Everything's Better with Butter

Today on Paula's Party, y'all, it's all about butter

And I mean hunks and hunks of butter. What a treat, and I ain't talking about the butter

We're gonna be making a chicken dish with one pound of butter

And a double chocolate gooey butter cake. Doesn't that look delicious? And believe it or not, we're even frying butter

I can't hardly wait. I know. You know, in my world, everything's better with butter

Actually, we call it food porn. So y'all spread out, get comfortable, and let's party

How are y'all doing

We're going to have a great time today, y'all. Do you know the vitamin that I feel like I have to have every day

that I can't do without this vitamin? It's vitamin B. For butter

Would y'all believe that every recipe that I'm going to do today has butter in it

And I tell people and I tell people and I want to tell y'all too

to just make sure you understand that I am your cook, not your doctor

Moderation is up to you. So how about it? Y'all ready to party

Y'all, the first dish I'm going to make is chicken scallopini with a lemon butter sauce

The first thing we're going to prepare is our chicken. But you know what

I see everything up here but no butter. I need my butter, please

How can I do a butter show without butter? Oh, my goodness

Oh, my goodness. Do you have enough butter

Butter double style. Maybe. Maybe we have enough butter. Are we a little short, Mamie

No, you're just right, baby. Your height is perfect. Why, thank you

You're breathing hard. It's heavy. What a treat, and I ain't talking about the butter

How about it, girls? Thank y'all so much. Are y'all going to stay with me

Actually, the way it's going to work is you just take whatever you want, and we'll take it away from you whenever you're done

Oh, okay. Okay. Wow, that's some hard butter

Can you help me? Of course. Just see. Here, let me see if I can..

Here we go. Perfect. Oh, sorry. That's perfect, thank you

You're very welcome. If y'all guys are not the cutest things I've ever seen..

All right. You guys ready? All right, guys. Y'all gonna take it away

Yep, here we go. Thank you so much. I may be calling y'all back, okay

Alright, now I've put just a couple of tablespoons in my pan along with some olive oil

I'm going to do a little bit more oil. Now, I've got three chicken breasts that I've pounded out, and you can see it's pounded thin

I'm going to put it in some seasoned flour. And I love the flavor that olive oil and butter produces

It produces a great flavor for frying. Because, you know, if you try to use just straight butter, it'll burn on you

And I'm actually breaking that chicken breast up with my fingers. So it'll cook even quicker

I season the flour just with salt and pepper. Or you can use house seasoning

And my house seasoning is just one cup of salt, a fourth of a cup of black pepper, and a fourth of a cup of garlic powder

And if you'll keep that by your stove, you can use it in all the dishes just with one swoop

So this is not going to take long to cook, y'all. Look at that

I want to show y'all something. I've got a camera. So you better behave

All right, so we're just going to let this cook for a couple of minutes on either side

All right. So you can see with that broken down so thin that it's not going to take but just a minute

And y'all are probably sitting there saying to yourself, Now, she promised us the pound of butter

I'm going to show you when we come back because we're going to make a fabulous lemon butter sauce

to go over our chicken scallopini. So don't go anywhere, y'all. We'll be right back

And later, oh, thank you. Double chocolate gooey butter cake. Oh, thank y'all

Welcome back. Today's show is all about butter, and we're making a chicken scallopini with a lemon butter sauce

All right y our chicken is ready You know I promised you that pound of butter Now I just going to take our chicken breast out and I going to lay them right over here

because I've got a few ingredients that we have to cook off quickly

I'm going to use three-quarters of a cup of cooked pancetta, which ain't nothing but bacon, y'all

And 12 ounces of mushrooms. some artichoke hearts. I'm adding one tablespoon of capers

I used to get so tickled. Jamie and Bobby's daddy was a picky eater

And I was sitting around just enjoying artichokes so much. And he'd say, you know anybody that ate an artichoke artichoke

And now we're going to get on with the butter, y'all. The butter's what we came for

This sauce is easy and delicious, and it kind of reminds me of a Brene sauce

I'm going to put in some fresh lemon juice, about three tablespoons

I'm going to put in four ounces. of a white wine. Alright, I'm gonna let that cook

down until it's reduced to about a third of what it was

Woo, this kitchen is hot today! I'm sweating like a fat girl

writing her first love letter. Woo! Y'all, I'm gonna pour in

four ounces of heavy cream. All right, now y'all, I've got to figure out what a pound of butter is here

