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In this episode, Paul is picked up by the Savannah scooter club and together they scooter off to a picnic. In Paula's picnic basket, she packs a chicken fried steak, mud pie, a side of garden pea salad and some rolls to top it all off. Paula's Home Cooking Season 02, Episode 08.
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hi there i'm paula dean and i'm so glad
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y'all have dropped in because i've
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invited the local scooter club to come
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pick me up and take me for a ride later
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and a country cruise just wouldn't be
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the same without a picnic so first i'm
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gonna pop out to my favorite chocolate
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shop to pick out some premium
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marshmallows and then we're gonna head
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back to the house so i can get to going
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on my country fried steak and gravy
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fixings and then next we'll have to get
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our marshmallow madness going with a
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mouth-watering mud cake straight from
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heaven and then it's a side a garden
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piece salad and these easy rolls that'll
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balance your picnic perfectly
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so pack up the old wicker basket and
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grab your helmet honey cause we got
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scooters to ride
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up early in the morning
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i'm getting ready today to go on a
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picnic with my scooter club friends
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and the whole meal is gonna be super
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super simple but i am going to a little
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bit of trouble fire dessert i'm going to
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be making a wilmington island marsh mud
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cake
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and you think marshmallows are
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marshmallows
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no i'm going to take you to where
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they're made by hand and fresh
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so hang out with me this morning cause
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we gonna bake a cake
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[Music]
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hey michael hey paul how you doing i'm
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fine how are you doing very good
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good what can we do for you today well
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i'm here to get some of your homemade
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marshmallow gee i'm sorry we don't have
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any more
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don't kid me like that serious we don't
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have any more but
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we are going to be making some right
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away if you want to come join me i would
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love to
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all right anything special i need to
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know before i dip
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don't drip don't drip okay
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[Music]
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oh
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i
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almost uh oh
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i almost dripped didn't i
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[Music]
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i can't tell y'all how much fun this is
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is that enough michael
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for a thin one sure that's enough now
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what you want to start doing is you want
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to spread it into the corners first get
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those corners
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don't touch the paper
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try not to touch it go to the corners
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first
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use your finger
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there you go
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all right what will happen next how long
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will this have to sit well basically uh
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from the time we finish up this batch
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it's gonna sit for about 30 minutes okay
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and then we start cutting it great okay
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paula this is all finished okay i did
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good didn't i mine so good look at that
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it's nice and even let me just check it
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out fin it's going to be perfect let me
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wrap that up for you
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i can't tell you
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how much fun i had with you today i'm
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really glad this was a lot of fun
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you want to take it yes i want to take
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it all yours all right well you just
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help me get out of here help me through
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the doors all right come on
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is there a special way to tote this nah
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just run out the house how about like
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thea that's good
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michael thanks so much well it was my
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pleasure you're the man you're the
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marshmallow man baby
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[Laughter]
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thanks you're welcome it was fun thanks
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driving now
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[Music]
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i bet y'all never seen a marshmallow
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that comes packaged this way have you
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well i had not either
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let's see if we can kind of peek in that
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marshmallow
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like no other
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i'm going to leave it sitting right here
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because what we're going to do right now
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is we're going to go to our entree
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and we're gonna do country fried steak
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now i have added about three quarters of
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a cup of oil to my pan to fry my steak
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in so we're gonna let our grease heat up
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and while we do that we're going to
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prepare our steak i'm going to show you
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how my mother used to do hers now we're
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going to take this and season it
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just with our house seasoning
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and we're going to take a regular
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seasoning salt
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and then we're going to flip those over
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and do the same thing to the other side
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all right
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that's it now we're going to bring it
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over here and just dredge it
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in the flower just like that i'm gonna
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put them back in the pan
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now this is what my mother did she would
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take our little bowl of water
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and just
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sprinkle that meat just like that
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and then we're going to run it through
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that flower one more time
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and that's just going to give it a
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little extra crust
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that's all the water is for
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i'm going to just drop our steak in
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there and we're going to fry this very
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fast because we're going to make a gravy
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and we're going to return the steak to
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the gravy and then let it cook for a
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while until it's tender
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as soon as this browns we're gonna flip
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it and brown it on the other side
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and take it up and then we're gonna make
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our gravy
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all right now see it's starting to brown
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all right it won't be but another minute
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or so and we'll be taking this up
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and i tell you what while our while our
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steak is finished browning why don't we
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come on over here and we'll slice up our
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onions
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and we're going to just use a yellow
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onion
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cutting it into small wedges
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all
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right our steak is ready
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so we're just going to take it out and
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throw it over here
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on the plate and let it drain for a
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minute
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now i'm going to take this pan
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and just pour off
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most of our drippings
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gonna leave two or three tablespoons in
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the pan
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all right now we're gonna take our flour
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and we're gonna make a quick roux
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so i'm just going to keep adding the
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flour
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until it's the way i like it
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all right and i'm going to add our black
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pepper
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all right and i'm going to add some
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i think i'll just put our house
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seasoning in it's got a little pepper in
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it
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that's all right
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and we're just gonna stir that around
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until it gets
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nice and brown okay i think our roux is
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brown enough now i'm going to the sink
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and put some hot water in this pan
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all right
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that's just an old habit of mine
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since my early cooking days i've just
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always turned to the faucet you can see
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i've got it pretty thin now we're gonna
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put our steak
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back in here in the gravy
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this is going to be so good
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all right now i'm going to top it with
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the onions
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and these onions are going to just give
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it a wonderful flavor
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okay we're just gonna cover this pan now
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and forget it's there for a little while
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let it get real real tender
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oh looks so good
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this looks so yummy
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country fried steak and gravy
