Soda Cracker Salad

It's a baby Huey size bowl right there, right

This recipe came out of Albany, Georgia. Whoa! Mm-mm. Oh, Lord, have mercy

All I need is a napkin and a nap nap after this. You're welcome very much, very much, very much

Y'all, this is one of our favorite recipes. This is a soda cracker salad

It's not only quick and easy, it's fast and simple. It's also delicious

I'm in. This is so delicious, y'all. And we actually serve this on the salad bar at the Lady and Sons

From time to time. Yes, from time to time. Because there is something that you have to pay attention to with this salad, but we'll get to it

Okay. We're going to take one sleeve of those crackers with salt on top of them

And the thing about this, I like to make this, I like to stir it up right before we're going to serve

Like, if I was serving this along with fried chicken and rice and gravy, this would be the last thing I would do

after I plated everything up. And I take my crackers. Which is why we very seldom serve it at the restaurant

because if it not fresh it not good It delicious People love this salad And in Albany Georgia quite often

if you went to somebody's house for a fish fry, you would find this instead of coleslaw

And some of my friends in the audience today are also from Albany, and they're shaking their head

yes, they know what I'm talking about. So see how easy those crunched up

and I never had to use this or this. And you don't want it like breadcrumbs

You want it to have some size to it. All right, now all we're gonna do

Jamie has prepared our green onions. And, son, if you could do a little bit more green onion

that would be great. I've got a hard-balled egg, and over the years, I have just found

that along the years, I have just found that I love chopping an egg this way

just through my fingers, and it comes out so nice and chopped

All right, now all Jamie's gonna have to do is add our onions

our tomatoes, a little salt, a little pepper, and the ingredient that makes this so good

one of my favorite condiments, mayonnaise Whoa Now watch watch Trust me I know you can do it so good Perfect Would you put some salt and pepper in this please

I salted it and peppered it already. Oh, OK. I couldn't see any pepper

You don't want to do a lot of salt because, remember, there's salt on those crackers

So be very careful. What happens when you need another squirt of mayonnaise

Oh. You can always add it. That's right. When I was teaching the boys what I knew

I said, listen, guys, like Jamie just said, you can always add two, but you can't take that stuff away

So anything like this, you just want to add a little bit at a time

like when you're making chicken salad, potato salad. All right. I'm going to just lift this off my tray

so I won't mess it up. All right. Now that... It's soda cracker salad, y'all

I laid it out of the big bowl. Jamie, I'm not gonna double dip because..

You gonna share it? Yes, I'm gonna share it. I mean, it's so good. By the time you pick up a shrimp

and mix that salad with the shrimp, it gonna be just right It super fantastic And you would never think that How simple it is The simplicity of it is just insane

So jealous, Paula. Why, darling? Because I used to do that for me

Oh, the audience, the audience. I know, we've got to feed the audience. They get it first

Usually, when we were shooting for a major network, Gordon would yell, cut

and then he would come take whatever I had and snatch it out of my mouth

and we'd gobble it all down. Am I lying, guys? How long have we been filming together

Twelve years. Twelve years. Yeah, but... Dan has seen you do it

Thank you so much, Jamie. Thank you so much. So now that we have guests... I'm happy

Gordon doesn't get to the food. Get you a fork or a spoon

get you a bite of salad, and a shrimp. It's delicious together

It is so good. What do you think, Gordon? What do you need, Gordy? Oh, my God

All I need is a napkin and a nap nap up. A nap nap

Mm-hmm. Y'all, please come try. This recipe came out of Albany, Georgia

It's really good. I know. It's delicious. And stay tuned to the Paula Deen Network

because Jamie and I still have more recipes to share