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Join Paula and her friend Jenna as they make a sweet and savory breakfast casserole.
Jenna shares the story of her journey from an eating disorder to becoming a head chef and how Paula helped her achieve her dreams!
You can check out the recipe below:
"Good" Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients:
16 oz. Bag of Frozen Sweet-Potato Tater Tots
1lb. Sweet Italian Sausage
6 Strips of Thick-Cut Bacon (Chopped)
½ Yellow Onion (Chopped)
½ Stick Butter
8 oz. Package Cream Cheese
1 Cup Shredded Parmesan Cheese
2 cups Whole Milk
6 Fried Eggs
Directions:
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Dean today and I've got my little
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friend that's going to be popping in
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today to show me how she makes her
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breakfast casserole I've made many a
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breakfast casserole but I don't think
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I've ever made it Jenna's way so y'all
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sit down grab a cup of coffee and watch
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how Jenna does
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it y'all are not going to believe the
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guests that I've got in the kitchen with
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me today uh not only is she young and
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beautiful she's also smart and she can
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cook y'all like I said you're not gonna
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believe her story so I'm so happy that
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you're here with me today uh her name is
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Jenna Canard and she is an executive
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chef in Fort Worth in Fort Worth Texas
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Jenna's doing the cooking today y'all so
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uh I'm really looking forward to the
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dish that she's going to be preparing
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for us I I heard a little bit about but
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what is it something it was actually one
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of the first dishes I ever created and
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really it really and I'm I'm really
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obsessed with the Savory meat sweet side
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of things and so that's what I'm doing
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for you today good well if I can help
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you just let me know absolutely right
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now I've got some sweet potato tots that
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are working in the oven what I'm going
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to do is I'm going to actually cook off
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some of the sweet Italian sausage uhhuh
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going to cook some bacon and crumble P
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that up too once that's finished Okay
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cooking well I can help you out with a
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bacon now you don't want to food with
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could you help me out with that that
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would be
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great look look how I cook
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it in my deep frer you are not I mean I
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can have breakfast made for 20 people in
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just just a second I'm not kidding I
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love it I am not kidding it's the deep
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fryer and you can see Gus Gus smells
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some meat already he's ready he's going
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to hang in here with us and just hope we
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drop something
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Jenna and here comes
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Max good morning so have you got a name
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for this dish other than good you know
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why why don't we just call it good I
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don't have a name for it you don't I
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think good the perfect name for it yes
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good we'll call it good um look at that
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that oh my gosh it's perfect I'm going
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to just oh that is look at that look at
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that so now I'm just going to throw in
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some onion and get that caramelizing in
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there with the fat of the sausage it's
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going to be so good it is going to be so
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good what kind of onions do you use in
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Texas you know I usually just go for the
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yellow onion me too tell me about these
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that y'all have here though well now it
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via onions grow right down the road in
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Via Georgia and you know it said that
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they can't produce a via anywhere but
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there in that soil and it's the kind of
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onion you can go out in the field peel
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and eat it right then really so
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wonderfully sweet and aromatic and just
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like delicious there's nothing better
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than a mayonnaise and onion sandwich on
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good fresh white bread that sticks to
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the for your mouth you know never had
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one of
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those good it's so
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good and I'm getting ready my my butter
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and cream cheese is almost melted all
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the way down gosh what an easy way to
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make an I mean really is you just throw
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it in there now I'm about to throw in my
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parmesan cheese so you don't have to
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worry about this breaking or anything no
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you just toss it all in here
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and you know put it on a low simmer and
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just let it work its magic
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[Music]
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all right Jenna I love to see a cook
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with a utensil in this hand a utensil in
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this hand and you just go at it
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the all you have to do is add your milk
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right that's right mil and if you want
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to beat while pour oh that's perfect
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perfect try not to make a mess do you
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want all oops and making a
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mess just a little out of time there and
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that's yeah good yes ma'am get all that
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in there beat it on up look at that it's
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just turning into this creamy delicious
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it's got a pouring spout but it didn't
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pour too good did
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it I actually developed an eating
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disorder it ended up consuming my life
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though and um I remember one night not
