Grease Is the Word

Hey, y'all

Tonight on Paula's Party, Reese is a word. Mari Povich and Connie Chung are going deep fried with dumplings

and fried apple pies. Michelle Obama is taking a bite out of my fried shrimp

and some good old Creole fries. I love these. Oh. And my boys Jamie and Bobby are going to be frying up

some pork chops and sausage potato salad. Pull out your napkins, because you're going to need it, baby

Hello! Welcome to the party

Y'all are too kind. Guess what today's party is all about? Grease is the word

And this couple that's coming out, y'all, They are such lovely people

They have a TV combination total of four decades together, y'all. Please welcome Mari Povich and Connie Chung

Come on out. I'm shaking, y'all

I am so shaking. Look at how pretty you are. Oh, thank you, honey

We watch your show all the time. Don't you, John? Yes, with our son

I do. I watch with my son. Absolutely. He loves eating your stuff

Uh-huh. Are they just not hot, y'all? I am so excited

We must move to the cooking. Go on. Okay. Because Connie is going to teach us how to make her mother's dumplings

Yes. And while we're doing this, why don't you go find out who the baby's daddy is

All I need. I'm so kidding. All I need. All I need is a swab

You got a swab. I keep one right there. Hey, no, come here

You better come back here, handsome. Then look down. I was kidding you. In fact, is it already if I take off the swab

Okay, everybody. Well, there's skin. Hang on. You put some scallions in

Ground beef? Uh-huh, regular ground beef. Tell her why, Con. Because that's what we don't eat pork in our family

Really? Yeah. Her mother grew up Muslim in China. Oh, Maury. See, you put some soy sauce light in, and then you put some water in

You know, I put water in my ground beef when I'm making burgers

Get out of here. Yes, but it makes it moist. And then you mix it up

And I'm doing it carefully because I don't want to spill it on you and on me

You know, I work it with my fingers. You do. You don't care

Our son wants to do it. What are you doing? Are you undressing him

No, I'm just... You help me? I know how to do that

I'm just making him comfortable. Good. Oh, look at that. What are you all doing later

You know, I don't want you to get messed up. See, I grew up in Washington, D.C., saying y'all

Y'all. Y'all. And ma'am and sir. Did you grow up saying ma'am and sir

If I did not say yes, ma'am, no, ma'am, thank you, ma'am, please, I would get my little honey pop

And people say, is it okay to still say that now? I mean, because people, some women take offense when you say yes, ma'am

I think it's just one. Do you think so? These are store-bought. Okay

So, Connie, can I help you, darling? Yes, please. You put a little. Let's have Maury do it, too

Okay, Maury. No way. There she won. Take a little spoonful. Okay. See, only the southern people know how to pronounce Maury

Like, Connie, she says, Maury. People on my show say, Maury. Your mother says, Maury

No, it's Maury. Maury. Maury. Maury. Maury, I came up here, Maury

So you have to buy these little dumpling covers. Put a little. Just put a little

Because that's going to seal it up. On right here. The edges, Mari. Do you know something about this couple

Just on the edge. Y'all like grease. Oh, gosh, do we ever

Oh, boy. Oh, my God. Oh, man. You should see the grease in the fried potato

You go like this. Pinch. What are you doing, Mari? You're doing it all wrong

Pinch. Oh, yeah. Pinch up there. Pinch. Pinch. Pinch a little each. Pinch

Pinch, Mari. You do a little fold. A little cleat. Oh, look. Gosh, Connie

that's like perfect. You want to see a little pleat like that? Okay. You got it? Yes. That's how the Chinese restaurants do it, honey

Yes. Give it a little pinch, a little pleat. Okay? That's how you do it

Oh, my goodness. What am I doing this for? I'm looting. Because Connie wants you to

Oh, Maury. Who wants you to? Oh, Maury, that's horrible. Yes, Maury

Oh, that's a joke. It's not. It looks like half an egg roll and half a dumpling

I've been watching you do this stuff for 30 years. We've been married for almost 24, but we've known each other a lot

