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Full Episode Fridays: Pocket-Friendly Meals - 4 Budget-Friendly Meal Ideas | Family Dinner Recipes
Dec 30, 2022
4 Budget-Friendly Meal Ideas | Family Dinner Recipes - Need cheap meals on a budget? Paula and Jamie are sharing deliciously cheap fast dinner ideas for family. Paula’s Best Dishes, Season 8, Episode 11.
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00:00 Intro
1:00 Nutty Orange Chicken Salad Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/nutty-orange-chicken-salad/
1:20 Grilled Marinated Flank Sandwiches Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/grilled-marinated-flank-sandwiches/
8:00 Deep-Fried Squash Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/deep-fried-squash/
16:20 Peanut Butter Parfaits Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/peanut-butter-parfaits/
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signed today's meals are all about
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pocketbook meals Jamie and I are going
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to show you how to cook up some big
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flavor on a small budget we're cutting
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every corner but the taste Corner up
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first it's going to be Jamie's mouth
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watering nutty orange chicken salad it
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is so delicious y'all then how about a
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grilled flank steak sandwich y'all
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topped with a bacon horseradish sauce I
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just love it and then next the perfect
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side crispy deep fried squash
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and later our family friend is coming
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into the kitchen y'all we got a hungry
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college kid here today with us and he's
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going to help us make a delicious yet
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Thrifty peanut butter parfait save me
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some money honey
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hahaha
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Jamie and I are trying to help you with
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your food budget today that's what
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everybody wants is good food yes at a
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fair price absolutely we're going to
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start one of my favorites what's that
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we're doing a chicken salad
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nutty orange chicken salad I'm gonna
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start with two chicken breasts and I'm
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going to add a couple of things in here
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that's going to make it different from
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the chicken salad that y'all might do
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and it really gives it a texture and a
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sweetness that is is so good so I'm
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gonna start here mama what are you doing
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in addition to Jamie's nutty orange
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chicken salad we're gonna cook a flank
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steak off this is going to be so good on
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a sandwich and it's certainly uh less
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expensive cut of meat all right son I'm
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going to get our marinade going and I am
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going to start with 3 4 a cup of soy
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sauce
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you want me to do this garlic for you
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yes please and um I'm gonna add a fourth
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of a cup of olive oil
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bringing this to one cup and I've got my
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resealable plastic bag nestled down in
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an old fruit jar and that's going to be
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my extra set of hands three tablespoons
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of Worcestershire sauce and chicken
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salad is one of my favorite things to
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eat and I just put this in boiling water
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y'all it's just as easy to boil your
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chicken especially for a chicken salad
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just poach it off yep I'm gonna chop up
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a couple of good sized chicken breasts
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here and get it in you make some of the
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best chicken salad potato salad I don't
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know who taught you all those things oh
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actually I know who taught him those
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things I know that you know back in our
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bag lady days I was in charge of all the
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cold salads you know one of my favorite
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salads that we did son was with the rice
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and the heavy heavy black pepper and the
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green peas with the avocado chicken with
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avocado dressing I'm telling you people
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couldn't get enough of that all right
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now I've got our marinade mixed up I'm
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going to add about two teaspoons of
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pepper but I'm not going to add any salt
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because I have 3 4 cup soy sauce and
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that's almost entirely salt where you
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want that garlic right in there son
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if you can't have chicken salad without
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boiled eggs mama you know I can't I got
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two boiled eggs I forgot to add the
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lemon juice so would you squeeze me
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about two tablespoons of lemon juice and
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that'd just be the whole lemon
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you dope you know we can't have our
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chicken salad without a couple of
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hard-boiled eggs yes now I'm gonna put
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our meat in here
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and we're actually gonna let this
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marinate for eight hours y'all so you
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have to do a little little plan in the
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head on this one but it's worth it I'm
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gonna just make sure my meat is totally
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covered with that I'm gonna put walnuts
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in this chicken salad I just love it
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okay so in the refrigerator this goes
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Jamie
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all right in we go for eight hours
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okay Mom I got our nuts going in I'm
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gonna put a little bit of mayonnaise in
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here do you want to help me with the
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onions and celery yes
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I do I do now I don't have a measurement
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on this mayonnaise you're going to want
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to just start small because you don't
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want it want it too wet and if it's too
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dry you can always add a little bit more
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but it you would just have to pay the
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devil to get this mayonnaise out of the
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salad once it's mixed up I'm telling you
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I'm gonna put maybe maybe a half a cup
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in here I'm just going to start with A
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little dab