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being able to sleep and making my way
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downstairs turning on the TV and and
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Paula always had a special that played
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overnight and watching her um kind of
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changed everything for me one day I
5:11
decided you know I was sick and tired of
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being sick and tired I had enough and I
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was going to get better I was going to
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get healthy and it was the hardest thing
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I think I had ever had to do but I
5:26
believe that God placed Paula in my life
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as that Beacon of Hope for me I'm very
5:32
grateful for her and so glad to be
5:36
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300 in case y'all have just found us
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it's me Paula on positively Paula and
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I've got the cutest girl in the kitchen
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with me today y'all her name is Jenna
6:43
Gard she is making us a dish y'all she
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just made an alfredo sauce and she has
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browned some it sweet Italian sausage
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the sweet potato tots just came out of
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the oven they're piping hot I fried her
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some bacon in the deep fryer she saves
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this recipe for family and friends and
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people she loves a lot I do so I can't
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thank her enough for sharing this recipe
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with me and my friends today I cannot
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wait for you to try it and we're we're
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almost done here okay well good I I'm
7:17
ready to eat I'm just going to take this
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bacon that you deep fry I'm going to C
7:22
look look how see it's like crispy
7:24
through and through it's so easy to
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crumble or yes oh my yeah don't you love
7:31
bacon how good is that thank you w you
7:34
don't want to let go of it do you it's
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too good that's too good that's
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good I was wonder why why those eggs
7:42
were out oh I'm about to get them going
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over
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here and I just like to put so this is a
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good brunch dish oh it is it is and I I
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love you know what breakfast brunch are
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my two favorite meals of the day yes
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just love some good
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eggs and I'm going to give
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you what is
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it who's
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here they act like we got company all
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right I'm going to I'm going to give you
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um my grandmother's spatula to flip your
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eggs with Jenna what does that what does
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that
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say ell
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y
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1945 yes two years this was made two
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years before I was born oh and this is
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the spatula that Grandma used in her
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restaurant PA so if there was a fire I
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would grab this oh my gosh what an
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absolute honor thank you so I almost
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feel like I like this is I can someone L
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that yes it that
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uh I get to think about my grandmother
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every day in her kitchen pulling those
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great big hams out of the oven and she
8:56
had a cook that worked with her his name
8:57
was Sam m and uh between the two of them
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they were these most fabulous Southern
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Cooks isn't the kitchen a great place to
9:09
um to make memories it really is and
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look back on
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memories these are a little ugly no
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they're not ugly I love them they look
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like a homemade egg I'm going to go
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ahead and top this with this creamy
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alfredo sauce now okay I'm just going to
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drizzle it on
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that would you let those tater tots just
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kind of absorb that creamy goodness yes
9:38
and oh I cooked your eggs how you like
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them Paula we don't have any runny white
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yolk I'm just going to put those right
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there I'm going to go ahead you still
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got some run
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girl look Michael would love that yeah
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get that runny yolk in there yes oh it's
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the best okay yes you you dip it the way
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you like it
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okay look at that that that heat from
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all that stuff will cook those egg whes
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too we'll continue you see I'm worried
10:10
about them here I'll go ahead okay oh my
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gosh Jenna you know it's one of those
10:17
dishes I'm so it may not be the most
10:20
beautiful no but to look at but I can
10:24
just
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imagine how wonderful this
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is why want it's pretty hot this is a
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wonderful brunch dish it
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[Music]
10:35
[Applause]
10:37
[Music]
10:43
is those sweet potato
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toch isn't it amazing yum that sweetness
10:49
with the salty the bacon and sausage it
10:53
just look I'm
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going I'm going to bust into my yolk
10:58
perfect cooked
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egg okay gush you've been such a good
11:03
boy he has been oh so patient M oh gosh
11:08
look at that
11:10
y'all the sweet potatoes and the Alfredo
11:13
sauce so good Jenna I'm so glad you like
11:17
it PA oh it's so delicious so we have
11:20
time for another dish don't we have you
11:22
got something up your sleeve oh I do
11:25
you're going to don't leave us don't
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leave
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us if you thought this was good you're
11:31
in for a real
11:32
treat well what do you think I would
11:35
never have thought about putting sweet
11:36
potatoes and a breakfast casserole but
11:40
it really was
11:42
delicious but y'all know how I feel
11:44
about my white
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potato I do love it just like I love
11:51
y'all
11:53
bye-bye the space that you live in
11:56
really affects the way you feel so my
11:59
first recommendation is start by
12:02
updating your window treatments with
12:04
Smith and Noble Smith and Noble's
12:06
beautiful handcrafted blinds draped
12:08
Shades and shutters are custommade just
12:11
for you and they offer different service
12:13
options to fit your needs to get started
12:16
today contact Smith and Noble to get my
12:18
special limited time offer 25% off on
12:23
your window treatments plus free design
12:26
consultation create a space that you're
12:29
going to love for details about my
12:31
special offer go to Smith and noble.com
12:35
slpa that's Smith and noble.com paala or
12:39
call 1800
12:42
659
12:44
3300 that's 1 800 659 3300
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