Tailgate Time

There's nothing better that we'd rather do than tailgate

How does Midwestern-style beer brats and barbecue chicken sound, y'all? And of course, no tailgate is complete without fried onion rings with a chili sauce for dipping

And my Symphony brownies, y'all, are so delicious, you're going to want to start with dessert

So y'all grab your friends and get your cooler packed, because today we're tailgating at home

Is there anything, Jamie Dean, that you love better than going to Athens, Georgia for a game with the Bulldogs

Sometimes at night I dream I'm actually playing. I swear to you, I have dreams where I'm in full outfit

with eye black and everything. No. And then I wake up old and sore

Are you just about done this? You know what? Yeah, I'm just about done

I'm just stripping out the red bell pepper for you. You know, I thought it was so cute

Brooke just threw Jamie a birthday party. My child's getting old. I got to quit telling his age

You're as bad as Bobby. This is going to make me look old. But Brooke had gone on the Internet

and found this artist that took a picture of Jamie, put him in full Georgia Bulldog uniform

It was standing up. Life size. Life size. Your birthday was great fun

All right, so this is one of your favorite things. We love bratwurst, and it's super simple and full of flavor

It's Midwestern-style beer brats. It's so simple, y'all. We got six bratwurst sausages, six cups of lager beer, two large onions that are sliced

We're going to cook that down with a bratwurst and let it heat and plump up all the way through. At the same time in our cast iron skillet, we're going to cook down in a little bit of oil, red peppers, and onions

We're going to finish everything in this pan with a little bit of mustard. Ooh, good

All right, so what is the difference, son, between bratwurst... Brats, just call them brats

Brats. What's the difference? Thank you, because that's easier for me to say. You've been saying that all your life, haven't you

Or at least the last 40 years. You're a little brat. I'm just going to whip the butt. What's the difference between brats and like a regular hot dog or a sausage dog that you'd see at the games

Well, traditionally, it was done with veal. That's the traditional. But now you see them done with pork and with beef and stuff

Okay. Now, why are you pricking that? Just so it can heat up all the way through and kind of plump up and absorb a lot of the flavor

Okay, well, I've got our frying pan going. Okay, well, how about a little bit of oil

Okay. And just take half of those onions. Oh, okay, so take the little bit of onions

Just take half of these. Right here, okay. And then all the peppers

So leave me half those onions, because what I'm going to do, this is the most important part about this recipe

Half those onions, and oops! Sorry, son. That's okay. I'll get it up

Just knock some of your onion on the floor. You've got to have six beers

Oh, come on. Well, that's not before. We'll get to the other two in a little while

The bratwurst has got so much flavor, and pulling them down in beer adds a lot to it

Really? Oh, yeah. Now, we're going to cook those all the way through

We want them to be real soft. Oh, okay. So we'll just let those go

Yep. Do I need the salt and pepper them or anything? Yeah, a little salt and pepper on them will be good

Okay. I might better put a little bit more oil since we're going to cook them down soft

Now, Mom, if you will, take the rest of those onions and put them down here in the beer. Okay. I'm going to put some more in here

Because I like lots of onions. So we're just going to put these

So is this pretty easy to cook on the grill? I mean, is this a pretty easy recipe to..

Well, you can grill, Bratz. It's real simple, but... Well, those are easy to tote

Of course, I know your little heathens got your beer with you. Mm-hmm. So... Mm-hmm

I don't know if we wasted on Bull and Bratwurst at the game, but you can do these ahead of time, cook these down

and then we're going to finish them in the pan. So if you wanted to do this and then carry them

and then bring them back up to heat, you can do that. So they travel pretty good. Yeah, that's the way to do it

fine recipes that you can take almost home and then finish them with the game

That's a great way to do it. So let's let these cook, and if you want to, let's get started on your chili sauce

Okie doke. So this is a great dipping sauce. It's in one of my cookbooks, and I've just eyeballed about a cup of mayonnaise, and now

I gonna add about three tablespoons of chili sauce Just stir that together You know when I eating onion rings

I love to mix just mayonnaise and ketchup together. Yeah. You know, mix them together and dip my onion rings in that

You taught me that. Yeah, that's always good. Now I'm going to add a teaspoon of chili powder

and about an eighth of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper. So you want to kind of be careful there

because you don't want to burn the younger kids up. How's that coming, Mom

It's great. You just mix this up the night before so it can absorb those flavors

Just that simple. I'll tell you what, I got a little bit more cooking to do. When we come back, we'll finish our brats

we'll get some onion rings, and we'll do some tasting if you want to. That sounds great, son. Y'all come back

We're tailgating today. Mm-hmm. Coming up, fried onion rings so good you'll think you got them at the game

And later, the Dean Brothers barbecue chicken and a tailgating sweet treat

Symphony brownies, y'all. Hey, welcome back, everybody. I'm in here in the kitchen

with Jamie, and we're preparing for a tailgate party. He's finishing up

The breadwurst, look how perfect that is. See how they're caramelized? See, I love it like that

