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00:00 Intro
0:43 Minted Lamb Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/minted-lamb/
3:14 Smashed Potato Cake Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/smashed-potato-cake/
7:39 Southern Cornbread Salad Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/southern-cornbread-salad/
13:28 Simply Delicious Strawberry Cake Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/simply-delicious-strawberry-cake/
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do you know what we're doing today we're
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gonna be preparing a lovey-dovey meal
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and i'm in the kitchen with my favorite
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man
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i can't wait for this romantic meal
0:11
y'all i'm treating my michael to a mini
0:14
lamb
0:14
shoulder paul had a little lamb i'm not
0:17
so sure why because we had plenty of ham
0:21
a smashed potato cake overloaded with
0:24
all the fixings
0:25
oh these are getting bigger and bigger
0:27
daddy
0:28
a beautiful southern cornbread salad
0:31
and you can see that this is gonna have
0:33
real pretty colors michael
0:35
and for dessert we're gonna be spreading
0:37
the love with a simply delicious
0:39
strawberry cake
0:40
i'm gonna prepare us a minute lamb
0:44
you like lamb don't you oh i love it you
0:46
know lamb is not one of those
0:48
dishes that uh michael and i eat a lot
0:51
of
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because we're so busy eating seafood and
0:54
steak and things like that
0:57
but i've got us like oh it's probably
0:59
two and a half three pound
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uh lamb shoulder and michael what we're
1:05
gonna do is make a marinade
1:07
okay i'm gonna need a half a cup of
1:10
volleyball
1:11
okay i'm gonna need a fourth of a cup of
1:13
honey
1:14
and a quarter of a cup of wine vinegar
1:17
and i'm gonna be
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[Music]
1:19
chopping us up some garlic and some
1:23
fresh thyme for our marinade
1:25
and you can just whisk it all together
1:27
right in that
1:29
uh big measuring cup michael okay
1:32
i'll do it so what's your most romantic
1:35
meal
1:36
i love standing rib roast that's one of
1:38
my favorite you do
1:39
love standing rib and i love it with a
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bone in don't you
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that's why i like you girl
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[Music]
1:48
so that's a quarter of a cup of wine
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vinegar well i've got the garlic coming
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i want to get it minced up real good
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i'm going to do a couple of tablespoons
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of fresh thyme and a couple of
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tablespoons of fresh mint
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how much time is that a minute
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he's funny it me girls he's not just
2:11
cute he's funny
2:14
i tell you what michael you be mixing up
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that
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mint and i'll be mixing up the time
2:23
oh this time smells so good put that man
2:27
in there boy
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[Music]
2:31
all right grab your meat
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throw it in the bag
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and then we're just going to pour our
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marinade
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oh my gracious it smells so good now
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what we're going to want to do y'all
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is let this marinate for at least one
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hour
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but you know if you want it stronger
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then just
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do this the night before mikey if you go
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down and wash your hands
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i'll do it i'm gonna get my little
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lovey-dovey started on the next dish
3:06
i'm ready we love meat and potatoes
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though i'm telling you
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well we got our meat taken care of
3:13
so we're gonna be making now a smashed
3:16
potato cake
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so we've got some yukon gold potatoes
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that we have cubed and we have cooked
3:24
them
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so honey would you drain those in the
3:27
colander
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and i'm going to kind of just be picking
3:30
up for a second
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okay and pour them back in there
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[Music]
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and i'm gonna bring these up here
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and if you would be grating us some
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cheddar cheese
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and we'll need you know half a cup to a
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cup depending on how cheesy you like it
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and i'm gonna be cutting this up about a
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half a cup of green onion
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so what i need for you to do now michael
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is
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take these potatoes and mash them up for
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me
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so i'm gonna be getting our other
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ingredients together
4:09
all right so i've got our one egg that's
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slightly beaten
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now i'm gonna need a clove or two of
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garlic
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and michael if you would i'm gonna need
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a fourth of about a fourth of a cup of
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butter
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it's right there in the butter dish so a
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fourth of a cup would be a half a stick
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i've never heard you use a half a stick
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of anything butter
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tell everybody what song you were
4:36
singing before the camera started
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rolling
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paul had a little lamb i'm not so sure
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why because we had plenty of ham
