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4 Picnic Food Ideas - Paula's sharing some great picnic food recipes, like Jack's chocolate covered banana recipe, a homemade Southern lemonade recipe, and her delicious asparagus sandwich recipe. Positively Paula, Season 2, Episode 8.
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00:00 Intro
0:45 Chef Jack’s Frozen Chocolate Bananas Recipe: https://www.positivelypaula.tv/s02ep08
5:56 Rice Salad Recipe: https://www.positivelypaula.tv/s02ep08
12:18 Lemonade Recipe: https://www.positivelypaula.tv/s02ep08
13:46 Paula Deen Asparagus Sandwich Recipe: https://www.positivelypaula.tv/s02ep08
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0:21
- Yum, yum.
0:25
Hey, friends.
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Y'all come on in the house with me.
0:28
Today I'm getting ready.
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I got a friend coming over,
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and we're gonna have a little picnic.
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Let me tell you, there's so many fabulous places
0:35
in this town to have a picnic.
0:37
But Sandy and I are just actually
0:38
gonna walk out to the dock house,
0:41
and we gonna have a little picnic out there.
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The first thing I'm gonna fix us
0:46
is one of my grandson, Jack's, recipes
0:51
that was in his daddy's cookbook,
0:53
"Jamie Deen's Good Food."
0:55
And you flip it over,
0:57
and my grandson has his recipes in here.
1:02
So we are doing frozen chocolate bananas
1:08
from Jack's book.
1:10
I thought that would give Sandy and I
1:12
a little something sweet to eat
1:14
without being loaded with too many calories,
1:17
and we won't need a spoon.
1:20
I'm gonna cut these right down the middle.
1:24
And I'm just gonna stick the stick up 'em
1:30
just like that.
1:32
And I'm gonna stick it up the-- Uh-oh.
1:35
Kind of went crooked with that one.
1:37
Stick wanted to come out the side of him.
1:41
So I'm gonna throw these in the freezer.
1:47
Give 'em about 30 minutes.
1:51
And while those are freezing,
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I'm gonna start on the rest of the meal.
1:55
So I'm gonna start with some fresh asparagus.
1:59
And I'm just doing enough for the two sandwiches,
2:02
but while we're standing up here talking about asparagus,
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I see a lot of people just cut the asparagus,
2:08
but I don't like doing that way.
2:10
I like snapping it,
2:12
because it will snap where it's supposed to.
2:16
Now, I blanch mine in nice, salty water.
2:21
But I also put smashed garlic in there
2:25
to just kick up the flavor of these little asparagus.
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So these, you don't want to overcook 'em.
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It doesn't take them but a second.
2:35
And I want to shock 'em
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so that that color will get nice
2:42
and a vibrant green.
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So I got these rolling good.
2:53
'Cause we're actually gonna do two cookings.
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We're blanching 'em, and then I'm gonna grill 'em.
3:04
It's just been crazy
3:06
how much people have liked this sandwich.
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And you know, it's just a little healthier
3:12
if you're trying to stay away from a lot of protein.
3:17
Somebody just asked me just then
3:19
where'd the recipe come from?
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And you know, I don't rightly remember.
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But I'm thinking my niece actually, Kari,
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went to a little restaurant down in Thomasville.
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And she was telling me about an asparagus sandwich they had.
3:37
So she described it to me,
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and so I kind of came up with my own thing.
3:43
So this is what we got.
3:46
Oh, my fruits are so pretty.
3:48
You know, they're--the fruit
3:50
is just coming in like crazy off my trees.
3:54
In fact, I'm gonna fix us some lemonade
3:56
to drink.
3:57
The Meyer lemons, you know,
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I can't-- I can't recommend enough
4:03
for you to put your lemon tree in your yard,
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because they are just
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the most delicious lemon in the world.
4:10
All right.
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And to go with our sandwich, I'm gonna make a rice salad.
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And I thought I would put it in one of my little Mason jars,
4:21
and we'd just eat it straight out of that.
4:24
So I have cooked off--
4:29
I think it was a cup of Royal rice.
4:32
'Cause I'm just making just enough of this
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for Sandy and me.
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So this is kind of a recipe that
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you just do what you want to.
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You know? It's--
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[laughs]
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And I gotta figure out all I want to do with it.
4:48
So I'm gonna take a quick break and get my thoughts together,
4:52
and then we'll come back
4:53
and we'll make a nice little rice salad.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
4:59
And if you do.
5:01
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5:08
And we'll be right back after the break.