And I'm getting ready to fry up some onion rings. So, Jamie, you know when you're doing

onion rings, it's just like when you're doing french fries. How many onions you

need depends on how many people you're trying to feed. So I'm just cutting my onions, and I'm

cutting these kind of on the thin side. They're almost going to be like

shoestring onion rings. Now look, Mom, I got about five more minutes

on these vegetables. And I'm going to take these brats that we've been cooking in this beer

and I'm going to transfer them over so I can brown the outsides and I'm just going to finish it all together

You smell the beer coming off the bratwurst? Yes. With those vegetables cooking? It smells heavenly

Okay, so I think I've got enough onions for us. Now I'm just going to kind of do these apart

and then I'm going to toss our onion rings with just a little seasoning salt that I bought from the store

And our onions are a little bit damp just from the natural juices of them

So hopefully that flour is going to stick to them real, real good

Look, I'm covering up the brats with these peppers, so that sweet flavor will get on there

Love it. Love it. You know, simple and delicious. You need a couple cups of flour

Yeah, I'm going to just take a couple of, maybe a cup and a half of flour

And I'm just going to toss our onion rings that I've seasoned into our flour

I like them dry like this instead of a thick batter. This is how I like my fried green tomatoes, too, instead of a real crusty batter

Yeah, you know, if you like that thick batter, then I'd do it in buttermilk first

you know, something wet to make the flour stick. I like the light, Dustin

Okay, here we go. I just love an onion ring period. I'll take it any way I can get it, son

All right, so here we go. Into the hot grease they go

and I'm frying these at like between 350, 375 degrees. I'm gonna put your sauce in this pretty dish for our onion rings

Okay, and our sauce was so easy, y'all. It was just mayonnaise and a chili sauce

about a teaspoon of chili powder, and about an eighth of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper

to give it just a little bit of heat. I tell you what, the greatest thing I ever did for myself, Jamie

was put in a deep fryer in my kitchen. You know, I think every Southern girl, we've earned us a deep fryer

So how are those looking? Not too much longer. You sliced them kind of thin

Yeah, I did. I almost try, I try to make them almost like a, a shoestring onion ring, you know

Some people like them thick, some like them thin, some like them crusty, some like them

not so crusty. Mm-hmm. These are ready. Yeah, these are just about ready

Don't take but a second. Let's do some tasting you want to. Okay, you finish up your stuff

All right, I'm gonna make a little room. Okay. Now I'm bringing up the onion rings

Looks pretty good. Pretty, pretty good. See, let's pick a winner. Pick a wiener

Gosh, that looks delicious, son. Looks so good. Well, personally, if I was making them

I would put a little butter on the bread and kind of toast them off

Well I know And I share that secret with people Mom You can make a hot dog really super good and extra special

at the house if you take your bun and butter it and grill it off like you do like a grilled cheese

Well my mama never fixed us a hot dog son. Get it toasty. That she didn't butter and toast that

That bun. Want a little sauce? No, I'm just going to dip in there so I can do it like that

Oh, wait, I almost forgot. What? I told you I'd share with you the other two beers

Oh. I was wondering, you said we needed six beers. And I didn't see but four

Now we're tailgating. Cheers. You know, it's great when your children finally get old enough they're legal

You can enjoy a beer with them. And you can buy their beer for them, or they can better yet buy your beer for you

That sauce for those any rings are great. Mm-hmm. You ready? Mm-hmm

It's kind of hot now. Be careful. Okay. Mm. Mm. That's good, huh

The mustard is fabulous with it. Mm-hmm. That is so delicious. And y'all stick around

Mama, you think you do chicken? We got the Dean Brothers Cookbook Specialty

barbecue chicken coming right up. Y'all come back. And later, sure to make your mouth water

Symphony Brownies. We can't have a tailgating party without some kind of chicken

No, we can't. You know, there's a lot of different barbecue sauces. Here in the south, a popular sauce is a red sauce

which is what we're going to do, start with ketchup. So we need about a cup of ketchup. All right, so we're alike on that

Okay, and we're alike on this, too. Brown sugar. Yeah. I love the sweet

Yep. So I'm going to make sure that we... So how much you're going to stick in there? A fourth of a cup

A fourth of a cup. And you want to pack it. And what really gives this good flavor, I love the brown sugar and some fresh orange juice

We're going to do about two tablespoons of fresh-squeezed orange juice. That's about two right there, don't you think

Yeah, that's juicy orange. It's juicy orange. And this is what gives it a flavor like you cooked it outside

This is an artificial smoke flavor. So even though we're doing it in the oven, it'll smell like hickory chips

quarter of a teaspoon, so you don't need a lot of that. That's powerful stuff

You can mess things up with it. Okay. Now, the next thing that we're going to do is a half a teaspoon of dry mustard

Okay. Great. And this cayenne's a little warm, so we're just going to use a quarter of a teaspoon of cayenne

And we're going to use a teaspoon of Worcestershire. Okay. And that's it

This is pretty simple. Okay, that looks delicious. Yep, and I'm gonna whip this up, give it a nice turn

