Breakin' For Breakfast

Mom, today Jamie and I are going to make you breakfast

We think you deserve the day off. Yep. They're not running fever

Today, y'all, is a dream come true. Because my boys are treating me

Starting with an easy blueberry skillet cake. It's so simple it will shock you

Oh, God. And then a breakfast dish jam-packed with sweetness. A strawberry and cream cheese stuffed French toast

Well, the French toast is incredible. Next, a breakfast classic with a twist

Fruit salad with a cream cheese pecan topping. Finally, my sons are mixing it up with a pina colada smoothie

I am like the luckiest woman in the world. You know, Mama really deserves a break

It's about time that you and I made breakfast for her. Mama has been making us breakfast for over 40 years

This is a great recipe that's so easy. It's actually called Easy. Easy blueberry skillet cake

We're going to use the canned biscuit. There's going to be some brown sugar and some butter involved. Imagine that

And we're going to bake it. What? And we're going to bake it in a skillet in the oven. Am I right

Yeah, you're right. Get a quarter stick of butter and put it in there, Bobby. And you're going to need one tablespoon of brown sugar

So using biscuits is kind of the easiest way to get that breakfast cake-y thing

without having to do a bunch of mixing and stuff like that. While Bobby's melting that down

I'm going to go into my food processor, and I'm going to take a quarter of a stick of this butter

All right. I'm going to put one quarter cup of almond slivers

I know you love almonds. I do. I'm liking the ingredients. I see almonds and really big, fat blueberries over here

Yeah, this is healthy. One of my favorites. A quarter of a cup of granulated sugar

One teaspoon of cinnamon. And then I'm gonna put two and a half tablespoons of all-purpose flour

You know who would like this? I bet Jack would like this. Jack loves breakfast. I made him blueberry pancakes this morning for breakfast

Did you really? I did. My pan, my pancake pan is all little animals, so they're little discs

So I make eight of those, and he chooses the four animals that he wants to eat. Which ones did he choose today

Today he had the lion, he had the hippo, he had the monkey, and the giraffe

You know, I really think that that's where cooking, that's where you learn to cook and that's where you start with your family is at breakfast time

Same place we started with mom. I remember as soon as I got tall enough to see over the counter, basically, was that last year

I'm not going to say anything. Shit! I was thinking last year

Dude, the first things we ever did was breakfast. I remember scrambling eggs, mama letting us

I think the first thing I remember doing was Mama used to let me run

the bread through the egg wash to do French toast. Yeah. Well, Jack started with

cupcakes. That's one of the first things that he wanted to cook. He loves... Gonna be a big boy. He is gonna be a big boy. He likes to decorate them as much

as he likes to eat them. But he loves a sprinkle is his favorite

thing. Is it? Okay, go ahead and open up your can of biscuits. This will be melted good

And let's turn that heat off of here. You know, every time Mama

opens a can of biscuits, she gets really scared. Oh, God. I like to have a heart attack just then

Every time Mama opens a can of biscuits, that happens. This looks awesome

Alright, and we're just gonna I think just place these in here, right? Yep, just lay them around

Butter and sugar is one of my favorite smells. It's like my favorite perfume

I can tell this is going to be good. Yeah, this is kind of a, see, this is kind of like a real crumbly top

There we go. Okay, and now let's layer it up with these blueberries. You're going to want to put a cup in there

Yeah. Yeah. You're just going to do handfuls? Yeah. I don't think we could overdo the blueberries

We're going to use three handfuls. Three handfuls equals one cup in Bobby's kitchen

Now what? Now we're going to put this over the top. I'm just going to kind of spoon it

Ooh. And these biscuits are going to bake up, y'all, and it's going to envelop all of these berries and all this stuff

and it's going to be so delicious. Envelope? Good word, isn't it

Let me go get the dictionary. That is a good word. You know, your mama would be mad for only using a quarter teaspoon of butter

Well, we're cooking for her today. All right. In we go. 375 for 30 minutes

I predict deliciousness. And it's so good. Get them while they're warm, mmm, with some milk

You know, speaking of delicious breakfast, I love to do French toast

And I remember doing a lot of French toast and pancakes when we were growing up. Come down here, Jamie. I love French toast

And let's make strawberry and cream cheese stuffed French toast. Mmm. So Jamie, let's make a really simple syrup

to go over some French toast this morning We gonna use about a pound of fresh strawberries And we gonna take a of sugar I going to need for you to zest and juice that lemon Okay And I just going to quarter up these strawberries