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you'll see what i mean he turns my
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tickle box over okey-doke those look
4:56
beautiful honey
4:57
all right now we got a half a cup of
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bacon cooked over here
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you can dump in your cheese okay we'll
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dump in the garlic
5:08
and the green onions and now if you
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would measure out a quarter of a cup
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of sour cream look it up we're gonna put
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sour cream in there and while you're
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doing that
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i'm gonna come down here and i'm gonna
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put like three tablespoons y'all of
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olive oil
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in our pan and michael we need two cups
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of
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panko bread crumbs they're a japanese
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bread crumb
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and they make things real real crispy
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and then
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i'm gonna take about a cup
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a cup and a half over here because
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once we form our potatoes then we're
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gonna encrust them in that pan coke
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breadcrumb stuff here let's get the egg
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in there
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there we go and i want to put a little
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salt and a little pepper
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i was with you until you did the panko
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stuff
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then you lost me okay doll baby
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okay so we're gonna form these into
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little patties
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oh they're still very very warm just
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like this
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please all right so michael i'm just
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gonna
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put that potato cake down in that panko
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put a crust on it yes we're gonna put a
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crust on it
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so you can make these different sizes
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oh these are getting bigger and bigger
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daddy
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look at those ya'll we cook them three
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or four minutes on each side
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until they're nice and golden brown
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don't these look
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out of this world how about giving your
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little wife a kiss
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okay get you one
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[Laughter]
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coming up we're gonna create a southern
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cornbread salad hope it tastes as good
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as it looks
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i'm telling you and we continued cooking
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up our mini lamb
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oh good it's searing up nicely and later
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y'all
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i'm gonna show you how to take a box
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cake mix
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and have your man follow you anywhere
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i so hope y'all are enjoying the show
7:23
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7:24
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[Music]
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michael if you just drain that corn i'll
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do it i'm gonna make us
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a cornbread salad well that sounds great
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i'm gonna take some savory cornbread
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that i've baked off
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uh-huh but before we do that what i'd
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like to do michael
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can you sear the lamb for me put a
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little olive oil in your pan okay
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all right take your meat okay and just
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pull it out of your bag
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and what we're gonna do is we're gonna
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sear this off
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don't hear what he says i want this meat
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seared all around
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okay so that the juices will hold in and
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i'm going to come down here and i'm
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going to take our cornbread let me grab
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some cheese i
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sure do i'm going to need two cups of
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cheese pass me
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uh pass me the the red kidney beans
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now i'm cutting this cornbread
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you know in little one-inch cubes i've
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actually had this salad put together a
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couple of different ways
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i've had it before where you crumbled it
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but you know i might just kind of do
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like that while i'm putting it in there
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but i'm i'm not gonna crumble it i'm
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gonna leave it in kind of
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cube so i get more cornbread in each
