Good Morning Savannah!

Hey, y'all. I'm in the kitchen with two fabulous women today

The Grammy Award-winning Roseanne Cash and her gorgeous daughter, Carrie Crowell. And they're here to help me celebrate Mother's Day by making a Southern Sunday brunch

We're kicking it off, y'all, with my breakfast casserole. Carrie cooks up some of her grit cakes that we're going to be topping with Roseanne's creamy white gravy

Delicious! And then we're making my geriatric salad. Yep, you heard that right

Wow. And we're wrapping up this Mother's Day brunch menu with a fruit salad topped with a poppy seed dressing

We're excited. I'm excited, honey. No, I'm excited. Well, we are going to do breakfast today, y'all

These two women really, really cook. I really cook? She really, really cooks

And you like to bake, don't you, Carrie? I do. I love to bake. Loves and loves and loves to bake

And I bet you cook the collard greens, the turnip greens, the cornbread

Maybe. Once or twice. Well, listen. Cornbread, definitely. Yeah. My grandmother's recipe for cornbread, yeah

And how do you do it? Put a little sugar in it. Okay, so you kind of like sweet cornbread

Cast iron skillet. Cast iron skillet. Yes, cast iron skillet. I love my cast iron

Roseanne is on the road a lot, y'all. Roseanne, I don't get to cook as much as I used to

Yeah, I bet. And I miss that. Yeah. I miss it. But when you're on the road, like you and me, of course, you've got real talent

No. I'm just pretending. I don't think so. I don't think so

Oh, my gosh. Well, let's get started on the breakfast casserole. All right, now, we've got a pound of maple sausage

Nice. that I'm going to need for you to saute up, Carrie. I can do that

And I tell you what, Roseanne, if you would trim the crust off this bread

and then we're going to line it in our dish. Yes, ma'am. And you will want to spray that pan first, yes

So I've got so many questions to ask you. I am so envious of families that have your kind of talent

Well, you're a family, too. Yeah, come on. What are you talking about? Everybody

No, honey. I'm talking about the gift of singing. Music. You've been so blessed, haven't you

I have. I've been really lucky. You know, my father was a great musician, as you know

Yes. And I learned a lot from him. But Paula, I can't sing

And I can cook. That's right. And that gets me pretty far. There is some justice in the world somewhere, y'all

I can't sing at all. I had this child who was just this little domestic goddess, and she started teaching me things

Isn't that great? Mama didn't have an electric mixer until I said, you've got to get one

She just didn't have a hand mixer. How'd you make a cake, Roseanne? We won't talk about it

All right, I'm breaking up eight eggs, girls. Do I put this in here like this

Yes, just layer it in there the best way you can. So tell me all about your life growing up, Roseanne

I grew up in Southern California. Oh, you did? I did. Well, now how did you learn that there

Well, my family moved out there when I was three years old. I was born in Memphis, but we moved out there. Yeah

And then I moved back to Nashville where Carrie was born. Then I've been in New York 22 years

Have you really? Yeah. Not many places to find good Southern food in New York. No

So, yes, you can come up and visit us. I know, I've been. Yeah

All right, honey, if you'd measure out two cups of milk, and we're just gonna pour it over our eggs

Now, I just added one teaspoon of dry mustard, y'all. This gives the eggs just a little bit of a kick

There you go. If you would, just open that cheese, darling. Okay, and pour it over

And pour it over the bread that you line the bottom of the pan with. All right, now, y'all, I'm just gonna kind of drain it with this spoon

because we're going to take those drippings and we're going to make some gravy later on

Nice little maple gravy. You're going to make a cocktail with those drippings? I'll talk to this

All right, if you would finish doing that. All right. And why don't you get your grits started

because Carrie is going to make us some grit cakes, y'all. I am

So now what are you doing here, Carrie? I'm literally going to put one cup of milk

one cup of water, and one cup of grits. Okay. And, Roseanne, if you'd go ahead and pour that over there

You're doing great. And I'm going to put this over here, Roseanne

before I accidentally throw our gold away. Yeah, that's gold, honey. I hate to hear whoops in the kitchen

It happens a lot. I have found that you can fix any oops Mistakes Except scorch Now when you scorch It over The party is over Go homes It over What about over

It's over then. Add some potatoes. Okay. We're a match made in heaven

Yes. Although I did salt something so much the other night, the potatoes wouldn't even take it out

We ate it anyway. Of course. That's the right thing to do. And the next morning, we woke up..

