Stayin' In

Your info treat today. I am so excited I almost can't think

Y'all, today I'm staying in with Bobby's girlfriend, Katie, and we're mixing up some of Bobby's favorite dishes

Start with blue cheese and bacon, broiled tomatoes that certainly have that ding touch

All right, there, we have used a whole stick of butter, y'all, and I'm not gonna apologize

And then we're really gonna impress Bobby with these bourbon-glazed pork chops and a side of zucchini and red onion saute

Y'all did a great job. I couldn't have done better myself. Finally, I'm gonna show Katie a chocolate sour cream pound cake topped with a special strawberry surprise

Grab your seat. Put your feet up, because the next 30 minutes is gonna be so fun

This is Bobby's girl, my girlfriend-in-law, Katie Mixon. Hi, everybody

She looks better than I cook, y'all. And I'm a pretty good cook

So she has flown in from L.A. to be with me. She is working so hard, she's an actress

So I'm just going to show Katie a few things that I think that she would love to make for Bobby

So the first thing I'm going to show you how to make my angel is brailed tomatoes

Wonderful. Because I know he cooks a lot of tuna and different fishes for you when you come

So this would be something good that you could be making while he's grilling the fish

Amazing. Why don't you start by beating up these crackers? Love it

Now we're using a sleeve of buttery crackers. Okay. You can use the rolling pin

And what I'm going to do is I'm going to take our tomatoes and I'm just going to cut them in half

And now I'm going to just dice up some green onions. Those are pretty tomatoes

Aren't they pretty? And we're going to put this dish together just that quickly

Because your dishes are so easy. When you come home and come into your kitchen, it should be a sanctuary

A haven. Yes, yes. It should be the place where you feel good

Now, I've got us some bacon. Now, we've cooked about a half a pound of bacon

Listen to this, y'all. She is one of nine children. One of seven children

Well, where'd I get nine from? Because there's nine altogether. Oh, Mom and Daddy, yes

I love that about Katie because you know what that tells me

If you're one of a family of nine, you know how to interact with people

You know how to share. Yes, ma'am. And that is just, that's wonderful

I wish I could have had that many children. All right, so we got five ounces of blue cheese

And I'll take your crumbs, and I'm just going to throw them in the bowl. All right, mix that up

Yes, ma'am. So I'm going to add a little salt and pepper

And now, Katie, you can start chopping up our bacon. There's so much to learn about Katie

She sings like a bird. You are too kind. No, honey, I've heard you sing

One day Bobby came over and he said, Mama, do you want to hear the most beautiful voice in the world

He let you hear that? And I said, yes, I do, son. He turned on the phone and you were singing to him

Bobby, you are my sunshine. I can't believe he let you hear that

That's amazing. That's all he let me hear, though. Well, he can let you hear anything

All right, doll baby, just take your bacon now. Okay. Throw it in

We're going to mix it up, and we're just going to pile it on top of our tomatoes

Now, I've got a stick of melted butter. Doesn't it look delicious

Yes. All right, there. We have used a whole stick of butter, y'all, and I'm not going to apologize for it

Don't apologize at all. Right. And I'm going to use my fingers, Katie

I love using my fingers, too. All right, look at here what we're going to do. So you just come in

Yes, ma'am. And you just pack this on just like that. Oh, that bacon looks incredible

It does. I want some. Mm-hmm. You get you some. All right, so what we're going to do, we're going to put this in the oven

broil it for like five minutes. And my broiler is bad to the bone

Uh-uh. You want too much. Okay. All right, now you always broil with your oven door cracked

Okay, I'm learning a lot today. Now let's get our strawberries started for our chocolate pound cake dessert

Now I have washed our strawberries, y'all. So just slice these up

Yes, ma'am. Oh my God, don't cut yourself. Baby! Oh my goodness

I don't know which one of y'all to kiss first. My two favorite TV person. Listen, you kiss her first

