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Lady and Sons Macaroni and Cheese Tips - What's cooking with Paula Deen Podcast
Mar 11, 2017
In this week's podcast, Paula talks about Macaroni and Cheese and her tips for cooking her famous Lady and Son's Macaroni and Cheese.
1. Cook your macroni noodles so they are soft and fully cooked
2. Make sure all the water is out of your noodles
3. Really toss the noodles with the cheese so the noodles are fully coated. Make sure the noodles are hot to get the cheese melted.
4. When you use cream cheese, pull it from the block cheese.
5. Use evaporated milk. It works GREAT in Macaroni and Cheese
6. Add Eggs last so you don't curdle the eggs.
7. Spray your pan with non stick spray as mac and cheese will stick.
Enjoy! Mac and Cheese is something you can really make your own.
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I'm going to talk about the lady and
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Son's macaroni and
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cheese um I think I hear
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more wonderful comments on our macaroni
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and cheese and maybe besides our fried
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chicken and our H cakes and our cheese
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biscuits people love our macaroni and
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cheese so I'm going to try to walk you
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uh through exactly cuz you know I can
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give you a
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recipe but
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then you know you you're going to have
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to uh really make it your own so I'm
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going to I'm going to share as close cuz
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see this is one of those things I really
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don't measure don't measure macaroni and
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cheese but I do I do start off by
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measuring two cups of raw
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noodles and I put them that in a pot of
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salted
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boiling
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water and it's important that you salt
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your your water uh if you don't get
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things salted any kind of starches like
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that if you don't salt them from the
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very beginning it's going to be a real
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challenge to ever get them salty enough
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so you want to pour your elbow macaroni
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into that pot of boiling water and now
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here is the best tip that I can give
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y'all uh you know Italians say to cook
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pasta El Dente well I I don't like my
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pasta cooked El Dente I like my pasta to
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cook kind of soft so here's the reason
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it's important that you cook that elbow
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macaroni until it's soft because if you
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cook it El Dente and you go to mix it
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with your wet
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ingredients it's going to have to finish
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cooking and it's going to soak up
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that little bit of wetness that you got
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going in it and it's going to be nothing
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but dried pasta so you'll want to cook
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that macaroni noodle real good and you
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want to put it in a colander when it's
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done and take your spoon and toss those
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elbows because they're crooked little
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elbows and they're full of water and you
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don't want your macaroni and cheese
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watery so you want to stir that and try
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to shake out all the water from your
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noodles the very first tip that I give
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you is probably the most important when
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it comes to making good macaroni and
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cheese you must make sure your macaroni
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noodles are cooked soft you have to
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overcook it and cook it completely done
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and you'll see I'm stirring this the
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next important step is to get all the
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water out of your shells out of your
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noodles because you don't want you don't
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want your um sauce
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watery we want to make sure it's drained
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real well and then we're going to start
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adding our
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cheeses uh I'll probably start with two
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cups of a sharp
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cheddar and uh then I'll take a cube of
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you know a block of uh white
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cheddar or medium cheddar and I'll cut
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it up into cubes and I will stir that
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in and then I'm going to add my butter
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because my noodles are still going to be
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a little warm and that'll help melt that
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butter and
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uh then I'm going to
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add like a half of an 8 oz block of
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cream
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cheese I'm going to take that box of
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cream cheese and I'll cut it in half and
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I'll just pull those off pull bites off
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of the cream cheese and stir that in to
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my pasta my cheesy pasta and then I'm
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going to
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add two big heaping tablespoons of sour
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cream and I'm going to stir that up and
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mix that in there and then I'm going to
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add uh a cup of evaporated milk the
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canned milk works so so
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well in macaroni and cheese so I'm going
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to use that can of evaporated milk and
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then I'm going to add regular milk until
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it
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becomes almost the consistency
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of say a raw cornbread or a pancake
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batter something along those
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lines um and then I'm going to pour this
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into a prepared pan one that I had
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sprayed very very well with a
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nonstick and I'm going to pour this into
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that pan and I'm going to put it in a
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350° oven and I'm going to bake it
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uncovered now I love to mix my
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macaroni and cheese up while my noodles
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are
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hot because that helps give the cheese a
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little head start on
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melting so the first thing I'm going to
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do is add some
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cheese calls for two cups of cheese
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y'all you can see I got a little bit
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more than two cups now I like to do
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chunks of cheese in my macaroni and
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cheese dish it'll be a nice surprising
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chunk now my little
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Bobby likes a little cream cheese in his
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so it's one of those things that you can
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do whatever you'd like like to with it
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but it should
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be
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satisfying see that cheese starting to
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melt and stick to my
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spoon all right now I'm going to put a
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couple of tablespoons of
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butter okay three we'll do three I don't
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ever recall my mom fixing a box of
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macaroni and cheese when I was growing
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up now my liquid for my macaroni and
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cheese is an evaporated milk so I'm
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going to put about that much sour
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cream and that's really the secret
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ingredient uh sour cream makes it creamy
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and eggs bake it up like a
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sule all right so in goes the
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eggs and that's the last thing I put in
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because my ingredients have had an
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opportunity to cool down you don't want
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to put raw eggs into hot macaroni
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noodles because it'll curdle it'll
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actually cook the eggs and you don't
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want that to
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happen all right now I'm looking at this
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y'all and I'm fixing to make a judgment
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call I almost think I want a little bit
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more milk in there so I'm going to add
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just a little bit of regular whole milk
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to
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it and if I get too much milk in
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it I can always let it cook a little
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longer there somehow that just makes me
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feel a little bit
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you've uh put your cream cheese in there
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we want to add three beaten eggs or I
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say let's change that for two cups of uh
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macaroni noodles let's use two eggs and
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and so we're going to beat those up and
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stir those in the the uh macaroni and it
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will have cooled down Enough by then
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that you don't have to worry about your
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eggs becoming scrambled eggs they will
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mix in well and then we're going to pour
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this into our prepared pan and bake at
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350° and it may take 30 40 minutes and
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about halfway through I will stir my
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macaroni and
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cheese just to make sure it's cooking
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completely and thoroughly all the way
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through I think I'll cook it in this pan
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it's very important when you're making
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macaroni and cheese that you spray
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whatever kind of dish you're
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using because it will
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stick so here we
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go and I'm
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probably going to bake this like at
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350 for probably 45 minutes how
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beautiful is
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that now when it's almost done y'all I
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like to take it out and give it a stir
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oh my goodness look at that at the end
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of the cooking time I will take it and
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I'm going to cover the top of that with
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uh um gosh probably a couple of cups of
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more grated cheese and I'm going to
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stick that back in the oven for about
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five more minutes or until it's
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completely
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melted and I think you will have just
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the most wonderful dish of macaroni and
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cheese and to me the that's the southern
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way you know the eggs make it like a
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sulet like almost so that's perfect
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about 10 more minutes and I'll top it
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with more cheese and give it that
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beautiful uh cheesy top and then
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we'll dive into it and see what we got
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but I do hope y'all enjoy and I hope
11:13
that answered some of y'all's
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11:32
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11:35
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11:37
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11:40
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11:44
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11:47
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11:50
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