Father's Day

It's another Father's Day, Jamie

Daddy's favorite day of the year. Yes. And in honor of Father's Day

we're making dishes that the whole family's gonna love. Whoa! And we're starting off with mini macaroni pies

perfect for every kid at heart. You can't have Father's Day without the kid

Then we've got Dad's favorite, pork chops with a double orange glaze

And we're gonna be serving them up with a sautéed spinach and onions

Ooh, happy Father's Day to me. And then we have some fun making crispy rice cupcakes

with our precious Jack. Y'all, it is Father's Day. Jamie is a daddy now

Jack is three years old, y'all. He's the most adorable little child

The most handsome, smartest child ever born in the history of the planet Earth. Well, today's recipe we're doing mini macaroni pies

It's a traditional macaroni and cheese recipe that we use from the restaurant. Jack loves macaroni and cheese, loves any kind of pasta

And Bobby and I have found a recipe that is easy to handle and easy to make

The kids can help make it. All right, so I am grating you up two cups of cheddar

Yes, ma'am. While we're waiting on our macaroni to cook, I'm going to put half a cup of milk in our mixing bowl here

And a quarter of a cup of sour cream. Two eggs. I'm going to add a little bit of salt

Okay. Get this all mixed in together really good. So looking good, son

They're cooking like rolling cooking. Okay, I'm going to take some of this cheese

We don't want all of this. This is where I'm going to put my pasta, so. Okay

Oh, I'm sorry. That's okay. Well, here, I'll measure out your cheese for you

A half a cup in there. Okie dokie. You say this pasta's done? Yes, son

I think it's done now. There's your half a cup of cheese. Okay, I'm going to drain this off

I've got about four cups of pasta. Yeah, and you want to stir it good because water will get trapped in the little elbows

so you want to make sure that you give it some stir so all that water can get out of those little

elbows i'll give it a good shake too because water is an enemy of macaroni and cheese

okay son i think that's good and you're going to want to stir the cheese into this so it melts

real good and my mom's doing that kind of an unusual thing but i'm going to add two tablespoons

of cold butter into my wet mixture here. And this is just so when it's cooking

it'll melt down in there. Children are born with the macaroni and cheese gene

What is it? I don't know. I think it's an easy dish for parents to make

They just all seem to love it. Because when children come to the Lady and Sons

I'll ask the children, what was your favorite? and they always, always say the macaroni and cheese

They don't ever say collard greens, do they? No, they never say collard greens. It's the macaroni and cheese

Or green beans. Jack loves green beans, too. Now I've got a cup and a half of butter crackers

Yum. I'm just going to crush these up. And while you do that

I'm going to add the wet ingredients to the macaroni and cheese. See what we're going to do, y'all

is we're going to put these inside of a bacon muffin tin. we're going to have a crust on our mini macaronis

Jamie, have you found, as a father, when it comes to getting the children to eat

you have to make it kind of fun for them and interesting, don't you? Yeah, I think the best way to get your kids to eat is to let them help you

Absolutely. Anything that he touches, he's excited to eat. Absolutely. He's in the kitchen a lot

It makes them proud. It builds self-esteem, y'all. It's just everybody wins

Into our crushed crackers, I'm going to put four tablespoons of some butter that we've melted

And it's kind of hardened up a little bit, but that's okay. Here you go, son

I'll take this and scoop all that out for your good. I'm going to add into this, y'all, I'm going to put a cup of cheese

Yes! Yes, yes. I'm going to mix this up really good. One of my favorite memories of Jack is go to school with Daddy Day

and he made me a little tie, and I never wear a tie, but I wore the one that Jack made me, and I just love that little tie

He made the tie for you to wear to work? I had a construction paper on a piece of string, so you put it on

Oh, my goodness. So you had to wear it to work that day? I wore it all day long

Did you really? Before Jack was born, my mom gave me the gown that I came home from the hospital in

I think Dad had found it. No, no, I had it in my hope chest

I had saved it all these years, and it was just the most beautiful little soft gown But I took it to the hospital and they brought Jack home in that same gown I going to use a little nonstick spray in here

And, you know, I remember... So the same thing I wore home from the hospital, 40 years later, Jack wore the same thing

You know, for some reason, I didn't save Bobby's outfit, and I wished I had a, Jamie, because let me tell you

it was a little short suit, and it had a tie on it. Now, can you imagine the baby

Coming home in a tie. Well, Bobby did. I hate that I didn't save it

We're putting these into the muffin tinge, y'all, and we're going to get them to come up the edges a little bit

This is going to be our crust, y'all. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. OK, Mom, you can just dish that right on top

Pebble with a little bit more of our cheese. I love it, though

How cute is this? Okay, now that I've got these done, I'm going to put them into the oven on 375 for about 25 minutes

Coming up next, dishes for our dads, orange-glazed pork chops and sautéed spinach with onions

Happy Father's Day to all you guys. And later, a special treat for the kids, crispy rice cupcakes

I like marshmallows. Yes. I know you like marshmallows, and we've got all the toppings

