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- Let me tell y'all what.
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This is my favorite time of year
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Happy Valentine's Day!
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Uh, it's Christmas, y'all.
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and Christmas is my favorite time of the year.
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And just because the temperature gets cold outside
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doesn't mean that we can't have good things to eat inside.
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So today I'm making homemade cro
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and we're looking at a delicious holiday romaine salad.
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We wanted to start here
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'cause The Chicken Box doesn't look like this.
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We're down in The Chicken Box today, y'all.
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It's Christmas time. Let's get c
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Okay, y'all, so here we are. You've been in my box before.
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Look how simple this is.
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Now, Theresa did these for me.
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All you have to do is cut your b
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and this particular recipe that
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only called for butter.
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and I would suggest that you take it out of the wrapper,
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leave it in a single sheet somew
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so it'll get a little bit hard, you know, a little stale.
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Butter it with pepper only for t
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although I shook a little bit of green on this,
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and my mother used to do this, and she deep fried it.
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We had deep fried croutons at the restaurant forever.
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But this is better for you.
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So Theresa made these for me tod
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'cause I don't have an oven in The Chicken Box, y'all.
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But she brought my croutons, my croutons down for me.
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We have our mandarin oranges.
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Look at this beautiful romaine l
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We're gonna use a couple of pear
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which really kicks off the holid
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And we're using today,
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really, people love my mom's poppy seed dressing.
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So this is a simple salad with poppy seed dressing.
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Now the first thing I'm gonna ask y'all to do
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is not tell my mama that you saw me do this.
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(knife chopping) Because my mom says
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you don't ever cut lettuce 'cause it bruises it.
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She likes all of her lettuce han
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And I don't disagree with that.
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I do not have time to hand pry every bit of this lettuce
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and somebody's going to eat it in five minutes.
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So I'm gonna cut this.
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And on the top side, I'm gonna go through twice
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so I don't have any of those big giant notebook pages.
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That'll go into our mixing bowl
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I'll bring it over for you. See?
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This is the start of the salads
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that I made for The Chicken Box this morning.
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I do entree salads that we can put proteins on top of.
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Beautiful. Now this part I can get down with.
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It takes a long time to tear it
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and I feel like if a knife is gonna bruise it,
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my big hands would certainly bru
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Now we're gonna look at some pea
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(knife chopping) I'm gonna core this out.
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This is Davis' favorite fruit
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and this is always the way I cut
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So this little bit of sweet for our craisins
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and our poppy seed is so good.
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Now this is a salad that you're probably gonna wanna serve.
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I wouldn't do these pears and start cutting them
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until you're ready to serve them
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You know, all of our fruits are so delicate
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and brown and bruise so easily.
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So if you're doing this way ahea
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you're gonna need a little bit of lemon juice.
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That'll keep these from turning
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So I'll take our pears. Oh, I mi
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Now there's a tip on this recipe that don't lose your mind
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if you don't have any pears around the house.
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Or if you don't have any mandari
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which is the other thing that Th
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Well, this is for the recipe.
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But if you got an apple around the house or an orange,
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any of your sweet fruit will stand in stead
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for your mandarin oranges
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if you happen to not have any ar
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Then we're gonna take some of our craisins.
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This is another element of sweet
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but look at the pop of color.
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Will, who I work with here at The Chicken Box,
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who I love, is one of my favorit
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is an artist, like, a real artis
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And we all the time talk about how food is similar to art
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and colors and textures.
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It's really important to have different colors
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and textures in here.
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And when you start with something that pretty,
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it's really easy to make.
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So we're gonna take our croutons that we've done
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and spread these around a little
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And then take Mom's dressing.
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The best part of The Chicken Box
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is that there's a store conveniently located right next
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so I can get all of my shopping
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I'm gonna start with a little,
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because you can't ever take it a
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This is a good time for us, y'al
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Let's take a little pause right
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Let me wash my hands and I'm gonna get some gloves on,
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then we'll plate this up and have some lunch.
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All right, y'all, I'm gonna toss this really gently.
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I don't know if I have enough dressing on here.
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I learned the hard way
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that if I had too much dressing
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how in the world am I gonna wipe all these leaves off?
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This looks pretty good actually. This is a beautiful salad.
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I think that has enough dressing
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Oh, let me show y'all.
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All the heavy stuff's gonna drop to the bottom,
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so when you're fixing your plates, get your first hand full
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See, that's mainly just lettuce. That's okay.
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Everybody wants their lettuce.
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So let's get a good base
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and then I'll take just a second to make sure
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to kind of place some of these oranges and pears.
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Cranberries right on top.
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I tell you one of my favorite things about working down here
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at The Chicken Box is the amount
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that I have made friends with since we were started.
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And while we were filming this, a woman came in and said,
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"I need a salad for my daughter.
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So I told her if she had five mi
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I would make her a TV famous salad to take her daughter.
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So today I'm gonna do one for he
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and I'm gonna do one to go.
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So what do you think?
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I appreciate Theresa coming down
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She's loaded all this stuff up f
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We're all so busy, we don't know which way to turn.
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But never too busy to eat food.
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I appreciate it y'all. I'm Jamie
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This is Chicken Box. I'll see y'all around the kitchen.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