I mean, we dated for seven years. Yeah, 30 years. I've been watching you do this for 30 years

You never, ever showed me how to do this. He's such a mess. Anyway, so here's the finished product

Where? Paulus is fine. Oh, okay. You see? Okay. And then Maurice is a disaster

Uh-huh. Maurice is going to leak. I'm going to take it over here

Yes. And I'll show you what I did here, if you look here. Yes. So there's, like, two different kinds of dumplings here, steamed and fried

Is that correct, Connie? But this one's fried. This one's fried. That's the way I like it

You started cooking these because it takes a longer time. You put some water in and you cover it

You steam it. This is the key. You steam it. Now, how long will it take to get that dumpling cooked all the way through

Just a few minutes. All right. So we're going to have to take a quick break. Y'all, please don't go anywhere out there because this couple is fabulous

They're willing to share, like, stories with us. I want you to tell me. And you don't want to miss one

Maury, stop. Maury and Connie. This is Paula's thing. Yes, this is my show, Mari

Don't go anywhere. They're adorable. Y'all are so beautiful. Coming up, y'all, I'm making Mari one of his favorite guilty pleasures, fried apple pies

This is so awesome. Later, I'm hitting the road to meet up with Michelle Obama for some down-home fried shrimp and Creole fries

Hey, y'all. Welcome back. We're having a wonderful time here at Paula's party tonight

I've got the most fabulous couple that's been on TV for so long

Yeah, right. Connie Chung. Long is right. And Maury Povich, y'all. That's up

Connie has made us her mother's fried dumplings. Tell her about the sauce

Okay, you can tell. It's a mixture of Worcestershire and white vinegar. That's it. Maury

That's it. Oh my goodness. They are so good. Connie I heard that Maury loves fried pies No so does Connie Yes And our son dies for them He loves it So I going to be making y my grandma fried apple pies in there so easy

Oh, God. Because my grandmama just used a canned biscuit. Oh, my God

So we've got some fresh apples. See, you didn't even measure that. You just sloughed it on out there

And I may put a little bit more in there. But that's just for starters

Now, I have taken just a fresh apple and sliced it fairly thin

And you just put those in sugar and water and cook them down until they're thick

You don't even have to go through this process. You can just buy an apple pie filling

Really? Yes. Or my grandma loved to get the dried fruits, like the dried apple and apricot and all those

Yeah, yeah. Now, these apples we kind of cooked off. And to me, it looks a little thin in there

Y'all see that? Thin meaning what? Thin, like watery. Oh, okay. So what I'm going to do is take my butter and add a little flour

And I'm going to thicken this up because I don't want juice to be running out of our pies

So I'm just making a very quick roux here. By the way, at the end of this, you're going to tell me the secret, secret, secret about all of this

which is I want to know how many calories are in this pie

Honey, I don't have a clue. No, you do. I do not, I swear

Could we call the agricultural department? I don't know. I don't know who could tell us

I see a son there. Listen, I think whoever gave us that answer, Connie, is dreaming

But if that's what you want it to be. I think that's a little thin, $2.50

I think it's thin, too. I mean, $2.50 ain't nothing. So if our son eats three, which he does

Well, you know at 12, they can do that. You think? They're walking around with hollow legs

They're very hungry. They're going into puberty. Right. I've got to ask you about that since you have these boys

Tell me about how to start talking to these kids when they're 12 and 13. Oh, my goodness

Especially boys. What do you do? You know, I remember Mari, my oldest son

All right, now I'm going to take a can of biscuits. I love your earrings. Thank you, and I was admiring yours

Thank you. I love yours. I love your earrings, too. Thank you. Yes

My husband is so good to me. What the heck am I doing? Let me see them. Oh, my God, what pearls, y'all

Oh, they're gorgeous. You like her. You're good to, aren't you? Mm-hmm. Got to be

Yes, you do. You really have no other choice. Unless you want to wake up one day and half of it all be gone

