Ladies With Love

It's my soul sister

Y'all see the resemblance? My dear old friend Dora from the Lady and Sons is here today

and we're going to be starting off with her famous baked spaghetti recipe

that's going to put a swing in your step. Oh, get it, Paula

Oh, God, do you think? Get it, Paula. Then another dear friend from the Lady and Sons, Nita

is in my kitchen challenging me to a cheesy biscuit baking contest

that y'all don't want to miss. And she's more fun than you can ever imagine

And finally, one of the most decadent desserts, chocolate trifle. This meal is coming to y'all from the ladies with love

Come and get it! I am in the kitchen with Dora. Dora is truly the queen of the Lady and Son

She runs that kitchen, that buffet food. She is the queen. Dora and I have been together about 19 years

And for so long, Dora, it seemed like it was kind of you and me against the world

And Dora was the rock. She would keep me calm. Yeah. So it's such a treat for me to get back in here with you today because, you know, you look so pretty

Thank you, Paula. Can I tell you how pretty you look, Dora? Yes, tell me. Well, I'm going to come down here because we're going to make a dish that Dora has really made famous at the Lady and Sons

So tell everybody the wonderful dish we're making today. We're making Dora's Bates Spaghetti

So you are dicing bell pepper. We need half a cup of bell pepper

Uh-huh. Half a cup of onions. Okay. And that's like one medium onion that you're using

Right. And I chopped about a half a cup of parsley. Then we're going to need two garlic cloves

That sounds great. And we got our meat over here, Dora. Today we're going to be using a pork, a chicken, and a turkey

Sounds delicious. And I'm just going to brown this off. It's kind of whatever you've got on hand

Okay, yeah. As far as the meats that you use. But I love the different cuts

I love the different varieties of meat. Yeah. It gives it such great flavor

It does. And so when you're ready with your stuff. Go right in

Okay. Bodine knows you're here, Dora. Okay. Hey, Bodine. He smells meat

Doesn't look like much meat, does it, Dora? It doesn't. We just feed me and you

You want me to run this door and get some more meat? Not this time

We'll just feed us. Okay. You know, people will ask me all the time

When I run into the customers out in the street, they will say

is Paula really that sweet and that nice? And I came right out and tell them

I said, you know, at times she wasn't. I did. I said, you know, everybody have their moment, you know

And I said, but she always came back and apologized to me. That's one thing I could say

And we loved each other the whole time. I never left the side

She never made me mad enough to just walk out. Felt like it, but I ain't going nowhere

No. Well, thank God Dora was smart enough to know that it was part of going to battle

Yes. And that's when you go into the restaurant business, every day that you open, you are going into battle

You're going into battle. All right. Yes. So this is getting browned, Dora

Yes, almost ready. Do you want me to put the parsley in now? Yes. Okay. Yeah, I will do it now

Well, I'm going to start adding the seasonings. It's very simple, y'all. Yes, it is. We're using one and a half teaspoons of everything

Yes. One and a half teaspoons of seasoning salt, house seasoning, sugar, and Italian seasoning

It's a blend of, like, oregano, thyme, basil, rosemary. So this is going to give it that wonderful Italian flavor

Okay. And how many bay leaves? I'm going to put three. Okay. Okay

in the pot that goes. And over here, I have got us some

diced tomatoes and some tomato sauce. So I'm going to measure up

about two cups. You know what? That meat made more than what I thought

Dora. It did. It don't shrink as much as the ground beef, though

Okay, I'm adding a half a cup of water to the sauce because we're going to cook this again

because we're going to bake it. All right, so we're going to let this cook down for a little bit

but let's have some fun in the meantime, Dora. Come on, Paula

I want to do it. Come on, Paula. I want to do it. Oh, get it, Paula

Oh, God, do you think? Get it, Paula. That's how we used to be in the kitchen

Used to have so much fun. We did have fun. That's the only way we could keep our sanity

was to have a good time on the job y So Dora grating a cup of cheddar and a cup of Monterey Jack cheese y And I gonna drain our pound of spaghetti

So now we're ready to put this together, aren't we, Dora? Put the spaghetti together

So you want me to spray the pan a little bit, Dora? Yes. All right, and we're gonna start

with just a couple of spoonfuls of sauce. That sauce will keep it from sticking

So here we go. And we're just going to layer this. Sauce, pasta

Cheese. I'm using sharp cheddar and Monterey Jack. That's right. And then just another layer of each

We are finished with this right now. Okay. Everything is perfect on this

The sauce, I just love it. Okay, it does look delicious. So we're going to bake this in a 350-degree oven for about 25 or 30 minutes

just until it's hot and bubbly. And bubbly, because everything's already done

They're just coming together. We will cheese it the last few minutes, right? Yes

So in the oven it goes. Okay. And right here on this side of the rack

It's going to be delicious. It is. All right, Dora, take us out, sister, with a dance

