Decades

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Today on Powell's Party, y'all, it's my favorite recipes from every decade

And I'm gonna be dressing the part for the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s through the day

We're going retro with a cheesy fondue surprise. We always suspected that Mike was cheesy

I got proof. My youngin' Bobby Dean is gonna be dropping in for his favorite childhood dish

His goulash, y'all. y'all, and another famous son, y'all, straight out of the 70s, dishes about his romance

with a Brady Bunch co-star. Was that your first kiss? Yes, it was

It was very Brady. And his carrot cake, y'all, for my grandson, Jack

TV debut. So y'all pick your favorite decade, because we're gonna go back in time

Let's party! How are you

It's so great to be here with y'all today. We're going to have such a fun party today

Y'all sit down and get comfortable. We're going to be walking through the decades today

Are you like me? Do you taste a certain food and associate a time period in your life

So that's what we're going to do today. We're going to walk down memory lane through all of the decades

and we're going to be fixing the food that I associate with that time period

Does that sound fun? Let's party. Y'all, I forgot something

Y'all sit right here. I'll be right back. It's the 50s, y'all

Get on, Patterson. Get on. Get on! Get on! Paddle! Paddle

I'm 13 again. I know it. You love it. Do you love my poodle skirt

Y'all, over here, I've got two of my oldest and dearest friends

Diane and Darlene Tutter. All right, let's start the 50s, y'all. You ready

I'm going to be making my mama's old-fashioned banana pudding. Now, I've got some sugar, and I've got..

some cornstarch. Now I'm going to add my milk

And you see I've added my dry ingredients because I don't want it to clump up my custard

And in a minute, we're going to temper our eggs and put our eggs in there

All right, so who's got something to say? So this recipe that you're making, what memories does it bring back for you from your childhood

Oh, my goodness, it brings back so many memories. because this is one of the things that my mother would have waiting on the counter when school was out

And Bubba, Diane, Darlene, and I, we'd all troop in the house

and dig into that warm bowl of banana pudding, and you were just in heaven

All right, now, y'all, I'm fixing to temper our eggs because our custard is thick

So temper just means to heat up slowly. Because when we add our eggs, we don't want them to be scrambled

You know, we don't want scrambled eggs in our custard. All right

The last step is to add butter and vanilla. Now, we're going to let this cool

And I've got some that's cooled down. All right. So all we're going to do is layer our vanilla wafers, our bananas, and our custard together

Kitchen fairies. Don't you love a kitchen fairy? Diane, come up here and taste this custard

Ooh, I was hoping you'd say that. See if that brings back memories. Y'all remember all the fudge we used to make

Yeah, taste that. Okay. All right. Well, Diane's tasting to make sure that's serving our memories correctly

Mmm, Paula. Isn't it yummy? Mmm, darling. All right, I'm going to come over here, and I'm going to slide our meringue

because Mama always, always put meringue on our banana pudding. And you know, back then, Diane, we could eat anything we wanted

and it wouldn't show up on our hips. I know. We were both so skinny back then

We were so skinny. All right, now we're just going to put this in the oven

brown it off, and look! Woo! I feel like, I feel like Kari Hires is in the house

Oh, bless her. My mama. Sweetest woman. Come on up here. You dig in

Okay. Oh, come on. Get your bite. All right. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm

Mmm. Mmm. Y'all don't go anywhere. We're just now leaving the 50s

The good times were in the 60s. See you back in a minute

Up next, it's the 60s, y'all, with chocolate and cheese fondue. And later, one of the Brady Bunch boys

is gonna help me cook up some meat and potatoes for the 70s. Step into my kitchen, said the spider to the fly

Listen, y'all, out there in TV land

in case you've just tuned in, no, I am not a drag queen

Today's party, we're walking through the decades. And in case you don't realize what decade I'm in, I'm in the 60s

Everybody, you notice it's got a fondue pot on your table. We're fixing a fondue

We're going to have a sweet fondue, and we're going to have a savory fondue

So let's get started. You like it, Bill

Okay. I'm going to start by heating up my saucepan because the first fondue is going to be that sweet fondue

a chocolate fondue. Now, I've got a cup of cream here. Now, we're not going to let our cream come to a bowl

We want it to just simmer and get hot. All right, now I'm going to dump in my chocolate

