Piggy Pudding

Your apples look perfect

Three, two, one, hit it, son. My mama's in the big chair today

That means she's telling me what to do, which means it's just another Wednesday. Today I'm doing piggy pudding

This is 20 below. It's not even $20 to feed your family

a four, this is actually only $11. Real easy, it's piggy pudding, it's super delicious

I'm gonna start with 16 links of sausage and I've got my pan here nice and hot

We're going into the oven with it for about 30 more minutes. So I'm gonna brown this and

while this is going in our skillet, I'm gonna peel our apple. So I like to do this with

a knife. What you don't want to do is go so deep into the apple that you're wasting

than the apple, so you're gonna go just below the skin. Now, you notice that these two..

Your apples look perfect. ...are beautiful. This is the difference between a professional and me

I'm gonna peel this second one, too. Roll our sausages around. I'm maybe gonna turn this up a hair

So piggy pudding is something that my mom made for us a bunch when we were growing up, because it's simple, and like I said

It's under $20, so you know it's affordable. It's casserole that you can put in the oven

and then you can wake up your kids and take a shower, brush your teeth

get yourself together. These apples are going to soften because I'm putting them in this casserole for 30 minutes

but why not put them down into this pan and cook them a little bit in that all-sausage juice

which is kind of similar to au jus but it just all juice These sausages these are the little lengths y They probably four inches or so I guess

And I've got this over the heat while this is heating up. Now, I think this is going to be a good idea

that we soften our apples down in the drippings of this sausage

That's going to make it triple good. I'm not even going to worry about putting these on paper towels

because all this drippings, this is going to be really good flavors

And we're going to do a cornbread, a simple packaged cornbread that we're going to pour over that's going to make the casserole part of our casserole

Sausage and apples are delicious together. It's the sweet and savory thing that we like to do

I've got an apple core here, but I'd just as soon do it this way

It's just as easy, really, for me. Just to cut around the core and then split these down and let's toss them in

I'm using four apples today, about medium-sized, I guess. I really don't have to cook these any

I'm just doing this kind of because it's sitting there and because I think it'll be good. I think that will enhance the flavor, Jamie

I've never sauteed them off like that. But you only bake this for about 25 minutes

So I think you're on to something good by sautéing them. Y'all make a note at the house

Our mama said I'm on to something good without a correction or an addition from her own encyclopedia of knowledge

that she carries around sitting on top of her shoulders. I'm going to stir this, and then we're going to get going on our other stuff

This is going to be fine fine Ooh yes Soaking up that pork fat Uh Look how that one kind of nice and brown

Don't you know that is one fine apple? Leave it up to my family to take a crisp, delicious

wholesome goodness off the tree and throw it in a pan full of grease

and say, that apple is just perfect. It's gonna be good, though

Okay, our mix is really easy. It comes in a little blue box. We love it

It's easy to find down here. I'm gonna use one package. We're following the directions on the package

One box. One egg. Scramble this up. Tell them that normally I never, ever use cornbread with sugar in it, but because this dish is..

Mama would never use cornbread with sugar in it. But since this has got apples and sausage and stuff..

Because this dish is served with syrup, Jamie. With syrup. You want..

We want... You're batter sweet! The batter sweet! That's what Mama says

Okay, well, let's do this. So we'll put this right on top of our sausage

Delicious. Now let's take our cornbread mix. Take your spatula now and get every bit of that out

Remember, waste not, want not. Now y'all don't forget to take your spatula

I going to be honest with you I never eaten this before in my life Well you most certainly have because I used to fix it Have you cooked this Yes Are you sure

I'm positive. I used to eat this all the time when I was growing up

and it's one of my favorites. And it's gonna be one of your favorites, too

I'm going into the oven for 30 minutes. I know it's gonna be good

Come here, Connor. I want y'all to meet my friend Connor. He's my son Jack's age

Step right up here, son. He's a good-looking young man of fine taste. So I'm gonna share my piggy pool with him

What you think, buddy? You want some syrup? I know you make French toast, right

You told me. And you make waffles, right? Yep. You eat syrup on them

Uh-huh. That look good? Yep. Where are you from? Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. Yeah. You like the Phillies

Yeah. You like the Eagles? Mm-hmm. What do you think, bud

Good. That's good stuff, isn't it? Mm-hmm. Mm. That's good. Can you look right in that camera and say

Jamie Dean is my favorite Dean brother? Wait, what? Say... What did he say

You say, Jamie Dean. That's me. Okay. Is my favorite Dean brother

Jamie Dean is my favorite Dean brother. I've been telling y'all that for 10 years

Thanks, y'all. See you next time. 20 and under. Jamie, I forgot to tell you, son

When I take it out of the oven, I slather it with butter. you