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4 Picnic Lunch Recipes - Paula is sharing French bread sandwich ideas, including a Southern pimento cheese recipe and an easy chicken salad recipe, along with a chocolate bread pudding with custard sauce. Paula’s Home Cooking, Season 1, Episode 14.
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00:00 Intro
3:28 Jamie’s Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/jamies-chicken-salad-sandwich-2/
8:11 Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/chocolate-bread-pudding/
13:56 Bobby's Pimento Cheese Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/bobbys-pimento-cheese/
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0:00
I'm Paula Dean and it's up, up and away
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today in my beautiful big balloon.
0:05
With a picnic basket chopped full of nibbles for the ride.
0:09
So first I'm gonna show you my son Jamie's own recipe
0:12
for the best chicken salad sandwich in the whole wide world.
0:16
And not to be out done by brother Bobby's
0:18
pimiento cheese spread.
0:21
I'll share a simple old fashioned,
0:23
bread pudding recipe for chocolate lovers high and low.
0:27
Then I'll show you a French bread sandwich
0:29
stuffed to the crust,
0:30
and tips galore coming your way.
0:32
So let's get picnic packing cause we gotta fly.
0:37
In my opinion, there's nothing better than fresh bread.
0:41
It's right up there along with the finest desserts.
0:45
I love big steamy, hot, fresh buns.
0:48
You can't beat it.
0:50
And today's show is all about bread,
0:53
and things that you can do with it.
0:55
You can make sandwiches, you can use it as a snack,
0:58
or it even makes a fabulous dessert.
1:01
And before I can get started today
1:03
I'm going to find the best bread that's around.
1:07
And to find that great bread,
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I've got to find a great baker.
1:12
So that's what I'm in search of today.
1:15
(playful music) And I know just the place
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to find great bread.
1:21
My friend Daniel at Bread Alone
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has every kind you can think of.
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Hey Daniel.
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- Hey Paula, how are you?
1:31
- I'm fine.
1:32
How are you doing?
1:33
Good to see you.
1:34
- Nice to see you too.
1:35
- I'm so excited about a show I've got coming up.
1:39
I'm going up in a hot air balloon,
1:41
and every item that I'm preparing today,
1:44
contains one of my favorite foods,
1:47
and that's bread.
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- Well you came
1:49
to the right place. - I'm telling you (slaps).
1:51
I wanted to come straight to the expert.
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- [Daniel] And what are you making?
1:54
- [Paula] My son Jamie's chicken salad,
1:57
gonna have sandwiches.
1:58
I'm making my son Bobby's (indistinct) cheese spread.
2:01
I'm making chocolate bread pudding.
2:04
(chuckles) And lastly, I'm making stuffed French bread.
2:07
So I really want that bread to be exceptionally good.
2:12
- Well. - So what do you recommend?
2:13
- [Daniel] Well, we've got some great breads right here.
2:16
This is our peasant bread.
2:17
It's reminiscent of country breads of France and Italy.
2:21
Again, it's a very, very simple bread.
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- [Paula] Well, it looks yummy.
2:24
- [Daniel] Yeah.
2:25
And this is a semolina bread.
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This is made from durum wheat flour,
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covered with sesame seeds.
2:30
Very, very golden crumb.
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- I love sesame seeds.
2:34
- This is great.
2:35
This is a bread actually from Alto Maura in Southern Italy.
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It's all of our breads have been influenced
2:40
by either Germany, France, or Italy.
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I travel a lot and visit bakeries all over Europe.
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- [Paula] Well, I feel so lucky
2:45
to be able to be with you today.
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- This is 100% whole wheat bread.
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It's filled with sunflower seeds,
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sesame seeds and flax seeds.
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- [Paula] That looks delicious too.
2:56
- [Daniel] Yeah, isn't it?
2:57
- [Paula] Make sandwiches out of this?
2:58
- [Daniel] This Is wonderful for sandwiches.
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- [Paula] So you're gonna fix me up now.
3:03
- Here you go. (paper crumpling)
3:04
- Okay.
3:05
If you have an opportunity today,
3:08
look up in the sky and you'll see me
3:10
and your bread flying in a beautiful hot air balloon.
3:14
- Sounds good.
3:14
- I appreciate it so much (paper crumpling).
3:16
- Bye bye. - Bye.
3:18
(bright music)
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I didn't leave any bread for y'all.
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One of the best things
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that you can put on good fresh bread,
3:31
probably is a nice homemade chicken salad.
3:34
And that's what we're gonna start with today.
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My son Jamie's homemade chicken salad.
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Now I've already cooked my chicken till it was tender,
3:42
and pulled the meat off the bone.
