Sandwich Stories

Hey, y'all

Today on Paula's Party, I'm going back to my sandwich roots. Go, go, go

My sons, Jamie and Bobby, are here to give my Bag Lady chicken salad sandwich a makeover while I'm flipping out over a sausage

pancake sandwich. It is out of this world. And y'all won't believe what we're fitting between two

slices of bread. So y'all step right up to the counter because sandwiches are on the menu today

Let's party! Do y'all know the food that got my career, my children's career started

Do you know what it is? How'd y'all know? It was a sandwich

You're excited about that, aren't you, honey? Well, it's all about sandwiches today

First, we're going to walk down memory lane. We're going to go back to the beginning of the Bag Lady days

Y'all ready to make a sandwich? Yeah! You ready to party? Yeah

Y'all come on. Jamie and Bobby Dean, the original Bag Lady team

Oh my goodness

Hey, son. I didn't know y'all were riding bicycles. Just like the old days

Honey, you didn't have anything nearly that night. I was about to say that. The first day of the bag lady, we made 50 just simple sandwiches, tuna and chicken salad

I had two beautiful sons, and I said I can pimp them out

Send them out on the streets, because women could not resist buying these boys lunches

Okay, so I'm going to step out of the way and let you two guys do your thing

Look over here. Pickle barrel, ain't that something? Are these edible? This is different

Are we going to make... You got a pickle? All right, what are we doing

Okay, we're updating the Bag Lady chicken salad and making it even better by turning it into a hot panini sandwich

Mom, we're going to take our chicken and some celery. We have a boiled egg

that we're going to put in this. And then the seasoning that we're going to use

I'm going to use some mayonnaise. We've got some seasoning, some cracked black pepper

and I'm going to put a touch of the chicken stock that I boiled these chickens down

just to give it a little bit of flavor. This is a pretty simple recipe. Bobby, put some butter on that bread, son

I'm doing it, Mama. You know, Mama, this is one of the first sandwiches

that we ever sold. Yeah. But we're giving it a makeover. We're going to punch it up

Well, I love the fact that you're starting with our traditional chicken salad

I remember a work day around our place when the bag lady was in full swing

There was no hours. Yes, there was. There was 24 of them

You could walk into the kitchen at any given time and Mom would be in there. We worked out of our house for a year and a half

Well, let's see. We're living at the house, living at Mom's house, working for Mom

No time clock. No pay scale. You did? I paid you a commission

Do you have a question, dear? Paula, I used to order sandwiches from you back then

Your hot sons used to come to my office. It's just hot here

Everybody's hot. My daughter here, she felt so sorry for you way back then

She thought you were homeless because the name of your business was the bag lady

So she begged me to please order sandwiches every day. Well, thank you

And my question now, do your sons still deliver? One of them does

I think the bachelor probably does. Mom, we're going to put this sandwich together

Okay, so what have you done over there, Bobby? All right, I buttered the bread. Look at this huge, fresh, delicious, thick sliced bread

I cannot hardly wait. And I've got four beautiful pieces of cheese and some pimento

And if Jamie will put some chicken salad on it, we're going to press it and make a hot sandwich

I love a sandwich press. That's huge. It's just perfect for my mom

And in just a minute, we're going to have something spectacular. Yeah, watch this. I tried grilling sandwiches during the bag lady days, but it didn't work out because when you had to refrigerate them

But when you had to put them in the cooler, you know, the bread would sog out. It was a pretty simple menu that we did

Uh-huh. The food was very simple, but it was very... Tell me

It was good, wasn't it? Oh, those sandwiches were delicious. Oh, the egg salad, tuna salad

Egg salad was me. Thank you. Well, if you think that sandwich was good, you should see this one

This is something that we never did as the bag lady. Let's cut that sucker open

Cut that thing in half. Uh-huh. Why don't you cut it in thirds? While y'all are tasting this, Mom, I got one other thing that I want to..