Exactly. Hey, I've been Mr. Chung for 23 years. I love it

You sound like my husband. He said he gets so tired of being called Mr. Dean

I know you all been married four years or five years now

Four years You know what I think they took my rolling pin away I told them I didn't want one but now I think I changed my mind

He's like a boat captain Is that what he is? He is a harbor pilot

What is that the salt and pepper shaker? No this is powdered sugar

She is so good Can I tee him up right? You know

I am from the school of make do y'all Fabulous All right

So where is our water? Oh, here it is. So all we're going to do is take our water like you did with the dumplings

Yes. Oh, same deal. You have to give some moisture, yeah, so that they'll seal because you don't want any of that goodness

You do pleats, too? No, I don't. I don't pleat. I don't pleat, Mari

Mine's much easier. But look at that. We're just going to seal them up. Oh, beauty

Beauty, eh? Yes, beauty. Well, I know what the final result is because I've had it

Listen, so supple. They are so delicious. I'm just going to take my fork

Okay. So, y'all tell me something. Yeah. What is the secret to not necessarily a long marriage, but a long good marriage

You don't do anything together. It helps. I can understand that working

It's hard to fight if you're not together. See, I love golf. Okay, so my passion is golf outside the family

Well, what's the last thing a woman does before she has sex

If you're a golf widow, you drop your husband off at the course. Like that

Your kind of humor. Your kind of humor. Very good. Yes, that's my kind of humor

No, I think you should do things together, but if one of them has a passion, you don't have to hone in on that passion

You can let them go do their thing, and you do your thing. You don't have to do everything together

The other thing that I must say, in our case, we were friends a lot longer, long before. Before

Yeah. We dated eight years, and not exclusively, I might add. Oh, yeah

Oh, really? Oh, yeah. I mean, he couldn't even remember the first names, let alone the last names

Stop it. Yeah, well, I'm not going to talk about all those Hollywood people

you used to go out with when you were working out there in L.A.? Not really

Tell us. Tell us. You can talk. No, no, no. You can talk. I can

Yes. Okay. Let me take a bite and then I'll tell you. Did Mari have an ex-girlfriend that you, like, hated

Oh, yeah. Oh, really? What is her name? No, no, we're not going to talk about that

No, let me think of it. What was her name? I was kidding you. Honey. Honey

I know exactly who it is. No, Connie. And you gave her, like, a little ring or something for Christmas

Stop it. And you gave me, like, a potted planter. Yeah, well, take a look at your jewelry

Who won out? Oh. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Who's the baby's daddy

Oh, my God. Marianne. Oh, my God. Did you love it? Did you love it

I'm so glad. Y'all, it's the Greek. Awesome. Oh, my God. I'm so glad, y'all

Look at this precious woman. I love it. Grease is the word, y'all

Grease. Grease. Marie. The party continues in just a second. I love it

Later, y'all, I'm hitting the road to do some deep frying with Michelle Obama

Next, my boy Jamie fries up pork chops. Y'all, tonight's party is all about grease being the word

My next guest, y'all, I'm so totally in love with this young man

What can I say? I've got to get him out right now. Jamie Dean, my oldest son

Hey, y'all. Hey, Mama. Hey, y'all. Oh, crazy. Look at you

Look at you. Look at all of them son Hey you were crying That was so sweet I love her too Isn that so You know I been so blessed with having the most wonderful children

I'm just preening you, son. I know, Mama. I know. One reason I'm so proud of these boys is their new book that just came out

and I thought it was so cute they titled it, Y'all Come Eat, because that's what I would say when I had the meal on the table

Y'all come eat, boys. Y'all, I've got to just find a picture of the love of my life

My son did the best job in fathering this child. My grandson, Jack

He looks like his mama. Thank the Lord. He does. He does. He looks just like Brooke

What a precious child. Well, listen, I understand that you're going to share with everybody a pork chop recipe that you have in your book

but it's not like my recipe. Well, we say it's Mama's pork chop recipe, but we kind of changed it just a little bit

