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Full Episode Fridays: Busy Working Woman's Quick Meal - 5 Quick and Easy Recipes
Nov 10, 2017
Paula shares quick and easy family meal recipes, including easy corned beef and cabbage, baked shrimp and crab salad, and southern hoe cakes. Paula's Home Cooking Season 02, Episode 06.
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hey y'all I'm Paula Deen and if anyone
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knows what it means to be a working
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woman it's me so today I want to share
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some of the delicious dishes that have
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kept me and my boys going through the
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busiest of times but first I want to
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show you how to make the very most of
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your local market and then we'll head
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home and get going on our no muss no
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fuss corned beef and cabbage next I'm
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gonna bake a shrimp and crab salad that
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is simple and easy as 1 2 3
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and finally the side dish that no
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southern family would do without
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heavenly hoecakes so don't sweat it gang
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no one's going hungry tonight cuz the
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lady is large and in charge
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have you ever had one of those days
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where you feel like between your
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schedule and your children's schedule
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your husband's schedule everybody's
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schedule you don't have time to get a
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meal on the table well that's the
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predicament I found myself in today and
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I've come over here to my pantry and for
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some reason I've let it get pretty slack
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so before I can cook this meal and it's
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gonna be a quick one I'm gonna have to
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run down to Trader Joe's
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so y'all hop in the car and come with me
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I need help today I need help
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I love these just love them love them
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love them love them
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hey Paul how you doing hey how are you
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good to see you so glad that you saw me
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yes because I've had a tremendously busy
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day got so much to do and if you could
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help me find my groceries quick like so
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I can get out of here I'd be ever so
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grateful I'd be happy to do that for you
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I need some frozen raspberries we can do
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that cans ramp got that in can crab no
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problem at all we're three for three
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good today why should we start hey you
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were right next to the restaurant start
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over here hidden that's great yeah we
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almost we almost got bitten by the
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raspberries there these are our frozen
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raspberries they're actually frozen
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right out there right almost next to the
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fields it actually eight locks in the
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freshness of them and preserves the vast
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majority of the nutrients in the fruit
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it's fantastic so I'm is well off using
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these as that would be a fresh one I
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believe so absolutely especially for all
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the recipes and you don't have to use
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them right now you can use a little bit
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now and use a little bit later it works
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out great it's great how about two of
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those absolutely we can definitely do
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that we'll get two of those what else on
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that list of yours here let's see the
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pantry can't ramp and can crab let's go
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for it we gotta go around the corner
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here so we've got it right over here
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where I hate quick we'll get you in and
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out of here no problem right over here
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we've got the canned crab meats this is
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a great product this is actually 15% leg
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meat this is like the most premium
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portion of the crab so it's fantastic
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so it's not all not all close no exactly
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it's not we got the great leg meat in
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here which is fantastic it's really hard
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to find that in canned crab
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I said well hold in your pantry
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absolutely yeah no problems at all no
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time it's tough to find expiration in
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these guys it's great quick meals how
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many of these really let me have two of
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those already two of the shrimp two of
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the shrimp fantastic we've got the
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shrimp for you
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anything else I can get for you nope
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that's it I'm gonna do something the
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devil won't do Thanks take care Paula
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thank goodness for trader Joe I don't
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know what I'd do without him sometimes
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and I even managed to find some
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beautiful purple irises at the store
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aren't they just delicious looking
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today's meal just happens to be one of
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my son's all-time favorite meal I'm
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gonna cook up a corned beef and cabbage
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I want you to look like sweet Michael
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did for me who said he was good for
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nothing
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he put the bacon on for me he's a hungry
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man I think don't you this dish is gonna
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be so quick and so simple for us we've
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got our bacon cooked thanks to Michael
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and we're gonna quickly just cut up our
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cabbage just like this I'm going to cut
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it again mo cut it in quarters and then
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work from the quarters I'm gonna have
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supper ready here in no time
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it's a very inexpensive meal as well all
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right we got our cabbage chopped up and
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that was easy enough I've got my grease