I love you, baby. How you doing? Great, baby. Hey, mama. We're cooking in the kitchen

How you doing? How can I help, Mama? Slice those strawberries with your beautiful woman. OK. You got it

What you going to do? I'm going to watch these tomatoes, actually. We're broiling. We broiling right now Our tomatoes are just going to town back here in case anybody cares I care Mm I want one Okay I want you to have one because Bobby I knew that this would be something easy for Katie to fix

because I know you're always fixing fish. The simple boy stuff. So look at there

Oh my gosh. I mean, how pretty and delicious is that going to be

What, baby? You smell like bacon. Gosh. Do I? That is a southern man's dream

Beautiful woman in the kitchen smelling like bacon? Out. Well, I have my dog

Scott Bodine. Bodine, you're so beautiful. You smell like bacon. You smell a little bit like bacon, too, don't you

All right. Bodine and I would like for y'all to take our strawberries

and sprinkle two tablespoons of sugar on and give them a quick stir

Okay. Stir it, girl. Mixing it up. Anybody ready for a taste of the tomato

I showed up. Okay, Bobby, darling, grab us a plate. All right. Why don't we just share

All right, we'll just get one. Can we share? Yes, yes, yes

Here. All right, so Bobby, if you'd do the honors. All right

Here, honey. Thank you. You're good, baby. Thank you, baby. You're welcome. Mm-hmm

It's okay, baby. Good. How about that? I think it's unbelievable. Oh, I'm so glad, Katie

Love it. And those buttery crackers just wonderful in it. Up next, our grill is getting hot for some bourbon glazed pork chops

And this zucchini and red onion saute is looking almost as good as Katie

I feel like an onion slice Barbie. And later, get ready to feast your eyes on the most decadent chocolate pound cake, y'all. Ta-da-da

Perfection! Y'all, if you've just tuned in, meet my girlfriend-in-law

Hello, everybody. The dogs are going crazy over. This is Katie Mixon, like the love of my son's life

Hello, friends. Listen, I know you think the only thing that Bobby knows how to cook is fish, fish, fish

But I have to tell you, Bobby loves to cook these pork chops

Amazing. So we're going to make a bourbon-glazed pork chop. Can't wait

Now, from you, darling, in that bowl, I need a tablespoon of bourbon

Okay. I need two tablespoons of Dijon mustard. Yes, ma'am. I need a teaspoon of brown sugar

And I'm going to come right down here, and I'm going to mince your garlic up real quick for you

I love Dijon. You do? I do. One teaspoon of the brown sugar

Exactly. Okay, lovely. All right, now here's your one fat garlic clove

Give it to me. Ah, there you go. Ooh, our griddle's getting hot

You know what I'm gonna do, Katie? What, honey? I'm gonna spray our griddle. Okay

All right, now here are our pork chops. Look at this, Katie

Ooh, phenomenal. Now that is a pork chop. So I'm going to take these beautiful pork chops, and I'm going to salt and pepper them

So these are ready to go on the grill. Okay, Katie. Yes, ma'am

If you would just pour us a little bit for the end

Yes, ma'am. We don't want to stick the brush in there. Okay. You know, and cross-contaminate anything

Okay. So that's great. All right, now we're going to put our pork chops on our grill

Mmm. All right, now take your little brush and brush that. Yes, ma'am

So just paint, paint. I love to paint. You do. Well, paint, paint to your heart's content

So what do you think, Katie? Smells amazing. Mm-hmm. Smells amazing. Okay, that's enough

All right, baby, come on down here. Okay. Because we've got to have a side to go with this

And we're going to cook some zucchini. Okay, lovely. All right. I've got you doing some onions, so listen

I don't want those pretty eyes to... I don't want the makeup to run on them

Give them to me. I knew you would love them. These are onion goggles

Well, I love them. Yes, and that'll keep you from crying. Fantastic

So I need you to finish chopping that red onion, Katie, girl. And I'm going to put a little olive oil... Okay

