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00:00 Intro
3:18 Aunt Peggy's Meatloaf Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/aunt-peggys-meatloaf/
5:59 Okra and Tomatoes Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/okra-and-tomatoes/
8:51 Peppermint Pie Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/peppermint-pie/
11:02 Peppermint Bark Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/peppermint-bark/
15:20 Cottage Potatoes Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/cottage-potatoes/
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0:00
(soft beat music)
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- Hey y'all, I'm Paula Dean.
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And today we're going back
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to the time when poodle skirts ,hula-hoops
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and TV dinners were all the rage.
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I'm gonna give you a taste of those good old times again.
0:12
First we're headed to my hometown of Albany, Georgia,
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to get the twist on some peppermint sticks.
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And then it's back to my kitchen
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where we're making Aunt Peggy's meatloaf,
0:21
and then it's okra and tomatoes and cottage potatoes,
0:24
that are just the perfect sidebar for this meal.
0:26
And finally, it's peppermint cream pie
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and peppermint bark, a dessert that's so refreshing
0:31
and light you'll feel like dancing all night.
0:34
To open up the snack tables and invite a few friends over.
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We're going to be taking a trip down Comfort Food Lane.
0:42
Hey y'all,
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today, I'm gonna take y'all back to my past.
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I'm gonna to take you to visit
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Bob's candy company where the
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McCormick family is King of peppermint.
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Y'all come along with me.
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We gonna do the peppermint twist.
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(upbeat music)
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- Greg, I don't think I've ever seen
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so many candy canes in all my life in one spot.
1:06
- [Greg] Well, you know, Paula, we make
1:07
a billion candy canes that's with a B
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per year following.
1:10
Paula I want you to meet my two sisters
1:12
that work in the business with me.
1:13
This is Mary Helen Doug,
1:14
- Hey Mary Helen, great to see you.
1:16
- Hi Paula, am Julie Rose,
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- Hi Julie, nice to see you.
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- Welcome, welcome to Bob's Candies.
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- I can hardly wait to (claps)
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get my hands on some of that.
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- [Julie] Well lets get you some gloves and get going.
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- Do I need my safety glasses back here?
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- Most definitely.
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- Those would be some style and safety glass.
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(laughing)
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- What is this Greg, that looks delicious.
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Oh, now Paula, that is the candy, the sugar
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and the corn syrup that we've taken off the cooling table,
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and we put it onto the pulling machine and just to air going
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inside the candy turns it that satin and the white color
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and that's where we put the peppermint flavor in.
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Okay. Paula, now he's taken the white, all the pin slab.
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And if you look its' got little lines on there
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that's going to show him where to
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put the pin stripes on there.
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- [Paula] All right now just stretch it,
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and put it where? Right there ?
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- Right here.
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- You make it look so easy Charlie.
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- Well I've been doing it for 23 years.
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- I will have a crooked cane.
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- [Charlie] Right about the center
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- [Paula] Alright, in the center, Is that the center?
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What is that weight?
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- [Greg] That weighs about a hundred pounds.
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And this is called the batch roller Paula,
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and that takes that big batch of candy
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and it's going to narrow it down to a lot smaller size,
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where it goes through those rollers.
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To give you this exact size candy cane that you want.
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- [Paula] Now how long will it take?
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- [Greg] That will take about 20 minutes.
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- [Paula] When are y'all gon show me everything Julie,
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But how do you get the handle in that candy cane?
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- Well that's a secret Bob's candies is
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gonna have to keep.
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Let's just suffice it to say it's not done by ELs.
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Paula, we thank you for coming
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and we want you to take this back to your kitchen
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and do great things with it.
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- Thank you, thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you, McCormick's Bob.
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Wonderful time in your candy shop.
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Y'all mean so much Doug Beanie,
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And I will put these to good use.
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- [Mary And Julie] Great!
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- Good to see you.
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(door bangs)
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- I hope y'all had fun in my birthplace in Albany, Georgia.
