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Love & Best Dishes: Air Fryer Zucchini Boats with Tomato, Rice, and Olives Recipe
Jul 21, 2021
Air Fryer Zucchini Boats with Tomato, Rice, and Olives Recipe - Paula's grandson, Jack, joins her to make a healthy vegetarian side dish recipe.
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0:00
- Hey, friends.
0:01
I am beyond excited today
0:05
because my sunshine is here.
0:08
♪ You are my sunshine ♪
0:10
♪ My only sunshine ♪
0:12
(Paula laughs)
0:14
And this is like one of my favorite frames, Jack.
0:16
You can find it at the store
0:19
and put you and your grandchild's picture on it.
0:24
Uh-oh, let's see.
0:26
My arms are so short, Jack.
0:28
So, I'm gon' try to help you with this recipe
0:34
and talk at the same time, and it may be hard for.
0:36
You need to do that.
0:38
Because I feel like many grandmothers out there
0:44
will know what I'm talking about.
0:47
You love every one of your grandchildren,
0:50
every one of them,
0:52
but grandmamma, that very first grandchild,
0:58
it's so special.
1:00
It is so, so special to know that your child
1:05
has produced part of himself into another child.
1:11
- [Eddie] Yeah, you might introduce him
1:12
because people might not recognize him.
1:14
- Oh, I know!
1:15
Look, look, y'all.
1:17
Look how much taller he is than me now.
1:20
This is Jack, my eldest grandson.
1:23
He's 14 years old.
1:25
He is gonna be a freshman in high school.
1:28
But, so anyway, there is just something
1:30
very, very special about that first grandchild.
1:35
You remember the doctor coming out and saying,
1:39
"Hey, Paula, would you like to meet your first grandchild?"
1:44
Yes, please and thank you (laughs).
1:49
I didn't get to hold you,
1:50
but I got to touch you and look at you.
1:53
And he was so beautiful.
1:56
So now today y'all, I have 11.
1:58
I have 10 more grandchildren.
2:00
But I can remember his birthday.
2:03
I can remember everything about it.
2:05
When you get 11,
2:06
I'm having a hard time remembering everybody's birthday,
2:09
or even their age.
2:10
I get so confused. - Me too.
2:12
- Because Mattie, Sullivan, Jack.
2:18
No, Henry and John,
2:21
they're all about the same age
2:22
So I get it confused.
2:25
But they love playing together.
2:26
In fact, one, two, three, four,
2:29
four of my other grandsons are out in the swimming pool,
2:33
while I got Jack working (laughs).
2:36
- If you have any more grandchildren,
2:38
you won't be able to count on your fingers.
2:39
I mean they're 11.
2:40
- Well, I'll have to do it like this.
2:42
(Jack laughs)
2:43
'Cause I got 11.
2:46
- It's crazy.
2:47
(Paula laughs)
2:48
- It is crazy.
2:49
It is crazy.
2:50
That's why I'm having to expand the rooms at Dogwood.
2:55
So we can all sit down and have a meal together.
2:58
But Jack has been at camp for two weeks.
3:02
His first time ever going to.
3:08
- Spend the night camp - Overnight camp.
3:09
- Yeah, so spend the night camp.
3:11
And it was for two weeks.
3:12
I don't know who it was the hardest on,
3:14
his mama, or his daddy, or his Guinea (laughs).
3:19
So I want you to start with day one,
3:25
telling me everything you did.
3:27
What was your favorite part?
3:28
What did you learn?
3:29
What...
3:30
Oh, you want me to tell 'em what we're making (laughs).
3:35
We are doing some light dishes today y'all.
3:40
We're actually doing a recipe from "Cuts the Fat."
3:45
So that's what we're gonna do today.
3:46
We're gonna cut a little bit of the fat
3:49
because it's summer, it's hot and you just
3:54
don't want to eat so terribly heavy.