Now, you can use any kind of chocolate that you like. If you love milk chocolate the way I love milk chocolate, use that

It'll be kind of like eating a melted candy bar, you know

All right. We've got a little Grand Marnier. All right

Our chocolate nice and melted Doesn that look good y Well now listen y got the same thing in your pot

Y'all start eating. Mmm, mmm. Isn't that good, y'all? Let's move on to our savory pot now

I've got two and a half cups of wine. And there again, we don't want that to come to a bowl

Now, I've got two different kind of cheeses right here. I've got a Gruyere and I've got a Swiss

I've got a couple of tablespoons, two or three tablespoons of flour

All right. Now, I'm going to slowly drop in my cheese into the wine

Do y'all know when the last time I wore a Neha White pleather boots

I went to see the man of my dreams. I went to my sewing machine

I made me a hot pants outfit. Went and bought me some pleather boots

And I said, if he gets a glimpse of me, it is all over

And I'm going to be Mrs. Elvis. But when I got there with my outfit on and my hair teased out to

Hey, hi, Georgia. I was a little disappointed where my seat was

It was the last seat in the tip top of this arena

I had to watch him through binoculars. All that sewing I had done was for naught

But I got to see Elvis. All right, our cheese is melting

I've got a little... You know, that cherry liqueur. Oh, my good

All right, so here we go. It's a melting, y'all. You know what

And look at this pot. If that's a cheesy, I'm a kangaroo

I need more cheese, please. I'm trying to make a cheese fondue, not a..

Hey, y'all. Oh, my gracious. Hey, guys. Hey, y'all. Hey, everybody

Hey, Mom. Has your mama embarrassed you, Mom? Have I embarrassed you

There's a couple things. A couple things. You know, we always suspected that Mike was cheesy

I got proof. He is a cheese hair. That's a tight dress

Look at them shoes. Oh, listen, son. One time your mama was hot

Is this what you... It just ain't today. I was born in the 60s

Is this what you looked like when I was born? No, I swear I did not. You got a question, honey

I've got a question. I have two little boys, ages three and four, and I am working very hard at creating memories with them in the kitchen

Do you have any fond memories of specific recipes or things that I might be able to try at home

You know what? Mom gave me a cookbook when I was six or seven years old, and it was the kids' cookbook

Y'all are great and a little fresh nutmeg and our cheese. And so when I could pull my cookbook out and Mom and I would do something together, that was just the greatest

If my house, God forbid, caught on fire, that would be one of the things I'd have to grab

Sweet. All right. I'm trying to get you a spear, baby. Is that a peach wrapped in bacon? Yes

Only on Paula's party, and I got to try one. Uh-huh. Where in the world did you think of this

Constantly thinking, baby, constantly thinking. Your mama's mind is like a steel trap

Old and rusty. Y'all stay tuned, the 70s are coming up. Woo

Coming up is the 70s, y'all, with a big Brady Bunch surprise

And later, we're going 80s, y'all, and I'm breakdancing over my son's favorite dish

It's the 70s, y'all, and I'm the dancing queen. Y'all, I could have easily worn this outfit in the 70s

because I was this skinny. Let me tell you, this is supposed to wrap around

and tie in the back. Well, listen, without any further ado, y'all think for a second

What was your favorite show in the 70s? The Brady Bunch! Yes

Would y'all like to meet the cutest star ever of the Brady Bunch

Christopher Knight! Come on out! Come on out! Peanut Brady, y'all

Thank you very much. It's so exciting to meet you. Oh, no, no, no, no, baby

And look at you. I'm the one excited. I can't believe I have to meet you showing up in this outfit

I think Florence wore that. Come on back here in my kitchen

Step into my kitchen, said the spider to the fly. Oh, my goodness, I don't want to cook

What do you want to do? Standing here with Peter, looking like a damn fool

No, you look great. All right, in the 70s, y'all, we were so dirt poor that we didn't get steak very often

But I would make what I called a poor man's filet mignon. It's just ground beef wrapped in bacon with mashed potatoes

What was it like being on the set of the Brave Bunch? Make us too big-o. Okay, what was it like

Did it screw you up? No, in fact, I think in my case it actually helped because we had a really wholesome environment to work in

As a matter of fact, it was conducive to children. All right, so we're just going to salt these a little bit

That's your special salt? What is in your special salt? Yeah, this is my house seasoning. Look at you go