We've added some celery seeds to this. Okay. And a little bit of cayenne to kind of kick it up

I can dig that. I can dig that. So you're starting with a nice rib chop, and that's a really tender cut

First of all, y'all, this is my favorite thing that Mama cooks for me is a fried pork chop at her house

I love fried pork chops. We just love fried pig, don't we? Fried

Just fried. The fried pork chop and the meatloaf is the same kind of meal for me

because I'll eat a pork chop or I'll eat a meatloaf, and then for dessert I either have a pork chop sandwich or a meatloaf sandwich

Well, start cooking, son. Okay, so this is salt and pepper, a little bit of cayenne, and some garlic

and you just want to season these. Yeah, season them up good. Rub your meat

Don't be afraid to touch your meat. All right

Good. So you're turning those over. I'm going to season both sides of these

Yes. And this would probably be good if you did this earlier in the day

So by the time you went to cook them, they'd be all seasoned up good

They would have drank up all that seasoning. I would do this, and then this is what we like to do is buttermilk

The buttermilk, yeah. Buttermilk-based. It's going to hold that crust. It's going to give it a nice crust

So while you're cooking, son, can I ask you a few questions

Ask me a question, and I'll see if I can't saw you an answer. What is it like having Paula Deen for a mother

Pure hell, y'all. I knew I could count on him. I always taught him to tell the truth

If it wasn't for my embezzling skills, I'd be broke. Okay, look, I got this coated with flour, and I'm going to put this in the fryer

Y'all, Michael and I are building a new house. We thought we would stay where we are forever, but as soon as we got it built

we realized that we had already outgrown it before we moved in

because we do Paula's Home Cooking there, we do magazine shoots there

and it was truly just too small. So we went down the road about a mile and we bought like five acres on the river and you can't find that much acreage anymore on Wilmington Island

You know, it's all been chopped up. And you know what we're going to call it

Greaseland. Because Greece is going to be paying for this. So anyway, I want to see a pork chop

Look what you've got to look forward to. Yeah. Oh, my goodness

Now, when we were kids, Mama would say, listen, I'll trade you all the meat on that pork chop

if you'll let me have the bone. I would pull that whole plug out

All the meat around the bone. That's one of my favorite things to eat with you, Mama, is fried pork chops

Yeah, you want to eat one? Yes. Oh, my goodness. Cheers. Cheers, son

Congratulations. Thanks, Mom. Mm, so good and greasy. Oh, my God. This is good stuff

This is good stuff, son. White bread mayonnaise and we'd be in business. White bread? No, I don't like white bread butter in pork chop

Of course you do. Having mom as a mother is the, I'm the luckiest guy in the world

Mama is a leader of women now. I'm so proud of her. She's built a great business. She's exactly how y'all see

And I love to kid her and she can take a joke. But you're one of my favorite people

Aww. Y'all, my son, Johnny Dean, stick around, because it's all about Greece today

Coming up, y'all, sausage potato salad with my son, Bobby Dean. And later, there ain't no debating, y'all

Michelle Obama is frying up some shrimp and Creole fries. Y'all, today, grease is a word

It's all about grease in the kitchen. My last guest, I told y'all that I was so in love with that young man

Well, I've got his sibling here, who I'm also in love with, my baby, Bobby Dean

Hello. Hello. Hello. How are you? What's going on

What's going on? I'm out here. What am I doing? I'm out here with my friends

I'm throwing a party and I'm having a wonderful time. Well, the party is just getting started, I believe

Are you saying it didn't start with your brother or Mari or Connie

It all starts here? Yes. No, you have great guests. Yes, I do

And great friends. Look at my friends. I adore my friends. I like it

I like the new digs. I do, too. I do, too. What are you cooking for us today

Um, we are going to do sausage potato salad. Okay. Which we ate, you know, we ate a lot of potato salad growing up

Absolutely, but I never put sausage in it, son. I didn't either. It's a new variation, and it's really simple