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bite
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and i'm probably going to use just a
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couple of cups
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and that's going to be the base to our
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wonderful salad
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my next layer here is a can of kidney
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beans that i've drained
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just evenly all over the top of that
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cornbread i could try for almost a
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minute
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yes we're doing a cornbread trifle
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salad that's exactly right
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and then i'm gonna layer the corn next
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and you can see that this is gonna have
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real pretty colors
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michael uh-huh going all through it
9:30
how's our lamb oh good it's searing up
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nicely
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you can see michael that i'm searing
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that off
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in my cast iron because that cast iron
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will get so nice and hot
9:42
for me uh-huh and i just like the way
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that sears
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all right now what do you need me to do
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you get your tomatoes
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and you do them right here and then
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just dice them up for me
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michael yes you know we've never
9:59
discussed this
10:00
much uh-huh being on tv how how has that
10:04
affected you
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i knew as a child that it would be just
10:08
a matter of time before somebody
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discovered me so i knew i was gonna be
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on tv
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um oh you did oh sure i did but
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um before i met you it was it was like
10:20
maybe
10:20
on america's most wanted or something
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like that
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well i got a story but the other day
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when i went to bunker bubba's oyster
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house hank went with me
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wait wait wait y'all for those of you
10:32
that don't know a lot of people do know
10:34
this
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hank is michael's brother and hank was
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home fisted
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so we had to make a trip to bubba's it's
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one of our favorite places to go
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and um this lady she came up to me and
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said uh
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are you michael paula's husband i said
10:50
yes i am
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she said it's so good to see you where's
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pauline i come all the way from north
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carolina to meet her i see you got the
10:56
booby prizes you get to meet hank my
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brother
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so michael what we're gonna do now
11:05
uh-huh
11:05
is that sear it all right get you a
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piece of tinfoil
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i'll do it and we're just gonna cover
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our pot we're gonna cook it right in the
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cast iron uh-huh
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cause that's already hot so when we put
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it in the oven it won't
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have any cool down time uh-huh we're
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gonna cook it to
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internally 180 degrees
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and that's gonna take two to two and a
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half hours y'all
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now i'm finished up with our
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layer of bell peppers
11:40
all right now let's come over here and
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i'm going to take these beautiful
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tomatoes michael
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that you have cut so lovingly
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and beautiful and i'm just going to pile
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those
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up hope it tastes as good as it looks
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i'm telling you
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and now let's go ahead and add our layer
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of cheddar cheese
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[Music]
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we're gonna put about eight ounces of
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just a buttermilk dressing
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right stressing yes so this is 16 ounces
12:15
uh-huh that's about halfway so about
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half a bottle but you know sometimes i
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don't always
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quite go close directions sometimes i
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have to say oops
12:26
i like plenty i like plenty of dressing
12:30
and see i want it to
12:32
i want it to run down yes
12:36
it sure looks good doesn't it look good
12:38
now all we have to do is
12:39
put this in the refrigerator and we're
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gonna let it chill for about two hours
12:45
oh yeah yeah you want to just stick it
12:47
down in the refrigerator drawer
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why not yes look that fits perfect
12:53
down in there now you get to cleaning up
12:55
your mess yes ma'am let's fall
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[Music]
12:58
coming up the easiest strawberry cake
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ever
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and we're gonna have a good old time
13:05
and later we show off our minted lambs
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[Music]
