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- Hey everybody, Bobby Deen here,
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on Love and Best Dishes,
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I'm filling in for my mom,
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and I'm doing some recipes
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that are really simple and delicious,
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and that Mom would definitely be proud of,
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these are some of her favorite things.
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And the one we're gonna do right now
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is black pepper bacon.
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Oh boy, is this good.
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We're gonna start out with some thick-cut bacon,
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and I've got it sort of displayed here
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on a rack for you to see.
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brown sugar and fresh black pepper,
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The amount that I've got here
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is for a full pound of bacon,
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but there are only a few of us here,
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I'm just gonna make three pieces,
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so, I'm only gonna use some of this,
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all right, not all of it.
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So, I'm gonna take maybe a third of our sugar,
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and about half of our black pepper here,
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and just sort of mix it together.
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if you're familiar with our restaurants,
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the Paula Deen Family Kitchens,
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we've got some really great restaurants
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in Tennessee, (bowl clinking)
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and in Alabama, (bowl clinking)
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we're really growing and expanding,
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and I'm proud of 'em,
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these restaurants are really, really good,
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they've got great traditional Southern dishes in there,
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and we do a version of the black pepper bacon
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in our Paula Deen's Family Kitchens,
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but they go even a little bit further with theirs,
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and make it a little more delectable
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by adding maple syrup,
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and oh boy, are they so, so good,
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they do 'em on little closed pen racks
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in the Family Kitchens.
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And golly buddy, is black pepper bacon with maple syrup
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So, I've got our sugar (spoon clinks)
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and our pepper combined.
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I'm just gonna put it out here
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on a shallow bacon dish, (bowl clinks)
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and just dredge our bacon in it.
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Just sort of make sure
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I get a little bit all over it.
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Nothing like brown sugar and bacon.
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Ain't that right, Theresa? - Yeah.
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- [Bobby] Who don't like it?
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I don't wanna be your friend if you don't.
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(Bobby chuckles) - This is literally
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one of my favorite things they do
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at the restaurant. - It's so good.
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Yeah, if you haven't visited our Family Kitchens,
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and it is just a wonderful restaurant,
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and people come from far and wide
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to visit up there in Pigeon Forge,
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on the island in Pigeon Forge,
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not too far from Dollywood and Ober Gatlinburg,
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it's just a beautiful area of the country,
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if you've never been there,
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what a great vacation spot, - It is
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- you know. - a great vacation spot.
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- And super family-friendly,
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so, it's a great place to bring your kids,
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it's a great place to eat,
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it's just a beautiful area of the country,
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Great Smoky Mountains, (buzzer buzzing)
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it's nice in the summer,
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spring, winter or fall.
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- [Theresa] I love the Nashville one too.
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- [Bobby] Yeah, and Nashville,
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I mean, we're everywhere.
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Well, we're not everywhere,
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but we're growing, that's for sure,
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we're in Nashville, Myrtle Beach,
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Panama City Beach, Florida,
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- Branson, Missouri. - Branson, Missouri,
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and they're all very well-received restaurants.
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so, our thick-cut bacon is now covered
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in our brown sugar pepper mixture,
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and I'm just gonna drape it over this rack.
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I'm just gonna take this rack,
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and pop it into the air fryer.
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And things cook pretty quick in an air fryer.
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You know, my mom's got her own brand of air fryer out there,
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and I use mine at my house
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they're so convenient
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and they cook fast, (tray clinks)
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So, we're gonna use this one right here,
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I'm gonna use the part of my hand
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that doesn't have bacon on it,
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and I'm just gonna remove this rack
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and pop it right into, (drawer clunking)
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Sits right down on that little staging area.
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Thanks, Theresa, (air fryer beeps)
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I appreciate that. - You're welcome,
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I know your hands are-- - Yeah.
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- I'm gonna do it on bake. (air fryer beeps)
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And we're gonna start-- - Let's go 375 maybe?
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- You wanna go up? - 350,
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try 350 for a few minutes, (air fryer beeps)
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and maybe we'll turn it up to 375,
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right for the last couple of minutes.
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- And I'll put it for 10? - Yeah, 10 minutes.
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So, we'll come back and check it in 10 minutes,
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I'm gonna wash my hands,
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The bacon looks phenomenal.
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All right, so, we did this in the air fryer,
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we put this bacon on a rack in the air fryer
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at 350 for 10 minutes,
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checked it, and it looked really, really nice,
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and then we turned the heat way up to 400 degrees,
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and we let it go for about three more minutes,
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so, 13 minutes total on this bacon,
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the recipe is thick-cut bacon,
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brown sugar, and fresh black cracked pepper,
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and it (chuckles) looks so good,
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and it came out (plate clinks)
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it came out caramelized,
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so, you see that it's a little stiff,
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and you know, it's caramelized.
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I don't eat a lot of bacon,
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I should eat more bacon.
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(plate clinking) Oh my God.
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(Bobby clears throat)
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So, that's wonderful.
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If you like bacon, (Bobby chuckles)
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make this cracked black pepper bacon
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from my mom's recipes,
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(hands chafe) It'll be a great side
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for your next breakfast.