Okay. Well, let's get going. Okay, all right. We browned off some kielbasa sausage, and the potatoes are already boiled, so the boring stuff is done

Uh-huh. If I were to do this, though, you know how I really like my potato salad? Well, honey, you are doing it

You know what I mean. I like my potato salad hot. Absolutely. When they were growing up, the last thing I did when the meal involved potato salad was mix it up

And it went to the table hot, and we all loved it. And then once it went into the refrigerator, we never touched it again, did we

That's true. Were there leftovers really, though? Well, we did a pretty good job

Not usually. All right. So we've got our red potatoes that you have cut and boiled off

I'm going to ask you to help me put it together. Okay. You've got celery. Mm-hmm

I love celery and potato salad. It gives it a wonderful crunch

It's a good filler is what you always taught me. But you know what I never really loved it I use it because of you I knew that you didn I use it because of you But it gave interest in texture and flavor And I knew if I kept on Interest

Huh? Yes, it gives it interest. I knew that if I kept on, y'all would eventually give in and love it

All right, now you've got red wine. We're not using a mayonnaise. No, we're not. This is really, really simple

We're going to make a... We're going to make a really simple little..

We're going to make a really simple little dressing to go on it

This is my potato salad, not yours. Oh, that's right. I'm glad. Thanks, Mom

I'm kidding you, son. A little bit of garlic. And some Dijon mustard

I can't believe that the show is about grease today because I'm the one in the family

Y'all, I wish we had more time because I got so many funny stories about me eating. I'm like a slow motion dribbler

I'll watch it. I'll be like, oh, no. And before I know it, it's on my shoes

But this is, in fact, this is a brand new shirt. Oh, Bobby, it's got grease marks on it, son

I already got some grease on it. You know, it's so funny

You know what's the funniest story, though? Let me tell you all this. We were in a restaurant one time. I'm putting olive oil, salt, and pepper

We were in a restaurant one time. I think we were in Hilton Head. And I think, no, I was on a date

I was on a date. Golly, this was so funny. And I had on what was an expensive shirt for me

It was like maybe a little linen polo, a button-up shirt or something. And I got up and I went to the restroom

And the restroom doors had these funny-shaped doorknobs and like a hook almost

And I'm walking out the door, and as the door is closing behind me, it catches my shirt and nearly rips my shirt off my whole body

Oh, no. I was on a date. We had just gotten there. And I had a gash

I didn't think it was funny at the time. Now it's funny

Well, what is so funny is Bobby is about his clothes

He is, you know, I don't know what happened. I raised these two slobs, and then all of a sudden, they're neat freaks

They're cleanly freaks, and Bobby cannot tolerate anything to get on his shirt

Well, when we're all eating together, the only person that's going to walk away with grease on their shirts is Bobby Dean. Me

And I'm going to be like this about it. I don't know what it is

It's an attraction. It's an attraction. You're a grease magnet. I am

All right, Bobby, this really looks pretty good. Oh, you know what? You know what? As far as grease and recipes are concerned, you know, I have a goulash in the book

Yes, I was going to ask you, what is your favorite recipe? Well, I have a few. Jamie calls this book just a compilation of greatest hits, and I sort of feel like it is, too

Lots of great recipes, things that we've come across, things that we like to make, things that we've been eating since we were kids

And so I put a goulash in there in honor of the goulash that you make for me every year on my birthday that I love so well

And it's almost his birthday. I'll be making a huge pot of it. Exactly

I'll be 21. Oh, my God. I can't believe you and I are so close in age now

So, but anyway, I put a goulash. I know, I know, right? So I put a goulash in there in honor of you and what you always made for me

and I don't know if you remember, but ever since I came out on my own

and living alone and I enjoy cooking at the house and doing this type of stuff

I've been trying to make my mom's goulash and I never could really get it right

This is damn good. Mine always, my goulash always came out like a, almost like a spaghetti sauce

which is not what it's supposed to be. So I called you and I said, Mama, I said, I can't figure out

what's wrong with my goulash and how come it's not anything like yours? And you said, well, let's start at the beginning

