Game Night

Hey y'all, I'm Paula Deen, and I hope y'all gonna get out your cards, your chips, your boards, and your dice

cause tonight it's game night at Paula's house. And while the boys are out getting drinks at Habersham Beverage Warehouse

I'm gonna be dealing out some goodies to please any gambler's appetite

First, it's gonna be a new spin on an old favorite. Would you believe hogs in a sleeping bag

And my special crabbies are the ace up my sleeve. And when it's time to take a break and recoup, I'm going to serve up my taco soup

And you know, since everybody's a winner in my house, I'm going to be serving up Michael's favorite reward, mini cheesecakes with a chocolate peanut butter cup center

So y'all stick around. You might just learn a trick or two. All right, guys

Now, listen now, y'all. I need for y'all to pick up some beer for the cocktail that I'm going to do

I need for y'all to turn your hats around. Okay. Because Michael and I are going to have everything

Okay. Beers. Love y'all, too. And guys, y'all don't forget now, it's game night

I'm going to take advantage while all those men are out of my hair

to get us some snacks going. So the first thing that I'm gonna fix

instead of pigs in a blanket, hogs in a sleeping bag. I went to the store and I just bought

the smoked kielbasa sausage. And what we're gonna do is steam them

just to bring them up to temperature. Because it's such a thick, big meat

I wanna make sure that it's really hot in the center. So I'm gonna bring them to room temperature

They're fully cooked, so all they have to do is get hot. When I went to the store, I thought

well, some puff pastry would be a little bit more hearty and filling than crescent rolls

So that's what we're going to use for our hogs in a sleeping blanket. And I'm going to roll this out just a little bit

I want to be able to get more squares out of this than I would if I didn't roll it

All right, so I'm going to come over here and I'm going to cut my pastry. That's going to give me six sleeping bags

When I made these for the men at Bell South, I made them just like this

I just rolled them up. But if you really want it to look like a sleeping bag, we're going to wrap it and we're going

I'm gonna just kinda fold it back so he looks like his head's sticking out of a sleeping

bag. I'm gonna change this hog's sleeping bag. I think I'm gonna dampen that edge, cause

I don't want it popping on me. Play with your food as well as your family. He's just too

We're gonna beat us up an egg, cause I want them to be pretty and shiny

All right, so we're just gonna take this and brush it on, and that'll give it a real pretty shiny finish

Otherwise, puff pastry will come out real dull looking. All right, these are ready to go into the oven

So I'm just gonna watch it. It may take 15 or 20 minutes. I sure hope those boys are not getting into any mischief

Gosh, what a beautiful day, man. Isn't it great? Let's kind of kick around for a little bit

We got time. Let's do it. We don't mention this stopped the mom, right? No

No, mama. We haven't been at the golf course. It's hot. What a great idea

Had a good time at the golf course. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. We have to hurry up and get to the liquor store

I mean, we're really late. Alright, brother, we're running late. Do you know where the beer is

You go that way, I'll take it this way. Jamie! She's 8 feet tall

Huh, what you got? I found your one Awesome thanks What you doing I was just admiring the advertising Come on man we gotta go Here some beer

How about grab a six-pack? That's pretty good beer. Come on, hurry up. Priorities, bro

Hey, hey, hey, hey. That's my best salesperson. You can't take her. Baby, try to hold on

I'll be back. Come on, Bob. Have fun, guys. Oh, well. All right

We're going to start making our crabbies. And we're going to use a half a stick of butter

And I'm going to mix that up with an old English cheese

But it's just good stuff. Now, I'm going to just press my butter

because it's not real soft, but it won't take it long. And we're just going to pop our cheese open

All right, so I'm going to mix the butter and the cheese together

and I'm going to add a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise and a little garlic powder

All right, and then I'm going to add a couple of drops of hot sauce to it. Well, that was actually more than a couple of drops, wasn't it

All right, so let's talk about crab meat. Any crab that you buy is going to be already cooked