And we're going to boil them down, make a really simple syrup. And it's a little something different, you know, rather than pancake syrup or, you know, maple syrup

We use a lot of cane down in the South. But this is something a little different, nice fresh fruit

That sounds awesome. It does sound awesome. This lemon smells so good

Y'all, one of my favorite ways to get good flavor in a recipe is to use the zest of a lemon or an orange

It's really awesome, too. This is reminding me of when we were kids, Jamie. We used to do all kinds of French toast and pancakes and stuff for breakfast and a big old jug of sweet tea

You remember that? I do. We always had a gallon in the fridge, and we always had a gallon sitting on the table at every meal

It didn't matter what the meal was. I got my first cavity at three

Does Jack like strawberries? Loves berries. Berries are his favorite thing. All right, I think this is just about enough

We're going to simmer this for about 15 minutes. And when we come back, we're going to make French toast

Oui, oui. What do you think, brother? You, you. That's French. No, it ain't

Y'all stick around. Coming up. Bobby, you want to taste? I certainly do

My boy's French toast is worth fighting for. And then they're whipping up a sweet and creamy topping for our fruit salad

Very good. Very, very good. And later... We're going bananas. Because they're going to be making pina colada smoothies

Welcome back, y'all. Jamie and I are doing breakfast for Mom this morning. And right now we're doing a really neat French toast

You know what I love about French toast is you can do anything really that you want to with it

And what we're going to do this morning is we are going to... First of all, you're going to go to work

So, Jamie, I need for you to start slicing those strawberries, please. We've got an 8-ounce package of cream cheese here

It's like at room temperature, and we're going to spread it onto the... Cream cheese sandwich. Cream cheese and strawberry sandwiches

Ooh. See, you can do anything you want. So go ahead and get started with that, Jamie. And I am going to get us an egg wash here for the French toast

I'm going to use a half cup of milk. I've got two eggs and a half teaspoon of sugar

So, Jamie, don't you have a nice story about you and Brooke and French toast? Well, for Brooke's first Mother's Day, I wanted to do a special breakfast for it

What I did was take peanut butter and honey and bananas and mash them all up

and I put it all inside of a piece of bread. Yeah

And then I put it down in my egg wash, and then I rolled it in granola

so the edges were sealed with fresh, crunchy granola, and that's what I made for her for her first Mother's Day breakfast

Oh, my God. But it was so good, and she enjoyed it so much. Really? Which is kind of like this

This is a stuffed French toast, too. And the cream cheese, when it gets hot and gets so gooey

And this is going to yield about six sandwiches, so I'll be lucky if I get one

I know, you're pretty strong. You're right. I think I can muscle it away from you

You want this packed full of strawberries? Yes, I do. All right

Egg wash is ready. Got this block of butter here I'm going to use about this much and put it in our skillet to keep our French toast from sticking

yeah heaven forbid we make something without butter if mama doesn't taste a certain amount

of butter in there we're gonna be we're gonna be in trouble and we're gonna run these french toast

well sandwiches i guess is what they are through our egg wash there you go and right on the skillet

teamwork brother team there's no i in team those look so good they do look good

Yes, sir. Bobby, your syrup that we put together looks so good

Yeah, I'm about to pour that up. It looks like preserves. It does

That's another thing Mama did for us when we were kids. We had a fig tree in the yard

And you remember the fig preserves that Mama made? I do. She'd do strawberry fig, and then she'd do regular fig

and on white bread with some mayonnaise, and that sweet syrup coming out of those figs on that toast was so good

I think she's going to like this. Jamie, do you smell that coming from the oven

Mm-hmm. I'm telling you, this is a breakfast fit for a queen

I think it's about time for the flip. Let me see. Go. Mm-hmm

Jamie, you remember the cooking competition that we did, don't you? Do you remember how good my salmon was, Jamie

and how bad whatever it was that you met. Yours was so bad, I don't even remember what you made. What are you talking about

The cooking competition. We're having a Dean family cook-off. Jamie's gonna make a dish

Bobby's gonna make a dish, and moi is gonna make a dish

Let me refresh your memory. No. I did a chili, mom did, short ribs

and you did... Salmon. Surprise! And who was the judge? Well, see, that's kind of where it went sideways

because Groover was there. Okay, it's already sideways. And my wife was there

Baby I not trying to hurt your feelings I think I might like the salmon I think I might like might Salmon And I won the contest I rest my case I wish you rest your lips