Does that look like about a pound? Huh? Yeah. Yeah? Uh-uh, that's shy

All right, now I'm just going to dice our butter up, and I'm going to beat this in to

our mixture. There we go. All right. Gosh, y'all. Gosh, I wish I was multi-talented

Somebody come help me hold this, please. Come help me hold this camera

What's your name, doll baby? There's your microphone. Talk in it. My name's Carla

Carla, that's a pretty name. Thank you. Do you want me to hold that up

Yeah, see, now look right back there, Carla. You're on the money

That's the money shot. Actually, we call it food porn. All right, here we go

It's coming. Anything worth having is worth the wait. That's right. How's that looking

It looks very good. It's starting to look good, isn't it? Isn't it gorgeous? Yeah

All right, so this is ready, so we're going to turn this off. Do you want to see that over there

Yeah, show them that. Because this is nice and tender and ready to go

All right, now what we're going to do is we're going to get us a platter and let's put our pasta

What kind of pasta did you use? This is just a regular spaghetti noodle

We want to drain that good because we don't want our pasta to water up our sauce

All right. So here we go. All right

So now we're going to come up here and get our chicken

All right. There you go. All right, that's looking pretty good, isn't it? Wow. Yes

Oh, you know what I meant to do? Uh-uh. I meant to put a little bit of this sauce over in here

and I forgot about that, I got so excited. Just a little bit to moisten that up

It has mushrooms, capers, artichoke parts. Yes, pancetta, butter and cream. Wow

And now for the sauce. Oh. Ah. You just pour it all on there, I guess

Alright, now come over here. Alright, we're gonna get some pretty fresh parsley

Alright, we're gonna put a little lemon on it so that will let people know

that that's the flavor that they can expect. Okay. Alright, so now I want you to taste this with me. Here. Okay. Okay. Perfect

Alright, you got your fork? Let's use our butter knife. Alright, there you go

There's you, a bite of chicken. Thank you. Hey, wait now, get your skeddy

Come on, get in there and get it. What's it taste like to you? Butter. Butter

We'll be back in a minute, y'all. We got more butter on the way

Up next, y'all, I'm going to be taking the butter challenge. Oh, thank y'all

Welcome back. For those of you just tuning in, today's show is all about butter

And you know what? The staff around here has really kind of thrown me under the bus

Because, you know, a lot of people call me the butter lady. Did y'all know that

a lot of children say, Mama, Mama, the butter lady's on. And I say that I know so

much about butter. Well, they're making me put my money where my

mouth is today. And I'm going to need my butter wrangler. Greg, come on out, baby

You got some hot buns, don't you? Yes, I do. So here's the way it goes, y'all

They have given me five different butters I supposed to give my opinion on it and I supposed to pick my favorite butter I can see the names up there Y can see them So maybe y can help me

So, butter my bun, baby. You got it. Y'all know I just love my job

I think I got the best job. Now, I like a lot of butter with a little bun

You got it. Oh, gosh, he knows how to do it. There you are

That's very good. To me it tastes like a pure clean butter

You want to know what it is? It's French butter. French butter, I had a feeling

because I have tasted French butter before, and their butter is pure and clean and just

you know what I mean, it's just delicious. It's just delicious. Next

Here we go. Okay. I don't recognize that butter

Well, that is actually a Danish butter. A Danish butter. I knew I didn't recognize it

It's very good, though, y'all. But it just, I don't know. It just had a taste I've not tasted before

Well, let's see what you find out about this next one here. That's margarine

You're right. You don't even want one. I know you hate margarine, so should I skip it

No, that's margarine. I can look at that and tell you. Should I just skip it for now

Okay, you got it. We can skip it. Okay, here we go

Let me find a good one here. What do you think

It's a tough one, huh? That's also very good. Any idea? I'd say it's unsalted butter from maybe another country

Actually, that is from your very own fridge. Y'all tricked me. That's from my fridge

I thought I was out of there. No cheating. No cheating. I can't read through those cards

Hell, I couldn't read them if they were turned to me. You know what? She'd get a certain age

