An Elvis Twist

Hey y'all, break out your blue suede shoes and come with me because today we're going to be saying thank you very much to the king. That's right, today's show is all about Elvis. So we're going to be taking care of business in my kitchen with a whole meal of Elvis inspired dishes that I think you're going to love

First up, I'm going to combine two of Elvis' favorite dishes with my cheeseburger meatloaf

It's going to knock your socks off. And on the side, I'm going to be making some crunchy new potatoes

And for my encore, I'm fixing a peanut butter and banana gooey butter cake

And it's truly over the top. So y'all come with me today and don't be cruel, because Elvis hadn't left the building just yet

Music Well, how do y'all like my souvenir from Graceland? Isn't it slimming? Makes me look like Elvis, doesn't it

Speaking of Elvis, today's show is all about Elvis, and I tell you what, you're not going to find a bigger fan than I was of Elvis

And so today, I'm cooking things that I think Elvis would have really liked, but the real kicker comes in from the dessert today

There's a group of correction officers down in Alabama, and they faithfully watch my show every Saturday

Well, they sent me an idea, and they call it the Elvis Presley Gooey Butter Cake

So we're going to be doing that later on in the show. But for right now, I think Elvis would love a meatloaf because he liked his hamburger meat

So we're going to start with a meatloaf that we serve at the Lady and Sons

It's called Cheeseburger Meatloaf. It's real simple to make and it's tasty

So I'm gonna put my ground beef in there. And I'd started chopping my onions and my green pepper

And I'll just finish these up. I've got several meatloaf recipes that we use at the restaurant

And I have to say, this is probably one of the favorites

All right, now I'm adding some of our house seasoning and some seasoning salt

And we're just gonna mix this up. And y'all will notice that I'm putting some ingredients that you don't find in a standard

meatloaf and that sour cream. I'm gonna put a half a cup of sour cream and some Worcestershire and a cup of shredded

cheddar cheese. This looks pretty good. All right, now I'm gonna have to wash my hands

So for the breading part of this meatloaf, I'm gonna use crackers

but I just love the taste of these crackers, and I'm gonna need a cup of cracker crumbs

Okay, see how easy that was? I remember the one and only time I ever saw Elvis

Oh my goodness. It was in 1973 and I didn't have any money for an outfit

So I went to the fabric store and I bought me some fabric

because it was very important that I looked good because he might look out there and see me

So I wanted to look really, really good. So I made me some hot pants, real short hot pants

and a shirt that cut down. And I went to the shoe store and bought me a pair of white plastic knee-high boots

Now, I was one hot mama. I don't have to tell y'all he didn't see me

I'll never forget that. But right now, I'm going to get this meatloaf in this pan

And I want to show y'all a trick. It may be one that I've shared with you before, but I want to share it with you again

Ground beef is greasy, and I don't particularly like a greasy meatloaf, so I'm gonna stick two pieces of bread

in the bottom of my dish, because that bread is gonna act almost like a sponge

and it's gonna soak up all that grease, and then you try to resist eating that greasy bread

All right so we gonna stick this in a 350 degree oven for about 50 minutes All right if I was a betting woman I would bet that Elvis and I shared a love for potatoes

So, I'm gonna make some crunchy new potatoes, and I found these wonderful little small reds

and I'm just gonna throw them in a pot of cold water. And because of their size, they're not going to take very long

And you always want to start your potatoes in cold water because they'll cook more evenly

And while they're cooking, I'm going to be mixing up cornflakes. Now, this is no sugar cornflakes. These are regular

And I formulated this recipe when I was writing my second cookbook

And I really, really like these. Now, I'm going to mix in with these cornflakes

some ranch dressing because I wanted my potatoes to really have a little bite to them. I just love

ranch dressing. Okay, so when we come back, the potatoes should be done, and I'm going to show

you how to turn these soft little sweet new potatoes into crunchy potatoes, and I'm also

going to share with y'all some home movies from Graceland that I want to show y'all

so y'all don't go anywhere. I'll be right here waiting on you. Before we get started with the potatoes, I want to show y'all something

