Captain Jim's Lobster Casserole

Who's Captain Jim

I was state dreaming about her butter. Okay, baby. Oh, yeah, it's on

Hey, y'all. Kimberly from Little Big Town. Paula Deen. You might know some of these people

Bobby Dean. Bobby Dean, of course. Kimberly, you are sharing with us a recipe that I have so many questions about

Oh, dear. This is Kimberly's Mama's classic southern recipe, Captain Jim's lobster casserole

Yes. Who's Captain Jim? Captain Jim. Will you get that butter in the pan

I'll tell you Captain Jim. Oh, yeah, I can do that. Ooh, look at that lobster. Wait, before y'all start talking, tell me what to do down here, please

You can get done with that. Crush those crackers if you don't mind. And then y'all talk. Okay, ma'am

Would you please slice up these mushrooms? Yes. And dice up that cheese? Yes, I will

Okay. Do you want these thin or kind of thick or just how you want them? How Paula Deen would do it

Okay, well, this is how she'd do it. There's not going to be quite a whole slew of crackers

Okay, I see that. I see that. Okay, do I need to put these in here so you quit eating

I love saltines at night. Mm-hmm. At night. Somehow I think it's a healthy snack. I do, too, with peanut butter and jelly

Oh, yeah. I like saltines any time. Yes, and so you can crush those

Okay, I've never had a zipper bag this large. I like this large zipper bag

Tell me anything about where this would have come from or why. Listen, no, I buy two-gallon sizes, y'all

They're great, the two-gallon. Yeah, I've had the one and a half, but I've never seen the two-gallon

It's so much more fun. Mama must be freezing her butter. And when you get done with that, please mince that onion

Sure, I can do that. I can do that. Hey, tell me now, I'm most curious about who is Captain Jim

Okay, I have this little show, Kimberly Simply Southern. And I spend a day with people I just want to learn from

So I went up to Maine and spent the day on a lobster boat with Captain Jim

Yep, okay. And so this is actually my mama's asparagus casserole, but I wanted to fancy it up a little bit

so I added lobster to it from my experience with Captain Jim. Okay, I see

I thought that there was maybe a connection between your mama and Captain Jim. That's the way it sounded

I didn't know if you had introduced the two of them. No, I don't know Captain Jim. Well, my daddy's watching

so there's no connection between my mama and Captain Jim. Okay. I did that one time, too, though

My brother and I went up to Maine, and we did a show on lobster, and we got fresh lobster and made it right there on the docks

And it was so good. We made it like a 100-year-old cast-iron pot that was so well-seasoned and delicious

But y'all know I've never been to Maine. That's not right. Sorry, Ma

I know where I want to go. I got two tablespoons of butter and I putting two tablespoons of flour in there and I just gonna make a a little roux Make a little roux and cook that flour down for a minute Next time I go to Maine I going to take you Paula I want to go and eat all the lobster I can hold Yes

Well, Captain Jim will feed you up. I'm going to have a little bit more butter

Because when in Rome. OK. She's so cute. When in Rome. I like that

It took me a second. I like it. Thanks, Bobby. OK. When in Rome. I've cooked this down a little bit

and I'm going to add two cups of milk and turn it into a little gravy

Okay. Okay. Would you like me to add that while you stir baby

Yes, please, yes. So you just tell me what speed. Look at all that butter, y'all

She's done got milk. Yummy. That's good. Oh, sorry. Yeah, you're leaking a little

I was straight daydreaming about her butter. When I was a kid and my mom, oh, sorry

My mama would make biscuits. I got to add the milk. And she would be like, okay, go, go, go

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, it was every time. Every time. Whoa

Yes. Okay, so this is the base. All right, and I'm going to add all that milk

so I can get out of your waste so you can start stirring. Thank you, ma'am. All right, now how about this mini for mushrooms

Perfect. That is perfect. Okey-doke. Do you mind chopping that asparagus up

in like one-inch little bites? All right, do you want me to snap it first

I think they snapped it for us. Your magic fairy snapped it for him. OK, well, let me try

You know, if it wants to snap some more, I'm going to let it, OK? Oh, is that how you know? Yes

If it wants to snap. Wherever it snaps, wherever, when you bend it

that's where it's supposed to, the stem is supposed to be discarded

Because that's your tough part. So this recipe was originally your mother's

asparagus casserole recipe, and you turned it into a lobster casserole recipe

And I adore asparagus casserole. Aunt Jessie. Bobby, your great Aunt Jessie

I had a great Aunt Jessie. Used to make the... Did you? I love that name for a woman

I know, me too. She made the best asparagus casserole. All right, so I got your mushrooms, I got your asparagus. Perfect

Now the last thing we have to do is chop up that lobster. Ooh, this lobster is beautiful

Kimberly, how big a chunk do you want this in, baby? Like, maybe like one inch

Okay. And I'm going to throw the cheese in here. Why don't you throw the crackers on in there with the butter

Okay, is it time? Sure, they can just marry up for a little while. I like it

Get to know each other. Okay, so all we got to do now is we're going to put the veggies in here with our little cheese sauce

Okay. All right, and in go the crackers from the biggest plastic zip bag I've ever seen in my life