Okay. Oh. Oh. that is very good what do you think it tastes salted tastes like it has salt in it

to me it tastes like an american butter you're right So, which one out of all of these would you prefer

This butter is hard to beat. That's what I was raised on, that's what I cooked with, but I wouldn't mind having some

of that first butter around the house. Now, you tell me what you think

All right. Very good. Very good. Yeah, I just want to let you know the Butter Wranglers

we have a little surprise for you. Do you? At the end of the show. I think you're really going to enjoy it

You think I'm going to like it? I know you're going to like it. Does it have something to do with wrangling

Yeah, it actually does, yes. I can't wait, girls. Can y'all taste this one

We'll be back in a minute. Check around. Up next, y'all, a buttery shortbread surprise

I swear, I believe that's a perfect pound, don't y'all? And later, the Wranglers butter me up

I could cry. Welcome back

Welcome back, y'all. Are you having a good time? Yeah! I don't know when I've had such a good time

And y'all haven't had anything to eat, have you? I've been eating it all

Oh, I'm so sorry. I bet you're starving for a stick of butter, aren't you

Well, speaking of butter, I need some butter. Oh, Butter Wranglers! Butter Boys

Alright, I just need one little old pound

That looks like that, Mark. All right, now

There's some butter missing off this thing. How many pounds is this

About 110. 110. Give or take. I swear, I believe that's a perfect pound, don't y'all

Thank you, butter boys. You're welcome. Don't go far. All right

Let me tell you what we're going to make. Do y'all love shortbread? Yes

I absolutely adore shortbread. Well, we're going to make a savory, cheesy shortbread

Now, our butter should be at room temperature, so I'm going to help it along by cutting it into smaller pieces

Yes, darling, what's your question? We're heading to your restaurant tonight and we are just craving that butter up there that

we see right now and we're wondering what do you recommend? What should we order that has lots of butter

It's your favorite dish. Honey, listen, you're going to the right place because as soon as you sit down, you're going

to get a cheese biscuit and you going to get a whole cake cornbread patty that been fried in butter Ooh good Okay So y I got four cups of all flour right here I adding three cups of cheddar cheese

Alright, now, y'all, I'm gonna add one tablespoon of garlic salt. Because I told you this is a savory shortbread, not a sweet one

And then I'm gonna add 1 1⁄4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper, so it's gonna have a little bite

And then I'm going to blend in that pound of butter. Tonight, you will be offered a gooey butter cake

But guess what? What? Guess what I'm cooking next. The butter cake

I'm cooking a double chocolate gooey butter cake in the next second

All right. And guess what? Y'all gonna get the taste good

Alright, now I'm gonna quickly show y'all how I'm just moving in with my hands on this

because it's gonna take a few minutes for the warmth from my hands to break down the

butter and the cheese in it. So you would just mix this until it's all incorporated

You would sprinkle you out some flour, and then you would roll this out to fit the pan

And because I don't have two hours to do this, I'm going to put this to the side and I'm going

to show you what the product should look like after you've incorporated everything

This is kind of a stiff dough, and you can see all the butter is melted

How long does it take you to clean your rings up after you finish cooking

Listen, it takes a good while. Look at that, y'all. It takes a real good while

But you know I just take them off and throw them in the jewelry cleaner and just let them soak

All right. Now I've kind of got that along

Now I'm going to try to flip it and then uh oh, it's sticking

It's got so much butter in it. I'm just going to flip this over to my pan, and I've got it kind of flattened out and going

which is going to make it easier for me. Now, I've lined my pan with parchment paper, and then I'm just going to spread this evenly

out into the pan. Come here, darling. I need a man. Wash your hands and come help me press this out, please. Okay

What's your name? My name's Evan, ma'am. Okay, well, they're bringing you a microphone. Okay

Evan, wash your hands, darling. All right. Oh, you're even using soap

I didn't think boys used soap. Did y'all? Not regularly. All right, here, Dumplin'

Thank you. And there's your microphone. and now you can figure out how you can work and hold the microphone

Okay. You just need me to spread this out here like that? Yeah, I need for you to spread it out just like that

Okay. There you go. Do you care if I use both hands? Put the mic down

Yeah, put the mic down. Okay. And if I need to talk to you, I'll hold it up for you