Into our pan. And then you've got three cloves of garlic. Yes, ma'am

If you mix that up. And I'm cutting our zucchini. So I'm using about four medium zucchinis

Right. I feel like an onion-sliced Barbie. And you look like one, too

Well, thank you. And when you get it ready just toss it all in I love all this color Uh I do too I love the color of it You know because you eat first with your eyes Yes And then with your pie hole There you go

Now what I want you to do. Yes, ma'am. Is toss in some salt

Love to. And some pepper. How's that? Look at this girl go

Now, Kavey, we've got one more step. Okay. For our zucchini, we've got to add our tomato sauce. Lovely

So you want to do that? An eight ounce can, y'all, of tomato sauce

Just stir that up. I'm going to come down here and I'm going to take a look at our pork chops

They're looking wonderful. Aren't they? Ooh, Katie, look. Perfect. I'm just going to borrow a little bit from the bourbon sauce that we got set aside

pork chops were a big, big deal at our house. They're a big deal at mine

Really? Yeah, I grew up. But Mama fried them. Oh, really? Yes

We had so many fried pork chops, it was unbelievable, Katie. Alrighty. Now

we've got our zucchini with our tomato sauce, our garlic, our purple onions. Yes

We've got our pork chops. And look who's here. Hi, Dave. Look who is back. I gotta say

I love the fact that we've got one generation of woman here, you, my mom, handing down the

art of cooking to a younger generation of women. My girlfriend, Katie, I think this is so cool

Isn't that it? Because this is the way that I learned. You taught me. Thank you. Isn't it yummy

I love it. Speaking of yummy. I don't think I'm... So Katie..

Yes, ma'am. There's just some pork chop. I love zucchini, too. This is incredible

Whoa, Bobby. It's great, isn't it? Mmm. Mmm. Y'all did a great job

I couldn't have done better myself. And I do a pretty dang good job with pork chops. Well, this is delicious, but I still want to teach you how to bake your own pound cake

Okay. So don't go anywhere. Up next, we're kicking this chocolate sour cream pound cake into high gear

Turn that on, baby. Yes, baby. Fire that puppy up. And later, we're topping it off with some strawberry goodness, y'all

Unbelievable. I'm so glad you like it. Oh, honey, it's amazing. All right, so, Katie, honey, I'm fixing to teach you how to make our Aunt Jessie Ruth's chocolate pound cake

Can't wait. My Aunt Jessie, y'all, my daddy's sister, used to make this cake all the time, and we so loved Aunt Jessie Ruth

So I'm going to teach you how to make it, baby. Okay. Now, we got six eggs

I'm going to be down here, Katie, mixing up our dry ingredients

And I'm going to put three-fourths of a cup of cocoa powder

All right, so that's a fourth cup measure. That's a half. All right, now I need for you to measure out three cups of sugar, two sticks of butter, and you cream those two things together

Yes, ma'am. And I'm going to come over here and I'm going to add two and a quarter cups of all-purpose flour

This is my favorite cake. Oh, I'm so happy. All right, now that's two

I really love all kind of cakes. You love all kind of cakes? Give me the sweets

Well, I love pound cake because you can do different things with them. That's very true

You know, like if we were making a vanilla pound cake, I love to butter them and fry them up in the cast iron pan

You can pray with it. Yes, I can take any of those fruits and have shortcake kind of it

Yes, ma'am. Hey, Sunny, I got to go to the restaurant. I'm teaching Katie how to bake Aunt Jessie's pound cake

I know, and I can't believe I have to leave. You remember selling that pound cake with the bag lady, that chocolate pancake

Oh, Lord, yes, I do. Yeah, I remember self, yes. I'm going to add a teaspoon of bacon powder, Katie

I love you. Bye, son. Oh, gosh. Y'all have fun. I wish you didn't have to leave us