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from my bacon but I like two different
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flavors in my cabbage so it goes some
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butter I'm just gonna dump that cabbage
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right in there like that this is just
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real real easy this way and it's a lot
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quicker now I'm gonna add just a little
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little bit of water because cabbage
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contains so much water so you don't want
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to drown your cabbage I'm gonna add a
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little bit of salt we're gonna add a
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little bit of pepper and we're gonna
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give that a stir just a quick stir
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because we want to coat our cabbage in
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that seasoning which is butter and bacon
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grease and it doesn't take but a minute
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for cabbage I like mine with some crispy
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nough stew it I don't I don't like mine
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cooked down to mush
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and while that's cooking I'm gonna jump
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on over to this next pot and I'm gonna
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start on a dessert sauce for our ice
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cream which is gonna be super simple
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little butter
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I know y'all was surprised try not to be
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one bag of frozen raspberries and I've
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got some jelly some currant jelly and
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I'm gonna add about half of that in
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there and because I like my desserts to
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be sweet I'm gonna add just a little
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sugar I think to it now while that's
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heating up I'm gonna come over here I
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have a little cornstarch and I'm gonna
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just add it to the rest of my jelly and
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this is gonna be our thickening agent
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and when that starts to bowl we're just
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gonna add the rest of this jelly into
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there and it's gonna thicken it right on
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up all right let's step back over here
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and check on our cabbage real quick-like
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and it's it's ready for me to pop the
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meat on it this is the way the corned
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beef comes cans like this and you can
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find it in your grocery store next to
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your tuna fish the yummy spam and potted
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meats the can shrimp the can crab it's
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not a pretentious meat but don't be so
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snobby now that you don't try it because
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it really is good but it's extra yummy
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cooked this way this is so simple you
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just break it into chunks just like that
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where if we had used a fresh corned beef
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we'd be talking about four hours so this
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is just really makes eating corned beef
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and cabbage real real easy all right now
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I'm gonna take this bacon that michael
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cooked for me and I'm just going to kind
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of cut it up and chunk it back in the
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pot
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and I mean I've got supper and it's been
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10 minutes I'm just gonna put the lid
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back on that and let that corned beef
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heat through and through in the meantime
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I raspberries a bowl and over here so
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I'm gonna add the the currant jelly that
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has the corn starch just gonna pour that
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over in there and let that come to a
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bowl again and get thick all right our
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raspberry sauce is getting thick on us
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now and I'm just gonna add a little
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orange juice and while we having supper
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I'm gonna put this aside and stick it in
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the fridge until we're ready deep in the
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meantime though it's only been 10
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minutes and my entree is ready so you
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know we'll hear it sizzling so you know
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what that means it's time for me to
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taste
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it's a belly pleaser stick around cuz
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next I'm mixing up fake shrimp and crab
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salad another five minute miracle
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you know these canned meats that you
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find in your grocery store are just
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great what I'm fixing to do now is make
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that succulent shrimp and crab casserole
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from canned seafood meats can you
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believe it so simple we're gonna start
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with a bell pepper chopped onion celery
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mayonnaise and we've got a little
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Worcestershire sauce a little salt a
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little pepper I'm just gonna mix those
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up and then fold in the crab and the
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shrimp just like that I don't think you
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can miss this dish up do you I mean you
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see how simple it is so that's it
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I'm just dump it right down there in the
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bowl so I'm just gonna kind of pack that
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down in there just like that in that
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pretty thick colors are very spring-like
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aren't they now I've got some melted
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butter here and I've got saltine cracker
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crumbs so I'm gonna butter these so
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we're already makes a great little quick
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healthy meal
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and that's it it's ready to go in the
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oven there's really nothing to cook in
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it we're just gonna let it get bubbly
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and that'll probably take about thirty
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five minutes and look what I've got
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ready for us in this other oven how
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tasty does that look speaking of taste I
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think it's time
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piping hot shrimp and crab salad only
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minutes to prepare
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it's just glorious in speaking of
