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Keep it Southern - 4 Classic Southern Recipes - Viola Davis and Bryce Dallas Howard join Paula in the kitchen to create classic Southern comfort food recipes. Paula’s Best Dishes, Season 9, Episode 8.
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00:00 Intro
2:39 Elegant Stuffed Egg Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/elegant-stuffed-egg/
7:45 Southern Collards with Cornmeal Dumplings Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/southern-collards-with-cornmeal-dumplings/
13:46 Spicy Fried Chicken Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/spicy-fried-chicken/
19:15 Milk & Cookies Trifle Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/milk-and-cookies-trifle/
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0:00
- I've got some help in the kitchen today with me,
0:03
I've got Viola Davis and Bryce Dallas Howard,
0:07
from the movie, The Help. And they're cooking with me today.
0:10
Get out!
0:11
- Mm hmm.
0:12
Starting with elegant, stuffed eggs.
0:14
- That was really good.
0:16
- That is so good.
0:18
- And then I'm gonna take their breath away
0:20
with spicy pecan fried chicken.
0:23
This is over the top.
0:24
- Oh Yeah.
0:25
- Oh my God.
0:26
- And to keep it hot,
0:27
we've got Southern collards with corn meal dumplings.
0:30
- You're so good am sweeting.
0:32
- I know. Really?
0:33
And for desert, it's a milking cookie trifle.
0:37
- Oh. It's so good.
0:39
(upbeat techno music)
0:41
(woman laughing)
0:43
- This might be the best day of my show life.
0:48
- Oh,
0:51
- This is Bryce Howard. This is Viola Davis.
0:56
These girls, star in the movie, The Help.
1:02
- I'd like to do a book of interviews
1:03
from the point of view of 'The Help'
1:04
- You're going to get it right.
1:06
(jazz music beats)
1:07
- She told me what y'all was up to.
1:09
- I'm on do it.
1:11
- I gotta to come up with questions to?
1:13
- Oh.
1:13
(jazz music)
1:14
- [narrator] Your friendship.
1:15
- It's against the law what we're doing.
1:17
- Don't give up on this Skeeter
1:18
- [narrator] Broke the rules.
1:19
- Every white home should have
1:21
a separate bathroom for the help.
1:23
- Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside Hailey.
1:26
- [narrator] Their courage.
1:27
- Y'all brought me into this and I'm gonna finish it.
1:30
- [narrator] Gave them a voice.
1:31
- You should read the book it's quite scandal
1:33
(woman gasping)
1:34
♪ Change of the ♪
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- [narrator] Their rules changed everything.
1:38
- And miss you're going to jail.
1:40
- Oh.
1:41
♪ Shine on. ♪
1:42
- You are Godless woman.
1:43
- [narrator] From dreams of speeches.
1:44
- Encouraged by overcoming fear
1:46
and daring to do what is right for your fellow men.
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- [narrator] Every story matters.
1:51
- We're going down in now.
1:52
♪ Everyday now you about to wait. ♪
1:55
- Let me tell y'all some,
1:56
that pretty little girl down there,
1:58
she's a menace little, BI you have ever seen in this movie.
2:06
And Viola,
2:09
was steady faithful, loyal.
2:16
- And 20 pounds heavier.
2:17
- And 20 pounds heavier, I did not recognize you.
2:21
- Fried green tomatoes
2:22
and fried butter on the fried bread.
2:24
(blonde laughing)
2:25
And it was fun doing it.
2:26
- Yeah.
2:28
- So did Bryce yeah.
2:29
- Yeah.
2:29
- You had it too.
2:30
- I was asked to gain weight, which is the best thing
2:32
that anyone could ever ask a woman to do.
2:34
- Oh especially in Mississippi - Oh my goodness mad gracious.
2:38
- Fantastic.
2:39
- Alright. Now we're gonna make an elegant stuffed egg.
2:42
- I really need to learn how to cook, here.
2:44
This is my opportunity to learn how to cook.
2:46
(water pattering)
2:47
- You don't cook Bryce?
2:48
- No. I've been very spoiled, my mother is wonderful
2:51
she fed me really well and I ate all her food
2:54
and never learned, even though she tried to teach me.
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So this is my chance.
2:56
- You are kidding.
2:57
- Yeah, this is what I do.
3:00
- I'll try my best honey.
3:02
- I cook.
