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. Alright, 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 want to 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 to just kind of 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, because I don't want it popping on me

Play with your food as well as your family. He's just too cute

We're gonna beat us up an egg, because 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 stop to mom, right? No

No, mama. We haven't been at the golf course. Ooh, it's hot

What a great idea. No kidding. Had a good time at the golf course. 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! Jamie

She's eight feet tall. Huh, what you got? I found your one

Awesome thanks What you feeling Just admiring the advertising Come on man we gotta go Here some beer

Yeah. 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 crabby's. 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 gonna pop our cheese open

All right, so I'm gonna mix the butter and the cheese together, and I'm gonna add a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise

and a little garlic powder. All right, and then I'm gonna 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 gonna 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 wanna 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. Yeah. Hey, darling

I'll test one of these. Walk on out. Mm, yummy. Walk on out

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

Mm-mm-mm. Mmm. I just love sleeping with a hog. Y'all don't go anywhere, cause 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'm going to 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 crabbies have been in the oven about 12 minutes. And I've just got to try one

And I'm going to 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 going to 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. Maybe 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. I'm going to 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 will last up to three months. Alright, I've got another pot ready over here in the crock pot because it will maintain

just the right temperature and we're going to 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 you 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 gonna do is sprinkle me some cheese so it can melt

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

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

All right, and to this I'm gonna 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 gonna add some melted butter and some sugar. And then I'm just gonna take my fork and mash around in that until it's kind of all moist

Just like that. And then I'm just gonna sprinkle a little bit into the bottom of a little miniature muffin liner

Just like that. And then I'm going to come in there, and I'm going to 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 going to mix up our cheesecake, and we're going to use two packages of eight-ounce softened cream cheese

a cup of sugar, a fourth 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 going to let them cook for, oh, maybe about 12 minutes

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

Hey, Mom. Hey, son. Oh, perfect timing. You take us out my oven

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

Hey, Mom, I've got to 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. Okay

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. Okay. There

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 sit there with her, I am starving. You wanted yours now. Take it. Finish it

Thank you, I love you. You're welcome. Why you 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 gonna 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. Gonna 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

All right, 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 in cards. Played as Pictionary too. 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, but Hannah Puddin'. We weren't sure what beer was gonna 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 eatin' done cause I'm ready to beat y'all's brains out at the game

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

We thought I'm doing something behind my back? Not at all. Right in front of your face