French Toast Panini

I'm in here in my kitchen with Rodney Atkins

He is fixing to kick off his music tour. And he has agreed to drop by here in his big old bus

along with his crew, and let me cook for them before he gets started on the road

Thanks for having us come by. We are ready to kick off a tour and get some home cooking

Thank you, Rodney. I didn't realize you was so tall. Well, you are too, too cute

All right, so let's get started. All I'm going to do now, y'all, is just real, real simple

Like I said, Rodney's crew is out in the truck, and they know that we're cooking breakfast for them

so I'm hoping they're getting up an appetite. Yeah, they are ready. They eat a lot

Well, what else is there to do on a bus but sing and eat? And we're going to start by making a scrambled egg and bacon and cheese panini

So what I need for you to do, Dumplin', is break these eggs one at a time into here. Okay

And when you done you can put your shells back in there What you think to do You got a trick Not yet Not Not yet As long as we go Okay So I going to come down here and I going to scramble our eggs for the sandwich

And the eggs that you're cracking, we're going to dip our paninis into them. So it's kind

of like a French toast panini. I understand that you've got a precious little 11-year-old son

I do. His name's Elijah. He's precious, isn't he? He's making straight A's, too

Very proud of him. Get out! How many musical instruments do you play

Pretty much, I'm just guitar. Just acoustic guitar. Just guitar. A little electric, not a whole lot

So let's talk about some things that people might not know, like the fact that you were adopted

I was put up for adoption, and I was in a children's home called Holston Home for Children

Mm-hmm. And from what I understand, I was put up for adoption

I was taken home by a couple, and I think I was colicky. I had a respiratory staph infection

which is crazy to be a singer now. So I got returned to the orphanage

and then another couple came along. With the path that I took. Well, somebody out there watching this

that returned a baby how many years ago? What 43 years ago You done Mr Good I gonna drop a little sour cream into my eggs that I going to scramble Rodney because that sour cream will keep those eggs nice and moist

and keep them from turning green on us. So I'm going to beat in that little bit of sour cream

I'm going to add some salt, pepper, and a few tablespoons of milk

so i understand that you work with adopted children and i think that's wonderful we get

to do some stuff with different children's homes around the country and still are involved with the

home that i was adopted from when you think you can't there's not much you can do there is just

little things that mean the world these days. Right. It's those little things that can add up

into a big thing. Exactly. Well, that is such a beautiful, beautiful cause that you're working

on, and I would like to be able to help you any way that I could. All right. Now, my eggs

are looking good How do you like your eggs Yes Yes He likes them Yes I on the Atkins I going to put it on the Atkins diet So our eggs are ready So what we going to do is we just going to take our bread and put our cheese and our ham on it

And then our scrambled eggs. And then we're just going to run it in to our scrambled eggs

So this is almost like a stuffed French toast, Rodney. Good. That's all we do

That's all we do. So you take your sandwich and dip it down in there

Okay. And I'm going to get me some eggs. So we have cooked a lot of paninis, y'all

because we've got a crew on the bus waiting for us. but I think you and I need to just make sure, Rodney

it's good enough for our friends, don't you? Test it out. I love doing the testing for her

I love doing the testing, too. So... Looks good. Bon appetit. Here we go

Oh, wow. Mmm