Taste of the Tugboat

Hey, y'all. Look who's in here

Hey, Paula. Hey, Mikey. I'm so excited, y'all, because today, Michael's in the kitchen sharing some of his favorite recipes with us

First up, a dish that's sure to tantalize your taste buds, y'all

A buttery crab pot pie. They look delicious. And then, it's the richest, creamiest pasta you're ever gonna eat

Crawfish fettuccine. Yum. And you gotta have something sweet. This is insane

chocolate macadamia cheesecake bars and then the perfect compliment to a great meal

a raspberry ginger ale punch that might be a home run I'm telling you

you know I've chased you around the world followed you from here to there and everywhere

I have to say he has and now I'm going to bring you on my neck of the woods

I'm going to cook for you today some of my specials and I'm going to bring you on a picnic on the boat

What are you going to make for us to take on the boat? Right now we're fixing a buttery crab pot pie

Does that sound great? Oh, my gosh. You guys eat so good on those boats, don't you

Well, that's how I stay so thin. All right. All right. Well, I can't help but see that you got a pan here, and you got some butter

All right, Paula, I know you find this hard to believe, but take one stick of butter and put it in the pan and melt it

See, I'm not the only one, y'all, that uses butter. Then we're going to saute the onions and the mushrooms

Okay. Why don't you cut these mushrooms off? Okay. Now, how many do you want

Do you want half a cup, a cup, or? Let's do a cup

Okay. I've got a small onion, and we're going to saute those. Okay

This sounds good, good, good. Oh, it's delicious. And then the crab

Okay. And then we'll put them in a little ramekin and use a puff pastry for the crust. Okay

I love puff pastry. You can do anything with puff pastry. Puff pies, yeah

Okie doke. We've got one and a half cups of milk we're going to add

Now I'm going to make the stock. I'm going to add a fourth of a cup of sherry

Okay. To a fourth of a cup of clam juice. Okay, so we'll have a half a cup of liquid there, all total

Right. I'm going to go ahead and just salt and pepper my mushrooms and onions a little bit

I hope that's all right. There you go. I'm under the watchful eye of the pilot today, y'all

I don't want to get scolded and sent out of the kitchen. These look delicious, Michael

So let me measure out my flour. I need to add two tablespoons of flour

and that's going to tighten up all his ingredients. All right, so I'm just going to stir that around in there and coat all that with your flour

Yum, this looks delicious. I like the fact that you don't skimp on the butter

Yeah. All right, you want to add your cream now or your milk? Yep

Okey-doke. Yum. Mm-hmm. This is going to be so rich and delicious, y'all

It's going to be kind of like Michael. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha

All right. Okay, here's the clam juice and sherry. Okay. So I'm going to let this come back to boil

If you will stir this, Michael. I'll do it. I'll come down here and start getting your puff pastry ready

Now, puff pastry comes in sheets. So you want to let that sit out on your counter for about 20 minutes

just long enough for you to be able to unfold it. And we're going to cook these in these cute little bowls that Michael's gotten out

And so I need some crust that will fit his bowls. And I think this one will do nicely

Yeah, you just cut it with a little bit larger bowl. Yeah. Look at that

It's working like a charm. And we're going to get four of those out of there, Michael

and what do you want me to do with this star? You just punch in the middle to leave a vent for the... Okay

I gotcha. There you go. I gotcha. Go Groover. Okey-doke. And I see you've got an egg over here

Uh-huh. So I'm assuming you want me to beat this up and use it to do the egg wash

Right. And some people will just use the whites. But I've just beat up the whole egg

And I'm going to go ahead and just brush it right now

So Michael I got these prepped and ready for us Okey Do you need some more flour Let let it boil first and see if it thickens up Yeah And before we add any more flour Yeah I think that plenty thick enough

Mmm. Boy, Heidi, the sherry, the sherry taste is really strong in there, Michael

It does give it a good flavor. And a lot of people expect it. Uh-huh

All right, so let's add our frozen peas. It's just a cup of thawed peas

Now, we're not going to want to stir this too much, y'all. I'm fixing to put in the crab, so we don't want to tear up Michael's crab

And we're using a half a cup of lump crab meat. Fold the crab meat in

You don't want to break it all up. Right. Don't want to break it up. Okay, Mikey, this looks perfect

Let's bring this down here. Okay. And if you'll bring that pan up here closer to us

I'll do it. And I'm just going to fill these up. In fact, I'll actually trade places with you, Michael

