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Full Episode Fridays: Campfire | 4 Camping Recipes | Backyard Camping Snack Ideas
May 16, 2025
4 Camping Recipes | Backyard Camping Snack Ideas - Paula's making foil packet burgers, homemade hot chocolate, inside s'mores, and a homemade trail mix recipe! Paula’s Home Cooking, Season 2, Episode 1.
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00:00 Intro
3:22 Campfire Hamburger Packets Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/campfire-hamburger-packets/
8:55 Sure Fire, No Fire S’mores Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/sure-fire-no-fire-smores/
11:29 Dreamy Creamy Hot Chocolate Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/dreamy-creamy-hot-chocolate/
14:21 Lip Smackin’ Trail Mix Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/lip-smackin-trail-mix/
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0:00
Hi, y'all I'm Paula Dean.
0:02
And today we're going camping.
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There's nothing more fun
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for folks than being together under the stars.
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But first we have to go find
0:11
ourselves some lip-smacking trail mix fixings.
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And then we're gonna head home
0:16
and I'm gonna show you the tastiest hamburger,
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that takes me back to my girl scout days.
0:21
And then, you know, a camp out
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just wouldn't be a camp out without
0:24
a toasty marshmallow treat
0:26
and a creamy cup of hot chocolate.
0:28
The kids will be begging for s'mores all night
0:31
and last but not least, you know, there's a place
0:34
in scout heaven for my own special trail mix recipe.
0:38
So air out those sleeping bags
0:39
and grab a couple of buddies cause we're going camping.
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You know, sometimes we just need a little change
0:47
of pace from the ordinary life.
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And that's what I feel like doing today.
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I don't have time to go out far camping.
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So what I'm talking about is just pure backyard camping.
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I'm talking about food like hobo burgers and s'mores
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and creamy dreamy, hot chocolate and trail mix.
1:05
But before we can do that, I wanna go see a friend
1:07
of mine that makes the most wonderful granola.
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And if y'all think that trail mix is boring,
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wrong.
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You hadn't met my friend, Connie.
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We're gonna have a ball and we're gonna eat camp food.
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So kids tell your mommy and daddy to get out the handbooks.
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Cause we wanna go camping.
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(bell rings)
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- Hi! - Hi Connie.
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- Glad you could make it.
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Good to see you.
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- Good to see you too.
1:36
How've you been?
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- Good.
1:38
- Well, I tell you what
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I'm getting ready to have a cozy little meal
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around the campfire and I can't do it without your granola.
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- Well, come on back.
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- I'd love to.
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Just come on around this way Connie?
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- Yap, right around that way.
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- Oh, it looks so delicious.
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I just love your granola.
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- Well, I was getting ready to make another batch.
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If you wanna wait while this cools.
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- Would love to.
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- Already have the oats in here,
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so we add maple syrup and just a little bit of olive oil.
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You have to put some cinnamon in,
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sunflower seeds,
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- Pumpkin seeds.
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That's the main seeds. - Sesame seeds,
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and I like to add a lot of almonds.
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These we roast, we don't buy them roasted.
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We roast them here.
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So when it pulls away from the sides of the bowl,
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then it's about ready to put out on the pan.
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- Is there anything I can do to help you?
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- Well, this needs to be spread out a little bit.
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- How am I doing?
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- You're doing good. - Good.
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- Roll it out and then after it's baked
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it'll make big chunks.
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If we leave it loose,
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it will be like fluffy cereal,
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but we like it big and chunky. - Yes.
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It's a good snack.
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- I like the big chunks too.
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- I think yours is just about cool
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and see if I can put some in a bag for you.
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Let me know how it works out.
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- I will, thanks so much for letting me come
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into your kitchen. - Thank you for coming.
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- So sweet. - A great pleasure.
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- The pleasure was all mine
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and I'll see you very, very soon.
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- Good weather to you.
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- Thanks Connie.
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Well that trip was a lot of fun.
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Got some great granola in here
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and I can't wait to show you all what I do with it.