It's salt, pepper, and garlic powder. All right, now we've got some bacon over here that you see it's still limp

because we didn't want to cook it crisp. Look at this. I can't hardly move my arms

This outfit's so little. That color is really becoming on you. Oh, good

Well, thank you. You look like an orange blossom. So, I'm... I am so in heat

Or, I mean, I'm so in love. I am so in love

All right, so, now, I understand that you just got married. I did

Can she cook? She said she could. Did she lie? She doesn't have any interest in the kitchen

She doesn't like certain things, and she won't try certain things, and I like everything

That's too bad, because you should always at least try something. Before you don't like it

That's why you and I should have been together. All right. We're going to put your little butter in there

Now, I want you to saute mushrooms, onions, chives, garlic. I can do that

Put this in, pour in the wine, and we're going to let it reduce, okay? Gotcha, gotcha

Let me ask you this, Chris. Did you have a crush on anybody? I was the object of someone else's crush for as many years as we did the show

Eve had a crush on me for five years. You mean Jan, your sister on the show

Yeah, she had a lot of patience. because right around the end of our run, our fifth season

I started to become aware of women. You were dumb to it. You were dumb to the crush

I was just more interested in, you know, doing boy things. So I showed a little affection back, you know, a little crush

We all, you know, sort of paired up. Did y'all kiss? Yes. Was that your first kiss Yes Yes That was my first kiss Was it really I forgot the wine I getting so upset here

Actually, the big story is, and one of my favorite experiences from doing the Brain Blanch was not in front of the camera

It was when we all went over to England on the QE2

And Barry and I shared a bunk, or a cabin, and Maureen and Eve shared a cabin

And one night, Eve engineered Maureen to be out of their room

And I was to go to their room. And that's when I had my first kiss

Oh, I'm so upset. And you went to her cabin? Yes, I went to her cabin

It was a nice trip. I just got to know. No, no

And it never happened. It was sweet and innocent. Yes, it was

It was very Brady. Very Brady. Very Brady. Very Brady. Well, let me ask you this

Could Alice cook your housekeeper? The meals that we ate at that table were prepared by Irving, our prop man

And he was an excellent cook. I never saw Anne be cooked

She seemed like she knew what the utensils were for in the kitchen. Oh, well, good. You know, so

You are precious. Oh, you're sweet. Well, get our plate, Chris. Oh, okay

Look at this. Look at our full man's fillet. It looks just like full man's fillet, doesn't it

Put your one on a plate. Now I want to give you..

Is this just regular ground beef or is it lean ground beef? I actually like like a 70-30

That means it's 70% meat, 30% fat. Oops. Sorry, you just flustered me so much

We're going to make your potatoes more beautiful. Mm-mm. This is what my children and I were eating when we would sit in front of that TV and watch the Brady Bunch

Pass us a fork, baby. My pleasure. Well, I just... Mm-mm. Is it good

Oh. You know, I can't stand the thoughts of our time being over

Would you like to go into the 80s with me? Certainly. you're a precious

I can remember those you can remember those thank you Chris don't go anywhere

he's gonna go into the 80's with me coming up it's the 80's y'all

with Bobby's Goulash welcome back y'all

so far today on Paula's Party We're walking through the decades just one recipe at a time

I kick things off with my mama's banana pudding from the 50s

My son Jamie surprised me, y'all, with something really cheesy for our 60s fondue feast

And Peter from the Brady Bunch stopped by to make a meat and potatoes dinner right out of the 70s

And still to come, y'all, I'm making an old recipe new again

And I'm naming it after my baby grandson, Jack. I want to get physical

Get physical! It's the 80s, y'all

We're flash dancing through the 80s. I'm having a flashback. Perfect. Chris, I'm so glad you agreed to stay with me and come back

because you remind me so much of another young man that's in my life

And that's my youngest son, Bobby. Bobby? I want y'all to meet each other

Bobby Dean! I'm on my way

take your time this is very this is very Olivia Olivia Newton John isn't it great how are you

it's so great I thought I was that other girl what's her name Jennifer Beale I thought I was

the flash dance thing yeah you need a chair and a bucket of water you didn't recognize me

you didn't recognize me doing her dance oh I missed that show me show me show me let's see it

that's exactly it have you met have you met my mom I have y'all look y'all look a lot of like

