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Word got out quickly this morning, y'all, that there was a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in the kitchen with Mama, and look what I've got

Melissa Keller stops by to cook up one of her Mama's favorite dishes, pork chops with a cranberry mustard sauce

For the record, I'm here for the pork chops. Yes! For the record, I'm here for the mom

I whip up a walnut praline topping for our brie and fruit platter

That's so good. Then we hit it out of the park with Melissa's Brussels sprouts

I love the Brussels sprouts. And finally, a two-layer upside-down pineapple cake that'll turn you right side up

I could be a supermodel! Melissa, I'm so thrilled that you're here

The first recipe we're going to do with this precious angel today, y'all, is pork chops with a cranberry mustard. Yes

Which sounds so good. So I'm going to shut up. I'm going to try to shut up

And turn it over to Melissa. All right, well, I thought that we could use fresh cranberries

I'm trying to use as many things from farmer's markets as I can right now

One of her hobbies, y'all, is going to farmer's market and finding fresh foods

One cup of water. Okay. And just a little sugar. One cup

I like this girl already. How's that look? That looks great. Just a little, you know

Just a little. I want to just melt this up a little bit before we pop this in

Well, just put me to work and you tell me. You want to pop this in there? I will

I will. It's just four cups of cranberries. I love fresh cranberries

They're so beautiful. And you know, they're so easy. You just put them in sugar water and cook them down

So good. And there's no comparison between this and a canned cranberry sauce

I see you're chopping up a half a cup of pecans. Now, when are you going to put those in

At the end, so they keep their crunch. Mm-hmm. For you, Melissa, I thought I would have us a little fruit and cheese tray

So I'm going to make a little sauce for our brief. I'm going to add a quarter of a cup of brown sugar

a couple of tablespoons of butter, and I've got walnuts over there

Okay. So we're going to be real nutty today. All right. I will chop those up for you

Okay. Yeah. If you could do me like a half a cup of walnuts

And I'm going to add about two teaspoons of a white corn syrup. Okay

These things are just ready to rock. Uh-huh. They are ready to rock

Oh, that looks so beautiful. Don't those look fabulous. See a chunk of cheese over there. Yes

You see a chunk of brie here. Yes. Well, I'm going to just take the top of the rind off

I just like that top gone off. So whatever. I'm eating on top of it, you know, it can go into the cheese

That sounds delicious. So I'm going to take this, and I'm going to cut it into like a pie shape

Now, where did this recipe come from that you're preparing today? Well, this is a play on a recipe that my mother does, and I've just sort of jazzed it up a

little bit. Wonderful, wonderful. She usually uses just cranberry juice and Dijon mustard, but I like to use fresh cranberries

See, I... I wanted to play it up a little bit, you know? I love textures. I do, too

And that's exactly why I'm going to add these. Pecans. No. Mmm

I'm kind of a messy cook. Oh, well, you're... I'm sorry, you don't mind if I trash your kitchen here

Honey, you're in good company. Okay, perfect. Look at these grapes, Melissa

Oh, there we go. Those are so beautiful. All right, now, all I'm going to do is just center cheese

That is amazing. And see, they've been cutting wedges. This has been sitting out at room temperature

We're going to take this sauce, y'all. Here, I'll mix it. And just when we're ready to eat our brie, we're just going to spread it on

This is heaven. And it's going to be so good. Go ahead and add the half a cup

Okay. The walnuts that you've chopped. Perfect. And I'm going to peep in here at your cranberries

Oh, look how good that looks. Oh, that is amazing. And this is going to be wonderful along with that pork, y'all

And I like the contrast of the Dijon with the cranberries. So our sauce looks ready

I'm just going to pour our sauce into the bowl. Okay, so our sauce is ready

It smells delicious. For our breeze. I'm going to do the cranberries. Okay. We're going to do a quarter of a cup

Quarter of a cup of the cranberries. Thank you. Watch your fingers

And then we do four teaspoons of Dijon mustard. One, two, three, four

I usually do about four pork chops, around six ounces, with the bone

I love the looks of your pork chops, girl. That's right. I like to just paint it on