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and see where this gets us
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I might have hit it right the first time
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I'm going to put a little bit of salt
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and pepper in here well that ain't your
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first rodeo son is it it's not I could
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almost really literally do this while
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I'm sleeping
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you see I've got some Mandarin oranges
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we're going to garnish this with
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mandarin oranges today but in the
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holidays how much onion do you want son
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I'm gonna need about a quarter of a cup
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okay well then this should get you but
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in the holidays I will put the oranges
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in here I will put apples in here you
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can put pieces of pear in here chicken
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salad and you know I used to make a lot
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of grape you know I've always loved
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sweet and savory and the and the
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sweetness from the grapes with the
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chicken is awfully good the sweetness of
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the fruit is a great compliment with the
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chicken salad so pretty much anything
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you can put in here when we were running
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the bag lady y'all when we first started
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out I made every Speck of food myself
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but I was in charge of complaining mama
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was in charge of cooking he was in
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charge of that I was good at my job but
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I finally our routes got so big that I
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had to have some help and because Jamie
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had a natural Flair and knack for the
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kitchen he was elected I was in charge
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of the South so he was in charge of all
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the cold salads okay now I'm going to
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Plate this up for us Mom I'm gonna put
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this on some butter lettuce I'm using
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this today because it's mom's favorite I
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know love love love but in the
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summertime if you can find a fresh
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tomato and just kind of score the top
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and spread it open and scoop this into
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your tomato and put a little bit of
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parsley on top gorgeous gorgeous
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gorgeous really good which is just as
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good so y'all stick around
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coming up next we're gonna be getting
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our flank steak on the grill and frying
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up some yummy yellow squash delicious
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and then our friend Arthur King y'all is
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coming in and gonna be putting together
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the most amazing peanut butter parfait
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I so hope you all are enjoying the show
6:12
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right back after the break
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today we're working on budget friendly
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meals we're worrying about your
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pocketbook for you and if there's
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anything that I love more than a good
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good meal saving money is saving me some
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money honey yes cutting every corner but
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the taste Corner yes which is fully
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intact on this show yes yes yes speaking
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about Flavor now look at look at our
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steak we have been marinating this steak
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y'all yes it smells so good I'm gonna
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throw a rice
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yeah four or five minutes per side we're
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using a flank steak y'all a lot less
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expensive than filet mignon a quarter of
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the coffee all the flavor all right now
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while our steak is cooking I'm gonna
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slice us up some squash okay and we're
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gonna fry them up now Jamie's gonna mix
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up our dry ingredients I'm gonna slice
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our squash I've got four yellow squash
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here you know y'all it's all about the
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seasons when they're at their Peak
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they're the most inexpensive I'm gonna
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go ahead and do this y'all so I've got
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mama with the squash I'm gonna put one
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cup of cornmeal
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cup of meal one cup of all-purpose flour
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got a half a teaspoon of baking powder
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and I love love love love love all the
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flavors that are in Creole seasoning so
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I'm going to add three tablespoons of
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Creole seasoning here Mom
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before I turn it around I'm going to add
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a salt and pepper yeah but add a big
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pinch of salt son because you're working
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with all purposes here which contain no
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salt all right now son I have got my
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squash sliced and
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so I'm gonna
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break three eggs
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into my bowl uh oh
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the shell I don't charge extra for that
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y'all a little bit of shell in there
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and I'm gonna pour about a half a cup of
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Buttermilk in
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and I'm just eyeballing that
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and I'm going to beat that together and
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we're gonna run our squash through our
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eggs and buttermilk so that our dry
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coating will stick
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and now I'm just going to throw my
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squash right in to our buttermilk and
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eggs
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and you can see about how thick I've
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sliced them
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I don't particularly want these too thin
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but I don't want them too thick either
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I'm going to turn our steak Mom okay
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looks
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delicious Sun
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so they're ready for you son when you're
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ready
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okay sounds good I'm gonna get these
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coated up really well we're going to
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drop those down in the deep fryer y'all