We're looking like that. We got the same height thing. Extremely tall

Extremely tall. Extremely good looking. Oh, all right. Yes. Listen, y'all get together

I'm going to be over here doing my flash dancing. Well, this is, it looks like what you got going is goulash, which was my favorite thing

I don't know if you ate this growing up, but this was my favorite thing as a kid. And in fact, mom still makes this for me every year on my birthday

You know, this is the way my mother taught me to mix this together. And this is what you used to cook it in, too

Yeah, those are great. Bobby loved it. Loved it. This is the dish that taught me how to overeat

Well, so far, it's not bad for you. It's just, you know. Oh, we'll get there. And we ain't started

And two, you know what? We ain't started yet, Peter. All right, Bobby. I watched you

Honey, finish chopping that onion. Growing up. And you chopped that garlic, and y'all chat amongst yourselves

And I've got some favorite episodes. Do you get sick of hearing about the Brady Brunch and people ask me about it

No, I don't. In fact, it brings me back. So, do you have any questions

Well, comments. I mean, I remember a couple episodes. One was the, I love the episode with the frogs and the pizza, the date

Where you guys are in the convertible, you're at the movie. Are you breakdancing

Yeah, she's breakdancing. I'm breakdancing. This is the first completely, you look like a roach

Spin me. hey bobby your mom's one of a kind you did not get break dance did you

they call it you're gonna break something doing that dance too i think already did

i i liked the episode where y'all were in the convertible and there were all the frogs and the

pizza and the frogs jumping all over the car y'all remember all this stuff i know and and that was

like one of my favorite episodes. Why? Because of the frogs. I got to use those against Maureen

Marsha. Marsha. We had a little, we had a school room. We had a little desk that had

lift tops. I presented a great opportunity to hide a frog. Scared the mess out of it

Yeah, I got in big trouble. I also remember the fake mustache. Peter wearing the fake

mustache. Oh, yeah. I remember that one. And let's see. You protecting Cindy from the

Cindy had the list, and the kid was making fun of her. There was some violence on the Brady Bunch. There was some violence

What are you hinting? Golly, what else? I loved it when y'all went to Hawaii

I loved it when y'all went to the Grand Canyon and got put in jail. Y'all remember this

Yeah, Jim Bacchus. The Brady's in jail. Jim Bacchus, that's right. In Hawaii with Vincent Price

What a life you grew up. Yeah, it was, you know, it's hard to appreciate until looking back on it how, you know, unique and special it actually was

All right, this is so far. This looks like spaghetti sauce on it. Well, it's very much like it

Absolutely does, Peter. So far. I meant Peter. I meant Chris. That's all right

You've had 35 years of me being Peter. This became Chris today

I want you to add Italian seasoning, bay leaf, soy sauce, house seasoning, seasoning salt

All the bay leaves? Three bay leaves? All of them. Just dump, baby. Mama, I don't remember

Italian seasoning. It looks like a little oregano, a little thyme maybe. Uh-huh, Italian seasoning

It's got your rosemary, it's got your thyme, it's got your... All them Italian seasonings

All of them. All of it, honey. Is that about a tablespoon? I think you're exactly on the money

Maybe another one. This headband is squeezing my brain so hard, I can't really think

Is this one of those dishes that the longer it cooks, the better it becomes? Absolutely, absolutely

Because I remember this being better the next day. It's like pizza

If I left it. spaghetti sauce that better the next day So what we gonna do now is we would let this simmer And I add kind of like water Kind of like water or water

It really is water. Yeah, okay. It's not the dry stuff. It's not the dry stuff

So what I do is I keep me a pitcher of water by my stove

And so I add water as I need it. Now, there's a couple of ways you can do your macaroni noodles

You can cook those in a separate pot of boiling water and dump them in at the very last

or about 30 minutes out on your pot of goulash. You can throw them in here

I cooked my last time I tried to do this, I cooked it separately. Mine just wasn't very good

It came out a whole lot more like a chili. Son. I know. It was a shame

You know what it was? The water. It must have been because I didn't add any. You didn't add any water

I didn't add any water. I figured all the tomato sauce I put in there was

I got in the kitchen one day, son. I formulated the recipe and I gave it. Lies

I did. I did. I did. I did. All right. Now, after it, look up there

Ooh, that's the goulash I remember. That's the goulash, ain't it, honey? I got to taste that