Little brothers, y'all. Little brothers. French toast. It's perfect measurement, Bobby. Look, I got six of them all done

Oh, good. And good timing, too, because these are just about done. Since we got extra, let's try one

Oh, that's perfect. That's right. Oh, my gosh. Why don't you cut one of those open, Jamie, and let's get a look at it

Oh, we're going to cut one open. How about some syrup? Hey, buddy

Those eggs are real. Those are beautiful. That does look great. Look at that little bit of powdered sugar

Just that. Really fancies it up, doesn't it? How about a little bit of that syrup, bro? Yeah, man. Relax

It's coming. I realize you're starving. Oh, brother. Oh, yes, sir. What do you think about that

Oh, my goodness. Oh, man. All right. You got more stuff to cook

You better hurry. Move out of the way. This is delicious, y'all

Mmm, mmm. Is it good? Mmm, mmm. Mmm. Bobby, you want a taste

I certainly do. Mmm. Not yet. We're going to take a break

When you come back, This piece is going to be gone, and these pieces will be ready. That's because I will have taken it from him

Y'all stick around. We're doing a fruit salad with a cream cheese pecan topping when we come back

Coming up. Finally going to get down to business. With an unbeatable fruit salad

And later, we're getting tropical with our smoothie. This is delicious. Hey, y'all, don't adjust your television sets

Got the Dean Brothers in Mama's Kitchen this morning. Or you might want to, actually. We're doing a fruit salad

Now, Mom does a delicious fruit salad. That's right. Back Lady Days, do you remember

And she serves it with a custard. And we're going to do, this fruit salad is going to have a topping as well

but it's going to be a little different than that. We're doing a fruit salad with a cream cheese pecan topping

Right now, I'm cutting fresh strawberries and some green grapes. Got blueberries and some fresh blackberries and one star fruit and a cantaloupe

and I'm going to use two cups of everything except for the blackberries

where we're going to use about a cup of those. We're from the southwest corner of the state of Georgia

and blackberries are just everywhere down there, but you've got to be careful picking them because rattlesnakes live in the blackberry bushes

Well, that's what Mama always told us. No, it's true. I've seen them. So a blackberry bush was, like, the coolest bonus for us

If you've got blackberries growing in your yard, I mean, that's like a..

This fruit is good for you. good for you, healthy. It's got a bunch of sugar in it too

So it's like candy that grows in the yard. Okay, I'm gonna take my pecans

That's about a half a cup. I'm gonna take a half a cup of whipping cream

We used to get blackberries at Grandma and Paul's house and her neighbor, remember Mr. Carr

had strawberry bushes. I do. We used to pick all kinds of

and that's one of the good things about living in the South is you can just pick a lot of stuff right fresh out of the ground

And I remember Granny Paul having the best vegetable garden. Yep. And our Uncle Bob down in Florida had orange and grapefruit trees

That's right. I've got a quarter of a cup of powdered sugar. I'm going to use this whole package of cream cheese

This is eight ounces of cream cheese. And we always have pecan trees, too

And pecans is going to be something that Jack remembers. We've got some pecan trees in the yard, and Jack loves to go out

he thinks it's the neatest thing, that he can find them, crack them, and then eat them

Okay, I'm going to turn this all together. Mm-mm. Now, that cream cheese, I'm sure, is softened, right

Yeah. Mm-mm. And that means I can try it, right? What do you think

Ooh. Isn't that good? Mm-hmm. Very good. Very good. Very, very good

I like that. Bobby, I've got this all turned up. I'm just going to want to add a little bit of lemon juice. Okay

This is about two tablespoons. Golly. Who don't love a blackberry? This is a pretty juicy lemon

I think I got two tablespoons out of there and about 900 seeds

I got to get a spoon. All right. I'm just going to cube this cantaloupe

Mom used to tell us when we were boys that if you ate the seeds out of something, that you'd grow trees out of your ears

Remember? Is that not true? Yeah. Turn this a couple more times

The lemon juice makes it really smooth. That's a little bit of liquid in there that keeps it from being like stiffened cream cheese

Mmm. Calib is delicious. Also adds a little bit of that citrus flavor

It's going to marry it up with our fruit really well. Okay

I'm going to help you cut this star fruit. This was one of my best sellers when we started the Bag Lady It be summertime and we be running our routes all over Savannah And I just remember these beautiful fresh fruit salads that mama made and people loved them so much

