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Paula's taking us back to the roots of Southern cuisine. First, is one of the most important meals in the South as Paula's makes a Grits Pie. Next, Chef Clayton Sherrod joins Paula to cook and talk about the roots of southern cooking and share one of his favorite traditional recipes--Braised Turkey Shanks. Finally, Paula makes her Spicy Black Eyed Peas!
Grits Pie - https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/grits-pie/
Braised Turkey Shank - https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/braised-turkey-shanks/
Spicy Black Eyed Peas - https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/spicy-black-eyed-peas/
Fried Plantains - https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/mexican-white-rice-with-fried-plantains/
Enjoy Y'all!
Recipes courtesy of https://www.pauladeen.com
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today's show is all about southern
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traditions and one of the most wonderful
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traditions that we have here in the
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south is rockin in a comfortable chair
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on the front porch but I can't do that
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all day because I've got to get into the
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kitchen because I don't want to show
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y'all my recipe for making grits pie
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I've got a friend coming in that's gonna
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teach it how to braise a turkey shank
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and then I'm gonna finish up with a
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spicy black-eyed peas so I hope you'll
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stay tuned because today is all about
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southern roots and southern traditions
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when we like our dogs to
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you
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hey y'all you know it was hard for me to
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get out of my rocking chair but there's
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one thing that will get me up from that
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chair and that's to get in my kitchen
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and cook some of my southern favorites a
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grits pie will get me out of the rocking
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chair that's why I want to share with
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y'all today you know grits plays a big
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big part in the culinary world of a
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southerner in fact I would say that
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grits probably got a lot a lot of people
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through the depression because grits is
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nothing but ground corn and it's very
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very economical you can serve a big bowl
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of grits to somebody for just a few
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pennies and we have learned to do just
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about everything with that grit in fact
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we'll eat it breakfast lunch and dinner
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and now we're gonna eat it as a dessert
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okay our water is boiling now I'm gonna
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stir in a quarter of a cup of quick
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cooking grits now you never ever ever
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want to use an instant grit for this and
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you don't want to use the long cooking
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grits you want to use that quick cooking
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grits that cooks in about four to five
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minutes and you'll notice I'm gonna stir
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this the whole time it's cooking because
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I don't want our grits to lump up on us
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I want our pie to be very very smooth
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now I'm gonna take them off the heat for
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a second and I'm gonna stir in it means
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a small amount of grit Shou I'm mo
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starting a stick of butter I'm sorry
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it's just hard for me to talk about some
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of this stuff with a straight face I
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don't know how I feel about my butter I
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just love it and this is also gonna make
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it even creamier so I'm gonna put this
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back on the heat if you've never had a
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grit you just don't know what you're
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missing y'all all right now I'm gonna
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bring that over here and you can see how
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wonderful they look they're creamy and
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they're smooth
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and that's because I've stirred them the
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whole time now I've taken a ordinary
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frozen pie crust from the freezer and
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I've let it thaw now I'm gonna make the
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custard part that goes into our grits
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and I'm using 3/4 a cup of sugar 2
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tablespoons of flour and I'm gonna stir
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those two dry ingredients together that
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will help cut down on the lumping of
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this when I add my liquid there we go
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now I'm gonna add a teaspoon of vanilla
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I'm gonna add three beaten eggs just
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slightly beat them you don't have to
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pull out the mixer or a whisk and in
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they go and those eggs are gonna give
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our pie a custardy texture and flavor
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and you can see how easy that's going
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together because I incorporated that
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flour and sugar together real real good
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so I have no lumps now I'm gonna pour in
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our liquid which is 1/4 of a cup of
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buttermilk now because there's raw eggs
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and our custard
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I want to temper the grits into the
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custard I don't want to dump it all at
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one time because that could possibly
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scramble the eggs that we have in it and
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we don't want a scrambled egg in grits
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pie
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I'm just gonna take my buttermilk cup
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and slowly cool down those grits with
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the custard mixture and you can see that
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has not scrambled our eggs up okay I got
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those nice and tempered so I'm adding
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all of that to our custard and it's just
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that simple I've got it all together I'm
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gonna just pour our custard now into a
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Ford 9-inch unbaked pie crust
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all right so in the oven it goes
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I've got my oven set at 325 degrees and
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I'm gonna bake our pie by about 40
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minutes really it depends on your oven
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you'll want to be careful placing the
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pine you oven because you don't want it
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to spill off or get on your crust you
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want all that custard to stay right in
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the center well our pies in the oven and
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I've got a wonderful surprise for y'all
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I've got a friend that's gonna be
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joining me for the next segment and you
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know what this is the very first time on
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Paula's home cooking that a non family
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member has ever appeared on the show
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with me so y'all stay tuned we got a
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wonderful wonderful traditional dish
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coming up
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prepared by one of my favorite chefs so
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I'll see y'all back here in the kitchen
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in a minute you don't want to miss this
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one
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you
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hey y'all welcome back when I left a few
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minutes ago I promised you that I was
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going to have a special guest in the