You're gonna wanna hold back a third of the sauce now, and we'll ladle this over right before it's done

It's good, and it's simple, too. What I like about it, and what kind of sets this apart

is that it's a no-cook, you know, because the barbecue sauce we use at the restaurant

you have to cook, and this is not. This is something that you're able to do immediately right away

So we're gonna toss our chicken in this sauce. Toss it. Do I have you a set of tongs

I could use some tongs. There you go. All right, so you're just going to run your chicken around in that barbecue sauce

Yep, we're going to get it all good and coated up. So you're going to put that in the oven

375 for 45 minutes. 375 for 45 minutes. Great. Like you said right here, this is the time you can put it in a Ziploc bag

pack it in a cooler on ice, and then whenever your grill's ready, wherever you're going, just do it on the grill

Just make sure you close the top and kind of cook it slow. Yeah. Are you going to cover this or are you going to cook it uncovered

I'm going to cook it just like this. And right towards the end with about 20 minutes left, I'm going to put the rest of this sauce on it

And then that are it. That really looks good. This is going to be sticky and sweet

Looks great. Yeah. What are you doing? All right. Well, you know, you can't leave for the tailgate party

You can't leave for the ball game, or you can't have a tailgate party

without having a bite of something sweet. And this recipe that I'm gonna share with everybody today

is called Symphony Brownies. It's like a divine brownie. And we're gonna start with just a prepackaged brownie mix

Now, I happen to like the chewy brownies. You can find those in your dessert section

at the grocery store. And I'm just going to add a couple of eggs

Just going to crack those. Put those in there. I going to add about a quarter of a cup of water and a third of a cup of oil That it Yeah I got a mixer out here

How about these giant candy bars? Well, see, that's what's going to make these so special

Okay, so just that quickly they're mixed up. So what we want to do now is just take about half of our batter, y'all

and just spread it out into a 13 by 9 by 2

And I have lined this with tin foil just to make it an easy cleanup

Now, what makes this brownie so sinfully delicious is we're using three candy bars

Just like this? Well, actually, I like mine turned up. So I can see the writing on it

So you can use any kind of candy bars you want. You'll just want to make sure you use the big ones, three of them

You're getting the picture, aren't you? All right. Then we're going to take the other half of our batter

and just pour over those candy bars. And when you bite into those brownies

oop, jump the devil. I wonder I'm fat. So there we go

So this is what you're going to team with the barbecue chicken? Yes

The chocolate bar brownie? Yes. So y'all, when we come back, we're going to have Paula Deen's dream tailgate meal

barbecue chicken and brownies. Yes! Go Dawgs! Okay, how's it looking, son

Isn't that good? Oh, yeah. It's hot. Oh, that really looks good

Our brownies have cooled, and look, because I used that tinfoil, look at that

It's just flipped out so nice and easy. Mmm. And I'm just going to, I think, cut this in thirds

You know, if we're going to do binnets, let's do binnets. Thirds? Yes

Yes, well, three, three, you know. What's wrong with half? All right

These are so good. Mm-hmm. And so rich. They're just out of this world

All right. Now, look, look, Jamie. Good grief. Mama knows how to do it, doesn't she, son

You sure do. All right, well, look. Why don't we just do two kind of like that

What are you doing now? Well, nothing. I mean, just taking a little fresh cream and a little fresh chopped pecans and a little fresh chopped candy bar

Now, if you're on a diet, you don't have to do this

You can just eat your brownie plain. All right. So just stir that in

Look, it looks like a piece of divinity up there, doesn't it? It does. Too much

What's this? Powdered sugar, of course. Yes, powdered sugar, a little powdered sugar. All right, put your vegetables on

You know, you always have to eat something green. Yeah, we'll put a vegetable on there. I made, I formulated a dessert when I was doing, oh, oh

Oh, this looks so good. It does look good, doesn't it? Let mama take it

I almost forgot about our chicken, though. Yeah, let Mama take care of this. And then you take care of your dish

How's that? Well, I want to have a bite of chicken before I have dessert anyway

The brown sugar, and it cooks, and it's so sticky. Mmm. Mmm

Look at there, y'all. I so wish y'all were here. I would put that in your mouth, and you would be in heaven

But since you can't be in heaven, I'll go for you. A candy bar exploding out of a brownie

Wow. Sinful. Yeah. Mmm. Mmm. At the end of a meal when I have dessert, I always go back to something savory

But I always save me a little piece of meat so that I can eat

Because I don't like to leave the taste of sweet taste in my mouth when I leave the table

Isn't that weird? That's why we're so healthy. Mm-hmm. Mm. Oh, Jamie, that's very, very good

Very good. That's almost as good if you had cooked it on the grill

Mm-hmm. Gee, honey. And now you know what time it is? What time is it

It's ballgame time. We've had a great time tailgating with y'all today, but we've got to go catch the game

Thanks for tuning in. And until next time, best dishes. Home run

Home run, y'all. From our kitchen to yours. Thanks. From our kitchen to yours. Thanks