5:14
- Okay, so in case y'all just found me,
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I want to tell you what I'm doing.
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My girlfriend Sandy's coming over,
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and we gonna walk out to the dock house,
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and we just gonna have a little picnic
5:24
and kind of just eat out under the sky today.
5:27
And I'm doing my grandson Jack's recipe
5:32
for chocolate frozen bananas,
5:35
and I'm making a rice salad.
5:38
But our entrée is gonna be an asparagus sandwich.
5:42
I'm gonna show you how we make those sandwiches that we serve
5:45
at The Lady and Sons that everybody loves so, so much.
5:49
So I'm trying to get all this ready
5:52
before Sandy gets here.
5:55
And so I'm making the, um...
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the sauce that I'm gonna use on my rice salad.
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And I think I'm gonna go ahead
6:05
and just put the onion in there.
6:06
I'm not gonna put it in my sauce,
6:09
just in case I don't like the way my sauce taste.
6:12
I need a little oil.
6:15
I'm gonna use just a little vegetable oil...
6:19
for this.
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And I'm gonna stir this up
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and just see what we got.
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Ooh, y'all, that tastes real good.
6:30
So so far, I've got mayonnaise in it,
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a little vegetable oil,
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celery seeds, celery salt, seasoning salt,
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lemon juice.
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And now I think I'm gonna add just a little bit of honey
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to give it a little sweet.
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Maybe just like a tablespoon.
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And I've got my green onions,
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and I've just cooked off some white rice.
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When I was operating just The Bag Lady,
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I used to make so many rice salads.
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And I know I made one chicken and rice salad
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with an avocado dressing.
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People just loved that one.
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You know, you don't think of-- especially Southerners,
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we don't think about having a rice salad,
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'cause we're usually eating it with gravy and butter.
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All right.
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That's very good, y'all.
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Okay.
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So I'm gonna put a boiled egg in this,
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and this is the way I do my eggs.
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I don't chop 'em.
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I just squeeze 'em.
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All right.
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And I've got some green peas,
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and I'm not even cooking 'em.
7:44
They're just frozen green peas.
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Now I'm gonna put a green-- a nice, tart green apple.
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and I had that in Fruit Fresh,
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or you can put it in orange juice, grapefruit juice,
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anything with some acid,
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'cause I don't want my apple to turn brown on me.
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So like I said, I use a little Fruit Fresh.
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You buy it in the canning section at your grocery store.
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And I want to find me some
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nice kind of cracked black pepper.
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Here it is. It's a coarse--
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I like using the coarse.
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There we go.
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Oh, and I want to put some red bell pepper in it
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just for color.
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And remember, when you're cutting your bell pepper,
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you know to make sure you got it on the right side.
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All right. Oh, and I got nuts up here.
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I'm gonna put some nuts in it too.
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I think that'll be real good.
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You know, with a rice salad,
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it's just like potato salad or pasta salad.
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Just use your imagination
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and put the things that your tongue likes.
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All right, so this is walnuts.
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I'm gonna put these chopped walnuts in it.
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And I was starting out doing a small salad,
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and look how it's growing, y'all.
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Put this in our little bowls
9:30
that we're gonna eat it out of.
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Put this in the refrigerator and let it be chilling.
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I tell you what. I'll--
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I'll put a little piece of parsley up there
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for decoration,
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and we are ready to go.
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Now, you can't get any easier than that.
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And all the things we put in it,
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most people have in their refrigerator.
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That's great, isn't it?
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I hope y'all are enjoying the show
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and I want to hear from you.
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Tell me what recipes or videos you'd like to see me
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make by just leaving a short comment below.
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Now, let's get back to the show, y'all.
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- Okay, hey, y'all.
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I'm trying to get our lemon juice done.
10:28
I'm waiting on Sandy to get here.
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She's so pretty, and she's always late.
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[whispers] I have to tell y'all, she's al--
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I thought I heard the clippity-clop
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of your little boots.
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You finally got up.
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- [indistinct speech]
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- Good morning, beautiful. - Good morning.
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- I am so delighted to introduce y'all
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to my friend and my girlfriend-in-law.
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This is Sandy Neville,
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Bubba's girlfriend.
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And Sandy lives in Tennessee.
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And she actually stayed in our little cottage out here.
11:05
So you finally got up and got in here.
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But you look beautiful.
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- Well, I had to get my rest.
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[laughter]
11:13
Had to get some rest.
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- I don't know what I'd do without Sandy.
