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4 Fun Finger Food Recipes - These easy kid-friendly recipes are going to be a hit with the children in your life. Paula’s Best Dishes, Season 3, Episode 13.
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00:00 Intro
1:01 Mini Burgers Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/mini-burgers/
7:09 Peanut Butter and Banana Bread Finger Sandwiches Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/peanut-butter-and-banana-bread-finger-sandwiches/
11:28 Paula's Chicken Nuggets Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/paulas-chicken-nuggets/
15:17 Chocolate Dirt Cupcakes Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/chocolate-dirt-cupcakes/
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hey y'all welcome to best dishes today
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are y'all in for a treat today no you're
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not seeing double it's actually melanie
0:07
hudson of saturday night live fame or is
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it paula dean no it's paula
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and today we're cooking up some of our
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favorite kid-friendly recipes starting
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off with scrumptious mini burgers
0:20
wrapped in puff pastry delicious peanut
0:23
butter and banana bread sandwiches look
0:26
at that adorable sandwich and crispy
0:29
ranch flavored chicken nuggets you are
0:32
smoking and for dessert a decadent dirt
0:36
cupcake and finally melanie makes a
0:38
treat that's over the top even from me
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[Music]
0:48
i've got a girl that i have been so
0:50
excited
0:51
about coming into my kitchen with me her
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name is melanie hudson she's got two
0:56
kids and i'm gonna show her some recipes
0:59
that i think her children would love and
1:02
i'm gonna start with mini burgers
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wrapped in puff pastry so i'm gonna go
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ahead and
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flour out
1:09
my sheet of puff pastry you just want to
1:12
sit this out on your counter and let it
1:14
thaw a minute
1:16
so you can unfold it
1:18
now i'm going to expand it
1:21
about two inches
1:23
on the long and the short side
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okay
1:28
now i'm gonna need eight little wraps
1:30
for our burgers
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so i'm gonna come in here and cut this
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right down the middle
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then i'm gonna cut that in half
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in this half in half
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and then i'm gonna cut it
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down the center
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giving us eight little buns
1:50
all right now i'm gonna come down here
1:52
and take just eight ounces of hamburger
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you know i don't know when i've used
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just eight ounces of burger for anything
1:58
except maybe that last burger i cooked
2:00
for myself that i ate by myself
2:03
so i mean this a little bit of burger
2:05
will go a long way
2:06
now i'm gonna just put a little salt
2:09
a little pepper
2:11
two teaspoons of ketchup and two
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teaspoons of dijon mustard and then i'm
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gonna divide this
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into eight little mini patties
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[Music]
2:23
so i'm just going to press that out
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because these are so tiny
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it probably won't take
2:30
a minute and a half
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and then they're going to have their 15
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to 18 minutes
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in the oven once we get them in the puff
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pastry all right so i want to
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oh my god she scared me too oh my
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gracious
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how are you look at the chill bumps
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do i sound like that
2:57
i'm excited
3:00
oh my lands look
3:12
you scared me so bad didn't why are we
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gonna do some cooking do i cackle like
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that
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oh my god i say that
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[Laughter]
3:30
what are we making what we're going to
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do today
3:36
are you ready to cook no this is melanie
3:39
hudson
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from saturday night live or is it paula
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deen no it's paula i'm paula let's come
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on in here
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and all we're going to do is we're going
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to let those sit and we're going to flip
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them over
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yeah look at that
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get over there boy
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[Music]
4:00
y'all
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look at how pretty those are
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aren't they pretty
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and then all we're gonna do y'all is
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we're just gonna stick these on here
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is that right paula that's exactly what
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i've got and you just put them on there
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just put them all hot and greasy we
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don't get rid of the grease we ain't
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worrying about our chilling eating that
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grease no you know no they need a little
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bit
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you know she has played a lot of
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characters on saturday night live y'all
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but this is the best
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look at you screwing up my burgers i
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don't mean to screw up your burgers um
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and all you're gonna do is we gotta add
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cheese well that just sounds good all
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right
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and we're just going to grate that on
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there