In the grocery store that you shop in, you can talk with your seafood manager

and he can kind of steer you the right way. Now this particular crab that I'm using today has been picked free of shells, so we're safe there

I'm just going to kind of stir that together. And this is a great little snack because you can actually make these ahead of time and

pop them in your freezer and then just pull them out and throw them in the oven as you're

ready to serve them. Now what we've done is taken just a regular English muffin and split it apart and I've

lightly toasted these. So we're gonna take our bread rounds between your butter and your

cheese and your crab. These are real, real rich. You don't want to get too much

All right, there you go. And like I said, at this point, you could actually stick these

in the freezer, so when your family wants a snack, all you have to do is just pull them

out and pop them into the oven. All right, we're going to put these in, and I hope that

those hogs in a blanket are going to be ready. Oh, yeah, those look good. Hey, darling. I'll

test one of these. Walk on out. Mmm, yummy. Y'all, that was Michael. And let me tell you

there ain't a dime's worth of difference between he and Rennie. He always turns up just in time

for it to come out of the oven. Now, I've got strawberry preserves here that I made the other

day, or if they want them savory, they can just put a little mustard and mayonnaise on them

Mmm, mmm, mmm. I just love sleeping with a hog. Y'all don't go anywhere

because when we come back, I'm gonna be checking on the Krabbies

and I'm gonna be making a pot of taco soup. All right, I'm just trying to pull all my ingredients together for this taco soup

This dish is going to be great because they don't have to eat it until they're ready

because when they're ready, this is ready for... Paula, something's burning. Oh, crap, my crabbies

Oh no. They're all right! Thank goodness I got some more in this other oven

They're just perfect, honey. Don't you worry about them. You know what

I think I'm gonna put them right in there so I won't be found out. Because I don't have to worry about him taking out the trash

All right. Now these krabbies have been in the oven about 12 minutes

and I've just got to try one, and I'm gonna sprinkle them with just a little parsley

just whatever you wanted to. And I've just got to try these

You and Michael, Gertie. They're delicious. I'm gonna put these to the side, though

because I really want to get this soup together. And as you can tell, I've had a lot of distractions

So I've kind of burned a couple of things and... Oops May be on the way to burning the next dish Gonna toss in some diced onion and I just gonna brown this hamburger meat

Now, I love to make this particular soup in the crock pot and just let it simmer for six to eight hours

but the way I'm gonna make it today brings my cooking time down to 45 minutes to an hour

All right, now I'm using a slotted spoon. And I'm gonna transfer our ground beef and our onions

to our soup pot. This is not gonna take long. Now to put our soup together

we're gonna add a can of kidney beans with the juice. And then I'm gonna add

two cans of pinto beans. All right, now I'm gonna be adding three different kinds of tomatoes to this soup

I'm gonna add a Mexican tomato, tomato with chilies, and just a regular diced tomato

So all we have to do is just dump. Oops. All right, that takes care of the tomatoes

To this now, I'm gonna add a can of whole kernel corn

some green chilies, some black olives, and some green olives. Taco seasoning, that's gonna give us that Mexican flavor

One package of dry original ranch buttermilk dressing, and we're gonna let that simmer for about 45 minutes

Gonna add some beautiful green onion tops. So look at that beautiful pot of hearty soup

Now the beauty of this soup is you can make it two days in advance, or you can even put it in the freezer

and it'll last up to three months. All right, I've got another pot ready over here

in the crock pot because it'll maintain just the right temperature, and we're gonna pull this out later on when I'm really, really

short of time. All right, so I want you to see what it should look like after it's been simmering

And they'll never know I've been in this. Now let me show y'all the way I like to eat chili and taco soup

I'm gonna start by getting the tortilla shells, and then I'm gonna ladle my soup on it

Mmm, and I like that juice. The first thing I'm going to do is sprinkle me some cheese so it can melt

We just love jalapenos. And I'm just going to pop out those seeds

Michael likes his to make his hair stand up, to flip his lid

All right, and to this I'm going to add sour cream. And when we come back, I'm going to show y'all what I cooked up for Michael