You know, I told you that I finally got to see Elvis in 1973

and these are the programs from that show. It's really strange that his lips are missing

That very well could have been from me kissing him. He was just the best

All right, our potatoes are done, and now we're going to peel them

and you'll find that these peel real, real easy with a paring knife

just like that. All right, now we're going to toss these around in the butter

Oh, I could just eat them just like this, but we're not

We're going to roll them around in these crumbs. I'm gonna cook these potatoes in little individual bean pots

so everybody will have their own little pot of potatoes. All right, now our meatloaf is probably almost done

and I have, in honor of Elvis, he was very funny about his hamburger

He wanted it cooked well done. So, because that's the way Elvis liked them

that's the way Paula's cooking them. All right, we're gonna put these in the oven

and I'm gonna take our meatloaf out We're gonna turn our oven up to 400 degrees

because our potatoes need to cook a little hotter than the meatloaf

So let's see what we've got. Yep, it's nice and done

See it shrunk a little bit. Now I'm gonna cut this up to 400

I'm gonna stick our cute little pot of potatoes in the oven

and we're just gonna roast those off. We've got the meatloaf out, we've got the potatoes in

Now I wanna show y'all this quick and easy sauce. Now we're gonna just take a can of cream of mushroom soup

any brand, your favorite brand. This is so quick and easy you're not gonna believe it

We're gonna put our cream of mushroom soup in our pot. We serve this at the restaurant about once a week

and the men just love it. All right, we're gonna add a cup of milk

I'm gonna add it slowly at first to just mix that soup and that milk together

so it won't go clumpy on me. And now we're gonna add a cup and a half

of cheddar cheese to it. And then we're just gonna bring that to a boil

and we'll have that to pour on top of our meatloaf, and it's delicious with biscuits

But you know what? But I've got some onions here. So, I think I'll do just a few onion tops

and throw over in there and that'll make it a little bit more interesting

Give it a little color and the flavor won't hurt it either. So, there we go

So while our sauce is getting hot, our meatloaf is resting for a little while

because it'll slice easier, you know, if we let it rest. But this, I just want to show you all this

This was like a little piece of heaven. This was Magnolia Lodge down in Crystal River, Florida

and my grandmother and granddaddy owned this. We had wonderful times here

This is where all the wealthy hunter and fishermen would come, and grandma would cook their catch or their game whatever it was she would cook that for their dinner And it was here that Elvis spent one week vacationing And he sent a postcard saying how much he appreciated and enjoyed everything

And that was a wonderful place, a wonderful part of my childhood

All right, now our sauce is bubbly. And now I've got to find a plate to put our meatloaf on

And this has cooled off enough that I think I'm going to be able to just lift it pretty easily

All right, this is the only spatula I can find. So I'm going to see if I can't make it work

Look, they are perfect. All right, now you see all of our bread that's full of grease just peeled right off of our meatloaf

So we're going to slip that over in there. Okay. So we're just gonna put that cheesy sauce

on top of that meatloaf. You know, I just think I could've made Elvis so happy

All right, now let's see, I don't think this needs much. Love spring onions

I've got some sliced tomatoes, and I'm fixing to take our potatoes out of the oven

That looks scrumptious. All right, let's see if they're ready. All right

Potatoes are done. Look at that. Is that not fit for a king

I know it. If only Elvis could have seen me in those hot pants

We could have been so happy together. Let's see what it tastes like

Looks delicious. Mmm, mmm, mmm. When we come back, I've got that special Elvis Presley dessert

I was telling you about, so y'all don't go anywhere. So this next recipe comes from a group of friends from Lexington, Kentucky, and they

watch the show every Saturday and they write and tell me how much they love it, and they

came up with the Elvis Nanner peanut butter gooey butter cake, and the recipe is over the top

So I can't wait to share it with everybody. I'm gonna start with a yellow cake mix, one egg

and one stick of melted butter. Now you can do this with a mixer

or you can do it by hand. This is gonna be the base to our gooey butter cake

so it's gonna be really, really stiff. So we've almost got our crust done up

All right, now we're gonna take our crust, And we're gonna just pile it all into a 13 by 9 by 2 pan