3:18
But before we do that,
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let's get started on the entree.
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And this, this one really takes me back
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to the time I was probably 10 or 11 years old.
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When I was a little girl scout.
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We used to go out to the girl scout camp
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and I don't remember us cooking
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but two things that was hobo burgers and s'mores.
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So I've updated the hobo burger just a little bit.
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We've got about a pound and a half
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of ground beef, and we're gonna put a little cheese in it
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and I'm using Jack, but you can use any kind you want to.
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I've got a cup of Cracker crumbs
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and they're just an ordinary salting Cracker.
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We're gonna put in about two teaspoons
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of house seasoning,
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about a half a cup of chopped green pepper.
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Oh, and just maybe about a fourth of a cup of lemon juice.
4:21
Maybe not quite that much.
4:23
That looks good.
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And one egg.
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And then we gone go to work.
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Y'all probably know me well enough now to know
4:33
that this is one
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of the favorite parts of my cooking.
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When I can get my hands in it.
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Just want to squish that up real good.
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And we're gonna divide that into bout four meals.
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It looks like I got a daddy one here.
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We're gonna shape'em kind of oblong
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like a hamburger steak.
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Actually, what we've got is almost a little mini meatloaf.
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They look good already, don't they?
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Okay, so the next step is to wrap these little babies.
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Now, if we were gonna cook these over a fire,
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you would wanna use a double thickness of tin foil.
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And I especially like when I'm putting food
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on the grill, to use the heavy duty tin foil.
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But because we're doing these in the oven,
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a single layer is gonna be fine.
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(foil crinkles)
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We're just goin' take our burger
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and place it on our tin foil,
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and we're gonna take just a red potato skin and all.
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And we're gonna slice it rather thin.
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And we're just kind of fan them on to the meat.
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But before we put the potatoes on
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we're gonna put down some onion.
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So it can be right next to our meat
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and get all that flavor in there.
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Then we're just goin' fan out our potatoes
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and we're gonna put a few carrots on it.
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And before we seal it up, I'm gonna sprinkle that potato
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and carrot with just a little salt.
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And then I'm gonna put on a piece of bacon.
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Now we definitely didn't do this in the girl scout days.
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That was before I knew about pigs.
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(laughs)
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We're gonna lay that right up there, just like that.
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And the bacon's gonna give it a nice smoke flavor.
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We're just gonna seal him up,
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real good, just like that.
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(crinkles)
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Ain't that nice?
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No muss and no fuss.
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I've got all four of them wrapped now
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all we're gonna do, is put this on a cookie sheet.
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When I say this is a no cleanup meal, I really mean it.
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We're just gonna stick them on the cookie sheet,
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put them in a 350 degree oven
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and cook'em for about 45 minutes.
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And I just happened to have some more
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that should be ready in this other oven.
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Oh, they smell so delicious.
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So let's see what we've got.
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(foil crinkles)
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Oh, they look delicious.
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The bacon is not brown.
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And if you wanted to brown, you could just run them
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under the brawler real quick like.
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Let's see how that meat looks.
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Ooh, it looks scrumptious.
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It's just amazing the flavor in this little dish.
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Now for my favorite part
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I'm gonna just check this and make sure they're as good
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as I think that they are.
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You could do this, the number
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of ways you could have coded it in ketchup
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and treated it more like a meatloaf, which would be great.
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All right.
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Let's just check our seasonings,
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see how it tastes.
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(laughs)
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I feel just like a girl scout again.
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Y'all hang with me because coming
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up next, we're doing sure fire, no fire s'mores
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and dreamy hot chocolate.
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It's just gonna get sweeter.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
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And if you do.
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Be sure to click like, subscribe and
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notification bell so you'll never miss a video.
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And we'll be right back after the break.
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Do y'all know of anybody that doesn't like a s'mores?
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I've been trying to think out of my crew.
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I can't think of anybody that doesn't like'em.
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Well, that's what we're fixing to make.