I decided to combine two of his favorite things in the whole world

cheesecake and Reese's Buttercup. So y'all don't go anywhere. I'll be in the kitchen burning some more stuff

You know, the other night as I was drifting off to sleep

I thought, well, now what can I fix for Michael because he's got a tremendous sweet tooth

and I know how he feels about cheesecake. So that's what I'm going to do today

I'm going to start with a graham cracker crust. We're going to use just finely ground graham crackers

and I'm going to add some melted butter and some sugar. And then I'm just going to take my fork and mash around in that

until it's kind of all moist, just like that. And then I'm just going to sprinkle a little bit

into the bottom of a little miniature muffin liner, just like that

And then I'm gonna come in there, and I'm gonna drop a peanut butter cup down into each one of those

Just drop a candy right there in the center of each of those little liners

Now we're gonna mix up our cheesecake, and we're gonna use two packages of 8-ounce softened cream cheese

a cup of sugar, 1 1⁄4 of a cup of flour. All right, we're just gonna cream this together

All right and I gonna add two eggs I going to add them one at the time

Cheesecake is so very simple to be so very sinful. All right, I'm going to add my flavoring to it now

And, you know, actually a little almond flavoring would be really, really good

but I'm going to just add a little bit of vanilla flavoring. When you're making a cheesecake, actually when you're doing any kind of bacon

you'll want to make sure that your butter, your cream cheese, and even your eggs have been brought to room temperature

They'll work much better for you. and we're just going to take our cream cheese batter

and pour it right over those peanut butter cups. And these are great to have as a snack while you're working

These are ready to go into the 350 preheated oven, and we're gonna let them cook for, oh, maybe about 12 minutes

And let's see if this other batch is ready. Oh, and they are

Hey, Mom. Hey, Son. Oh, perfect timing. You take yourself out of the oven

Y'all made it back. Yes. Listen, I was kind of worried about y'all making a beer run

Hey, Mom, I gotta have one of these. No, I hadn't finished decorating them

I got a pastry bag with whipping cream. I just want to hug you

I love you. I don't much. You little . No! No . Seriously

Y'all get out of my kitchen. Get out right now. OK. I want to watch you finish them

Can I have one, really? No, you cannot. I'm not. I'm done. No

Finish it. Finish that one. OK. There. Yeah. I've got some powdered sugar, I've got some grated chocolate

and I've got some whipped cream. So I think whipped cream and then a little grated chocolate

I can't wait. No, you wanted yours now. You don't see me with her

I am starving. You wanted yours now. Take it. Finish it. Thank you

I love you. You're welcome. Why you've had to do me so wrong my whole life

Well, I've got the perfect party food. They're better than good. And we're going to have a perfect family party night with all the games

And Michael and the boys are going to be joining me. And I'm going to teach them how to play games

And the only thing missing is the perfect family. I've got an actual secret to share with y'all

If you've been to a party the night before and maybe it got a little too festive

a little hair of the dog sometimes will really perk you up

Now I'm going to take a regular beer, and these are great too if you want to throw your mug into the freezer

and freeze it and get it nice and frosty. Half tomato juice

I'm going to give it a couple of swirls. I'm gonna sprinkle it with a little salt and a little pepper

Squirt a lime juice. And it really makes for a very, very tasty cocktail

Alright, what kind of games y'all got for us? Well, we got a little checkers or we got a little cards

And I'm not playing any cards. I learned that a long time ago

Pictionary, too. Can you guess what that says? No, Paula, hot bananas hot

That's it. You got it. Not your mama's banana pudding. Isn't that great

Not your mama's banana pudding. We weren't sure what beer was going to work for this

but I picked some up and submitted for your approval. This is what beer we're going for

The Three Stooges beer. I think this kind of says it all

Well, guys, let's get this eating done because I'm ready to beat y'all's brains out at the games

So as always, America, my family and I send you love and best dishes from our kitchen to yours

We done doing something behind my back? Not at all, right in front of your face