It's All In the Family

I'm in here with my favorite oldest son, Jamie

First up, we're fixing an all-time favorite. Tomato mac and cheese. It just screams family

Then Jamie puts a Dean twist on an English pea salad. Bacon and mayonnaise

Come on, please. Nothing says home cooking, y'all, like Brooke's homemade meatloaf

My favorite thing in the world to eat. And we're having the perfect sweet-on-sweet ending

Toffee gooey butter cake with an icy coffee punch. I think I just got a cavity

Y'all recognize that honey? I'd know that honey anywhere. That honey belongs to my oldest son, Jamie

And I'm in here in the kitchen with him today. We're gonna share some family recipes with you

We've got a recipe from Brooke. We've got a recipe from Jamie

And we got a recipe from Mama. So we're gonna have fun today

Bless his little bones. He ain't got no Harley butt at all

Not Harley or voice today. I know, y'all. He went to the Georgia-Alabama game

Yes, ma'am. I did this all in the first 10 minutes of the football game

Because after that, it was pretty quiet. It was still fun. Bobby and I, we don't get a chance to do things together very often

so we had an awesome weekend. He and Bobby went together, and it was... These are done. I'm going to drain them, okay? Okay

Y'all, we're going to make a macaroni and cheese. This is a little different from what we serve at the Lady and Sons

This is our version, y'all, of a tomato mac and cheese. All right, son, I'll start melting that butter

I need for you to just dice me up a couple of tablespoons of onion

And I'm going to put about four tablespoons of butter in here and get that going

We're going to saute those onions off in this butter that we've got melting

Oh, son, I'm going to drop your tomatoes in the pot. Couple of whole tomatoes down into boiling water, y'all

Just for a minute or so. That will just help us, you know, peel them a lot easier

and we're going to saute these onions until they're just a little bit limp

Yeah, that's about two tablespoons. Yeah, you know, and that's every recipe I do

Put more, take out less, depending on what you like. If you don't like onions, then don't put them at all

I love the flavor of onions and tomatoes and cheese, kind of like the tomato pie that we do

Oh, yeah, exactly. So Jack's a big fan of macaroni. Look at his face when I mention Jack's name, y'all

Look at that face. I miss him. I left him an hour ago, and I miss him already

Listen, I don't blame you, son. You can imagine when I have to go two and three days a week without seeing that little fella

Mom, I'm going to add our dry mustard. We're doing three quarters of a tablespoon. Okie doke

That looks about right. And we're going to do a quarter of a teaspoon of paprika

And the paprika is just going to help give our macaroni and cheese some color

And to this, we're going to add four tablespoons of flour and some milk to kind of thicken this up

So you can see right away that we're making a cheese sauce, aren't we, son, for our macaroni and cheese

Yesterday, I called Jamie and I said, well, let me speak to Jack, please

And Jack gets on the phone and he says, I love a turkey

Two cups of milk, y'all. And he can't say granny, and it comes out guinea

I said, yeah, like guinea pig. Or like, he's trying to learn how to say gimme, I think. Gimme

But you know what? I'm like every other grandmother out there. You know, I don't care what they call me, as long as they call me

All right, so this will tighten up in just a minute, son. I'm going to take our tomatoes out and then drop them in ice water

Stop that cooking because we don't want mushy tomatoes. I'll take one of these tomatoes

And I'm going to slice up our tomatoes. And look how easy that skin just slips right off those tomatoes

It leaves you a lot more tomato to work with. Sure does. You get every bite of that tomato, y'all

But you've got to be careful not to overcook them. It doesn't take but a second. Oh, it doesn't. It doesn't take but a pure second

So what's your brother doing today? I'm sure he's down at the restaurant playing famous

Playing famous. Taking pictures, trying to explain where you are. Now that the tomatoes are peeled, we can slice them up

I'm going to add a little salt to this, Mom. Okay. All right, so we... Oh, that looks perfect, son

I going to cut that off now and I going to throw in our cheese Our two cups of cheese Mm Ooh that looks so good Now I got a prepared casserole dish back here

When I say prepared, I've sprayed it so it won't stick so badly. So, son, just add your noodles into there

And let's stir it around. All right, so, son, just pour that in your casserole dish

and I'll get a spatula out to help you. I'm going to get every bit of that good old cheese sauce out of there

This looks delicious. All right, so we're just going to lay our tomatoes on there

So there we go. Doesn't that look good? You're going to put about two more cups on top of that

Yeah, well, actually, the recipe calls, son, for one cup towards the end

Now, I'm going to put just a little bit of salt on those tomatoes

because they need enhancing just a little bit. And I'm going to put just a little bit of fresh ground pepper

you know, just kind of floating around on top of those tomatoes. All right, so in the oven, son, that goes 375 for about 45 minutes

But like I said, 30 minutes may do you on it. Up next, we're fixing the perfect salad to go with our family meal

Doesn't this look delicious? And Jamie can't hardly wait to make Brooke's mouth-watering meatloaf

I'm so excited that I get to eat meatloaf today, I can't tell you. And stick around for two of the most sinful dinged desserts you'll ever put in your mouth