3:57
All right, so I'm just cutting these two zucchinis
4:03
in half, Jack.
4:06
And now we're gonna scoop them out.
4:11
- Can you use this one? - Yeah, or you can use
4:13
a smaller spoon.
4:15
Whatever you like, sunny boy.
4:17
- All right.
4:18
- I've got one that's smaller
4:19
(utensils jingling)
4:21
If you like this size.
4:25
And just hold it over your bowl,
4:28
hold it over your bowl,
4:29
and just start like this.
4:33
You see where the seed part is.
4:36
And just come around.
4:38
In fact, it might not be a bad idea to take your knife
4:42
and kind of cut out where you want to go.
4:47
And then just scoop, scoop.
4:51
- Nice. - How you coming?
4:53
- [Jack] It's going good.
4:54
So you just leave that outside part?
4:56
- Yes, yes, because see,
4:57
these are gon' be...
4:59
All right, the official recipe is called
5:01
"Paula Deen Cuts the Fat,"
5:03
Zucchini Boats with Tomato, Rice, and Olives.
5:09
So that's the official name, Jack.
5:15
And see then you want to take your spoon
5:17
and just kind of finish
5:18
pulling out those seeds like that.
5:21
Okay, so we got it, sunny boy.
5:25
Who dropped you off over here today?
5:28
- [Jack] Well, my dad came and dropped me off.
5:30
He had to go get a haircut.
5:32
So he dropped me off for a little while.
5:35
- [Paula] Good.
5:36
So your very first day at camp,
5:39
- Yes.
5:39
- Did you ever get homesick?
5:42
- Well, I missed--
5:43
- And you can say, no. You can say, no, it's okay,
5:44
- Oh no, I never got homesick.
5:46
I did miss my family a couple of times,
5:48
I just wished I could see them,
5:49
but I never got too homesick that I was upset or anything.
5:52
- Oh good (laughs).
5:53
- They kind of kept us too busy to be able to-
5:55
- I was gon' say,
5:56
when did you have time to get home sick?
5:58
So what was your favorite activity?
6:01
- Favorite activity.
6:02
So after dinner, they would have...
6:06
Like everyone would go crazy and start screaming and-
6:08
- And explain your dining room to me.
6:11
- So the dining room it was just like
6:12
every cabin, which is how they separated the age groups,
6:16
we all sat by where we slept and who we slept with.
6:19
- Okay, but did the whole camp sit in one cafeteria?
6:23
- Yes, ma'am.
6:24
- Okay, so it was everybody.
6:26
- So it was a lot of people.
6:28
And one guy would run out with a mountain biking helmet on
6:32
and start screaming,
6:34
and the entire dining room would just erupt,
6:36
and everyone would start going crazy.
6:39
(Paula laughs)
6:39
- Perfect, Jack.
6:40
- And screaming, and then he jumped down
6:43
and he'd tell us what game we're playing that night.
6:46
And it was a different game every night
6:49
for the two weeks I was there.
6:50
But my favorite one was called Sock War,
6:53
where we all took off our socks and-
6:55
- Dirty socks. - Yeah, our dirty socks
6:56
for the game. - Dirty socks 'cause
6:57
this was the end of the day.
6:59
- And played dodge ball with them.
7:00
(Paula laughs)
7:00
So that was my favorite.
7:02
- And did you take them off
7:04
and tuck them together
7:05
so you'd have a nice ball?
7:07
- Well, me and my friends, we got like four of our socks
7:10
and put them inside of each other,
7:11
and then we'd wet it to make it even better.
7:15
- You had a real weapon (laughs)
7:17
- We did.
7:18
We don't mess around
7:19
with the evening activity. - All right.
7:20
Did anybody get hurt or did you see anybody cry?
7:23
- No, I mean, there were some little kids
7:26
who would get homesick,
7:28
but other than that-- - Yeah, because it's young.
7:32
- Yeah, they, it's like some--
7:33
- Do you want to brush these with the olive oil, baby?