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13:15
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13:17
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13:21
now let's get back to the show y'all
13:27
[Music]
13:28
i got michael in the kitchen with me
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y'all and for my lovey-dovey meal with
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my husband
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i am fixing to make a simply delicious
13:37
strawberry cake all right michael uh-huh
13:40
if you would take those strawberries
13:44
laying right there i got them now these
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are just frozen thawed strawberries
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uh-huh
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that i bought from the grocery store
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about 15 ounces worth
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just puree them and i'm gonna be adding
13:57
them to my
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cake mix now i am using just an 18.25
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box of cake mix and this is a white cake
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mix that i'm using
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[Music]
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to my cake mix i'm gonna add a small
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package of strawberry gelatin
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and now i'm gonna add four eggs oh
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that's great you can be the beater man
14:22
okay all right well wait wait wait wait
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wait wait
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you don't mind very well do you sure
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you know what why do you do them
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separate cause i want to check each egg
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to make sure it's all right
14:38
okay i don't want to ruin the whole bowl
14:42
okay
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now i'm going to add a fourth of a cup
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of water
14:51
give me this thing michael please thank
14:54
you
14:55
now if you'd measure me out a cat half a
14:57
cup of vegetable oil
14:59
adding the vegetable oil will make our
15:01
cake nice and moist michael
15:04
all right now you can beat it baby okay
15:07
and i'm gonna be cleaning up
15:12
what i love about cake mixes they're so
15:15
easy you can just dump them in the bowl
15:18
you don't have to have this fancy
15:20
technique
15:21
all right michael what you can go ahead
15:24
and add our strawberries now
15:26
okay i don't want any on my white shirt
15:29
i want to stay clean for our meal yeah
15:32
and then i'm gonna let my hair down and
15:34
we're gonna have a good old time
15:38
now i've got us two cake pans over here
15:40
y'all that i've sprayed real well
15:43
so our cakes will come out nice and they
15:45
won't stick to the pan
15:47
and i'm gonna bake our cake layers for
15:51
20 minutes at 350 degrees
15:55
so what i need you to do michael is take
15:58
our batter
16:00
take our batter and divide it equally
16:03
now
16:03
among our cake pans okay
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you don't want one layer to come out
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real fat
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and the other one to come out real
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skinny okay
16:19
okay so let's start eyeballing this
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now i like to take my cakes and kind of
16:26
drop them on my counter
16:28
and as i do that you can see bubbles
16:31
rising
16:32
to the tops little air bubbles that are
16:34
in our batter and that'll prevent our
16:37
cake from having holes all
16:38
in it those bubbles are just a bursting
16:44
that is perfect you know what michael
16:47
what i think you might be to something
16:50
all right let's get these in the oven
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cause
16:52
i'm really getting hungry and you know
16:54
what i know baby our
16:55
our our lamb is in that oven let's put
16:58
these in a little
17:00
in the little oven all right so we're
17:03
gonna move on down here michael
17:05
and you can man the equipment
17:09
sounds good the heavy equipment now i'm
17:12
gonna take
17:14
a half a stick of butter okay and
17:18
i'm gonna take this eight-ounce package
17:21
of softened cream cheese okay this has
17:24
been sitting at room temperature and you
17:26
can see
17:27
just how soft this is
17:30
we're gonna make a cream cheese icing
17:34
and it's gonna be delicious now you just
17:37
mix that up
17:38
and when we come back i think our
17:41
lovey-dovey meal is ready to pull
17:43
together don't you
17:44
well it's looking good it is looking
17:46
good
17:48
you know what what i love you i love you
17:52
more
17:54
you will be back no i don't
17:57
coming up we top our simply delicious
17:59
cake with a cream cheese frosting that's
18:02
kissed with the flavor of strawberry
18:04
doesn't that look delicious
18:07
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18:10
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18:24
so michael you're getting a lamb out i
18:26
am smells good
18:28
it does smell wonderful and look at my
18:30
cake layers
18:31
ooh i can't wait look i mean you divided
18:34
them perfectly
18:36
two perfect the same size cake layers
18:40
oh look how good that looks oh gosh it
18:43
shrunk didn't it michael oh yeah
18:47
looks good though
18:50
michael if you will slice the lamb
18:53
and be plating that up i'm gonna put
18:55
together a frosting
18:56
i'll do it if y'all remember i had my
18:59
cream cheese and my butter
19:01
now i'm gonna add about a half a
19:03
teaspoon of strawberry
19:05
extract and because
19:09
i'm not able to use that many
19:11
strawberries in my frosting
19:13
i'm gonna add just a few drops of red
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food coloring
19:17
because i want it just a little pinker
19:20
and that should do it
19:21
perfectly now i'm going to put in a
19:24
fourth of a cup
19:26
of pureed strawberries because you want
19:28
to be careful
19:30
that you don't put too much liquid or
19:33
your cake frosting will just roll off
19:35
your cake
19:40
looks good good
19:44
all right to my cream cheese and butter
19:48
i'm gonna add seven
19:51
don't have a heart attack seven cups of
19:54
powdered sugar
19:55
and now you have to remember powdered
19:57
sugar is
19:59
so fine that it doesn't equal like
20:03
one cup of regular granulated sugar
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[Music]
20:10
all right so that's four so i'm gonna
20:12
beat this up a little bit
20:14
and then i'm gonna add my last three
20:24
it's time to frost this beautiful cake
20:34
that look delicious those potato cakes
20:38
look amazing michael oh i'm telling you
20:40
dig deep on that salad michael
20:42
get down in there and get all the
20:43
cornbread and the real
20:46
good yes doesn't that look yummy okay
20:48
i've got the cake
20:50
oh good there you go my precious michael
20:54
the king of our home oh i'm gonna try it
20:58
delicious are you eating your cake now i
21:01
did have a piece i don't know why you
21:03
have to wait to
21:03
laugh so you really do like the lamb
21:06
oh yeah i thought i was gonna be bad
21:10
[Music]
21:11
you did
21:16
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