and actually my boys really do crooks so in this cookbook for my son joshua or craig who likes to cook soups, that love fortunately did get passed down a little bit. this is how the whole thing started and after the campaign was over, my son josh said you should put together a cookbook. i thought that would be fun. but this is not like a normal cookbook because it has a lot of family traditions, stories, material about life. it will be interesting for people to think we know mitt romney or with the family is but i think they will be surprised when they open this up in me get a peek into life struggles can getting together there is a lot of stories. >> host: are you a good cook? >> guest: i am. i think people would be surprised to know that i even ran a little cooking school out of my home. i don't talk about that in the cookbook but this is a great picture and a great family story for people to know about and that is about tradition on the left-hand side is george romney who is the greatest guy in the world and he brought the family together and homemade vanilla ice cream is what we celebrat

you can actually cook the seeds but i like to make a soup just by turning this upside down on a sheet pan anding garlic and onion with it. about 400 degrees for 45 minutes. dr. oz: cut off the inside? >> cut it off and it is soft and smooth. now squash, it's famous for beta carotene. you can see the beta carotene in this squash. beta carotene is the biggest immunity booster of all because it's converted into vitamin a. so you can use the immunity that your own body makes with the beta carotene inside of fruits and vegetables. as a s it's different but in fruits and vegetables, beta carotene, very powerful immunity booster and you have this delicious soup or you have another recipe. dr. oz: little short cut. i love this and i go out for pumpkins all fall long. i was at a stand this weekend pulling my pumpkin out. but i love it. there i am. i do, do this. i've got a one-minute alternative because a lot of folks, myself included, don't even think about -- >> you don't want to roast a pumpkin 45 minutes? dr. oz: i would like to. but you can do this quick. when my producer came up with thi

it's not just about southern food, it's about soups, salads, weekday meals, my mother who doesn't cookhamburger help me -- >> and carla was on "top chef" when we first met her. >> today i'm making a buffalo chicken burger, with a blue cheese and celery colslaw. >> i have red onions, parsley. >> i don't see any cabbage, isn't it usually the base? >> yeah, so i'm making like a salad because this is crunchier -- >> right, this is your texture. >> is it the smell of blue cheese that turns you off? >> yes, i love it, it gives me heartburn -- >> but can i tell you a little something, if you love blue cheese, dip it in honey, you'll thank me later. >> what? okay, and chicken, and this is the perfect time, you can use ground turkey, we have onions and butter and oil in here, so we're going to season all of this up, we want it to be delicious, so we have chili flakes, hyme, black pepper, and hot sauce, and cgratulations on your second season of "the chew." >> thank you, we're having such a great time. >> you want me to put this in. put that hot sauce in there. if you don't like like -- if you d

little did i know, trouble was cooking over at granny's soup factory.and more money for you? why, yes. oh, uh, i... i mean, no. that's to keep people from being spoiled. 13 letters is plenty. it's time to round up my alphabeticians. half of them have laid out their last letter. attention! bye-bye, "b." sayonara, "s." toodle-oo, "t." adios, "a." i've been fired. (groaning) in addition to "d" and "s" and "l" and... wow. she's subtracting half the alphabet. granny flo: i wish there was some way i could fire less people, but there isn't. sorry. (laughing) sorry i didn't think of this sooner. (laughing) but, granny, won't people notice you've subtracted half the letters from the alphabet soup? we're reducing letters, not flavor. no one will notice a thing. martha: in a few days, the soup with fewer letters was in supermarkets, my dinner bowl and my brain, but with half the alphabet subtracted, things just weren't the same. goo oup o. huh? what did you just say? i... i goo oup o. (laughs) i wasn't trying to be funny. i was trying to say, "good soup today," bu

this is a no-cook, and no turning on the stove and heating up the house, because it is a chilled cucumber soup and i like it, because you can make the day before and chill it down and have it that day or the next day. so i start with cucumbers and i have peeled and seeded them. s simple process. i want oshow you how to do that real quick. >> okay. >> basically, i like to peel the cucumber, and what people don't realize is that you take the short strokes and it is a mess and takes a long time, but if you take them long strips off. >> you are not pressing hard. normally, we have to go -- >> no, it is really easy and simple and fast. then what you want to do is to cut off each end. cut the cucumber in half length-wise and then you have all of the seeds. i for this dish like to get the seeds out, because it will get pulpy, and then you take a spoon, an easy tool that everybody has one, ideally. >> nice. >> and scrape out the inside. okay. >> i can do that. >> and then to build the soup, i have bread. >> bread is in the soup. >> it will thicken the soup. i use an artisan bread and texture and sour