Bobby, taste that and let me know how good that is. This is so good. Look, Mom, we got another surprise for you

Mama, look at this. This is our first... Our first uniform. and I think that's the only

original t-shirt left oh I love this shirt it brings back so

many memories good memories and hard memories but this shirt definitely brings back

memories of sandwiches which is what today's party is all about how about a bag lady sandwich y'all

bring out some sandwiches we'll be back in just a minute See you back right here

Up next, little sandwiches with a big taste. And later, satisfying a craving for some expecting mamas

Welcome back! I up here standing next to my chalkboard because this has the next sandwiches that we going to make on it

Finger sandwiches. I want to bring y'all down here and show you the sandwich that I served at our wedding

A handle sandwich. And that's just taken one of our fried chicken legs and that becomes the handle in our handle sandwich

We have taken the drumettes to our chicken wings. Now I'm just going to season these up, and I'm just using our house seasoning, which is salt, pepper, and garlic powder

And we're going to dip these. I'm going to fry these up just like we do our fried chicken at the restaurant

I'm dipping it in one egg and one cup of hot sauce

Now, this hot sauce, believe it or not, is really not going to be hot

The heat's going to dissipate, but the flavor is going to be big

So into our flour those go. I'm just going to toss these in the flour

and I'm going to cook these up until they're nice and brown

Won't take too, too long. Just a few minutes. Now, I'm dropping that into grease that is at around 350 degrees

This is the look we came up with for the wedding. I like a little mayonnaise on my handle sandwich

We took our drumstick. And to make this a little prettier and a little easier for people to handle

we took some leek and we parbolled it. And this is what we used as our tie

And this is how we served our handle sandwiches. And on our tray, we had some hot wing sauce

So those that wanted the hot, we drizzled it on their sandwich

And we passed them. Would you like a handle sandwich, handsome? Come on

Come on, get you one. Get you one. Get you one. Get you one

When you're done with it, just throw the bone away. That's very good

Do you need some more hot sauce? Oh, you fixed a little sombra. you. I got somebody I got to go over here and see. My hunky cameraman. I got to make

sure he keeps his strength up, girls. You know what I'm saying, Don? Yes, I do. You do

Yes, he does. Very good. Would you like the rest of it? Sure. All right, you're on your

on now, baby. All right. I got another handsome cameraman, y'all. Dan, you're trying to get

away from me, Dan. Come here, Dan. Come to mama. No. Just for that, just for that, you

You get to feed yourself. All right. Southern girls don't have a party unless they're finger sandwiches

Finger sandwiches are so easy to make. So what kind of sandwich do you like, darling

I've got green olives, pecans, and cream cheese. We've got a cucumber, and we've got pineapple

Cucumber, okay. All right. There we go. I like doing different shapes to my sandwiches

All right. So a little bit of mayonnaise to act as glue

And your sandwich, I'm just going to dip it in some parsley

Just to give it some color. See how pretty that is? All right, let's say you're doing a wedding shower

You can use a cookie cutter and shape your sandwiches like a bell

And this would also work at Christmastime too, wouldn't it? All right, I think for this one I'm going to use the cream cheese and green olive

Mmm. And we got a bell sandwich. And one more time, I'm going to come in here and I'm going to put some mayonnaise

There we go. All right. All right, now we got some bacon over here

Ooh, that is pretty good. All right, so we got a bell

All right, now girls, I'm changing the name of this from finger sandwiches to bling sandwiches

And do you know why? Because at our parties, us girls can be a little prissy

All right, who's got on some rings? Who's got on some bling? Whoa! Show your bling, baby

Show your bling. So, that's what we know in the South as a bling sandwich

So y'all don't go anywhere. We'll be right back in a minute. See you back here

Up next, a peanut butter and jelly ice cream sandwich. And later, my audience flips out

Yes! A pancake sandwich. We're having fun with sandwiches out there today, y'all

Who says a sandwich has to be savory? What do you think about us making a sweet sandwich now

Y'all, there's a couple of pregnant girls out here. Have y'all had a craving for ice cream lately

Yes? Well, I'm making a peanut butter strawberry ice cream sandwich. Now, the recipe that I'm going to use to make our peanut butter cookies is probably one of my favorite recipes because it's so simple to make