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okay um
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okay paula just like so
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and you just put that on there just like
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that gosh that paul is a mexican in that
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pretty job that is so pretty there we go
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yeah get on there boys
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[Laughter]
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so you're just going to keep that cheese
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coming just like that and and you want
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to get it real real cheesy y'all cause
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kids love cheese they love chili butter
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they do listen and we're gonna roll them
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up yes we are we're gonna and then press
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it
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what a talented girl she's a mama she's
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a writer she's an actress she's my gosh
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what all are you i do it all
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i do it all
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but my favorite thing is to be politics
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we're gonna throw these in the oven for
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12 to 15 minutes at 400 degrees there
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you go they'll be ready well first you
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got to brush them with the eggs so
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they'll get pretty and shiny you're
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getting so excited now you forget money
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of good steps
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all right let's put these in the oven oh
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okay dear
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there we go i'm spooked
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coming up y'all we're making a kid
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favorite peanut butter and banana bread
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sandwiches
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and then it's on the ranch-flavored
6:20
chicken nuggets
6:22
you are smoking and later chocolaty dirt
6:26
cupcakes that are so good y'all
6:29
get your anger out y'all
6:33
i so hope y'all are enjoying the show
6:36
and if you do be sure to click like
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6:42
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6:50
y'all i'm still trying to settle down i
6:52
can't believe
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i'm here in my kitchen on the set of
6:56
best dishes with one of my favorite
6:58
girls from saturday night live melanie
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hudson we're making recipes that i think
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melanie would love
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to prepare for her children so the first
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thing we're going to make is a peanut
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butter and banana finger sandwich
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and you know except for the five pounds
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of sugar we're gonna put in it it's
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really pretty healthy
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that's okay and it's not five pounds of
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sugar
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all right so melanie has mashed us up
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two ripe bananas y'all
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so john baby if you would measure me out
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the dry ingredient okay that's cup and a
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half of all-purpose flour okay and a
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teaspoon of baking powder three-fourths
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of a teaspoon of baking soda and while
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you're doing that
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i'm gonna take one stick of butter
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that's been softened to room temperature
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i'm gonna measure out one and a fourth
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cups of sugar do your children love
7:50
peanut butter they love
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peanut butter all kids i mean you know i
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think that must be a birth requirement
7:58
they must like macaroni and cheese and
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peanut butter and peanut butter that
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would be true you can't survive in my
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house without liking those two things
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that's for sure
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so you left saturday night live to start
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your family
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i did well i wanted to get married that
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was that was very important at that time
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i'd had a great run on saturday night
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live you dadgum sure did you could make
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me laugh the hardest okay
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oh
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[Laughter]
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can you do it i tried i've been
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practicing all day all right do it for
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me one time
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no you've got it you've got it you've
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reached delta
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delta sorority can we help you
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all right now i'm gonna add
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these two eggs you've got the dry
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ingredients ready if you measure me out
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a teaspoon of vanilla okay
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and we've got some raisins over here
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which is another
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a great fruit to give your children yes
9:08
but wait i'm putting this in here yeah
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honey just put it in there okay
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all right so