Oh, good. Well, I'm going to wash my hands because I picked up your pork

So I just paint this on both sides. Okey I flip those for you Great thank you Well I understand that you single Why do you ask I just happen to know someone that single Really

Yes. And enjoys the kitchen. Really? And loves to exercise. Sounds like me

I'm hoping Bobby... Are you trying to send me up? Well, maybe

Okay, okay. I'm open. So I'm trying to get Bobby on the phone

to see if maybe he can come taste your pork chops. Okay. Oh, that would be great

Yeah, I love to cook for friends and family, and I try to use things out of my garden

Oh, that's wonderful. And I have them help me. I go out to the garden to get herbs. I want to hear what else is in your garden

I have an herb garden. I love my herbs out there. So beautiful

Love that. I have artichokes. I had no idea. So this is probably good

Now, how long are we going to let that marry? Overnight would be best, I think, yeah

That's great. So we'll just put that back in the refrigerator, y'all. Okay

I want you to taste this cheese. I'm very excited about this

Isn't Brie just lovely? It is. Thank you. And here we go

I'm going to put this on your Brie. Oh, my gosh. And I kind of like letting everybody do this as they eat

It's like a pecan pie on top of the cheese. So good. So let's go in for it

All right. Mm. Mm. Mmm. Mmm. I like dancing. Dance. It's so good

I dance sometimes in here. That is the greatest thing I've ever put in my mouth, I think

Coming up next, Melissa and I take a swing at her Brussels sprouts recipe

Better up. Then, when I have something sizzling hot in the kitchen, my boys are not far behind

Ooh, pork chops. Hi. The swimsuit models. And later, a pineapple upside-down cake, and it's a match made in heaven

Yeah, me and pork chops. Brussels sprouts are one of my favorite vegetables

And today, Melissa's going to show me how she cooks them up. I had no idea

Really? No! Wow. No, not get them at the groceries. It's like a bat

I don't want to... She is. Better up. Better up. Totally. All righty, so I'm going to have you start on the Brussels sprouts

Okay. Just cut them in half for me, about a dozen. Okie do. And then I sprayed this pan here with cooking spray for the pork chops

I've been sitting for a little over an hour. Yeah. And we're just going to drop these in

My husband will eat anything, Melissa, except Brussels sprouts. I bet when he sees you..

This is probably why they love them. Bacon? He would probably eat anything that you see

I digested. You did? Yes. Isn't that nice? That is so sweet

So these Brussels sprouts are going to go in this bacon grease, which is... That sounds..

I'm going to add butter too, of course. I am going to take this bacon out, put it on a paper towel to soak up some of that grease

And I'm just cutting these off the stalk, y'all. And then we're going to do six whole cloves of garlic

Look at that, y'all. Those are going to be delicious. Oh, I love the way they're looking

You can smell the mustard too. Oh, I love this. It's going to be delicious

So these, we're going to keep these cloves whole, so we just peel these. Okey-doke

And then we're going to brown them in that pan. We have to add our butter, of course. Yes

It works. About a teaspoon or a little more. Okay. Some things you don't measure

I'm going to take our spoon, and I'm going to turn that spoon upside down and kind of scrape our pan

And we're that bacon cooked, y'all. So the Brussels sprouts will soak up all the flavor

Okay, so I want you to put the Brussels sprouts, the cut side down. Here we go

So I just layer the bottom of the pan and brown these for a couple of minutes

These are going to be delicious. And then later on we're going to add a little chicken broth and a little sugar to do a glaze

Just measure this out. This is getting better. I'm smelling those garlic cloves

How much sugar now are we going to put on these? Teaspoon of sugar

Yeah, not much no, it's just to make it so there's a nice brown kind of glaze sounds delicious. They're savory still

