Creamy BLT Soup Vs Spicy Tomato Soup

Was it that heavy celery

I love how you praise my food as you try to beat my brains out in a contest. One last thing that I need

Heavy cream, baby. Time to milk the cow. Bobby Dean

Yes, ma'am! Are you ready? Is this a competition? What are we doing? It's going to be a blind taste test between your soup and my soup

I'm going to be doing a BLT creamy tomato soup. Okay. What are you doing

And I'm sure it'll be delicious, but not nearly as delicious as my spicy tomato soup

This is good and good for you. Because mine is not only good, it's good for you

So who's going to be the taste tester? I don't know. Blindfolded members of our audience

I kind of know. And Michael Gruber. Michael Gruber? Yes. Uh-huh. Well, Michael likes things spicy, doesn't he

Yes. Okay, well, today Michael gets what he wants. Oh! Well, Bobby

It's a frothat. Yes! Bobby, I'm starting with five pieces of bacon

Okay. And, um... That sounds like you. I'm gonna dice it up, y'all, because I'm gonna take it out

and I'm just gonna use the flavor from this bacon to flavor my soup

so in that goes and then I'm going to garnish this soup y'all

with the bacon I'm going to start with a Vidalia onion and a stalk of celery so so far yours is way more exciting

yours is going to be delicious it is going to be good but it's not going to have the extra

added fat of the bacon which is going to be there's a lot of flavor in fat

well you know what I love about Bobby's food y'all is Bobby's food is the food

that you can eat Monday through Friday, which is what we all need to do

And then kind of celebrate on the weekend with that baked potato. Or that bread, that luscious bread

I love how you praise my food as you try to beat my brains out in a contest. Well, Bobby, you know, when I am feeding someone

I want it to be the best that I can get it. You know what I mean

Now, I'm taking a half a head of lettuce, and I'm going to shred it because this is a BLT creamy soup

I don't think I've ever had your BLT creamy soup. Oh, honey, it's good

This is not the one that I normally make. The BLT that I make for family, I do in a crock pot

And it's out of this world, and it's in one of the cookbooks. But this is another twist on BLT soup

And I'm only putting one tomato in it. One tomato and five slices of bacon

Yes. So you going heavy protein When you having a BLT don you want lots of bacon on it I know I do

I do. So I'm just, you know, almost shredding this lettuce. Almost like julienne, y'all

What are you doing now, Bobby? I'm working on celery and onions. I haven't gotten to the good stuff yet

I've got olive oil in my pot. I'm going to toast my veggies together

And I'm going to add in a Fresno pepper, which is nice and bright red and spicy

A Fresno pepper. Fresno. Now, is that hot? It is. Spicy. All right

Now, I am dicing up five green onions. All right. I want to keep my bacon stirred

I don't want it to burn. You've always done really great soups

And I'm a fool to go against you in a tomato soup contest

because your tomato soup is one of my favorite that you do. Well, this is not a soup that I've ever made for you, son

so don't get worried. Hey, Bobby. Yes, sir? You're 25% less calories

Okay. And 30% less grams of fat. Okay. So that's pretty good, Bobby

Yeah, well, since you're using all that bacon and I'm not. You're not using any kind of fat

Well, I'm using olive oil, tomato paste, And I've got some good bread over here that I'm going to mix in that's going to kind of thicken it up for me

But no, I'm not using a meaty protein. It's like an Italian bread

Wow. I'm going to... Are you doing like croutons? I'm going to toast it in a little bit of olive oil

I'm going to break it up really fine and drop it in there. And I'm going to use an emulsifier and blend it in

So you won't really know it's there. It'll just strictly be a thickener. Right

So I got my pepper, my onions, and my celery going. And I'm going to add in for flavor a little tomato paste, and I'm going to toast it as well before I get to my liquids

Big, heavy tablespoon of tomato paste. I'm sweating just standing over that Fresno pepper

Are you wearing rubber gloves doing your pepper? No, I'm not, but I'm not going to touch anything vital

Please don't touch your face, son, or anything else. Or anything else

Not me. But golly, if you chop a pepper and then touch your eyes

Oh, my gosh, it's awful. It's the worst. All right, now I'm going to tilt this, because look at all that nice bacon fat

Don't that look good? To mine, I'm going to add a 29-ounce can of diced tomatoes

Yum-y. All right, I've got my bacon set aside. Now, I'm gonna use a half a cup of that instant flour blend

you know, the kind that doesn't clump. And that's gonna make my soup thick

To this I gonna add two cups of chicken broth All right I gonna add my green onions to this And my tomatoes All right now I going to add my chicken broth