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glorious coming up next I'm gonna cook
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the world-famous hook cakes just for
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y'all
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you
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you know I could just talk forever about
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these hoecakes I almost don't even know
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where to start there's so many things I
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have to say about them we make them
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every day at the restaurant and they're
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so easy to make it's flour self-rising
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cornmeal mix make sure you use a mix
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because it's a blend of flour and meal
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we've got a little sugar a couple of
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good fresh eggs a little water a little
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owl and a little buttermilk
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so let me tell you the story about how
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hoecakes got their name hundreds of
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years ago the feel hands would come in
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from the farm and they would have a fire
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outside and they would cook their
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hoecakes on the clean blade of a hoe
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unbelievable I think that's so ingenious
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now when you're mixing these up some
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people like real fat hoecakes some
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people like a thinner hoe cake I happen
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to like I'm kind of middle weighs so
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you'll have to just play around with
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your batter and decide which thickness
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you like but let's try this one right
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now I've got my pan getting hot and
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believe it or not I cook these in
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clarified margarine y'all write that now
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now that's margarine not butter
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you won't hear me say that very often
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but I like to use margarine because it
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doesn't burn is badly as butter and I'm
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gonna just ladle enough of that
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clarified margarine so we're gonna make
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sure our pan is good and hot and just
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right all right it looks like our pans
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about to get ready let's see
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you'll want to make sure that your pan
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is good and hot and see you've got to
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have enough seasoning in your pan for
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those hoecakes to fry in or otherwise
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you would have a you'd have more of a
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pancake so I'm gonna add just a little
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bit more margarine alright so we'll do
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another scoop
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alright let's see what this first one
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looks like these bring back a lot of
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memories to people I had a young lady in
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the restaurant one day and there were
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tears glistening in her eyes and she
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said Paula I just want to thank you so
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much for this meal today she said I
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could close my eyes at one point and see
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my grandmother in her kitchen and all of
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the family sitting at the table eating
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these hope cakes then I thought I would
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never taste again so I was so glad that
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I was able to bring them back to her
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just for a little while with a very
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simple meal Jamie and Bobby's favorite
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way to eat these hoecakes
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is right out of the pan just covered in
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homemade per-minute cheese so you see
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there is no limit to a hoe cake all
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right I think these about ready to come
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up
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I think these little guys are ready to
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be tasted while they're piping hot
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and I'll tell you like my daddy used to
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tell me do as I say do not as I do
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you might want to skip this step I like
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to eat one with syrup I never ever get
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tired of them
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if I'm able when we come back I'm gonna
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put some raspberry sauce on some ice
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cream
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just a couple of quick suggestions for
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you when you're shopping for your bacon
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you might want to try different kinds
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you you can always choose from Canadian
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bacon which is delicious
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and then you've got thick sliced and
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cured bacon but I do love the black
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pepper bacon it's so good but I think my
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favorite making of all is this slab
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bacon that has a Rhine on it but you'll
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have to get your butcher to cut that for
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you you will never with a knife get it
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cut like it should be and let me show
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you all an easy way to make lardons
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which is nothing but diced bacon that's
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been blanched and fried it's great on
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top of eggs or salads use your kitchen
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scissors makes it so so easy you're
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through in a jiff and for those really
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really busy nights when you want to make
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that shrimp and crab casserole put it in
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a disposable dish feed everybody off of
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a paper plate and you're outta there
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I hope the next time you all have one of
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those crazy crazy days that maybe you'll
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remember one of the recipes that I made
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today the shrimp and crab bake or the
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corned beef and cabbage of the hoecakes
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or this scrumptious raspberry sauce for
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your ice cream I hope that you'll think
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about them and if you try them I think
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you'll agree with me that this dinner is
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a winner so until next time best dishes
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from my kitchen to yours
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