Mini Muffaletas

We today are going to make our mini mufaletas

I call it mufaleta. I call it muffaleta. What you call it, Perler

Mufaleta. Mama, what you call it? A sammich? A sammich. A big sammich

Well, we're going to make a mini mufaleta. Since we're so mini and petite

We make these a lot for our caterings, and it's pretty simple to do

We're going to make an olive salad. What I'm going to do is I'm going to start cutting up some CRE

and get this going. And why don't you, while I'm fixing all this

why don't Britannica Jr. here tell them a little information on some muffaletta

There is a little old history lesson. There is. So you never know what you're going to get on the Paula Deen Network

You're going to get history. You're going to get comedy. You're going to get..

I ain't going to tell you all about these women down here. but, and this is what I'm going to throw some

look-a-there, look-a-there. You know, who would have ever thought? Y'all can always go on the network and get this recipe

along with all the other fantastic recipes that we steal from Paula Deen

So there's this little market in New Orleans. It started in, I think it was 1908

What's the name of it? It is called Central Grocery. I went there

No, you didn't. I most certainly did. We went there for lunch, and guess who was..

I'm jello. I've never been. Well, listen to this. I was back there trying to decide on a sandwich

and guess who walked in? Who? John Goodman. Are you kidding me

Yeah, they said he lived kind of like across the street. Oh, really? He came in every day for a muffaletta

All right we going to put some Anyway I love that story So the Sicilians that were working in the farmer market would go in to grab lunch and they would get the salami and the ham and the olive salad

and they would get the round loaf of bread, the muffalata. And they would take it outside in front of the grocery

and eat it all separately. Well, the store said, well, Dad, we need to be making sandwiches like that

So they put it all together and made a sandwich, and it just took off

So it was actually the Sicilians that started the sandwich, but the Cajun, you know, took it over

I knew that there was a lot of history behind this particular sandwich

Because it's more like an Italian thing, you know? I've got roasted red peppers, olives, green and calamata. Calamata

Olives. and I've got celery, garlic, olive oil, and a little vinegar

But the great thing about an olive salad is you can just put a little bit of this, a little bit of that

and it's going to be good. Yes. It's all to your tasting

You know, I'm sitting over here with your mama. Why don't y'all introduce your mama, your mother

This is our Marmee. This is the... And we get the name Marmee

Paula, you used to call her Marm. Marmy. And then we started calling her Marmy

Exactly. This is the woman that created the best of the best of us. Us

That's a fact, Jack. And she told us so much in the kitchen

and Suzette and I were talking about this today. These ladies would not let us in the kitchen to actually help them

We would sit at a bar similar to this and the boys on the other side like this Because that where all the action went on all the good gossip And they would cook cook cook and we would taste taste taste And Daddy and Jimmy would be outside

grilling and doing some other things. Y'all have heard me talk about

Suzette and Amy's mama and daddy. The mama is the southern belle

That's correct. All right, we're going to make y'all some sandwiches. And these are great during the football season, too

You know, if you're having some friends come over, it's great. You can even, you know, have the bread, you know, laid out

and all the sandwich meat like we have displayed here and let them make their own and then just have your salad out

and they can make it. And it's also great to run them under the broiler. But what I'm doing first is I'm going to put

I would just put a little butter on the bread, and this is going to help so your sandwich won't get soggy

We don't want you serving any soggy. They serve them cold, though, don't they? Yeah, but I run it under the broiler, too

Yeah, it's good. It's good. So I'm going to cut the ends off. All right, I'm going to go ahead and down with that. Look-a-there

All right, we're going to pulse this just to get it all the goodness in there

Let's see. Why don't y'all put on a little mask for us? I don't think my eyelashes will fit through the hole

All right, let's see. Let's get this a-going. Look-a-there. Look-a-there. Oh, I love your nose

You look like a green name eater. Oh. All right, what I did was I put all my meat together

and all my cheese together. What kind of cheese is your mama and I was talking

We've got a provolone. Uh-huh. And a mozzarella. Mozzarella. Provolone. We got salami. Pepperoni

I wish I could roll my tongue. All right so I going to quarter it Your mama doesn like her mass She wants feathers Imagine that Let me show you what you look like You did not like a green ant eater

All right. I'm going to go ahead and put this. Or a mosquito

Well, I don't have any glasses on. I can't. Ladies, could y'all pay attention to us

Oh, yeah. I mean, gosh, this ain't all about you, Paula. It really is, y'all

Your mama's distracting me. I know, and that's not hard to do

No, it ain't. And, Paula, you're not a big fan of olives, are you

I am not. I just remembered that. But Bobby Dean could eat one gallon of olives by himself

I love them. And he drinks the olive juice first. Let's take a bite before we take them any

Yeah, they can wait. Cheers to me, baby. Cheers. I can't believe

What about your elders? Y'all are disrespecting your elders I'm not that disrespectful

Oh my gosh That don't look like the muffaletta I ate You want one without the olive

No, no, no Oh, minis Yeah, but you can make a full oven back if you want to

Your mama was talking to me No, I'm gone That is delicious

You really like it? I really do I love it on the rye bread

Mm-hmm. But you could use a pumpernickel, or it's good on a pumpernickel, too

Muffiletta? Muffiletta, whatever you want to call it, it's mm-mm good. Get in my belly

And you can find it on the Paula D. Network and some more of our recipes and some of hers, too

Well, my brother's gone. Because remember, it ain't all about me. Thank you

Thank you