Here we go. Starting to make soup. Yep, mine's starting to become a soup too

So now I'm going to tear up this bread that I've toasted in olive oil. I'm going to add an eighth of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper

Bind my soup together. Make it a little bit thicker. About an eighth of a teaspoon of fresh nutmeg

And I always recommend using fresh nutmeg. It's all the difference in the world

You could also, if you wanted to, you could take this bread and, like, float it on top like crostinis with some cheese

All right, I'm adding my lettuce. So now we have all of the ingredients to make a BLT

Here's one last thing that I need. Heavy cream, baby. Time to milk the cow

And we're going to just let this simmer. Ooh, it's thick

Nice and thick. I'm going to taste it for salt and pepper

definitely needs salt and a little pepper to complement the cayenne

and I'm going to put like one more tablespoon of butter all righty so we would just cover that and let it simmer

Have you finished yours already? Yes, baby. I'm done. All right. Now, for the top of my soup, I've got half mayonnaise, half sour cream that we're going to top it with

And then I'm going to top it with my bacon. Oh, it's very, very good

How you sure is, Bobby? It's very good, Gordon. Very, very good

All right, so I'm going to dip up because I'm in it to win it

And I want you to be, too. Well, easy now. This is a friendly competition, Mama. It is friendly

You know, it'd probably be better in the morning, but it's strong right now. It's good. Is it? Mm-hmm

I heard your soup is actually kind of spicy. We like to keep them blindfolded in case they try and run

Oh, my God. Look who they're leading in. Uh-huh. Papa Bear. All right, eat now

The train. Hold on, hold on, there's work happening right here. Blake, be careful, I don't want you to burn yourself

We got three. We need three different bowls? Come on here, baby. Yes. Hey, Bobby

Hey, Grover. Bobby. I don even have a ladle this is not a fair competition You stand here Don wait All right okay don mention what kind of soup you have Pass my plate You are in a very weird spot Pass that plate please son Our contestants showed up a little bit early

I think you'll get burned, Michael. Let's put you on the end. All right. Okay. Now

Bobby, here's your tompers over here, baby. All right. Now, I'm just going to give you bowl one and bowl two

All right. This is really hot, so be careful. Blow on it, all right

All right, watch, baby. I'm fixing to stick something hot in front of you. That's right. It's right in front of you. Wait. Okay

Don't touch yet, because I don't want you to burn yourself. All right, Bobby

When you do. I will do your topper for you, okay? So

Okay. All right. You can clean up the edges of my bowl a little bit. Hey, you're adding ingredients that weren't my ingredients

No, those were for you. This side of yours. Okay. All right

You ready? Sprins in. Okay. All right. Ready? Wait. Wait. I'm coming

All righty. Okay. Now stand back and open your mouths, and we're going to shoot it at you with it

Okay, you ready? With a water cannon. This is soup number one

Soup number one. This is soup number one. It's good. It's good

It's good. It's got a lot of pepper in it. All righty. Delicious. Delicious

Okay. All right, now, I'm going to throw it around. All right, wait, I'll help you. Bobby, help

All right. Okay, darling. Bowl number two is right in front of you. Mm-hmm

Let's make sure you get some of the topping. and it's very hot, okay

Soup number two. All right, so let's start with you. All right

Soup number one or soup number two, which you prefer? One. One. Soup number one or soup number two

Two. Two. Okay, you are the deciding part. Michael Gruber, soup number one or soup number two

Okay, both of them I think were delicious, but I'm gonna have to go with number one

because I don't like celery a lot. So soup number one. Was it that heavy celery? No

So soup number one. There's only one stalk of celery. I don't like celery. You bunches

You bunches. Soup number one. Paula Deen has won the battle one more time

Rich, did you like the best one? Rich, did you like the best

I'm very sorry. Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Yes

There you go. You can take your blindfolds off, ladies. Look, you're on Paula Deen's network

You ought to taste it. It's great. My soup was very... It looks beautiful, Bobby

It's good, Bobby. There's too much celery. Thank you. Hold off on the celery

I'm going to try it again. Thank you, Michael. Yes, try it. Michael, you will like it because of the heat

You might want to rethink your opinion. So, Bobby's was... No, I was right

Bobby's was 25% less calories, 30% less fat. So, there you go

And it's good. It's tasty. It's delicious. And it's definitely one of those Monday through Friday recipes that you can feel good about eating

So, see, it can be good and good for you. Thank you, all

Thank you