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Come into my kitchen, you little preciouses! And let Jamie and I frighten you with our scaralicious dishes

like our cheesy, gooey monster mash. Come on in, y'all, for a little bite

A sweet as candy corn and butternut squash. Love butternut squash. We're gonna have you jumping out of your seat

with our crunchy crab cake spiders. Yummy, y'all. Mmm, so good. And you know, it wouldn't be a trick-or-treat without a Paula Deen Sweet upside-down pumpkin-filled cupcake

This is going to be a fun show, y'all. I can already tell. Why don't you put your broom down and let's cook

Let's get my ride and get started on the wonderful Monster Mash

So I'm going to start grating up two cups of Kobe Jack blend

While you're doing that, I'm going to strain off some tomatoes that Mom has put up this summer

And you've always canned and done preserves, and I love being able to go get fresh vegetables in the fall time

Yes. While these are straining off, Mom, I've got two cans of refried black beans

Now they're about a pound apiece. This cheese is kind of soft, and it's hard to grate

So if you'll put your cheese in the freezer, just get a nice icy cold all the way through

It grates so easily. And while these don't have any juice on them, this is really the refied pasty

So I'm going to have to dig them out of here. This is a great appetizer. So if you have people over, this is the dip that you already have put out

It cooks really quickly, and it's got a lot of flavor in it

You would eat this with the little chips. The corn chips are really, really good with it

All right. Now, I'm going to put, Jamie, a tablespoon of taco seasoning in here

And this taco seasoning just comes in little packs. It's your grocery store

So one tablespoon of taco seasoning. That smells good, too. Oh, I love it

Love it, love it, love it. about five minutes before this bakes

why don't we cover it with another layer of cheese? Can't have too much cheese. No

That looks awesome. Now, we're going to put this into a casserole dish

I'm going to spray it with a nonstick spray. Mm-hmm. I'm going to put all this dip straight into this bowl

So, I'm going to get out some more cheese, and I'll be grating that

because this is not going to take all that long to cook, y'all. It smells so good

I love Mexican food. You know... It's a good change from fried chicken and biscuits

It ain't that good a change. I didn't say it was that good. This does kind of look like a gruel

It does look like a monster mash. This is going into the oven at 325 for about 25 minutes

The last five minutes, son. Why don't we put the cheese on it, okay

So what else are we going to work on? Now, I've got a wonderful corn and butternut squash

Love butternut squash. I do, too. We're just gonna saute it. I've got two strips of bacon that I've cooked extra crispy

Two strips. Why bother, right? Why even heat up the stove? That's not even half a sandwich work

I know it. So, son, what we need to do is peel our butternut squash

Y'all be sure and join us next week when we finish our butternut squash. Best dishes

Here, smart Ellie. So I'll do your onion. How's that? Bacon grease that we've rendered out of two pieces of bacon

You know, it's not a bunch, but just enough that it's going to give our onions some fat

Now, son, I'm going to add some butter. Just a couple of tablespoons to my bacon grease

Good plan. This is not an easy thing to peel. No, it's not, son

Okay, I'm going to go in with the second half of our onion. This is a trick, not a treat

In fact, if your husband is around, you know, you might want to get him to help you with this task

We're going to take our seeds out. I'm gonna take the spoon, and I'm just gonna haul out y'all like the spidery, veiny part

Want it cubed up? Yes, please, darling. Look, y'all

This is my witch. She will scare the britches off of you if you go by and you accidentally make a loud noise and you not expecting her to start screaming

I saw Michael Groover the other night. He jumped out of his skin

He is not a scary type man, but he whistled for the dogs as he was walking by her

And all of a sudden she started that cackling and he like to jumped into the next room

It was so funny. All right. Now, I'm going to take my bacon

You know, it's so nice and crisp, I don't even think I have to cut it

I think I can just rip it up. And then we're going to drop our butternut squash into our onions

How about this corn, Mom? And we're going to drop our corn, too. Now, we're using a half a cup of just a whole kernel corn

You know, if you've got fresh, your fresh is in season, by all means, use it

Okie doke, son. Toss that in. Along with the corn, one and a half teaspoons of dried mustard

half a teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of pepper. I'm going to go back down here

and I'm going to finish grating our cheese for the top of our refried black bean dip

or as Jamie loves to call it, monster mash. Jamie's just adding the top layer of cheese

and then we're gonna let that melt, y'all, for about five minutes. Doesn't that smell delicious