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and uh
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let them cook until they're nice and
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brown
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all right those are looking good these
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aren't going to take that long yeah I
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wouldn't handle them too much until that
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coating has a chance to get brown and
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stick to them good some but they're
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brown and nice and quick
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look at those yum these aren't gonna
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take one second I'm going to turn that
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down it's just a hair over 350 degrees
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on the deep fryer so I'm gonna put it
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exactly on 350. how about our meat we'll
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get about two sandwiches out of that
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don't you think
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we're on the edge of golden brown yeah
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those are probably done they look
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wonderful
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you know and it's a great nutritious
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healthy vegetable
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it was we're frying it
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it was about five minutes ago and peanut
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oil
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but you know you can't have everything
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uh two out of three ain't bad
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this is just gonna be so dadgum hot it's
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gonna be fire hot look at that it's
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perfect
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foreign
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s together and make a little sauce to go
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with it
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[Music]
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coming up next our friend stops by to
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help mix up the perfect compliment to
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our flank steak sandwiches that's
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delicious then it's a creamy peanut
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butter parfait
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I hope y'all are enjoying the show and I
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want to hear from you tell me what
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now let's get back to the show y'all
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hey y'all welcome back today is all
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about budget conscious meals and look
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who just popped in I've been wanting to
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introduce y'all to this young man this
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is artha King and Arthur goes with one
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of Michael's nieces Kara and their
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students at she's at UGA I'm at
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Gainesville in Gainesville Florida or
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Georgia no no not Florida Georgia
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Gainesville Georgia well listen y'all
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Arthur is making quite a name for
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himself on the website he is teaching
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college kids how to cook on a budget and
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have delicious meals so we are going to
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help Jamie put together these wonderful
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flank steak sandwiches sounds great I'd
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love to help got to work for my food yes
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all right well we're gonna work on a
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mayonnaise bacon horseradish sauce okay
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to put on our sandwiches so if you would
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chop the onions and the bacon I'm going
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to be measuring out the mayonnaise one
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cup of mayonnaise yes ma'am well while
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you're doing that I'm going to show you
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the steak now this is a flank steak
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which is a steak that you can afford to
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do at school and it's got all the flavor
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but the trick here y'all is you got to
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know how to cut it and you're going to
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cut it in an angle as much as an angle
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as you can and super thin because
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there's so many fibers in this meat
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that's going to cut down on the amount
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of fibers that are in each piece of this
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meat perfect look how do you like your
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meat awesome just like that kind of very
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close to medium rare if you cut it this
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way you can chew it I'm gonna add Arthur
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a half a teaspoon of lemon zest yes
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ma'am to my sauce and Jamie
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that steak looks incredible we marinated
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this Arthur for about eight hours in a
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soy sauce so this should be full full of
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flavor without spending a ton of money
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right and we start putting my
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ingredients in yeah go ahead and drop
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yours in and then if you'd cut that
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lemon in two for me yes ma'am get the
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seeds out uh-huh I don't need but like a
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half a teaspoon of this okay so how big
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is your kitchen oh not very big smaller
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than this countertop I thought it looked
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very small because I've watched him on
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the website yes ma'am
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this steak is perfect y'all good and
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this calls for four teaspoons of
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horseradish Alpha yes ma'am but I think
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I'm going to start with two and let's
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taste it and see what we've got sounds
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good to me
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so stick your finger in there I can't
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draw that tell me if you think it could
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stand a little bit more horseradish I
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don't think I'd mess with it you don't
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think so you want to taste I trust
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Arthur
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all right Arthur we gonna put our
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sandwiches together so just just get
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busy son
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[Music]
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forgot about this you got to try the
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squash and I'm gonna put a little bit of
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this sauce next to it yeah we didn't do
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a sauce for these squash this would be
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delicious on the squash as well as on
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the sandwich yes ma'am you just throw
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that right in there on the bun yes
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that is delicious oh I'm so glad you
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like it hmm
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delicious
