Pork Chop Appetizer

We do a thing called Paul in a Pinch

And I've done it one time with Mama, and you see we got water boiling

we got the fryer on, we got the oven on, we got every pot and pan, we got all these ingredients

So Mama and I kind of put it together, whatever we want, Paul in a Pinch

anything that's in the kitchen. Yeah, that's the thing, y'all. Cooking up something different today

We have lots of surprises for y'all. It's dishing impossible. On this network

Do you know what's in this envelope? No, I do not. But this morning, the surprise is on us

because we don't know what's in the envelope. Dear Paula, you have 20 minutes to make a delicious appetizer

and you must use a pork chop. Anonymous. Brett changed his name to anonymous

Mama, we got 20 minutes to make appetizers using a pork chop. What do you want to do? I hate that I've got to use a pork chop

Me too. Starts now. Let's go, Mama. Starts now. What do you want to do

Well, wear the pork chop. How about let's do a, um, you want to do, let's do..

What is that? That's chicken. Let's make a pineapple salsa with a pork chop. Wait, you're gonna get on my nerves now

This is supposed to be an appetizer. This is a game that is set up for me to fail

because we have no plan. Oh, look! Pork chops. Let's do this

Pound that out, flour it, fry it. Let's do little bitty pork medallions

fried pork medallions, and we'll build a tower with grilled pineapple salsa

Does that sound fancy enough? No, I don't like it fried. I mean, I love it fried

but if we're gonna put it on a toothpick... I'm not gonna put it on a toothpick

We're gonna put it on a plate and we're gonna build a tower. Well, see, what I'm doing in my head, I'm doing a toothpick

I'll do the salsa, you do the pork. Deal? You do whatever you want. I'm gonna do a grilled pineapple salsa

with mama's pork. Sound good? I'm trying to think how we gonna season this

You got every seasoning in the world. No, I just got a little salt. How are you gonna make it

You gonna bake it? You gonna grill it? Well, I was thinking about grilling it, son

but we got to come up with a good flavor for it, a flavor profile

Well, if we're doing pineapple salsa, that's sweet. Why don't we do spicy? Why don't you do jerk..

Listen, hear what I'm thinking. Jerk pork medallions with a fresh grilled pineapple salsa

There's something I've been wanting to make. and a recipe I've been wanting to share with everybody

So what I'm thinking is, if I make that recipe, it's like a side dish in a salad

but it may be where I can use it on a skewer

I got faith in you. I'm gonna let you do it. Okay, well, wait. I got to find the seasoning that I want

Only 20 minutes, Mama. Okay, son, heat up our grill, please. I don't think I'm gonna turn this off

because I don't think we're gonna need it. But I think we're gonna need that and I think we're gonna need that

And I'm gonna get a bowl and I'm gonna, I'm gonna put some apricot preserves

I'm gonna pile these in here. And I gonna take these apricot preserves I doing a sweet salsa Well okay but I just marinating my pork chops now

You do what you want to do, son, and I'll do what I want to do. How's that

And then we'll come together at the end. Well, let's don't ruin our relationship

How about you do what you want to do, and I'll do what you want me to do, and then everybody will be happy

That sounds perfect. All right, I couldn't be more in agreement with myself

That's kind of like that old saying, what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too

All right, now this looks pretty good. Now, I would love to let this marinate

Those apricot preserves were so nice and so sweet and so soft that I would love to marinate that for a long time, y'all

But I ain't got a long time. But doesn't that, this is going to be delicious on a skewer

We're going to cube it. And this was not planned, y'all, in any way

Everything you see here is what you see is what you really get here on the network

Nothing's contrived and nothing's planned. As you're going to be able to tell

That probably went without saying. But I just wanted to assure y'all

Jamie, can you bring us up to where you are in all of this

Mama, I still don't know what you're making, but I'll tell you what I'm making. I'm making stuff a skewer, son

You're going to do skewered pork chops while I'm going to do a fire-roasted pineapple salsa

Oh, wow. Okay, that sounds wonderful. I'm going to make something that we can, like, load on a toothpick

All right, now I've got my cream cheese softening. I got my sour cream

I got my mayonnaise. I got white sugar in here. And now I'm going to use my little hand mixer

This is delicious. Perfect. Whoa

Y'all, like I said, everything that you see on this network is real

Except for the hair extension. Yeah, except for my hair extension. I wear two hair extensions

