Pretzel Crusted Chicken with Cheddar Cheese Sauce

And then I'm gonna make us some chicken cutlets

Pretzel crusted chicken cutlets. Oh, Henry's gonna love those. Henry will love it, because Henry loves a pretzel, y'all

We're gonna need about a cup and a half of crushed pretzels

so if you'd stick that in the bag and just beat the heck out of it with a rolling pin, okay

Okay. Are these pretzels for the crust for the chicken? Mm-hmm. Let's get some more and give this to your daddy

That'll give him something to do. I can't remember exactly how you say it

but that's why I'm so worried about having two boys is because once they take a wife, that's it

You know? What is it that you say? A daughter is a daughter all of her life

A son is a son until he takes a wife. Sorry, y'all, but girls have power

I see the way you and Daniel love Henry. Y'all not gonna have any problems

All right. You know what? Look, I need for you to chop up a couple of tablespoons of thyme, and we're going to do a couple of eggs, because we're going to dip them in our wet first

And I'm going to add a tablespoon of Dijon mustard, because this will be good with those pretzels

Let's get the chicken cutlets out of here. Right there. They're in that bag

All right, so let's salt and pepper those, baby. You know I been amazed at Henry palette He really has like some unusual dishes right from the start hasn he Michelle He has I going to spray this a little bit Well he pretty much just eats whatever we eat so I mean

You can just leave it laying in there and kind of pat it. That's all right

Just kind of pat it on, you know, good. The only thing I've seen him spit out was egg salad

Yeah, that is the only thing. I tried to give him some egg salad the other night. You can't trick him with egg salad

I can tell you that. What was that shrimp gumbo we were eating not too long ago

Oh, my gosh, he loved it. He got that up, too. He loved it, didn't he? Yum, this looks so good

What are you doing to it? I didn't cut it enough. No, I'm just... Now that it's had a chance to dry a second

I'm just going to reinforce it with a second coat. And those fine crumbs are kind of in the bottom

Yum. Yeah. You want to get rid of that, sweetie, and we'll see if our grease is about ready

All righty. That looks really way good. That does look really good

Now, we're going to just brown this, Michelle, a little bit on each side

and then we're gonna put it on our pan and we gonna put the oven on low y and just kinda let it just like low simmer until we ready to eat I think I going to make us a cheese sauce for the chicken

How does that sound? Sounds good. And Michael, a couple of tablespoons of butter for me

And if you would just flip on that eye right there, please. Okie dokie

I'm going to let my butter melt, y'all. I'm going to add a couple of tablespoons of flour, and then I'm going to add in the milk

And while I'm waiting for our butter, I'm going to be grating our cheese. Uh-oh, I hear Henry

Henry! Guinea's hurrying. It's popping your mama that slowed us down. Why not blame them

Y'all hurry. You got a hungry boy. Michael, you did a good bit of cooking while your kids were growing up, didn't you

You know, I did a little bit. There was a few things I had that I was really good at

Chicken and dumplings. An egg sandwich, y'all. Egg sandwich. Yum. I could do a pretty serious egg sandwich

Michelle, what was your favorite thing that your daddy made you? Ooh, grilled steak

Grilled steak. Michelle's. And twice-baked potatoes. Yes. And then barbecue shrimp. To this day, every Christmas, Daddy still does his twice-baked potatoes with the shrimp

It takes him all day long, I have to say. You can rush an artist But he does a heck of a job All right now I got my flour in with our butter and that going to tighten this sauce up

I'm going to just slowly add that milk. All right, I would love to swap with you

Thank you. And, Michelle, we're going to add this cheese to our sauce

once it starts thickening up. All right, Mikey, just dump the cheese in there

You want me to pull the chicken out? Yes, let's pull the chicken out. That looks yummy

So, Daniel, I got everybody's take on when you and Michelle first met

Oh, nobody ever intimidated me a day in my life until I met him

I've got to say it worked out perfect. It worked out real good, actually. Y'all, he has found the measuring spoon that his mother measured the brown sugar with

He is happy. Here, Michelle, let's start fixing our plates, because that baby is hungry

Cheese sauce for our pretzel chicken. Don't we love a pretzel dipped in cheese

Yes, precious. Y'all remember when Henry first started eating, and he'd see you, and he'd say

when we first saw you. I knew who had the goods. I thought that was your name