We are so bad, Mama. Bad to the bone. Hey, y'all. Welcome back

Today is about all in the family, and we're cooking up family recipes

I'm in here with my favorite oldest son, Jamie, and we're fixing Jamie's recipe for an English pea salad

I have our eggs ready. Now, I want to run those under cold water

because they're going to peel easier for us if they're nice and cold

And I just bam those eggs on the counter and kind of give them a little roll and crunch them up good

so that that shell just comes right on off. Look how beautiful those peas are

And that's just a 10-ounce package of frozen peas. Mom, I got our bacon chopped up

I'm just going to add the bacon to the peas. Okay. And if you'll do those eggs

And that bacon is beautiful. Isn't that so pretty? Just perfect. We're going to dress this out, and this is the easiest thing, y'all

It's three tablespoons of mayonnaise. Yeah, and you know, it really doesn't take much for this type of salad

because you got the moisture from your peas. And we're going to say two teaspoons of lemon juice

Okay. It looks good. Now, smell that fresh lemon juice. This is the way I do my eggs

I just take them and I mash them. To me, that's so much easier than cutting them

just squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. How about the eggs? Can I just go ahead and kind of scoop those in

I'm going to put this dressing on. Okay. I don't want to put too much

I don't want to be too wet. So I'm going to just add a little bit and see

And y'all can do this one of two ways. If you want to do this when the bake is still hot

and have the peas at room temperature with the eggs, but Mama always served hers cold

That's very pretty. Can I dump the cheese in for you? Sure. And that's about one cup of shredded cheddar cheese

So I like my English pea salad cold too. Mom, if you will, hand me some wrap. Okay

I'm going to refrigerate this. Okie doke. Then we'll get started on my favorite thing in the world to eat, my wife's meatloaf

Lots of times when you and I are talking, you'll say, Brooke's cooking meatloaf tonight

It really, truly is. And it's reason number 312 why I'm overweight

Because when Brooke makes a meatloaf, I eat meatloaf for dinner. And then for dessert, I have a meatloaf sandwich on white bread with mayonnaise

I love a meatloaf sandwich. That's my favorite dessert. So we're doing two of my favorites today

So good, y'all. It's a simple recipe, and I think what sets it apart is the glaze that we're going to put on top, and we'll get to that

But first, Mama, we're going to chop up a medium onion. And that's pretty big for a medium onion, but I love it

Yeah, this is kind of like a large onion. I've got two pounds of ground beef

I don't want to use the leanest that I can find because there's so much flavor in the fat

And you know I love mixing the meats for my meatloaf. I'll get ground chicken or either a sausage that will really bring in other flavors

We're going to put about three tablespoons of ketchup in on this. So all this is, y'all, is just ketchup, a little bit of salt

We're going to do a little bit of pepper. I'm going to crack two eggs into this

And lastly, I'm gonna rip up one piece of white bread to kind of hold it all together

And that it I gonna add our onion and you can mix it all together And this is a lot of onion in here If my wife was here she probably tis me for putting this much onion in here

but it was a little big, but it'll be fine. Okay, if you would, get our loaf pan right there behind us

If you want to, Mama, you can put this in here, and then we'll get started on a glaze, and I'm gonna rinse my hands real quick. Okie-doke

And I'm just pressing our mixture down into a 9x5 loaf pan

We're going to put this in the oven for 30 minutes, and once it's halfway through cooking, we're going to add this glaze to it

And this is simple, too. So I've got a quarter of a cup of ketchup

one tablespoon of Dijon mustard. The big surprise is brown sugar. And Jamie's adding two teaspoons of brown sugar

When it comes out of the oven, it's sticky, sweet. Yeah. It's the sweet and savory flavor

I think that it kind of, that's what makes people such a big fan of this recipe

And plus, it's so simple. When I have meatloaf, I love the top just coated with ketchup because it does it like candies, and it's so good

All right, well, I'm going to put this in the oven for you, son. And we're going to bake this, what did you say, for 30 minutes

Yes, ma'am, we're going to cook this halfway through. We put it on 350, 375. Let's bake it 30 minutes, and we're going to brush our top on

We're going to let it go another 30 minutes. Oh, God. Okay, so in the oven, this goes

And you know what? Our macaroni and cheese looks so good. Let me help you, Mom

Yeah, son, if you'd take that out and bring it over there

and let's put the top layer of cheese on it. Look at those tomatoes on there

Doesn't this look delicious? Yes, ma'am. Look at all that cheese, y'all

melting in there. Oh, my goodness. You talking about meals that are so humble

and have been around our whole lives, this meal is definitely one of them

It just screams family. Well, let's put that back in the oven, son

I'll open the door if you'd slip that back in. And we're just gonna let that cheese

melt on top. Coming up, a signature Dean family recipe. It just warms our heart to see

the way people love this dish. And later, we're gonna knock you out with the perfect punch

y'all. So what are you doing over there, son? This has been in the oven for 30 minutes, Mom

so I'm gonna add our finishing glaze to the top of this meatloaf

I'm really gonna put it on here. I like a lot of... How's the mac and cheese looking

