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4 Finger Food Recipes - Paula's making finger foods for parties, including bacon wrapped dates, cedar plank salmon, & one of her party punch recipes. Paula’s Home Cooking, Season 2, Episode 26.
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00:00 Intro
3:41 Cedar Salmon with Wasabi Dip Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/cedar-salmon-with-wasabi-dip/
7:26 Pecan-Stuffed Dates Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/pecan-stuffed-dates/
8:51 Creamy Onion Canapés Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/creamy-onion-canapes/
13:50 Whiskey Punch Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/whiskey-punch/
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0:00
- Hey, y'all, I'm Paula Deen,
0:03
and today you're in for some good old Southern hospitality
0:08
'cause I'm throwing a cocktail party.
0:10
And before we get started, I've just got to head down
0:13
to one of my favorite shops here in Savannah
0:15
called Kitchen Kaboodle.
0:17
And I'm gonna be picking up an ice ring
0:19
that I've just gotta have for my punch.
0:21
And what a fun surprise it was to bump into my boys.
0:25
It looked like they were planning
0:26
a little party of their own.
0:28
Well, I'm gonna have to hurry if I'm gonna get everything
0:30
on the table on time.
0:32
To start, I'm gonna create my creamy onion canapes
0:36
and pecan stuffed dates that are simply scrumptious.
0:41
And then it's my cedar plank salmon,
0:43
topped with a wasabi cream.
0:45
This is gonna be the main attraction for the day.
0:48
And finally, no Southern cocktail party
0:51
would be complete without my perfect punch.
0:54
So y'all put on your party dress
0:56
and grab your favorite friend, 'cause we're gonna party.
1:01
Hey, y'all, I'm finally taking time out tonight
1:05
to have a cocktail party for a few friends,
1:08
and I've gotten everything working and underway,
1:12
but I've scoured my cabinets and I can't find my ice ring,
1:15
and I can't do this party without one.
1:18
So I'm gonna see my friends down at Kitchen Kaboodle,
1:20
and I hope you'll come along with me
1:22
because their shop is just adorable.
1:29
What in the world?
1:30
I thought I recognized those voices.
1:31
- Hi, Mom. - Hey, Mom.
1:32
- What are y'all doing? - What's goin' on?
1:34
- Nothin', what are you doing?
1:35
- I'm having a cocktail party tonight.
1:37
- So are we. - We are too.
1:38
- Y'all are? - We're growing up.
1:40
We're doing some martinis.
1:41
- [Paula] Great, great!
1:42
- We're gonna grill tonight.
1:43
Bobby's actually, what are you cooking up?
1:45
- I'm gonna cook tenderloin and fire roasted corn
1:48
and make a tomato pie.
1:49
- This is what y'all ought to be buying.
1:51
- Nothing could be truer.
1:54
- [Paula] My family tree is full of nuts.
1:56
(all laughing)
1:58
- Or at least one big one.
1:59
- I'm actually making a Southern Comfort punch,
2:02
and y'all saw me through the years making those ice rings.
2:06
I cannot find my ice ring anywhere,
2:08
so I knew I could run down here
2:10
and find one her from Janice, so that's what I'm doing.
2:12
- They've got plenty here.
2:14
- That's great, it's so good to see my boys.
2:15
- Good to see you.
2:16
- Momma loves y'all so much.
2:18
- Love you too. - And we love you.
2:20
- Ain't we lucky?
2:22
- All right, Mom. - I got to get going.
2:23
Okey doke, y'all have a great night.
2:26
- [Bobby] All right.
2:27
You wanna get that for Mom?
2:28
- [Jamie] Yeah, I think we should.
2:31
- [Woman] Hey, how are y'all?
2:32
- Hey, Amy. - Fine, how are you?
2:33
- [Amy] Good, what we got here?
2:34
- I hope that you have a full set of these glasses,
2:36
maybe in the back.
2:37
- Oh, I'm sure we do, sure we do.
2:39
- Awesome. - Okay, we'll send back.
2:40
- And we wanna get this for mom.
2:41
Make sure and ring this up, will ya?
2:43
I'm gonna stick it in her bag.
2:43
- [Woman] We'll just slide it in there
2:45
so she won't know about it.
2:46
All right, let me go look for those glasses.
2:47
- [Jamie] Thank you very much.
2:48
- I can't tell you I've looked everywhere for that.
2:50
- Hey, Ma.
2:52
- Well listen, I have go to run, I'm running so late.
2:54
- All right, I'll get this for you.
2:56
- Y'all get that for me, please.
2:57
- All right.