3:03
- You do cook? - I cook coral greens.
3:05
I do all the Southern foods
3:06
I have very specific recipe for coral greens.
3:10
- Oh you do?
3:11
- Oh, I do.
3:12
- Yours might be better than mine.
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- I don't know. I'm not go challenging.
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- 'cause I'd dare you did.
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- I wouldn't dare to do that.
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(all laughing)
3:23
- Alright. Salt and pepper.
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So up to now y'all I've got a little menace
3:27
little sour cream polish reddish,
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a little apple cider vinegar.
3:33
If you would finish mixing that up for me, Viola
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and I'm gonna just chop us up a few chops to go in it.
3:42
I like a little color in it
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- Yeah.
3:45
- This is great.
3:49
I'm gonna take this little plastic bag
3:53
and cut the corner out of it.
3:56
(plastic bag rattling)
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And drop our tee up, this is the way I do this
4:00
because I really need to come back as an octopus.
4:04
- Hmm?
4:05
- You don't have enough hands
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(plastic bag rattling)
4:07
but if you'll get your glass,
4:09
then this is so easy to fill
4:10
(glass clinking)
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because you've got that glass.
4:14
(upbeat techno music)
4:24
Alright girlies.
4:25
- Okay.
4:26
- We're gonna test your scooting skills.
4:28
- Okay. - Oh oh.
4:29
- Alright. Let me show you.
4:32
- Okay.
4:33
- First thing we wanna do is get all the air out of it.
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- Exactly.
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- And then you just,
4:37
- Oh man.
4:39
- Okay.
4:40
- That's great.
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Oh, that's wonderful.
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- Ain't that wonderful?
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(woman sighing)
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- Hit it! suit self - I'm so excited.
4:50
I've always wanted to make doubled eggs.
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- Have you ever done this before?
4:53
- No, I haven't had anything before.
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- Alright. Bring it down into your egg.
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Do that little motion. See?
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- Okay. This looks so good. Yeah.
5:04
- All right. Now what I'm fixing to do now
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is make a salmon rose, roll it kinda tight.
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So that will look like that center bud.
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See kinda like that, Bryce!
5:17
That's nice.
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Mine looks like the tongue of a snake.
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(all laughing)
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- So does mine,
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mine is so thin. - Look at her rose?
5:26
- I feel so accomplished.
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- You're accomplished don't be telling me you can't cook.
5:30
- Thank you Paula.
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Alright. So I'm gonna use our mint
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and make it look just like a rose.
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- Well, my character in the film, Hilly Holbrook
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was very specific about her deviled eggs
5:42
- And she was also very picky y'all
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- About everything.
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- About her chocolate pie.
5:49
(woman laughing)
5:51
You'll have to go see the movie or read the book
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to find out the ingredients,
5:56
that were in that yummy pie.
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(both laughing)
6:00
Coming up y'all my cooking lesson continues
6:03
when I teach Bryce a thing or two about collards
6:06
- The ultimate teacher, Paula Dean.
6:09
And then I'm gonna take y'all to a beautiful place.
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When I glaze up this chicken
6:16
and later I show these girls, the simple trifle.
6:20
How gorgeous? - And so pretty.
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- Beautiful! - How gorgeous is that?
6:22
(upbeat techno music)
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
6:26
And if you do.
6:28
Be sure to like, subscribe in the notification
6:32
bell so you'll never miss a video.
6:35
And we'll be right back after the break.
6:39
(upbeat techno music)
6:42
- Oh my God.
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- I specifically said,
6:45
"Drop all coats at my house. Not.
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(crowd laughing)
6:50
Why did she do this to me?"
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- I don't know. I don't know Hilly.
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- Its not fair.
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(woman sobbing)
6:58
(crowd laughing)
7:01
(camera clicking)
7:02
(crowd chattering)
7:04
- Oh lord.
7:06
- I go potty, mommy?
7:09
- Oh! No not there.
7:11
- We are having so much fun.
7:13
This is Viola Davis and this is Bryce Howard.
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And they are the stars in the movie, The Help.
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So what do you think?
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- Is so good? - I'm gonna have mine now.
7:29
- Yes, yes.
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- The rose reddish,
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sour cream.So good - This is fantastic.
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- There's so many different ways
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that you can pump this egg up
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- Mm hmm. - Mm hmm.