And, oh, never mind. I see how it's doing. Jesus melted all of those tomatoes, y'all

All right. You want to pull out the mac and cheese, son? Yes, sir. I think it's ready

And if we need to, when the meatloaf is ready, we can toss the macaroni and cheese back in the oven

and just heat it up at the last minute. The last dish that we're going to be preparing for y'all today

I swear to Pete, I could do this in my sleep. We're going to be making a toffee chip gooey butter cake

And I love this recipe. All right, so we're going to just use a yellow cake mix, y'all

I'm melting us back here, y'all. Two sticks of butter. Now, Jamie has just added one egg

And this is going to be a real thick, thick mixture. and it's going to be the crust to our gooey butter cake

I'm going to spray this pan on. Son, how many different gooey butter cakes have we made

I can't even count. If you can put it on a counter, we have mixed it in a gooey butter cake

Now that our butter is melted, I'll just divide it up. So this is our half a cup

That's a half a cup. And then we've got a half a cup left over there

Now we're just going to mix this up, y'all, and then we're going to pat it into the bottom of our pan

While Jamie's patting our mixture into the pan, I'll put together our filling

I've got an 8-ounce package of cream cheese, which has come to room temperature

and a bag of sugar. And that's a 16-ounce bag of confectioner's sugar

And I'm going to add our other half a cup of melted butter

Hence the name gooey butter cake, y'all. This is two eggs in the top we're going to add here, y'all

I'll add one teaspoon of vanilla extract. All right, so son, just beat the heck out of that

See how quickly we have put this thing together? It's an amazing dessert for the amount of effort that it takes to make it

To me the only way you can mess this recipe up is your baking time You don want to bake this so long that it like a cake You want it to have that little bit of a gooey center Let add our toffee bits to that now

Now, I'm going to put about a cup or as much as I daggum please

Well, I daggum wished you'd pleased more. This recipe is an old recipe, y'all

And I started making this 19 years ago. I made it every day to go in Jamie and Bobby's basket for the bag lady

And if I missed a day without having a gooey butter cake, people would get real upset with the boys

All we're going to do is pour that on top of that crust, put it in the oven at 350

And I'm going to bake this probably in my oven, son, for about 40 minutes

As high as your meatloaf. If you'll bring that meatloaf out, Jamie, I'll get our garden piece salad

Jamie? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Looking good, son. Looking good. Mmm. I'm going to just slice this up a piece

Mmm. Look at that. Ooh. Oh, ooh. I can see why you love for your wife to cook you that meatloaf

And I can see why you so love a meatloaf sandwich. Let's try our macs

Yeah, a little mac and cheese. Dig in, sonny. I don't know what to try first

I was going to say I don't either, but I'm going straight for the meat

I'm going to try the macaroni with the tomatoes. Oh, Jamie. That's so good

So basic. So delicious. So delicious. That tomato and macaroni is awesome

Mmm. The bacon is so good in that piece, Howard. Mmm. Ooh, and that macaroni and cheese with the tomato on top, it's so pretty

Gracious. Can I be on your show tomorrow? Yes, tomorrow is all about diet day

We're going to have whey toast and water. Feel free to come by

So hell has frozen over. Up next. This is what you get for growing up in my mama's house, y'all

I'm substituting ice cubes with ice cream. Jamie and I have one more scrumptious surprise for y'all

Hey, y'all. We're back here at Mama's show, and Mama's eating ice cream. So gooey butter cake is not quite rich and sweet enough for us

So we've got this cocktail that we're going to pair with it

Jamie's Fixness and Icy Coffee Punch. What you're going to start with is three cups of your coffee

Michael's coffee. Captain Michael's coffee. Captain's choice. And we're going to put about a half a cup of chocolate syrup in here

While Jamie's mixing up that recipe. Let me show you what the gooey butter cake looks like

See that real gooey top? We are so bad, Mama. Four cups of milk

And this will hold in the refrigerator, won't it, son? So you can make up this much and, you know, just cover it and keep it in the fridge

So we'll add our ice cream. This is what you get for growing up in my Mama's house, y'all

I'm substituting ice cubes with ice cream. Does that make me a bad mama, y'all

No, it doesn't. It just makes me have to buy a new belt just about every other week

I think this is what most people are thirsty for after they finish a meatloaf and macaroni and cheese dinner

Look at that. Jamie, I'm going to get us some spoons, son

You know, it takes so little to make me happy. And I think I want a straw

How about you? I'll take a straw. Okay, I'm going to... Your stomach's growling still

That's the sound of settling. So good. Jamie, this is very, very rich

Well, have a bite of gooey butter cake. This is so good, y'all, with the toffee in it

I think I just got a cavity. You think you just got a cavity

And this is so delicious, my coffee and ice cream and chocolate syrup. You know, there'll be many more days where it's all in the family

because that's what we're about, all in the family. I've had a great time with y'all, and as usual

Jamie and I always, oh, thank you, my darling, We always, always, always send y'all loving best dishes

from our family to y'alls. Have a great day