Oh, okay. Mm-mm-mm. Mm-mm-mm. Coming up next, I got Nita in the kitchen now

and we're fixing to make our famous cheese biscuits. Do it your way

I'm going to do it mine. OK, I'm going to do it my way. And later, Dora's back to help us put together

our extravagant Lady and Sons chocolate trifle. Like sex in a bowl, ain't it? Ooh

Look who is in the kitchen with me now, y'all. This is Nita, affectionately known as Jelly Roll in the restaurant

She makes the biscuits and the hoe cakes. How long have you been agitating me and Dora

I mean, how long have you been working with me and Dora? Well, I'd say about 11 years

You'd say about 11 years? and it only seemed like five minutes, Nita

Oh. Under water. No, it ain't. Look, this woman has walked out with my tiaron

So is. Well, it's perfect for you because you're definitely the queen of biscuits and hoecakes

And Nita and I got a biscuit challenge going on between the two of us today

We're going to see who makes the best biscuits. Now, we're making our world-famous cheese biscuits, y'all

You cannot screw them up, can you, Nita? No, you cannot. You cannot mess these biscuits up

So, I'm going to be making mine. Nita's going to be making hers

Okay, I'm going to put in one cup of cheddar and a half a cup of my reject

And I'm going to use four cups of biscuit next. Okay, and about two cups of milk

Oh, Paula, you're doing it wrong, right? I am not. You're going to put the cheese to the bottom. I ain't putting no cheese in the bottom

Do it your way. I'm going to do it mine. Okay, I'm going to do it my way. All right, now I'm going to grate my cheese

If everybody wants to know what's in our biscuit mix, they can go to foodnetwork.com, Nita, and find out what's in it

Or they can find a recipe. That's right. You know, to make their own from scratch

Or they can find me. Or they can find you. And I'll tell them

So y'all, Nita, it's kind of like the first smiling face you see at 11 o'clock

because Nita is out in the middle of the street and she rings the lunch bell

She's out there ringing her bell saying, Come and get it! And honey, if that crowd doesn't respond to her

she does it again and she won't let them leave and go in and take a seat in the restaurant

until they're all laughing and smiling and yelling, Yes, we're hungry! Yes

All right, now I'm going to put my cheese in. You know what? I got salt and pepper up here

I might just put a little salt. What are you doing? Don't you... You tend to go on business

I'm making my own business because I'm not putting no salt and peppers in. All right, now y'all, I'm going to start adding my milk

And I'm adding my cheese. Okay, you add your cheese. I'm moving right along, Nita

Yes, you are. Okay. All righty. Now, look at her. Mine's looking good

Yes, mine's gonna look even good because mine's more cheesy than yours

I'm gonna do something you don't do. Okay. I'm just gonna put a little melted butter in my mix

I'm adding about half a stick. Because butter makes everything better. It do

It really do. So what makes our biscuits so easy to me, Nita

is the fact that we don't have food with a rolling pin. I'm trying to tell you

With all that rolling, we are going to scoop ours up using an ice cream scoop

And that way we got a perfect biscuit every time don we Neal Yes And you know what You don want to overwork your biscuits No You want to just kind of get them mixed They looking good honey

Looking good. Oh, yeah, baby. They looking good. All right, so I'm going to spray my pan

with a little bit of no stick. And I'm going to start loading my tray with the biscuits

You look very pretty today, Nita. Oh, thank you, Paula Deen. All right, so down goes my biscuits

Is that not, like, beautiful? Yes, it is. It is beautiful. Yes, it is

So we've got a perfectly sized biscuit. Yes. Every one of them that comes out is perfect

Yes, and I love to give them to the customers. I know

Look at you. What are you doing? I'm through. Okay. You're through, but I'm not

I'm through. Okay. Now, let me help you finish these, Nita. I just want to spray your pan while you start scooping out your biscuits

I'm going to put a little garlic powder now into our butter

And I'm going to brush mine with butter. All right, now these are my biscuits

Those are Nita's biscuits. We're going to go into the oven, and we're going to bake these on like about 375, y'all

for about 12 or 15 minutes. Now, mine are going to be on the right

and yours are going to be on the left. And when we come back

we're going to see who wins the biscuit-making contest. Okay. Up next, Dora's back to share the story

behind our amazing chocolate trifle. You know, there's not many things, Dora

that you can't salvage in a kitchen. And later, I think even the guest at the Lady and Sons

would be jealous of this meal today. I think that's the best I ever did it

You think so? I'm here in the kitchen with Queen Dora. What

Huh? I said all right. All right, Dora, the next dish we're going to be making

is one of those favorites at the Lady and Sons. Now, we're making a chocolate trifle

made from our Lady and Sons chewy cakes. A fabulous, fabulous dessert

Okay, I'll take the mixer. You tell me what goes in. Okay. You need a stick of butter, of course

Okay. In that goes, and that's been softened to room temperature. You're gonna have a pound of brown sugar

A pound of brown sugar. So these are nice and browny, browny sweet

All right, so I'm going to cream our sugar and our butter together

And I want to tell y'all about this dish that was born at the Lady and Sons

Yes. I don't know if you remember the date. I do. But Gina was doing the bacon, and I said, we have no desserts, Gina