7:36
- The inside right there?
7:37
- Yeah, just brush that on the top.
7:41
Set it down.
7:43
- But there's some six year olds there,
7:45
and it goes to...
7:49
I believe it goes to eleventh grade if you're old.
7:51
If you're young enough,
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it's 16. - That's perfect, thank you.
7:54
All right, but what's the youngest?
7:57
- I saw some six year olds there, it was crazy.
7:59
And when I was that young, I would have never.
8:01
I would have died.
8:03
- I know, can you imagine at six
8:05
leaving your momma and daddy for two weeks?
8:08
No.
8:09
- I couldn't have done that in seventh grade
8:11
(Paula laughs) Or last year.
8:13
I don't think I could have. - Really?
8:15
- So I would see these kids and be like,
8:18
how are you surviving?
8:20
'Cause I wouldn't have been even able
8:21
to put my pants on the right way
8:23
without my parents at that age.
8:25
(Paula laughs)
8:29
- So did you wind up helping some of the younger boys?
8:32
- Yeah, I did make some friends with the younger boys.
8:35
You know help them get all their stuff straight.
8:38
- [Paula] 'Cause this was a Christian camp, wasn't it?
8:41
- Yes, ma'am, it was. - So did y'all have
8:43
like, not revival meetings,
8:48
but did y'all have church, any church?
8:50
- We had chapel on every day
8:54
which was after breakfast every day,
8:56
and on Sunday it was longer.
8:59
But we just got to sing songs all together
9:03
and different a counselor would come up
9:07
and preach every morning.
9:10
So it was always fun. - Was there any counselors...
9:12
You can mash that up with that.
9:14
Was there any counselors that you were not crazy about,
9:18
real fond of?
9:19
- No, they were all 19, 20, 21,
9:23
so it was all just like really fun.
9:27
Really fun people to be around,
9:28
and they were all really nice,
9:31
and always just help us to try to have the best time.
9:35
- [Paula] If you want to try to use that knife
9:38
and just cut it like you would some meat.
9:42
All right, baby cakes.
9:46
So I'm gonna open your- - Just cut it the wrong way.
9:48
(Paula laughs)
9:49
- I'm gonna...
9:51
Do you like black olives?
9:53
- I've never really tried olives.
9:55
- Really? - I've always just
9:56
kind of been scared of the smell
9:57
when I was younger, so I've never tried them.
9:59
- Oh, Guinea's getting so weak.
10:02
(Paula laughs)
10:04
So weak.
10:06
Well, here, taste a little bit of that.
10:09
Your uncle Bobby could eat one quart of olives right now,
10:13
and then drink the juice.
10:16
- [Jack] That is pretty good. That's not bad.
10:17
- Okay, so we can put it in? - Yup, put that in.
10:21
That just tastes like- - These are ripe olives.
10:24
And the ones that uncle Bobby liked is the green ones.
10:29
- [Jack] Oh yeah, the green ones is what I see.
10:32
- We're gonna add your rice which, (coughs) excuse me,
10:37
rice is a carb.
10:39
So it's got some calories, but it's so many calories less
10:48
than if this was fried with bacon or something like that,
10:53
so you can just stir that up, baby.
10:57
I've got two tablespoons of tomato sauce.
11:02
And we're gon' put in two tablespoons of our chopped olives.
11:09
(Jack stirring ingredients)
11:12
And then we're gonna put in our mozzarella cheese,
11:17
and then we'll have a little bit more.
11:21
I'll get out a little bit more to have for our toppings.
11:26
And then we'll chop some basil.
11:28
This basil is beautiful.
11:30
Teresa, did you grow this basil?
11:32
- [Teresa] Yes, ma'am
11:33
- [Paula] Well it is beautiful. Smell Jack.
11:35
- Oh, smells so good. - There's nothing like it
11:37
is it?
