Uptown Picnic

Y'all, this is my good friend, my good buddy, Donna Foltz

Donna and I are going to go on a picnic today, starting with mini pork sandwiches made with a juicy roast and an unbelievable spread

So now you just rub that all over again. I know about rubbing my meat

Then roast potato salad covered with a creamy blue cheese dressing. Next, it's a spinach and strawberry salad made with the freshest ingredients in Georgia

I know you're a taster. You can use my mouth to taste with any time

Finally, Donna shares a treat from her childhood. Candied apples that will make any picnic perfect

This is my friend Donna Folk. She is one of my good buddies here in Savannah

She's precious. If it wasn't for Donna, I'd probably never get to go to a party

because Donna's so good about having us over. Y'all, she's from Norlins

So you know she's a good cook. And we're going to have, like, an uptown picnic today

Tell everybody what we're going to make, Donna. We're going to make some delicious little mini pork tenderloin sandwiches with a delicious sauce

I love that. They're really easy to eat, and they're so delicious, especially if you eat them while they're still warm

I'm going to mince this fresh rosemary. I'm going to add some garlic, olive oil, and Worcestershire sauce

We're going to sort of make it like a marinade for this pork tenderloin. That sounds yummy

I love pork tenderloin. Yes. Okay, so you're using one teaspoon of chopped rosemary

How are you doing with that? I'm doing great. I just saw these onions, so I started chopping

Yeah, those are nice. I don't really know what you need. Now, how much parsley? About the same amount of parsley

Okie doke. So, two or three teaspoons. Yeah. I'm going to mash this for cloves of garlic

We always go to Donna's house, y'all, on Christmas Eve. And we do..

What is that? What is that called? The White Elven Gift Exchange

We do a great gift exchange. We have the best time. Everyone brings a gift, sort of like a gag gift, but not really

Oh, we've had some good gifts. We've had some great gifts. And remember, I got mad last Christmas

Because, y'all, when I was a little girl, I had a Mary Hartline doll

Well, I loved my doll. The first person to open something. Which was Brooke's mom

Was Brooke's mother. Brooke is my daughter-in-law. Linda, right? And Linda opens the first gift

It is a Mary Hartline doll. Right, and you either pick a gift from under the tree or you take a gift from someone

Bobby was so intent on Paula getting this doll that he went to Linda and took the doll from Linda

And he held the doll so that he could give it to Paula

I thought, how sweet, y'all. Now, how much mayonnaise? Four tablespoons of mayonnaise and one tablespoon of the brown mustard

So four to one, you say? Yes. And I can't help but notice that you're using my ceiling salt

Yes, I love that. How much of this? It's excellent. About a teaspoon

Okay. And I'm going to add a little bit of Worcestershire sauce and some..

Olive oil. You know, the pork tenderloin, normally when you take it out of the wrapper, it's in two pieces

But if it's not, I just cut it down the center. I'm going to take this. So what we do is we put some on the inside because, oh, my gosh, it's so delicious

So we put it on top. So that was one big fat tenderloin

It was. So I'm just going to take this, tie this up

You want to help me do this? I will help you. You know, tie it up

Okay, tie it up. In three or four places. And that's easy enough, y'all

You don't have to be fancy with this. Just tie it up just like that

All right, now I'm going to get the pan. Why don't we transfer this so we don't lose a drop of the rest of that marinade

Doesn't that smell divine? Yes, it smells so good. I love that. You don't mind if I just take it out of your hand, do you

No. So now you just rub that all over it. I know about rubbing my meat

All right, so tell me, do we need salt or anything on this

That's when I put the silly salt. It's on the outside because it makes it crusty

Okay, you put the salt and I'll be your rubber. Okay, great. That'd be great

Okay, and we're going to turn this so that we get it on all four sides, y'all

It's so good. And then I just cover it with a little foil

So we're going to roast this for how long? An hour? An hour. At

350. 30 minutes with the foil, 30 minutes without. Right. All right, so if you want to get that in the oven, Donna

Sure. I'm going to come down here, and I'm going to get started on our side dish

Okay, great. Okay, great. All right. Now, to go with Donna's sandwiches

I'm going to make us a potato salad with blue cheese dressing, y'all

I'm just going to use a mixture of red and white table potatoes

and I doing what the skin on because I think the skin is pretty It got the nutrients so no peeling involved All right and you going to cut up the onion Please be careful Donna Yes I be very careful I love it when you eat at my house

because you're like, oh my gosh, this is the best thing I ever had. Donna, listen, people say, oh, I never cooked for you

Why? Oh, I love cooking for you. I'm just a home cook. I love cooking

Just like everybody else, and I appreciate home cooking. So I need you to start melting a fourth of a cup of butter in our skillet

Then rough chop one large onion and throw it in our pan

And while I finish cutting up our potatoes, I'm going to need two teaspoons of minced garlic

All right, so I've got our potatoes done. Now, I've got a full-lined baking sheet that I'm going to put these on, and I'm just going to pile them on

