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Paula and her friend Sandy make some of her grandson's Frozen Chocolate Bananas, rice salad, and Paula's Asparagus Sandwich! Paula has been making this sandwich since the very beginning of her business: Lady & Sons. Join Paula and Sandy by following along with the recipes below.
Asparagus Sandwich:
Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter
3 slices rings red onion
2 slices Jack cheese
2 slices pumpernickel bread
8 spears (light green bottom end off) washed and cut fresh asparagus
1 to 2 tablespoons recipe below thousand island dressing
1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
1 crushed finely egg
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup dill relish
Paula Deen's Lemon-Pepper Seasoning
to taste salt
to taste pepper
Directions
1. Blanch asparagus spears in boiling water for 1 minute. Remove and place in ice bath.
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Dean you know at the Lady and Sons
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we have served this sandwich that people
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have loved it's been on our menu from
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the very start of our our business and
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I'm going to share with y'all today how
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we do that asparagus sandwich we start
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off by using pumper nickel bread so it's
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so simple and so easy but anyway I want
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y'all to see I'm in the kitchen with my
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friend
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Sandy uh my dear sweet girlfriend and
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we're going to make some of Jack frozen
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bananas and we're going to make a rice
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salad and then I think we just going to
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walk down to the dockhouse and enjoy
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everything we've cooked so sit back and
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take a gander at that asparagus sandwich
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sounds not like it would be so good but
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it's out of this world out of this world
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yum
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yum hey friends y'all come on in the
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house with me uh today I'm getting ready
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I got a friend coming over and we're
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going to have a little picnic let me
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tell you there's so many fabulous places
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in this town to have a picnic but Sandy
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and I are just actually going to walk
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out to the dockhouse and we're going to
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have a little picnic out there the first
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thing I'm going to fix us is one of my
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grandson Jack's recipe that was in his
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daddy's cookbook Jamie Dean's good food
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and you flip it over and uh my gr
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grandson has his recipes in here so we
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are
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doing frozen chocolate
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bananas from Jack's book I thought that
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would give Sandy and i a little
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something sweet to eat without being
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loaded with too many calories and we
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won't need a spoon I'm going to cut
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these right down the
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middle and I'm just going to
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stick the stick up
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them just like that and I'm going to
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stick it up the uh-oh kind of went
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crooked with that one stick one to come
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out the side of him so I'm going to
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throw these in the
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freezer give them about 30 minutes
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and while those are freezing I'm going
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to start on the rest of the meal so I'm
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going to start with some fresh
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asparagus and I'm just doing enough for
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the two sandwiches but while we're
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standing up here talking about asparagus
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I see a lot of people just cut the
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asparagus but I don't like doing that
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way I like snapping it because it will
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snap where it's supposed to now I blanch
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mine in nice salty water but I also put
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smashed garlic in there to just kick up
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the flavor of these little asparagus so
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these you you don't want to overcook
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them it doesn't take them but a second
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and I want to shock
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them so that that color will get nice in
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a vibrant green
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so I got these rolling good cuz we're
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actually going to do two
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cookings we're blanching them and then
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I'm going to grill
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them it's just been crazy how much
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people have liked this sandwich and you
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know it it's just a little healthier if
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you're trying to stay away from a lot of
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protein somebody just asked me just then
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where the recipe come from and you know
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I don't rightly remember but I'm
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thinking my niece actually Ki went to a
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little restaurant down in
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Thomasville and she was telling me about
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an asparagus sandwich they had so she
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described it to me and so I kind of came
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up with my own
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thing so this is what we got oh my
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fruits are so pretty you know they're
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the fruit is just coming in like crazy
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off my trees in fact I'm going to fix us
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some
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lemonade uh to drink the meire
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lemons you know I I can't I can't
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recommend enough for you to put your
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lemon tree in your yard because they are
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just the most delicious lemon in the
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world all right and to go with our
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sandwich I'm going to make a rice salad
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and I thought I would put it in one of
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my little mason jars and we just eat it
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straight out of that so I have cooked
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off I think it was a cup of raw
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rice cuz I'm just making just enough of
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this for Sandy and meat so this is kind
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of a recipe that you just do what you
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want to you know
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it's and I got to figure out all I want
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to do with it so I'm going to take a
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quick break and get my thoughts together
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and then we'll come back and we'll make
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a nice little rice
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salad okay so in case y'all just found
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me I want to tell you what I'm doing my
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girlfriend Sand's coming over and we're
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going to walk out to the dog house and
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we just went a little picnic and kind of
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just eat out under the sky today and um
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I'm doing my grandson Jack's recipe for
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chocolate frozen bananas and I'm making
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a rice salad but our entree is going to
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be an asparagus sandwich I'm going to
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show you how we make those sandwiches
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that we serve at the lady and sunset
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everybody loves so so much so I'm trying
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to get all this
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ready before Sandy gets
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here and so I'm making the