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is probably the epitome of good comfort
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food y'all hang around because coming up
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next
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i'm going to make that wilmington island
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marsh mud cake using that homemade fresh
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marshmallow
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[Music]
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all right i'm getting ready to make that
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wilmington island marsh mud cake
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and
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michael at the marshmallow shop showed
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me a secret so i'm gonna put my water
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right there and we're gonna get to that
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in a minute but right now we're gonna
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start the cake part
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this cake is amazingly simple we're
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going to start with our cocoa
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and our melted butter
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so so
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easy we're going to just
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kind of beat that butter
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and cocoa together like that to kind of
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just get it going
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all right now we're going to lift that
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up and we're just going to dump
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everything else in
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the sugar
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the flour
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i'm adding all-purpose flour
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and a pinch of salt
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we'll add the four eggs
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i tell you one of the biggest fans of
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this cake is michael
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all right
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teaspoon of vanilla
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all right
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now you saw how simple that was all i'm
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going to do now
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is fold in our pecans
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before i put our cake batter into our
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pan i'm going to show you a trick that
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michael at joe mart gave to me he told
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me to take a sponge
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with a little water he said it didn't
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matter if it was hot or cold
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and just wipe that paper
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and that will loosen
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the marshmallow
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i see it starting to crinkle
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and i'm going to do the same thing with
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the top
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so let's
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let's see if michael was telling the
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truth
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well so far so good
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now let's see if it'll come off the
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bottom that's going to be the real test
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thank you michael
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i think he's made marshmallows once or
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twice don't you
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he knew what he was talking about
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all right we've got it loose now
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and i'm just going to let this sit right
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here
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while our cake bakes
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so
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back to the cake
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okay now we're just going to take our
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spatula
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and spread it evenly in our pan
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so we're gonna put this in our oven
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and let it bake
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and while it's baking
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we're gonna make our icing for this cake
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all right i'm gonna start by
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scalding about a half a cup of milk
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and we're gonna start
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with a one pound box of light brown
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sugar
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and i'm cutting back on this to a half a
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stick of butter so we're going to cream
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this now we're going to go ahead and add
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our cocoa
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all right our milk is scalded
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so i'm going to just pour that right
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into there
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and i'm going to go ahead and add
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a teaspoon of vanilla
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and that icing is ready to be poured
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over that warm chocolate cake
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oh
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looks so good you can see it's pulled
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away from the sides just perfectly and
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i'm not gonna waste one second
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and lay it right on top of that hot cake
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all right now we're going to pour this
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icing while it's warm on top of that
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marshmallow
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you know what i think i'm going to go
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ahead and cut me out a little piece
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while while the chocolate's running
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um
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see it
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all right
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oh look
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marshmallow heaven
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i'm kind of cheating by having my
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dessert
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first but when i get through with this
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i'm gonna be making up some garden peace
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salad and easy rolls
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[Music]
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i promised y'all that this meal was
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gonna be super simple
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and i'm good to my word
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english peas just canned english peas
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i'm to take these
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and drain them real good
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we're going to put
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hard-boiled eggs in it
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and i never dice mine i just take them
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and squish them up
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i'm gonna add some onion
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a little bit of salt
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a little bit of pepper
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and i put a little
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diced pimento in it
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now we're going to moisten this
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with a little mayonnaise
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that's it
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all right
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this meal
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just keeps getting easier and easier
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i'm going to show you these rolls that
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i've been making
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since i was 19 years old
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it's self-rising flour
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a little bit of sugar
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milk just regular sweet milk
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and mayonnaise
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and it's kind of tastes like a cross
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between a
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roll and a biscuit
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this is a great little recipe because
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you don't have to roll the bread out or
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knead it or any of that stuff you're
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just going to drop it by the spoonfuls
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into the muffin tin
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just like that
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and i think you'll be amazed at just how
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good
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this is
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but if you only want to make nine
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biscuits it's fine just
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put your little water in the rest
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and into the oven we're going to cook
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these for about
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12 to 15 minutes all right those
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biscuits should be about ready so i'm
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gonna take out the
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garden peace salad
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and give it a quick stir
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and then see if those little golden
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biscuits are ready
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and they are
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um
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such satisfying flavors
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y'all stick around cause i got a
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few tips for you before we leave
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[Music]
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just a few thoughts that i want to share
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with you when you're making your
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wilmington island marsh mud cake you
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might want to substitute marshmallow
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fluff it works very very well and when
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you're serving your garden pea salad you
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might want to think about serving it in
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a lettuce cup it's real pretty
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but i want to give you a quick tip for
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those leftover biscuits that you have
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split them and butter them and toast
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them up in the skillet
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the next morning you will enjoy them so
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much
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along with a little jelly
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i think it's better the second time
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around maybe
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you know
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you really don't have to spend a lot of
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money
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or search high and loaf ingredients to
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make a good
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hearty wholesome meal for your family
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i don't think you can get any better
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than the country fried steak
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served over rice and the garden peace
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salad and the biscuits and the
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wilmington island marsh mud cake
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just doesn't get any better i hope that
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you'll try some of these recipes and
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think about me while you're eating but
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right now
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i got a scooter to ride
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so until next time america best dishes
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from my kitchen to yours
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ciao baby
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[Music]
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