11:39
Oh my gosh, just makes you wanna just bite into it.
11:45
- [Jack] So we gonna bake this, all the rice and stuff,
11:48
inside the- - Yes.
11:50
And you know where we're gonna do this today?
11:53
- Where?
11:54
- In the air fryer because it is so brutally hot.
11:59
I don't want to turn on that big oven
12:03
'cause I'm already sweating like a banshee.
12:07
Whatever a banshee is, that's what I'm sweating like.
12:10
(Paula laughs)
12:11
Do you know what a banshee is?
12:12
- Um, no. - I don't either!
12:15
(Paula laughs)
12:16
Okay. - That looks good.
12:19
- [Paula] So let's give it a little taste
12:23
and see if it needs...
12:27
Does it need more salt? - I think a little bit.
12:32
(Paula stirring ingredients)
12:36
- [Paula] I'm gonna get my house seasoning.
12:40
If I can find it.
12:42
- [Jack] How many do you think I should add in the salt?
12:45
- What, baby? - How much salt do you think?
12:46
Oh, you're gonna add house seasoning.
12:47
- [Paula] Yeah, you wanna just shake, shake, shake,
12:50
or you want me to do it? - You can do it.
12:51
I don't wanna put too much.
12:53
- [Paula] All right, let's stir that up and see
12:58
if that gave it a little something, something.
13:02
(Jack stirring ingredients)
13:05
I think, if you don't tell Mattie.
13:08
- Yeah, he won't know. - 'Cause this is gonna...
13:10
I won't put much.
13:14
Like that much.
13:15
So let's taste it and see if you can tell that.
13:20
- I don't think my little brother Matthew
13:22
wanted hot sauce in his, but I don't think he'll notice.
13:25
- I don't think so either 'cause I put so, so little.
13:32
Can't even taste it.
13:33
Well maybe I can taste it a little bit.
13:34
- Put in more? - No.
13:40
Um, that's our secret.
13:45
All right now, baby, we're gonna come down here.
13:49
Oops, I dropped some basil.
13:51
We're gonna come down here and just pack.
13:54
Pack that in our zucchini,
13:57
and I'm gon' get some more,
14:00
I'm gonna get out some more cheese for the top.
14:09
I got so much cheese, Jack.
14:12
(Paula rustling packaging)
14:17
This might be enough.
14:20
- Look okay? - Yes!
14:25
I have to say,
14:28
so Jack can't listen to what I'm fixing to say,
14:32
but Jack is so very smart.
14:36
He takes after his grandmother.
14:39
(Paula laughs)
14:43
You might want to take off your shoes son
14:45
'cause it fixing to get deep.
14:47
(Jack laughs) The poo poo.
14:52
No, Jack is, he is so incredibly smart.
14:58
And he, to me, he's just one of those kids
15:01
that you're just so proud of
15:05
because when it comes to decision making,
15:07
he always makes the right decision.
15:11
And I applaud you. I applaud you.
15:17
- [Eddie] Now, the zucchini,
15:19
was it cooked already, or is it fresh?
15:21
- No, it's just fresh. - Really?
15:24
- [Paula] You know, if you wanted to, you could blanch it.
15:27
Let's see.
15:29
Brush the cut sides.
15:31
Cut side down on a round plate,
15:33
bake for 13 minutes.
15:34
Oh guess what, Jack. - What?
15:35
- I hadn't made this recipe in so long,
15:37
we got to bake these.
15:38
- All right. - Good job.
15:41
(Paula laughs)
15:44
Thank you, Eddie.
15:46
I am very excited about being with Jack,
15:50
so I'm not paying too much attention to my recipes.
15:53
So, y'all, please forgive me.
15:57
But I got stars in my eyes this morning.
16:04
Got stars in my eyes.
16:07
- [Eddie] I'm gonna have to start reading the recipe
16:08
before I pick up the camera.
16:10
(Paula laughs)
16:12
- I mean, how old is that book?