What are you doing? And I said, well, I brown the ground beef and then pour off the juice

The grease. Get rid of it. And he said, oh, no, you put that in the pot

So now my goulash tastes like yours. Good. I sat down, Bobby

I don't eat it as often. I didn't have a formula for the goulash, but one day I got in the kitchen and I said

I can't let something happen to me that I don't have you the specific recipe

So I took all afternoon one day to do that. So I'm so glad that you've got it figured out

Taste your potato salad, son. I just did. It's wonderful. It's better than yours. It's delicious

Well, we've got to go, but I asked your brother, so I feel like I should ask you, too

Okay. What is it like having Paula Deen for a mother? Fattening as hell

You're the reason I bought a treadmill. I love you too, my darling

Thank you for having me on your show. Today, today is racist awards

My son, Bobby D. Thank you, son. Thank you for coming. I love you too

Next, I'm going to be stepping out of this studio to do some deep frying on the road with Michelle Obama, y'all

Grease is a word, y'all. Tonight at Paula's party, Grease is a word

Now, my next guest is fascinating. She's inspiring. She's beautiful. And boy, Heidi, this girl can cook

I had to get in the car and go track this girl down

because she's been very, very busy on the campaign trail, and I'm so excited to meet her

I know y'all will be, too. Welcome Michelle Obama, y'all. Hey! Oh, my gosh

Look at her. I have been looking forward to this all day

Look at you. You're so pretty in your fuchsia. I'm a short, fat girl

I wore my flats just for you, and you were not. Give me a hug. Oh, my goodness

We get to fry some stuff? Yes. Oh, good. I need to feed you something

Let's eat. A skin or something. Let's eat. Listen, you will not. I adore your outfit

Thank you. You're so welcome. You should hang out with me more

You make me feel good. Oh, my gosh. And thank you. Oh, this is

I heard you watch my show. I do. I do. And I've been watching it lately, yes

You wanted to come on with me. I did. I did. How exciting

How exciting for me and everybody out there. It's so unexpected for me

You know, and Michelle, I understand that you're out on the campaign trail a lot

And when you go to different towns, you go looking. You're telling a secret

Well, maybe that's me I'm talking about. No, no, it's me. But you go out and you look for, like, the local food

Yeah, yeah. So guess what I'm going to do? What? I'm going to fry you up some shrimp

All right. Good. Are you hungry? I'm always hungry. Oh, bless your heart. Well, we're going to start

Okay. If you would, Michelle. Yes. I've got buttermilk. Mm-hmm. I've got whole milk, and I've got my hot sauce

Hot sauce is spicy. Yes. Do you like spice? Yes, I do. Good, good

So if you'll mix those up together for me. All right. I'm going to come over here, and I'm going to mix

Our dry ingredients, which is a couple of cups of flour. All right

Do you cook a lot? You know, I haven't cooked a lot this year because we've been a little busy

But I like to cook when I have time. And shrimp, I love shrimp

My kids, the kids love shrimp. Oh, yeah, everybody in our household loves shrimp. So this is good

The girls love it. Your girls are adorable. Now go ahead, a little salt

They are sweet, girls. And a little black pepper. So now what this was

This is self-rising cornmeal. I saw your girls in the People magazine

Yeah, yeah. They're beautiful girls, too. They are beautiful, and they're smart, and they have just been so patient with this process

Well, how are you handling? You know, your life right now has got to be organized chaos

Yeah, yeah, it is. But what I tend to do is I limit my travel to a couple of days a week

And then I pack a lot in. And then I go home. And I'm mom

And it keeps them stable because they don't care where I've been

Now, they might care about this because this would be interesting. So your girls watch my show

They watch it when I'm watching it. Hey, girls. How are you

So it helps for them to have a routine. Yeah. So I don't stay out on the road long

And I understand your mother lives with you. Well, she doesn't live. She lives nearby