7:40
- and I'm gonna show y'all
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how to pump up that collard greens top.
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- Oh yeah.
7:45
I'm making Southern collards with corn meal dumplings.
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- Okay.
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- You can see that it's got that big thick stem in it.
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So you just pop it out like that.
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- Okay. So I fold it over?
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- Yes. And I just kinda mash it.
8:01
- See in Poland,
8:02
we grew up we ate the stem, everything.
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- Really?
8:05
- We didn't cut anything out.
8:07
- To me that can just be really stocky.
8:09
- Yeah, exactly.
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- And then what we do is, we lay these out
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just like we would a tobacco leaf.
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- Yep.
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- And then we're just gonna roll it out.
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- Yeah. - Just like this.
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- Some people like theirs, sliced very thin.
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We don't, we like ours, more like that.
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So that's all you do.
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- I'm gonna try. Okay. - Oh yeah.
8:33
- Let me get my fingers out of the way first, Bryce?
8:34
- Yes. Definitely.
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(knife chopping)
8:37
- Now we've got our collards here in our pot cooking.
8:42
- Oh, that looks so good. Oh yeah.
8:45
- So how long have these been cooking for about?
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- These have been cooking for about 20 minutes
8:51
and see that smoked
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- Oh yeah. - Turkey wing in there.
8:54
- I eat turkey drumsticks.
8:56
- Oh, do you? The big ones.
8:58
- Oh yeah.
8:59
- I'm gonna take some of our potlikker out
9:03
and put in this pot right here.
9:04
- It's called potlikker?
9:06
- Potlikker - Potlikker, yeah.
9:07
(woman laughing)
9:09
- Now while I'm doing this,
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can I ask you to mince this onion for me?
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- Can you explain what mincing is?
9:16
- Yes.
9:17
(both laughing)
9:20
She is so proody
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(all laughing)
9:23
- That's it.
9:24
(woman laughing)
9:26
- Alright. A mince is finer than a dice.
9:30
- Okay.
9:31
(knife chopping)
9:32
- So we want 'em about like that.
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- So if you would kinda mince set up just like that.
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- Okay.
9:40
- Now tell me everything that you put in your pot
9:43
- I'll put everything but the kitchen sink.
9:45
Vinegar, barbecue sauce?
9:47
- Get out!
9:48
- Mm? Yes, I do. I like it real spicy, that's why.
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- Well, we put a lot of hot sauce.
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What we're gonna do now is make our cornmeal dumplings.
10:01
- Okay.
10:01
- And I'm gonna add a cup of flour, to a cup of corn meal.
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So you just blend that up.
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- With the spoon?
10:08
- With the spoon and we've got our onions over here
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(cool chiming music)
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(spoon jingling)
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and I'm gonna put some black pepper
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and just have wee little dash of salt.
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All right. Come get your onions from Bryce
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(spoon jingling)
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and we are gonna add some broth.
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- Do i dump it in?
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- Yes. Just rake 'em in there.
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- Oh yeah. Nice.
10:38
- Look at you girl.
10:39
- Nice
10:41
- The ultimate teacher, Paula Dean.
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- Alright, so stir that up.
10:46
And while we make these dumplings,
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tell everybody the story behind this movie.
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- The story is about this young girl
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who comes out of college
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and she's very different from the rest of her peers,
10:59
Hilly being her best friend.
11:01
- Yes.
11:02
- I love that relationship.
11:04
- Oh yeah
11:05
- Between those two girls.
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- But she decides to write this book
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about how black domestics feel
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- Mm hmm.
11:11
- Working for white women in the South in 1962.
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And the result of that is
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these white women and these black women
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connect in a way that they ordinarily would not have
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if she would not have started this expose type of a book.
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And also it's a great mix of comedy and pathos.
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- Yeah.
11:32
- It's like, you're crying, you're laughing.
11:34
You're living with these women.
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- It's actually an incredible story of friendship.
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And we had that experience working on the movie.
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- We sure did all the women.
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- We just got so close. - Y'all good friends now.
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- We are.
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- See what I'm doing. I'm not stirring this pot.
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- Okay. - I'm just shaking it.
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- Because if I stick a spoon down in there
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they're gonna come apart.
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I'll take this and then just gently pour it
12:00
- Okay.
12:01
- Over our collard greens, so they'll kinda sit on top.