Mm. My little precious prince and princesses. He, he, he, he, he, he

Coming up next, one bite of our Monster Mash is gonna have me under a spell

We're gonna do the mash. Then these are not gonna be your normal crab cakes

Crunchy crab cake spiders. And later, you know we've been tricking you all day

Boo! Well, now it's time we get started on the treat. Don't go anywhere, y'all

Things are looking very, very spooky here in our kitchen. Kitchen of the Good Witch of the South

We got some delicious recipes. In fact, Jamie's fixing to get the first one out of the oven that we made in

and it's a monster mash. We're going to do the mash. We're going to do the mash

Be careful of that, Mama. Oh, Jamie. Look how beautiful it is

It looks fabulous, doesn't it, y'all? I put some cheese on top a few minutes ago, and that's just what it needed, I think

If you'll guess, please. It'll be hot as fire. Yes. Oh, looky there

You better get back up on my chip, you piece of cheese. You cheese head

Mmm. So good, y'all. A little monster mash. That's going to be a big hit

And how quick and easy. It's awesome. Mmm. Mmm. So yummy. Come on in, y'all, for a little bite

Did you like it? It was good. That's good. Yes, it was very good, wasn't it

Well, we got something else good working down here on the other end of the counter, y'all. We're going to make crunchy crab cake spiders

What are we going to start with? Is this a pound of lump crab meat

Mm-hmm. So, son, I've got my pan here. Now, I'm going to use a little vegetable oil

to saute our crab cakes in. I'm going to get started on this red pepper, okay

Along with just a tablespoon or two of butter. I'm going to hold back a little bit of this pepper for the legs, Mom

I'm going to come down here, and I'm going to mince up a can of water chestnuts

I'm going to need a fourth of a cup. The red bell pepper is going to be so pretty

and add color to our delicious crab cakes. Jamie, what is Jack going to go as this Halloween

This year, he's going to be a shark. He told me the other day, he found a little tiara upstairs in the guest bedroom

I mean, it's not but about this big. And he said, what is this, Ginny

And I said, that's a tiara, son. That's what princesses wear. He said, my mommy is a beautiful princess

Yeah, he started saying that. Yes, if you would like to take that for Mommy to wear, you may

But how sweet is that? His Mommy is a beautiful princess. Now I've got some green onions

I'm going to use a little white and a little green for the color. All right, I'm going to put in like a quarter of a cup

Okay. So in that goes with our bell pepper. And I'm going to go ahead and crack our egg

All right, so I'm gonna beat our egg. Mom I putting in a half a cup of green onions All right I gonna put in two tablespoons of mayonnaise I gonna add a quarter of a teaspoon of wasabi powder

I wish y'all could have seen me about, oh, 18 years ago

I know, it was... 19 years ago, when we first started our business, we were doing the bag lady business, and it was Halloween, so..

I know what you're gonna say, son. Mama made me dress up like a bag lady and get in a pink and green truck

and drive around town and beg people to buy tuna sandwiches. What a sport you were, son

Well, one of the best lessons that I've learned from you, Mom

and it's a good lesson for everybody out there. Don't take yourself so seriously because nobody else is

So, you know. No, laugh and have a good time. If you laugh at yourself first, you can't hear the other people laughing at you

That's exactly right. Come on with them crackers, Mom. Y'all, I just took one sleeve of soda crackers, y'all

Beat them to death. Beat them to death, yes. son, so this looks like a cup

And this is going to be our binder. We're not going to go

heavy with our salt, just like a fourth of a teaspoon, because seafood comes out

of salty water. So, just by nature, this is salty. So, we're going to need a teaspoon

of lemon juice, son. I've got my pan heating over here just waiting on your

crunchy crab cake spiders. Want me to fold this crab in here yet

Yes, son. I'll be careful. You don't want your crab cakes like a tuna fish salad

Yeah. You know, you want to know that you've got real chunks of crab in there

So we're going to lightly toss our crab meat in. What size are you thinking

Whatever you think for a spider. This is good patty sauce. Because we are going to turn these crab cakes into spiders, boys and girls

So tell everybody, Jamie, what we've got next planned for y'all. When we come back, we're going to turn our crab cakes into spiders

Y'all come right back. Coming up next, this spider is just too cute to eat

No, it's not. And later, all our cupcakes need is just a little pumpkin filling

Cream cheese and pumpkin. Love it. Boo! Welcome back

Happy Halloween, y'all! I'll pay you back. So our wonderful corn and butternut squash is ready

And I'm just going to do a little chiffonade of fresh basil. Sprinkle that over our squash

See these black plates? Got a little bit of sauce here, and now all this is is mayonnaise, a little bit of paprika