Just let me give you a little bit. Mm. That is the goulash that I remember growing up as a kid

Isn't it great? This is excellent. And it will. It'll be better the next day. and I'll throw together a green salad

and some garlic bread, some French bread. And honey, we didn't know he was poor

We didn't know he was poor. No, this is high cotton right here

This is high cotton, baby. It's really, really easy. And for some reason, I can't do it

I've had you for the 70s and I've had you for the 80s

but I've got to move on, baby. I'm not going to be there for the 90s

You've outgrown me. All right, well, before... Just slip into my dressing room, baby

I'll wait for you. I have to infringe on you and ask one more thing

What's that? A little thing that you said in one episode? Your favorite food was

Oh, my favorite food was pork chimes. And apple chimes. We'll be back

We're on to the 90s. Don't leave our party, y'all. Up next, it's Sweet Baby Jack Carrot Cake

Welcome back! Welcome back, y'all. I have had such a good time walking through the decades with y'all today

But you know what? There ain't no time like the present. It ain't getting older, it's getting better

One of the best things in the whole entire world happened to me in the 2000s

I became a grandmother. I became a grandmother. Y'all, I'm fixing to celebrate my third wedding anniversary

I told my husband, Michael, I said, you know, I don't think we're going to have any grandchildren

I don't think it's going to happen. So why don't you and I try to get pregnant

So thank goodness Jamie and Brooke came through for me. And they put into my arms on August the 21st, 2006

the most precious little boy named Jack. I had finally hit the jackpot

I hit the jackpot. So I feel like it's real fitting today to finish off our Decades show

by making a cake in honor of my precious Jack. We're going to make a sweet baby Jack carrot cake

To make this cake, it's so easy, y'all. I've got flour. I've got self-rising flour

I've got cinnamon. I've got sugar. And this is not one of those delicate cakes that you have to be careful with

You can just get this mixed together in about two minutes. So I'm just going to stir together my dry ingredients

I've got four eggs. and I've got two four ounce jars of baby food carrots for my sweet little baby Jack

And they won't let me feed him this sort of stuff yet. And to this, what makes this cake so good is the oil in it, a cup and a half of oil

And this is going to be the most moist cake between the baby carrots and the vegetable oil that I'm putting in

Now, all we have to do is just blend these together until it's kind of smooth

And that'll take about two minutes. Now, over here, I've got three cake pans that have been greased and dusted with flour

Because we don't want our sweet baby jack cakes to stick. So, look at that

coming together just like that. Hey, babe. Well, come on. Thank you, Bobby

Your mixture is so quiet. I couldn't even get it back there. I know it. Those are mixed up

Now, what I want you to do is just divide this between the cake layers, okay

This is ready. Now, you can just do it. You can eyeball it, but I like to take some kind of..

Maybe just a measuring cup or something and just scoop it in so that I'll know that each cake pan is going to have as close to the right amount

Because when you cut your cake, you don't want one layer this big and another layer this big

So, son, just make sure those are even. Now, you know what I think that makes carrot cake so stinking good

That icing, honey. The icing. That cream cheese icing is so good

and it's so simple to make. It's nothing but cream, cheese, butter

powdered sugar, and vanilla. Nuts if you like it. And I've already got it mixed up

And, Son, while you're getting your layers ready for the oven... You got one ready

The cake fairy's been! Now, we're going to put that in a 325-degree oven

and we're going to let that bake for, oh gosh, probably about 25 minutes

All right. All right, now I'm going to put just a little bit of cream cheese right there

Oh, my, my, my. Mommy's sweating. All right. So that little bit of frosting

is going to act as a glue so it won't move around so easily

I think you're going to need a little extra sugar with that, Mama. Why? Honey, this cake's pretty

Look at his shirt. Hey. Hey, John

Say hey, big mama. No. Do you like his shirt? Oh, I love butter

Y'all see his shirt? I love butter, it says. Jack. Y'all, this is my son, Jack, and my wife, Brooke

Come to your grandmama. So much for baking cakes. Come to your grandmama

If you're not a grandma yet, I can't wait for it to happen to you

Because there's nothing like it. I'd have had you first, Sonny Boy, if I'd just known

I hope y'all have had a great time with me today. I've certainly had a wonderful time with y'all

And I'll see you when I see you. Tell them bye, Jack