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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:
1. Lightly butter the bottom and sides of a 9”x13” casserole dish.
Add the sweet potato tots and cook for 15 minutes in a 350° oven.
Brown the sausage, bacon, and onions in a skillet.
2. Melt your butter and cream cheese in a medium pot on the stove-top.
3. Add milk and parmesan cheese and be sure to stir constantly.
4. Fry 6 eggs anyway you like them in a little butter.
5. Pull the casserole dish from the oven and add the sausage, bacon and onion mixture over the potatoes.
6. Lightly salt and pepper. Pour you Alfredo cream sauce over the casserole.
7. Add your eggs on top and serve up a hearty breakfast!
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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
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believe that God placed Paula in my life
5:29
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
7:08
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
7:36
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
8:36
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
9:01
they were these most fabulous Southern
9:03
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
9:49
girl look Michael would love that yeah
9:54
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
10:14
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
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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
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with the salty the bacon and sausage it
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just look I'm
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going I'm going to bust into my yolk
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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
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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
11:28
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
11:46
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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