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In Bob's candy company.
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It was so much fun.
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Really took me back to the sixties.
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I got some peppermint and I'm gonna put it to the side
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because we're gonna move right on to our entree
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which is a wonderful fifties and sixties dish
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an old fashioned meatloaf.
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Just like my mother and my aunt Peggy
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and my grandmother used to make for you
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starting to think I'm going to get rid
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of these fun glasses.
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We're going to start with the ground beef
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a good ground beef, maybe an 80, 20, something like that.
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All right, we're gonna kinda break it down
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just a little bit,
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and we're gonna add a teaspoon
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and about a quarter of salt.
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And a deepen fourth of a teaspoon of the pepper.
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All right. Now, I've got like a half of a large onion
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and a diced bell pepper.
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And we're just going to mix that in there with that.
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Oops, forgot to take my jewelry off.
4:07
Did I show y'all my engagement ring that Michael gave me?
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I don't want that meatloaf fall in those rings.
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All right. So we're just gonna mash that bell pepper
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and onions up into the hamburger meat.
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Kinda get that incorporated.
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Along with that salt and pepper.
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We gonna take one egg(shell crushing)
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And give it just a few beats.
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Just a little bit.
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And then we're going to add,
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a fourth of a cup of oatmeal
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and this just gives your meatloaf a
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real lightened fluffiness to it.
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And then we gonna take a can of just diced tomatoes
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and their juice.
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Squish, squish.
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So you can see
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I'm starting to try and work that into kind
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of a loaf shape right now.
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I'm just gonna take that out
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and put it into our dish.
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And the thing I like about my Aunt Peggy's meatloaf
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is she doesn't top it with just ketchup.
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She takes a fourth of a cup of ketchup,
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and about tablespoon of mustard,
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couple of tablespoons of Brown sugar
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and just mixes those together.
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And the Brown sugar is so good in there.
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You know, just kind of get that meatloaf
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just a little sweetness on the outside.
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And we're just gonna brush that on our meat.
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Doesn't that look yummy.
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So this one's ready to go in the oven
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and we gon put it in a 350 preheated oven
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and we're going to let it cook
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for about 45 minutes to an hour.
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Before we know it
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We're gonna have a wonderful aroma coming from the oven
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but while we're waiting on that to cook,
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I want to show you another favorite
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from the fifties and sixties and that's okra and tomatoes.
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Now I've started with some chopped up bacon
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and I'm gonna add to the bacon one chopped onion
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and you see how much garlic a good bit.
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I gonna dump all that in.
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So we're going to saute it until it's kind of transparent
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and I'm gonna put in a large can of diced tomatoes.
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Now, if it's tomato season by all means, use fresh.
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All right, now we're going to add
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a tablespoon of chicken base.
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And we're gonna use, add a tablespoon of sugar.
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It just give it a little kind of sweetness.
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Now gonna let this cook for about 20 minutes.
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In fact, now already have some tomatoes right here
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that have been cooking.
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So we're just gonna throw our okra over in here.
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And I'm probably using two cups of okra.
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Look at the colors, aren't they pretty?
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So, we just gonna put the lid on that and let that cook
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until the okra is done probably, about 10 or 15 minutes.
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And let's see what we've got right here.
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And see how they've lightened down color
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so that lets us know that they're done.
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So, that really completes that dish
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that's how simple it is.
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Let's check that oven and see how
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the other meatloaf that I've gotten
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in the other oven is doing.
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Oh, it looks so good.
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Look at that meatloaf.
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Don't that look good.
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I can smell those bell peppers.
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I'm gonna, just try one of those little in-pieces.
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come over here and get me some of that okra and tomatoes.
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Don't it look just yummy.
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It's so hot.
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So Good.Takes me back to my aunt Peggy's table.
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When we come back, we're gonna be doing the
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peppermint twist in a peppermint pie.
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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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Hi, y'all caught me just gathering everything up
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to make our peppermint pie.
