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and today I'm going to make for you,
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from my mom's magazine,
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"Cooking with Paula Deen",
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some wonderful looking
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balsamic veggie grilled cheese sandwiches.
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So we're gonna make grilled cheese sandwiches,
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and we're gonna jam 'em full of vegetables.
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So I guess that that is a healthy grilled cheese sandwich?
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It's kind of a different take.
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I think it's gonna be very good though,
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'cause we've got some of my favorite things here.
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and I love broccolini, and zucchini, and red peppers.
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So our total list of ingredients is what I just named,
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and then some cheese, and some whole grain bread,
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little vinegarette, salt and pepper.
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So let's get started.
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We're gonna add to a big bowl, little vinegarette.
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And to that I'll add a little bit of salt and pepper.
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And give that a good whisk.
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And we're gonna coat our vegetables
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All right. So to that,
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I'm gonna add our broccolini.
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Ooh, this is gonna be big sandwiches.
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I think I'll make a couple of 'em.
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So broccolini and some zucchini.
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And we'll just toss that
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in there to coat it real well.
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Might need a little bit more vinegarette,
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but that smells so good.
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- [Theresa] You need a little more?
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- I will take a little bit more.
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That was a sparse amount.
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Yeah. Now we're cooking with gas.
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- [Theresa] You're your mom's child.
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All right. And so I've got a cast iron station here going
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and I'm just gonna cook these veggies
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for a couple of minutes per side,
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until they're just nice and brown.
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And I've got this on medium.
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I love cooking with cast iron.
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Go ahead and do another
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set of veggies for our next sandwich.
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'Cause we got some folks here that might be hungry.
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So we need to make a few of these sandwiches,
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All right. So that'll be ready for the next sandwich.
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Give my hands a quick wash.
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I love grilled cheese sandwich
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and since they're not very expensive to make,
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it was a staple in our house growing up.
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We had plenty of grilled cheese sandwiches.
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We had butter and sugar sandwiches.
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I remember cinnamon toast in the mornings.
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I have memories of, you know what I remember?
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I remember one particular house that we lived in in Albany.
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I remember in the wintertime,
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my mom and dad having the oven on
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to make grilled cheese, or excuse me,
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to make cheese toast or to make cinnamon toast.
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And they would leave the oven open 'cause it was cold.
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I just, this is just a memory that just came to me.
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I remember having the oven open to sort of warm up the house
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while we were getting ready for school.
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And "The Three Stooges" would be on television
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This is the stuff that we would watch.
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- [Theresa] And it was wonderful.
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- You know, I remember it fondly.
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I still watch "The Three Stooges" and "Our Gang" if it's on.
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Okay. So these veggies look great.
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And I'm gonna station up another set of veggies
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for another sandwich.
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These are gonna be some thick sandwiches.
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Right now, so here's what we're gonna do.
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And these are getting nice and brown.
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I might could eat these veggies just like this,
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or put that on top of a salad would be nice.
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We'll turn that down to a medium low,
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take it from medium to medium low.
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That smells so fragrant and so nice.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and add these veggies back
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into our bowl, where our vinegarette is,
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and they're still a little left over.
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And I'll pop on the next set
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of broccolini and zucchini here.
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Grilled vegetables on cast iron, super great.
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You could do squash here too, I think, if you wanted.
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You know, whatever you like.
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You could do some carrots maybe.
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And let's, why don't we right now take a little bit
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of a short break before we get to the bread.
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All right. So stay with us.
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So we've got our veggies browned off
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and they smell and look delicious.
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Now let's start building these sandwiches.
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So we've used mayonnaise, not butter, as our browner.
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So when these go on the skillet,
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which we'll just go ahead and do that right now.
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Rather than putting the mayonnaise
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down on my cutting board here.
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So put the mayonnaise side down
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and then let's build our sandwiches.
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Some Colby Jack cheese.
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I love a grilled cheese sandwich.
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Always did love a grilled cheese sandwich.
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And to that we'll add a little zucchini.
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These vegetables smell wonderful, that vinegarette.
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This is going to be quite a sandwich here.
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And I love that we're adding some vegetables to it
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and taking something that's not so healthy
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in sort of a different direction.
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Okay. So we'll add some roasted red peppers on top here.
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Beautiful color and nice flavor.
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A little more cheese.
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Hey Mike, how you doing man?
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- Just in time for lunch brother.
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That looks and smells delicious.
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Now I just gotta figure out how I'm gonna flip that sucker.
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Not a big veggie fan?
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All right. Let's see.
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Skillet is nice and hot.
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So we should have some nice browning going on.
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Yeah, not quite ready.
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Let that just melt a little bit.
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Some soup would be good, with some tomato soup.
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Maybe I'll ask mom to make us some soup.
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All right. Let's see if we got some color going here.
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Yeah, the trick on the flip is speed.
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Got broccolini trying to escape, but I'm not gonna let it.
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That might look better than the picture.
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Look at those, great color.
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My cheese is melting.
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Yeah, you can hear that sizzle.
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Just great. Just great.
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All right Theresa, soup's on.
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- Who's ready for a sandwich?
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Ed's ready. Theresa's ready.
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I'm ready. Mama's ready.
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Mike's ready. Everybody's ready.
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Well, I will cut them and you can get a half.
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Look at that sandwich.
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Oh, beautiful golden brown.
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I think Pumpkin's ready for a sandwich too.
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All right, everybody.
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From "Paula Deen Magazine,"
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beautiful balsamic veggie grilled cheese sandwiches.
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Does that look nice or what?
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- [Theresa] Of course I am.
