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I'm back in Mama's Kitchen today,
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sharing delicious easy recipes for you and your family.
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And today, I'm doing really one of my favorite things.
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Salad is my favorite food, chopped salad.
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I have a dream to open a place.
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Maybe I shouldn't share it.
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Y'all don't steal my idea.
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It's gonna be called Deen's Greens.
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I'd like to sell salad by the pound,
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with fresh delicious chicken and salmon
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and homemade croutons, homemade salad dressings.
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Does it sound awesome?
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All I need to do now is split myself in half,
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and then half of me can tend to my wife and three kids,
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and the other half, might have to split myself into thirds.
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It's a good idea, anyway.
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And we're gonna start with a homemade salad dressing today.
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We're doing cranberries.
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It's fall time, y'all.
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So you know that we're gonna have cranberries,
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and there's gonna be pumpkins
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and all kinds of things around this time of year.
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So let's start with our salad dressing.
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It's a really easy dressing, and it's the base
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of most of the salad dressings that I make.
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We've got apple cider vinegar, we've got some honey,
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some stone ground mustard, some salt.
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And look at this, whole fresh cranberries
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are gonna go into our salad dressing today.
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If you want to, if you're not a big honey person,
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the other sweet to bring into this salad dressing recipe
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would be some maple syrup.
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Little bit of maple syrup with some apple cider vinegar
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and some mustard and some oil makes a delicious, easy.
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We're making something else today.
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Our fresh cranberries are in here.
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I've got our apple cider vinegar.
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Now getting honey through that hole is gonna be a trick.
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I'll just take it off.
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I hated to mess with it because, as I've said earlier,
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I don't really use food processors a bunch.
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And I think if I get the top off of here,
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I might not get it to work later.
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But Theresa and Eddie are here.
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- [Theresa] I'm terrible with the food processor.
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- You're not terrible with anything.
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So we've got our mustard.
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A little bit of salt right here.
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Now we're gonna blend this up for about
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maybe 15 seconds or so.
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See what we got here.
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Boy, this is a homemade salad dressing right here,
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if I've ever seen it.
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Before I dress our whole salad, I'm gonna taste this.
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The vinegar and the sweet from the honey
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are really delicious.
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And the tart cranberry is gonna give this salad
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a really big, bold flavor.
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I did this first 'cause there's not much on this end.
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I've got got some prepared salad mix here.
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I think I'm only gonna use one.
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There's four or five of us here today,
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and I don't wanna waste any salad.
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On this, we're gonna add celery,
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which gives it great texture and also a fantastic flavor.
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We've got some fresh oranges that we're gonna put on here.
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Look how pretty this is.
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Now if you want to do a special Thanksgiving salad
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this year, how about one with oranges and pecans
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and fresh cranberry dressing?
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Y'all use any kind of cheese that you'd like.
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We got some goat cheese going on here today.
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And then I'm gonna just spoon this
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onto our dressing, onto our salad.
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Kind of drizzle this around, and then when it's time to eat,
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we can give this a good turn
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and make sure that everything is coated well.
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Two of my favorite things in a salad
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is you get it looking pretty
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and you use fresh ingredients in it.
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And look at that, y'all.
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We have, really that's a fall harvest salad
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that anybody can get behind.
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And look how simple it was.
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All you need is me and Theresa and Eddie at the house,
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and look how fast y'all can make a salad.
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I'm Jamie Deen, this is good food.
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We'll see y'all around the kitchen.
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This is a little bonus footage for y'all.
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The professionals would cover all this up
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and never admit to making a mistake.
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I didn't put any oil in my cranberry dressing, y'all.
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So I put 1/3 of a cup of oil in here,
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and now the world is right again.