12:06
- Oh man. - This sound so delicious.
12:08
- Coming up.
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I'm not gonna be shy with this glaze for our chicken,
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some more girl.
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(all laughing)
12:15
And then this meal is gonna knock you out.
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- This is so good. Make you wanna slap somebody.
12:22
- I'm so happy.
12:23
Later our dessert comes together in no time.
12:27
- I feel like this is something that I'm gonna do
12:29
immediately when I get home.
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- I'm gonna get credit for it though.
12:33
(both laughing)
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I hope y'all are enjoying the show
12:38
and I want to hear from you.
12:40
Tell me what recipes or videos you'd like to see me
12:43
make by just leaving a short comment below.
12:47
Now, let's get back to the show, y'all.
12:50
(upbeat techno music)
12:52
- Alright ladies. Guess what time it is?
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- What time is it?
12:56
- It is time to put your beautiful dumplings
12:59
in the collard greens.
13:01
- Add everything?
13:02
- Yes.
13:03
- Okay.
13:03
- Y'all have just produced.
13:06
- Oh, man that's beautiful. - Corn meal dumplings.
13:11
All right.
13:12
We can't have collard greens without the secret ingredient.
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- What might that be?
13:19
(all laughing)
13:20
(cooking pan hitting)
13:21
A sticker butter.
13:23
They have got to be glazzy
13:25
if they're not its just not all that wonderful.
13:28
Alright. Look at them, look on at them.
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In the health benefits from the collards far outweighs
13:38
that little bit of butter we put in.
13:39
(both laughing)
13:41
Now you can't visit me without me sharing
13:44
the fried chicken recipe now.
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This is my spicy pecan fried chicken.
13:49
(glass bowl clinking)
13:50
I'm gonna use one and a half bottles, hot sauce.
13:54
- Oh, man.
13:55
- All right. We need about four eggs cracked.
13:57
- Okay.
13:59
- And we're gonna about this much water,
14:02
about a fourth of a cup of water not much.
14:04
(glass clinking)
14:05
And we're gonna use hell seasoning
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and a hell seasoning has salt, pepper, onion powder,
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and garlic powder.
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It's got everything that you need in it.
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- Do I press it in at all?
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- Yeah. I'll teach everybody, rub their meat.
14:24
- Like this?
14:25
- Flip your chicken over,
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put a little bit on the other side.
14:28
- You want me to mix this?
14:29
- Yes.Just mix it up
14:31
and then we're gonna throw our chicken
14:34
over in there and ground pea canyons to the flower.
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(whip whisking)
14:40
- Mm hmm.
14:41
- That sounds pretty good. Doesn't it?
14:42
- It sounds real good.
14:44
- And look, see it's just a little coarse.
14:46
They're just gonna give it a little extra flavor
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and then I'm gonna take y'all to a beautiful place.
14:55
- What places is that? - When we're done with it.
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All right. Doll. That's probably way too to much.
15:02
- Oh no! I'm so sorry. What do I do?
15:05
- Is all right.
15:06
What are we gonna try to do
15:07
- Is wipe it off? - Yes.
15:11
- I got so passionate about it.
15:13
- What you do? You put so much on?
15:14
- I did, I did.
15:15
- I don't want your blood to be dried up when you leave.
15:20
I mean, can't say our chicken ain't seasoned.
15:22
(all laughing)
15:28
Now the thing about frying chicken
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- Aah.
15:31
- Dark meat takes about 13 to 14 minutes
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depending on how large your chicken is
15:36
and the white meat will take about 10 to 12 minutes
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depending on how large it is.
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Let me tell y'all some.
15:45
I had the most wonderful time watching The Help.
15:48
You're telling about passion.
15:50
- Oh yeah. It was a passion project.
15:52
That's why when people see it
15:54
they're gonna be so moved by it
15:56
because everyone heart was in it.
15:58
- I could tell Viola.
16:00
All right. Now I'm go wash this goop out of my hands.
16:03
(water spattering)
16:05
- Paula what did you think
16:06
of the fried chicken scene of the movie?
16:08
Where Minny is teaching Celia how to cook
16:12
It feels like you and I.
16:13
- I loved it. I loved it.
16:16
And you know, Minny did it
16:17
just like my mother used to do it in the brown side.
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- That how my mama did it too.
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- Yes.