2:58
- And tell Amy I'm sorry I couldn't wait,
3:00
but I'll see y'all later.
3:01
- Okay, Mom. - All right, Momma.
3:02
- Y'all have a great party.
3:03
- Love you, you too, have fun.
3:04
- And tell all your buddies I said hey.
3:06
- All right, will do.
3:07
- Love y'all. - Love you too.
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- [Paula] Bye. - Bye.
3:13
- (laughing) I can't wait to see the expression
3:14
on her face when she sees the napkin.
3:16
- It'll be funny.
3:21
- How'd y'all like Kitchen Kaboodle?
3:23
Isn't it the cutest shop you've ever seen?
3:25
And naturally I can always count on them
3:27
to have just what I need for my kitchen.
3:30
They know that I'm just a nut over tea towels.
3:33
And look at this one that they stuck in my bag.
3:36
(laughing) Isn't that cute?
3:38
I'm gonna do a little twist to our salmon
3:41
for my cocktail party tonight.
3:43
We've got our piece of cedar that has been soaking
3:46
about four or five hours.
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And we're gonna oil our board with a little olive oil.
3:53
Now he's ready for our fish.
3:55
We're just gonna transfer our fish to our piece of cedar.
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Just wipe a little olive oil on him.
4:02
All right now all we're gonna do is salt
4:05
and pepper him nicely and he's ready to go in the oven.
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Now, this is a great dish prepared on the grill outside
4:12
over charcoal, but I've opted to just throw this
4:15
in the oven and cook it.
4:17
And he's gonna take probably 12
4:19
to 15 minutes total cooking time.
4:31
All right, so we're gonna let that cook
4:32
for about 10 to 12 minutes.
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And while our fish is cooking,
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I'm gonna come over here and make a wasabi cream sauce
4:40
to serve along with it.
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And this is really, really tasty
4:45
if you like really kind of hot, hot stuff.
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I have just poured my whipping cream in here.
4:53
And in this dish I'm gonna make my wasabi paste.
4:58
And in order to bring it from this state to the state
5:02
that you see on your plate in the restaurant,
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you simply add water to it.
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And it only takes a little bit.
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And get that going until I have a paste worked up.
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All right, so we've got our wasabi going on
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and I'm gonna just beat this
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until it forms nice, soft peaks.
5:29
All right, that looks good.
5:31
Now we're just gonna come over here
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and fold in some fresh lemon juice,
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a little salt and our wasabi.
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Now, you can put as much or as little as you want,
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but Michael and I really like it with a lot of kick.
5:54
See, I'm gonna pile this up to set along with our salmon.
6:00
Oh, it looks really, really good, doesn't it?
6:03
All right, I smell our fish and I'm ready
6:06
to see if it's about ready.
6:09
Oh, it's just sizzly and smelling so good.
6:16
And the aroma from the cedar coming up
6:19
into the salmon is unbelievable,
6:22
and it requires so little garnish.
6:26
This dish really stands on its own.
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I'm gonna get me just a little bit.
6:30
I'm gonna cut this tail very, very neatly
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so nobody will know I've been there.
6:36
Wow, it looks and smells like perfect salmon.
6:42
And then I'm gonna come back over here
6:44
and get me just a little bit of wasabi cream.
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It's incredible.
6:55
In a few minutes I'm gonna be showing you how
6:57
to make those wonderful pecan stuffed dates
7:00
wrapped in bacon and creamy onion canapes.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
7:12
And if you do.
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7:21
And we'll be right back after the break.
7:28
- Hi, I ran out of bacon, I had to run get some more.
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This next appetizer that I want to show you
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I've been making since I was a young bride in my 20s.
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Now, all we're gonna do is start with a whole date.
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You may find that some of the dates have seeds in them
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and you'll just have to remove the seed,
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but these have already been removed.
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And I'm gonna take a pecan and just tuck
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right in that fat, rich date.
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And then I'm gonna come over here
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and I'm gonna get my bacon
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and I'm gonna cut this into fourths.
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I'm gonna cut it right down the middle first
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and then go to my other two pieces
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and cut those right down the middle,
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giving me four equal pieces.
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And I'm gonna take my date and just wrap my bacon
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and toothpick it, holding that bacon on.
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And onto the tray they go.
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All right, we've got enough to go ahead and cook.
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And the great thing about these is we can cook them early
8:28
in the day because these don't have to be served hot.
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I have to tell you though they are good warm.
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So you'll just need to watch your oven
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and bring the bacon to the degree that you like it.