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uh i'm gonna measure out third of a cup
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of buttermilk okay let me do that well i
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mean you got it honey uh i'm used to
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working like an octopus you know i just
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pull an extra arm
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from my chest
9:30
this looks grand now if you just start
9:33
adding or dry to this okay so i want you
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to tell me about saturday night live
9:38
okay let's gossip we can tour yeah
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you know all the characters don't you
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know i do i have been a huge fan well in
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my house i think when i was about nine
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years old i had to sneak and watch it
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because i wasn't really pretty
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allowing one two yeah just yet and i
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would sneak in there and i would watch
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that show i thought that was the best
10:00
thing i'd ever seen you ever had any
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idea that you would be one of those
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oh i never could have i never could have
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imagined in a million years i mean
10:10
yeah do you all have as much fun
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on that set as as it looks like y'all do
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i think that or is it's stressful
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i'm going to say both i've got a shadow
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you know yeah
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and you're on be funny
10:27
we'll add your banana mixture okay
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there we go
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that's great
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i've got this mixed up so if you would
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uh stir us in about a half a cup of
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raisin okay and i'll get out our
10:47
loaf pan because we're gonna we're gonna
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make this in a loaf okay
10:52
all right
10:54
sprinkles i'm just gonna spray our pan
10:56
so this will come out
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nicely for us i don't want the children
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to
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have crumbled up
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sandwiches yeah all right so if you
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would just pour that into our loaf pan
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okay and then we're gonna throw this in
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the oven melanie okay
11:15
okay so melanie yes
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if you would put that in the oven please
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dear for 50 to 60 minutes it's 350 y'all
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okay while you're doing that
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i'm gonna be making your children
11:28
some chicken nuggets oh good i've got
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three
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boneless breasts if you would cut these
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into about three strips
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and we're just gonna make nuggets if you
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just help me do that okay no fingers
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nuggets nuggets oh okay
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and up here in front of us i've got some
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flour it doesn't matter cup or two
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whatever you think you'll need i'm gonna
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break an egg here okay if you would
11:52
measure us about a cup of pan coke okay
11:55
right here all right cause we're gonna
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do these in steps
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as they're set up here okay so a cup of
12:04
pink oh right there okay and we're
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putting a packet
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of ranch seasoning you know just the dry
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packet that you buy from the grocery
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store that's what i want that you mix
12:15
with buttermilk or mayonnaise or sour
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cream
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so do our dry packet i'm gonna add about
12:21
a half a teaspoon of salt and you throw
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us in
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um a cup of panko melanie okay and then
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i'm gonna start running our nuggets
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through the flour
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run it through the egg and then just
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throw it into the pin cup
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[Music]
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i'm gonna just put these in the fryer
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basket okay
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and i'm gonna just ease them down into
12:51
our grease
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we're gonna take a little break by the
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time we get cleaned up and come back
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uh the nuggets will be ready
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and you don't want to miss a second with
13:02
this funny lady coming up we're
13:04
finishing the peanut butter sandwiches
13:06
look at that adorable sandwich and then
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we're gonna get started on our sinfully
13:12
sweet chocolate dirt cupcakes and later
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melanie takes dessert to the extreme
13:18
y'all you're not gonna believe
13:21
how good that is
13:24
i hope y'all are enjoying the show and i
13:26
wanna hear from you tell me what recipes
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or videos you'd like to see me make by
13:32
just leaving a short comment below
13:34
now let's get back to the show y'all
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[Music]
13:41
they're ready honey i think they are
13:44
you are smoking
13:46
you can just hang them right there now
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okay y'all look who is in the kitchen
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with me
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one of my favorite people from saturday
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night live