And the eyelashes. And my eyelashes, they ain't real. Now, on this dish, I love and adore mixing my grapes

And I love for my grapes to be ice cold. In fact, I almost really like to freeze them

Have y'all ever eaten a frozen grape? They're so good. Son, you tended to my pork chops, right

Flipped them. Jamie, where are you? So, y'all, I grilled my pineapple

It's fire-roasted pineapple. I got a couple of heirloom tomatoes in here

I've got some cilantro. Oh, Jamie. I've got some purple onions. I've got some garlic. I've got some salt and pepper

So I going to let this cool down just a second and then I going to add the pineapple And it a delicious sweet fruit salsa that I love It be great on these pork chops You can put it on chicken

So I'm going to find me a jalapeno, and then I'll get the good balance of heat with the sweet

It'll be delicious if I can find me a pepper. It's mighty fine. Here it is, right here

All right, now I'm going to sprinkle the top of this, excuse me, son, with brown sugar

and let that just kind of melt in there. I don't know if you and I are making the same dish, Mama

Oh, no, son. You're grilling pork chops, and I'm making a salsa for it

and now you're making a side salad? That's going to be so good

And then when we pull all our things together, Jamie, we're going to see just how it works out

and I got a gut feeling with what we got, it's going to be good

Tongs. Ding, dong. All right, I'm going to come in here and see how they're doing

And they are done. All right. Yay! I'm going to take these off

Our marinade really candied them, you know. All right. So this is what I'm thinking, son

and if we can come together on this, it will be great

All right, do you have anything I can put on this stick? Nope

Well, we are screwed because I thought you were grilling pineapple chunks

For my salsa. You can stick some of this salsa on that stick if you'd like to

Quick change of plan there, Paula. I tried to work with you, Mom

We had a great plan, and then you went sideways at some point. We got out of the driveway, and you went south

and I stayed on our road. Well, here's my sauce that's doing, Mama

What are you making now? You told me to make an appetizer. You can do whatever you want

So that's what I'm doing. You got two and a half minutes. Okay. You just keep making up those little appetizers

I'm gonna keep making my appetizers. Hey, where'd the pineapple go? Oh

That scared me for a second. I thought somebody was sabotaging me

This is gonna be so delicious, y'all gonna..

Oh, crap. I quit. No, you don't quit. The Deans don't quit

We are hard We don quit We go down fighting I love how I spent 18 minutes making something that ain got one thing to do with what you spent 18 minutes making

I tell you what, sonny boy, I'm going to give you two of my chops

and you plate that any way you want to, okay? Those two chops are yours

10 seconds, baby

I'm ready. OK. How about you there, Jamie? How you doing? I'm ready

Ready? Yep. 4, 3, 2, 1. Ta-da

Mama has made a pork pineapple appetizer, and I've made a fruit salsa for dessert

Well, son, go ahead and plate up your appetizer. Now, I shared two of my pork chops with you

Now, what, I was told to make an appetizer, so I feel like an appetizer is one that you should be able to pick up

you know, without a plate, without a fork. So I have made a grilled, marinated piece of pork with pineapple and a sweetened grape

So who would like to try? And I would suggest putting the whole thing in your mouth at one time to get all the cake lasers

All right, son, may I help you

Sure. Now that it's been 25 minutes. Well, Mom and I were going to make a pounded-out pork medallion

that we're going to deep fry, and we're going to layer it with the fresh fruits out. But instead, Mama grilled pork chops

She made this. I don't know what that is. It's a grape salad. Grape salad, which I'm sure is fantastic

And I got all the sauce so you could stand. But since it just kind of do what you want, I just made dinner

We got two pork chops with a pineapple sauce on it. It looks fantastic

It tastes pretty good. The grape salad, I don't know about the grape salad

It's delicious. But I'll save you the trouble. Don't argue with Paula Deen about anything

You can bet that it's good. Mama's always right, ain't you, Mama? No, just most of the time

All right, so is yours ready to taste, son? Yeah, if you're done with your appetizer

you can have the entree now. Well, I have to tell you, it's simply beautiful

Yeah, it is pretty. Mm-hmm. God, look at our pan. Look at what we're doing to our pan

What? That's too big of a piece. My mouth ain't as big as yours

It really is dinner impossible, y'all. LAUGHTER