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Full Episode Fridays: Cooking with Kids | 4 Recipes Kids Can Make | Kid Friendly Recipes For Dinner
Feb 27, 2026
4 Recipes Kids Can Make | Kid Friendly Recipes For Dinner - If you're on the hunt for easy recipes for kids to make, Paula is sharing some easy meals to make at home for beginners. Paula’s Home Cooking, Season 3, Episode 15.
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00:00 Intro
3:17 Chicken and Rice Casserole Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/chicken-and-rice-casserole/
5:59 Wedge Salad Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/wedge-salad/
8:23 Pineapple Upside-Down Biscuits Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/pineapple-upside-down-biscuits/
13:26 Peanut Butter Balls Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/peanut-butter-balls/
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0:00
(upbeat music)
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- [Paula] Hey y'all, I'm Paula Deen.
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Now you girls and boys gathered around,
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cause I'm cooking with the kids today.
0:07
(upbeat music continues)
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The dishes on this menu are for all ages.
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So to get the kids excited,
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I'm gonna let them help me from start to finish.
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By bringing them to the supermarket with me,
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to help get some ingredients.
0:21
(upbeat music continues)
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And then back in the kitchen,
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I'm gonna start with a wedge salad,
0:24
which looks as terrific as it tastes.
0:27
And it'll just get everybody at home,
0:29
eating their veggies.
0:30
And for the main course,
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I'm gonna bake a simple
0:33
but tasty chicken
0:34
and rice casserole.
0:36
This gonna have those kids just begging for seconds
0:39
and for a fun side dish,
0:40
I'm gonna teach the kids
0:41
how to make a pineapple upside-down biscuit
0:44
that they're gonna just love taking credit for.
0:47
And last but not least,
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I'm gonna let the kids help me roll out
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one of my childhood favorites,
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peanut butter balls.
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They're so easy,
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even the tiniest hands can help prepare them.
0:58
So whether y'all are young
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or whether you're just young at heart,
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y'all grab your apron and you're chilling.
1:04
Cause y'all don't wanna miss this one.
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The very earliest memory I remember,
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I was probably three years old
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and it was in my grandmother's kitchen at her restaurant.
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That's where it all begins.
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That's where everything begins in the home,
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is in the kitchen
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and immediate gratification of eating good food
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and sharing it with people that you love.
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Well today, I wanted to bring back some little boys
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into my kitchen,
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because it's been a long time,
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since my boys were little.
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So I'm grabbing up some of the neighbor's children
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two precious love boys,
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their name is Angus and Duncan.
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And I'm going to take them to the store with me,
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and we gonna shop for some very simple foods
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and I'm gonna bring them back to the kitchen
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and we're gonna cook together.
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So y'all please stick around with me,
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because they're adorable.
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And the food is delicious.
2:02
(upbeat music)
2:03
(car revving)
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(upbeat music continues)
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Y'all ready? - Yep.
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(Paula pushing a trolley)
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- [Paula] What does that say? - Fresh Yucca.
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(Paula laughing)
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(upbeat music)
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- These are the roots.
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This is a turnip root.
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It looks like a baseball kind of, doesn't it?
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- What's this? - That's a baseball bat.
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(Paula laughing)
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All right, come on let's keep moving.
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(upbeat music)
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- Chips, snacks, noda, water juice-
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- Noda! - Oh soda.
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(Paula laughing)
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- Why don't we go on to checkout
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cause we got peanut butter balls to make.
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(upbeat music)
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Our order comes to $37 and five cents.
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So can you give me the money please Angus.
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- I don't have any money- - You don't?
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I thought you were buying.
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(Paula laughing)
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(car revving)
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(upbeat music)
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I had fun at the grocery store those two boys,
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found out a lot about them.
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I found out that a lot of kids don't like their vegetables,
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but I'm gonna hide them in a casserole.
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All right, now I'm going to start quickly
3:18
by putting a little oil in here
3:20
and heating it up.
3:21
And I don't know if y'all
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have ever used these little choppers?
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(Paula chopping)
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This is a great way to chop onions
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and not get that smell all over you.
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See how great that did?
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All right, so we're gonna throw our onions
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over into our skillet
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and we gonna sauté these until they're opaque.
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I'm gonna come over here while those are sautéing.
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And I have used just a box of wild and white rice,
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and we're just gonna mix this all together.
