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Love & Best Dishes: Brooke’s Easy Egg-Drop Soup - Jamie is back again and today he’s sharin’ a recipe for his wife Brooke that’s one of her favorites when she eats out…Egg-Drop Soup!
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- Hey y'all, Jamie Deen here today.
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Pinch-hitting for my mom I guess,
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and I'm happy to be here.
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I don't get a chance to come over here
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and share recipes with y'all very much
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'cause I'm always cooking.
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I got three kids,
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I got a wife,
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we got restaurants,
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there's a million things to do,
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I'm coaching basketball,
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everybody is so busy.
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So anytime I can bring you an easier recipe
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it makes me happy,
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and it's one of my wife's favorites,
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which makes me double happy.
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This is Brooke's easy egg-drop soup.
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Now, if you've been watching this little series
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that I've been doing here today you've noticed number one,
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I haven't changed shirts and you're like, wow,
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that's unusual that guy is wearing the same shirt
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for seven days in a row.
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Magic a TV y'all.
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It's a brand new day,
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I just love this shirt.
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And you also know
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that I'm cooking everything out of my cookbook.
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Am I cooking out of my cookbook
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'cause it's my book?
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Yeah.
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Am I cooking out of it because it's a great book?
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Absolutely.
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Every recipe that we've tested here
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has been a big hit with everybody.
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Eddie and Theresa and my mom's here.
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And this recipe is no different.
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Brooke loves egg-drop soup.
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And it's really easy to do at the house.
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The hard part is beforehand
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'cause you're gonna need
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some chicken stock.
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You're gonna need fresh chicken stock.
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So last night, Teresa boiled down the chicken,
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and you're gonna add celery and onions,
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and your chicken
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and plenty of salt and pepper,
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and you cook that down
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then you pour it through a strainer,
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and what you have left
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is fresh chicken stock.
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If you're in a pinch,
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you can buy a box.
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I have bought many boxes of stock,
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but you're gonna have to talk through it up.
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So if you've got the time,
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what I like to do is
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if I'm ever boiling a chicken,
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if I'm making chicken and dumplings,
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or if I'm making chicken salad
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and I'm using boiled chicken,
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I'll take my chicken stock left over
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from boiling the chicken,
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completely cool it
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and I'll pour it into ziploc bags
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and then I'll freeze them.
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And anytime I need stock,
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I can always pull them out of my freezer.
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unless you have Theresa,
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and she's awesome.
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Theresa did it for me last night.
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So they have told me
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that I have to tell you specific levels
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of ingredients for this recipe.
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So you've also noticed during this series
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that I'm always holding a piece of xerox paper
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'cause I wanna deliver y'all the goods.
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That is one court of Theresa's homemade chicken stock.
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I need one inch of fresh garlic,
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thinly sliced actually-
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- [woman] That's ginger. - Ginger, what did I say?
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- [Woman] Garlic. - Ginger.
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And I also took time
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to teach Theresa how to chop. - [Woman] Yes.
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- Which was a fun few minutes for us.
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I've got a teaspoon
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of reduced sodium soy sauce.
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I've got a little tiny bit
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of white ground pepper.
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It's a little tiny bit
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because of white ground pepper packs
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the punch of a lot of black pepper,
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so we've only got one eighth of a teaspoon
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of ground white pepper.
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And I've got some cornstarch
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and I'm gonna use a little bit later
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to thicken up the soup.
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And we've got the eggs.
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Can't have an egg-drop soup
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unless you drop an egg in it.
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Then I've got some green onions
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that we're gonna garnish with.
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The first thing we're gonna do though,
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is bring our chicken stock up to a bowl
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and simmer it for 10 minutes
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with the ginger,
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the soy sauce
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and the pepper, so let's get all this in the pot.
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This is easy enough.
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Egg-drop soup is basically just chicken stock
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with a little bit of seasoning in it,
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and then at the end,
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that's where you get to have fun,
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we're gonna swirl the soup around
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and drop our eggs into it.
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So we're gonna wait about 10 minutes
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and let it just come up to a bowl.
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One inch of ginger,
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one tablespoon of low sodium soy sauce,
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and we've got a court of Theresa's homemade chicken stock.
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See you in ten.
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Okay y'all, the easy egg-drop soup.
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The hard part's done,
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Theresa made the stock for us,
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we've got it over here with our ginger,
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which I have pulled out with a slotted spoon.
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You wanna remove that one inch
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of sliced ginger from there.
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We've got our soy sauce in there
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and next we're gonna make our slurry.
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It's a little bit of cornstarch
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and a little bit of liquid.
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And this y'all,
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if you ever have a soup or stew
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that needs thickening up,
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this is what you're gonna do.
