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00:00 Intro
0:51 Porcupine Balls Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/porcupine-balls/
3:51 Yogurt Pops Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/yogurt-pops/
7:42 Green Eggs & Ham Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/green-eggs-and-ham/
13:36 Cheese Quesadillas Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/cheese-quesadillas/
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[Music]
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today i'm in the kitchen with my niece
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lauren and my nephew jordan and we're
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cooking recipes that the kids are sure
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to love yum
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first i've got some cute and tasty
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porcupine balls does that look like a
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porcupine or what a storybook classic
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green eggs and ham i know i'd like me
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some paula i am
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do you want to know what we're making
0:27
next
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how about a super cheesy quesadilla give
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it to me if a dessert a special treat
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delicious and healthy
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yogurt pops has your auntie impressed
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y'all yes mel
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yay
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well listen we are making one of jamie
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and bobby's favorite recipes porcupine
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balls yes you know why it's called
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porcupine balls
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because we are going to put rice in
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hamburger and make them into like
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meatballs
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and when we bake them that rice puffs up
1:06
and it looks like porcupines
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so let's that's cool isn't it tell me
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about the sauce that you're gonna make
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jordan tell all the kids out there
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13.5 ounces of diced tomatoes that's
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right and 14 ounces of bread get your
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hamburger meat sweetie get your
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hamburger meat out
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and this is gonna be so
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easy
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now you can just dump that right in here
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lauren
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you throw the hamburger meat in our bowl
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how much meat is that lauren one pound
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so do y'all ever get in the kitchen and
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help mama sometimes
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oh good
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all right jordan put us a teaspoon of
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italian seasoning a teaspoon of minced
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onion and a teaspoon of season salt
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all right start just mixing that up with
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your hands lauren all right now jordan
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what's what i want you to do here is put
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like three quarters of a cup of rice you
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got it baby you've got it what grade are
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you in now it's
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eighth grade
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oh my goodness i can't believe it your
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mother and daddy's getting so old
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[Music]
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all right now stir that up
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and lauren i'm just gonna measure out a
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half a cup of rice
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you mix that in your meatballs
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that looks good jordan how old were you
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when you first started cooking in paul
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you know believe it or not jordan
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it was after i married the first time i
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was married before i married your uncle
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mike
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i was just 18 years old
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but that's when i started cooking
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can you believe that's just four years
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older than what you are right now
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can you imagine getting married in four
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years
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my parents would kill me ah you know
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what and i would help them
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now look here we're gonna roll our balls
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about the size of golf balls and we
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should be able to have
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nine of these so jordan if you'll help
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us start rolling
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okay
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we've got two four six eight nine
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perfect
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so what we're gonna do
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is just nestle those down in that tomato
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juice and beef broth and rice
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all right so lauren you can wash your
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hands sweetie
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and while y'all are doing that i'm going
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to put some tinfoil on it
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and we're going to get this in the oven
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[Music]
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so 350 yards for an hour
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all right let me wash my hands and y'all
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move on down to the other end of the
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counter
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because
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we are gonna fix us a dessert
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so what do y'all think about some yummy
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yogurt pops give it to me for the pop
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give it to me for the pops
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all right jordan i need for you to take
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a fourth of a cup of orange juice and
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put it in all three of our bowls
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we're gonna make three different flavors
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here
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and what i need for you to do lauren is
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put a tablespoon of honey in each bowl
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okay
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i'll help you squeeze there you go
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one
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tablespoon use your fingers girl use
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your fingers
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and then move right on down here to my
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bowl
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there we go
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last bowl last bowl
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last bowl is a monkey who gets to the
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hole
4:35
[Laughter]
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all right lauren take that to the sink
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sweetie and um wash your hands all right
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jordan
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take your little whisk
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and just whisk up
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your honey and your juice together
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that honey is gonna naturally
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sweeten the yogurt and the orange juice
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which is a good thing y'all won't be
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eating sugar and i'm gonna go ahead and
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do lawrence for her
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and then all you have to do now is take
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your yogurt
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and scoop it into our sweetened juice
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and then we're gonna whisk it again
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do y'all ever watch your auntie on tv
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yes ma'am
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y'all do
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i didn't know that
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what's your favorite show
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i think this one because
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you're talking about the one you're on
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today yes ma'am
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that said like a true groover
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you sound like your uncle mike all right
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here we go three cups for you three cups
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for me
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three cups for me it's good you like it
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yes all righty
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all right now you've got a
