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Holiday Cooking & Baking Recipes: Grape Salad Recipe | Easy Christmas Dinner Side Dish Ideas
Dec 22, 2025
Grape Salad Recipe | Easy Christmas Dinner Side Dish Ideas - Paula's sharing an easy, last-minute cold side dish idea for your holiday dinner menu. This is always a crowd favorite!
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- Y'all, I talked Theresa into hanging out with me
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while I make this grape salad.
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- Just FYI, I hang out with you every day.
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- Oh yeah, she does hang out with me every day,
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but sometimes she ain't got on no lipstick.
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- None (Paula laughing) or hair.
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- Today she's got her lipstick and makeup, got earrings on.
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- Got contacts.
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- Contacts, she is all flossied out.
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So, I'm gonna ask you to help.
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We're gonna need the hand mixer.
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- [Theresa] Okay, it's right down here.
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- Oh.
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- [Theresa] Oh-oh.
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- So the salad that I was telling you, or the dish,
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it's hard for me to consider it a salad,
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but the dish I'm referring to
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for Thanksgiving and Christmas is my grape salad.
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And to me, people eat it up so fast
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where if I spend hours making ambrosia they won't eat it.
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- This is so good.
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- It is so good.
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So, Theresa, if you would, uh.
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- Cream the cheese.
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- Yeah, I'm going to use about, let me tell y'all this now.
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You know, I have told y'all a hundred times
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how I change my recipes.
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I change my own recipes.
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- [Theresa] Not you.
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- Yes, I do, I do.
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All right, so I'm using about three-quarters of a package of
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cream cheese,
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and about three-quarters of a cup of sour cream.
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- Perfect.
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- All right, oh.
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- And we're gonna give you a recipe.
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- We're gonna dance.
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- And then, Paula, and then you can choose
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to use her version that she's doing right now,
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or you can follow a recipe like I do.
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- My version.
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My version or my version.
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All right, version one, version two.
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If you would just hold up for just one second, please,
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so I can, I wanna show them this.
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Now I'm using lids
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that go on these plastic containers.
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I'm putting the bowl side up,
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and then I'm putting the bowl side up, also,
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on top of these grapes.
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And this is a fast way if you're doing, trying to do,
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say grape tomatoes or cherry tomatoes.
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This is a great way to do 'em quick.
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Look at that.
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Just one swoop, I've got all my grapes halved.
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Isn't that great?
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My son, Bobby, actually taught me that.
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So I like to slice, like, half, and then leave half whole.
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So this will take care of our sliced.
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And this recipe calls for four pounds of grapes.
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We don't have close to four pounds of grapes,
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but when I make my grape salad, this is a time, Theresa,
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that I like to take the opportunity
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to go through my refrigerator.
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- Mm-hmm, I know you do.
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- And see what fruits I have.
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Pineapple, I love pineapple in this, blueberries.
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- Oh, one thing I didn't put out.
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- What?
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- That you said, raisins.
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- Oh yeah, I'll get the raisins.
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The raisins just, mm, add that other little bite of sweet.
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So we have got,
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we haven't put our sugar in there yet, have we?
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- Nope.
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- Just our sour cream and cream cheese, so.
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This is a half a cup measure, so,
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on this I kinda taste and go, you know, so.
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You'll want to try to,
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I always wash my grapes,
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but when I'm using 'em for grape salad,
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I always try to lay 'em on a dishcloth,
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and kinda get some of the water out of 'em.
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So there we go.
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This is gonna make a pile.
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Now what I found in my refrigerator today.
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- [Theresa] I'm just gonna move over here.
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- I found some maraschino cherries.
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I love my cherries in it.
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I found some fresh blueberries.
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So I think those will be wonderful in my grape salad.
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And you can kinda just use the proportions
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that you want to use.
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I'm gonna test this for sweetness.
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Sure look good.
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You know what?
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- And there she goes.
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- Here I go, honey.
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I like this really, really wet.
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It's not like making coleslaw
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where you don't want your coleslaw just dripping wet,
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but I do love all my moisture.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and use the whole eight ounce package,
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and the whole eight ounce cup of sour cream.
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- Also, that's what the recipe says.
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- Oh, it is?
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Now I love maraschino cherries in my grape salad
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'cause it's just pretty, you know, the color is pretty,
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but I do rinse 'em very, very well and then I drain 'em
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because if you don't, it's going to turn your grape salad,
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it'll turn all this pink,
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and I don't want pink stuff in my grape salad.
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So we wound up using an eight ounce package of cream cheese.
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Eight ounce container of sour cream,
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and about a half a cup of sugar.
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So that's my pretty much standard recipe, Theresa.
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- Mm-hmm, it is.
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- But it's the things that goes in it
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that I can change all of that.
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- I know it is.
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- So we've got our grapes here, our sliced and our whole.
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I've got some blueberries.
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- I may serve this for Christmas,
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now that you've reminded me of this recipe.
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- Everybody loves this.
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And I love making ambrosia.
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It takes me many hours, you know,
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to peel and section those oranges.
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- [Theresa] And nobody appreciates that.
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- Nobody, nobody.
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All right, so while Theresa is stemming those,
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I just wanna make sure that you understood what I was doing
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for slicing the grapes.
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- [Theresa] Now where do you want your cherries?