It's a flourless peanut butter cookie. Now, I'm going to start with a cup of peanut butter

And I'm going to stir in one and a half cups of sugar

But now, let me tell you about this recipe. I make them all the time for myself because Michael, my husband, is a real cookie monster

I'll make me up a platter of these. I can do it in just like 10 minutes And I going to add one egg This is a great little recipe All right now I going to add one teaspoon of vanilla

And that's all the ingredients we're using. And I call these magical peanut butter cookies

because I think that's just magic, that they taste that good and you can make them that quick

Now I'm going to roll these into like golf ball sizes. I'm going to toss it in that sugar so they won't stick to my fingers so badly

Drop them on my pan. And we're going to put these in a 350-degree oven

And we're going to let them cook for about 12 minutes. So how's it looking, pregnant girls

Y'all want to come up here and help me? Sure. Come on up here and help me. Now, what are you..

What's your names, girls? I'm Brandi. And I'm Melissa. Randy and Melissa

So what was the one food that you craved a lot when you were pregnant with the boys

Every one of them. I was just like a walking hunger pain

That's all I am. All right, Melissa. Yes. You finished balling those up

Now, when you get those balled up, take your fork, dip it in your sugar, and make your little crisscrosses. Right

and like I said, we're going to put those in a 350 degree oven

and we're going to bake them for about 12 minutes. Brandi, why don't you and I start the ice cream

Okay. Do y'all have one of these little ice cream makers at home

You don't have one? I don't. I need one. You need one, girl

That baby wants some ice cream. She does. Oh, it's a she? You know it's a girl

Yes. And what are you having, Melissa? We just found out last week that it's a girl

Two little girls. Oh, I love it. I hope one day I'll have a little girl

Well, not me, myself. All right, I've got two cups of pureed strawberries

You know, it's just the frozen sweetened strawberries. And we're going to add a cup of regular milk, two cups of half and half, and one cup of heavy cream

And we're going to add, that looks like about three-fourths of a cup of sugar

So just pour all those ingredients together, Brandy, and mix them up

And in about 45 minutes, we're going to have ice cream. Just stir while I'm pouring

Just stir, baby. All right, now, let's put our cookies in the oven

Look-a-here, it's another miracle! Another TV miracle! You know, I like, personally, I like ice cream made with eggs

But you don't have to use the eggs, especially if you're a little skittish about eating raw eggs

But that doesn't bother me a bit. All right, so we're going to put this into our ice cream maker

And let's go ahead and turn that on, Brandy. Just flip that switch

You know, and this is just the perfect amount for, like, two people

Or one. Or one. All right, so in that goes. Now, like I said, in about 45 minutes, that'll be nice and frozen

but you know I've got some ready for your sandwiches. So. That looks yummy

All right, open that strawberry jam. Okay. Right there, Brandy, and pass me that knife

All right, so we're going to take our strawberry jam, just kind of frost that cookie with it and a little bit on this side I'll bring

that to the edges so it'll squish out the more the better for me you like I

like it all anything all right look at here or ice cream got a little soft that's okay let's come over here quickly

I got some peanut butter chips. Oh. Oh. That looks good. Eat quick

Eat quick. Oh, my goodness. Mmm. Mmm. Wow. You won't tell me

You won't tell me. Okay, come on. Okay. Go, baby

Oh, my goodness. Do y'all love that or what? Oh, they're so good

Y'all, you ain't got to be pregnant to like this one. And we'll see you back in a minute for more sandwiches

Coming up, sausage and eggs and a pancake sandwich, y'all. And later, everybody's digging into this surf and turf party sandwich

Yum! Welcome back, y'all

So far today here at Paula's Party, my sandwich show has been really stacked with fun

You know, my boys came by and updated my original bag lady sandwich

My cameraman couldn't resist a bite of one of my finger sandwiches, y'all

You know what I'm doing? Yes, I do. And some expecting mamas got a mouth full of heaven

Mmm! Mmm! And next, I'm flipping over a pancake sandwich. Hey, welcome back

Welcome back. You know, now we've made sandwiches, we've made sweet sandwiches

we've made sandwiches for lunch and sandwiches for supper. Well, it's time for a breakfast sandwich