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She is so much help in this kitchen.
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So I'm making us a picnic!
11:20
All right, now, I need to get started.
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I'm just doing us a little frozen banana.
11:25
I think I'm using a combination of walnuts and pecans, so--
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- Oh.
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- I want you to--I don't know
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if you've got a copy of this book,
11:34
but it's right in there.
11:36
- Oh, okay.
11:37
- You know the cookbook
11:38
that Jamie and Jack wrote together?
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- Yeah, I gave a copy of this to my grandson.
11:42
- Did you?
11:43
- Had Jack sign it.
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He said he could get into that.
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- [laughs]
11:47
Jack loves to go to book signings with me.
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He loves it.
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Look at this banana, y'all.
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Doesn't that look delicious?
11:54
Uh--Oh, no!
11:58
Came off the stick.
12:02
Okay-- - It's a beautiful book,
12:03
though, isn't it?
12:04
- Isn't it beautiful? - Mm-hmm.
12:05
- And that's where his little recipe came from.
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All right, I'm gonna stick this back in the freezer.
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And we'll pull this out last, Sandy.
12:17
- Mm. - All right.
12:19
Say, the sugar's dissolved now real good?
12:21
- It is.
12:23
- Yeah, 'cause I tasted,
12:24
and I threw some extra sugar over in there.
12:28
All right, so I'm gonna...
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just pour that in there.
12:34
If you could get rid of that.
12:35
Don't burn yourself.
12:36
Now, we may have to--
12:39
Oh, gosh, I'm mixing flavors.
12:43
I just washed my hands.
12:44
I thought I-- Oh, no, am I let--
12:47
I think I just poured all the seeds in there.
12:50
- Just a few. - No, not--
12:51
Yeah, just a few.
12:52
You want to work on getting those out?
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- Mm-hmm.
12:56
- Here, how about with that spoon?
12:57
- Yeah.
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Perfect.
13:00
- So how are the girls?
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- Oh, they're great.
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They're doing so good. - Oh, good. Good.
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Sandy's got two beautiful daughters,
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and she's got three of the cutest little grandsons
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you have ever seen in your life.
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- Oh, yeah.
13:13
- I wish you'd show 'em the picture
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that's on your iPad that I love of 'em.
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- Oh, yeah, with them laying on the bed.
13:18
- The three of 'em laying in the bed.
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- Oh, yeah, and they just think Aunt Paula is the bomb.
13:24
- Well, I-- - They just can't understand
13:26
why your picture's on magazines.
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- They can't? - They see you on--
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"Why--why is Aunt Paula famous?
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Is she famous?"
13:34
- I ask myself the same question.
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[laughter]
13:39
[asparagus sizzling]
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So I'm gonna turn that off and let it sit for just a second.
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But I don't want it to overcook.
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And I'm gonna come over here,
13:52
and I'm gonna make our dressing, Sandy.
13:56
All right, we're ready.
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I've got our bread here. - Oh.
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- And like I said, normally... - That's pretty bread.
14:04
- We would put this together and toast it.
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And this is what we serve.
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We serve it on pumpernickel.
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So I'm just gonna be-- - Oh.
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- There was a hole in that piece of bread.
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[laughs] - I see it now.
14:17
It's going through.
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- All right.
14:20
Now I take my asparagus,
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and I put some on there, turning it one way,
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and then I turn it the other way.
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So on each sandwich, you can see the pretty spears.
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All right, Sandy.
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So there we go.
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We're gonna put our provolone cheese on it.
14:45
- Oh, you put cheese then.
14:47
- And see, this is when we would grill it.
14:50
You know, and that cheese kind of melt.
14:52
So what are you gonna do now?
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- We're just gonna eat it like this.
14:55
- Like that? - Yes.
14:57
- Well, the asparagus is still hot,
14:59
so it'll melt a little bit on it, huh?
15:00
- Yeah, it'll melt a little bit.
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Yes.
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And then we just gonna put our onion on there.
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- Oh, yeah, I'm glad that's not red onion.
15:08
[laughs] - yeah, me too.
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Me too.
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So here we go.
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I want to make sure my bread matches.
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Mmm.
15:21
Yum.
15:23
We are ready to go.
15:24
Our picnic is finally ready, y'all.
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And as I was saying earlier,
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there are so many wonderful places
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to have a picnic here in this town,
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starting from the beach,
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all the way to one of the forts.
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Um, but where I'm gonna take Sandy and y'all today
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on our picnic is right here in our backyard.
