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Today is all about Southern specials

And Jamie and I have two very special Southern girls in the kitchen with us today

First y'all, Jamie and I are going to kick it off with a melt-in-your-mouth artichoke dip

and then our sour cream pork chops with a Vidalia onion gravy

Cheers. For dessert, an over-the-top punch bowl layer cake. Oh, these girls eat the same way I ate

I've got two very special girls that's coming on with us today

Jamie and Bobby grew up with these two girls. They were the daughters of my best friend, Susan Beacham Dupuis

I want to hurry up and get the girls out here. So let's get started on old-timey southern favorite hot artichoke dip

What can we put in there to make it different? How about some cream cheese

How about some cream cheese, y'all? This is kind of a redo of this recipe

You know, cream cheese makes everything better, right? Makes it creamy. We're going to drain

14 ounces of artichoke hearts. Yeah. I've got one cup of mayonnaise

Okay. So Jamie and I were in the kitchen yesterday, and I had such a good time with you, son

We always have fun. And we're like. We do always have fun, don't we? We give all these other folks in here with us fits because we cut up the whole time

There's about a half a cup. You know, and I'm going to do some more. I'm going to put some more on top. Yeah, we'll want some on top

So I've got your cup of mayonnaise, your cup of sour cream

And that mayonnaise makes it so good and rich. And your cream cheese

This is great if you're having the gang over for a card game or a pool party

How long has it been since you've seen the girls? It's been a few years, I think. I'm going to put this in now

Yeah, Suzette married into the restaurant business. Nothing easy about the restaurant business

And Amy went on to get her a degree in education. Which is pretty damn scary

when you know the full back story. She is a teacher. Let's put a little hot sauce. Okay

This is the only hot sauce I would ever use. Yes. And this is just a taste

She's got a funny looking old lady on the front. You can't miss it. Does she have horns

No, she does not. They photoshopped her mouth. She's a sweet old lady

when she ain't busy being bad. That's also about the color of your hair

Listen, y'all, I have had every color hair known to man. At one time, you called it frosted

and it was about four different colors. It was a 1971 frosting

Here, son, let me borrow your thing. It was more like the tail of a lemur

And they're wanting money for us to get haircuts either, so there's a good chance that any of the hair that you see in these pictures today would be a homemade haircut

I would be the barber. Mama cut both my ears one time. One night when he was six years old, y'all, I said, now son, Mama's going to cut your hair

I went to cut around this ear, laid it open with the scissors

Because my hair used to come down to the bottom of my ears. That was the line

Yes. Oh, my God. Just took the bottom off of it. I'm only a little jumpy now because I..

The worst haircuts in the world. My poor baby. And then when I was old enough to afford haircuts

I decided to go with the mullet. So I stayed in the terrible hair realm for a long time

Okay. All right, so 350, about 25 minutes. All right, Jamie, come on down

because we are going to do sour cream pork chops with a five-day gravy

Yes, ma'am. So I got our pan heating up Okay I gonna salt and pepper these chops Yeah we got four nice thick pork chops that are boneless I going to add the stuff that going to make our gravy

And I'm going to need one cup of beef stock, a teaspoon of yellow mustard to that

and a little paprika. Right in there? Right in there. This is all ready

I got some parsley for you, too. Okie doke. And that's it

Okie dokie. So we're gonna cook these pork chops now, about three or four minutes on each side

Where is your brother? I don't know, mama. I'm not in charge of him

Well I'm gonna get him on the phone cause I talked to him last night

and I said, now, as soon as that name is here, I maybe shouldn't have given him a heads up

He's probably at home sitting on the toilet, a nervous wreck, wondering what these girls

gonna say about him. Jamie cut up about a cup and a half of Vidalia onions

What was so nice about having a girl as a close friend is that I dated a few of her friends