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I'm gonna have to try that when I get
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home that was that was very good that
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steak is perfect I mean it is perfect
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just take care of how you cut it because
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if you were if you were to cut this
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straight up and down it'd be so tough
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you wouldn't be able to try it you
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wouldn't be able to chew it with George
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Washington's wooden tea
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it's really super good
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delicious well do you make mini desserts
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off them in the kitchen I do I'll make a
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couple I don't bake too much but I've
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got a couple desserts okay well Jamie is
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gonna make us a wonderful parfait okay
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I'm doing a peanut butter that's what
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you did I'm gonna work on one part of it
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okay and I've gotta and I'm gonna work
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on this part yeah
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I got a quarter of a cup of powdered
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sugar
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and a cup of peanut butter okay and I'm
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gonna
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this is not gonna be the easiest thing
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so to incorporate
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let me help
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I'm gonna mix the peanut butter and the
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powdered sugar together and kind of get
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it married up a little bit because to
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this I'm going to add three ounces of
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cream cheese
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all right so also we got to do our part
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to help Jamie here we've got our two
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cups of milk and if you'd come over here
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you can man this mixer and then we've
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got one small like the three ounce
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package of an instant chocolate pudding
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right here yeah just start mixing okay
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and um when we come back we're gonna put
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these parfaits together yes ma'am we're
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going to add a lot of other good stuff
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that sounds great well y'all do that I'm
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gonna eat sandwich you're doing a good
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job this happened coming up next let's
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dig in it's gonna be a mouth-watering
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peanut butter parfait this is amazing
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this is so good
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foreign
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y'all welcome back I'm in here in the
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kitchen today with Jamie and Arthur King
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offer is
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um a college student that really has to
17:23
cook he cooks every night of the week he
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said but he has to cook on a budget
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and that's what we're doing today we're
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doing budget meals we are fixing to fix
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the most wonderful little
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easy easy parfait so Arthur if your
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slices some bananas okay you've made the
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chocolate pudding yes ma'am and I've got
17:46
some peanuts here that I've chopped I've
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got these peanut buttery cookies that I
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love so much
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I adore these have you ever had these
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yes ma'am I love those things so I'm
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going to be chopping these up because
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this is going to be a layered dessert
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it's going to be so good too I've got
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what I started with down here peanut
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butter powdered sugar and cream cheese
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and I'm gonna fold in some whipping
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cream
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into this peanut butter that's gonna
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make that peanut butter uh concoction so
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much lighter y'all I'll probably put
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about a cup of cream into this I'm gonna
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hold some back for the top all right so
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y'all ready to start assembling yes
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ma'am all right Arthur if you would take
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our parfait cups and let's start with a
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layer of chocolate pudding okay layer of
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bananas pass it to me I'll put a layer
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of peanuts a layer of the cookies and
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then Jamie can do his magic with his
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peanut butter concoction yes ma'am
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foreign
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[Music]
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layer of peanuts
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all right a layer of our cookies and now
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on to you son for the next layer this is
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our peanut butter
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with oh my gosh look how white that
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whipping cream made it y'all
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that looks amazing done yes ma'am
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it's so simple and easy and you can do a
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different take on this kind of dessert
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off of just changing up your pudding and
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um your cookies all right so another
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layer of this
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another layer of this
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and pass it to you for another layer of
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bananas and then chocolate yes ma'am
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okie doke
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oh I need to get my bananas don't forget
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those that's the healthy part yeah
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Amy okay
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garnish it because it looks like our
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parfait bowl is full yes ma'am
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um why don't you put a little layer of
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just the white cream don't you worry
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mama
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I think Jamie's on top of this situation
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y'all yes he is oh great Arthur on to
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you Jamie
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I think Arthur a family that cooks
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together
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stays together yes ma'am that's very
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true
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well let's dig in sounds good
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um
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that is delicious good do you need a
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moment in the closet yes ma'am yes ma'am
20:41
I need to go sit by myself
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so I hope these have given y'all some
20:46
great ideas today
20:50
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