16:24
(paper bag rattling)
16:29
- Shake that
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(woman shaking)
16:36
- This is so much fun.
16:41
- All right all right. Chicken already dead Miss Celia.
16:45
(woman laughing)
16:48
Yep. He dead.
16:49
(water rattling)
16:50
- That was wonderful take me back moment
16:53
- Oh yes.
16:55
- If you would put that sticker butter
16:58
and then we've got some honey
17:00
- I like the sound of this.
17:02
- Yeah. About a half a cup, go baby.
17:05
Men have been showing you that measure.
17:08
I can tell you right now.
17:10
(both laughing)
17:12
some more girl
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(all laughing)
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now about a half a cup of pea canyons.
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- okay.
17:20
- And we're gonna let that just simmer.
17:24
Coming up.
17:25
This delicious meal is going fast.
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- When can we eat it?
17:29
- Can eat it right now. - Dig in.
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And then this trifle will sweep you off your feet.
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- This is so good.
17:36
- Oh, this is fantastic.
17:37
- Oh my God.
17:38
(upbeat techno music)
17:40
I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
17:42
And if you do.
17:44
Be sure to like, subscribe in the notification
17:48
bell so you'll never miss a video.
17:51
And we'll be right back after the break.
17:55
(upbeat techno music)
17:57
- Okay. Here we go, girls.
17:59
- Okay.
18:02
- This is over the top.
18:03
- Oh yeah. - Oh my gosh.
18:05
- Southern fried chicken with a pecan glaze.
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Alright. I can't wait for y'all to eat it.
18:12
- When can we eat it?
18:13
- Can we eat it right now?
18:14
- Dig in.
18:16
- This so good make you wanna slap somebody.
18:20
- I'm so happy.
18:22
I'm so happy.
18:24
- Brings me back home, my mother's cooking
18:27
and it's one of those things
18:28
that no matter how much my mom tells me
18:32
how to make something I can't make it like her.
18:35
That's how I feel about this.
18:36
I cant make, my greens is not as good as this Paula.
18:39
- They're not?
18:40
- Honestly this is a lot because every time
18:42
any kind of a cook often would say
18:44
"My food is better."
18:45
(all laughing )
18:48
we're hired come here and do flirt you like this.
18:51
It means a lot .
18:53
- But I don't put butter in my greens.
18:54
I think that's a leak, that's it.
19:00
And the hot sauce you put in there.
19:02
- Yes.
19:03
- You so good. I'm sweating.
19:04
- I know. Really?
19:06
(all laughing)
19:07
- I'm breaking down to sweat.
19:08
- Me too Viola I wanna give y'all a little dessert.
19:12
I wanna make you little dessert
19:13
before you have to go.
19:14
It's my milk and cookies trifle.
19:17
I have just run up to the bakery.
19:20
- Mm hmm.
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- At the grocery store and bought these cookies.
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You can use any kind you want
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just dump those cookies down in that milk.
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Every cookie needs a cloud to sit on
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that's heavy cream that has been whipped.
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There we go.
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- Oh yeah. - Yeah.
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- This is something that I'm gonna do
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immediately when I get home.
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And everyone's gonna say
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"This is what you learned from Howard."
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I'm gonna say, "Yes, yes I did"
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- I'm gonna take credit for it.
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(all laughing)
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- Yes, you are supposed to.
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If we had Marie Sheena's cherries or blueberries
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you could stick any kind of fruit in it.
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Look at this. How long did it take us?
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Two minutes?
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- Two minutes.
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- We have an instant trifle. Don't we girls?
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- We sure do.
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- Always have to eat your vegetables.
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(all laughing)
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How gorgeous? How gorgeous is that ?
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- Beautiful. - Beautiful.
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- Three minutes.
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- Oh my. - Oh my gosh.
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- Hey, Bryce, you can get me home
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because I'm gonna be eating much.
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- Oh my gosh. - Oh my goodness.
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- Oh, this looks so good.
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- You're lying.
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- This is so good.
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- Oh, this is fantastic. - Oh my God.
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- Girls, I have to tell you
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The Help really, really touched me.
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- Aww.
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- I mean, it touched me deep
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because it was like stepping back 40 years, 50 years.
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But what took it over the top for me
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was all those seven women in the kitchen.
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- Mm hmm.
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- I cannot thank y'all enough
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for being here with me today.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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