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You know, my son Jamie came up with this recipe
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when he and his little brother Bobby,
3:49
used to help me in the kitchen.
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Now we're just (knife tapping)
3:51
gonna coarsely chopping.
3:53
I don't like my chicken salad chopped real fine.
3:56
Some people even put it through a food processor
4:00
but I wanna know that I'm biting
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into big, fat, plump, juicy pieces of chicken,
4:06
not some kind of spread.
4:08
So we're just going very lightly chopping.
4:12
And I love warm chicken salad.
4:15
By the time I get him mixed up,
4:16
he is still gonna be warm.
4:18
We're just gonna take some diced celery.
4:21
Simple is always
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so good to me. (bowl clinking)
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We're gonna add our boiled eggs.
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Be sure when you're boiling your eggs,
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to put plenty of salt in the water,
4:31
it'll help the egg slip right out of the skin.
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Now I've added some lemon pepper,
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and now I'm doing a seasoning salt
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and this is called Jane's Krazy Mixed-Up Salt.
4:43
And then I'm gonna add the mayonnaise.
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And I can't tell you how important
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this one step is right here.
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Don't skimp on your mayonnaise.
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Don't buy store brand or cheap mayonnaise.
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It's very, very important
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that you start with a good quality,
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(container tapping) rich mayonnaise.
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(spoon tapping) So we're just
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gonna toss this together.
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Jamie's not real fond of onions.
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Now that's where we differ.
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I love them.
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And I have found that I can put
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a dehydrated dry onion in my chicken salad
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and for the onion haters
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they almost never, never even realize it's there,
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because you don't bite into the pieces of them.
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So at this point I would slip in some onion son
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and you'd never know it.
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Now, all I'm gonna do at this point
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(grinder scratching) is throw some pepper in it.
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And I love fresh ground pepper.
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I don't know if it sound like playing
5:39
with a pepper mill (grinder tapping)
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or if I just really like it. (knife scratching)
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All right now I'm gonna come over here
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for the very last thing that we do
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to this bowl of chicken salad.
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Is I'm gonna take just a little of this stock
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and you can see the richness,
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then I just pour (chuckles)
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a little bit of that over there, just in case.
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Insurance you know what I mean.
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Just a little insurance.
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All right now we're just gonna mix this up.
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And you won't believe how creamy
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that makes your chicken salad
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especially after you refrigerate it.
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I'm starving for a chicken salad sandwich
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So I think (utensils slamming)
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that's what I'm gonna make with this.
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(bowl scratching) And I'm gonna use
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this great brown loaf of bread right here.
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Doesn't that look beautiful?
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I'm gonna start
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(knife scratching) by first cutting the end off.
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That'll make great croutons or even toast.
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Let's see do I want it little, or do I want it big?
6:38
How about in between?
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And you really have to make sure
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you've got a good serrated knife when you're cutting bread.
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Otherwise it's gonna make (knife scratching)
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your bread collapse,
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and you want it to stay nice and perfect in its shape.
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All this now (knife slamming)
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is personal preference, but on the sandwich
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that I'm gonna fix for myself,
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I'm gonna put some purple onion and tomato.
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That way I feel like I'm at least getting a supply
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of my vegetables.
7:08
Instead of lettuce, I'm gonna throw in a fresh spinach,
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which I don't have to tell you how good spinach is for you.
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It's looking good already isn't it,
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Gonna top with just a little salt,
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and a little more pepper.
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And now that looks so good.
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And this is the way.
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Ooh, he's coming out the back over here y'all.
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That in a potato chip doesn't get any better.
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It'll be just perfect for my balloon ride later on.
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(sniffs) Believe it or not,
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bread for dessert.
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Chocolate bread pudding coming up next.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
7:57
And if you do.
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Be sure to click like, subscribe and
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And we'll be right back after the break.
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Can y'all imagine anything better
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than chocolate and bread?
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(chuckles) Personally I don't think I can.
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That just sends me over the top.
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You know, earlier I was talking about breads
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are right up there with desserts as far as I'm concerned.
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Well, we're fixing to have the best of both worlds.
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We're fixing to have bread and dessert.
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This recipe is called chocolate bread pudding
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and I'm beginning by just cubing up some bread
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That's a couple of days old.
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It's not real fresh, great way to use that bread.
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If you've got bread, that's going stale
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just throw it in a plastic bag
8:50
and throw it in your freezer,
8:51
and save it for the day that you are hungry
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for some good old hot bread pudding.
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Now, some of your bread pudding recipes
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will actually call for staling your bread.
9:03
In other words, cutting it like this
9:06
and leaving it on the counter overnight to dry.
9:09
But I found that a real quick way
9:11
to stale bread is to just cube it up,
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put it on a cookie sheet.
