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Paula's starting dish is creamy onion canapes https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/creamy-onion-canapes/
Followed by Pecan Stuffed Dates
https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/pecan-stuffed-dates/
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hey y'all I'm Paula Deen and today
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you're in for some good old southern
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hospitality cause I'm throwing a
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cocktail party and before we get started
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I've just got a head down to one of my
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favorite shops here in Savannah called
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kitchen caboodle and I'm gonna be
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picking up an ice ring that I've just
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gotta have for my punch and what a fun
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surprise it was to bump into my boys it
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looked like they were planning a little
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party of their own well I'm gonna have
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to hurry if I'm gonna get everything on
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the table on time just start I'm gonna
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create my creamy onion canapes and pecan
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stuff dates that are simply scrumptious
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and then it's my cedar plank salmon
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topped with them with sabi cream that's
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gonna be the main attraction for the day
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and finally no southern cocktail party
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would be complete without my perfect
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punch so y'all put on your party dress
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and grab your favorite friend cuz we're
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gonna party
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[Music]
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[Music]
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hey y'all I'm finally taking time out
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tonight to have a cocktail party for a
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few friends and I've gotten everything
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working in under way but I've scoured my
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cabinets and I can't find my ice ring
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and I can't do this party without one so
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I'm going to see my friends down at
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kitchen caboodle and I hope you'll come
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along with me because their shop is just
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adorable
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in the world I still not recognize those
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voices I'm having a cocktail party
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tonight so it you're gonna do it some
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martinis great right we're gonna grill
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tonight
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Bobby's actually what are you doing I'm
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gonna cook tenderloin and fire roasted
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corn and I get to pay about this is what
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y'all oughta be
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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I'm actually making a Southern Comfort
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punch and y'all y'all saw how people use
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making those eyes rings cannot find my
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ice ring anywhere so that's all I knew I
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could run down here and find them from
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Jamie so that's what I'm doing honey
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here well that's great it's so good to
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see my boys I see mama loves you so much
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all right oh hey gonna get that for
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month yeah I think we should I hope that
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you have a full set of these purses
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maybe in the back I'm sure we do okay
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you want to give this for mom make sure
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to ring this up well yeah I'll stick it
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in her bag all right let me go look for
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this glasses thank you very much
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I can't tell you I've looked everywhere
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for that hey mom well listen I have
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gotten to run I'm running so late oh you
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don't get that for me please cousin and
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telling me I'm sorry I couldn't wait
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okay I'll see y'all later
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all right mother y'all have a great
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party what did you do gel on your
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buddies I said hey
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I can't wait to see the expression on
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her face once you see the net
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how'd y'all like kitchen caboodle in it
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the cutest shop you've ever seen and
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naturally I can always count on them to
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have just what I need for my kitchen
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they know that I'm just a nut over tea
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towels and look at this one that they
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stuck in my bag it make you well I'm
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gonna do a little twist
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try salmon for my cocktail party tonight
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so we've got our piece of cedar that has
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been soaking about four or five hours
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and we go all out board with a little
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olive oil
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he's ready for our fish we're just gonna
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transfer our fish to a piece of cedar
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just wipe a little olive oil on him all
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right now all we're gonna do is salt and
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pepper him nicely and he's ready to go
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in the oven
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now this is a great dish prepared on the
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grill outs not over charcoal but I've
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opted to just throw this in the oven and
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cook it and he's gonna take probably 12
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to 15 minutes total cooking time all
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right so we're gonna let that cook for
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about 10 to 12 minutes and while our
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fish is cooking I'm gonna come over here
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and make up with sobby cream sauce to
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serve along with it and this is really
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really tasty if you like really kind of
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hot hot stuff so I have just poured my
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whipping cream in here and in this dish
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I'm gonna make my wasabi paste and in
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order to bring it from this state to the
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state that you see on your plate in the
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restaurant you simply add water to it
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and it only takes a little bit and get
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that going until I have a paste worked
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up all right so we got our wasabi going
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on and I'm gonna just beat this until it
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forms nice soft peaks
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all right that looks good now we're just
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gonna come over here and fold in some
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fresh lemon juice a little salt and our
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wasabi and you can put as much or as
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little as you want but Michael and I
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really like it with a lot of kick see
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I'm gonna tie all this up to sit along
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with our salmon oh it looks really
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really good doesn't it
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right now smell our fish and I'm ready
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to see if it's about ready oh it's just
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Cicely and smelling so good and aroma
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from the cedar coming up into the salmon
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is unbelievable and it requires so
