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Mini Meals in Minutes | 3 Simple Dinner Recipes - Paula is sharing easy recipes for dinner, including a mini pizza recipe and an easy chili recipe. Paula’s Home Cooking, Season 5, Episode 4.
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00:00 Intro
1:08 Mexican Pizza Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/mexican-pizza/
3:45 Chili in a Biscuit Bowl Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/chili-in-a-biscuit-bowl/
12:06 Mom's Banana Dessert Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/moms-banana-dessert/
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- Hey, y'all I'm Paula Dean
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and today we're fixing
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no-fuss meals that won't take but just a few minutes.
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First up on the hot and bubbly mini Mexican pizzas
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that's just dripping with an ooey, gooey cheese.
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And then I've got hot and chunky chili served
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in the cutest little mini biscuit bowls
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that are just bursting with flavor.
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And finally, I wanna show y'all Mama's banana dessert.
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It's so sweet and creamy,
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you won't believe how good it is.
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So get out your plates and napkins
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'cause it's mini meal time, y'all.
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Y'all know, I don't know how it happened, but somehow
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in my later life, I became one lucky chick.
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You can see I'm here in our backyard
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and I'm just enjoying this beautiful sunny day.
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And you know, sometimes you don't want your meals
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to be this huge production.
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You want to just have real casual food.
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So today is all about quick mini meals.
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Now I'm gonna start
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by making some mini pizzas and I've got my pot heatin' here.
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I'm gonna put a little oil in there
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and I'm gonna saute quickly some bell peppers
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and some mushrooms.
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You can see I had my pot hot.
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And think, for this pizza,
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I wanna make like a Mexican pizza.
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Instead of using a pizza sauce,
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I'm using a jarred salsa and I'm gonna be using one
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of the store-bought pizza crust.
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These are wonderful.
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Now I'm gonna take a large biscuit cutter,
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and you could put anything in here that you wanted to.
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You could use zucchini.
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You could use onions.
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What I've chosen today though
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is the mushrooms and the bell pepper.
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And do y'all know what I'm using as a table today?
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Michael has had this thing around the house
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or around in the yard for years.
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It's a trough that holds water for horses.
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Michael and his daughter, Michelle, and Anthony
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are just huge horse lovers.
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They love to ride horses.
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All right, now I've got our pizza cut out for our crust,
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and now I'm gonna take just a jarred salsa
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and you can use anyone that happens to be your favorite.
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And I'm just gonna put a little bit
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of that on each one, just like that.
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The children in my family love Mexican.
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Karrie and Michelle could eat it four times a week easily.
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I think our vegetables are sauteed enough.
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I don't wanna saute 'em,
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I don't want them to be like mushy.
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Now I'm gonna put a little salt and pepper in the veggies
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and toss those around.
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And then I'm gonna put these own each of our pizzas.
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This is also fun to do after everybody gets to your house.
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Everybody can make their own pizza
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and put anything you want.
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You can have a variety of everything.
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Some people love black olives on their pizza.
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All right, now I'm gonna put these in the oven
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and I'm gonna bake them for a few minutes
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and then I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna cheese 'em.
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But right now, look at the boat.
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Hey!
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(Paula laughing)
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I can't tell from this far who that is,
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but I know I know 'em.
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The next thing I wanna show you today
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is chili in a mini biscuit bowl.
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Now we're gonna start with two cups of biscuit mix
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and 2/3 cup of milk.
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And I'm gonna put, because it's chili,
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I'm gonna put just a little cayenne pepper in it,
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just to give it a little kick.
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So you can see, I got some mini muffin tins sitting here.
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We're just gonna mix this up.
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And if you wanted to, you could even add cheese to this mix.
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All right, you can see how easy that came together.
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Now we're gonna take our muffin tins.
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And instead of cooking in 'em this way,
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we're gonna cook on 'em this way.
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And I'm gonna spray them with a little spray
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so that our biscuit mix will stick.
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And I'm just gonna rub a little on my hands
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and I'm gonna come over here and I'm gonna pinch off
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a piece of biscuit mix about the size of a walnut.
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And then I'm gonna flatten it and I'm gonna put it.
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I wanna move things around so y'all can see.
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Can you see?
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Right, now, I'm just gonna form that little bowl
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around our muffin tins.
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Now I'm gonna use every other muffin
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because if I tried to make them side by side
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on every one of them, they would stick together.
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You know, 'cause they're gonna puff up some.
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Just flatten it, and then I'm gonna go to here
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and get our next bowl going.
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You can see how easy this is
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and you could season this up any way you wanted to.
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Now, if you wanted to make your bowls a little bit bigger,
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you could, you could use the medium-sized muffin tins,
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or if you wanted to make a big bowl for everybody,
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you know, they make those muffin tins
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that are like jumbo size that are like that big.