Do y'all agree? Yes. And you know what? I even like breakfast for dinner

Do y'all? Oh, it's so, so good. So I've got eight eggs scrambled here, y'all

I'm going to add a little salt, a little pepper, and I like sour cream

Just a little bit of sour cream in my eggs in place of the milk

It keeps them moist. Just really gives a nice little moisture to our eggs

All right, now I'm going to put a little butter in our pan to scramble our eggs in

That's not much, y'all. I'm cutting back. I'm actually on a diet

Now, what are we going to use for our bread? You know, I don't want to use white bread

What about a nice, fluffy pancake? I think that's what we're going to put our sandwich together with

And while our pan's getting hot, I've got two cups of milk, about a fourth of a cup of oil

and a couple of eggs. All right, that's our wet ingredients. And then I've got my flour, self-rising flour

and just a little pinch of salt. All right, my pan's hot

So let go ahead and scramble up our eggs Now I got some pork sausage that I cooked off So all it has to do is reheat

So I'm just going to toss that in our eggs. Those are looking good

How do y'all like your eggs? You like them soft scrambled, hard scrambled

Hard. Hard? Who's soft? soft. Who's hard? Oops, there's more hards than soft. And I kind of like mine somewhere

in between. Michael likes his soft. Miss Paula, I have a question for you. Yes. Do you cook

every night at home? No. No, I wish that I could say I had time, but I really don't

All right, I'm going to cut that off, y'all, and we're going to come on over here and get our pancakes ready

Now I'm just going to take our wet ingredients. No, like I said, so often, and I spend many a night in a hotel room, too

and not often do I find a stove in my room when I'm on the road

But sometimes I do, I have to get in there and say, everything's just going to have to stop because I have to cook

I have to get it out of my system, you know? Because being in that kitchen, and I don't have to be in there cooking a bunch of fancy stuff

In fact, I prefer, you know, just your Plano down-home cooking. It's therapeutic for me

It is purely therapeutic. It takes my mind off of any problem I might have or just washes away the stress

All right, so I'm going to put a little butter on there, and I'm also going to add a little oil

because that butter will burn, you know, straight up by itself. Paula

Yes, darling, who's got a question? I do. I was wondering, does Michael ever cook for you

Are you kidding? That sucker, when he married me, he forgot how to cook

And they said he was a wonderful cook. All right. Where is my pancake flipper

I am right here. Come on up here. What's your name? Jim Cooper

Hey, Jim Cooper. Can I have a hug for my daughter? I get two hugs in one day

How about your mother? Oh, she's wonderful, too. How about your sister

Hey, you're burning. My cat. You got a brother? I got a cat

Jim. Oh, my golly. How is this looking? This mighty fine. Oh, yes

We need some more butter on that. Yeah. You know, I hold the world record for the most number of pancakes made

You are the pancake flipping champion. The pancake man. 257 pancakes in seven and a half minutes

You get out. All right, so we got some catchers out there

We got a gentleman. See that gentleman there in the blue sweater? Yes. I'm going to throw it to him

There we go. All right. Yes. All right. Stand right there, baby

I'm fixing to chunk you the syrup. Show me some tricks, Jim

Teach me some tricks. Just go in about halfway and just flip it up in the air like that

Okay, but I want to do that first. I'll catch it for you. Cool. Cool

Now you're getting onto it. All right. Now, I'm right-handed. All right

I'm right-handed, so you get on that side. All right. Here we go

Yeah! All right, I got our eggs and our sausage over here

When I went into the restaurant business, I was a short order cook

Great time of day. I said in my next life, I want to come back as an octopus. puss

Because I definitely needed some more arms. All right, so I put our sausage and eggs

down on the first pancake, on top of a slice of cheese

and then I topped it with another piece of cheese and a little bit of butter

All right. Come on in here, good-looking. Pretty boy, let's look at this syrup

Ah. You talking about a breakfast sandwich. Be my guest

Oh, the cheese. Oh, it's got to be good. Oh, look, you're taking a princess bite

Mmm, awesome. That's good. It's better than good, baby. Fantastic. It is out of this world