This is going to make them extra fun. You'd like some more sprinkling? What? Yes

You want to cook some pork chops? Yes, I want to cook some pork chops. We're making today, y'all, Jamie's double orange glazed pork chops

We love pork chops. I love them thick cut. I like them thin cut. I like them fried

I like them baked. I like them barbecued. I like them... I'm with you, son

I like them grilled. This is a really super simple recipe, and we've got some great citrus flavor going on top of this pork

So, Mom, if you'll get about three or four tablespoons of oil and about the same of butter, I'm going to salt and pepper these pork chops

Okay. So you've got fresh squeezed orange juice. One cup of orange juice and a third a cup of marmalade

Citrus and pork are so good together. Yes, they are. All right

I think it's hot enough, son. These are little thin pork chops that Jamie selected

so they're not going to take long to cook, y'all. Now, we're going to brown these off

They won't take but a few minutes. After we get through cooking, what is your Father's Day going to be like

In summertime, we're going to go swimming. He loves to go swimming and happy Father's Day

Because you are truly Jack's hero. He thinks his father hung the moon

Well, I don't all three-year-olds? No. All right, son. I'm going to save all the essence from these chops down here in the pan

And I'm going to take the orange juice and the marmalade. Okay. And I'm going to put this in pretty hot

This is going to be a really nice glaze, but I got to cook it down. It's going to be a hot, hot temperature

Okay, I'm going to let this reduce down. Mom, if you want to, let's get started with some butter, about three tablespoons

Okay. We're going to cook. We're going to do onions with wilted spinach today

And I'm going to cut a medium onion here, just kind of thinly sliced. All right, I think our butter is ready for our onions, son

So you can just throw those in. I love onion smell. I do, too

This is going to take, I kind of like them done, so probably four or five minutes

Maybe on the onions, we're going to get those kind of soft. So you kind of want them soft and transparent

And the spinach, you know, wilted spinach doesn't take but a minute, maybe

Okay. You know, one of my favorite things I told Brooke before Jack was born

I said, you know what's going to be so sweet is when Jack toddles up to me one day and says

Daddy, Mama said come give her some sugar. That's kind of a thing

I started with Brooke for my second Father's Day when Jack was a little over two years old

You know, he could put stuff together, and on Father's Day, he teetered up to me and said

Daddy, Mama said come give her some sugar. Isn't that sweet? He is so sweet

And he made me a little statue at school. Mama, this is a perfect Father's Day meal because it's hearty

We've got the pork, but it's easy enough where the mama and the kids can help make it, too

Yeah, the whole family can get in there on this one. And it's good for you, too, because we're not frying anything, and the spinach is good for you

Just a little bit of butter, y'all. Are these getting close enough for you? Yes, they're getting close enough for me, but you know what

Because our sauce is getting close, I'm going to put our pork chops back under here. Oh, you are

Mm-hmm. Son, this looks delicious. All right, so I'm going to put, son, just another little piece of butter in for our spinach

Four tablespoons, not three. All right, so I'm going to throw the spinach in, okay

Do it. Now, y'all, spinach ain't going to take just a few minutes. This is wilted Our pork chops are just about right Look how beautiful that glaze is on those chops Oh it just yummy looking Mm Now this spinach is gonna make this pot look real real full y

But it wilts down very quickly, and by the time we get through

you're gonna wonder if that's enough for Jamie and me. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna put just a little house seasoning in it

Mm-hmm. You know, it's so funny when Jack comes in, when they bring him over to see me

the first thing he says when he walks in the door is, Ginny, let's cook

And I thought, now, you know, when my kids were little, y'all, they didn't show any interest in the kitchen except when it was time to eat

And I thought, now, why? Why is it that this kid... A little bit of lemon juice, y'all

So anyway, I thought, now, why is Jack loving this kitchen? Blood is really, really thicker than water

But then it dawned on me one day why he loves it so much

It's because he sees you cook all the time. He does, and he watches this on TV

Here, just, isn't that easier? Easier. I remember when you and Bobby were little for like Father's Day and Christmas

You know, they had no money. They didn't have jobs. They would go to the garage or go to the utility house and take their daddy's tools and bring them in the house and wrap them up

Gosh, Mama, you know what? I forgot about that. I remember doing that. I remember y'all going out there and getting his hammers and his screwdrivers, bringing them back in the house and wrapping them up for him

and oh, he would just act like it was the greatest gift in the world

Son, this looks too, too good. Look, I pulled our macaroni out of the oven

and I think they're done perfect. Oh, my goodness. Look at this

I've got to bite into this little macaroni and cheese muffin. Let's taste

Mmm. Mmm. Ooh, Jamie. Is it good? I love citrusy pork chops

Mmm. Mmm. This is so good. Mmm. Yum. Good, John

Love the spinach. Ooh, happy Father's Day to me. Coming up next, marshmallow treats

that dad and kids can make together. Jack, look how awesome that is

And later, we have tons of fun decorating our cupcakes. Look, it's purple

Oh, my goodness. Look, y'all. You can't have Father's Day without the kid

I love you, precious. Let's see what Gann's cooking. All right. I like marshmallows