Instead of balling these, I'm going to roast them in the oven

I'm just going to salt my potatoes, pepper them. These table potatoes are wonderful

Oh, nice. And then I'm going to just toss them with some olive oil

Can you add that garlic for me, please? Guess what kind of dressing we're going to put on these

What? We're going to put a blue cheese dressing. Yum. Doesn't that sound good

Yes, it does. All right, my hands are so greasy, Donna. Would you put those in the oven for me

All right, now we're going to roast these off, y'all, about 450 degrees for about 35 minutes

So we'll see you back. Coming up, we're making a creamy blue cheese dressing

for our potatoes. I am loving this. I love it. Then we're tossing up a fresh salad

that's gonna leave us speechless. Mmm. Mmm. Yum. And later, you'll never guess the secret

to Donna's candied apples. In case you just tuned in, I'm in here with my good buddy

You know, you got a... We've all got a friend that you just sit around and you can tell anything to

Well, this is that kind of friend. She's just precious. And we're making us a picnic lunch today

Donna is cooking off a wonderful pork tenderloin. She's gotten that in the oven right now

I've got potatoes roasting for potato salad. and we're going to make a blue cheese dressing to go on our potato salad

This is a little different twist from just a southern potato salad

So if you'd give me a hand, Donna Baby, I need three-fourths a cup of mayonnaise

So you can just measure that. I'm going to add a couple of tablespoons of sour cream

You don't want to put too much because the sour cream could override the mayonnaise

and you want that creamy egg yolkiness of the mayonnaise. Do you really measure

I hardly ever measure anything. Well, no, I don't measure. But we've got to measure by our friends

I know, we have to measure. Let's do it right here. All right, and sometimes I mismeasure

I always make extra man. And like a whole stick of butter will fall in a dish. All right, a teaspoon and a half of horseradish

Oh, this is so good. I'm going to put in some black pepper. All right, now I'm going to put in a five-ounce package of crumbled blue cheese

There you go. Okie doke. So that's it. So just stir that up

Have you had fun being in the kitchen with me today? I am loving this. I love it

All right, let's taste it. Mmm. It's pretty good, isn't it? It's excellent

It's delicious. All right, so we got that ready. So, you know those onions that you were caramelizing

Yes. We're going to need to add, and look at them, they're just cooking away

About a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar. I'll just mix that in and let it continue to cook

while we get started on our fresh spinach and strawberry salad. I want you to start peeling that cucumber

Okay. I'm going to measure out about a third of a cup of slivered almonds

that we're going to roast in a pan. And how much cucumber would you like

I would like for you to seed and peel. Okay. That whole cucumber, please

So you've got your spinach leaves over there. I've got about a quart of strawberries

Now, I didn't ask you. I'm assuming you want me to dice it? Yeah, dice it

Dice it up, you know, fairly small. Okay. And we're not going to dress our salad before we leave on our picnic

because, you know, it would make our spinach go limp. And we don't want that

You can cut these strawberries, Donna, any way you want to. You can slice them, quarter them, half them

These are beautiful strawberries. All right, so I'm going to just toss our strawberries in there, y'all

And you can just throw those cucumbers on in here. I know you're a taster

I'm a taster. Yes, I'm a taster. And not only am I a taster, everybody in my kitchen

And when they come in the front door, they come for dinner, I'm like, okay, so here. Here, let me get that closer

You can use my mouth to taste with any time All right now we going to make a wonderful sweet little dressing for our salad

So we've got just a little screw top jar. We're going to use a third of a cup of sugar

The juice of a half a lemon. About a teaspoon of poppy seed

Two tablespoons of white wine vinegar. a tablespoon of oil, and then we're just going to shake, shake, shake

That's perfect. Yes, and just that quick. So pretty. Now, Donna, when I go to shake these things

I put a rag on it just in case. Yeah. Because I've had them leaking

I know. Sometimes they don't seal. Yeah. That's right. So I'm just going to shake this up

So we just want to dissolve that. Our almonds are toasted now, so we'll just toss those in, and we'll just taste the salad a little later

Y'all come right back with us because Donna is going to take those tenderloins out

I'm going to mix up our potato salad, and we're going to have us an uptown picnic today

Coming up next, we're putting together our mini pork sandwiches and topping our roasted potatoes

Delicious. Delicious. Then Donna shows us how to make candied apples that are fun for any age

Children love these apples. Little dad. Big children love them too. And later, we're putting the finishing touches on those sweet candied apples

Donna and I are getting the end of our picnic menu all together

Donna's fixing to share a recipe with y'all. This is incredibly delicious

So hit it, Donna. Okay, what we're going to do is we're going to make some candied apples

It's not like an apple on a stick, like candy apples you get at the fair

No, it's not. I grew up with these apples. My mom started making these apples when I was very young

We're going to dissolve one cup of cinnamon candies. Okay. Into half a cup of water

Now just measure out those little hot cinnamon candies. We're going to let them dissolve

We're going to let them dissolve. So low to medium heat. We don't want the water to reduce too quickly because it will lose its syrup consistency

If you would like, you can help me peel these apples. Okay. We're going to peel them and core them