But when I'm not there, she is right there. And you know that makes a difference

Oh, listen. Having somebody that you know would give your life for your children means everything

That's absolutely right. You can concentrate on what you need to concentrate on

Well, that's wonderful. All right. So does that mix well? Oh, you did

Perfect. All right. Good. All right, now, we're going to take our shrimp, and I peeled and deveined them, you know, got the little sand thing

Now, Sasha usually does that, my young one. She's the peeler deveiner

Oh, is she? She's become pretty expert at it. And does she use a knife, or does she use that little red

She uses a little blunt knife, not too sharp. Not too sharp. It takes her a little while

Because she's what, 10? She's seven. Mm-hmm, she's seven. Oh, my goodness

The other one doesn't really engage. They're tall girls. Well, you know, that's because their parents are tall

I would give anything but just have a couple more inches. Well, you're not

You always say you're short. You're not. Well, I'm 5'5". That's average height

Average. That's normal height. Anyway. Well, we're going to take our shrimp, and we're going to run them through the dry first

And then wet and dry. Okay. And speaking of dry now, you want to make sure that you dry your shrimp off well

Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. All right. And you know, some people. Is this my dryer and towel Oh yeah These are pretty dry though aren they Look I fixing to dip my sleeve See I didn wear sleeves for that very reason Well see I can go sleeveless anymore Anymore I got the catfish belly going on

It's terrible. I'm a little bit older than you, honey. So we put a bunch of them in

So I'm doing one at a time. I do. Oh, no, let's do a bunch

Do a bunch. Because there are a lot of hungry people in the world who want to eat these shrimp

You know what? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, although I think I'm going to do my share of damage on these

So you have a good appetite. I do. Oh, yes. A fast metabolism

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what is your secret for staying at work? Working out

You do work out like to work out. I do, I do, and that's the only way I can do it

And then sometimes I sort of settle down my eating, so I don't, like, go crazy every day all the time

There are periods when I've got to step back. You know, a lot of people, Michelle, they'll eat like Saturday and Sunday

Mm-hmm. You know, diet five days and eat two. That's pretty good, isn't it

Right, right. If you'll just take the wet and just dunk them, drown them, honey

Drown them. All right. So did we double-dip this? We have double-dipped them

Okay. Now, some people, Michelle, don't like a lot of crust on their shrimp

If you wanted to, you could just do them the one time. Exactly

All right. So you dredge these again, and then they're ready. Those are ready, honey

We're not supposed to mix the wet and the dry, really. Now, how hot does the grease need to be

I've got this at 375 degrees. We're going to let them fry over break

And when we come back, hopefully we'll be a little bit cleaner. And we'll have some yummy fried shrimp

All right. Looking forward to it. When we come back, real fries are up

Mmm. That is so good. Rub your eyes, guys

Oh. It really is Michelle Obama eating my shrimp. Because today, grease is the word

All right, now ours are ready, so I'm going to just take... Whoa

All right, now eat a hot one. Which one's the hot one? Well, I'm trying to figure out

I think this one works. You think that one? We'll take that one. Ooh, this is hot one. Do you like cocktail sauce

Uh-huh. Oops. Look what I did. Oh, that's all right. Mm. Mm-mm

Mm. They're delicious. Oh, this is really good. Okay. We're going to make you some Creole French fries

Her girl's favorite meal is homemade French fries and high wings. High chicken wings, yep

Just so happens it's one of my favorites, too. I've never done it with the dip that we're doing

All right, we're going to make a maple mustard dipping sauce. Okay

We just got some rice wine vinegar some maple syrup grainy mustard prepared mustard and then Dijon So if you just mix those together And I going to come over here and I going to just finish cutting our fries Now when you doing French fries y you want to put them

in ice water because, you know, potatoes will turn brown on you. So you don't want them brown

but I'm fixing to put these directly in the fryer, so I'm not going to worry about that step

So do you have to dry them off after you put them in the ice water? Yeah, you want to take them out, you know, pour them into a collider

