Chili Mac

I always say, Jeff, that it's really not about the food

The food is a vehicle that gets you here with me. My daddy always said the kitchen was like the heart of the house, you know. Yes

That's like where, and that's, and it's so funny. I mean, because you've got this beautiful place, but don't you, you live in the kitchen

You've got all this other space and you never go into. This and the bed. Yeah. No in between

No, but that's, but that's why, that's why I tell people, if you're building a house, build a great kitchen, because that's where you're going to live

All right, well, I'm fixing to put some elbow macaroni in this pot of boiling water

because I'm going to make you a delicious chili mac. And what I need for you to do is to chop that onion for me, open them three cans

That's the job I'm qualified for, chopping an onion and opening cans

All right, I can do that. And put it right in here, and I'm just going to salt this water good

So I'm gonna cook this, Jeff, for about nine to 11 minutes

All right, there we go. We have got, that's probably about a pound and a half

of meat, don't you expect? Yeah, maybe closer to two, but it's close

Yeah something like that So we gonna brown that and then we add our onions And then I got a 15 jar of like Mexican beans The ranch kind of beans Yeah Yeah those

are good. I love those. And then we've got two packs of chili. This is going to be good

Listen, do you have... And we're going to mix this with the macaroni? And we're going to put cheese on top. Let me ask you this. Have you got a daughter getting married or

something where I could do the wedding? A lot of people I would worry about, I think

you could hang with my family and be all right with it. If that's crazy, I know I could

Well, but you know what, Paula, everybody's family's crazy. That's why I have a job, is I just trusted real early in life

hey, if my wife says it, if my kids do it, if my family does it

surely we're not the only ones. So, Jeff, tell us how you met your sweet wine

She was in the comedy club the first time I ever went on stage

And she liked Jimmy Wade. She came up and she talked to me, and I thought, oh, wow, she's cute

And I went to talk to her, and I got so nervous I spilled a drink all over her. And I said, well, I guess you'll never go out with me

And she said, well, you didn't even ask. That was a Tuesday. We went out on Saturday, and that was 30 years

I knew an hour into the date I like oh dadgummit I going to marry this girl I knew an hour into the date Yeah So I met my wife and my career the very same night Same night Yeah

If you'll just drain that macaroni. All right, you got it. And I'm gonna start, um, grating our cheese

What do we want to do with the noodle? All right, we gonna mix all that stuff in there

Are we gonna put it in here? Yeah, put it in there. You don't want to put it in there? And then we gonna put it in that pan

Okay. All right, now how many brothers and sisters? I have one of each

A sister that's a year and a half younger than my brother is about five years younger than me

He and I live next door to each other. Do y'all? Yeah, he has three daughters and I have two

You live out in the country. Are they good friends? Are all the children good friends

They're like sisters. They're like, are they all go to the same school? They're all within like three or four years of each other

It's the estrogen ocean down there where we live too. It's just me and him in an ocean of women

Oh, my gosh. And those hormones just are going like that. They're so much more emotional than boys

You know, you come home, you're like, I'm like, why are you upset

And then we came in and he said we were going to play together. And then they walked in the room and they called me a stupid animal

And I'm like, honey, calm down. I'm telling you. And my wife is from New Orleans And so you know they got Is she You add that extra little level of Of craziness Yeah It in a good way Ready

We're going to put this in there. All right, let's put it in the oven. This thing is full now, Paula. It's going to be all right

It's going to bake down a little bit. It's going to be all right. About 20 minutes, y'all. 350 degrees

The last couple of minutes, we're going to put this. Throw a little cheese on there

Beautiful Georgie Gold on it. Oh, that's pretty. I think we ought to cheese that

Okay. Chilling. Cheese or chili mag. All right. Yes, what you think

I'm not going to burn my hand. You can't mess it up by putting cheese on it

No. You want me to get that? I'm going to try to get it low

It's heavy. Somebody of mine fill this sap sucker up good. I know it

Look at that. See, that's perfect. Just that look. I love that little burn edge on that

Mighty fine, yes. I'm telling you, this is going to be awesome. All right, see if your shrimp's probably good

All right. We got our chili mac. Look at that. This is a good party you've prepared for us

Ain't this a good party? Oh, that's wonderful

Is it good