Okay. There you go. If you need to, put a little flour on your hands

Dip your... There you go. There you go. And that way it won't stick to you

Now we're gonna put them in a 350 degree oven, and we're gonna bake these off for about 20 minutes

And I've got some that's been in the oven for 20 minutes

Don't those look good? And you see, once Evan gets them patted in the pan, I'm gonna cut them just like a bar cookie

And then I'm gonna take the fork and just make X's. All right Evan. Yeah

I want you to taste and tell me what you think. All right, let's see

Stop tricking me. I don't know if I can trust you now

You can trust me. Mmm. Mmm. That's very good. I like it a lot

Don't you love that shortness of the bread? Yeah. But the sharpness of the flavor

I can taste the cheese. It's very good. You can taste the cheese, and you can taste the butter, can't you

Oh, tons of butter. Y'all, we'll be right back in a minute

With more butter. Coming up, a match made in heaven

Chocolate and butter. Today's show is all about butter

And our next recipe is a chocolate gooey butter cake. Now, I've got a chocolate cake mix that I've mixed up today

I have melted one stick of butter, and I've added one egg to that cake mix

And I beat it up with a mixer, and it's going to be really, really thick and stiff

and all I do is spread it into the bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2 pan

I'm going to show y'all the filling, but once again I don't see any butter

Butter Wranglers! Oh, look-a here. I don't need but one stick, so the load's gotten a little lighter, hasn't it

Yes, it has. Oh, thank you, and you've already cut it for me

All right, now turn around here and let us look at you. Okay. You're a very good-looking young man

Thank you. Now, who is Goldie? Well, I used to do some dancing in high school

You used to do some dancing in high school? Yeah, like professional hip-hop dancing, so we used to have nicknames and stuff

Well, thank you, Goldie. I appreciate it. I'm fixing to make you a gooey butter cake

Wait, I've got to get my butter, though. Okay. and then you can have your pan back

I'm going to stick that butter right there in that saucepan. Thank you, Goldie

All right, y'all. For the filling, we're going to use an 8-ounce block of cream cheese

And I've already got it whipped here for us. Add two eggs. I'm gonna add three to four tablespoons of cocoa powder

I wanna keep an eye on my butter. Look at this, y'all didn't know I could do this, did you

Alright, now to our mixture, I'm adding 16 ounces of powdered sugar

sugar. We put, in some of ours, we'll put the white chocolate chunks in it. And nuts

Michael's favorite gooey butter cake is banana. Mashed up bananas in it are fabulous. I don't

even know how many different versions we make of this fabulous dessert now. All right, now

I've melted my butter, and it's cooled down a little bit. So I'm going to add that one stick of melted butter

Oh, look. Yes. I actually met your daughter-in-law the other day, and I just wanted to know how she was doing and how excited you are

She is doing so well. Of course, she's taking very, very good care of herself

I'm going to quickly stir in a cup of chopped nuts, y'all. Now these are pecans, but you can use any kind of nut you like

But so anyway, Brooke is doing wonderful. In fact, the doctor told Jamie the other day that Brooke is like the poster child for the most beautiful pregnant woman he's ever seen

She's just doing great. You know that girl has not had one morning sickness

Not one time. All right, y'all. I've got one ready. Now, we're going to put this in a preheated 350-degree oven

Now, the name is gooey butter cake, so you want it a little gooey in the center

So as you're checking it, you'll want it to just move just a little, little bit

because if you overcook it, it'll become cake-like, and you don't want it like a cake

Do you have a name that you picked out for the baby? Yes, the baby has already... Oh, for me

That you were lying. Well, let me tell you. I get so disgusted with Jamie

Because you know what? He's going to have Jack call me Big Mama

I hate that name, Big Mama. I just hate it. And it just, Jamie just gets the biggest kick out of thinking about that baby calling me

Big Mama And I said well I going to write you out of the wheel But I read a book when I was in my early 20s and it was called A Woman of Substance and the matriarch in the family was this woman of substance

And I thought, oh my gracious, this woman is just fabulous. And I said, I hope one day I can grow up to be a woman of substance

And all of her grandchildren called her grandlady. And I just thought that was the most wonderful, wonderful name

So I told Jamie, I said, son, I want Jack to call me grandlady

He said, mama, you make me sick. He said, you even are working the birth of your grandchild into your business