Uh-huh. And I'll start putting the tops on for you. That'll work. How's that

Sounds good to me. Yum. Doesn't that look delicious

Here you go. Thank you, ma'am. There you go. Just lay that one

I'll work on getting this other one up. All righty, there you go

Good. And now we cook up at 350, Paula, for 20 to 25 minutes

Okie doke. I'm ready. It looks delicious, doesn't it, girls? Look at this strong muscle man, and he can cook, too

Great time of day. I'm a lucky chick. You can say that again

I'm a lucky chick. Coming up next, y'all, it's a pasta dish that's gonna have you begging for more

Look how beautiful this sauce is. Thin, decadent chocolate macadamia cheesecake bars

Delicious. Oh, my goodness. And finally, a sweet raspberry ginger ale punch

Y'all, I'm in here with Michael, and I'm having such a good time today

Me too. Tell them what's going on in case they just tuned in

We're going for a boat ride. We're making crawfish fettuccine, and we're going to have a picnic on the boat

Yes, and you can't make a Louisiana dish without having the trinity, y'all

So that's a cup of celery. Michael's got one green bell pepper, one onion that he's dicing up

And now I'm going to take three cloves of garlic, and I'm going to saute this all off, y'all, in two sticks of butter

No. Yes. Yes, I am. All right. Michael, I'm going to help you by getting a piece of your bell pepper

Okay. And our pot pies that Michael made for us are in the oven, and they're baking away

Yum. So I'm going to go ahead and put in your little bit of bell pepper that I chopped up for you

and the celery and the garlic. And onions? And your onions. Okay

Let me find a little paddle. There you go. This is gonna be so so good Michael. All right, so we're gonna let these saute off y'all. I love that smell. Yes, it does smell good

Oh, yes, there's nothing like Trinity cooking. Uh-huh. You want to just cook your Trinity until it's kind of tender

So look at all that butter in there y'all. Yum, yum, yum

All right, Michael, if you would pick up that bowl of crawfish tails

Now, y'all, you find these in the freezer section at your grocery store

because it would be hard, hard for me to find fresh crawfish around here

But that's two pounds worth of thawed crawfish tails. So this is going to have a lot in it

And Michael has a can of cream of mushroom soup, eight-ounce package of processed American cheese with jalapenos, y'all

Y'all. All right, so, Michael, you want to put me a couple of tablespoons of flour in there

I'll do it. This is going to tighten it up, and I'm going to add one teaspoon of Cajun seasoning

So, here we go. And, again, you want to incorporate that flour real good

because if you don't, it could lump and clump. Uh-huh. And we want a smooth, smooth sauce

Okie dokie. All right, Michael, you can add your cream of mushroom soup

And I'm going to be right here measuring us one cup of milk

Okay. It's a deal. Okay. If you'll stir. You got a steady stir, right? Yes

You just want to keep all that incorporated so that you have a real smooth sauce Look at that Michael All right we can switch jobs again and you can bring in your cheese

Okay. And I'll get this stirred for you. We're a team, right

We're a good team, too. Yes, we are. Great time of day

Oh, it looks so good. Doesn't it look good? I want to incorporate all that butter

Listen to that stuff sizzling. Yum. And the cheese is starting to melt, y'all

All righty. Taste it. Yes, taste it. This is so thick and so rich, Michael

I'm going to add. Do you like it? It's delicious. Yay. I'm going to add just a little bit more milk

Okay? Okay. Look how beautiful this sauce is. Isn't that beautiful? And you might want to make a note that I added like another half a cup of milk

All right, honey bunny. Ready? Let me taste this. Well, I want to just taste it and make sure we got our seasonings in

Mm-hmm. Ready? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm. And look at those crawfish. They make it so beautiful

And I just want to fold those into that sauce. Isn't the color beautiful

Great. Yes. The colors are great, huh? The color, it's just like a bright reddish orange

They're beautiful. You want to try it? Yes. We got to make sure that this is right

Is that enough? Yes. Looks delicious. You just ladle. I've got us some forks down here, Mikey

You do? Good. Yes. So let's come down here and taste it

I think they're going to love this. Little Jack would love this, Whitney

You like it? Delicious. Isn't that yummy

It's delicious. This will be fun. This will be a fun game

Coming up next, it's rich and creamy chocolate cheesecake bars. This is not going to mess my diet up, is it

No, honey, no. And later, a refreshing raspberry ginger ale punch. Delicious

So sweets for the sweets, you ready? I'm ready. Well, get your little self down here

Oh, you got your pie. Look what I got. Oh, my goodness, Michael

Does that look delicious? Those look like donuts laying up there, y'all. Don't they