9:16
throw it into a slow oven of about 200 degrees
9:19
and let it just dry out in the oven just for a few minutes.
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And you've got stale bread.
9:26
All right, now this bowl,
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we're gonna put just a white granulated sugar
9:30
and brown sugar and cocoa.
9:33
And we're just gonna kind of toss those up together
9:36
(bowl slamming) just like that.
9:37
We just kind of grind up that brown sugar
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cause you know, it's kind of on the lumpy side.
9:43
And in this bowl, I've got six eggs that have been cracked.
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I'm gonna add some ground cinnamon,
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some vanilla extract about a teaspoon,
9:55
and then one of the extracts that I love so much,
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it smells so good and I found that the flavor of it
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just goes with so many things
10:03
like this is wonderful with peaches
10:06
and it's an almond extract,
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and I'm gonna put two teaspoons
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(cutlery slamming) of the almond into my eggs.
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And I'm just gonna whisk that up.
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(eggs whooshing) You know,
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I think bread pudding, probably started out years ago
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as probably a poor man's dessert
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(eggs whooshing) like rice pudding started.
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All right, so we've got bowl one, bowl two
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and now we're going to bowl three.
10:30
And into the third bowl we're gonna add our milk,
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(milk trickling) (container tapping)
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little heavy cream,
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and about a half a cup of Kalua.
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Another one of my favorite aromas.
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(ingredient trickling)
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And we're gonna add grated semi-sweet chocolate.
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(whisk tapping)
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Now I'm just gonna whisk that up.
10:56
And now, all of the bowls that we've assembled
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are going to go together.
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I think I'm gonna add my milk to my dry ingredients
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because to me it just seems to mix up easier.
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If you put wet into dry.
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And I'm gonna put enough just to blend it
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and get all those ingredients wet, just like that.
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Now it's safe to go ahead and add
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all of my (indistinct).
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And then I'm gonna add (whisk tapping)
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my beaten eggs, that has those delicious aromatic flavors.
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And we're just gonna kind of whisk them together.
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All right, we've got all those mixed together
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and all we're gonna do now is pour this over our bread.
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You can see our bread rising up (chuckles)
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and I'm gonna take my whisk
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and kind of just press my bread down in there
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until it soaks up all that fresh milk and eggs and chocolate
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you can see the bread going from white to brown.
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Now, if you want to, at this point
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if you've got something else that you can be doing.
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you can just walk away from it,
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leave it on the counter for 10 or 15 minutes
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and let it finish soaking up.
12:06
But I have helped this along.
12:08
So I think this ready for the oven.
12:10
This is soaked up nicely for us.
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So we're gonna slip it into a 325 degree oven
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and bake it for about an hour
12:18
or until it's nice and set. (tray slamming)
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(door slamming) But I can't wait
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for y'all to wait that long.
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So I have another one ready.
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I've just gotten to show you the finished product.
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(tray slamming)
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Doesn't it look delicious?
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Chocolate and bread.
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I'm gonna see if this is set good enough for me
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to just cut me out a little square.
12:45
Personally I like my bread pudding hot
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like I like my bread.
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Like I like my men (laughs).
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I really do like this hot,
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but it's also good warm or cold as far as that goes,
13:00
but I just love hot bread.
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Little cocoa for garnish, a dollop of fresh whipped cream.
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And because I wanna be really (indistinct),
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I'm gonna do me just a few chocolate curls.
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Just in case I hadn't had my chocolate fix for the day.
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It's so delicious.
13:25
Up next, my son Bobby's pimento cheese spread,
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and we're gonna stuff that French loaf.
13:32
(flame roaring) I hear the crew
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getting the balloon ready right now.
13:35
So y'all stay with me.
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I hope y'all are enjoying the show
13:40
and I want to hear from you.
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Tell me what recipes or videos you'd like to see me
13:45
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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Now, for my youngest son's Bobby 62nd per pimento cheese.
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We've got a sharp yellow cheese.
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We got a little Jack cheese. (saucer slamming)
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We've got fresh graded onion.
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Remember there's a difference between graded and chopped.
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You can see all the onion juice coming in.
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So that's really gonna give it a nice kick.
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We've got diced pimentos,
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a three ounce block of cream cheese
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and we're gonna kind of break him up.
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A little seasoning.
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Not much because pimento is real salty
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so remember not to oversalt
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(spoon tapping) your pimento cheese.
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And that good blend of mayonnaise again.
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(mixer buzzing) We've got pimento
14:43
cheese spread y'all.
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Just that simple.
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Bobby, I did you proud today son, it's delicious.
14:53
Not as good as yours, but pretty close.