8:44
We're gonna put these in a 400 degree oven,
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and I'm gonna bake them about 10 to 12 minutes.
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So while those are making,
8:51
we're gonna start our caramelized onion canapes.
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Now I've got my pan nice and hot,
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and I'm gonna put a couple of tablespoons of olive oil
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and we are gonna use just a regular onion
9:04
and we're going to slice it into onion rings just like that.
9:09
You can hear our pan sizzling and we want to cook these over
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like a medium heat because we don't want them to burn.
9:16
We just want to caramelize them.
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In fact, I've already gotten some that I caramelized.
9:25
Now, I did up my bread earlier and toasted it.
9:28
And I chose to use a very thin slice of bread.
9:33
The thin works very nicely
9:35
'cause it kind of gets like a cracker.
9:37
And just choose the biscuit cutter of your choice.
9:42
And I kind of rather like the small ones for this appetizer.
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I can actually almost get two rings out of there.
9:49
And then I'm gonna throw those to the side
9:51
and I'll use those scraps as croutons later on.
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So you just want to put these on a cookie sheet
9:57
and put these in the oven and dry them out.
10:00
The main thing about these is you want them crispy.
10:03
Now we're gonna go in for the good stuff
10:06
that makes it rich and, well, sinful.
10:09
And we're gonna do that by mixing up
10:11
an eight-ounce package of cream cheese
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with a little seasoning salt,
10:19
a teaspoon of Worcestershire.
10:22
And you can use your imagination on this.
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You can kind of put this together any way you like.
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I'm gonna put some cracked pepper and for a little heat
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I'm gonna put in just a little cayenne pepper.
10:37
And just mix that together.
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And I've got my cream cheese at such a soft state
10:43
that you don't even have to use a mixer.
10:45
You can just do it right up with a spoon.
10:48
All right, I'm gonna turn these off
10:49
and move them out of our way.
10:51
And I'll finish those off in a little while,
10:55
but I want to go ahead and put these together
10:56
and get these in the oven.
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Now I'm gonna take our bread
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and just smear a little of the cream cheese on it.
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I just love making appetizers with breads.
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They're hearty and filling and everybody loves good bread.
11:12
So I'm gonna move this out of our way
11:15
and bring our onions up here.
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Now we're gonna take our caramelized onion
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and we're gonna place a little bit on those red round.
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And aren't they pretty?
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They're kind of interesting almost,
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little rounds of bread.
11:29
Now I'm still not quite finished with these,
11:32
but I smell this bacon so I've got to check these dates
11:35
and see if they're ready.
11:37
Oh, and they are, I knew I smelled them.
11:40
Look how yummy those look.
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All right, now we're gonna finish these off quickly
11:46
by just putting a little dab of one
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of my favorite condiments, mayonnaise.
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All right, now I'm gonna sprinkle them with paprika
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because the paprika is gonna give them a nice brown look.
12:03
And these truly don't take but just a couple of minutes
12:06
in the oven and that's it, just that simple.
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I'm just gonna loosen these from the pan
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and put these right up here.
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And by the time I get through doing this,
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our creamy onion canapes should be ready.
12:31
Let's see if the mayonnaise is kind of melted down.
12:35
Oh yeah, they look good.
12:42
These look so good.
12:47
And you see those truly don't take but just a minute.
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I think they're just gonna love these two dishes.
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Just got to try one.
13:06
The onions and the mayonnaise and the cream cheese
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is so, so good, but this is people food, Remy.
13:13
You don't like dates.
13:20
After all these years, these are truly still one
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of my favorite little appetizer bites.
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Stick around because we're fixing to whip up
13:29
the life of this cocktail party.
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I hope y'all are enjoying the show
13:38
and I want to hear from you.
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Tell me what recipes or videos you'd like to see me
13:42
make by just leaving a short comment below.
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Now, let's get back to the show, y'all.
13:53
- Hi, you know, every time I make something like this,
13:58
I can't help but think of my momma and daddy.
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They used to make what they called a sledgehammer punch.
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And I asked 'em one time, I said,
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"Well, why do you call it a sledgehammer punch?"
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And they laughed and said, "Because when it hits you,
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"it feels like a sledge hammer
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"hitting you upside the head."
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So I can't help but think of them.
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Now, the first thing I'm gonna do is take my mold
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that I found from Kitchen Kaboodle
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and I'm gonna put a few rings of oranges in the bottom,
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just a few, and I'm gonna stick a cherry down there.
14:33
I'm not gonna put too much because this is actually going
14:36
to float a little bit on us.
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And I'm gonna pour just a little bit of lemonade,
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just a little, and we'll move that cherry back up there.