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Let's go, Sister, we got it all ready.
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- Let's do it. - Uh, how's the weather out?
15:51
- It's pretty chilly, so--
15:53
- Oh, it is? - Yeah.
15:54
- Well, I'm gonna grab me a jacket, then.
15:57
- Yeah.
15:58
Good idea.
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And we got a blanket
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in case we wind up sitting on the floor,
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but I don't want to sit on the floor.
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Too hard to get up.
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I'd need a crane to get me up.
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[laughter]
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Don't want to be calling no crane service.
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- Okay, I'll get the blanket...
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- Come on, Sandy Lou. - In case.
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- All right, you guys ready for a picnic?
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
16:25
And if you do.
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Be sure to click like, subscribe and
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16:34
And we'll be right back after the break.
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- Oh, gosh. - Oh, so pretty.
16:50
- So beautiful down here.
16:52
- It's so pretty.
16:53
- Hopefully we'll have some dolphins swim by.
17:00
Wouldn't that be wonderful?
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- Ooh, yes, I love that.
17:02
That's so great.
17:03
- All right, I'm gonna--
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Make yourself comfortable, Lulu.
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- Lulu's ready.
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- Make yourself comfortable.
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[laughs] - Lulu's ready.
17:12
- All right. - Sweet girl.
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- There's our dessert.
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- I get to try it.
17:24
- Mmm!
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[glass clinking] - Lulu.
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- Lulu!
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- Lulu sees a sucker.
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- Well, she loves you so much, Sandy.
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- I know.
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This is so good.
17:38
All these flavors together.
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- I'm so glad.
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And this is one of those dishes
17:46
that you can make it any flavor you want to.
17:49
You know, you can make it Asian.
17:50
You could make it Greek.
17:53
You could make it Mediterranean.
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- Oh, that would be really good.
17:58
I would love that. - Mm-hmm.
17:59
Mm-hmm.
18:01
I kind of made it just American.
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- [laughs]
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- Mmm-mmm-mmm!
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[laughs] Go on.
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- Get that piece of onion.
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I'm gonna get a bite off of the side with the...
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- Mm-hmm.
18:19
- What do you call that?
18:21
- Mmm.
18:24
That sweet onion is so good on there.
18:26
- Mm-hmm.
18:29
Mmm.
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And the dressing.
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- Mmm.
18:35
So good.
18:37
- Mmm.
18:38
- Isn't it delicious?
18:40
- That is delicious.
18:41
- I can't stand it, Sandy.
18:44
I got to-- [laughter]
18:46
I've got to taste my frozen banana.
18:49
Jack's frozen banana.
18:52
Oh, look. [laughs]
18:56
Mmm.
18:57
- Yeah. It's time.
18:59
- Mmm! It's like ice cream.
19:00
- [laughs]
19:02
- Mmm!
19:05
The banana-- Mmm.
19:08
When it freezes, it's got consistency of ice cream.
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- Oh.
19:12
Mmm!
19:14
- Well, you want a bite, huh?
19:16
Do you want a bite? - Mmm!
19:19
Yum.
19:23
Mmm.
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- Oh, my god. - [laughs]
19:27
Isn't that yummy?
19:31
- Oh. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
19:33
Is that one? - We got one?
19:34
No, I think it's a bird.
19:36
- Oh.
19:37
- You know, I know you and I have the same taste in food,
19:40
so I feel like if I like it,
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I know that you'll like it. - You know I like that.
19:44
- Oh, and I need to remind you to remind me
19:49
I've got a bunch of collards ready in the garden.
19:52
- Oh. We'll cook them?
19:54
- We need to go cut collards this afternoon
19:56
and get a pot of collards going,
19:58
and I'll make us some lace hoecake cornbread
20:00
to go with it.
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- Mmm.
20:03
- And we'll eat like a queen for supper, honey.
20:05
- Ooh, yeah, for sure. [laughter]
20:06
- I hope y'all have enjoyed your time with us today,
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and you know, I want to encourage you to just--
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if you don't go any further than your backyard,
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make you a little picnic lunch
20:17
and go out with a family or friend
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and just enjoy the out of doors.
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And you know I'm always gonna be there
20:26
to send you off with love and best dishes.
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Sandy, thank you, baby, for coming to see Bubba off
20:34
and for being who you are.
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And thank y'all for being who you are.
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- Thank you for feeding me.
20:43
[laughs] So well. - You're welcome.
20:45
I love feeding you. - Mm.
20:51
Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
20:53
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