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This is going to be a perfect ending to our meal.
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We gonna start with heavy cream,
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and a cup of crushed peppermint
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and I'm going to do this the old fashioned way.
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(pounding)
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Okay. That looks to be about a cup.
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I'm gonna mix my gelatin with a little bit of water
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and let that dissolve for a second.
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And we gonna pour up peppermint
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into our cream,
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and we gonna stir this until
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our milk is totally incorporated.
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We gonna add our gelatin
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and this is going to act as our thickening agent for our pie
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and you don't want to walk away from your pan on this.
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It shouldn't take too long for that candy to melt.
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I actually have some ready right here.
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We'll just switch as, and let it melt.
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And you'll find that when you melt your peppermint
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that it turns up real, pretty caramel color.
10:03
Now our candy and our cream has cooled off nicely.
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We gonna fold it into whipped cream
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that's been whipped to a nice peak.
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So just gon make sure I get all the goody
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out of this sauce pot.
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Now you want to be careful when folding
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in your melted candy because you don't
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wanna break down your whipping cream.
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We've got that mixed in.
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So all we're going to do is pile this
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into a store-bought chocolate Cracker crumb crust.
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And if you want to, you can make your own
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out of Oreo cookies they are so good.
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And we're just going to pile this in
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and stick this in the refrigerator until it's sit.
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And you see how, when it's mixed with a whipping cream
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it's almost has a little light pinkish cast to it.
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Okay? So we're just going to stick this in the fridge
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and let it sit, which it won't take long
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because it's got that gelatin in it.
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And while that's setting up,
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I'm gonna show you how to make
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the easiest peppermint pine barks so simple.
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For this one now, I've chosen
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some of the just hard candy canes
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and you can use any kind of peppermint you want for this
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but we gonna just take, Oh! About that maybe.
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And we gonna just take this and break them up
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and I'm not going to break these very fine
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'cause, I like to really crunch into the peppermint.
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Now, I've got a couple of pounds of good
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white chocolate Melten over the heat
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and that look delicious.
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See how that's just smooth and right on out
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with that little bit of flame going into it.
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And I'm gonna put about,
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maybe a half a teaspoon of peppermint flavoring.
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But we gonna have the peppermint from the candy
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and the peppermint from the flavorings
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that white chocolate looks yummy though.
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All right. Now, all we gonna do.
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We don't wanna melt our peppermint.
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So, we're not gonna stir it in until
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we're totally done with the heat.
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And I've got, just an ordinary cookie sheet
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lined with parchment paper
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and I'm just gonna fold that candy into that chocolate.
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And then we're just gonna spread it all onto our pan,
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now, you can make it as thick with the candy as you like,
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just gonna spread that out
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and you can just hold onto your piece of paper
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so it won't slide away with you.
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Ain't that pretty the way you can see the pieces of candy.
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All we gonna do is chill.
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Then we're gonna stick in the refrigerator.
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And I happen to have some already cooling in here.
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That's ready to break out.
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And I've got a pie ready
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and I've even got some more whipping cream.
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- So see how simple that was.
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And you have a great candy and it just lifted right off.
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Now, all you have to do is just break this
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into any shape you want
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in as big a piece as you want.
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This is a fun little thing to have the children do.
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So, our peppermint bark is ready.
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- I like my pies.
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Like I do my hairdo real high.
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So I'm gonna bring this one up a little bit
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by adding whip cream to it.
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Now I'm using heavy cream.
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That's been sweetened with a little sugar
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and I'm just going to pile that nice and hone it.
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It almost looks like Marang, don't it
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now to finish our pie.
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I have some crushed peppermint candies
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and I'm just gonna give it a little sprinkle.
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Don't that look delicious?
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So simple and easy.
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You'll wanna work your crust away from your container.
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I'm going to put me Just a few sprinkles on my plate.
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Oh, damn. That look good.
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And I think out to chase that piece of pie
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with some peppermint bark don't y'all?