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And now for my stuffed loaf
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This recipe is so simple and easy it's almost pure silly.
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We're gonna start (paper crumpling)
15:05
with two eight ounce packages
15:06
of cream cheese,
15:08
and these are nice and soft.
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We've got one dry package of Italian dressing,
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fresh chopped parsley, (bowl tapping)
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fresh chopped red bell pepper, (bowl tapping)
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and a little ingredient that I don't use very often
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but when you need him, he's the only thing that'll do.
15:28
And that's dried beef.
15:30
And you buy him in a jar in the meat section
15:33
at your grocery store.
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I just love him, he gives a powerful kick to any dish.
15:39
So I'm just gonna kind of fork all those things together
15:43
just to give me a little headstart.
15:45
And now I'm gonna add some mayonnaise,
15:48
(spoon scratching)
15:50
In this dish pretty, it looks like Christmas
15:53
kind of doesn't it?
15:54
This is so, so simple.
15:57
As I said earlier, it makes a great snack.
16:00
Sometimes when Michael and I go for a boat ride
16:02
I'll fix some of these
16:03
and just throw them in a bag and toss them on the boat.
16:06
They are good on the fishing trips.
16:08
If we're running down to Charleston,
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I'll throw some
16:11
in the car for us to snack on
16:13
and sometimes I'll even fix some
16:16
and just take to work with me to munch on
16:18
when I'm working upstairs in the office
16:20
and not down in the kitchen.
16:21
The whole meal that we prepared today
16:23
travels very, very well.
16:25
See how simple that was.
16:27
You could even put this in a basket and fly away.
16:33
We're ready to stuff our bread.
16:35
At this point, now you can,
16:36
it's up to you to decide the kind of bread that you want.
16:39
Personally.I like the French bread,
16:41
but when I was at the bakery, I found this bread
16:45
that I just fell in love with and I've got to try it
16:47
so that's what we're gonna do.
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I love a crusty tough bread. (knife scratching)
16:52
Oh, I just love the sound that it makes.
16:55
And I'm going to pull just a little bit out.
16:57
So we'll have someplace to tuck our filling in.
17:00
The beauty of this dish is I would make it the night before.
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It's great for a trip on the boat or a trip in the car,
17:08
a lunch box or a snack at the office.
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So just mix this up quickly before you go to bed,
17:15
Stuff and into your loaf, just like this,
17:18
and don't be partial, both sides now.
17:22
breads and cream cheese, make a heavenly snack
17:25
they just go together.
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In fact if you wanted to, to really kick it up a little bit
17:31
and give it even more flavor,
17:32
is we could have put a stick of softened butter in there
17:36
and made it really, really sinful.
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So you can see how simple and easy that is.
17:43
Now at this point, before I went to bed,
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I would just take this and wrap it in some Saran wrap
17:48
nice and tight and let it chill overnight,
17:51
and that cream cheese is gonna get back
17:54
to the consistency it was
17:55
when you bought it from the grocery store
17:57
on the firm side.
17:59
But you know, I can't wait that long (sniffs).
18:01
Y'all all know me.
18:03
I'm gonna dig into it right now.
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(knife scratching) So there you go.
18:07
You can make this stuff,
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French bread with any kind of variety that you like.
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And coming up next,
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I'm gonna take this show to heights it's never been before.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
18:22
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18:23
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18:30
And we'll be right back after the break.
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(bright music)
18:37
Before I fly today
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let me tell you just a couple of quick things
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that you can do with old bread.
18:43
They make wonderful bread crumbs for casseroles
18:46
or coating your crab cakes and there's many,
18:48
many things that you can do with them.
18:50
All you have to do is break it up,
18:52
put into your food processor and grind it
18:54
until it's very fine crumbs,
18:56
store it in a plastic bag or a plastic container
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in your pantry or freezer until you're ready to use them.
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Another great way to use up old bread is making croutons.
19:08
They make out of this world over the top croutons.
19:11
If you've got a loaf of bread that's going stale on you,
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all you have to do is wrap him up good,
19:17
put him in the freezer,
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and when you're ready to use him,
19:19
pull him out let him thaw and put him in a slow oven
19:23
and letting heat back up and he's almost good as new.
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I've had so much fun today playing with all the breads
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and the fun ain't over yet,
19:34
because I'm packing a basket
19:36
full of Jamie's chicken salad sandwiches,
19:39
Bobby's pimento cheese spread, my chocolate bread pudding
19:43
and my beautiful stuffed loaf.
19:46
Well, I got to fly now y'all, and I mean literally fly
19:52
(bright music)
20:04
I hope your bread rises as well as my balloon.
20:07
(balloon whooshing) Until next time America,
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best dishes from my kitchen to yours.
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