16:15
It's been out a long time.
16:17
All right, so, Jack,
16:18
I told you we're gon' put these in the air fryer
16:21
because it's just too hot to turn on that big oven.
16:24
So we're gonna place this skin side down in the microwave
16:30
and it says to cook it for 13 minutes.
16:34
But let's put a little salt on these too
16:38
before we put them in 'cause that zucchini has...
16:44
There you go.
16:47
You wanna do it?
16:53
Y'all are not big salt eaters at your house.
16:55
- Well I love salt, I like to eat it plain,
16:58
but my parents never let me have any salt.
17:01
- Never?
17:02
- I mean, they do, but not as much as I'd like.
17:05
- Oh, okay. - I'm a big fan of salt.
17:06
- Well, your at grandma's.
17:09
(Paula laughs)
17:12
You know, when your grandchildren are around,
17:16
it's very hard to find that word, that little word, no.
17:21
It's very hard to find.
17:23
All right, so, Jack, we're putting these,
17:26
and remember we sprayed them.
17:30
So we're putting these face down in our air fryer
17:34
and it said to bake for 13 minutes,
17:37
but this air fryer cooks much faster.
17:41
So I'm gonna put it on 400 for 13 minutes
17:49
and we'll just have to keep an eye on it, okay?
17:51
- Okay.
17:54
- So, thank you, Eddie.
17:57
(Paula laughs)
17:58
Thank you, thank you, Easter bunny.
18:02
Okay, Eddie, thank you so much
18:04
because these things would not have been edible.
18:07
They would have been as hard as my arteries.
18:11
So we don't want that.
18:14
So I've actually let them cool just a minute.
18:18
So now, Jack, let's think about...
18:25
I wish I had a regular ice cream scoop,
18:29
One that- - Yeah, the flip ones?
18:31
- But let's see if this will help you.
18:36
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe.
18:38
You do it any way you want to, baby.
18:40
- [Jack] All right, I'll stick with the spoon.
18:42
- Okay, I think you would be good to stick with the spoon.
18:48
Okay, so let's sit them back in here in the air fryer,
18:53
and I'll do this 'cause the air fryer's hot
18:55
and I don't want you to burn yourself,
18:58
'cause the sides get so hot where it bakes.
19:09
They're working out perfect in this air fryer.
19:13
They're nice and tucked in
19:17
so they won't fly all over the place.
19:22
Perfect.
19:26
All right, so now we're gon' lower.
19:30
We're gonna lower our temperature this going around
19:32
'cause that 13 minutes, I mean, it cooked it good.
19:36
So we've got some mozzarella to top them with,
19:39
but you know how if you put your cheese on
19:41
like the top of macaroni or something and it gets hard,
19:44
I don't want it to do that.
19:46
So let's go ahead and cook these.
19:48
Now tell me one more time what the recipe says
19:52
on the second cooking.
19:55
- 10 to 23 minutes. - Okay, at what temperature?
19:59
'Cause they said lower.
20:01
They said. I said!
20:03
(Paula laughs)
20:04
I said to lower it.
20:07
- It just says bake until the cheese is melted.
20:10
Oh 350, there it is.
20:12
- Okay so that means I'm gonna put this on 325
20:18
'cause it cook...
20:19
And for how many minutes?
20:21
- 10 to 15. 10 to 12.
20:23
- So I've got it on 325 and 10 minutes.
20:28
- [Eddie] So if you were cooking it in the oven,
20:31
what would be the temperatures?
20:33
- This recipe was tested in a regular oven
20:37
so I'd go by exactly what the recipe says.
20:45
(Paula laughs)
20:47
Jack, do you know what, son?
20:52
When Jack was a baby,
20:54
he was probably maybe a year and a half old,
20:57
and I was holding you, trying to get you to be still
21:01
to be in my arms, and you were going through this stage
21:05
where you were biting.