Yes. I know you like marshmallows. Well, Jack, guess what? Daddy and Kenny are going to make crispy rice cupcakes

So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to put in... Sprinkles

Six tablespoons of butter. All right, now we're going to put the marshmallows in

Let's dump them in. Okay? This is 10 1⁄2 ounces of mini marshmallows

Marshmallows are running everywhere. Two for you. They're escaping. All right, so Ginny is just going to stir these real good

until our marshmallows melt with our butter. Yum, right? And then put the sprinkles on

Yes, we've got to have sprinkles. We're going to put peanut butter too, bub

Yum. So what do you like to do, Jack, for Daddy on Father's Day

Hold it straight. You like to make stuff. Uh-huh. Now that we've got the marshmallows melted, let's go ahead and add a teaspoon of vanilla

And don't let your hand touch the pot. And now that third of a cup of peanut butter

There you go. There you go. That's one-third. Look at this, Jack

Does that look like delicious? You want to stir the peanut butter in

All right, Kenny's going to turn it off. There you go. Just stir, stir, stir

And look at that peanut butter goodness going through there. Now, Daddy's just adding the crispies

It's a 12-ounce box of a rice cereal, y'all. Crunch, crunch. Ooh, gosh

Would you let Daddy stir and let Kenny hold you, please? Because Daddy has got strong arms

Yum. That looks delicious, doesn't it? Look how sticky. Here, taste. Now that we've got all this put in and melted down, y'all, we're going to add our sprinkles

We going to put in 8 sprinkles or four ounces Let count them You want to Yes One Two Ten Three four

Dump the whole thing. Hold it from the bottom. Okay. Don't let your hands touch the..

Whoa! You love that. Sprinkles. Wouldn't that be fun to go to a sprinkle factory and see how they make sprinkles

Would you like that? Mm-hmm. I would too. Jack, look how awesome that is

Yes, sir. Oh, okay. Say, Guinea. You're falling down on the job, Guinea

Jack, now that we've got this melted, you know what we're going to do? What? We're going to make them into balls and put them on sticks

And then we're going to dip them into chocolate and put more sprinkles. Want to? It's time

I want to try. You want to try one? All right, make it into a ball, precious

I think more of a mess would be butter in your hands. May I have a stick, please, Daddy

I think we've got to get these sticks in here before they get too cool

Yum. The peanut butter is just all goodness smelling. Here you go, baby

Okay. Making it to a shape, bud. Ooh. Any shape you want

This is warm. or a square? What kind of I need a circle

I love it. I love it, love it, love it. Jack, look

What letter is this? J for me. J for you. Yes. Jack, we're going

to do a couple more of these and then guess what? What? More sprinkles. Would you like

some more sprinkles? What? Yes. Was that your stomach growling? Mm-hmm. Are you hungry

Mm-hmm. Oh, my gosh. I can't stand the thoughts of my baby

being hungry. Only the best here at the Dean House, all. Yum

Y'all stick around. When we come back, more sprinkles. Here, baby. Coming up next, we're all having a ball, topping off our crispy rice cupcakes

You got sprinkles on the end of your nose. Hey, y'all, welcome back

Jack, you ready for more sprinkles? Y'all ready for more sprinkles? Let's move down to the end

I'm ready for more sprinkles. Come down here, buddy. Okay, let's go

Let's go. All right, get on your stool. I'm gonna try it

You wanna try it? So what we've got now, y'all, is our chocolate

Well, surprisingly enough, Jack's not a big chocolate fan, so he's gonna stay away from the chocolate and focus on more sprinkles

We got any kind of colored sprinkles that you want. These are sugar sprinkles. But be careful when you use these because the colors usually denote a flavor

So unless you like sour apples, stay away from the green crystals. And raspberry

And is that watermelon? Watermelon. I bet it's watermelon. Pass me a ball, Daddy, please

Here you go. So melt your chocolate. We got milk chocolate. We got white chocolate

You can do anything you want. You can make designs. You can make it fancy. Okay

Okay. I want you to. There you go. Just because he doesn't eat it doesn't mean he won't want to play in it. Okay

Where are my circle? Okay. I will do it. I want to do it. Mom

Mom, let me get in there. I'm going to do a fancy smancy. Oh, yay

Buddy, I'm going to do half and half. I love fancy smancy. All right

Is it good? Can I put three for mine? Mm-hmm. Mmm, Jack, that's beautiful

Oh, yeah. Eat it. Look at the camera and show everybody your face

You got sprinkles on the end of your nose. Ooh, look how pretty Daddy's is

Kenny's gonna do pink on one side. and then green on the other

Yum. You want to make an easy recipe even easier? Throw all this other stuff away

and just open up the sprinkles. Would you like a spoon, Jack

Okay. Jack, what are you doing, son? I'm enjoying my cooking, Daddy

It's purple You want Ginny to get a mirror so you can see

Okay, hold on I'll be back in two steps Did you have fun with Daddy and Ginny today

Can you say Happy Father's Day? Happy Father's Day Can I have a kiss

I love you And that's what Father's Day is all about Happy Father's Day y'all, have fun

and get messy. It makes it taste better