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Oh gosh, it looks delicious.
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See why I put those crumbs on that plate so
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I could take my fork and go in and get me a few extra
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Hear the crunch?
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- So, D-licious, this is hard to beat, but coming up next
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we're going to do some old timey cottage potatoes.
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So I'll see y'all in a few minutes.
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I hope y'all are enjoying the show
15:07
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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No retro meal would be complete without a potato.
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So, we're fixing to make an old timey dish cottage potatoes
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but I'm gonna show you a new twist to 'em.
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Now we're gonna use, three large bacon potatoes.
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These are more like a medium.
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So I'm probably going to use about five of these.
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So all we gonna do is slice them
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()
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and you don't have to be perfect
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because we're actually gonna wind up mashing these up,
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but you want them close in size.
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So they'll all be done about the same time.
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All right now what we gonna do is cover those with water
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and I'm going to throw a little salt in the pot
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with them and just boil those until they're tender.
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Those look just delicious.
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We're going to add a little salt to them
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and I'm using a nice kosher on these
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and a little black pepper.
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All right. Now the recipe calls for
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two tablespoons of butter.
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That looks like two tablespoons to me.
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Don't it to you? (laughs).
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You know, I never was real good at measuring.
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All right. So we're going to take our masher
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and you can see I'm using an old timey masher
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instead of an electric mixer
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'cause I don't want these real creamy.
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I still kind of want them in chunks.
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I just love a potato.
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I know y'all have heard me say it before.
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If you were gon send me off
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to an Island and say, Polly, you can only have one food.
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I would choose the tater.
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And that's about how I like 'em.
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Now we gonna take just ordinary Cottage Cheese
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and stir into those, those look good.
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Just like that.
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Don't be Missy.
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I've got some onions sitting around here
17:08
to throw in that lemme find my onion here it is.
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We gonna, just toss in some onion
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and those will still be kinda crunchy and good.
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We just going to pile them into the casserole dish.
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I'm going to spray it so they won't
17:26
stick to too badly on us.
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Now, if you wanted to, you could actually even jazz this
17:32
up with some sour cream, with a little mayonnaise or milk
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it'd be delicious on it,
17:38
but I'm going to do this just like the recipe calls for
17:40
in my cookbook.
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Kinda mash those down in there.
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And if you liked it hot, you can even add some jalapeno.
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We're just going to sprinkle this with paprika
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and the paprika. will give it a nice brown look.
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And why don't we just for good measure (laughs)
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take the rest of our butter.
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That two tablespoons doesn't need to
18:03
be sitting there by itself.
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So we'll just, top the top of this with
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a little bit more butter.
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And we gonna to stick this in a 350 degree preheated oven
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and we're gonna bake it for about 30 or 35 minutes.
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()
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And I have one over here that should be ready.
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And it is, look how good it looks.
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It's sizzling.
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Here. It's sizzling.
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(chuckles)
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It's so good y'all.
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coming up next.
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Some old timey tips, for today's great foods.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
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And we'll be right back after the break.
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You know, some folks just don't like a greasy meatloaf.
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Well, let me tell you how to solve that problem.
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You just land your bacon dish with whatever kind
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of loaf bread you've got in the house
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and it soaks up all your grease
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and you just take your spatula
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and lift your meatloaf out onto your platter
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just that simple.
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And on the okra,
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if you can't find fresh okra, it's not a problem.
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because the fresh frozen okra is so very good.
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You can buy it in whole pods
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or you can buy it already cut up
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whatever you dish calls for.
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Hope these tips will help you.
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I hope y'all have had fun with me today,
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going back into the past
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with some fun old meals from the fifties and sixties.
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I hope you'll love my Aunt Peggy's meatloaf
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and the cottage potatoes,
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and Bob's peppermint candy pie and the peppermint bark.
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And of course my okra and tomatoes.
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Hope you have a great time at your own party.
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In the meantime America.
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I wish you best dishes from my kitchen to yours.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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