21:08
And you bit my arm right here, and I still have that scar.
21:12
And every time I notice it,
21:13
I rub it and think about those two little teeth.
21:16
(Paula laughs)
21:18
No, you probably had four by then, probably had four teeth.
21:22
- I'm sorry, 13 years late.
21:24
- No, no, no, no.
21:27
I would take anything for that little bite mark.
21:31
That's my crown (laughs).
21:36
Okay, baby cakes, we gotta get this cleaned up.
21:42
Mm, that rice is so good with that basil.
21:52
(Paula placing the container)
21:55
(Paula turning the dial)
21:59
There's a treat going on.
22:02
Let's see, how many do we have here today?
22:04
- We got four. - Five.
22:05
- [Jack] Henry's looking for the candy.
22:06
- Henry's looking for a candy bar that doesn't exist.
22:10
(Paula laughs)
22:12
Jack thought I wanted to get the kids outside
22:15
so we could finish our recipe.
22:17
(Paula laughs)
22:19
So Jack told Henry I hid a Hershey bar out in the yard
22:25
and whoever finds it first gets to keep it.
22:28
And Henry flew out the door.
22:30
And, of course, there's no candy bar out there.
22:33
Well, I love my glasses on you, Sully Wully.
22:37
Guess what's done, guys? - Stylish.
22:40
- [Eddie] So everyone's here
22:41
waiting to try the zucchini, right?
22:44
Sully. Zucchini.
22:47
(children chattering)
22:48
- I'm not hungry.
22:50
- Y'all please wanna try it, right?
22:54
(children chattering)
22:56
Oh yay, they wanna try it
22:59
- It looks amazing. - What do you think?
23:00
- It looks awesome. - It does look awesome.
23:04
You know what, I need my spatula.
23:10
Oh look I said it right that time.
23:12
Usually I call it a spatula 'cause that's what it is.
23:16
It's a spatula.
23:18
It's a spatula that I can't find anywhere.
23:23
It was right there.
23:25
Okay, Jack.
23:26
(children chattering)
23:29
There, they've gotten real soft now .
23:36
Oh my goodness, this and a steak,
23:38
or a piece of roasted chicken.
23:42
(Paula cutting the dish)
23:44
So, how about that?
23:48
We'll start with a half one, okay?
23:50
- [Jack] All right.
23:51
- Okey dokey, here we go. Let's see what you did today.
23:55
(Jack cutting)
24:05
- Is it hot? - Bon appetite!
24:06
- [Eddie] Smells really good.
24:08
- Bon appetite.
24:12
Is it not too hot for you?
24:14
- Yeah, it's not hot. It's really good.
24:17
- It's pretty hot.
24:21
- [Jack] That's really good.
24:23
(Paula cutting food)
24:28
- [Paula] Delicious. I love zucchini.
24:31
- Me too. - Henry, you want
24:33
a bite of this? - I'm good.
24:35
- Are you sure? Come taste. - Where's my Tootsie Roll?
24:39
- Did you find that candy bar?
24:43
You did?!
24:46
Where did you find it?
24:49
- Don't eat it.
24:52
- You want a bite, John? - Yeah sure.
24:55
- I'll have a bite. - It is yummy.
24:58
- It's really good. - What is it? Zucchini?
25:02
- [Jack] Zucchini with rice and cheese
25:04
- Mm! - Isn't that delicious?
25:06
(Paula laughs)
25:09
Oh good, that is a sign of approval, Jack.
25:12
I think we- - Yeah I think we did it good.
25:15
- [Paula] Whoops, I dropped my fork.
25:19
Yum, right? - Very good.
25:22
- [Paula] You want another bite, Sully?
25:23
- I'm not hungry. - Okay.
25:27
Well, we got quite a few approvals, didn't we?
25:31
- We did.
25:33
- It's a keeper, y'all.
25:35
Cut the Fat with Paula Deen and Jack Deen.
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