House Special

Bobby and I are in here, y'all

We're getting pure silly. Because we're starting off today, y'all, with the most gigantic grilled tilapia po' boy sandwich

with Bobby's homemade tartar sauce. Then it's a blast from my children's past

a corn and carrot salad with the sweetest golden raisins. These are beautiful raisins

I like these. I love golden raisins. I do too. Next, two of my favorite ingredients come together

in Bobby's unbelievable sausage potato salad. This is going to be tea-totally delicious

And finally, we're making oatmeal raisin sandwich cookies that's almost as cute as Bobby in an apron

Bobby! How did this happen? You're beautiful. Good morning, y'all

We're thrilled to be here in the kitchen. I always love starting my day off with my son, Bobby

who's got the most beautiful, longest eyelashes. So, I understand that we're doing something

We're going to do something different. We're going to do fish. You always do fish, son

I know I do, but it's so good. It's so reliable. I know, I know. So where are we going to start, son, for these delicious grilled tilapia po' boys

I am going to do the fish, and I would like for you to make a tartar sauce for me

Okie doke. Because I know that you know that. So you've got tilapia up there. Right

Tilapia, these are like seven ounce pieces of fish. First, I'm going to get the fish ready

Okay. And so to start, I'm just going to brush them with a little bit of olive oil on both sides

I'm going to turn these over in just a sec. Sprinkle a little bit of salt and pepper on. A little more oil

Say it for me. A little more oil. There you go. Tilapia has absolutely no fat in it

Almost none. So that'll help keep it from sticking when we put it on our griddle

I love tilapia because it's so easy. I know. It's so easy to prepare. It's not, you know, there's nothing complicated about it

So tell me, son, what goes in this tartar sauce? A half cup of mayonnaise to start and about a quarter teaspoon of garlic powder, please

Okie doke. We're going to squeeze a tablespoon and a half of this nice, fresh, fat lemon

Okie doke. So I'm just going to eyeball that. There's a big, fat one

Feel how soft. I love lemons like that, where you know you're going to get a lot of love out of them

I love this coarse sea salt, too. How much pickles? Two tablespoons each of red onion and sweet pickles

I have found that a lot of folks here in Savannah love the sweet pickles

So I see that you're kind of following the Southern Savannah tradition. I like a sweet pickle in a tartar sauce

This is kind of standard. And Bobby, I'm not sure if you knew this, but this sandwich got the name Pull Boy from like what we call curb stores

Mm-hmm. And the guys would come in from work on their lunch break, and they didn't have much money

Well, the owner of this particular store said, I want to make something that these pool boys can afford to get for lunch

So they would pile this crusty French bread up with these crawfish and shrimp

and the pool boys could afford to have lunch, too. I like it. So if you'll pass me your fish

Are we hot? Yeah, it feels warm. Now, I'm going to give this grill just a quick spray

Oh, I love tilapia, Bobby. Me too. Did you add the salt and pepper yet, son

Here, let me. Taste it. Yeah, it could stand a little salt and pepper, I think

All right. Salt and pepper never hurts a thing. All right, so, Bobby, your fish is looking good, son

When the tartar sauce is made, I'm going to start working on the sweet corn and carrot salad

Sweet little gherkin. I like them. All right, well, let me help you. I'll do the carrots for you

Okay. Now, this is a real easy salad. And when you and Jamie were little boys, I used to make carrot and raisin salad all the time

because I felt like it was something that was really good for them. This one's been jazzed up a little bit

and children still continue to love it because it's got sweet corn in it

Did I eat it when I was a kid? Yes. I mean, from a young kid? Yes, yes

Because I love it now. I'm using, y'all, a frozen corn. So one cup into our bowl

And by the time I get finished, I'm going to have about two cups of carrots here, Greg. Bobby, I'm going to check your fish