Believe me, I wish I didn't have to either. Bye, baby. Y'all have fun. Okay

Love you. All right, let's put your two sticks of butter in

Now, you just beat the heck out of that. Well. There we go

And I'm just going to stir up our dry ingredients. Okay. Look at that

Turn that on, baby. Fire that puppy up. All right, now, so what we're going to do now is we're going to add one eight-ounce carton of sour cream

That's what. This is what makes those pound cakes so wonderfully creamy

Look at that. So it, uh-huh. All right, now, I'm going to add about a teaspoon of vanilla flavoring. Okay

I just going to kind of add an egg one or two at a time and let you beat those up Yes ma There we go All right there your last egg

That's me. All right, now you can turn it down, baby, to about four

Okay. And now we're just going to add that a little bit at a time and let you incorporate it good

And then I'm going to come over here, and I'm going to take the spatula

And help me. Uh-huh. I'm going to go around that bowl. And get the good stuff

Yeah, get the good stuff down in there because we don't want any hard lumps or clumps

And then we're going to come back and do another scoop. There we go

And I'm going to come back. Musical chairs. Musical chairs, honey. This is my exercise for the day

I love it. Mmm. Yum. Mmm. All right, now that's the last of our dry mixture

This is a wonderful room to make memories in. Yes, ma'am. And, like, I'm adoring my time with you in here

Me too. So I'm just going to make sure that I spray every cracking crevice in this bunt pan

Because I don't want our beautiful cake sticking. All right. So if you would pick up that bowl

Yes, Maria. And I'll spin the bunt pan and kind of scoop it out while you hold the bowl

Okay. But you know, Katie, I just love being in the kitchen with different family members

I just think it's a great room to bond in. Absolutely. And you get so comfortable before you know it

You're just talking about everything in your life that may matter to you or be important

So we're going to bake this at 325, y'all, for an hour and 15 minutes

And hopefully when we take it out, we're going to make Aunt Jessie prang up

All right, so here we go. Up next, our cake is ready for a fabulous whipped cream topping

You know, I always have to take things one more step. Our cake is ready

It's cooled off a little bit. Now, what I want you to do..

Yes, ma'am. Is see if you can get it out of that pan. You're gonna give me the honors

Yes. Is it... Perfection. Perfection. Look at your fabulous cake. It looks amazing

Look at your fabulous cake. I love it. Oh, Aunt Jessie would be so proud

All right, now come on down here because we're not through with this yet, Katie. Okay. You know, I always have to take things one more step

All right, so what we're going to do is we've got some heavy cream here. Yes, ma'am

About a cup and a half. Okay. What I want you to do is just whip the devil out

You're teaching me so much. You're just a learning machine, honey. Yes

I feel so honored that you're teaching me. Oh, I've had so much fun

Normally, I would add sugar to it right now. But we're not because we're going to add strawberry jam to it. Okay

Okay, look, it's getting thicker. Uh-huh, it's getting thicker. All right, so I'm going to come on in

Yes, ma'am. With a couple of tablespoons. So just kind of beat that up

There you go. There you go. Get the elbow in. Yes. Look at that

Amazing. How beautiful is that? Gorgeous. Okay. And Katie, you're done. Okay

All right. So I'm going to cut us some cake. If you'd pass the plate, sweetie

I'm in heaven. I am too. And look at that cake. All right

I'm going to put you some strawberries and lots of juice. Put our strawberry jam cream

There is our fresh mint. Oh, it looks beautiful. Now, how beautiful is that

It looks beautiful. You would be proud to serve that to any of your guests, wouldn't you

Yes, ma'am. And why don't we share this piece together? I would love it

Mmm. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I'm so glad you like it. Oh, honey, it's amazing

Look at that whipped cream. Mm. Mm. I love it. I'm so glad you do

Mm. Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. Thank you, darling

Thank you, my love. I've had a most wonderful time with you. I had an incredible time. And your mother and father did a fabulous job raising you

Thank you so much. Katie and I send y'all love and best dishes from our kitchen to y'all's