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Love & Best Dishes: Chicken Poppy Seed and Rice Casserole Recipe | Easy Chicken Dinner Ideas
Apr 15, 2026
Chicken Poppy Seed and Rice Casserole Recipe | Easy Chicken Dinner Ideas - Jamie Deen knows good chicken dinner ideas for family, and this poppy seed chicken casserole recipe is one of 'em!
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0:01
- Well, hey y'all! I'm Jamie Deen.
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Welcome back to Mama's Kitchen.
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You know, I'm gonna bring you some easy, delicious recipes
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that you can cook for your family.
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And today is one of the top recipes in my family's.
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This is what they like, chicken and rice.
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Chicken, rice and broccoli casserole.
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I went ahead and got started a little bit
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this morning, y'all.
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I've got some butter in here.
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I've got a red onion and I've got some garlic
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and I've cooked this down.
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I want to get this translucent
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and I've probably about five minutes cooking in there.
0:31
Now we're just gonna do a traditional roux here.
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So I've got our butter, our onions, and our garlic,
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and now I'm gonna gradually (metal scrapping)
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start stirring in some of this flour,
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which is gonna be a thickening agent for us.
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(metal scraping)
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And this is the start to making a delicious casserole.
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This will thicken up our casserole for us
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and also give us a really toasted flour butter base
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to our recipe, which we love, love, love.
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I'm gonna get this really, you gotta be careful in here.
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You see how quick this has clumped up on us.
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So I want this to brown, not too long.
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I'm just gonna give it a couple of minutes.
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Now to this, I'm gonna add, we have chicken stock.
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And Theresa said it best,
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there's really nothing to this recipe
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except for the prep part.
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As you can see, we've got a lot
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of different parts here today.
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And if your chicken,
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if you want to use a pulled rotisserie chicken,
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that will take a lot of the heavy lifting off of your plate.
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(metal scraping)
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All right, I'm happy with this.
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It doesn't look like much right now, but we're gonna add,
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we're gonna add this slowly to,
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'cause I don't want to break this. (metal scraping)
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This will cook for just another couple of minutes.
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(metal scraping)
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Oh yeah. (metal scraping)
2:02
And since I've seen y'all last,
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I think our youngest child has celebrated a birthday.
2:08
Davis is six years old now.
2:11
Jack's still off at school working hard.
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We miss him so bad.
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He loves it up there.
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He says he loves it.
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He's working very hard
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and it has been a brutal winter up there.
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I saw this is the seventh highest snowfall total
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that Boston has ever had in their history.
2:31
And Boston's got some history.
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So my poor little Georgia guy's up there freezing this year.
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He's making good grades
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and he is learning a lot about himself,
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exactly what college is supposed to be.
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See, this is a little loose here, y'all,
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but ooh, so full of flavor.
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I'm gonna cook this for just a few minutes.
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Y'all stick around, we're gonna take a break
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and when we come back, we'll put it all together.
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Get hungry, chicken and rice casserole today y'all.
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Woo!
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All right y'all, look in here.
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That is perfect.
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So this is our base. We've got it all built up.
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And now to this, we are going to add
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just a little bit of flavor.
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Eeh!
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We're gonna whip in our cream cheese,
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because of course, cream cheese.
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Hm-hm, I'm gonna get this incorporated a little bit
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before I start dumping all the rest of the stuff in here.
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Whoa! Doesn't that look good?
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When I was in college, chicken and rice
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down the street from where we lived was one of the meals
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that we could afford regular.
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And ever since then, I have really loved chicken and rice
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with a little broccoli in it.
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Hmm hmm!
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All right, that's going good. (spatula clacking)
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Now we've got our mustard.
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(spatula clacking)
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Give it a little bit of bite and some good flavor.
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We're going to get our salt in here.
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We've got some lemon zest
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and we've got some black pepper.
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And now it's time for some thyme.
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Theresa's got me some thyme to put together here.
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- [Theresa] You might pop that up a little bit more.
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- Oh, I've already dumped it all in, Theresa.
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You had it. You had it.
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You had it chopped perfectly.
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Now I'm gonna remove this from the heat.
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And this is our base.
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So our mustard, our thyme, salt, pepper,
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onions, garlic, cream cheese and butter.
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Mm mm mm mm! (spatula clacking)
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Now what this needs is some heft.