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kitchen with me today now I really
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wanted y'all to meet my friend chef
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Clayton because he specializes in the
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use of African and Caribbean ingredients
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and that is the basis of the kind of
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food that I cook Lowcountry cuisine chef
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and I met in Birmingham in Birmingham
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Alabama we were both invited to do a
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fundraiser for Hannah home yes welcome
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chef alright thank you so glad you're
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here with me and we're just gonna walk
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down memory lane today we're gonna visit
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our heritage and the traditions that we
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do here in the south so chef Clayton is
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gonna teach us now to make braised
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turkey shanks why don't you tell
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everybody what braised mean ok braised
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is really when we altai the turkey shank
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here in this in this brazier and I'm
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browning these drumsticks in olive oil
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and what we've done we ahead of time we
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French the turkey legs ahead of time
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just by cutting here and the skin just
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taking the skin off mostly for cosmetics
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it looks real nice make it look like
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shame I'm gonna get a couple of slices
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of ginger this is I'm Christian this is
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the best way to do ginger it almost
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minced it with that just pulverizes it
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and then we're gonna finish it off with
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some peanuts also yeah Southwest Georgia
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peanut ground nuts that means it's in
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Africa you know anything that grows
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underground is protected from the insect
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ground not brown not grinded up no
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ground underground
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it's what I'm sayin all right and then
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I'll get this okra ready okay and you're
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just kind of cutting that on the
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I just cut them on the bias like you
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would for fried okra right right it's
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going to throw everything in and that
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smoked sausage you know that smokes
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thoughts is really making it so much
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chef in low country balls and gumbo yes
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anything that we want a powerful smoky
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flavor in right this kind of sausage
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goes in our pot we're adding 8 ounces of
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sliced smoked sausage and one large
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onion dice oh how it looks fabulous I'm
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gonna get that sausage around so we'll
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get down in that all okay yummy in case
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you're not from Alabama and you know
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don't know what the Hana home operation
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is it's really a safe shelter for women
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that have been battered or addicted to
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drugs and alcohol they move them into
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this wonderful home they they're just
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completing the building of this home and
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it's just gonna provide a safe safe area
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for women and their children it's taken
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in family units it's a very very good
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cause and I'm so thankful for the
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opportunity to have been a part of it
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because like I said I got to make a lot
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of new friends but especially you buddy
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oh you're so sweet thank you so now
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we'll add 2 tablespoons of minced ginger
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root and 1 cup of okra I do too I like
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it anyone can get it ball fried
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casserole
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gumbo how about that now we have 1 cup
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of diced celery uh-huh 1 cup of diced
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sweet potatoes that was Kara oh man I'll
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tell you there and then I lost potato
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that's not like me to take it I'll take
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2 tablespoons of minced garlic okay
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now you're ready for some chicken stock
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yes I'm ready for some stock okay
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okay 3 cups of chicken stock
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laughs OH quieting them up there I'm
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telling you I think I'm gonna turn I
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heat up a little bit okay now once we
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get there turn it up and get it started
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and then we turn it down to simmer and
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we let that simmer for about 20 minutes
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and then when we come back we're gonna
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add a couple of other items to this
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that's gonna really make it not only
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Caribbean that's certain it's gonna be
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very good so y'all can't leave me
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hey y'all welcome back in case y'all
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have just tuned in I'm here in my
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kitchen with Chef Clayton the chef I
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just had to finish up I had to get my
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bacon off because I'm getting ready for
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the next dish but chef Clayton is
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sharing a recipe with us called braised
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turkey shanks now tell us a history on
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this all right we have about three
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different cultures and involved here we
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have West African which is quite
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naturally these groundnuts that we have
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peanuts okay and then we have a northern
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which is like Ethiopia we have some
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injera bread that we're gonna use this
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is a community like a community dish a
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one-dish meal and then of course we
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added one and a half cups of cooked
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collard greens I mean this is gonna make
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a southern along with the the smoked
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sausage but we we have these collard
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greens that we cook the traditional way
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with the the ham hocks as my daddy used
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to say ham hocks ham hock and and we
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cook it the traditional way with the
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with the ham hocks and onions and hot
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peppers and vinegar and a touch of sugar
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so we add all of this in and we let this
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cook for about another 10-15 minutes
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okay and just let those flavors just
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marry okay and then once we do that and
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then we add 1 cup of toasted unsalted
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peanuts believe it or not it's best the
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next day
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oh yeah once those flavors just marry
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flavors marry yes and it's very very
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good the next thing is it too early for
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me to no it's not too early um you know
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I knew you're gonna do that women I have
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something for you
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so in case you know you're always
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tasting people food here not only can
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you taste reach over how sweet
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this is wonderful well that's yours