Rolling, right. No, I didn't salt it too much. I noticed that you've got a necklace on with the name Dan on it

I do. That's my boyfriend, Dan. That's your boyfriend, Dan. You might like this

My daddy's from Texas, and he's told my boyfriend that if you liked a girl in Texas, you'd give her your disc

So then for my birthday, I got a disc. Now, how old are you? I'm 24

Okay. You're old enough to get a disc. We need some salt and pepper

Oh yes An unsalted grit is like the nastiest thing in the world

In the whole world Are you going to let those cook some more

I think they're all done And then we should lay them out on a pan

So they can congeal Okay I'm just going to go ahead And then they're going to chill

And I bet you're going to cut them in shapes I am Okay let's just spread them out right

Okay yes If you would put that in the oven, Rosanne, we'll take a break, let these cool

and when we come back, you're going to make grit cakes. Grit cakes. You're going to make gravy

I am. And I'm going to just sit and watch and enjoy

Coming up, Rosanne whips up some of her good old gravy. Yeah

Toot toot. Then we enjoy the fruits of our labor. I could drink that gravy, Rosanne

And later, I make an oldie but a goodie, y'all. A geriatric salad

Gosh, I'm so glad that y'all came back. I'm fixing to turn my kitchen over to these two fabulous women

Roseanne and her daughter, Carrie. I'm going to step back out of the way, girls

Look, we got our sausage and egg casserole out of the oven

and Roseanne, you're going to make gravy, right? I am. And what are you doing, Carrie

We're going to turn the grits into little cakes. Okay, well, if I can help y'all in any way, let me know

You can always help. But I'm going to just stand here and enjoy looking at y'all

Well, this is so easy because you just make a roux at the beginning

and you can turn that roux into anything. So, and you know, you have to cook it long enough to burn off the raw flour taste

Right. Yeah. Right. I think she might know that. Well, she didn't. No, I'm telling her friends

Explain it to me. That looks good. Do you want salt and pepper now for it, Roseanne

Yes, ma'am. Or at what point do you? To me, I just kind of eyeball it

And listen to Carrie. Yes, talking now. Find those grits. They're talking to us, baby

We love that sound. Yes. And what do you have? Is this chicken stock, Roseanne? Yes

And milk. Ooh, we're going to have a good old milk gravy. Yeah. I know that Roseanne wouldn't tell y'all this herself, so I'm going to tell it far

She has had 11, 11 number one hits. When did you do that

Don't act like you didn't know, girl. I know. I can tell you

I cannot believe I'm doing this in front of you. I am so nervous

Honey, listen. No, no, no. You never get too old to learn

Now, do you write your own music? I do. A lot of it. The last record was actually a list, based on a list of songs that my dad gave me when

I was 18. And he gave me this list of songs. So you wanted to be a songwriter more than you wanted to be a singer

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I was shy. I thought songwriting was a noble profession

Is that good? I don't know how to do this. Yes. Oh, yeah, baby

Yeah. Choo-choo! Delicious! All right, let's fix our plate

Okay. Well, let's find you a crispy part of this rosin

This is really easy to do, isn't it? So simple. Should we go

Yes. I'm so nervous. What? No, don't be, honey. We tasted your gravy

We know it's a home run. Wow. Uh-oh. This is so good

I'm a little too excited. You are? Oh, that is so good

I can't believe how easy that is. Good grit cakes. Mm-hmm. Yes

I can drink that gravy, Roseanne. Really good gravy Oh mama I really love this gravy Mama isn that so sweet Mama Well y I want to show y something I truly love

my geriatric salad. I got this recipe from my niece, Kari's mother-in-law

Jackie Rooks. So I'm going to start with unflavored gelatin. And I'm just going to dissolve that gelatin in that cup

of water. And, Roseanne, if you would measure me out. Mm-hmm. One cup of hot water, and I'm going to go in here with three-fourths of a cup of sugar

So this is like a sweet and savory. So if you just pour that water

Nope. Oh, excuse me. In the sugar. She almost destroyed it. She almost destroyed it

No. Can I go back to making gravy? All right, so I'm just going to stir that up

Make sure it's dissolved. And if you'd stir that, make sure that's dissolved

And then we're going to add the two together, y'all. Now I'm going to add a half a cup of vinegar into there

And now we're going to pour it all together in here. Do I pour

Yes. Okay. Yes. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you like that

And we're going to stick this in our freezer for about 30 minutes to just give it a little jump start

And then I'm going to add asparagus, onions, celery, pecans, and pimenta

And I'm going to top it with mayonnaise, and it really is so good

I'm really nervous. If you're over, like, 60, you're going to love it

Coming up, Roseanne's not too sure about my geriatric salad. It's freaking me out a little bit

And later, y'all, we toss together a poppy seed dressing to top our fruit salad

Y'all, we just had the best breakfast casserole, didn't we

We did. And Carrie made grit cakes, and I tell you what

I said, Roseanne, that might be the best white pepper gravy I've ever eaten

It was out of this world. And now we're moving on to the geriatric salad

If one of you would open that can of a spout. I can do that

And just give it a rough chop. If somebody would just chop up these pecans

All right, I can do that. I'm going to need about a half a cup of those, Carrie

While y'all are doing that, I'm going to dice up a cup of celery

and then I'm going to chop two tablespoons of onion. You need a cup of this, right

Yeah, we'll just eyeball it. Okay. Mom likes that. I have a feeling I might be the only one eating this salad

No, we'll try it No, she'll eat it with you I teach children how to cook and we only have one rule

Which is you have to taste everything You do Carrie, now how did you get involved with that

