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- Boy howdy, y'all. This recipe
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just brings back so many memories to me.
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Before, this was going on before I met Michael
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and I lived in that gated community
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next door to us now. And
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once a month on a Sunday
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we would have a birthday party
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for whomever's birthday was in that particular month.
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And we would have such a good time.
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That was before we had any children.
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No grandchildren, it was just all of us big kids.
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And we'd do all these little silly, goofy games.
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And one game that we did,
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it was you take your baseball bat
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and you go round and round
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and round and round and round.
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Oops, I'm about to...
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And then you tried to run.
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Well that particular day
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I was having a margarita with everybody else
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and I'm out there playing and you know, watching
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and all of a sudden, Daniel, our son-in-law,
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spun around and spun around and spun around
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and my drink went up in the air
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and I was not even using a paper cup,
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I was using a real glass.
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I'm telling you what.
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So if Michelle and Daniel was there,
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I would have been seeing Michael at that time,
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otherwise, Michelle and Daniel wouldn't have been there.
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But my nephew, Jay, Corrie's brother,
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hamburgers for this particular birthday celebration.
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And I said, but I wanna jazz it up a little bit.
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So I did. I took my hamburger meat, I added salt,
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I added a little pepper,
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I added a little garlic powder.
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And now I always now use onion powder too,
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because I just like the way it does.
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now what can I do that'll make this real special?
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And I thought, you know, I love butter.
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I love butter a lot. (chuckles)
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And I think this would be real good with some
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real cold butter cubed up and put in our burgers.
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my nephew, Jay, was really watching his weight.
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And he was so beautiful,
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he was such a beautiful young man.
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And they didn't get any more handsome than Jay Hiers.
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And so he came in and he,
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I had the burgers all patted out, y'all.
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And he looked at them and he said,
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"Aunt Paula, what is that?".
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And Corrie, his sister, my niece said,
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"Don't tell him it's butter, tell him it's garlic".
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So I don't lie good but I said, "Uh, it's garlic Jay".
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So he came back after we got through eating,
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he said, "Aunt Paula, that was the best hamburger
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I've ever eaten in my whole life".
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I said, "Well I'm so glad,
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garlic can really make it good".
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God love him. And we lost Jay some years back,
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but he was beautiful young man.
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So I have those memories of him.
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So we just gonna pat it out
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and I try to stick the butter,
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you know, inside, get it inside the hamburger meat
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so it won't just melt and run off.
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So you just kind of have to finesse it in there.
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Just like that. And we cook those,
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Michael cooked them on the grill
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But I'm just gonna cook these in the air fryer
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because they turn out beautiful in the air fryer.
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So that's what I'm gonna do.
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Like I said, you just have to finesse it
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and keep that butter,
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try to keep it within that hamburger meat.
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Because when we bite into it,
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we want that butter to turn loose in our mouth,
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not in the pan while it's cooking.
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Okay. I got four patties
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out of that pound of hamburger meat, y'all.
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So like I said, I'm just gonna throw these
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'cause it makes it so much easier
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than having to get out there in the heat.
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Toot-toot! (laughing)
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For my buns, sometimes I will,
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you know, butter them
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and do them in a skillet on the stove.
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But you know, I really kinda like them
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just wrapped in tinfoil and heated,
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they just have a tendency to stay softer.
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So that's what I'm gonna do.
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And I'll throw this in the air fryer
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when we get closer to the hamburgers being done.
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Well are y'all ready for the best burger
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you will ever eat in your whole life?
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And you know, you can't have a
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hamburger without cheese on it, can you? And
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I use Swiss cheese on top of my burger.
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Oh and that bun is hot all the way through.
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Yum. Wait, I think I may do this first.
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I always offer an array,
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you know, your mustard, ketchup,
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your mayonnaise and your relish.
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And if you're ever in one of our restaurants,
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in the store I have some incredibly delicious mustards.
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This one's a horseradish.
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All right, so since it's Memorial Day,
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we're doing paper plates, honey.
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So I'm using a beautiful butter lettuce
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for my burger because eating butter lettuce,
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to me it chews so easily.
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I mean, it's just like butter.
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Go down like butter? - Yes. It's very smooth.
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- Yes. And I'm gonna put me
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and a couple of pickles.
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I'm gonna put me a little pinch of bacon.
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Oh and don't forget the hamburger.
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I'm not gonna be able to get this in my mouth, Eddie.
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I bet you're thinking, "Oh yes you can Paula".
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Look at that burger, would you?
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I think I'm gonna need a moment.
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Butter in the burger, butter lettuce,
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cheese, tomato, onions, pickles. Mm.
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So if you're gonna be grilling out on Memorial Day,
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you'll have to remember this little trick
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because it's good and everybody would love it.
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You could even, if you're into frozen patties,
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you could buy some frozen patties,
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let them thaw, stick some butter in those.
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Love and best dishes, y'all.