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And Theresa said,
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"What's a slurry?"
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And it's hard to explain until you do it.
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You add a little bit of liquid,
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you whip it up
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and you'll see cornstarch tightens up really quickly.
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So if it's too chalky,
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it's too much.
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And if you do it too much,
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it's like water.
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You don't want that.
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You want the middle,
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which is the slurry which is kinda like.
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That's the best I can tell you.
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Not too thick,
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not too loose,
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right in the middle.
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You'll know it when you know.
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So I've got a spoon here,
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I'm gonna take a little bit of our egg-drop soup
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that we have here
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'cause I don't wanna use anything else
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to create this.
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So I'll add a little bit in.
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You can't ever take it away.
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So I'm gonna try to see if I can pop that up.
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Let me see if I can get it on the first go.
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So once you start whipping this up,
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you see how it's kinda clumpy.
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And now here we go.
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Kinda creamy almost like an icing.
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That's a pretty good first pass.
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Though it's not too thick
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and not too loose.
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And the point of this is to get
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my egg-drop soup a little bit thicker.
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So I'm gonna whip this in.
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You wanna be stirring this
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the whole time you put it into
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so it doesn't clump on you.
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And once I get this worked in then you see I've still got
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some cornstarch in my bowl here.
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So I'm gonna take the rest
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of the reserve that we had.
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And I'm not making a slurry here,
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I'm just cleaning up my bowl,
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I wanna make sure I can get all this cornstarch out of here.
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'Cause egg-drop soup,
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all it is, is an instant soup,
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it still needs a little bit of body,
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'cause there's nothing else in here except for broth,
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eggs,
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ginger,
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soy sauce,
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and we'll top the top with a little bit of green onions.
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So this will tighten up in just a few minutes.
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So I'm gonna let this go, I've got the heat on three.
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This is the fastest cooking oven I've ever cooked on.
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- [Woman] That's a stove you cooking on.
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- Stove. (chuckles)
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So I'm gonna rinse this out
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because I like to clean as I go,
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so when the food is done,
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the kitchen is kinda already cleaned,
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so I'm gonna use this bowl,
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and we're gonna take two eggs.
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- [Woman] (indistinct)
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- And I'm gonna take our
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little whip that I've used for our slurry
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and whip these eggs up.
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Now this has been going
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for just a few minutes,
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we're gonna see if this is tightened up.
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A little bit, you see the heat
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and the cornstarch works together.
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And as this sits,
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this will become tighter and tighter.
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I think I just saw a- (bell ringing)
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- [Woman] Oops.
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- Something's ready.
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So what we gonna do now,
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I'm gonna turn this off,
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and I'm gonna get a swirl in here going.
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So I'm gonna create a whirl pool in here,
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get this really going good.
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Round and round she goes,
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and then I'm gonna add our eggs in here.
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And to that whirl- - [Woman] That's why
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they call it egg-drop.
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- That's why they call it egg-drop.
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- [Woman] 'Cause you drop the egg in it.
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- And see how the egg,
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I didn't wanna make scrambled eggs in here.
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So you wanna be careful
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when we do that swirl,
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that's what incorporates the egg all the way through.
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- [Woman] Yeah.
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- And now this is gonna continue to tighten up
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for about a minute. - [Woman] Yeah.
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- It takes the egg about one minute in there to cook.
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I've just turned this off,
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so I'm gonna repurpose this bowl again.
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But this time I gotta wash 'cause I had egg in it.
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- You know I've never made egg-drop soup Jamie.
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- I formulated that recipe
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because Brooke really loves it and I wanna be able
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to make what she loves in the house.
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- [Woman] Yes.
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- So it worked out for everybody and mom.
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So let's give this a test drive, what do you say?
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- [Woman] (indistinct)
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Egg-drop soup made right on your stove top ,
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and the only thing left to do
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is now I'm gonna add a little pinch of salt,
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and I like a little pinch of pepper.
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Look how pretty that is.
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And then I've got some green onion
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to garnish with.
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If you want to you can add a little bit
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of the white in there.
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Onion always adds great flavor to everything.
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And now
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let's see.
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I wish my wife were here, she's the best taster.
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- [Woman] How much chicken stock.
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- Really good,
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delicious chicken stock take.
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Really a good soup,
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it's got good protein in it for you.
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Not real feeling,
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not real heavy,
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perfect for this time of year,
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we're in kinda mid-winter right now,
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and I never want soup
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or stew or tealeaves like I do,
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December, January, February.
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So that's it y'all
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easy egg-drop soup that I made for my wife.
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And I hope one day
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that you can make it for your family.
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Until next time y'all
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love one another and do good things.
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