Got some salt and pepper in here. Now, look what I'm going to do here. Okay. I'm going to make three little circles

Uh-huh. Those are three big circles. Yeah. We're going to take a stick that we're going to drag through here

Oh, how cute. Looks like a spider web, son. Yeah, and this is where our spider's going to go

Oh, how cute. Isn't that pretty? Oh, yeah. Put the spider right in the center

Okay. So I'm going to just reach over here and get one of my spiders

and we're just going to take our red bell pepper strips, y'all

and we're just going to gently put those into our crab cake

I got a granddaddy long leg. Oh, you do. Love him. Look at that spider

Look how cute those look. You want to taste them? Yes, yes I want to taste

Oh, thank you. This spider is just too cute to eat. No, it's not

Mm-hmm. It's yummy, y'all. Mm, so good. Mm, mm, mm. Mm, I'm going to try our squash

Mm. Mm. Is that good, too? Mm-hmm. It's delicious. All right, well, come on down here

because we're gonna be making upside-down chocolate cupcakes stuffed with pumpkin. All right, y'all, I am gonna make a ganache

So I have a half a pound of semi-sweet chocolate that I have put into my double boiler

And when the chocolate melts, I'm gonna add 3-4ths of a cup of heavy cream, y'all

The cupcakes are so simple, and you know why? because I'm using a box

cake mix. Why wouldn't you? So you'll just need to follow the

instructions on the particular brand that you buy. I'm taking half an 8-ounce pack of cream cheese

I've got one cup of a prepared pumpkin. You can get it from the can at the store

I've got one cup going in here. I guess you could use sweet potato too if you wanted to But we using pumpkin today And I going to put in one cup of powdered sugar And I just going to beat this up

All right, in goes my water. I already added my three eggs

In goes my oil. Half a cup. And this is what's going to make these cupcakes so rich and moist

All right, son. So if you'd take that mixer and mix up my cake mix first, that would be great

And I'm going to spray my muffin tin so our cupcakes will come out beautifully simple

While you're doing that, Mom, I'm going to mix up my filling. Okay. I'm just going to give this a few stirs

and I'm going to use an ice cream scoop to fill up our

muffin tins, three quarters of the way full we're going to put this in the

oven y'all, 350 degrees for 15 minutes great, quick my chocolate smells

So now I'm going to add three-fourths of a cup of heavy cream

That's all ganache is. All right, so in goes my heavy cream

You can always melt your chocolate in the microwave, but you would have to be so very careful, y'all

because chocolate will scorch. Yeah. And once it's scorched, forget about it

When we come back, we'll be ready to stuff our upside-down pumpkin chocolate cupcakes

Yum. Yum. Eek! A spider! Killing! Killing! Coming up next, you know, I would try and help Jamie add the finishing touches to our cupcakes, but..

Looks like you've already been in the cupcake! Also, a few bites of our treat and..

The fat lady has sang. Hey, y'all. Welcome back to the Hallow-Dean Spooktacular

We've had Monster Mash. We've had spiders. We've had some delicious butternut squash

And now we're going to have our dessert. Here's where we're going to start. We've got our cupcakes that we've pulled out of the oven

And I'm going to take these and cut them right in half. Oh, look

Here she comes now. It looks like you've already been in the cupcakes

Happy Halloween. I ate too many cupcakes, y'all. How are the cupcakes coming, son

They're coming good. Do y'all like? I dressed up just for y'all

Well, let me ask the question that all of America is wondering right now. What do you have on under that

Nothing. Trick. All right, so what are we doing, son

We're just going to split these in half. and we've got two more left to do

and then we're going to take a mama if you want to get a knife and we're going to feel the inside of that

Can you work with your big arms? Yes. Like the Pillsbury Doughboy

Okay, we've got our ganache as it were. This looks beautiful. The little bit of that oil that you had in that measuring cup has made this really shiny

I'm just gonna put a little bit on top here. What would you like on yours? We got sprinkles. My tea. Or candy corn. Candy corn please

They're a little transparent. Yum. Would you like a fork? No. You're going to have to hold my plate. Okay

Mmm, mmm, mmm. Yum. Come here. Let me fix you up, son

No, I'm okay. I'll take a bite of yours. I feel bad. Look at me

Go like that. I feel right now. All right, now smile at everybody

I'm going with chocolate. and tell them happy Halloween. Happy Halladain. Until next Halloween

We wish you loving best dishes. From our kitchens to yours. The fat lady has sang

Happy Halladain, y'all