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It's real easy to do.
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(food sizzling)
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Mayonnaise, supplies that all that you need
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and the flavor in the casserole.
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Now this is just diced up water chestnuts.
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(food sizzling)
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They give it a nice crunch.
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So we're going to throw that in,
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and just jarred pumenar
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and cheddar cheese
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and just canned green beans.
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(food sizzling)
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All right, now I'm gonna use
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a can of cream of celery soup.
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It just gives it a totally different flavor.
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But if you like cream of mushroom
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or anything like that,
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you could use that too.
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(food sizzling)
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You know what?
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I bet this would even be good served cold as a salad.
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(food sizzling)
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All right, now I'm gonna come over here.
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I've got my roasted chicken from the grocery store.
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Now I like to leave that in pretty nice chunks,
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so that you can see it.
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I don't like that to be so minced up
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that you wonder what the media is in there.
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(food sizzling)
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Right, let's give these onions another quick stir,
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(food sizzling)
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but I do want to wilt these real good.
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(pan ringing)
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That's about got it.
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(food sizzling)
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Wild rice takes longer to cook
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than long grain rice.
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I think it takes maybe 25 minutes,
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but just follow the instructions on the box of rice
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and you won't have any problems.
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How quick was that?
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And how good does it look?
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And it make, if you've got any leftovers,
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it make a nice little lunch to send to school with the kids.
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All right, now we gonna throw this in,
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to a preheated oven 350 degrees,
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and we're just gonna cook it until it's bubbly.
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But I think this is so pretty
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with all the colors coming through.
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(clanging utensils)
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I'm gonna make us a delicious wedge salad,
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and we serve these at the restaurant
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and people love them.
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Now all we're gonna do is,
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we gonna to take a clean head of lettuce.
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This has been washed
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and put in the refrigerator for it to crisp up.
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And I'm just gonna
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(knife cutting)
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cut this lettuce into wedges.
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All right,
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and you can make your wedges as big
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or as little as you like.
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But I do like a hardy wedge
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and I think I'm gonna slice a little green onion
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to put on top for color.
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(knife slicing)
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And I wanna apologize to y'all about something.
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I don't have time to show you,
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how to make my homemade blue cheese dressing,
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but I promise I'll do it in another show.
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All right, now I'm gonna just top this
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with blue cheese dressing.
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Don't be stingy that's the first rule.
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All right,
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now I'm just gonna put some diced tomatoes on it
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and I'm gonna top it with my spring onions.
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And now I'm gonna add some more blue cheese.
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I'm just gonna put a few crumbles on it like that.
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Now the last ingredient
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that I'm gonna top our salad with to me is the best
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and naturally you might figure,
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it's a little pig.
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Because I'm gonna top this with crisp bacon.
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There's a couple of ways
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that you can do your bacon.
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You can do it with a knife,
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or you can just crumble it with your hands,
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or you can use kitchen scissors.
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All right,
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but I'm gonna top that with that bacon.
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(Paula chuckling)
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Now that salad took about two to three minutes
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and I promise you,
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you just will not find anything
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that tastes any better.
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Coming up next.
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I want y'all to stick around
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because got some heavenly biscuits.
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They are gonna be pineapple upside-down biscuits.
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So y'all want to stay tuned
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cause the kids are gonna love them.
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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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So I want us to move along try next dish,
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because you're gonna love this one.
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But before we get started,
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it's time to take that chicken
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and rice casserole out.
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And we're gonna need to turn up our oven to about 400.
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Oh, look at that good old comfort food dish.
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All right, I'm gonna show y'all,
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how to make some of the neatest biscuits.
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(Paula laughing)
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(dog panting)
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It's you again?
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(Paula laughing)
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You knew I just took that off the oven.
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(Paula laughing)
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Now this is not gonna make but 10 biscuits
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(Paula spraying)
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and you can see that my container will hold 12.
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So in the other two,
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I'm gonna pour a little water in
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(water pouring)
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because I don't want my muffin tin to burn.
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All right, now we gonna start
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with some crushed pineapple.
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I think I discovered this,
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when I was wanting some different breads.
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I was wanting some easy breads
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(utensils clanging)
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and I really don't need,
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(fluid pouring)
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but like a 10 ounce can.
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All right,
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so we got our pineapple drained over here.