Peel the apples. Six apples, just red apples. Small red apples. So I'm going to take my apple, Cora

I know, they're not the easiest. And just core it out, just that simple

There we go. Okay, great. The children love these apples. Little Jack

Big children love them, too. And it makes your house smell so good

I'll peel them if you like, and then you can core them. It's teamwork. Okay

And then we're going to cut them in half. Okay. And then we put the flat side down in the pan

These are so pretty. Look, the red. The red is going all the way through the apple

All right, Donna, do you want me to cut them this way? That way, yeah. So just cut them directly in half. Yes

We're just going to lay them down in the cinnamon. We put them, you can put them before they melt, they dissolve

Okay. So I'm going to turn up this heat a little bit

Now how long are we going to cook these for, Donna? It's about 45 minutes to dissolve the candles

and we're just gonna let those apples soak up that sugar and that beautiful red color

Look out there, y'all. They're starting to take on the color of those hot candies

While they're doing that, come on down here. And I'm gonna put together our potato salad

I'm gonna slice this roast. I adore potatoes. I love roasted vegetables, any kind of root vegetable

I'm going to toss in our caramelized onions. Now I'm going to take our blue cheese dressing

and pour it over those potatoes into my bowl. Look at this, Donna

Ah! Doesn't that look good? Oh, that looks delicious. The guys are going to love this

Those caramelized onions are going to be so good, sister. Oh, Paula, this looks so good

All right, Donna. Our apples are going. You may want to take a look at this

I'm going to flip your apples over again. Wait until you see what she puts inside of them, y'all

One of my favorite, favorite, favorite ingredients. Thanks. Oh, Donna. That is out of this world

Good, right? Mm-hmm. Now I want you to taste. Mm-hmm. Tell me how you like that Mmm You like it Mmm You like it You like it Girl it perfect I going to load our potato

salad up in these jars. Okay. And that'll be really cute to transport. Oh, wow. That's

perfect, Mom. Isn't that great? Yeah. What a great way to store them in the fridge to

be, right? So, y'all, Donna is just using a little bakery roll for our sandwiches. And

And we're just going to put our sauce that we made up. Look at your apples now

This smells like the holidays. It does, doesn't it? Oh, Donna, you cook this just perfect

And look at here. We're going to put our little sandwiches just like that

Guess what? What? We got an extra roll, so you know what that means

No such thing as an extra roll. Look at this tenderloin, y'all

Look at that beauty. That's beautiful. All right, there we go. Yum

Yum, yum. So let's get a little sample and make sure. Good

Y'all don't go anywhere because Donna's going to finish up showing you how to put these apples together

They're so good. It's going to be a great dish. Mm. Mm-hmm

It's delicious. Coming up next, we're making a creamy treat to bring our candied apples together

This is like ice cream. I know what you want to do. You have to put it on the apple

And later, we're tasting that sweet salad and packing up our perfect little picnic basket

We're finishing up those beautiful candied apples, y'all. Donna, those are so beautiful

Thought an apple was low-calorie and healthy, didn't you? Well, wait till Miss Donna gets through with it

Okay, now we're going to make a topping. Paula, it's a cream cheese topping

It's a nice small piece. All right, so you've got a little cream cheese. It looks like maybe two ounces of cream cheese, y'all

About two ounces. That's perfect. And that's a cup of powdered sugar. A little bit of vanilla extract

Okay. About a fourth of a teaspoon, y'all. And, of course, you could adjust it if you were going to do more

Do you have any words of wisdom for this? No, honey, I don't, except hurry

I want to taste them. I probably should have had a mixer. I didn't think of it

Well, I can get that for you. Do you have a mixer? Yeah. Great. Perfect

Perfect. You know what I would add to this? What's that? I'd add about a tablespoon of mayonnaise

Try it? Yeah. This is real mayonnaise. Now, I have never had it with mayonnaise, Carla

All right, well, let's just try it and see if you like it. I will. And look at that

That just made it cream right up. Yeah, that's great. Thank you so much

Oh, yeah, that's perfect. Perfect. Now what you do is you take a little bit of this

You want this to be stiff, this consistency of this cream cheese

This is like ice cream. It's very close. I know what you want to do

You have to put it on the ice. Now I'm just going to pack these up in these little containers

So there we go. Oh, Donna, I just have to taste one, honey

Mmm. Mmm. I think it's good. Mmm

Mmm. There's nothing more delightful than having lunch or dinner with Paula Deen

Because she enjoys everything that she eats so much. Let's taste our salad

That looks so good. All right, let me know how you like it. Mm, it's sweet

Mm. And the vinegar made it a little tart. Mm-hmm. Yum. Let's gather everything up, Donna

Okay. And we'll put our sandwiches on last. Perfect

So they won't get all squeezed up. Mm, look at that. Just that simple

Beautiful picnic. Uh-huh. Hope you love the recipes that we've shared with y'all today

Bodine says yes! Thank you so much for having me today. Yes

Say, I know you got pork around. Oh, my goodness. So, until we see y'all next time

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