They are good good and these are ready to flip These are nice and brown oh

beautiful All right, I'm gonna pour in the chicken stock in sugar mixture whoa

Whoa, look at those. Girl can cook. We're going to chop up this bacon to put in there

I like to keep these bits kind of big. Hey, look-a-here. Ooh, pork chops. Hi

Swimsuit models. Hey, y'all. Melissa, this is, this is, look at that

This is my son. You're a little sneak. I was hoping How are you I Bobby It nice to meet you Bobby is meet you Bobby is my single son Okay Word got out quickly this morning y that there was a Sports Illustrated swimsuit

model in the kitchen with mama, and look what I've got. For the record, I'm here for the pork chops

Yes. For the record, I'm here for the model. This is the best part, guys

Bacon and Brussels sprouts. Sounds pretty good, right? Yes. Just dump that in there

All right. Let me get in here. Okay. Pop that higher. Okay

And we'll plate these up. Mmm. That's good. Oh, it's good, right

Oh, it smells so great. Thank you. Pop one of those on there

Yes. I like to put a little hot cranberry sauce in the cranberry sauce that I made before. I got it

Watch your back, pretty lady. This is hot. Thank you. And I just throw that on top there. Yeah

Mmm. Mmm. Melissa, I'll share with you. Okay. And we'll let the boys share

Oh, you need some mussel sprouts on there. Because we weren't prepared for company, were we? No

You girls were going to eat these four pork chops? Yeah. I doubt it. I doubt it

And then we were, yeah, we were going to go running. I doubt it. Is that enough

Well, yes, that is enough. Listen, Bobby, y'all can share. Y'all can have a personal, intimate dinner together

Let's get to it. I want to try another. They're having dinner together, y'all

Yeah, I like it. Mmm. Mmm. Wow. Is it good? Yeah, it's the best Brussels sprouts ever

Let me try that. No one cares. Really? Oh, I love to hear that. No one cares what you think

Mmm. What do you think? How are you doing over there? I love the Brussels sprouts

Mmm. Will you come to my house and do this? Sure. All right. Bye, y'all

Y'all gonna have to leave. So take your plate, get your booty butts out of here

We'll see you later. You're not gonna want to miss this. Bye. Two-layered pineapple upside-down cake, y'all

It's coming up. I think we made a match. Yeah, me and pork chops

Coming up, as Melissa whips up the frosting, she helps me to sweet-talk the cake

Let's go. That's a good cake. Come on. Good cake. And the first layer to our cake is complete

How gorgeous is that? We are making a layered upside-down pineapple cake

My mom used to make pineapple upside-down cake, and I've never made it, so I'm very excited to learn

Well, this is going to be delicious. So I've got Melissa over here fixing to cream our two sticks of butter, y'all

and we're going to put in two and a quarter cups of sugar

and she's going to cream that while I pour in one and a fourth

cup of whole buttermilk and then I'm going to put our dry ingredients

together and we're going to alternate our dry with our wet. I'm like you

I'm ready to get this cake together. I know, right? I'm going to sift this cake flour

I'm going to use three cups of our flour and I'm going to add

two teaspoons of baking powder to our flour. And a fourth of a

teaspoon of salt. And our butter is almost melted over there. I don't want to let

that start burning. Crank it up a little. There you go. Whoa! Now we're taking it. Beat that butter and sugar

baby girl. Alright, so I'm just going to sift in my dry ingredient. I think I'm just

going to hit it on the sides to get that going. Do you really do a lot of cooking at home? I do. I like to entertain. Oh, that's great

I have a very entertaining house. I usually have people bring an idea over and then we just cook

together at the house. Oh, see that to me, that's, that's so wonderful. Yeah. I'm gonna add your five

eggs. One at the time. I love my time with my family and my friends in the kitchen. It's a great

Bonding time it really is you say it's starting to cream up. Don't you got one more egg to go

So now we've got our dry ingredients So just beat that in and then I'm gonna add a little of our buttermilk

Okay, and then we're just gonna keep doing this is exercise right here. Yeah, I feel it