Two-gallon zip bag. I got to turn this down. Wow. Okay, baby, this is your eye right there

All right, so we got asparagus, we got mushrooms. There's a little can over there of pimentos

Okay, do you want your pimento drained, honey? Yes also one of your kitchen fairies drained it for us Okay I love kitchen fairies I getting me some of them I do too That the best part about cooking with Paula then is the kitchen fairies Yes

And those people back there that never get on camera. They work so hard

They work so hard, and I'm so grateful for them. They're sweet

We have the best kitchen fairies in the whole entire world. Yes, you do

We are so eager to please and get everything just right for you

So sweet. Let's do a little salt and pepper. Look at that. Can we season this at all or no

Well, I put the onions, toss the onions in with it. Or as butter as a seasoning. Well, if you use salted butter, I think we're good

All right. Well, I'm available to do anything else that you'd like for me to do

Now, all we got to add is the lobster. Oh. So, Kimberly

Yes, ma'am. This lobster is very expensive. Oh, yes, ma'am, it is very expensive

This is why this is just a special occasion. Right. Celebration. But can I suggest something else that may work

Please. For people that don't want to break the bank. Yes. You know, they have a fish called monkfish

And when I was raising my children, they loved lobster. I could not afford lobster

I know, it's very expensive. I could not do it. So I would go to the seafood market, and I would buy monkfish

and I would poach it and serve it with melted butter on the side

and I would tell them we're having lobster for dinner tonight. To go with your brains and eggs, son

Have a good day. That's awesome. No, so try monkfish, y'all. This would be very good with shrimp, too

It's so much cheaper, and it's called poor man's lobster. I love that

You want me to spray this, baby? Yes, please. If we have spray, that'd be perfect. I do, I do, I do

Of course you do. I'm so happy to know that about monkfish. Yes, you go, you check that out

I'm gonna do it. Because I swear when you cook it up

it has that same texture, you know, that you need a knife to cut your, yum

Ooh, that looks good. I'll help you get every last drop out of there, honey

Thank you. Yum, yum. Put the onions and stir it up, and then we'll lay it all over the top

Mm-hmm. Of course we're using a Vidalia onion. Of course we are

Anything else would just not be right. Oh, so you are gonna saute them off a little bit

We changed our mind. Oh, you changed. She said she didn't even do it wrong, but that's what we're doing. We are

I'm not cooking them. I'm just stirring them in, and then I didn't even realize we were still on

Bobby, I'm sorry. Okay, let's make sure you got on. Okay, baby

Oh, yeah, it's on. I'm sorry. It is on. I'm just gonna kind of help you guide those on the app

Yes, ma'am. Oh, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, I got pretty tough hands

I bet you have tough hands. Yeah. That looks really, really good

Okay let spread it out really good I can wait for y to taste it Kimberly you have brought some really good recipes Well I was coming to cook with the Deans I better have Had to be on your game

Yes. So let's get it in here. And how long are we going to bake that, Sugarfoot

I think about 30 minutes at 350. Look at here. Yeah, look at here

Kimberly, Bobby's over there looking for dessert. Dessert? That's my kind of man

Here we go. Oh, yeah, thank you. All right. Oh, my, my

That's bubbling. That's going to be real hot. Let me move this out of the way. We can't have this meal without a dessert

Thank goodness. Bobby's a thinking man. That is the truth. Bobby is a thinking man

Oh, thank you. Happy, happy, happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy, happy, happy, happy

Happy, happy. That's very well done, Mother. She's a professional singer. How about we don't sing anything to her

That is so sweet. You can just sing a thank you to us. How about that

Oh, my goodness. Thank you. Happy birthday to you. It's a very little big cake. This is precious

OK. And it's going to match your pots and pans I'm sending her. Yay

Thank you. This is so sweet. Make a wish. We'll blow it out so we can have some

Make a wish and serve me some lobster casserole. Yay! This is what we do at my house

Yay! Thank you. We are so lucky that you're spending your birthday with us

Thank you. All right, so why don't we all share a little bite of this

Let's do it. Because I really do want our friends to taste some

Me too. That's good. There's Bobby's lobster right there. I want a bite

I want a bite. Oh, that cake is so pretty. Isn't it great looking? Thank you

I worked on it all night. You can feed Bobby his bite. I'll feed Bobby. He'll appreciate it much better coming from you than his mother

I just want to taste that lobster. It's hot. Mm. Mm. Mm

Mm. Isn't that yummy? Mm. Yummy. Mm. And the asparagus and the lobster are nice together

Are they? Yes. So guess what, y'all? Who wants birthday cake? Y'all get Kimberly's lobster casserole and some of her birthday cake

Aw. That was so sweet. Thank y'all. This recipe was great. Thank you for coming and being with us today

Thank you so much. You don't ever know who you're going to see or what you're going to find on the Paula Deen Network

That's right, son. This time it's Kimberly. Happy birthday, Kimberly, from Little Big Town

I love you. The recipe was great. I'm going to steal your recipes and take them to my house. If you like this, stick with us

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Happy birthday. That was so special. Thank you. Sweetest girl in the world

Thanks, y'all. Now let them eat cake