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little garnish this dish really stands
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on its own I'm gonna get me just a
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little then I'm gonna cut this tail very
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very neatly so nobody will know I've
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been there
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wow it looks and smells like perfect
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salmon and then I'm gonna come back over
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here and get me just a little bit of
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wasabi cream it's incredible in a few
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minutes I'm gonna be showing you how to
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make those wonderful pecans stuffed
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dates wrapped in bacon and creamy onion
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canapes
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[Music]
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hi I ran out of bacon I had to run get
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some more
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this next appetizer then I want to show
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you I've been making since I was a young
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bride in my 20s now all we're gonna do
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is start with a whole date you may find
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that some of the dates have seeds in
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them and you'll just have to remove the
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seed 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 and then I'm
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gonna come over here and I'm gonna get
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my bacon and I'm gonna cut this into
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fourths I'm gonna cut it right down the
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middle first and then go to my other two
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pieces and cut those right down the
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middle giving me four equal pieces and
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I'm gonna take my date and just wrap my
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bacon and toothpick it holding that
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bacon on and on to the tray they go all
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right we've got enough to go ahead and
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cook and the great thing about these is
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we can cook them early in the day
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because these don't have to be served
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hot I have to tell you though they
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aren't good warm so you'll just need to
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watch your oven and bring the bacon to
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the degree that you like it we're gonna
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put these in a 400-degree oven I'm gonna
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bake them about 10 to 12 minutes so
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while those are making we're gonna start
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on caramelized onion canapes now I've
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got my pan nice and hot and I'm gonna
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put a couple of tablespoons of olive oil
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and we are gonna use just a regular
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onion and we're gonna slice it into
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onion rings just like that you can hear
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our pan sizzling and we want to cook
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these over like a medium heat because we
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don't want them to burn we just want to
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caramelize them
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in fact I've already got some that I
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caramelized now did up my bread earlier
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and toasted it and I chose to use a very
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thin slice of bread the thin works very
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nicely because it kind of gets like a
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cracker and just choose the biscuit
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cutter of your choice and I kind of
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rather like the small ones for this
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appetizer I can actually almost get two
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rings out of there and then I'm going to
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throw those to the side and I'll use
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those scraps as croutons later on so you
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just want to put these on a cookie sheet
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and put these in the oven and dry them
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out the main thing about these is you
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want them crispy now we're gonna go in
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for the good stuff that makes it rich
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and a little sinful and we're gonna do
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that by mixing up an 8 ounce package of
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cream cheese with a little seasoning
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salt a teaspoon of Worcestershire and
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you can use your imagination on this you
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can kind of put this together any way
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you like I'm gonna put some cracked
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pepper and for a little heat I'm gonna
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put in just a little cayenne pepper and
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just mix that together and I've got my
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cream cheese it such a soft state that
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you'd only have to use a mixer you can
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just do it right up with a spoon all
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right I'm gonna turn these off and move
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them out of our way and I'll finish
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those off in a little while but I want
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to go ahead and put these together and
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get these in the oven and now I'm gonna
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take our bread and just smear a little
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of the cream cheese on it I just love
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making appetizers with breads they're
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hearty and filling and everybody loves
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good bread so I'm gonna move this out of
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our way
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and bring our onions up here right now
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we're gonna take our camera last onion
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and we're gonna place a little bit on
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those spread round and aren't they
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pretty they're kind of interesting on
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those little rounds of bread now I'm
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still not quite finished with these but
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I smell this bacon so I've gotten to
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check these dates and see if they're
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ready when they are I knew I smelled
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them look how yummy those look all right
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now we're gonna finish this off quickly
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by just putting a little dab of one of
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my favorite condiments mayonnaise all
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right right now I'm gonna sprinkle them
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with paprika because the paprika is
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gonna give them a nice Brown look and
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these truly don't take but just a couple
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of minutes in the oven and that's it
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just that simple right now I'm just
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gonna loosen these from the pan and put
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these right up here and by the time I
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get through doing this our creamy onion
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canapes should be ready right let's see
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if the mayonnaise is kind of melted down
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oh yeah they look good all right these
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looks so good and you see those truly
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don't take but just a minute I think
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they're just gonna love these two dishes
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just gonna try one
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the onions and the mayonnaise in the
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cream cheese is so so good but this is
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people food Remy you don't like dates
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mmm after all these years these are
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truly still one of my favorite little