I know, I know. All right. So just back and forth. So that's looking delicious

So we're gonna add now about a teaspoon of vanilla flavoring. Favorite

I'm gonna take my spatula and just help you get all those ingredients down in your bowl. Teamwork

Okie dokie. Okay, good. All we've got to do now. Release your beaters right there

Right there. So if you want to start licking on those, you may

And I'm going to get our pans prepared. They taflon but I going to give them a spray because I want to make sure that this comes out good We got our pineapples we got our brown sugar and we got our melted butter Okay

So we're going to start with three-fourths of a cup. I can help you

Of packed brown sugar. Just sprinkle that in your pan, and I'm going to do the same thing in mine

I love brown sugar. I do, too. And I'm going to spread that around in the bottom of my pan

Okay. All right, so we've just got a stick of butter here

and each pan is going to get like a half a stick of melted butter

I'm just going to drizzle that on top. I'm going to get this pineapple. Of our brown sugar, yeah

Get the pineapples going on. We should be able to get about seven pineapple rings in each pan

I'm going to be doing the same thing in mine. I'm going to just plop a cherry in the center

Okay. All we're going to do now is pour our batter on top

Okay. This is the buddy system again. All right, I love it. So we want to make sure that our batter is evenly as possible

This is so simple. All right, so just take in our spatula and spread that on top of our pineapple

and our butter and our brown sugar. All righty. So that looks good, honey

So we preheated our oven, y'all, at 350. Okay. And we're going to bake this for about 45 minutes

All right. Okay. Over here. Mm! So good. Love that batter, honey

Coming up, we're so close to finishing this cake, y'all, I can see the end zone

Touchdown! And you would think this slice would be fit by Dean

I'm going to need a bigger piece than that, Mom. Y'all, Melissa and I are back in the kitchen now

ready to finish up that two-layered pineapple upside-down cake we started earlier

I've got one stick of butter. Melissa is going to measure us out three and a half cups

of confectionate sugar to our one stick of butter. And we're going to add two tablespoons of the pineapple juice

We're just going to ice the sides of our cake, not the top

Those look so beautiful. Aren't these beautiful? And they're still heavy, Melissa

Oh, wow. So I'm going to come around here with a knife to just loosen those edges

And then we're going to do the little cake prayer. Yeah, that's what I do

All right. Now to keep our plate clean, I'm just gonna come in here Melissa with some wax paper

All right a little bit more encouragement Come on cake you can do it. Come on. Not that kind of encouragement

Guess what did it work? Gorgeous is that that's amazing So on the plate it goes

Oh my goodness! Wow! Touchdown! This is ready too. You think so? Yeah

All right, here we go. We got a thing. How's that look? Oh, that looks good

It's got a nice consistency there. Talk to me, Melissa. Come on, cake

Let's go! That's a good cake. Come on! You can do it

Look at that! Woo! Woo! All right. How gorgeous is that, y'all

This is amazing. Okay. Now, I'm just going to take our spoon and smear that on the sides

I'm over the moth. You're over the moth? You're over the cake

Please, may I have some cake? Please, may I have some cake? You can have your cake and eat it, too

What? Oh, here he comes. Oh, hi. All right, here's where I've got to put defense

Look-a there. Whoa. I'm gonna be right here to catch them when it falls. All I got to do is slip our paper out

Put them nuts around before our plates. No, honey, look. This is how you do it

You just take it, pat them on there. Good thing I'm hungry

Look at that. This looks incredible. Oh, this is so amazing. This is home right here

Well said. Love that. I love that. Mmm. Wow, it's all good

Mmm. Good going. Mmm, mmm, mmm. Thank you. Melissa, you can come to my kitchen anytime

Oh, thank you. See you tomorrow here. And you know we always send y'all love and best dishes from our kitchens to y'alls

Mmm-hmm. Eat up. Bye, y'all. Bon appétit. Bon appétit. Mmm. Nice to know this is how supermodels eat

Yeah, right? This isn't bad. I could be a supermodel. Thank you