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We're gonna start by making our sauce
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for the baked spaghetti
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Photo magazine actually named the baked spaghetti
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that we serve at the lady and since the very best
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baked spaghetti in the South.
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So I think you're going to love this recipe.
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We're gonna start with a little olive oil,
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and we're gonna start by saute in chopped yellow onion,
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and chopped green pepper, and minced fresh garlic.
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And we just gonna stir those around
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and let them sweat for a few minutes.
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They don't have to get soft and Sushi,
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but just like I said, we're gonna let them just sweat.
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Our onions and peppers and our garlic has sweated.
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And now it's time to add the tomatoes.
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These are canned diced tomatoes.
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Now you can use fresh if you like,
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they make the best sauces.
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And this is an ordinary canned tomato sauce,
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and I'm adding a little water to ours.
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And now we're gonna add our seasonings.
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We've got an Italian seasoning,
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and we've got some seasoning salt,
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a little sugar, and then I'm gonna put house seasoning.
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And I'm just gonna kind of do this to taste.
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The last thing I want to do,
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is add this wonderful fresh parsley
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that I got from the garden.
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This is an Italian parsley.
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It's my favorite of all the parsleys.
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And we're just gonna chop just a little bit.
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This is just so pretty in that sauce,
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the red and the greens,
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and it's ready for the cover.
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We're gonna let this simmer for about 30 minutes,
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before I add the meat to it.
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While our sauce has been simmering,
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I've been Browning our ground meat.
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Now for this particular dish today
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I'm using a ground round hamburger meat,
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which is quite delicious.
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And look at our sauce, it looks fabulous.
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and then we're gonna let it simmer for, Oh gosh,
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maybe 20 or 25 more minutes.
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So you can see you really can't miss this dish up.
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That looks just perfect.
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So we're gonna put the lid on it and let it simmer.
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And while we're doing that,
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I'm gonna come back here,
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and now we're gonna move to the star
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of this dish, our fresh pasta.
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Look how beautiful that is.
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This pasta, that we're using for the baked spaghetti
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is a regular spaghetti noodle size.
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And you can see how beautiful and fresh it is.
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And it's been dusted with semolina flour,
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Now we're gonna check our water,
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and hopefully it's at a rapid bowl.
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Because it is fresh pasta,
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it cooks in a quicker time than your ordinary
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Drop it in there, in this beautiful pasta.
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Doesn't that look so good?
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So we're gonna just gather all of our ingredients
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close to us and assemble our pasta.
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And this is so, so easy.
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We're gonna start by using just an ordinary
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13 by nine by two container.
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Everything is smelling so good.
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We're gonna put just a little bit of sauce
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in the bottom of our pan,
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sticking kind of rest on it,
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And we're gonna put a layer of pasta on top of the sauce.
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That's the only way that you can ruin this dish
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is really by over cooking your pasta.
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Because it's gonna have about 20 or 25 more minutes
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of baking after we assemble it.
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So this is not through getting all the heat
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Now we've got a nice thin layer of our pasta,
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and we're gonna add a layer of chains.
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This is a sharp cheddar, and this is just a Monterey Jack.
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So now we're gonna go with another layer of sauce.
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All right, one more thin layer of pasta.
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So we're just gonna finish even in this out.
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Okay, that looks just about perfect.
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So we're just gonna finish putting the rest
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All we have to do now is top it with our cheeses.
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And one more time, I'm using a sharp graded cheddar,
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but you can use anything you want to.
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This pretty baby is ready to go into the oven now,
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we're gonna let it bake for about 20 to 25 minutes.
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Now, if this were cold,
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we would bake it probably 45 minutes.
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But today we're on top of things.
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It's hot, and we're gonna bake it for 25 minutes.
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In the meantime I had another one,
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over here that should be ready for us.
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And we'll take a look at it yet.
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Look how delicious that looks.
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It's still bubbly and hot.
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Doesn't that look yummy?
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Has that fuss square, a big spaghetti.
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I've just gotta taste this.
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And you know, I could spruce it up with a fresh parsley,
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or Grady Parmesan cheese,
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but I don't think this needs anything but my fork.
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Oh, Oh, it's still steaming.
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Your family's gonna just love you.