Hurry, hurry, hurry. So she was trying to hurry, and she burned these

And I said, not to worry, sister. I took a knife and cut all the burned off, and we made the most wonderful chocolate trifle

Yes. And that was the day that it was born. Now, Dora is going to add three eggs

Yes. Okay. Make sure no eggshells get in there. Okay. And then when you did this, I was so surprised and shocked of it

Because I thought that the brown brown was ruined. I thought it was gone

You know, there's not many things, Dora, that you can't salvage in a kitchen

Okay. This is looking good, Dora Bale. It looks real good, yes. All right, now we're gonna add two cups

Two cups. Of self-rising flour. Mm-hmm. So I'm gonna turn that down a little bit

while you add that so I won't sling it all over. Go ahead and put it on

Okay. Mm. And then, Dora, if you'd put in our vanilla flavoring

Yes. That's a tablespoon of vanilla flavor. Mm-hmm. Okie doke. All right

So now we'll just fold in the other ingredients. Mm. Love it

Oh. Mm. We've got two cups of chopped peanuts. One cup of coconut

And one cup of semi-sweet chocolate chip. Yum. So, we're just going to fold that in. All right, so this looks good. If you would

hand me our pan. Now, we're going to cook these in a 13 by 9 by 2 pan. And if you would

help me, Dora, hold this heavy bone. I'm just going to scoop that into our prepared

pan. Bake it at 375 for about 25 minutes. All right, so in the oven they go

So a while ago you know Nita and I made biscuits We having this biscuit cook Look at her Look at her All right So you our judge Oh goody Yeah All right Nita don you

Here, I'll get the oven door for you. You just... Don't you get mine mixed up with yours

You ain't got to worry about it, because mine looks better than yours anyhow. So I'm going to just brush mine with a little more butter

Dora, if you want to come down here and fix us a plate. Okay. Oh, my gosh

Y'all, just look at this. We've got our salad down here

Oh, don't worry. Is it good? Mmm. I think that's the best I ever did it

You think so? Mmm. Don't you think so? Yeah, yeah. Especially with all this different kind of meat

Yes. You know what? I think that's it. You think that's it? All the different flavors of the meat

Of the meat. Of the meat. So Dora, Nita, and I worked very hard on making these biscuits

Okay. So if you would be kind enough to tell us which one you like the best. Okay

That's one. And this is another. That's not bad. It's not bad. Mm-hmm

And this too? Mm-hmm. Mmm. Now, that first biscuit was off the chain

That was delicious. The second one's not bad. Oh, what's the matter

Nothing. Nothing, darling. It's all right if neither one. And you know what would make me happier than anything in the world

is to know when I'm not at that restaurant, you're there and you can out-cook me

Okay. That makes me very happy. Y'all don't go anywhere. We got a trifle coming up

It's gonna knock you out of your chair. Coming up, we're remembering the good old days, y'all

as we finish up this Dacoda Chocolate Trifle. Oh, gosh. Those are so good, Dora

Brings back so many memories. Look at this. Okay. Yum

Oh. Oh, God, don't stop me tasting. Oh, Dora! Yum! Dora's gonna put our trifle together

and I've got me two cups of heavy cream for our whipped cream, y'all

And I'm gonna use a half a cup of powdered sugar. Yummy

Oh, gosh, those are so good, Dora. I know they are. Brings back so many memories

So we're just crumbling that up into bite-sized pieces, y'all. Okie dokie

So our whipped cream is wonderful. So Dora and I have made up just an instant chocolate pudding

So now we're just going to put a layer of chocolate pudding

All right, now Dora, if you would put a layer of the whipped cream on it

Okay, my turn. Ooh, yummy, yummy. Another layer of our chewies

Y'all gonna love this. Like sex in a bowl, ain't it? Ooh

And I've got some chopped peanuts. Somehow I knew you was gonna do that

You know, you can do this. The beauty of this is you can put it together any way you want to

Another layer of chocolate pudding. This is yum. My fingers are getting all down in it, y'all

Me too. This is a feast. It is a feast. A little more nuts

I'm going to take just a little bit of the edge and just crumble a little bit on top, just like that

Look at her work. Here we go. Masterpiece

It is a masterpiece, isn't it? Yum. Ooh, that's gorgeous. Look-a here, Nita

Ooh-hoo-hoo. Dip, Dora, dip. That is so gorgeous. Dig deep. Ah, yeah, come here

Ooh, goodness. Love you, love you. Look at that. Mm, mm, mm, mm

Okay, good. It is so good. Thank you, Nita. This is good

Oh, my gosh. It's delicious, y'all. I hope that if y'all get to come to the Lady and Sons, maybe we're making the chocolate trifle that day

Well, sisters, I have to tell y'all what. It has been too long

I've had so much fun being in the kitchen with y'all. I love you. Love and best dishes

Yes. Bye, y'all