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(utensils clanging)
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And we got our pineapple juice
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that we're gonna come back to.
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Now let's see,
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I'm gonna need a half a cup of brown sugar.
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And I keep my brown sugar in this canister,
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along with a little piece of bread,
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because that keeps your brown sugar
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from getting so hard on you.
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So you see how easy it was for me to dip in there
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and get that brown sugar.
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All right, so we got our brown sugar
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and we gonna add our drained crushed pineapple,
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along with about a half a stick of softened butter.
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It looks so good, doesn't it?
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When I was forming like this,
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I kinda wanted a quick
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and easy like pineapple upside-down cake.
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And I said well, how come I can't do it with a can biscuit?
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(utensils clanging)
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All right.
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(utensils clanging)
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So now we're gonna take a spoonful of this
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and we gonna put it
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into the bottom of each of our muffin cups.
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Hmm, looks just yummy already don't it?
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(utensils clanging)
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All right, so the only thing we need now,
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to make it a pineapple upside-down cake is a cherry.
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So I'm gonna come in here
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and I'm gonna stick a cherry into each one,
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and I'm gonna stick it all the way down in there
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and make sure it's hitting the bottom.
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Because when we take our biscuits out,
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we gonna invert them.
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And we want that cherry to be seen.
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Now we're just gonna take our biscuits.
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It scares me every time they always do that.
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And you can use any brand of biscuit
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that you like.
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I love the buttermilk biscuits.
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All right, so remember a few minutes ago,
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I told you when these biscuits are ready,
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we gonna invert them so, our pineapple
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and our cherry is gonna be on the top
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and you know how children love cherries.
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So all I'm going to do now,
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is just take a little of our pineapple juice
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and just pour right on top of each biscuit.
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Just like that.
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So good, in 12 minutes,
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we're gonna have a biscuit
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that tastes so much like pineapple upside-down cake.
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All right.
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Oh, I got two of them back here now.
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(oven closing)
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All right.
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I think it's time to taste the chicken
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and rice casserole.
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Oh gosh!
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Look how pretty that is on that green plate.
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Love chicken and rice.
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Hmm hmm.
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(utensils clanging)
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It's so good.
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Y'all stick around cause...
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Next I'm gonna be sharing a recipe with you.
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That's one of my childhood favorite things.
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Peanut butter balls.
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And those adorable boys are gonna be back here
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in the kitchen with me.
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So y'all don't go too far.
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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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I wanna share something with y'all.
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When I was probably eight or nine years old,
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every Friday,
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they served us homemade vegetable soup,
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buttered toast
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and peanut butter balls.
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And I wanna teach y'all how to make them.
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All right, let's get to cooking cause I'm starving.
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How about y'all?
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- Yeah. - [Paula] Yeah.
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Well, let's start adding our peanut butter.
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Here let me move this bowl down there for you
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and I'll help you now if you need it.
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And my grandma has always said,
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"waste not won't not".
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Do you know what that means?
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- Hmm hmm.
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- That means if you don't waste things
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and you take good care of them,
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that you'll never have to worry about being without.
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All right, how you come in pal.
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- Great!
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- All right, let's get this out.
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All right, we got it all out.
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The next thing we gonna do,
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is add our honey.
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You like honey? - Yeah.
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- Oh I do too, oh yeah.
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All right, do you know what it is Angus?
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You gonna taste it?
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- Cake mix.
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(Paula laughing)
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- It's powdered milk.
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We're gonna mix it up in that peanut butter
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and that honey
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and it's just gonna make us the most wonderful dessert.
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- Yay. - Yay.
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- How many are we gonna make?
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- Oh, probably about 20.
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Is that enough for you? - [Angus] Yeah.
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- Yeah will that fill you up?
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(utensils clanging)
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All right.
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I wanna show you how I like to do this, okay?
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- Okay.
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- So get up here and get ready, okay?
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- Okay.
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(Paula laughing)
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- Ain't that better than old spoon?
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Now see how much easier that is?
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- [Angus] Yeah.
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- All right, let's let Duncan do it just a second.
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All right, here we go Duncan.
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(utensils clanging)
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All right, you guys ready to roll them up into balls?
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- [Duncan] Yep.
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- All right, now how big do you want yours to be?
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You gonna have to oh...
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- This big.
