going to take that one. Because you can't, can, can, can, eat them now
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Because you can't, crank, crank. Because you crank, cray! Because you cram, quack, quay! Ooh, I could do a lot of these
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Mm-hmm. I'm going. Mm-hmm. I am. Cramber goodness. How do I follow you
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You are a blast. At Ricky Rojas, 1272. Mm. And if you want to follow Moulon Rouge, it's at Moulon Rouge Bway
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And why wouldn't you follow us? We are at backstage bite. Yeah. I'm gonna have an hour one
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I have had so much fun with you. Thank you. See you next time
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