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Have you ever had a bad hair day?
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It's important to me that I know
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whether y'all have ever had a bad hair day.
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Well, guess what, y'all?
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I had a bad hair day today, and I solved the problem.
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So this is how we handle a bad hair day.
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You just go get you some caps with some hair on it,
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and you keep on going.
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This was my brother Bubba's hat,
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so I'm wearing it proudly today on my bad hair day.
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All right, a bad hair day.
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We don't wanna have a bad hair day
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on Valentine's Day, right?
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Not if we want flowers, or a box of candy,
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or something like that.
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So when Valentine's Day comes, I'll make sure
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I'm having a good hair day.
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Valentine's Day, you gotta have chocolate
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and you gotta have something red, right?
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So I'm making a chewy brownie.
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Let me see the exact name of it so you can find it.
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A chocolate chunk cherry brownie,
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and that's gonna be my valentine dessert for Michael.
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And if I top it with a scoop of ice cream
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and drizzle it with some chocolate syrup,
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he'll go out of his mind licking his lips and the spoon.
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It's easy, it's easy to put together,
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and we're gonna start with two sticks of butter
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like any good baker, right? (chuckles)
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And this is kind of softened,
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so you'll want your butter softened.
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You know, with the cool weather,
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it's hard to get soft butter
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just putting it on the counter, isn't it?
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Have you noticed, Theresa?
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- [Theresa] Yes, I was wondering
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if you were gonna tell me that wasn't something else.
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- [Paula] Well, I'm probably gonna have to beat it,
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beat it out of it a little bit.
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Look at my little Valentine's dish.
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- [Videographer] So, I was at the store yesterday
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when I went down to pick up the bundles.
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- Yes, we've got 'em at the store and they're so cute,
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and just fill 'em with like red hearts.
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- [Theresa] Conversation candy.
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- Well, that too but the Red Hots.
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So I'm gonna soften this butter a little bit more
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and then I'm gonna add confectionary sugar,
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white sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
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Confectionary sugar, white granulated sugar,
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and we're gonna beat.
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All right, you wanna beat this until it's fluffy,
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and then we're gonna add one egg at the time.
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Beating fairly well after each addition.
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Round and round we go, where she stops nobody knows.
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I mean, you gotta get this cord just right
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or it's gonna fall down.
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Okay, now for the dry ingredients.
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We've got our flour, our cocoa,
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our baking powder, and our salt.
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I meant to go ahead and add my vanilla.
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About a teaspoon full.
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It looks like a hearty teaspoonful, doesn't it?
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All right, let's get our whisk out.
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And our whisk is almost like sifting it, you know?
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It breaks the flour down and the cocoa into the flour.
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I do pretty good until my distance.
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Still have trouble with that distance.
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Okay, so I'm gonna clean this up a second,
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and then we're gonna add this to our wet mixture.
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Okay, so we're gonna slowly, fairly slowly,
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add our dry ingredients to our wet ingredients.
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I'm gonna get my vanilla beaten first.
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You know, we don't necessarily
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wanna over beat everything to death.
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I'm adding like fourth of a cup of flour at a time
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until I've got it all incorporated in.
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Now, I'm gonna reserve one cup of our batter.
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Okay, that looks like a cup.
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You don't have to be that precise, but anyway.
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So I'm gonna prepare my pan
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by spraying my 13 by nine by two.
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Lemme move my glasses.
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I don't want any kind of grease on those.
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I'd never get it off.
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Okay, so we've got our one.
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I'm gonna get me a bigger spatula out of there.
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We reserved our one cup,
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so now we're gonna spread
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the rest of the batter evenly.
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And you notice Eddie said, what is that?
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That's a light, light brownie.
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- [Theresa] Oh, can I ask a question?
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- [Paula] Please ask me a question.
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- [Theresa] Oh, so the layer goes, the chocolate chips
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and the cherries are the layer.
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Yes, and see, so a lot of people like
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that bitter, bitter, bitter chocolate.
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I don't, I'm a milk chocolate girl.
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- [Theresa] And I got you milk chocolate.
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- [Paula] Thank you. Thank you.
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- [Theresa] And it does ask for semi-sweet.
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My hands just don't have the strength that it used to have,
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but I'm gonna get all of that.
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I can't remember if the cherries go first,
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or it probably really doesn't matter.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Okay, so the cherries are gonna go first,
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but like I said, it really doesn't matter.
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I've never worried about things like that
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in the past with this.
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But I want to make sure that y'all have
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all the instructions correctly that you need.
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Valentine's Day is not Valentine's Day
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without something red.
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You know, either strawberries or cherries.
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And you wanna just distribute these as evenly as possible.
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And now for the chocolate chips.
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Here comes the chocolate.
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I think Eddie was worried about eating a blonde brownie.
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And if I was not following a recipe
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at this time of our recipe,
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I would come in with nuts, a layer of nuts.
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But I'm gonna follow the recipe
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that I've had for years to the tee.
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All right, now here comes our reserved
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cup of batter, and we just gonna dollop that on top,
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trying to give everybody an equal bite.
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So you can see that's why I said
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it's, you know, not precise, but you wanna make sure
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you have enough dough to accomplish this.
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Lemme check the time.
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For 25 to 30 minutes.
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It's beautiful, and you don't want this to cool completely,
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which I have not let it cool completely,
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but that's all right.
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In my world, you do what you have to do.
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You know, look at that.
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You know, one day I want to share a recipe
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for making hot fudge sauce.
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It's so simple to make and so easy,
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but I don't have any homemade fudge sauce.
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So since it's Valentine's Day,
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I'm gonna serve this to my sweetheart.
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Would you see if Michael will come out here
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and taste his Valentine's Day dessert?
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So I think Theresa got Michael's attention
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when she went back there and said dessert.
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- [Michael] I smell something.
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Well, come sample your Valentine dessert early.
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- Come on back here.
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Look, you got ice cream and chocolate syrup, cherries.
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Come on, your ice cream is a-melting, grandpa.
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- Let me know what you think.
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Look at the beautiful cherries in it.
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- It's almost like a sundae, isn't it?
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An ice cream sundae.
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And if you don't like this,
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then I'll come up with another dessert for Valentine's,
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but I think you're going to like it.
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- Okay, that's his word.
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- All he has to say is, mm.
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And I can tell if it's a fake mm or a real mm.
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That was a real mm. (chuckles)
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- Do you want a bite?
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I think I love me. (laughs)
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Happy Valentine's Day, Paula.
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Go ahead, gourd head.
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Happy Valentine's Day to y'all.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