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melanie hudsol i can't believe she's
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here i want to pinch myself earlier
14:02
y'all melanie and i made some banana nut
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bread because we're gonna make banana
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nut bread sandwiches
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we've got a little peanut butter and
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honey so you can kind of do as much as
14:14
you want okay just put it on it let it
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go out the sides a little bit melony
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uh because we want so a little peanut
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butter to peep out yeah because we're
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gonna just roll the edges in peanuts
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see how we've done
14:28
look at that adorable sandwich
14:31
i love that you know it looks great and
14:34
that's great
14:35
so perfect okay okay there's two more so
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i'm just gonna kind of dunk them over
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here okay
14:41
and let's taste this stuff
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[Music]
14:47
that is so good
14:50
i love it
14:51
see how now that is creative i couldn't
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have thought of that
14:55
oh yeah i don't know i think my favorite
14:58
thing though says chicken nuggets how
15:00
are those burgers darling that's
15:02
delicious
15:03
that is so good i think we've hit on
15:05
some winners for you honey absolutely
15:08
but we've we've got one other thing to
15:10
make these children okay it's not over
15:13
yet
15:14
we got to make them a dirt cake okay
15:17
so let me just tell everybody quickly
15:19
what we're gonna do okay i'm gonna
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measure out two and a quarter cups of
15:24
all-purpose flour okay and over there
15:26
melanie you have an eight-ounce package
15:28
just a sour cream right
15:31
two cups of sugar
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a little vanilla
15:35
three-fourth of a cup of unsweetened
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cocoa a half a teaspoon of baking powder
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one and a half teaspoons of baking soda
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three eggs a half a teaspoon of salt
15:49
one cup of vegetable oil and one cup of
15:53
decaffeinated coffee all right now we're
15:55
just gonna beat the heck out of it
15:57
we got our dirt cake batter
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all right what is it like now you're
16:02
getting back in the work field aren't
16:03
you getting back in there doing a lot
16:05
more writing and stuff like that
16:07
screaming
16:08
i am i am that's where it's at and what
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you got to do
16:13
really yeah all right melanie our batter
16:16
is nice and smooth and we're ready to
16:18
get them into our paper lined muffin tin
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so all we're gonna do is just scoop up
16:23
our batter and this will make about 36
16:26
cupcakes y'all so enough for the
16:29
children and a few friends
16:31
and we're gonna do that about
16:34
you know two-thirds of the way maybe
16:36
okay you really put your career on hold
16:39
to have those children
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i think the hardest thing for me
16:43
as far as career and and stuff like that
16:46
is
16:47
not living close with my own family yeah
16:50
you know i think it was like about a
16:52
year and a half ago
16:53
i just got really homesick i got up at
16:56
three o'clock in the morning
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and i turned on the television
17:01
and who was there
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you were
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you don't mean it i had slipped in your
17:06
bedroom girl
17:08
you had you kind of
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helped that get rid of that homesickness
17:13
all your recipes that's just how i grew
17:15
up just like the mama cookie that's how
17:18
mama cooked that's the sweetest that's
17:20
really true and that is the sweetest
17:22
thing you could say to me you want to
17:24
bake those cupcakes sure sounds good
17:27
i tell you what if you'll slip them in
17:29
melanie
17:30
we're gonna bake these for 16 to 18
17:33
minutes in a 350 degree preheated oven
17:37
coming up melanie reveals her
17:40
over-the-top creation oh my god
17:44
and finally we're topping off our
17:46
chocolate dirt cupcakes
17:50
i so hope y'all are enjoying the show
17:53
and if you do be sure to click like
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17:59
so you'll never miss a video and we'll
18:02
be right back after the break
18:07
my talented and funny friend melanie
18:11
hudsol has just one little thing left to
18:14
show y'all
18:15
[Music]
18:16
hey y'all ah
18:18
how are y'all doing
18:20
y'all i am so excited about this next
18:24
segment that i'm about to do
18:26
i developed this recipe with my boys
18:30
jamie
18:31
and bobby
18:33
when they were little it's called a
18:36
chocolate-covered stick of
18:41
yo it's butter popsicle it's gonna knock
18:43
your socks off y'all so come on over and
18:46
let's get started
18:48
all right now i'm gonna take your stick
18:51
and you're gonna stick it
18:53
in the stick
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a butter
18:59
and there we go and i like to start with
19:01
the chocolate
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and your marshmallow cream
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some milk
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that has been sweetened and condensed
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[Music]
19:16
some powdered sugar that has not been
19:18
sifted you don't want to forget your
19:20
cherry y'all
19:24
oh my god
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[Music]
19:38
you're not going to believe
19:41
how good that is
19:45
yo
19:47
after that there's only one thing to do
19:49
finish our chocolate dirt cupcakes we're
19:52
going to beat these up yes honey just
19:54
like this
19:55
get your anger out y'all there you go
19:57
yeah get those sandwich cookies girl
20:00
there we go
20:03
we did it up good honey now we've got a
20:06
chocolate icing cause we we've made dirt
20:09
cupcakes for her children yes we did um
20:13
so we've got chocolate frosting careful
20:16
with that
20:19
let's just slap that stuff on there just
20:21
slap it on flap it on that can do that
20:23
themselves
20:24
can't they yeah
20:26
because they like to be a part of it
20:28
don't they they do well we got over here
20:30
we got words
20:38
you can't you can't forget the dirt from
20:40
the dirt cakes
20:42
no look at that dirt yeah and that's
20:44
stupid
20:45
there we go
20:52
oh my gosh
20:54
look at that
20:57
look at that look at that dirt cupcake
20:59
beautiful in that beautiful isn't that
21:02
gorgeous
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[Music]
21:06
[Applause]
21:07
[Music]
21:09
yum
21:10
i so enjoy being with you today i'm not
21:14
a very neat eater y'all
21:16
it's been an absolute honor being with
21:18
you today
21:20
i love you like a sister yeah
21:23
i love you too girl you're so funny
21:25
[Music]
21:29
hey y'all it's paula dean now if y'all
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