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cherry i've got pineapple and you've got
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blueberry okay
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so in our cups this goes
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and then we're gonna put them in the
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freezer
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and we're gonna let these get
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semi-frozen
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and then we're going to pull them out
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we're going to put our popsicle sticks
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because these are going to become
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popsicles and it's probably going to
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take about four hours for these to
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freeze all right mine are
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ready all right
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i'm gonna get us a pan y'all it tastes
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really good you like it yes now good
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we're gonna just take our pan
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and sit them in here
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all right jordan go put this in the
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freezer yes ma'am and we're going to
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take a quick break from everybody
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so look in there and tell everybody
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we'll be back in a minute we'll be back
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in a minute
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up next a storybook classic comes to
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life
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we have got green eggs y'all
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and later there's another groover in the
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kitchen cooking up some quesadillas who
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is that uncle mike
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uncle mike i love it
7:08
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7:11
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7:25
hey y'all welcome back i'm in here in
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the kitchen today with my niece and
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nephew jordan and lauren and we're
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cooking from paula dean's my first
7:34
cookbook so start on your toast y'all
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start on your toast you got a lot of
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work to do because we're fixing to make
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green eggs and ham together
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y'all lauren and jordan are using some
7:47
of my antique cookie cutters on some
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white bread
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jordan
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and lauren are spelling out their name
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all right so how are y'all coming look
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lauren all right so we got the eight oh
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i love the toast so y'all be working on
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that and i'm gonna be coming down here
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and i'm gonna be working on your green
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eggs and ham because i'm gonna need to
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chop up our ham and i'm using
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probably about eight ounces
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can you really make green eggs in half
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of course you can you know that we can
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you've lived here your whole life
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and you know how big st patrick's day is
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around here don't you here in savannah
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we have the second largest celebration
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of st patrick's day second only to new
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york city so everything in this city
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turns green including
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our grits and our eggs
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so
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i'm gonna turn on our eye and i'm gonna
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let our pan start heating up
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and how are y'all coming
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good there we go look
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l-a-u-r-e-n
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i love it okay jordan come on buddy
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look at the in that cute all right so
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i've got our pan getting hot y'all so
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jordan are you through with your name
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yet i got jorda okay we'll get you an
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end
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and
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uh lauren you come down here and crack
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our eggs sweetie
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all right i'm gonna put about two
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tablespoons of butter in our frying pan
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and then i'm gonna put our ham in
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so we're gonna cook that up
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you've read uh green eggs and ham hat
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and y'all yeah yes ma'am did y'all like
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it yes ma'am yes ma'am you know when
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jamie and bobby were little uh i used to
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get them dr seuss books
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all right jordan
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let's go ahead and get that in the oven
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okay because we're gonna have to toast
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these off
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look at that i love it
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lauren and jordan do you like it yeah as
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your auntie impressed y'all yes mel
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yay
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all right so in the oven it goes all
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right lauren
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give that to jordan
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and while he's beaten
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you add a little pepper and a little
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salt to it okay come on jordan beat it
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baby
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beat it beat it beat it you take art at
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school you've done the color wheel
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it smells so tell me lauren what colors
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do you need to make the color green
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yellow and blue that's exactly right
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we've got the yellow from the egg so
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we're going to add blue food coloring
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how much
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oh i don't know
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um i always say that you can add two but
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you can't take out so let's start with
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just a little bit okay
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all right beat that up and see what
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you've got
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and see if that's the color you like
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you can make this as green as you want
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to what do you think
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looks good
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you think so
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okey-dokey
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whoa
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our ham is talking to us
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so we're ready for y'all to pour our
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eggs over our ham
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we have got green eggs y'all
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all right
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now what we need to do y'all come on
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over here
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so what we want to do is you see our
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eggs are starting to get done so what
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you want to do is just pull them back
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from your pan like that
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and let the raw part of that egg
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get down in there
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so you do that jordan
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looking paul i'm cooking yes you are
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cooking you cooking with gas
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[Laughter]
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and once you get the raw
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over on the edges then you can kind of
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just toss them over there you go
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those are looking awfully good yes ma'am
11:56
all right so let's turn that heat off
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and we've got our plates over here
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i'm gonna dip us up some eggs and
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there's our fork
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ooh doesn't that look good so i'm gonna
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get our toast out
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and i'm gonna take this off the
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sheet for y'all because oh i'm good
12:16
because our sheet is hot
12:20
j-o-r-d-a-n