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um the sauce that I'm going to use on my
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rice salad and I think I'm going to go
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ahead and just put the onion in there
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I'm not going to put it in my sauce just
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in case I don't like the way my sauce
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tastes I need a little um oil I'm going
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to use just a little vegetable
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oil for this and I'm going to stir this
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up and just see what we
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[Music]
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got ooh y'all that tastes real good so
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so far I've got mayonnaise in it a
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little vegetable o
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celery seeds celery salt seasoning salt
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lemon juice and now I think I'm going to
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add just a little bit of
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Honey to give it a little
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sweet maybe just like a
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tablespoon and I've got my green onions
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and I've just cooked off some white rice
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um when I was operating just the bag
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lady I used to make so many rice salads
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and I know I made one chicken and rice
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salad with an avocado dressing people
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just love that one you know you don't
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think of especially Southerners we don't
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think about having a a rice salad cuz
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we're usually eating it with gravy and
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butter all
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right that's very good
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y'all okay so I'm going to put a BAL egg
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in this and this is the way I do my eggs
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I don't chop them I just squeeze
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them all right and I've got some green
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peas and I'm not even cooking them
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they're just frozen green
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peas now I'm going to put a green a nice
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tart green
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apple and I had that in uh fruit fresh
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or you can put it in orange juice
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grapefruit juice anything with some acid
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cuz I don't want my Apple to turned
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brown on
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me so like I said I use a little fruit
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fresh you buy it in the canning section
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at your grocery store and I want to find
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me
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some nice um kind of cracked black
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pepper here it is it's a
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coarse I like using the
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coarse there we
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go oh and I'm going to put some red bell
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pepper in
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it just for
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color and
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remember when you're cutting your bell
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pepper you know to make sure you got it
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on the right side all right oh and I got
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nuts up here I'm going to put some nuts
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in it too I think that'll be real good
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you know with a rice salad it's just
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like potato salad or pasta salad just
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use your imagination and put the things
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that your tongue
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likes all right so this is walnuts I'm
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going to put these chopped walnuts in it
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and I was starting out doing a small
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salad and look how it's growing
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y'all put this in our little
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bowls that we're going to eat it out
9:57
of put this in the refriger and let it
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be
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chilling I tell you what
10:05
I I'll put a little piece of parsley up
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there for
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decoration and we are ready to go now
10:17
you can't get any easier than
10:20
that and all the things we put in it
10:23
most people have in their
10:26
refrigerator that's great isn't it
10:30
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10:32
affects the way you feel so my first
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10:38
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10:40
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10:43
blinds draped Shades and shutters are
10:45
custom made just for you and they offer
10:47
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10:49
needs to get started today contact Smith
10:52
and Noble to get my special limited time
10:55
offer 25% off on your window treatment
10:59
plus free design consultation create a
11:03
space that you're going to love for
11:06
details about my special offer go to
11:08
Smith andy.com
11:10
slpa that's Smith andy.com
11:13
paala or call 1 1800
11:17
659
11:19
3300 that's 1-800 659
11:27
3300 okay hey y'all I'm trying to get
11:31
our lemon juice done I'm waiting on
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Sandy to get
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here
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um she is so pretty and she's always
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late I have to tell y'all she's
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all I thought I heard the clippity clop
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of your little boots you finally got up
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oh good morning
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beautiful I am so delighted to introduce
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y'all to my friend and my girlfriend and
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inlaw this is Sandy Neville Bubba's
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girlfriend and Sandy uh lives in
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Tennessee and she actually stayed in our
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little cottage out here
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so you finally got up and got in here
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but you look beautiful well I had to get
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my
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rest had to get some I don't know what
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I'd do without Sandy she is so much help
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in this kitchen so I'm making us some
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piic all right now I need to get started
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I'm just doing this a little frozen
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banana
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I think I'm using a combination of
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walnuts and PE canons
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so I want you to I don't know if you've
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got a copy of this book but it's right
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in there oh okay you know the cookbook
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that Jamie and Jack wrote together yeah
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I gave a copy of this to my grandson had
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had Jack sign it he said he could get
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into
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that Jack L go to book signings with me
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he loves it look at this banana y'all
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doesn't that look delicious uh oh
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no came off the
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stick okay it's a beautiful book though
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isn't it isn't it beautiful and that's
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where his little recipe came
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from all right I'm going to stick this
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back in the
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freezer and we'll pull this out last
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candy all right say the Sugar's
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dissolved now real good it is yeah cuz I
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tast it and I threw some extra sugar
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over in
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there all right so I'm going
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to just pour that in there if you get
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rid of that don't burn yourself now we
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may have
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to uh oh gosh I'm mixing
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flavors I just washed my hands I thought
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I oh no am I let I think I just poured
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all the seeds in there just a few no not
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yeah just a few you want to work on
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getting those out
