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- There's so many wonderful recipes
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from "Cooking with Paula Deen" magazine
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that I've been able to share with y'all over the years,
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and the one I'm sharing with y'all next
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is a wonderful bacon and blue cheese fried potato salad.
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But in the magazine and in the recipe instructions
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we tell you to deep fry the potatoes,
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and we are using a nice diced-up white table potato,
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but I am not gonna fry them on top of the stove
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or even in my deep fryer.
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I'm gonna do 'em in the air fryer
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so it'll take away a lot of calories.
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All right, let's see, now, I've sprayed this.
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You always wanna spray
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whatever you're cooking as long as it's like potatoes
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or meat because that spray will just help 'em
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to kinda crisp up and brown.
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So these have been sprayed and salted.
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So I'm probably gonna need to cook these
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in like two separate batches, y'all
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so it won't take so long.
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So I'm gonna cook half of 'em.
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Oh my gosh, I guess for about 10 minutes at 400.
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10 minutes. (chuckles)
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And we'll see what we got.
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Okay, it took, y'all, about 15 minutes.
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I've got two air fryers.
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I've got one over here that's handy-dandy to me.
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And then I've got another one over there
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in the baking center, and quite often I find myself
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using both of 'em at the same time.
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I just adore my air fryer.
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So I had some in there and some in here.
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And like I said, it took about 15 minutes.
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14 or 15 minutes for each load. Oops.
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Now, I do have to be careful
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or the top will come out the drain.
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So easy, so much easier than turning on the deep fryer
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or even cooking it in deep grease on top of the stove.
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This is just easy and a whole lot less calories.
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(metal door clanging shut)
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Okay, so we're gonna come over here.
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And we're gonna mix together all the stuff
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that's gonna make it good.
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We've got mustard, we got salt, green onions, lemon juice,
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black pepper, mayonnaise, and sour cream.
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Julie, oh, y'all, I just got a gift
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from one of the watchers out there,
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and she sent me the sweetest card.
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Julie, she said, "I hope this card finds you well.
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I just wanna let you how much I admire you
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and how you have inspired me for years to be a better cook.
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I've always enjoyed watching your videos
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and entering your giveaways.
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Your generosity, kind and giving spirit
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inspired me to send you a gift."
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Aw, I wanna pronounce Julie's last name correctly,
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but it's S-C-H-R-I-E-F-E-R.
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Schriefer? Schriefer?
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Is that right, Julie? (chuckles)
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Well, whatever, this was so sweet of you.
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And this is genius, y'all. I want you too look.
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These are all made on an angle.
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And you know how we're all the time trying to get down here
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and make sure that measurement's just right?
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You know what I mean?
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And then you have to figure out
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how you're gonna get back up. (chuckles)
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These sit at an angle
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so you read on the inside how much you have.
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I think this is genius.
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And Julie said that she's been using these for years,
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and I didn't even know they existed, Julie.
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So thank you so much for sharing with me.
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Makes my heart full, honey. Thank you very, very much.
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So sweet. Thank you, Julie.
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All right, now I'm gonna finish putting
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our blue cheese potato salad together.
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I've got my sour cream.
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I've got my mayonnaise.
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Black pepper, salt, mustard.
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It's not much mustard, but a little bit of ground mustard.
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Lemon juice, green onions, and Paula Deen Hot Sauce.
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And again, this is one
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of those delicious recipes from the magazine.
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So I'm just gonna stir that up.
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And stir in the spring or green onions,
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whatever you call them.
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Oh my gosh, these potatoes are so good.
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I think they call 'em nibblers,
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those little-bitty tiny potatoes.
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I'll squirt 'em with olive oil
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and salt and pepper and roast 'em in the air fryer
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all the time and they are so, so good.
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All right, let's see how much blue cheese.
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Like 1/4 of a cup, so it doesn't take much.
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That's probably 1/4 of a cup right there.
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really a good potato salad recipe.
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You know, if you just want a change.
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You know, either I got too big a bowl or too small a bowl.
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(laughs) I can't seem to get in between, y'all.
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It didn't look like much wet ingredients going in it,
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A bacon blue cheese potato salad.
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And that was real bacon.
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It was chopped very fine,
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but it wasn't those imitation things
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that you buy in the pack.
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That was real cooked bacon.
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I'm gonna use my mixing bowl and eat straight out of it.
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Mm, this is so good, y'all.
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Even if you say, "Well I don't really like blue cheese,"
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I really do think you need to try this.
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Because the blue cheese is not overpowering at all.
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I wish you were here to taste it, Julie.
