Sausage Rice Skillet Casserole

Finish what you started, baby

Come on. All right. We're going to make a one-pot Paulette. This is what you do so well. OK

It's a sausage rice skillet casserole. He's only manhandled me for 14 years. OK

I'm sorry. I'm squeezing. I'm just keeping you nice and safe under my wing. OK

Let's move down here. OK. So why don't you start the dish? Tell me what I can do to make it easy

What is the dish and what are the elements in it, Paula? Well, it's a sausage and rice casserole, Gordy. Right

Is this a would be a good? That is ground sausage. Let's go. OK

I'm getting some mushrooms sliced. I've got my onions diced. Let me open this for you

Okay, open that. This looks pretty quick, Paula. This looks like something you could throw together in our time

It is very quick. And this is one of those rice casseroles

You can do it with sausage or without. Right. But if you want something a little meaty

you can add this sausage. And we're just going to brown this off

This would be a great dish, same for a young bachelor or a young husband who wanted to just show his wife that he had some chops

Well if he was a bachelor he wouldn have a wife You know we might have a young man in the audience who be looking to do that kind of thing huh Is there anyone here who might be in that position What your name young man

My name's Kevin. Kevin. Why don't you come back? Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin. Let's give Kevin

Why, Kevin, how are you? I'm Gordon. I'm great. Nice to meet you, Gordon. Good to meet you. Kevin, this is Paula

Hello, Paula. Hello, Kevin. How are you, dear? I'm still with you, Kevin. Wonderful. Where are you from

I'm from Rochester, New York. Okay. What are you doing here? I came down here for school

I went to Savannah College of Art and Design. Really? It's a fabulous school. You're a little shiny

Okay, sorry. Do you cook much, Kevin? Not very well. What do you usually make

Noodles, mac and cheese. Oh, that is just so sad. Isn't that sad

I can grill burgers, though. Is that a sad form? Men are master grillers

Are you married? No, I'm not. You're single. Yes. So you don't do..

I'm 24. Come on, she's going to teach her. Um, not in particular

Oh, good. So you don't need a woman. No. I've got roommates

Who needs a woman? All right, Kevin, why don't you finish browning that off for me, okay

All right, I can do that. Kevin, were you watching closely what's in the pan already? Yeah, sort of

There's mushrooms, onions, sausage. Uh-huh, and butter. Butter. A good amount of butter

Oh, a lot of butter. Okay. I'm gonna do a little salt, Kevin

because when you cook rice, you know, when you cooking any starch it just salty All right now put that can of mushroom soup I gonna teach both of y how it at In here In there baby All right let go

All right, now take that can, Gordy, and fill it up with a cup of water, please

Now we need 3 4ths a cup of long grain regular cooked rice

Level it off, level it off. Yeah, yeah. I've been watching you, babe. OK, listen. OK. Kevin, keep stirring, ma'am

I'm doing a lot. You're doing great, ma'am. I'm learning so much. The secret of being on cooking shows is never stop doing something

Hey, what are you doing now? Wait. One more, one more. Okay. One more

That's three. Okay, okay. That was a half a cup and a fourth

Okay. All right, but you're using the same measure for all the time, so that's three

I think I counted you three. Yeah, I did. Is that right? That's right

Okay, the recipe called for a dash of water, Kevin. All right

But, you know, rice soaks up a lot. And, like, if you're cooking one cup of rice

you would use two cups of water. So I don't think that we've used a cup and a half

You know what we're going to do? We've added one can. I'm just going to add, like, a fourth of a cup

All right, now, do you mind tasting that, Kevin? Okay. That's good

I'll just take a splash, because I added that extra water. Oh, that's good

But that beef broth, ooh, and it's even going to be saltier. Why did you put that in

Just because I like the flavor Flavor Gordy All right so we gonna put that in the oven All right so we gonna cook that 350

The recipe says for 20 to 25 minutes, but I would give it almost 45 minutes

I would start checking it at 25, Gordy. I would stir it halfway, you know, to get it..

Okie doke, there's you a dish. Okay, there you go, Kevin. Thank you

There's you a dish. Thank you. All right. There's you a fork. There's your fork, Kevin

There's you a fork. Okay, all righty. Bon appetit, Kevin. Mm-hmm. Mm

It's a lot better than mac and cheese. Uh-huh. And noodles in a cup

Mm-hmm, yep. And that took, what, five minutes to assemble? Oh, it doesn't take long

Before you go, tell us what you've learned here today. Well, I've learned a little bit of water goes a long way with rice

And this is a lot better than mac and cheese and noodles and water. You know, everybody goes away with a little something

and certainly Kevin has the way. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you. All right

Thank you, darling. I'll tell you what, Kevin. Why don't you take that entire pot over there for all your friends

and we'll send forks over. Okay, and you guys can enjoy it. And Paula, once again, a fabulous dish

Thank you, Gordy