So we're just gonna press that out. I started making this years ago

It was the first dessert that I made and sent out on the bag lady routes with the boys

My kitchen and I have done just about every variation there is

But guys and girls from Kentucky, we've never made a peanut butter banana gooey butter cake

All right, now with the filling, I'm going to put in an 8-ounce block of softened cream cheese

And I'm going to put a half a cup of peanut butter. And I'm just going to blend those up together

Oh, those two things are looking delicious. All right, so we're just going to cream that together like that a little bit

Then I'm going to add my powdered sugar and just beat that in there

And this is a one-pound box of powdered sugar. And we're going to put that whole box in there

All right, and I'm almost done, but I think I'm going to go ahead and add two eggs to it now

to just make it a little bit more liquidy so it'll mix up quicker

And when I'm making a gooey butter cake that's got a really gooey center, like pineapple gooey butter cakes

rather than put in two eggs, I'll put in three because that extra egg helps it thicken up a little bit

and that way it's not so runny. All right, so I think we can finish putting our powdered sugar in

I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to cut that on low so that my butter won't splash all up in my face

I'm gonna add some vanilla. A banana flavoring would be good too

but I think our banana is gonna flavor it enough All right now we gonna take one banana and I like to get my bananas going by mashing them in their skin some So you see what I done I just mashed it a

little bit in its skin and given it a little head start. And we're just going to throw

it in there and let the mixer do the rest of the work. Makes banana mashing real, real

easy. I think this is ready. Still got a few chunks of bananas in it, but I think that's

gonna make it really, really good. All right. So we're just gonna pour that in, just spread

that out. Gonna cover that crust and we're gonna let it bake for, gosh, about 45 or 50

minutes. The one thing about gooey butter cakes is you need to get that time down just perfectly

because the name of this is gooey. You want to be able to, when you shake your pan

that it still moves just a little bit with you. So be careful that you don't overcook it

So we're going to put this in the oven, and we're going to bake this on 325

And I've got a pan over here that should be ready. It looks out of this world

Oh my goodness, look how good. And I think I'm gonna start by slicing this

right down the center. And then all I have to do is come to either side

and go right down the center again. I was reading somewhere the other day

a few things that Graceland was required to have on hand in the kitchen was a case of orange drink, fresh made homemade banana pudding

hot rolls, biscuits, and the ingredients to put together a meatloaf. Just what we made a few minutes ago. So I think we're on target maybe with

some of his likes. And I got some fresh whipped cream, and I got a little mint just to make it pretty

We've kind of combined two of his favorite ingredients into this dessert, or I say we have

The guys and girls from Kentucky have. In fact, Michael's favorite gooey butter cake

is the banana gooey butter cake, and he hadn't tasted this double whammy

So I bet he's going to love it too. Look at that

I'm swallowing hard. So what you say, let's taste it. This is out of this world

Y'all don't go anywhere because next I've got a real surprise for you. I've got a variation of another one of Elvis's favorite foods

You're going to love it. a sweet bacon mini BLT sandwich. So don't go anywhere

Mmm! Mmm! If there was anybody that ever

made the most of southern cooking, It was probably Elvis Presley. He loved his butter

He loved his bacon. So in memory of Elvis today, I'm going to show y'all how to put together a bacon, lettuce, and tomato biscuit

Now what's going to make this special is I have baked our bacon in the oven with brown sugar

We're just going to bust open our biscuit, put a little mayonnaise on it

and some lettuce, tomato, and some of that sticky brown sugar bacon

Mmm. What a great way to enjoy a little mini BLT. You won't believe that sweet bacon in there

He would have loved it. You know, it's not every day that an Elvis Presley is born

And whether you're a fan or not, I think that you'll agree that his choice of food was pretty good

He really liked his southern food. And I think that y'all will love this cheeseburger meatloaf with the cheese sauce and the ranch-flavored crunchy potatoes

And thanks, Kentucky, for an over-the-top peanut butter banana gooey butter cake

Hope y'all try them and enjoy them all. And until next time, America, I send y'all love and best dishes from my kitchen to yours