Because if they're wet, doesn't that make the grease pop? Grease would pop all over us

So we don't want that to happen. So these go at 360 degrees until they're golden brown

So do you like mustard or ketchup? I've never had a done mustard

This will be my first French fry and mustard experience. So I'm going to be looking forward to seeing how this goes

I've been a ketchup girl all my life. This is probably my favorite time in the kitchen when it's my friends or my children

You know, just chat. Just talk and catch up and find out everything

So what is the senator's favorite meal? Oh, he's a chicken wing fan, too

Is he? Yeah, he does. So that's where the girls get it from. He's got this great chili recipe

Now, he hasn't cooked it in a while because he's been a little busy. But tons of spices with beans over rice with cheese

So does he, oh, yeah, yeah. That's one of our favorites. So are you a big fan of Southern food

Oh, absolutely. I grew up with my grandparents from the South, South Carolina

Really? And big cookers. But the one story that I tell is when we would visit our family down south

I would stay with my Aunt Dot, who was an amazing cooker. I was about 10 years old

So she'd cook these amazing, you know, cheese grits and steak and ham and the eggs

But at that time, do you know what I ate every day for breakfast

What? Peanut butter and jelly. So I just missed it. I look back on that now and think, what a waste

You're still a very young woman. So you can catch up. You can get caught up

I can do a little catching up today. So, why did you and Barack meet

How did that come about? We both went to the same law school, but I went straight through

So, I was finished by the time he was starting. So, he's older. And I was working in a corporate law firm, and he was a summer intern

And I was assigned to be his advisor for the summer. Were you like his boss

Technically, I wasn't supervising him, but he asked me out on a date. And I told him no

It took about... How long did it take before you said yes

About midway into the summer. So we spent the whole day together He took me to the art museum and a movie and we had a drink on the top of the John Hancock building and I was in love after that Well what was the first thing you

ever cooked for the senator? Really, it was gumbo, and it was an impressive first attempt. I don't

know what was going through my mind. It was, we had lobster, shrimp, mussels. I was really

I must have really been in love. No, I haven't cooked it since. Well, what necessary was it

It was so good that once was enough. Right, he seemed to be okay with the one shot

I've got a little surprise down here under the counter for you. You do? Is it more food

No, honey, it's nothing to eat. Oh, okay. Do you recognize this photo

Oh, my goodness. Where did you get this? This is the young Barack Obama

This is a senator. Listen to the name. Barry Obama. That was what his family called him

He went by Barry. Yeah. His grandmother still calls him Bear. Bear

Bear. Well, look at our French fries. This is great. And I'm just going to put the, oh, look at the grease on them

Grease is the word. Grease is the word today. Now, I'm putting on some of my seasoning, kind of like a Creole seasoning

Oh, yeah. I'm going to kind of toss them around, so these are going to have a little spice

So I want you to taste one of those. Do I need to let them cool off

Can I do it? Well, I don't know. We can try your mustard that you mixed up. Mmm

Isn't that good? That's really good. All right. I'm off ketchup. You could actually dip the shrimp in these, too, couldn't you

Oh, yes. Yes. There's no condiment that's safe, honey. Just mix them, dip them

I mean, I just love condiments. I got a deal for you

Okay, what's your deal? if you wind up in the White House

I can cook for you. Absolutely. And French fries. French fries. And shrimp

And shrimp. And chicken wings. And chicken wings. Just bring in the deep fryers

That sounds good. But you promise me I can come in on the lawn. I promise

I can cook deep fried. You promise you'll come? I promise I'll come

All right. I promise I'll come. This is great. I love a soft French fry

See the way I folded him in half? Yeah, yeah. You've got some good techniques

I thank you so much. I feel so honored. This has been the highlight of my day

Thank you so much. Well, you are so sweet. You are as sweet as anyone could imagine

Thank you so much. Thank you, Michelle. And how sweet and beautiful you are

What do you say? Let's eat. Let's eat! See you at the next party