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Y'all can see probably how I'm dressed today,
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that it's a little cool here in Savannah.
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And I got some heaters going around me
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and I can hear them crackling and popping.
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It sounds so good.
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All right, now let me show y'all a little trick.
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I'm gonna come behind each one
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and flatten our biscuit bowls out,
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so when they come out, they'll have a smooth bottom
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and they won't sit cattywampus, you know, and rollout.
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So these are ready
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and we're gonna stick these in the oven.
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And when I come back,
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I'm gonna finish up those pizzas for ya.
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So y'all, don't go anywhere
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'cause today we're noshin' out with Mini Meals in Minutes
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that are delicious.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
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And if you do.
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Be sure to click like, subscribe and
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notification bell so you'll never miss a video.
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And we'll be right back after the break.
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And look at these cute little biscuit bowls.
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Aren't those the cutest,
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aren't those the cutest little bowls?
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We're just gonna sit those aside for a minute.
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Now I'm gonna pull out our pizzas.
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Now you can do this any way you want to.
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Oops.
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But I think that I'm gonna top these with cheese.
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And you can see they're steaming
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'cause it's a little nippy outside.
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And I've got some cooked ham here.
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And you could use bacon or beef or chicken,
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anything you wanted to.
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And I'm gonna run these back in the oven
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and just let that ham and cheese melt.
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All right, now while that's melting,
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I'm gonna come over here and I'm gonna make our chili.
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I'm gonna start with a pound of ground chuck.
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So this is probably 90% lean and 10% fat.
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Personally, when I'm making chili for us to eat
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by the bowl, I use a link sausage,
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I use ground turkey and I use ground beef.
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I just love all those flavors mixed together.
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But for this, I'm just gonna use the ground chuck
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and I'm gonna brown it off
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and I don't even think I'm gonna have to drain it
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since it's a chuck,
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so there shouldn't be much fat in it.
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And now I'm gonna toss some onion
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and some diced bell pepper.
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And give that a toss.
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All right, now I'm gonna add a little salt,
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a little pepper,
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and two tablespoons of chili powder.
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This is really starting to smell good.
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(wood spoon banging)
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And our cheese should be about melted on our pizzas.
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And I guess y'all have noticed
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that I'm not in my own kitchen today.
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I'm not in my regular kitchen, but you know,
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Michael and I are building a house here in Savannah
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on the water.
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And you can see where all the shrimp boats
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are kept right down the way.
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And there's just nothing more beautiful
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than seeing these old shrimp boats coming down
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this little bitty creek.
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Now our cheese is melted.
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Those are piping hot.
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Now I'm gonna take one of these out for ya
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and put right there.
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Now I think I'm gonna finish this
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off almost like a taco since I've used the salsa
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as a base, and I'm gonna put some lettuce on it
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and sour cream and ooh, I wish I had some green onions,
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some green onion tops, but look how good that is.
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And I think you can't have too much cheese.
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All right.
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I can't hardly wait to dig in, but before I do that
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I've got to finish getting everything in our chili pot.
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Now I'm adding the red kidney beans and I'm adding a can
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of Mexican-style tomatoes.
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So they've got some seasoning in them too.
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So we're just gonna put that in there
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and let this simmer, I'm gonna give it a quick stir.
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Oh, doesn't that look good?
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And I got a full pot.
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Ooh, great time of day.
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That looks so good.
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I think I'm gonna sit that plate on top of it
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so it can get hot quick.
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And now I'm ready to taste.
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You know, I'm weird about something.
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I love ripe olives to just stand up here and eat.
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In fact, I've been munching on them while I was piddling
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around back here, but I don't like them on my pizza.
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So I'm gonna forego that, but I do love sour cream.
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Look how delicious that looks
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and the pizza crust is so crispy.
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It's gonna be like eating a fat crouton.
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(pizza crunching)
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This is perfectly yummy.
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When we come back, I'm gonna show y'all
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different variations that you can do with this little pizza.
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We're gonna finish up our chili,
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and I'm gonna be making Mama's banana dessert.
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So you don't want to miss out one.
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It's just out-of-this-world delicious.
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So I'll see y'all back in a minute.
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I hope y'all are enjoying the show
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and I want to hear from you.
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Tell me what recipes or videos you'd like to see me
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make by just leaving a short comment below.
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Now, let's get back to the show, y'all.
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We're back and I'm ready to pull together
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the last thing that's just gonna complete
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all of our little mini meals today and that's dessert.
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Now I'm putting some nuts in.
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I've got some pecans and I'm gonna throw them
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in the oven and I'm gonna toast those off
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because when you toast them, it just really pulls out
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the oils in them and the flavor.