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l-a-u-r-e
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and annie will have a dog bone
12:29
so y'all taste and tell me what you
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think
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[Music]
12:35
um
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what do you think
12:38
you like it yes and smell mmm
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they're delicious
12:44
aren't they delicious y'all did a grand
12:45
job they're yummy good
12:49
mm-hmm
12:50
i'm so glad y'all are here with me today
12:52
eat up
12:54
and then we're going to clean up
12:57
and
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do you want to know what we're making
12:59
next
13:02
coming up we're making quesadillas with
13:04
personality oh i love that he's got
13:07
green eyes y'all
13:09
and later some sweet and healthy treats
13:12
for my three sweets
13:14
you got a kiss for auntie yes
13:20
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13:22
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13:30
now let's get back to the show y'all
13:36
so let's get started on those
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quesadillas all right now i want to show
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you something jordan you're fixing to
13:41
break the cheese
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okay
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you want to take your cheese
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hold it like this
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and bring it down the only thing you
13:50
want to be careful is you don't get your
13:53
fingers or your knuckles yes ma'am all
13:56
right lauren we've got our yogurt pops
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and they have gotten kind of semi-hard
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so all we're gonna do
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is stick hey y'all
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well uncle mike where have you been
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oh my god my motorcycle
14:12
have you yes what are you cutting the
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cheese yeah
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[Laughter]
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what are you making popsicles
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we are making yogurt pops uncle mike oh
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good
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and we're fixing to get these back in
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the freezer
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you are gonna love these cause uncle
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mike's got a big sweet tooth doesn't he
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all right let's put these back in the
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freezer sweetie in that bottom drawer
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all right uncle mike uh-huh we're making
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cheese quesadillas i know it
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all right i'm gonna turn our griddle on
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how you come in with it oh jordan you
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got it down
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perfect you have got that down good all
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right lauren down here we have onions we
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have pico de gallo sauce
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we've got our sour cream
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and we've got a wonderful guacamole dip
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do you like all those things yes
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i do too i like you you like all those
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yes sir all right so what we're gonna do
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y'all
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is we're gonna take a little bit of
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butter
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and put on our skillet and i'm using our
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whole cake pan
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this is what i make uncle mikey lace hoe
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cakes on
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all right so what we're gonna do
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is brown that off
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and now uncle mike all you have to do is
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put some cheese on this side and then
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fold it over okay so deal all right
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these don't take long to make at all you
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just want to lightly brown them long
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enough for your cheese to melt
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okay i think this one's ready okay pass
15:49
us a plate lauren can you grab a plate
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sweetie
15:52
you ready yes
15:54
there you go
15:56
let's see about this one might need to
15:58
flip this one
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yep perfect
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that looks easy
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you think it's ready
16:05
you guys ready yes
16:07
jordan let's do another one
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we're getting the hang of it now all
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right now lauren you get to decorating
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your quesadilla so you want to see if
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you can make a face or something yes all
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right well you know what i bet you could
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use a popsicle stick
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and paint with that okay so go ahead i
16:27
want to see what you're gonna paint
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while curly and larry are down there
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cooking them
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[Music]
16:37
she's making fun of us i don't know
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oh i love that he's got green eyes y'all
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all right i think that another one's
16:45
ready jordan
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okey-dokey
16:49
we are coming right along
16:51
all right jordan come on down here and
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let's see what you can do
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let's see how
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talented you are in the art department
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oh you're gonna give him some green
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teeth lauren
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i love it
17:07
now jordan what are you making
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a fish a face
17:12
i love it
17:16
who is that uncle mike
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uncle mike i love it
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he sure does have a wide face
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all right
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now i'm gonna take these
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and i'm gonna cut some into triangles
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and i'm gonna pile them up here
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let's see what i like i think i like
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sour cream on mine i love guacamole
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i love some green onions
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so what have you done
17:47
side view of uncle mike a side view of
17:49
uncle mike
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who's good
17:52
that's your i love it
18:00
very brilliant paula oh i'm so glad you
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like them thank you too uncle mike
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that's cause i made them
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couldn't have done it without uncle mike
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could we have
18:12
cool mom coming up our porcupine balls
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are ready for tasting great time of day
18:19
that's good and we'll see if our
18:21
popsicles get the groover approval
18:25
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18:27
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18:43
hey y'all welcome back uncle mike just
18:46
joined us you know what uncle mike has
18:49
got a good habit of showing up when it's
18:52
time to eat we have cooked up some
18:54
wonderful porcupine balls uncle michael
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so why don't you get those out of the
18:59
oven for us oh yeah come on jordan
19:05
[Music]
19:06
all right let's look
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oh why'd that tell ya
19:12
does that look like a porcupine or what
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let me grab some pork what do you think
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jordan yes ma'am i've impressed you
19:21
yes ma'am why don't we take it down
19:23
there michael
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you want to
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yeah let's take it down there by the
19:27
bowls
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so we don't have to worry about anybody
19:31
getting burnt
19:34
so there we go we'll need a spoon and
19:38
i'll dip us up a porcupine
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all right now we've got a little fresh
19:43
grated parmesan cheese you can put on it
19:46
a little parsley for color
19:50
about it lauren you love it yes sir
19:53
mmm this is delicious
19:55
i'm so glad
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very
19:58
mmm good
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so you can impress mama and daddy one
20:02
night and maybe cook supper for him how
20:06
about that
20:09
well uncle mike you ready for dessert i
20:11
am what we got we made some wonderful
20:14
little yogurt pops earlier
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oh yeah
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they're so good in fact
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it's cold
20:21
all right
20:22
now this is blueberry this is cherry and
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this is pineapple
20:28
so choose your flavor tell them your
20:30
name
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what kind you want
20:37
i'll take blueberry blueberry i'll have
20:40
cherry
20:41
okay so
20:43
just take your paper cup
20:45
peel it off
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tear it and peel it off
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[Music]
20:51
is that a deal lucille mm-hmm
20:54
look at that
20:57
this is a healthy snack
21:00
they're good too it's been fun today
21:02
hating it yes ma'am
21:04
you got a kiss for auntie yes
21:07
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21:12
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21:23
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