Ham And Cheese Turnovers

All right, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna make us just a quick little appetizer, a little ham and cheese turnovers

And if you would, I need about a third of a cup of onions, and we're gonna saute them in a little butter

Okay. So if you don't mind doing that for me. Okay. I'm gonna come down here and I'm gonna cut the cheese

Okay. I just wanted to see if you was awake. No, I'm gonna grate the cheese

All right, let's do that. And I'm going to take out some refrigerated pie crust right here

I've got Gruyere cheese, and I've got mozzarella. All of these ham and cheese turnovers

I'm so excited to be here. Oh, what? Because, you know, there's not a lot of times when you're on a tour bus

and you're out on the road. Yes. You don't get that same kind of love as you do when you're in a kitchen

Yes. And, you know, you put a lot of love into it, and I like to do that with my music

I'm so glad. And let me tell you something. It showed, honey

Well, I appreciate that. Okay, if you throw those in the pan with a tablespoon of butter

And so my confession to you is Michael and I got hooked on American Idol

So I told Michael, we have got to vote for Taylor. People said well you know I voted for you and I look at them and I say you never know You could have been my one swing vote you know because it was close American Idol is what you see is what you get right

It made me have to really work hard at singing and performing

Right. What was that? What did you say that was again? This is just a refrigerated pie crust

You know, if you don't have time to make you a pie crust. Yeah, what do you think about those

It's always good, tender, flaky. Because you know my grandmother tried to make pie crust for Thanksgiving and Christmas and stuff

and we'd have to just break the news to her that sometimes her pie crust just didn't turn out right

It wasn't all that great. I don't feel guilty at all using this

I think they're delicious. Now, I'm going to take these two. I'm going to make a double crust

You know, before I do that, I've got us a little ham, and I'm just using a deli

Deli ham. I'm going to chop that. So Taylor, how were you when you started singing and performing

Three or four started singing. Yes. Who was your audience at that age

Probably grandparents and family. Then it started in school talent shows, and then it became, you know, bars and clubs

I played pretty good blues harmonica back then, so I got it

It a handy I tell you this instrument you can take it anywhere How many chicks has that picked you up baby

Just beat me up an egg. Right in there, baby. All right, now we're going to put half the cheese there

A little ham. So these are like little pigs in blankets, but with pie crust

kind of they're more like ham and cheese biscuits there you go whatever it is i'm going to eat oh

you'll i promise you'll like it and just a few onions all right now what we're going to do with

that egg is we're going to come around here just like that we're going to make a seal so it will

stick so none of our goodness will come out of it and you know just like everything else i do

I overstuff it. That's all right. We're just going to poke it back in there

And then what I'd like for you to do is take the tine of this fork

stick it in your flour, and just come around just like that

When we went to Birmingham, you were just starting to tell me

you looked at me with those beautiful eyes, And you said, Paula, I want to be in the restaurant business

The place that I opened is called Ore. Ore? Drink and Dime. O-O-O-R-E

Like Iron Ore Oh okay Because the city Birmingham where I from was founded upon iron ore And a lot of the steel industry was in Birmingham Alabama So I used to play in this little place in a little strip mall

There in Birmingham. In Birmingham, Alabama. And I just thought to myself, one day if I make it, I'm going to own this little restaurant

and then I'm going to make some great food and I'm going to serve some great drinks. And look what happened

I got blessed with the opportunity to go back in there and open a restaurant

So you do not mean it. You have opened a restaurant where you played as a kid

Yep, where I used to play for years. So I think we've got enough turnovers

I don't think we'll... Did you just... Are you eating that wrong? Great time of day

I got to give this boy faith. All right, let's put those in the oven, please, honey

We're going to put them in a 375 oven for about 12 to 15 minutes

All right, bring your cute little tater patch over here and get out our little turnovers

Now, let me ask you something. Yes. What do you consider a potato patch

Tater patch. Tater patch. It's just like your whole body. Mm-hmm. Your whole body

Tater patch, it can be your hiney, too. That's what I was thinking you were saying

You thought I was calling your hiney. So I'm going to give you a plate and let you be munching on these

Whoa, not hot. Well, I'm hungry. I'm going to let them cool a little bit