Yeah, that looks good. I'm just going to give these a quick turn, Bobby

because I don't want them to overcook. Yeah, they're only a couple minutes aside

Mm-hmm. I'm going to put about a tablespoon of lemon juice in here

and I'm just going to eyeball that. A little salt. A little pepper

Two tablespoons of mayonnaise. I got you just about the right amount of carrots here

Okie dokes. And I'm going to chop you up some parsley. Okay, great. About a tablespoon of olive oil You know children love corn don they You know I always have Yeah I don think that something you really have to You don have to wrestle them to eat that No

I think every kid likes it. One night, I think Jamie was out of town working

and so Brooke and Jack were on their own, so I called and asked them to come over for supper

Well, Jack was really just starting to eat table foods, and I picked up some fresh corn from the grocery store

And if he was not the cutest thing. Did he pick it up and..

He picked it up and ate every kernel off that corn. Okay, I'll just add our corn mixture to your carrots, Bobby

These are beautiful raisins. I like these. I love golden raisins. I do too. So about a half cup

Yeah, about a half a cup. And just a quick tip, y'all, in case you've gone to your pantry and gotten your raisins

and they're real, real dried and hard, just put them in a cup of, like, boiling water

They'll soften up real nicely. So don't give up on a dried raisin

We are still good. And parsley. And just fold that all together, son

All right. Isn't that pretty? It's certainly colorful. All right, so, y'all, we've almost got our meal put together

Don't go anywhere because the tilapia's almost ready. Ooh, I'm so ready for a po' boy

Love it. Coming up next, no matter how you cut it, this salad is one of my favorites

I'll take a potato rip. Whole. Cream. Cream. Smashed. Then we're putting together our po' boy sandwiches that are fit for a king

Mm-mm, mm-mm-mm-mm. Them po' boys were lucky, weren't they? Very good. And later, you're not gonna believe what we do to these oatmeal cookies

Bobby and I are back at the stove. I've got our French bread on the grill, waiting to put our po'boys together

We've got our fish down there and our tartar sauce. So the next thing we're gonna make, it's Bobby's sausage potato salad, y'all

One of our favorites. All right, so I'm gonna take a half a pound of kielbasa

I'm just going to slice this in little maybe quarter of an inch rings

This is a little different than the potato salad that you made for Jamie and me growing up

which I really, really grew to love. But, you know, we just wanted to shake it up and make it a little bit different

Well, I love it, Bobby. You know, your great-grandmother used to make shrimp potato salad

Mm-hmm. And I love the meat in with the potatoes. So I think this is going to be teetotally delicious

Well, it is. I've made it before with Jamie, and it's real good. You know, like I said, it's just a little something different

I'm going to chop up a stalk of celery and two green onions. This is so funny, y'all

I had to hide the celery and the onions when they were growing up that I put in the potato salad

because if they thought they were eating celery or onions, they wouldn't eat it

So here he is voluntarily now putting that celery in his recipe

That's right. I didn't start eating the green stuff until I was about 30. I'll just start cooking our sausage in a little oil, and then..

I'm going to dice up one clove of garlic. Okay. I'm going to start cubing up some of these red potatoes

I've got about a pound of red potatoes here boiled. Okay. And he has boiled those y'all skin on

You know, and I learned to like that through you, too. I like to see my skin on the..

I said it worked out well because it was kind of a lazy man's way of cooking a potato

You can't stand peeling potatoes. So it really worked for me because that's where your color and your nutrients come from

A lot of vitamins in the skin. The nutrient is in the skin

So that's what I tell myself. All right, I want to make sure that this garlic is minced up as finely as I can get it

Because this is going into the dressing. All right, that's just one clove of garlic

Y'all, that was a big garlic. Love those potatoes. All right, so here's just a bowl, Bobby, to mix our potato salad up in

Now let's go ahead and make our dressing in this. Okay. And I'm turning off our sausage

What about the potato salad? Oh, sorry, son. That's all right, that's all right

I just want to go ahead and get this in a bowl. I'm living in Polo World. And I'll start working on your sauce