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thank you thank you I can steal
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everybody's food off of everybody's
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plate and they'll never realize what I'm
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doing that's right cuz I can quickly
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shut this back up how cute is this I
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love it
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okay but you know what that won't hold
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that juice no but that show will nab a
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turkey leg will never take a leg you are
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too cute mmm out of this world God thank
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you Paulie
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and now what are we gonna do with that
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bread well actually the way they do this
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and Ethiopia is they actually use the
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injera bread and you use it as if it's a
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utensil and it's a community kind of
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dish and you just grab it like this and
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fold it up and just pop it into your
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mouth now it's a little too much for me
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to pop in my mouth right oh is it okay
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well you know how to do it we also put
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this in the bottom then gerra bread in
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the bottom of the bowl and then pour the
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the stew over the top and then after
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everyone finished eating that bread
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that's on the bottom has soaked up all
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of those fabulous flavors well what
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would you recommend them using if they
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can't find or don't want to make this
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injera bread believe it or not just use
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some flour tortillas that's just as it
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would be great just lay them in the
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frying pan and just heat them up right
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and you see rain but it's very this is a
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community dish it brings the family back
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home I like
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yes everyone just sit around the table
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and talk and that's what he doing
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Ethiopia well it is just out of this
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world thank you
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and I'm definitely gonna be making it
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alright thanks mmm well you know what I
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could stand up here and eat that whole
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pot but I got black-eyed peas to cook
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okay okay that's I'm gonna be making a
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spicy black-eyed pea today now I have
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taken four slices of bacon chopped him
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up browned them off because I'm really
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gonna just garnish our black-eyed peas
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with this bacon
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I'm gonna add one diced onion you know
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we have to have onion in everything
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don't resolutely so I'm just gonna let
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those sauté a couple of minutes chef
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until they're kind of transparent okay
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now I've got one pound of dried
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black-eyed peas I'm gonna just throw
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them in the pot just as they are but if
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you're short on time use the quick
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cooking method so come overnight and
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water drain them and just go about your
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recipe just like you would all right
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Clayton I'm just gonna throw those dried
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Black Eyed Peas over in there just gonna
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kind of toss them around in that grease
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and now I'm gonna add one can of diced
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tomatoes with green chilies oh my gosh
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that is what makes it and then I'm gonna
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add a teaspoon of chili powder okay so
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now we're gonna add our liquid I'm gonna
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put about three cups of water and let's
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add a little pepper just to give it a
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little bit more spice and then I'm gonna
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add some salt there we go now I'm just
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gonna cover this and let those simmer
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for about 45 minutes to an hour and I'm
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gonna keep checking this pot because
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they're again they're dried and they
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they're gonna be doing a lot of drinking
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yes down there in that pot so why don't
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we take a quick break and when we come
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back I'm gonna be showing y'all how to
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fry plantain oh yes talkin about that
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Caribbean food yes so I'll see y'all
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back here in the kitchen in a minute I'm
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having a ball with chef Clayton and hope
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y'all were enjoying him too
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I told y'all that chef Clayton had
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taught me how to fry plantains his wife
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but we'll take these and and just cut
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them at an angle like so and all we have
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to do is just drop these suckers and
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some hot oil now I see that you've
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gotten something over there to eat along
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with them on the tray this is a mango
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salsa mm-hmm serve this on top of this
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one of these bends pains all right well
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let's try them yes hope I don't burn my
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mouth hmm there's a lot of flavors there
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so many flavors
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you got your kind of sweet plantain you
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got the bite of the hell opinion which I
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love and that strong flavor of cilantro
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not to mention the red peppers and
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onions
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that is very good oh-hoo Thank You
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Clayton these are great I hope y'all
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enjoy him I hope that you've had a good
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time with chef Clayton in me today
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because we've certainly had a ball
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talking about our Southern roots and our
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traditions and cooking up all these
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dishes but you know why what we never
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tasted those black-eyed peas no we
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didn't you know and that's as far as I'm
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concerned that's a sin mmm they're so
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good and you know what I couldn't
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believe you and I are so much I'm like
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in a lot of ways and you've never had a
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grip
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you never had a great pot well honey dig
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in all right
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I'm back at home in Birmingham this is
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so good excellent you know we've made
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some fabulous food today I love fried
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plantains the spicy black-eyed peas this
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grits pie oh and my goodness Clayton
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your raised turkey shanks weren't those
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delicious well it's over the top
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thank you our time is up oh my goodness
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so you want to help me find off yes and
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it's always yo chef Clayton and I send
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y'all love and best dishes from our
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kitchen to yours Thank You chef you're
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great you're great thank you
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