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the recipe I'm sharing with y'all today
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is from Deen brothers,
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So maybe they were thinking about their mama
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when they made this stuffed tomato dish.
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they were going to make it for me for Mother's Day,
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maybe for a light lunch
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and then cook me a big dinner later.
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(laughing) Am I dreaming?
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this is a wonderful, wonderful
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It's almost too big for an appetizer,
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so I would consider it a meal,
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we actually used to do these on, "The Bag Lady",
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and people really liked it, especially during the summer
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when the summer tomatoes were in.
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So as I'm mixing this up for my boys,
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I'm thinking about you mothers out there.
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This is something simple and easy
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that your children could fix for you,
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or your husband, your partner, whatever.
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we never have liked a lot of ingredients
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in our chicken salad.
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We really like for the chicken to be the star
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and not fill it up with a bunch of stuff.
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So I'm going to start with
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my two hard boiled eggs.
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Look at that, boiled perfectly.
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Do you see a perfect egg
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has no brown line around the yoke.
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Did you boil these Theresa?
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She said, "No, I didn't".
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- [Theresa] I could have lied, but I didn't.
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- I didn't. (Theresa laughing)
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It's never good to lie, even if
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you look like a turd.
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Yeah, I felt a little bit of shell.
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So you picked these up from the deli?
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- [Theresa] Yes, ma'am.
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- And I tell you what- - Single two pack deli.
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and they have boiled them perfectly.
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So I'm just going to mash those up.
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And I think I'm going take my knife
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and just cut it a little bit smaller.
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I don't want them so big, because
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there's not much room in that tomato.
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so I don't want to scoop it in there
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and it be all egg or all celery
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or all something besides chicken.
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This bowl is a little deep.
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And I have to tell you,
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usually I do this with my hands,
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because I find that my hands do a better job
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what I'm doing right now.
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I have two chicken breasts here
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and I'm going to add this.
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Now this will stuff four large tomatoes.
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What was in that? Oh, some more chicken.
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All right, I've got a stalk
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I am going put about a eighth of a teaspoon
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of garlic powder in it.
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I'm going to put a little salt,
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and that's basically it.
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That's the way we really like our chicken salad.
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Calls for a fourth of a couple mayonnaise but.
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I thought my boys liked mayonnaise like I do
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but apparently they don't.
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'Cause a fourth of a cup of mayonnaise is,
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to me, going to leave it wanting a little bit.
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There's some things that I just
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Girls got to do what a girl's got to do.
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I'm a little under the weather today y'all so
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I hope I can get my brain to working for ya.
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Let's see what'd I do? Oh here it is.
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Like I said, this will do four large tomatoes but
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I'm just going to do one to share with y'all
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on, "The Bag Lady", route.
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when I'm doing it at home, so.
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I love butter lettuce, y'all.
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to me, the most delicious of all the lettuces.
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it's not dense like iceberg lettuce.
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And I've always had a fear,
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told me one time, an RN, and she said,
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"Do you know what the number one food is
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that people choke on?".
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And I said, "Well, Steak".
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She said, "No, it's lettuce".
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Because it becomes almost
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translucent and almost acts as like
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a plastic wrap or something.
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And it will. (indistinct chattering)
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And listen, she told me this when
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Kari was a little girl.
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So naturally Kari wanted a salad before every meal
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and I would sit there like this watching her.
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I couldn't eat just watching her eat that salad.
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But I sometimes wish she hadn't have told me that,
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'cause it got in my head, you know?
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But even though this lettuce is not dense like iceberg,
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I just don't have any fear when I'm eating butter lettuce.
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All right, so what I'm going to do next is
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core out this tomato.
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Like I said, this is so good
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when those good old Georgia tomatoes come in.
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- [Theresa] We're just about what, a month away from that?
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This almost cut like a
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You know, heirloom tomatoes,
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they have like a core in the center of them.
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And I don't know if I'm going to be able to get it out
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It has a hard core in there
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you have to just cut that out.
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An heirloom is just different
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Now I'm going to slice a little bit of this off so I can
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and then I'm going to hull out what I can
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to make room for that delicious-
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That knife went right through there twice.
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So you'd probably want to
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sit it on the counter so you won't do that.
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Yeah, they're just not quite as easy to work with as
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But they sure are delicious.
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I mean, and that core goes all the-
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That hard center goes all the way
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to the bottom of that tomato.
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And I'm just going to dig till I get it out.
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You would actually want to do this ahead of time y'all,
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it comes out of that tomato.
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So you'd want to do this early,
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sprinkle a little salt on the inside of it
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and that salt will pull out the water
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And I'm going to even help it along
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So like I said, early in the day
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you would just sprinkle a little salt in it
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and turn it upside down
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and let that water get out of it.
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So that's my advice for that.
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We'll see if I can get a little bit more out.
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So I'm going to need some crackers for this,
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would definitely want a good,
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good quality cracker
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to eat along with this chicken salad.
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Oh, and those are wonderful gifts,
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those are wonderful.
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I love these crackers, I
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pulled them out the other night for Michael and I,
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to have along with our dinner.
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"I've never seen those crackers before".
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Michael don't open my door to find anything,
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that's why he has not seen them.
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They're so good and so crispy.
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(crackers clattering)
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this is the way I would serve that.
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It's perfectly yummy, y'all.
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And if you really wanted to cheat,
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you could just get you a chicken,
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a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store.
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There is nothing like
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a simple chicken salad.
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Nothing, nothing, nothing.
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this summer when the tomatoes start coming in real good,
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I do hope that y'all will treat yourselves to one of these.
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So I'm sending y'all love and best dishes this Mother's Day.
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I hope it turns out to be a wonderful day for you mothers.
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Hey y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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