Oh, this may be my favorite sandwich, y'all. Jim and I are going to finish eating this

and we'll meet you back there at the kitchen in just a second. Don't go anywhere

Next, your favorite fast foods in one fat sandwich. And later, it's surf and turf like you've never seen it before

Thank you, thank you, thank you. For those of you who just dropped in

today's party is all about sandwiches. I went in search of the greatest sandwich ever

We found a young man who won an award for having the best sandwich in the country

from a national magazine, y'all. It's piled high with French fries, mozzarella sticks, and chicken fingers

And this sandwich was invented by a young man named Fat Daryl, which I can imagine how he got that name

Fat Daryl, come on up. Where are you? You are not fat

I would love to be as fat as you are. Well, the camera has 15 pounds, so

Who presented you with this award? It was Maxim Magazine for their September 2004 edition

Some magazine. They taste test about 200 sandwiches around the country. You do not mean it

That's the original. This is the original sandwich. Okay, now you come over here and start building it

while I start frying up our ingredients. We have chicken here. We've got the potatoes

We have the mozzarella sticks. Mozzarella sticks. All right, well, I like to take my chicken fingers

and dip them in buttermilk. Now, these are already seasoned, and so I don't have to do anything to them other than just toss them around in that buttermilk

You've already got a big old platter of chicken fingers. We're feeding everybody today, so we need more

We are. We're going to feed everybody. Oh, yay. Everybody's eating today. Now, Daryl

Yes? I eat all this food, and it shows. But why does it not show up on you

Well, I'm actually a certified personal trainer outside of the... Are you? That was, uh, I made this before I got certified

My... Well, I can't. You want to see me do one? Go ahead. You go ahead

Okay, here we go. Help me down there. You ready? All right

I can't do it, Daryl. I can't do it. I'm so out of shape

Oh, well, hell, I tried. Oh, my goodness, I'll work on those later

Well, I may be fat forever, because I just don't know if I can do that

We'll have to practice that. How many of those you do a day? Um, I don't know, usually about 50 in the morning

or 50 at nighttime before I go to bed. My children want me to get a personal trainer

Oh, really? You know what I told them? What's that? Something like bite me

All right, so you've got chicken fingers on there. Where's the mayonnaise? I was going to use marinara sauce instead

but if you want mayonnaise... Well, I love mayonnaise now, honey. The normal recipe is chicken fingers and mozzarella sticks first

and you put a layer of marinara sauce. All right, I'm going to drop in some french fries

Okay. And these have been blanched. I've got some mozzarella sticks up here

that's been sitting up there in that egg, drinking it all up

All right, how are you coming, Darryl? Coming along pretty good. All right, in goes our mozzarella sticks

Oh, gosh, I love a mozzarella stick. All right, we'll finish putting it together, Daryl

We'll throw the healthy part on here now. Oh, our cheese is melting

Look, that's kind of the way I like it. How you doing over there

I'm doing great. Mmm

Tastes. Isn't that delicious? That's a good. Mmm. All right, let's see how the fingers are coming

Look at that beautiful chicken finger. All right, so you finished with our sandwich

You want to jab these through here? Yeah. Let's make it pretty. One jab

Yep Two jab How many jabs you want Let go all the way across the bed Okay Okey

Okay. All right. There you go. Now, y'all do not get this on the Martha Stewart Show

All right, Daryl, are you going to cut you something? No problem

You know what? There is a young man here in this audience today that's like my son

He's got two hollow legs when he comes to my house. I don't feed him on a plate

I feed him on a platter. I can't eat this without asking Mike to come up and have some

Mike, come on! I'll swap with you. My goodness, is there instructions with this, Fat Daryl

Goodness gracious. This is Bobby's best friend, Michael Paye, y'all. And I just love him

He's like one of my youngins. Paula, how do I do this? You know how to do it, baby

Let's get a big one. Get a big one. Oh, no. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go

We're prowling in Ohio today, y'all. We'll meet you right back here with more sandwiches