This is about what it looks like. This is called a spoon y'all. Watch this

It's a genius. It's the older brothers. The older brothers. Wiser. Yes sir

Okay, now we're gonna put this into a really pretty dish for mom. It's a beautiful salad

Now, you can put anything you want to in here. I think orange wheels are really pretty and really easy to do

It looks great. So fresh. Now for the goods. Now let's get this right

Get it right. Right on top. That looks beautiful. Speaking of lemon juice, I think if you wanted to squeeze a little bit of fresh lemon on that

you could to let that fruit hold, right? Yeah, if you wanted to. That's a good trick

If you're working with fresh fruit, you can put lemon juice on them, and it'll keep them from turning brown

That looks great. Yeah. See them all garnished with just a couple of nuts right on top

Gorgeous. Looks great. I'm going to taste it. I'm going to try the theory of the starfruit gets better with cream cheese and sugar

I'm sure it does. Mm. Mm. So good. And when we come back, we're finally going to get to get down to business

We're having pina coladas, right? Pina coladas. You know it. Smoothies. Mm-hmm

It's a breakfast show, y'all. Mm. See you in a minute. That is so good. Mm-hmm

Coming up, we're making a fruity pina colada smoothie, and then it's time for our breakfast feast

Oh, my gosh. What a wonderful surprise. Well, hey, y'all. We're going bananas today

We're making the perfect breakfast for Mom, and we need something to drink, so what are we going to have, Bob

Pina colada smoothies, y'all. So what are we going to do? I'm going to start out with some ice

I need for you to cut up that pineapple for me, please. Okay. And if there's three of us

I'm going to use kind of a good amount of ice here. All we need is one cup of this pineapple, y'all

so I'm not going to need the whole thing. And one cup of unsweetened coconut milk

to pull it all together. Two teaspoons of honey. Love honey. One banana

Here we go. A cup of pineapple. I'll make us a nice garnish while you're doing that

All right, here we go. All right, that smells so good

Oh man, sure do. Tastes like the beach, put some pretty pineapple on the side

I love a smoothie, love fresh fruit. Looks perfect. All right. That's a simple recipe too

Very simple. Oh, and the oven. Oh, that smells awesome

Okay, now all we have to do is plate up and eat. Let's do it

Is that good? Mom, breakfast is ready. It smells so good. Hey

So what all of y'all thinks mean? Well, I mean, the fruit is beautiful

The best French toast you've ever seen in your life. Oh, my goodness, it looks delicious. A beautiful fruit salad

This reminds me, guys, of the fruit salads we used to make for the bagel

That's exactly what I was talking about. Only we did the French custard. Mama, can I give you a little syrup on your French toast

Yes. We made syrup for you. Uh-uh. A little powdered sugar, and Mama, look at this syrup

Oh, my goodness. Say when? That's good. This, Mama, is the easy blueberry skillet

This has got blueberries and nuts and brown sugar and pina coladas

Pina coladas. with pina coladas. Try your toast, Mom. It's so good

Oh, yum. The drink is delicious. Strawbait. Oh, gosh. Mom, the French toast is

what we did was we made almost like sandwiches. We cream cheese both sides of the bread

I sliced up strawberries and put it on there and ran it through an egg wash and did them on the skillet

So they're like French toast sandwiches. Well, the French toast is incredible

You like it? Mama, this is sort of, this is, we use canned biscuits

This is kind of like the gorilla bread that we do. These are delicious. And what kind of topping did y'all make for the fruit

Cream, cheese, and pecan. Mmm. Isn't that good? Oh, it looks yummy

Get that blackberry right there. Yes, get in there and get you some. We're glad you enjoyed your breakfast, Mom

Oh, my gosh, what a wonderful surprise. This is delicious. I am like the luckiest woman in the world

We had a lot of fun doing it. I've got two of the sweetest sons that God ever put breath in

And, you know, it's a bonus. Y'all can cook. Well, thanks for having us

We're glad to do it. Well, Jamie, good work. Thanks, bro. Yep

Have fun. And thanks, y'all, for tuning in. Mm. You boys out there, make breakfast for your mama

There you go, guys. She deserves it. And girls. So until next time, we send you love and best dishes

from Mama's Kitchen to y'all's