And where do you do this? Well, at the elementary school I went to

Get out girl She teaches little children, 4, 5 and 6 year olds

How to cook That is so cute Alright, now y'all, as we get these ingredients ready

I'm just going to start dumping them in Our gelatin and we let this sit in the freezer for about 30 minutes

I need the juice of a half a lemon. So you can just do that over the bowl

Yeah, just come on down here. And I'm going to put a couple of tablespoons of pimentas

And see that pimenta is just going to give it a pretty color. Now you can scoop up your asparagus

Okay. And just toss that in. And you can throw your nuts in. Okay

Carrie, there you go. I forgot the onion. Just a couple of tablespoons

So we're just going to chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop. And we need a little salt, too

Okay, that I can do. All right, so just a couple of even tablespoons

There we go. Like a little confetti party in there. Yes, look at that

It's a party in a bowl. So we're just going to pour this in here. So look, I'm just going to do it just like that

It's too hard to hit that ring, y'all. All right, so we've got our unflavored gelatin

our vinegar, our sugar, our pecans, our onions, our asparagus. Pimento. Our pimento

Look at that. Look how pretty that is. That is pretty. All right, so girls, about an hour and a half

in the refrigerator for this. And then we'll just turn it upside down

and put it on its serving bowl. And it's going to be pretty. Dance right out

What we're going to do now is, since we're doing brunch, don't you think we need some fruit

So we've just got the pineapple, blueberries, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, and strawberries

And if you would, Roseanne, cut these in half. That I can do

And I'll start doing the hard one. The hard one. Yes. So Roseanne a little birdie told me you did a duo with the boss

I did. I did a duet with the boss. There wasn't anybody good around, so he said he'd be good

No, that was great. That was a romantic, wonderful experience. Oh, my gosh

What was the name of the track? Sea of Heartbreak. Can you just, like, hum less than seven seconds for me

No lights in the harbor. Don't shine for me. You don't know that song

Oh, my God. I got to send her my record. You're a southern lady. Maybe I do know it

Just sing a little bit more. That wasn't much. Sea of heartbreak

Lost love. Loneliness. Memories of your caress. Yes! Okay, now we're getting to something I recognize

Yes. I knew you would. I knew you'd come through. Girls, isn't this pretty

Beautiful. All right, in goes the blueberries. And when we come back, we're going to make that poppy seed dressing with these two fabulous women

It's a party. It's a party, honey. Look. Look how pretty that looks

Beautiful. Coming up, it's the moment of truth, y'all, with my geriatric salad

I respect where you're coming from. Y'all, we're fixing to have the big reveal

Yes. The geriatric salad. I'm so nervous. But before we do that, we've got to make the dressing for our fruit

So let's get started. All right, Roseanne, we are going to need one cup of vegetable oil

Okay. We're going to need a half a cup of lemon juice. And I'm going to go ahead and put us a little salt

I'm going to squirt us a teaspoon of the Dijon. Now, I just need to add a tablespoon of poppy seeds

I almost squirted in your coffee. In my coffee, that's all right. I'd just fix another cup

Or drink it down. Or drink it down. All that's left is a half a cup of white wine vinegar, the lemon juice, and a half a cup of sugar

All right, shake that, baby. Okay. And while y'all are doing that, I would like a drum roll, please

Please do right. I'm really excited about this

All right, now I need a drum roll. Okay. Wait. You've got to do this first

You need them on stage. Yes, you got to do that first. Wow. Right? We got to garnish this thing

That is beautiful. And you know what you have to serve this with? Mayonnaise

You all right, Rosanne? It's freaking me out a little bit. What's freaking you out

Oh, my God. It's very pretty, actually. Yeah, that's beautiful. All right, let's get us a plate, y'all

Okay. How about some fruit? Oh, nice. Serve us up. Love blueberries

Let me get you some red in there. All right, Carrie, there you go. Thank you, Mama. There you go

That is so sweet. Thank you, Mama. Well. She never caused me a moment's problem

All right. Okay, and then a little geriatric salad on the side. Yes

Now, see, this will be delicious. Oh, that's a big slice. This would be delicious next to that casserole

That's a hefty slice for me. Yes, and you know what? Down south, it's very rude if you don't clean your plate

Ooh, Roseanne, I almost forgot to give you some mayo. OK. Here you go

All right, here we go. OK, well. Here we go. OK, here we go. Tell me if I'm crazy

Go, mama. I just don't know. Really afraid. Mm

It's really good. It's not my kind of thing, but it's good

I love it. I love that you love it. It wouldn't do if we all liked the sun

No, I was just kidding. I'm not going to do that. I saw you fix and rake that on Carrie's plate

I saw you. Don't do that to me. I can't handle that

I really have a lot going on. Oh, my gosh. Look. I like it, and I'll eat it

Did I tell you how much fun I'd have with y'all? We've had a lot of fun with you

Come up to New York and make cornbread with me. I will do it

Love that. You make cornbread for me, right? That's right. And I'll try not to turn up my nose at your cornbread

Love you, girl. Love you, girl. Love and best dishes, y'all