Doesn't that look delicious? Yes, it looks just like donuts. All righty

Yeah, sit them right there. Yum. Mm-mm-mm. They look delicious. Well, that's hot, hot, hot

So don't burn yourself. So why don't you skip on down here

I'll do it. Because I'm going to share one of my recipes with you

Okay? Okay. All right. Now, you're going to be able to go on foodnetwork.com and get the crust part of the recipe

but it's nothing but like a wafer cookie, butter, and macadamia nuts

So it's real simple. Just go to foodnetwork.com. Now, for our filling that we're going to pour over our crust is two 8-ounce packages of cream cheese

three-quarters of an 8-ounce container of sour cream. So I'm going to go ahead and add the sour cream to it, Michael

And like I said, we need about three-quarters of the container. Uh-huh

And then we're going to add three-fourths a cup of sugar. And you can just cream away, sweetie

So that's a quarter of a cup, a half a cup, and we've got some chocolate and morsels

This is not going to mess my diet up, is it? No, honey, no

You see, we didn't use but three quarters of a cup of sugar. All right

I'm going to crack our eggs one at a time, and you can just beat those right in

We're doing four of my favorite things today. What? Being with you, cooking, eating, and going out on a boat

That is four of your favorite things, isn't it? Yeah. Well, I know for sure it's three of your favorite things

You know, you're saying things that a girl loves to hear. All right now while you beating that I just gonna run my spatula around to get that cream cheese down Uh So see how much was stuck on the edges

All right. And we want all that beaten up real, real smooth

All right, that's good, Michael. So I'm going to come around here and get our crust

And you can see we've lined our 13 by 9 by 2 pan in tinfoil, and they'll come out easily

Uh-huh. All right, so we'll just pour this onto our crust. I love to hear the story that you tell about when you and Hank played football

Uh-huh. And on y'all's way home from practice, you knew your mother was going to have supper ready

and y'all would stop, and Hank would get a dozen donuts. I'd get a half a dozen

And you'd get a half a dozen. I was like, I was going to die. They'd eat them on the way home. Or then we'd go by another place and get five hamburgers each

so we need to eat a dozen or half dozen donuts or five hamburgers each

come home and pretend like we hadn't eaten that's how I got so slim

that's how I built this foundation alrighty we're going to put this in the oven y'all

300 degrees preheated and we're going to bake it for about 40 minutes

now I'm just going to reach in here and grab me out

some chocolate chips I'm not going to measure, so, you know, it depends on how many chocolate chips you like

But it's funny, when Michael and I make chocolate chip cookies, we'll put very few chocolate chips in it

Because we like the cookies better than we do the chocolate chips. Go figure

You ready? Yes. Bake those for 40 minutes at 300 degrees. And when we come back, Michael, we'll taste those

And we've got to take a little something to drink. So I'm going to be making us a nice raspberry punch

Good. Coming up next, the perfect refreshment to top off our picnic

And pretty. And pretty. So to wash down all these dishes

these wonderful recipes that were taken to the boat, I thought we could make a little punch, Michael

Raspberry ginger ale punch. We're going to use a two-liter bottle of raspberry ginger ale

Okay. And I'm just going to pour that, or you can help me pour it into the punch bowl

And I've got some canned pineapple juice. I'm going to add two cups of that

And in front of you, Michael, you have a can of frozen limeade

If you would measure out one cup. And it's been thawed out

Yes, if you'd measure out one cup of that. And then I'm going to slice some lime up

And we're just going to drop that down into our punch bowl

Let those float around in there. And that looks pretty good, doesn't it

The guy's going to love this. You think? You're being smart, Mal

All right, you want to ladle us up a little? sample. If you would just kind of stir all those ingredients together. There you go

Oh, perfect. That's pretty, isn't it? Yeah, that's what I was saying. These guys are going to love this

Those big, rough, tough guys. They're going to say, how pretty. That is good

It is good. I love the pineapple juice. And pretty. And pretty

What about our diet desserts? Okay. Where are they? It's right here

Let's try them. Now, I sprinkle the macadamia nuts on top. Yum

What do you think if we just kind of go... Yeah. They'll never know

It'll be our secret. They will never miss that. Yeah, I'll show you

All right, look here. Now when I do it up like this

you... I'll get a scoop. Yes. Okay. Come out a little bit

Okay. And look, I'll finish getting this out. You want to try a piece

Boys. Is it good? Oh, my gosh. So good. Mmm. That might be a home run

I'm telling you. Delicious. Mmm. They're going to love it, aren't they

Delicious. Oh, my goodness. Cheers to you, my dear. There you go

Let's go to the Ripper. Loving best dishes, y'all. This is insane