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- And that's putting.
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- [Theresa] Do you want them in there?
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- Yeah, you can throw 'em right in here.
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So you'll want
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the bowl side up,
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and then you'll want the bowl side up on this as well.
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And that holds 'em in place and you just slice 'em
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and it takes minutes off of whatever you're doing.
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All right, so,
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we've got our fruit here and we always add cheese to it.
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The cheese is delicious.
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Hey cousin Don.
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- [Don] Hello.
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- [Paula] I'm making you some grape salad.
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All right, now I'm gonna put in my cheese.
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And that's about an eight ounce package.
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- [Theresa] You really do have to get into this
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with your hands.
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- [Paula] Yeah, yeah.
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- And you grated that cheese yourself.
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- Yeah, oh yes, I hand grated it.
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I don't like that powdered stuff.
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All right, so I'm gonna get a larger bowl, Theresa.
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- Okay.
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- Okay.
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We might put, like, a little bit more cheese.
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All right.
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Now we're gonna add some walnuts.
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And you know what,
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I think we could stand some more blueberries.
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Now if you like for looks you can use a red grape,
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or a purple grape, or a green grape
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because it's really pretty if you mix your colors of grapes.
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- Yeah.
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- But green grapes are so tart.
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- I like the red grapes too.
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- I do too, I do too.
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And if it's a cotton candy grape, I like it even better.
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- Yeah, they didn't have those.
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- All right, so if you wanna fold this into that, Theresa.
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- [Theresa] Certainly.
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- And I'm not gonna wash my hands right this second
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'cause I may have to get in it again with my hands.
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- [Theresa] She's testing my abilities with her small bowl
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that she and I argue about all the time.
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- All the time.
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Okay, that's painful for me to watch.
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- [Theresa] I guess it is.
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- So I'm gonna do this while you stir the rest in, okay?
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- [Theresa] You got it.
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- And I've washed my hand 'til the skin's about off today,
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so, don't worry for a second I have not.
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Oh, look how good this is.
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It is so good.
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Now we need a pretty bowl
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that we can.
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- Make it look pretty in.
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- Uh-huh, and you see how nice,
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there's no chintzy of the wonderful cream, you know,
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that really makes it so good, so, yes, yes, yes.
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- Now one thing I do wanna remind them is in the recipe,
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although all these measurements
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have pretty much been the same,
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this is not half as many grapes.
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So if you want to be as wet as Paula's making it,
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you're almost gonna have to do at least
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one and a half times the recipe on the ingredients.
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- And I wish I had some pineapple
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because I do love pineapple chunks,
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or pineapple tidbits in this, but I don't.
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So we just need a pretty bowl to put this in.
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And this is best if you can make it the day before,
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it just gets better.
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So you wanna find a bowl, you wanna a kiss?
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- I will.
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- Okay, Eddie found me a pretty clean bowl.
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And I'm gonna try to put this in our bowl
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without making a mess, you know, on our edges
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because I don't like that it'd look like
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we've been sloppy with our.
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- [Theresa] Look how pretty.
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- Oh, it's so pretty.
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- I'm taking some of this home too.
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- Yes.
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You know, you eat things with your eyes first.
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I've said that for years.
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- But you're not even done yet.
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- Uh-uh, not done yet.
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Oh, you know what, we forgot that I had so many of.
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- The raisins.
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- No, I put the raisins, my apples.
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- Oh.
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- I love dicing up apples and putting in it.
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So we really run a whole gamut.
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- Every fruit.
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- Of fruits in this grape salad, yes.
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Okay.
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We have done that without slopping up any of our edges.
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I'm losing some of my cheese
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and I don't want to lose my cheese.
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Okay.
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I'm gonna have to wash my hands again for a second.
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My last step is to sprinkle this with brown sugar.
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- [Theresa] Yum.
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- Mm, and when we serve it later,
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I'm so afraid, you know, I put a piece of bread.
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I don't know where that came from.
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It's something Eddie must have done.
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- [Theresa] In your store, from your Paula Deen store.
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It keeps it from clumping.
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- Yeah, I put a piece of bread
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and I'm so afraid I'm gonna pull out a piece of bread.
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And sprinkle on top, so.
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I just wanna kinda evenly sprinkle that around.
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Darn, so always make sure you add some apples.
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And now we're gonna sprinkle the top with a few more nuts.
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We're gonna cover it and put it in the refrigerator,
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but right now we're going to taste it.
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- I was gonna say we better be trying it.
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- Mm.
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All right, fork, let's use a fork.
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That way we can,
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'cause I'm anal about keeping my bowl clean.
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- [Theresa] Oh.
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- Oh, honey, I don't need no plate.
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- I know.
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- Okay, here we go, bon appétit.
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Mm.
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- I love this salad.
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I don't even have to taste it and know that I love it.
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- I know.
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And it's even better
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because when it sits in our refrigerator,
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that brown sugar melts.
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- And it just caramelizes almost.
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- That's when I serve this.
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You wouldn't even be able to see the brown sugar.
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Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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You won't be disappointed.
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- So Merry Christmas everybody.
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- And make it your own.
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Yes, Merry Christmas.
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Make it your own.
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Put whatever in the hell you feel like, right?
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- Yes.
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(Paul giggling)
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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