14:48
And now I'm gonna put this into the freezer
14:51
and I'm going to freeze just this little bit.
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And I have one here that I've already frozen
15:00
and I'm going to come back and I'm gonna put
15:01
another layer of fruit.
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And I'm just gonna kind of mix things up.
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I'm gonna put some lemon slices and some lime slices,
15:13
because when we unmold this onto our punch,
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we just want to see lots of layers of colors.
15:19
I'm gonna put a little mint and I'm actually gonna slip
15:22
that mint inside the orange so it won't float.
15:27
I'm gonna finish putting some cherries around it
15:30
and a little bit more mint over here.
15:33
And you can kind of shake this up any way you want to.
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I'm gonna pour another layer of lemonade
15:42
and then this'll go back into the freezer
15:44
and we'll freeze this top layer.
15:47
Isn't that pretty?
15:49
I'm gonna stick I think just a few more slices around.
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And you want to use a lemonade or even a ginger ale.
15:57
You don't want to necessarily use water.
16:00
As your ice ring melts, the water will weaken your punch
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and you don't want to be serving a weak punch at your party.
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So this is ready to go into the freezer.
16:09
Isn't that pretty?
16:11
It's gonna look luscious on top of our punch.
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And speaking of punch, I'm gonna start this particular punch
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with an orange concentrate and some banana daiquiri mix
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and some fresh lemon juice.
16:36
All right, we're gonna add some ginger ale.
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I'm gonna start with a two liter
16:41
and maybe add half of another one.
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I've got to wait for that fizz to go down
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to see where we are.
16:51
All right, now I'm gonna put a little bit
16:52
of this bottle in there.
16:56
And now for the Southern Comfort.
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Look, that's gonna kill those bubbles.
17:01
Now on your Southern Comfort, you can make this as strong
17:05
or as light as you like.
17:07
I've used about a half a bottle.
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Now I'm gonna come in and taste that
17:13
and see if it's strong enough.
17:20
Actually, I don't believe that's strong enough for the men
17:23
so I'm gonna go a little bit more.
17:26
Oh my goodness, that little bit turned
17:29
into the whole stinking bottle, didn't it?
17:34
All right, that foam, you can see
17:36
since I put the alcohol in it's really starting
17:39
to disappear on us and it's ready for our ice ring.
17:49
Oh, and it's pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty.
17:55
And this should come out very, very easily.
17:58
And it did.
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We're just gonna slip our ring right down into our punch.
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And you can see how pretty that is.
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And I think the cook needs to have a glass, don't y'all?
18:16
Get that juice that's been right around the ice ring.
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Looks good, and so quick and simple to make.
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Here's to you.
18:32
Oh, it's delicious.
18:35
I'll see y'all in a few minutes.
18:37
I'm gonna give you some tips on how
18:39
to make your cocktail party go smooth as silk.
18:45
I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
18:48
And if you do.
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18:56
And we'll be right back after the break.
19:04
- All right, so a few quick tips.
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that's gonna make your party go smoother.
19:07
You can actually take your bacon wrapped dates
19:09
and pop them in the microwave
19:11
and get your cooking time down to about two minutes.
19:14
And on your creamy caramelized onion canapes,
19:18
if you don't have time to fool with the bread,
19:20
you can actually do this on a cracker.
19:22
But while we're talking about bread,
19:24
I want to show you the set of biscuit cutters.
19:29
They actually come in a little canister
19:32
and they range in little to big.
19:35
And these are a wonderful investment
19:37
that would last you a lifetime.
19:39
And on your salmon on cedar,
19:42
check with your grocery stores or the fish market,
19:44
because you want to be careful where you get your cedar,
19:46
because you certainly don't want to get any
19:49
that's got any chemicals in it
19:50
that can actually harm someone.
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I'm getting so excited about my cocktail party tonight.
19:57
I stay so busy that sometimes I don't get to do this
20:01
as often as I'd like to, but I'm looking so forward
20:04
to having a few friends in tonight.
20:06
And I hope that they're gonna just love the cedar salmon
20:09
with the wasabi sauce and the creamy onion canapes.
20:13
And one of my favorites,
20:14
the bacon wrapped pecan stuffed dates.
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And I know they are gonna love
20:20
this Southern Comfort punch with that pretty ice ring in it.
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I hope that y'all have a great time
20:26
at your own cocktail party
20:28
and will use a few of these things.
20:30
And until then, America, I wish you best dishes
20:34
and love from my cocktail party to yours.
20:41
Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
20:43
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