Thank you, Daryl. Coming up, it's my turn at the Fat Daryl Sandwich

Surf and turf style, that is. All right, y'all

Now, this whole party, I've been thinking about Paula's ultimate sandwich. You know what I'm going to make

Paula's sandwich is going to be a surf and turf. I got lobster

I got steak. I got my favorite, french fries. I've got everything possible that I could want on a sandwich

And I'm going to blow that fat Daryl out of the water

But you know what? I'm gonna make him help me blow himself out of the water

Come on up here, Fat Daryl. Help Opa out. All right. Okay

All right, I've got a filet mignon right here. I've got a mixture of olive oil, chopped rosemary, and garlic

Now I gonna sprinkle it with a little house seasoning which is salt pepper and garlic powder I going to put that on the tray and let throw that in our oven and we going to let it cook for about 12 minutes

because I like my steak medium rare. How do y'all like y'alls

Well, listen, if you like your filet mignon, well, just order you a hamburger

All right. So let's work up this lobster into our sandwich. We're going to start with a little butter

That's a little butter? That really is a little butter. Usually, I'll use a whole stick

Wow. But I think I'm going to use just a half a stick

This is the diet version. Yes. Yes, we're on a diet. All right

I've got some diced onion here. Okay. All right. So we're just going to let those saute up

We don't want them really, like, overdone. We want them to still have some body to them

Okay. All right. Now, I've got me a lobster tail right here that I've cut up

Isn't that pretty? It's really pretty. All right. So in goes our lobster

Okay. It smells good. Doesn't that smell good? That was really good

I've got a little lemon juice. Okay. A little heavy cream. A little Parmesan cheese

And remember, we've got to keep this dish healthy. So we're going to add some parsley

Good idea. Look at that. We're going to let that just kind of reduce down a little bit

All right. But like I said, it was just that simple. But we've got a bowl full up here

Now, what are we missing? I think we're missing something to put this on. Bread

We need some bread! Bring out the bread! Come on, girls! Come on, girls

All right, you're in. It's a great time of day. I think you win

You think so? Yeah, I think so. All right. Well, we're going to put this bad boy together

Okay. All right, let's do it. Come over there. All right. All right, let's flip

All right. This takes two people. All right, pass the mayonnaise. All right

See the mayonnaise right there. There you go. There we go. All right, get you a spoon

Come on baby There you go All right So what next on here All right let put the french fries I love mayonnaise and french fries

If y'all saw the trip that when I went to Europe, you know, I had a french fry sandwich

Okay. And that woman would not let me have mayonnaise on that sandwich

Throw a little steak. Look here. Let's throw a little steak. Oh, yeah. All right, now let's put the lobster on it

And I'm just going to ladle it over that steak. Get back up there

That looks good, right? Fat Daryl's looking a little malnourished. So what do you think? You think this

Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is definitely the ultimate sandwich. You think this is going to beat out the Fat Daryl

I think it might. All right, now let's wheel it over there. And I want you to tell me what else you want on this sandwich

I see what I want. What do you want? Let's grab that bacon right there. That's exactly what I want

Oh, you scared me for a minute, Daryl. I thought you were going to say pimento

No, definitely the bacon. All right, anything else you see you want

How about some of this cheese right here? Okie doke. I'm with you, baby. All right, let's put it down here

Okay. On this piece. All right, do you see anything else that you think that would be good on this

Let's go with the lettuce. Well, if you insist, yes, we're on a diet here

Come on. We have to make it healthier. Yes. All right, anything else

Let's top that off with just a couple of tomatoes and we're good. That sounds good to me. Sounds good

All right, now how are we going to do this? We're going to need some help, Darrell

Yeah, I have no idea. All right, come on, baby. You look good and strong to me

Come on up here, darling. Come on up here. Come on up here. Come on

Come on. All right, all right. All right, y'all ready

One, two, three. Y'all did good. Come on, baby

This is a team thing. One, two, three. I am so good

Thank y'all so much. I've had a great time today. I hope that all of your sandwiches are big enough

to share it with the people you love. Until next time