We would take the kids every year y'all to Panama City on school break

They would take 10 of us, high schoolers, up to no good

No good. No good, y'all. I volunteered as cook, babysitter, dish washing, laundry, wench

but we had the best time. Let's go ahead and pour all of our stuff on top of it

And we're going to put this on simmer. And we're just going to let this cook

I think the girls are going to love it. Coming up next, we reminisce with the girls

as we taste the artichoke dip, and some things never change as Jamie and Suzette

are still battling for who's best. So let it be known, I won

And here we go. Well y'all, we finally got the girls out

Now this is Suzette, this is Amy. You know, I didn't have to give birth to any girls

thank you Lord, but these are like my girls because your mama and I were best friends

I'm so glad y'all were here. It's so good to see y'all. Bring me one of those

Oh my goodness. Susan, that's hot. Oh, yummy. Yeah, so let me tell y'all

Now, when Amy was a little girl, she was mean as a snake, y'all

I remember one time we were out shopping to the outlet store with y'all

and Amy running around with that straggly hair. and I looked at her one morning

and I was a big fan of Tubby and Lulu. Well, they had this little friend

with this straggly hair named Little Itch. I said, oh my God, y'all

you look just like Little Itch from Lulu and Tubby. 30-something years later, y'all

we still call her Little Itch. Little Itch. Little Itch. Little Itch

Susette used to challenge Jamie to arm wrestling. She would beat his brains out

I can probably still take you down. I'll let you win. I say you still got it, sister

I'm still strong. Let's say we're pretty good. I know you're strong as an ox. You get it from your mama

I know. I think we need a challenge here, don't you? I do

I double dog dare you, Jamie. Yes. Come on. Let's do it

I'm on it. You take it, girl. We're going to do it professional

Yeah. You ready? All right. I'm not as strong as I used to. I'll count

All right, ready? Get ready. Jamie. Get set. Go. I can't do it

Yes, you can, Suzette. You can do it. You can do it, Suzette

You dog. So let it be known I won, but I cheated

So we'll never know. You're still strong. I still wouldn't foot race you, though

I can't run. I can't run anymore. It didn't take you but 43 years, son

Way to go. I know. I out of breath I can tell you my arm hurts Coming up next I give the girls a quick rundown on our punch bowl cake So that baking a cake 101 today y

And later, it's time to start layering this beautiful masterpiece. Who's ready to taste

I am. Girl

Tasting time again, girls. That's great. I'm going to bring our pork chops

You need some help on it? Ooh, I got it, son. Ooh, heavy, heavy, heavy pan

I'm going to just move these pork chops around the edge because I'm going to add us

Not sour cream. Yes, I am. I'm going to add a cup of sour cream to our Vidalia onion gravy

We're going to put this on top of our grits. Oh. Oh. It's going to be delicious

What you talking about, Murdys? Yeah. Yum. How is it, girls? Yeah, I'm just trying to get everything good and wet

That looks good. All right, dig in. I love it. I love about red eye

Uh-uh. I got to try the grits with that sauce. Yes, look at that

Ooh, cheers. Cheers, man. Cheers. Cheers. It's hot. Yeah, cheers, man. Cheers. Mmm

I'm already chewing. Yeah. Mmm! The sauce on the grits. Well, listen, I could stand up here and eat this the rest of the day, but we got a cake

to make. We're gonna make a five-flavor pound cake. A standard pound cake, two sticks of butter

Not two sticks. Yes, honey, it's just a little. I know it's a little shy

We could really stand three. But we're just going to do two today because this is a diet. Okay

All right, so in goes the butter. And Jamie's going to add three cups of sugar

And we're just going to beat that until it's creamy. So, Suzette, if you would measure out three cups of the all-purpose flour

Amy, if you would be cracking our five eggs. Okay. And then when you get through with that, we need half a teaspoon or a teaspoon of zest from the orange and lemon

Why don't you go ahead and measure up our flavorings and just put them into our buttermilk

Because we're going to add that buttermilk alternately with our dry ingredients

So mama got the flavorings in the buttermilk. One teaspoon of vanilla

a quarter of a teaspoon of almond, a quarter teaspoon of my favorite smell in the world, coconut