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- Ooh that's a big one,
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but why don't we try like-
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- That's the- - This big-
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- One I was trying- - [Paula] Yeah.
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- I could you just eat it?
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- I know it,
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and we're fixing two in just a few minutes.
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All right, Duncan.
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(utensils clanging)
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Now y'all take these and roll them up.
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Those look perfect.
15:52
You can see that you have gotten
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a perfectly smooth ball.
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Both of you guys.
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So now what do you think you would like in yours?
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- Crushed sugar. - [Paula] Okay.
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You take yours
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and you roll it around in the powdered sugar.
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What do you want Duncan? - Corn flakes.
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- Corn flakes there you go pal-
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- Donuts?
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It's like donuts.
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- And I've gotten to have one.
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Now y'all know how I love pecans.
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So I think I'm gonna mine in pecans
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and then you know what I'm going to do?
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- What?
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- I liked sugar too.
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Alright, so I'm ready to toast,
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cause I'm ready to eat.
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So to y'all.
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- Dumb.
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(Paula laughing)
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- Ain't that yummy? - [Angus] Hmm.
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- All right, I got one more extra treat for y'all today.
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I've got some pineapple upside-down biscuits.
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Do y'all like pineapple?
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- Yeah. - Yes and butter
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and brown sugar.
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Well, I've had them cooling over here.
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So we gonna have one more extra treat.
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Now I've got to get rid of this water
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in the muffin tins,
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and we gonna quickly,
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give them a turn.
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(Paula laughing)
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How's that for magic?
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- Yeah (laughs). - Yeah.
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All right, there you go.
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Let's get you that pretty one.
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Your neck good?
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- Aah hah.
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- Well, I want you guys to stick around with me
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because I know there's probably a lot of boys
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and girls out there
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that are kind of picky eaters.
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And I wanna share with their moms
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and dads a few quick tricks
17:46
that might turn a finicky eaters
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into good eaters.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
17:55
And if you do.
17:57
Be sure to click like, subscribe and
18:00
notification bell so you'll never miss a video.
18:04
And we'll be right back after the break.
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You know I think every family
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probably has one child that is a picky eater.
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They won't eat anything.
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What I want to share with y'all a few tips
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that might help you,
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to get that picky little youngin,
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(soft music)
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to eat properly and peanut butter
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and jelly sandwiches work real well.
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Do you use a cookie cutter
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and cut them out.
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In fact, you wanna let the children do this themselves
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because they almost feel like they made it.
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But look at that pretty little heart
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and you can do the same thing
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with a tortilla bread.
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You can give them different cookie cutters.
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Look at this cute little duck
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(soft music)
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and you can put a little meat
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and cheese, lettuce and tomato
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and let them use a knife
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and a fork to eat it.
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(soft music continues)
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You can let them cut their pancakes out.
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Let's try a cat.
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(soft music continues)
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Look at the cute little cat.
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(soft music continues)
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And you can do the same thing with cookies.
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Although we usually don't have to tie
19:18
some to eat their cookies.
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(soft music continues)
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If you are looking for a healthier meal for the children,
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you can use fresh fruit
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and let them cut out shapes of their fruit.
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And they're much more apt
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to eat a dinosaur
19:34
than a dice of can load.
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(soft music continues)
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And these containers work
19:38
very well for their school lunches.
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It doesn't smash their food
19:43
and you can take these little
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different juices
19:45
and you can freeze them,
19:47
drop them in the sack,
19:48
along with their lunch,
19:49
and it'll keep it chilled.
19:51
So I hope that some of these tips
19:53
and tricks will help you
19:54
to get your finicky eater to eat.
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So y'all come on back.
19:58
I wanna show you everything
19:59
that I've cooked.
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You know, there's just nothing more special
20:05
than spending time
20:06
(birds chirping)
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with your children
20:08
and children are really no different from adults.
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They eat things with their eyes first too.
20:13
And the peanut butter balls are a healthy snack
20:16
and the wedge salad,
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believe it or not,
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I have found that children love it.
20:20
And we've got all these vegetables
20:22
hidden in our chicken casserole.
20:24
You don't have to sell them
20:25
on the pineapple upside-down biscuits
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and who knows,
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you may get more out of it
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than just a good meal.
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So until next time,
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to all you children,
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big and small,
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I send y'all love
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and best dishes from my kitchen to yours.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
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