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- Hey everybody, it's Bobby here
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filling in for my mom, Paula, again today.
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And I am doing one of her recipes.
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This is a classic Paula Deen recipe
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that is gonna help you feed your family quickly and easily
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and really, not very expensively.
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It is a Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bake
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and this is a great idea.
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I'm starting out by cooking my rigatoni pasta
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and it's been going for a few minutes
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and it's only got maybe one or two minutes left.
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And in the last couple of minutes,
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I'm gonna add in some broccoli.
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Broccoli florets, excuse me,
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For about two minutes with my pasta
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that's pretty much ready.
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And then we're gonna drain this really, really well.
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So I've got my broccoli tucked in there.
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About two minutes here on the stove,
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So we'll go ahead and take a break right now
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So my rigatoni and broccoli combination
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has come together nicely and we've drained it.
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So I'm just gonna toss it back into the pot we cooked it in,
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and then, we're going to whisk together
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all of these ingredients over here.
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And this is gonna come together
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as just a nice dump and stir, is what we would call it.
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It's gonna save you tons of time and energy
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and your family is really gonna like it.
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And this is a great way to sneak some vegetables
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into those dishes for the killers,
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if you struggle like I do.
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Okay, so we're gonna combine together Alfredo sauce,
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ricotta cheese, sour cream, bell pepper, heavy cream,
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and some eggs and shredded chicken.
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I'm gonna start with the eggs and go ahead and whisk them.
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Then add everything else to it.
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This is gonna be a very rich and delicious dish.
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And if you got a family
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and you have to put dinner on the table every night,
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if you can save steps and time,
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And kids, we were just talking about this a few minutes ago,
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I've got triplet six year olds,
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and man, have they become picky.
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I was just telling Ed and Theresa
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that it used to be that I would just put dinner on the table
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and be like, "Hey, here it is."
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But I'm discovering now, as they get older,
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it's like, "Dad, I want you to make me," blah,
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"I want you to make me," yeah,
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And then "I want you to make me," yeah, something different.
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So kind of miss the days
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when I could just put whatever on the table
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they become more opinionated and they have choices
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and all kinds of stuff.
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And school is almost out. Oh!
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So that's gonna be about 12 weeks of (chuckling) madness.
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That ricotta cheese is thick.
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this is Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bake
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and this comes from "At the Southern Table,"
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by my mother, Paula Deen.
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One of her many great books.
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- [Film Crew] Yeah, we haven't cooked
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out of that one in a while.
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- Oh yeah. Yeah, I know I haven't.
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Coming together nicely.
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So that's my Alfredo, ricotta, eggs, heavy cream.
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Add sour cream to the party.
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And last but not least, our shredded chicken.
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Hm-mm. Chicken and pasta together, I love.
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I love Alfredo sauce too.
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Stir that chicken in really well
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and make sure that the sauce coats it.
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And then we'll add this
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to our pasta and broccoli combination in the pot over there.
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And give it a nice stir and then into a casserole dish.
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I hope my vessel is big enough to hold it all
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and that I can stir it,
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and I think it's gonna just make it.
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All right, now I don't want to tear up
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my pasta or my broccoli,
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so I'm gonna fold this together.
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I talk about that a lot.
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Don't wanna tear it to shreds.
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Make sure that it's all still pretty
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when we dig into it a little bit later.
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Hm-mm. That looks very, very good.
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Really all smells good.
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And then I think that's pretty well combined.
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Some nice colors too.
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The broccoli with the red pepper
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and that creamy white sauce.
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That's really nice looking.
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Okay, I think I might have a mess
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if I try to just dump it all into the casserole dish,
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so I'm gonna spoon some out first.
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Well, the last thing we're gonna do
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is add some mozzarella cheese to the top.
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But before we do, let's go ahead and pop it in the oven now
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and get a nice brown to our dish,
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and then we'll come back and add the mozzarella
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in just a few minutes, so.
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Okay, our pasta dish has been in the oven
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for about 30 minutes.
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It's got a nice brown color to it, you can see.
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And we're just gonna top it with mozzarella cheese,
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which happens to be one of my favorite cheeses.
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But you know what, I like just about any cheese.
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Mozzarella is a nice choice for this dish.
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I don't think I'm gonna need the whole package,
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just enough to cover the top.
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If my mom heard me say
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I didn't think I'd need the whole package
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I think she would take it from me and use the whole package.
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(crew members chuckling)
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But I think that looks good.
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Okay, so let's pop it back in the oven.
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A few more minutes and it will be ready.
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So our Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bake is out of the oven.
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We just finished it off with a little mozzarella cheese
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for a few minutes on top,
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and it looks magnificent.
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So let's see how it cuts and tastes.
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And remember, this is a very, very flexible spatula.
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I'll just get out this corner.
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Oh boy, does that look creamy and thick!
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Make sure I got a little bit of chicken.
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Broccoli, chicken, pasta, bell pepper,
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I got a little bit of everything.
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Let's see. Oh, and it's hot too.
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Chicken Alfredo Pasta bake with mozzarella.
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It's a one pot, or excuse me,
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it's a kind of just a dump and stir.
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We cooked the pasta first,
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added a little bit of broccoli to it
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in the last 5 or 10 minutes or so,
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and mixed up our chicken
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and all of our wet ingredients together,
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and then combined 'em right into the casserole dish,
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and about 30 minutes in the oven and you have dinner.
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So very, very good. Enjoy!
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