I don't care if Jack calls me doo-doo as long as he calls me

Look how delicious these look. Can you see that good? Doesn't that look delicious

Looks yummy. Now I'm just gonna sprinkle it with a little powdered sugar

You want some? Do y'all want some? Come on out! They're so wonderful

When we get back, believe it or not, we're frying butter

In sick! And later, I'm seeing double. Y'all have been great today

I've had so much fun being with you. You will never guess what we're going to finish up with today

They did a story on me. It was a chefography. Did any of y'all see it

Well, thank you. Well, my youngest son, Bobby, was asked what his mother's favorite food was

And I think Bobby said, my mother's favorite food is fried butter

Well, y'all, that was a lie. I have never fried butter. After that show aired, a viewer wrote in

They said, you know, maybe you can fry butter. I said well come on girl I never done it but I game So come on up Sherry

So that show inspired you to try to fry butter. Well, it planted the seed. And I was talking to my good friend, Christine Henry, and she told me that it couldn't be done

Don't you love it when somebody tells you you can't do something? Oh, yeah. I did it right and I did it twice

All right, so you're going to show us how this is done. Yep. Okay

You start with two sticks of softened butter. Uh-huh. And you add..

Two ounces of cream cheese. Two ounces of cream cheese. And we're going to whip it up a little bit and then add some salt and pepper

Okay. I'll tell you what the card says, okay? Okay. One egg beaten, one cup of flour

one cup of seasoned breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, and peanut oil for frying

Well, now, when I did it, I used canova oil because I'm watching my figure. You're eating fried butter and watching your figure

Yes, ma'am, I am. Sounds reasonable to me. All right, so you get it all mixed up. Uh-huh

And then get an ice cream scoop. Uh-huh. and scoop it into little balls because you have to freeze it

It's kind of like fried ice cream where you need to freeze it so it doesn't melt all over. We've got some ready for you that's been in the freezer

Is that magic? Yes. All right, now what do we do? Now we need to flour it, egg, and then into the breadcrumbs

All right, flour, egg, and crumbs. You've got to coat it real, real well

Uh-huh. or it'll just melt all over yourself when you put it in the oil

and I don't know. That's what I've heard. It didn't happen to me. So what do you serve with fried butter

You know, you could add garlic to this and scallions, and it actually tastes quite lovely. All right, do you spread it on bread

Oh, now we freeze them again. You have to freeze them again because they will, because of the heat from your hand

So we're going to freeze them again. Oops. and we've got some that's been

you're welcome dear. No, and they're hard frozen and all crumbed up. They're ready for the deep fryer

And we're going to fry these at 350 for about how long

15 seconds. So it's quick. It's really, really quick. But they're all melty and yummy

I can't hardly wait. I know. Alright, you want me to kind of put the net

down there? Yeah. So I can snatch them quickly. I'm just going to do just a few at a time so that they don't cool down the temperature of the oil

Tell me when A little bit longer Let me see Let me see They ready I feel like a sicko

Well, you know, a girl can't eat chocolate all the time. Or I'm standing beside a sicko one and the other

Takes one to know one, honey. It does, doesn't it? Can y'all believe this

See, they're already melting and yummy. Oh, my God. Here, come on in

It's sick. Oh, my gracious. And if you add garlic and onions to them, they're even better

Oh, listen, I think you're on the money with the herbs and the things like that

Cherry. Thank you. You're so much fun. All the butter wranglers are back

What, baby? We want you to know that as butter wranglers speak for all of us

we've had a wonderful time today supplying you with all your butter needs. and we have something like we told you earlier

a surprise, it's a tribute to you from us. Okay? Here it is

I could cry

I'm immortalized. You can't cook with it. I can't? You can't cook with it

So what do I do with it? Freeze it. Freeze it. Freeze it? Or take it home and let me slowly lose weight

Oh, gosh, y'all are too cute. You did the sculpting. Yes, sir

All right, now, who are you, and what do you have to do with the Wranglers

I'm a Wrangler wannabe, but I'm actually drawing Connors from my Sage Eye sculptures

It's wonderful. It's beautiful. I love her

Thank you so much. Y'all want to find her? Thank you. Wow

Thank you. Wow. Y'all, I've had so much fun being with y'all today

And I hate to say goodbye. But I'll see y'all back next week

Best dishes, y'all