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M here how about with that spoon yeah
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perfect so how the girls oh they're
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great they're doing so good good good
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s's got two beautiful daughters and
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she's got three of the cutest little
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grandson you have ever seen in your life
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I wish you'd show them the picture
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that's on your iPad that I love all them
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with them L three I'm laying in the bed
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um yeah and they just think Aunt Paula
14:28
is the bomb
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they just can't understand why your
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pictures on magazines they can't see on
14:35
why why isn't Paula famous she famous I
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asked myself the same
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[Music]
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question so I'm going to turn that off
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and let it sit for just a second but I
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don't want it to
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overcook and I'm going to come over here
14:57
and I'm going to make our dressing scene
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candy all right we are
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ready I've got our bread here oh and
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like I said normally we would put this
15:09
together and toast it and this is what
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we
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serve we serve it on pumper
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nickel so I'm just going to be oh there
15:18
was a hole in that piece of bread I see
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it now it's going through all right now
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I take my asparagus
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and I put some on there turning it one
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way and then I turn it the other
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way so on each
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sandwich you can see the pretty
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Spears all right Sandy
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so there we go we're going to put our
15:48
provalone cheese on it put cheese then
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and see this is when we would Grill it
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you know when that cheese kind of melt
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so what are you going to do we're just
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going to eat e it like this
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yes asparagus is still hot so it'll melt
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a little bit it'll melt a little bit yes
16:08
and then we're just going to put our
16:09
onion on there oh yeah I'm glad that's
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not red onion yeah me too me too so here
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we
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go want to make sure my bread
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matches M
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yum we are ready to go our picnic is
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finally ready y'all and uh as I was
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saying earlier there are so many
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wonderful places to have a picnic here
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in this town starting from the beach all
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the way to one of the
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forts um but where I'm going to take
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Sandy and y'all today on our picnic is
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right here in our
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backyard well let's go sister we got it
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already let's do uh how's the weather
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out it's pretty chilly so oh it is well
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I'm going I'm going grab me a jacket
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then oh good idea and we got a blanket
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in case we wind up sitting on the floor
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but okay I'll grab I don't want to sit
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on the floor too hard to get up i' need
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a crane to get me
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up don't want to be called No Crane
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Service okay I'll get come on Sandy in
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case all right you guys ready for a
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picnic
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[Music]
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oh gosh oh so pretty so beautiful down
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here so pretty hopefully um we'll have
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some dolphins swim
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by wouldn't that be wonderful yes I love
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that that's so great all right I'm going
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to make yourself comfortable Lulu make
17:56
yourself comfortable do this
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ready all right sweet girl there's our
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dessert I need to try
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it
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Lulu Lulu Lulu sees a sucker every well
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she loves you so much Sandy I
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know this is so good all these flavors
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together I'm so
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glad and this is one of those
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dishes that you can make at any flavor
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you want to you know you can make it
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Asian you could make it Greek you could
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make it
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Mediterranean oh that would be really
18:46
good I would love that
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mhm I kind of made it just
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[Music]
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American m m m
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yum get that piece of onion
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off I'm going to get a bite off of the
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side with
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the what what do you call
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that that sweet onion is so good on it
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mhm
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M and the dressing
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M so
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good M is't it delicious oh was
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delicious I can't stand it Sandy I got
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to I've got to taste my frozen banana
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Jack's frozen
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banana oh
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look yeah I think it's time M it's like
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ice
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cream
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M the
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banana M when it freezes it's got
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consistency of ice cream
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oh
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M well you want to bite huh do want
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bite
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yum
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M oh my God is that
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yummy oh o ooh o o is that one we got
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one no I think it's a
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bird you know I know you and I have the
20:28
same taste in food so I feel like if I
20:30
like it I know that you'll like it oh
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and um I need to remind you to remind me
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I've got a bunch of collards ready in
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the garden oh we'll cook we need to go
20:43
cut collards oh this afternoon and get a
20:46
pot of colllege going and I'll make us
20:48
some lace hake cornbread to go with
20:50
it and we'll eat like a queen for supper
20:53
honey oh for sure I hope y'all have
20:56
enjoyed your time with us today and you
20:59
know I want to encourage you just if you
21:01
don't go any further than your
21:03
backyard make you a little picnic lunch
21:06
and go out with a family or friend and
21:09
just enjoy the outer
21:11
doors and uh you know I'm always going
21:14
to be there to uh send you off with Ling
21:17
best dishes Sandy thank you baby for
21:21
coming to see Bubba off and for being
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who you are and thank y'all for being
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Who You Are
21:30
thank you for feeding me you're
21:33
welome I love feeding
21:36
you well I hope y'all enjoyed that I
21:39
know little Lulu my little baby dog
21:43
enjoyed it she Begg the whole time we
21:45
were
21:46
eating so I'll see y'all next time here
21:49
on what's cooking with paa
21:51
Dean the space that you live in really
21:54
affects the way you feel so my first
21:57
recommendation is start by updating your
22:00
window treatments with Smith and Noble
22:03
Smith and& Noble's beautiful handcrafted
22:05
blinds drape Shades and shutters are
22:08
custom made just for you and they offer
22:10
different service options to fit your
22:12
needs to get started today contact Smith
22:15
and Noble to get my special limited time
22:18
offer 25% off on your winter treatments
22:22
plus free design consultation create a
22:25
space that you're going to love for
22:28
details about my special offer go to
22:31
Smith andy.com
22:33
slpa that's Smith andy.com
22:36
Paula or call 1 1800
22:40
659
22:41
3300 that's 1-800 659 3300
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