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So, Theresa has pulled the chicken for me.
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Hey peeps, you're just in time for chicken and rice.
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We're gonna fold in our chicken
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and our rice that we pre-prepared.
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I'm gonna get these two things in first.
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I thought I grabbed a big enough pot.
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You hungry, peeps?
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- [Peeps] Not really but-
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- It's always time to eat.
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- [Peeps] Always gonna eat something.
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- Well, you got about 30 minutes.
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This is going to go into the oven.
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- [Peeps] I'll be back.
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(Jamie chuckles)
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We're afraid of that, weren't you?
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(Jamie chuckles)
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- Somebody's gotta eat all this stuff-
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- [Theresa] That you weren't gonna come back.
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- Yeah, this pot turned out perfect of that.
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Look how beautiful this is.
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The only thing we're missing is a little bit of color
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and that's when we're gonna get our broccoli in here.
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Um um!
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This is just a straight raw broccoli, too
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because this is going into the oven
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so it doesn't need to be cooked anymore.
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Or it would just turn out to be goopy glop
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if we cooked it twice.
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Ooh, wee!
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Theresa, this looks delicious.
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- [Theresa] I know. I'm excited.
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- All right.
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Now I've got our pan here that we've sprayed
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so it doesn't stick.
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And let's see how we cook in here.
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Uh-oh! Made a mess on the range.
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Great, that fits every bit of this.
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Oh wee, that looks delicious.
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Okay, y'all.
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And now we're gonna stick this in the oven at 350 for,
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I don't know how long.
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I'd say probably 20 minutes maybe.
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What's that paper say T?
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- [Theresa] Don't forget to melt your crackers.
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- I won't forget. That goes on after we cook it.
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Right? - [Theresa] Well.
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- Okay. It's 25 to 30.
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It says in a small bowl, stir together crackers
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and melted butter and sprinkle it onto chicken mixture.
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So here we go.
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- [Theresa] Where's your poppy seeds? Did you not use them?
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- Oh, I forgot to put my poppy seeds in there too.
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- Let me help you.
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This is the first day a week cooking for me y'all.
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- It takes us a little while to get in the group.
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- And since it's called poppy seed chicken,
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perhaps we should get our poppy seeds in here.
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Our snooping mom said poppy seed.
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And I thought well maybe she was just toughing,
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it was poppy seed. (laughs)
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Well, this is how it goes sometimes y'all.
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If you don't put your poppy seeds in till the end,
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doesn't matter, nobody's gonna know.
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I can mix it right in here.
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And some of y'all might wanna leave poppy seeds out.
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Because I know that poppy seeds can mess up a drug test too.
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Isn't that funny?
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Did you know that
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that if you eat too many poppy seed bagels,
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your drug tests could show up you were using poppies,
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which I think is some kind of drug?
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- [Theresa] It is.
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- That's what I thought.
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Okay, now I'm gonna put our crackers down in here.
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This is not the way that I should do this,
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but hey, we've already put our poppy seeds in
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after we made it.
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So, we're gonna wing this last part.
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Got our butter here.
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I'm gonna sprinkle some crackers over the top.
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Now we'll get our butter in here.
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And nobody knows except for me and y'all.
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Yeah, we went a little sideways on this.
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Look how perfect that turned out.
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I bet nobody eating it will complain.
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Y'all don't tell peeps that I did all that as backwards.
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Going in the oven, 350 for 25 minutes. Stick around.
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Woo wee y'all!
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Look fresh and hot out of the oven. Doesn't this look good?
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I'm gonna pull a little bite out here
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'cause I think Mama Mike might have this for dinner later.
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Let me see if I can't not mess that up too much.
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My mouth is watering.
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Let's see y'all.
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Hm, just like in college,
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except I'm fatter and older
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and I can afford to eat somewhere else
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besides the cheap chicken and rice place.
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Not much nicer than that.
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Hmm!
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Delicious. Oh, it's so good.
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Hmm-hmm!
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The last time I was here
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I made a chicken and collard green bake.
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I went home that night and made it for dinner.
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Tonight, this might be my dinner.
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It's delicious y'all. It just tastes like home.
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It's good old southern cooking and I love it.
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And I hope y'all do too.
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Thanks for tuning in. I'm Jamie Deen.
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See y'all round the kitchen!
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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