Coconut. And so that's three, and now orange is four, and lemon is five

So that's our five flavors, right? That sounds great, yes. And this orange smells so good

It does. And Suzette has, in our dry ingredients, three cups of all-purpose flour

one and a half teaspoons of baking powder, a quarter of a teaspoon of salt

So that's baking a cake 101 today, y'all. I know it. We needed it

So we're going to start, Suzette, and I'm going to add our eggs and beat well after each addition

And you do one egg again? One at the top. Okay. Cool

And then we get our eggs in. We're going to start with our flour and our buttermilk

Okay. There you go. All right. Now we're gonna start with our dry. Whoa

You're killing me, son, you're killing me. You know, I feel like I've stepped back in time about 30 years

When you turn, I know, but you turned that beater off so high. How much do you suspect that I'm gonna get it mixed up

You will? Whoa! And that's the way they did when they were little

They went on just like this. Here comes my wet. All right, there you go. We got in the wet. Okay

Watch it son We put in our teaspoon of lemon and our teaspoon of orange zest All right there we go Looking good

All right, about half that sun. All right, now just do it just like that

Just pick up that bowl. All right, girls. Earlier, I buttered and floured our cake pan

Suzette, if you'll just turn his pan now, honey, while he's pouring. That's all right

All right, y'all, we're going to put this in the oven at 325 degrees, and we're going to bake it for an hour and 15 minutes

Let's just make sure that's kind of level. There we go. There you go

There we go. Into the oven, 325, an hour and 15 minutes

And because today is a special Southern day with you girls being in here with us

we're going to take this cake and we're going to just kind of take it over the top

We're going to turn it into a punch bowl cake. Coming up next

All right, let's eat it. We dig into this delectable dessert. That's good, Paula

All right, our cake is out of the oven

It's cooled. We're going to turn this into a punch bowl cake, y'all

But before we do that, why don't we sample our pound cake

Okay? There you go. Is it good? I want some of the top, Mama

Oh, okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's delicious. Isn't it delicious? That's from that butter

Mm-hmm. All right, I'm going to give everybody a job. All right, Amy, I need for you to quarter those strawberries

Suzette, I need for you to drain this crushed pineapple. We've got a 20-ounce can

We have got three bananas here, son. And slice your bananas. Now, I've got the custard part already ready, and it's just a coconut instant pudding that I whipped up

So we've got all the ingredients we need. We're going to turn this into a trifle

And I'm just going to break half of our cake. And Jamie's just squeezing a little lemon juice on the bananas just to keep them from turning brown

All right, so I'm going to take our coconut pudding and just spread it around

Kind of put that all over our cake. You got the pineapple draining

All right, I'm going to take half of it. This is kind of like got all the ingredients for a banana split, doesn't it, Jamie

Missing the chocolate. That's it. Yep. And then I'm going to take the strawberry juice, that juice

And then we're just going to put those around. All right, now we need whipping cream

Mm. Lawless. What you say, little itch? I said, mm. Now cake, son

And then the last half of our custard. The last of our pineapple

All right, now bananas, son. The rest of those strawberries. And then the whipped cream

Yum. Good. Yes, and then I'm just going to take the back of that spatula

We're like vultures. I know. Amy, pass me a strawberry. Okay. Gonna fan it and put it in the center of that cake

Isn't that beautiful? It really is. So who's ready to taste? I am

You're getting all the way down at the bottom. I'm trying to get some juice for you, Mama. You know, I've kidded every one of y'all today

and talking about how bad y'all were. You were bad. Especially me

You were much better. Especially you itch. But no, I want much better

But I'm so proud of the way y'all have turned out. And we just love y'all to pieces

And it's time to say goodbye. All right. Perfect timing. My dessert is slap-a-dash

You wrapped that up, brother. It was good. Well, you can fill it back up, son