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These don't have to be made outside on a campfire.
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You can do them right here in your kitchen.
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It'll be such a
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a different quick treat for your children.
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So very simple.
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We're gonna get our sheet pan
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and we're gonna take a Graham Cracker
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the Graham crackers
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just snap right in two at the pref rated edge.
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And we're gonna just put our marshmallows on'em.
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Just like so.
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Personally, I kind of like using the small marshmallows
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but you could always use two big ones.
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This is an old girl scout recipe.
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Anybody that's ever done any scouting,
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has had a s'mores.
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And they called 'em that because
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the kids would say, I want s'mores.
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But you can do this right here in your kitchen.
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And you don't have to wear that funny looking outfit.
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(chuckles)
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So all we're gonna do is run these
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under the brawler just for a minute.
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And you're gonna have to watch them closely
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cause they can brown and burn on you just that quick.
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So we kind of, kind of stay down here with them.
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We've got our oven on brawl.
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And we're just gonna shut that oven door,
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and I'm gonna hang real close here with 'em
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cause I don't want'em to burn on me.
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They're starting to puff up in there.
10:30
While they're browning,
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I'll tell you a couple interesting facts.
10:35
Girl Scouts was actually formed
10:36
in Savannah in my hometown by Juliette Gordon Low.
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And she played such a big part.
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She really went to the very end.
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She made a lot of sacrifices for those girl Scouts,
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right to the end.
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Wow.
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Don't they look good?
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Yeah, we're gonna quickly put our piece of chocolate on it
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because the heat
11:01
from the marshmallow is gonna help melt that chocolate.
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So you don't wanna waste any time.
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Do you wanna trap that chocolate bar in that heat
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of that marshmallow
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and you wanna kind of press them down
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so the chocolate can get in there
11:16
and melt with those marshmallows.
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Oh, look, it's starting to melt.
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Look, doesn't that look delicious?
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We're gonna let those sit there just for a few minutes
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and you can't have a s'mores without something
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to wash it down with.
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So we're fixing to make a dreamy, creamy hot chocolate.
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And these are ever so simple toO.
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Another dish that the kids can help you with.
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All right, we're gonna turn our fire on
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and we're gonna start with a 14 ounce can
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of sweetened condensed milk and a half a cup of cocoa
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a pinch of salt,
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and we're just gonna make sure
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that we get all that cocoa mixed in
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with that milk before we add our water.
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All right, I've got that mixed up real good.
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So we're gonna add about six and a half cups
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of hot water to it.
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And I'm gonna start by adding just about a cup.
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Okay, now I think it's safe to add some more.
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That should be about six and a half cups of hot water.
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And when we cool it off,
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I'm gonna add just a little bit of vanilla.
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I wish y'all just look outside at that sunset.
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So beautiful.
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I think it's ready now.
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I'm gonna add about a teaspoon and a half
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of vanilla to it.
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Don't put your vanilla in too early
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cause you don't want it all to evaporate out.
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You can't have a cup of hot chocolate
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without some good, fresh sweetened whipped cream.
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How delicious.
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Y'all excuse me for a minute while I stepped back
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about 40 years.
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So good.
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Y'all hang around.
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What's coming up,
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lips smacking trail mix.
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(country music)
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Got s'mores?
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(laughs)
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I hope y'all are enjoying the show
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and I want to hear from you.
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Tell me what recipes or videos you'd like to see me
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make by just leaving a short comment below.
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Now, let's get back to the show, y'all.
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The last recipes I made were sinfully sinfully rich
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and delicious.
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This next dish that I'm gonna share
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with you is a little bit more on the healthier side.
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You won't mind the children odd-ing on it too much.
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And we're gonna start with that
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wonderful granola from Connie's.
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When I make this for my family, I swear,
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I don't know who likes it the most.
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My birds are my family.
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All right, now I've got pecans and walnuts
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and I'm gonna toss in there
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and I've got some wheat germ.