We're going to use three tablespoons of olive oil. This is an easy sauce

Very easy. Son. But with a lot of flavor. Ooh, yeah. One tablespoon of Tangy Dijon

We're going to use one and a half tablespoons of red wine vinegar. Okay. Just going to whisk that together

And once we get all of our dry ingredients put together, we'll just pour it right on top. Okay. And we'll just add a little salt and pepper to our potatoes before we add our dressing

All right. So in goes, here, Bobby, you want to take your spatula. There's not a lot of grease, but I'm going to throw this into the colander. Okay

Just to drain it a little bit. Yeah, just to make sure it's well drained

Get this all mixed together and I'm gonna try to fold this so I don rip these potatoes up too good So you don kill your potatoes up I don care I take a potato ripped whole Cream Cream smashed Son let me find you a bigger bowl I can hardly stand it

Let's put this here. This is the pot that we boiled the potatoes in

So let's just mix it, and then we'll throw it back in the bowl. How's that? That's good

There we go. That looks great. Okay, perfect. That looks good. Looks delicious

All right. All right, pile it back in your bowl. Okay. Because that bowl is very pretty

Here, son, yeah. There you go. Mmm. Look at that sausage. So now we're ready to move over and put those pool boys together

I like a lot of tartar sauce. Yeah, me too. Me too. Yes

We made a pile of tartar sauce, too. This is going to be almost too big to eat, y'all

It's gonna be awesome. Oh, it's falling apart, it's so flaky. Yes, I love it. Perfect

Want the rest of it? No, that's good. Okay. Look at that

Listen to that crunch in y'all. I do. You're not gonna cut your sandwich

I'm gonna cut it all right. All right, to you. To you, Bob. Mm-hmm

Mm. Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. Mm

Them po' boys were lucky, weren't they? Very good. Golly. You know, tastes like that was the world, too

Oh. That is super. Mm. Wow, we did a good job, huh

And this is nice and refreshing. Oh, definitely. Definitely. Mmm

I love it! Coming up, I bet you can't guess my favorite ingredient, y'all, that goes into these cookies

What might be the first ingredient that I start with? Two sticks of butter! There you go

And later, we got some unbelievable filling for these cookie sandwiches. Is the devil not in this kitchen today

Y'all, when I was a typical housewife, you know, a stay-at-home mother

I was a cookie-making mama, wasn't I? You were indeed. I don't know if I was making them for y'all or for me, though

You were making them for you. A good chance I was, y'all

I love cookies. And we're going to finish up today with these amazing, fluffy oatmeal raisin sandwich cookies

Is the devil not in this kitchen today? I think she may be

She may be, along with all the dogs. So we're going to take these oatmeal raisin cookies

What might be the first ingredient that I start with? Two sticks of butter. There you go

One and a fourth cups of packed light brown sugar. There's the first

All right, one and a fourth cup. Then we've got one egg. And then we've..

It sounds like a zoo in here. And he's going to cream that real well

And then I'm going to add your milk. I'm going to need for you to help me add some ingredients to this

Okay, I will. You just beat the heck out of that. We want to cream our butter

Oh, you're getting messed up, son. Got brown sugar all over me. That's all right. One of Bobby's biggest pet peeves, y'all, is getting stuff on his clothes

Is my mama speaking for me? I have actually seen Bobby want to get up and leave a meal because he got something on him

A little tighter, Mama. Tighter? I love television. I love doing television with my mom

There's nothing embarrassing about it at all. You're adorable. I wish it looked that good on me

It's awesome. Bobby, you look beautiful, son. All right, mama. Thank you. I appreciate it

Between your apron and your eyelashes, I am so jealous. All right, are you going to help me here

Yes. Are we making something besides me blush? We're making you blush

All right. Okay. Quarter cup of milk. Yes. And then one egg, please. And one egg

So Bobby, fry and dry ingredients for our cookie. I'm using a half a teaspoon of bacon soda