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appetizer bites you don't stick around
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because we're fixing a whip up the life
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of this cocktail party
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[Music]
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ah you know every time I make something
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like this I can't help but think of my
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mama and daddy they used to make what
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they called a sledgehammer punch and I
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asked him one time I said well why do
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you call it a sledgehammer punch and
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they laughed and said because when it
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hits you it feels like a sledgehammer
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hitting you upside so I can't help but
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think of them now the first thing I'm
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gonna do is take my mold that I found
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from kitchen caboodle
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and I'm gonna put a few rings of oranges
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in the bottom just a few and I'm gonna
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stick a cherry down there I'm not gonna
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put too much because this is actually
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gonna float a little bit on us and I'm
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gonna pour just a little bit of lemonade
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just a little and we'll move that cherry
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back up there and now I'm gonna put this
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into the freezer and I'm gonna freeze
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just this little bit and I have one here
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that I've already frozen and I'm gonna
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come back and I'm gonna put another
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layer of fruit and I'm just gonna kind
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of mix things up I'm gonna put some
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lemon slices and some lime slices
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because when we unmold this onto our
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punch we just want to see lots of layers
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of colors I'm gonna put a little mint
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and I'm actually gonna slip that mint
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inside the orange so it won't float I'm
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gonna finish putting some cherries
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around it and a little bit more mint
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over here now you can kind of shake this
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up any way you want to I'm gonna pour
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another layer of lemonade and then this
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will go back into the freezer and will
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freeze this top layer in that pretty I'm
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gonna stick I think just a few more
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slices around and you want to use a
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lemonade or even a ginger ale you don't
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want to nest
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early use water as your ice ring melts
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the water will weaken your punch and you
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don't want to be serving a weak punch at
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your party so this is ready to go into
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the freezer in that pretty it's gonna
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look luscious on top of our punch
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speaking of punch I'm gonna start this
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particular punch with an orange
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concentrate and some banana daiquiri mix
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and some fresh lemon juice all right so
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we're gonna add some ginger ale I'm
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gonna start with a 2 liter and maybe add
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half of another one all right I've got
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to wait for that fist to go down to see
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where we are all right now we're gonna
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put a little bit of this bottle in there
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and now for the Southern Comfort look
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that's gonna kill those bubbles now on
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your Southern Comfort you can make this
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as strong or as light as you like I've
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used about a half a bottle right now I'm
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gonna come in and taste that and see if
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it's strong enough actually I don't
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believe that strong enough for the men
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so I'm gonna go a little bit more oh my
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goodness that little bit turned into the
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whole stinking bottle didn't it all
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right that foam you can see since I put
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the alcohol me and it's really starting
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to disappear on us and it's ready for
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our ice ring oh and it's pretty pretty
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pretty pretty and this should come out
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very very easily and it did we're just
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gonna slip our ring right down into our
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punch and you can see how pretty that is
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and I think the cook needs to have a
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glass don't y'all get that juice it's
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been right around the ice ring looks
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good and so quick and simple to make
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here's to you oh it's delicious I'll see
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y'all in a few minutes I'm gonna give
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you some tips on how to make your
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cocktail party go smooth as silk
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[Music]
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all right for a few quick tips it's
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gonna make your party go smoother you
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can actually take your bacon-wrapped
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dates and pop them in the microwave and
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get your cooking time down to about two
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minutes and on your creamy caramelized
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onion canapes if you don't have time to
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fool with the bread you can actually do
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this on a cracker but while we're
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talking about bread I want to show you
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the set of biscuit cutters they actually
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come in a little canister and they range
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in little to big and these are a
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wonderful investment that would last you
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a lifetime and on your salmon o-cedar
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check with your grocery stores or the
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fish market because you want to be
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careful where you get your cedar because
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you certainly don't want to get any
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that's got any chemicals in it that
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could actually harm someone I'm getting
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so excited about my cocktail party
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tonight I stay so busy that sometimes I
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I don't get to do this as often as I'd
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like to but I'm looking so forward to
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having a few friends in tonight and I
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hope that they're gonna just love the
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cedar salmon with the wasabi sauce and
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the creamy onion canapes and one of my
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favorites the bacon-wrapped pecans
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stuffed dates and I know they are gonna
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love this Southern Comfort punch with
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that pretty ice ring in it I hope that
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y'all have a great time at your own
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cocktail party and I'll use a few of
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these things and until then America I
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wish you best dishes and love from my
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cocktail party to yours
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