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I've got some sunflower seeds,
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got some sweetened flaked coconut.
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I'm gonna add a teaspoon of salt,
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I've added a teaspoon of cinnamon.
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I'm just gonna toss that around again.
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We're gonna add oil to our mix.
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And you know that I'm not gonna make a dish
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without using a little something that's sinful.
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So in goes our sweetened condensed milk.
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We're just gonna toss those all up.
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You know, you can buy trail mix already made.
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It's pretty good, but it can't hold a candle
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to what this is gonna taste like.
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All right, now we've got that all mixed together.
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And you see all these other ingredients sitting over here.
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Well, we're not gonna put those in yet.
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Now we're actually gonna bake this
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and this can get sticky.
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So we wanna make sure that we line our pan
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with foil and we're gonna spray it real good.
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Just like this,
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just like I said
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is that condensed milk gonna become very, very sticky.
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You're gonna be amazed
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at just how good a trail mix can be.
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And we're just gonna spread this out
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and we're gonna put it
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in a 300 degree oven and we're gonna actually bake this
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for about an hour, but every 15 minutes
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we're gonna go to the oven and take our spatula
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and just kind of rotate it and flip it around on our pan
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so that it won't burn and get too dark on the bottom.
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So that's it.
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So we're just gonna put that in there
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But in the meantime, I've got one ready here.
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Cause I make a lot of this at one time.
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Cause it keeps so well.
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See how good that looks.
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You can see what that condensed milk did to it.
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The smell is incredible.
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Now, at this point, you can add any of your favorite fruits.
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I love the raisins, the golden and the dark.
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So I'm gonna use some of both
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and I'm gonna put in some dried cherries.
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These are very pretty in there
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for the color
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and dried apricots.
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And I love these banana chips in there.
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We're just gonna toss all that together.
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Look how pretty.
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You can store this for a long time
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in a Ziploc bag.
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I guess the last batch I made, I probably
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had it around three or four weeks and it was just as good.
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That last bowl that I eat is the first one.
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So the important thing is to just seal it up good.
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But how pretty is that?
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And it looks like a snack that you don't
18:00
actually mind your children overeating on.
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How great is this?
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You can actually eat it for breakfast, eat it as a snack.
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My niece Carrie especially loves this with a bowl
18:11
of plain yogurt and she stirs it into the yogurt
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and she just loves it that way.
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So it's really very versatile.
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You can put you some in a little Ziploc bag and take to work
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and munch on this instead of that chocolate
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that we all love.
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I think it's cool enough for me to taste
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It is lip-smacking.
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In a few minutes, I'm gonna give you all some extra tips
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for your camping trip.
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And we're also gonna visit my secret hideaway,
18:41
the tree house.
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So don't go anywhere.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
18:48
And if you do.
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Be sure to click like, subscribe and
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notification bell so you'll never miss a video.
18:57
And we'll be right back after the break.
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You know, even though you're camping
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in your own backyard, you still wanna protect your food
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and make sure it's just as fresh when everyone eats it
19:11
as it was when you towed it out the door
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these disposable containers make great carrying cases
19:17
for things like bread.
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Then when you're through with them,
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you can just throw them away.
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For your s'mores, you can live a little dangerously
19:25
and use a rich, rich, dark chocolate or a white chocolate
19:30
and it can give them a whole different change.
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And for that hot chocolate
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just in case it's not chocolatey enough, throw
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on some chocolate chips.
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I hope that I've inspired y'all to be a little adventurous
19:46
and have your own backyard camp out.
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And you know you don't even have to have children
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to do this.
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Ask a buddy or your sweetheart
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and get out there under the moon
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and the stars and have a fabulous night eating
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and drinking and being with your friends.
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And I think this is really a perfect menu
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the hobo burgers, the lip-smacking trail mix
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and the s'mores.
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And don't forget that big old steamy cup of hot chocolate.
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And I hope y'all have a great time doing it.
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So until next time America,
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best dishes from my tree house to yours.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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