Not powder, but soda. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon. A half a teaspoon of salt

And a quarter of a teaspoon of nutmeg. Alright, now over here, I'm gonna put in two cups of all-purpose flour

I'm done with the apron. I appreciate it Okay But look at you how clean you are That right So I just going to fluff those ingredients together

All right, so we're just going to stir in, Bobby, our dry ingredients into our wet

All right. Okay. So, half a cup of raisins, and then you're going to need two and a half cups of rolled oats

All right. And we're going to use the quick cooking that cooks in like five minutes

You don't want to use the long cooking, and you certainly don't want to use instant

Now, I'm a big nut. Yeah. Don't you say a word. I know it's true, though

I am a big nut lover. Now, ordinarily, I would put nuts in at this time

but this particular recipe does not call for nuts. So, but I've got an idea

All right, what is it? And we're going to get our nuts mixed in with this

but we're going to do it when we get to the sandwich part. Okay, son, you've done a great job on that

Yeah, I think that's together. So bring this down here, and we're going to put these on our cookie sheet

We want to use like two tablespoons. of cookie dough. These are perfect, Bobby

But just to make our job a little bit cleaner, we are going to put a silicone mat down in there

and that makes them not stick, and it just makes cleanup easy, easy, easy

And Bobby has done this just perfectly. Do you see the way he's taken his scooper

and he's kind of pressed them down to give them a head start on flattening out

You're going to finish these up, Mom, and I'm going to put that first tray in the oven. Okay, that sounds great, son

Excuse me. All righty. So in they go 350 for about 11 minutes, right

Yeah, 11 minutes. And these look perfectly out of this world, y'all

There's your other pan. All right. And in 11 minutes, we're going to have some fabulous cookies

Then this show is gonna turn into an R-rated show because we're gonna do something obscene

We're gonna make sandwiches out of these oatmeal cookies, y'all. With fluff

Up next, they might have to bring us in for making these dangerously delicious cookie sandwiches

Here you go. You can put me in my cancuffs and tote me off. What are you talking about

I should be arrested. Bobby and I are in here, y'all. We're getting pure silly

These oatmeal sandwich cookies that we're about to make. They look beautiful

So what do you send us over the top? Perfect size. Look at our cookies, y'all

How beautiful are those? They look great. Yeah, if you'd chop those nuts for me, Bobby

So we've got a chocolate sauce and we've got a fluffy marshmallow

Now, on this side, I'm going to take that chocolate, and I'm just going to put all in that cookie on that side

Let's do a little bit more. You know, I meet more people that tell me they watch your show

while they're on the treadmill, and I just wonder why. Why do you think that is? You know, and I always get a big..

I watch your mama's show while I'm working out. Uh-huh. I always get a big kick out of that because I say, you know

So that's where you should watch Best Dishes is from the treadmill

Remember, son, how I told you I just love nuts? Yes, ma'am

I've got a mixture of chopped nuts here. So. Well, here, you want some to sprinkle

Oh, wow. Oh, that's a good idea. Isn't that a great idea

That is a good idea. I like that. Look at that. Look at that. Good grief

Give me a bite. Take it. Take it. Look at that I should be arrested

Oh yeah you're right Alright my nuts over here Bobby has almonds

And walnuts And pecans But I know how you feel Just about pecans

Yeah and I like mine real fine Okay so I'm gonna just

Put the center to your cookie together And then you can dip yours

In your pecans That is awesome All right, there you go. Look at this

This is sickening. Sickening. I'm on my way to the gym right now

Look, look, look. Mmm. Mmm. All right. Is that not delicious

Do yourself a favor and go make some of these right now. And listen, y'all. Right now

You can use any kind of cookie dough you want to. I don't think there's anything left to say, Bobby. Nope

other than we send y'all loving best dishes. From my mess to yours

From my kitchen to yours. See y'all next time. Bye, y'all