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And while those are toasting,
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I've got two cups of heavy cream,
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and I'm gonna whip this up along with some sugar.
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(hand mixer whirring)
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And I'm gonna
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just load this up.
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Load the whipped cream up into our bag.
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And I'm gonna nip the corner
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because I am using a small-rimmed container.
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And I'm gonna start with a banana.
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And I'm gonna do these last so they won't turn brown on me.
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But if you're in a hurry and you wanna do these
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ahead of time, just put a little lemon juice
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on them and that'll keep them from turning dark.
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I love bananas and they are a wonderful source of potassium
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which women really need.
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And I smell our nuts.
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Let me go ahead and get these out.
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So I'm gonna drop about four bananas down in there.
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And I'm gonna come in here with our bag
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and put some whipping cream.
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Now I'm gonna come in here with a little chocolate syrup
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and just drizzle over this.
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This is almost kinda like a mini banana split.
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Now I'm gonna come back in here with a couple
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of more bananas.
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Now I'm gonna crush some cream-filled chocolate cookies.
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(rolling pin banging)
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It's gonna be so good with those bananas
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and that chocolate syrup.
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Looks so good.
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And then we're gonna come back
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with some more whipping cream.
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And some more chocolate syrup.
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And then I'm gonna top these with our toasted nuts.
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And I'm just gonna kind of crush the nuts
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in my hand.
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And look how delicious that looks.
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So we've got our bananas and the beauty of this dessert
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is there's no cooking to it.
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The hardest part is whipping the cream
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and of course there's nothing to that.
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And then last but not least, the things that make desserts
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so stinking good is pecans.
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How delicious do those look?
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Now I'm gonna come in here and just get our chili.
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Now, if you don't wanna pre-make these,
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you can just have a basket filled with your little bowls
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and people can come by and fix their own.
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In fact, you could keep your chili in a crock pot
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so it stays nice and hot in case you don't have a stove.
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So when everybody has a little mini bowl of chili,
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the chili's gonna be piping hot.
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Now I kept around a couple of things that I used
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on our pizzas that to me go really well
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with our chili bowls.
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You know I'm a condiment girl.
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I love my condiments.
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So I think I would like mine
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with a dollop of sour cream and maybe just a little cheese.
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And I've got some fresh chives here.
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You can use chives or you could just use a green onion,
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but just for color,
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I'm gonna use a little fresh chive on mine.
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Doesn't that look yummy?
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(Paula chuckling)
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So good.
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When we come back, I'm gonna show y'all some ways
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that you can mix up your pizzas and please everybody.
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So y'all don't go anywhere 'cause we still eatin'.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
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And if you do.
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Be sure to click like, subscribe and
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And we'll be right back after the break.
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Okay, today's tip
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about your mini meals.
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You saw that I made the Mexican pizza earlier.
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Well now I'm gonna make an Italian pizza and a Greek pizza
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and I'm gonna use an olive tapenade for the Greek.
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And I'm just gonna spread that around.
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And that's gonna serve as like our base, like the salsa did,
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and like the marinade for our Italian.
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Just a little fresh spinach,
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put on my that.
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And then I'm gonna top it with feta cheese.
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And onto our tray those go.
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Now for our Italian,
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I'm gonna use a nice rich tomato sauce.
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Now you can buy this from the store
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or you can make your own.
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And I'm gonna use provolone cheese.
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You can make any pizza you like.
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You could do salmon.
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You could do pineapple.
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Now I'm gonna throw these in the oven.
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All right, now I've got some that's already ready
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in the oven and I can hear those little things sizzling.
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I'm gonna put these in and let them get ready.
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Now, on our Italian pizza,
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I've got some prosciutto and I'm just gonna come in here
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and make us some slices and put that on top
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of the provolone cheese.
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And just that easy, we've transformed
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that regular little pizza into three different kinds.
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And I hope your family's gonna love every one of them.
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You got something for every taste.
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I love prosciutto.
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You know, my family and I are notoriously big eaters.
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We love a big hearty meal, but sometimes even us big eaters
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like to just spend the afternoon or the evening,
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just kind of grazing
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and making that meal last all night long.
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And this is just perfect for us.
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The Italian, the Mexican and the Greek pizzas.
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I've got something for everybody's taste,
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and these adorable little chili cups in a biscuit bowl
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everybody loves.
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And last but not least, Mama's banana dessert
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in the little bitty glasses.
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I think it might be all right if I have two of these.
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I hope that your family likes some of these recipes
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and y'all will try them when you're in a mood
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to graze all night.
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So until next time America, I always send you love
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and best dishes from my family's kitchen to yours.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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