I'm Ina Garten.

I love to invite interesting people to my house for good food, great conversation, and lots of fun.

The amazing award-winning musician and composer, John Batiste, is joining me for a wonderful day at the barn.

He's a big P.B&J fan, so I'm making my peanut butter and jelly bars.

I guess it's okay.

Oh, yeah.

Then John's taking over the kitchen and showing me how to make his mom's famous Louisiana-style red beans.

Oh!

We're in the playoff now.

Be my guest.

The insanely talented musician John Batiste is coming to spend the day at the barn with me and I understand he

likes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches so I thought wouldn't it be great to make

peanut butter and jelly bars for him so this is what I've done I've got butter and

sugar mixing in here.

I'm going to add teaspoon of vanilla. Okay, next is two eggs. Basically what I'm doing is I'm

making a shortbread with lots of peanut butter in it. Okay, so that's the eggs. And now I'm

going to add two cups of smooth peanut butter. It's a lot of peanut butter.

Okay. Next to the dry ingredients. So three cups of flour, all-purpose flour, one teaspoon of bacon powder,

and one and a half teaspoons of salt. Okay, I'm just going to sip these together. And while I

sift them, let me tell you about

John Batiste. John Batiste is an incredible composer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and

bandleader. Born in Louisiana, when he was just eight years old, he played drums in his family's

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