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- Well, happy Thanksgiving, y'all.
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They roll around so quick.
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You know, so this Thanksgiving,
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I'm thinking about y'all
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in the more traditional tried and true,
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and you know it's going to be delicious.
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Well, this particular recipe is our sweet potato souffle,
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and it has a crunchy top on it.
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Now, you can do it any way you want to.
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You can prepare all the pumpkin and stuff,
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you can just put marshmallows on top
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towards the end of your baking time.
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But, everybody seems to love that crunchy top.
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We have found a way to make a sweet potato a little sweeter.
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Well, you might say 3 1/2 sweet potatoes.
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And we just cooked them in the microwave
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because it's so easy.
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And you can do them the day before or whenever.
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Or if you've got leftover sweet potatoes for some reason,
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We didn't do many sweet potato casseroles at the restaurant,
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but we did- - Except for Thanksgiving.
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- Yeah, except for Thanksgiving.
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- [Teresa] Christmas.
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- Well, we didn't open on Christmas.
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- [Teresa] But remember, we did them in the takeouts.
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- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. (Teresa chattering)
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But everybody loves our sweet potato yam-style.
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And I'll eat them either way, honey.
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It don't matter to me as long as I got them.
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All right, now I've got my three fairly large sweet potatoes
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and I've melted some butter,
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This is a nutmeg seed,
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- You need your zest. - I was gonna say,
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"Look what I'm zesting it with."
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I need 1/4 of a teaspoon
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because nutmeg is one of those fairly strong,
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I guess it's a herb seasoning.
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- [Teresa] Spice. - Spice.
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- [Teresa] That smells so good.
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- It does smell so good.
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You just have to be careful not to get your knuckles.
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And you're thankful it just calls for 1/4 of a teaspoon.
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Let's say that's 1/4 of a teaspoon.
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I don't want Lulu to get a hold of that.
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Okay, so we'll call that done.
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And then, I've got my one teaspoon of cinnamon.
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Now, you know that you can always use the powdered nutmeg,
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but I don't know, I just...
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I love the smell of the fresh and all of that.
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So, this is so simple. I'm just gonna take our mixer.
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I'm gonna go ahead and add the vanilla now.
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We're going to use a teaspoon of vanilla.
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So, I would love to hear from y'all.
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That is a teaspoon, right? - [Teresa] Mm-hmm.
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- Yes. (bowl clattering)
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I'd like to hear from y'all.
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Tell me what your favorite things are at Thanksgiving
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and what would make the family so blooming mad
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if you didn't have a particular dish on the table.
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So, y'all let me hear from you because I'm nosy.
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I'm nosy like that, y'all.
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I couldn't do without this little machine right here, y'all,
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because I love our stand mixer,
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but golly bum, it's so heavy.
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Come on, work with me.
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Work with me, dad gum it.
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- [Teresa] Your depth perception is working.
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- My depth perception is gone.
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And that's what happens when you lose your vision
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You just stumble around kind of like you're drunk.
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Okay, I think we're ready to go.
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I'm getting sweet potato peelings everywhere.
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Okay, so that's what we've done.
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Now, we're gonna cream them.
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And you can do it by hand,
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but I really like using a mixer
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because sweet potatoes can be stringy.
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I'm gonna add just a little bit of salt.
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Now, I'm starting to sling, Eddie.
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Oh, it's on my shoes.
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Okay, now we've got two eggs,
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and I'm gonna add those one at a time.
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Now, I'm gonna add 1/4 of a cup of...
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Well, I like using whole cream,
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but you can use half and half
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or you can just use regular sweet milk,
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Look how that cream kind of changed the color
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of our sweet potatoes.
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It really lightened them.
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(mixer whirring) (bowl clattering)
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Okay, I'm going to lightly spray my pan,
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(spray hissing) (spray clattering)
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And this is one of the bowls that we carry in our stores
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at Paula Deen's Family Kitchens.
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And I think they're so pretty.
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And how many colors do they come in?
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Two or three colors, the red, the blue.
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I think they come in a green, too.
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- [Crew] I think there's black, red, blue.
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- [Crew] Yeah, I think so.
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- I hadn't seen that one.
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I realized y'all when I put that hard butter in there
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that I needed to melt the butter,
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not try to work with it cold.
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So, this will make it easier on your arm, too.
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So, I'm all in on this one.
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All right, so I melted butter,
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and it actually had a little brown sugar on it
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because I had put it right on in the dish
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(spatula clattering) (pan clattering)
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when I realized my arm was going to fall off.
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Now, we've got our flour, I think it's like 1/3 of a cup.
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And I'm just cutting this together with my fork.
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Teresa done brought in her nuts,
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and we're using pecans today.
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You can use the nut of your choice.
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I prefer pecans or walnuts.
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And the best way to get this mixed together
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because this is going to be crumbly.
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So if your family doesn't like nuts,
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you know they can always push the top into the side
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and just eat the sweet potatoes
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because sweet potatoes are so good for us.
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And I try to remind myself, you know,
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maybe a sweet potato instead of a white potato.
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And then, oops, I don't have any sweet potatoes.
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That's gonna melt in there,
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and you're gonna say, "Gosh.
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This could be a dessert."
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And you are right about that.
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In fact, our yams at the restaurant,
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a lot of people say, "Nope."
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When you ask them if they're ready for their dessert,
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they'll say, "No, I'm just having yams,
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the yams for dessert."
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Okay, so I'm just trying to spread this evenly.
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Don't ever want to short anybody.
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So, they gave us plenty,
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plenty of ingredients for everybody.
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Okay, we're gonna put this in the oven.
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The recipe will tell you
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to cook them a little bit higher degree
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and then turn the oven down.
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I don't think that's necessary, depending on your oven.
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So, we're going to cook that for about 25 minutes, I think,
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Teresa, if I remember correctly.
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- [Teresa] Yes, ma'am. - Okay.
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So, for Thanksgiving, this is definitely one of the stars.
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And I'm just gonna slip in here and get a little bite
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because I think I might be having company
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for dinner tonight, so...
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And for dessert, you can make some sweetened,
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whipped heavy cream, whipped cream,
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and dollop on it and tell people it's dessert.
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(Paula laughing) It's that good.
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So, I hope y'all have a happy and peaceful Thanksgiving,
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and we're always here sending y'all love and best dishes.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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