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Couscous Salad with Feta, Tomato & Olives Recipe - Bobby Deen loves couscous salad recipes, and this one is delicious with lighter, Mediterranean flavors.
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- Hey everybody it's Bobby here.
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I'm standing in for mama today on her YouTube channel.
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It's good to be with you.
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I'm doing a really good recipe for you today that I like.
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it's from one of my books with my brother,
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Deen Brothers, Y'all Come Eat.
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This is, golly, this is 2008,
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so this has been a long time ago.
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And this is a tried and true recipe.
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Lots of people like it.
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It's been well reviewed.
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It's very, very simple.
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If I'm doing it, you know that it's very simple.
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This picture is, I remember this like it was yesterday.
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This was in my brother's backyard.
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As you can imagine, all these people are friends
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of ours and they still are.
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But they really had, there's no Photoshop involved
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in this picture at all.
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They really brought this big sign into my brother's yard.
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Teresa, were you here the day that we did this?
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- [Teresa] Yes.
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- They really brought this big sign into my brother's yard
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and set it up back on his deck,
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and it took a long time to get this shot.
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I was sitting on top of this sign and let me tell you what,
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my butt was on fire
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immediately and the whole day.
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Because this sign is plugged in and you know,
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they're electric, obviously all the lights
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and everything on.
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That sign got so hot and my rear end was just on fire.
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And maybe that's one of the reasons
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that I'll never forget this shoot.
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But here's my brother and me
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and a bunch of our good friends out here in the back.
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And Champ, God rest his soul.
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He went to heaven a couple of years ago.
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But this is just a great book.
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And look at those two fellows back there in the back.
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Now who would have ever thought that
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those two guys would grow up and be major celebrities?
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(laughs)
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Nobody.
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(laughs)
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And they didn't.
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But we did put out some really, really good books.
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And this is one of 'em.
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Alright, the recipe is couscous salad with tomatoes
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and olives and feta cheese.
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And just some of my favorite things.
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So let's get started, it's so simple.
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I've got a cup and a half of water boiling on the stove,
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and it's just beginning to percolate,
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so it's almost ready.
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This couscous recipe is a,
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there's a lot of calories in couscous,
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which that's fine, but this is not a super unhealthy recipe.
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It's just one teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil.
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I'm going to go ahead and put that in the water.
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And we'll stir in our couscous.
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The thing about couscous,
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or one of the things about couscous, sorta like grits,
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it's a really blank palette, you know,
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I mean, there's just not much to it.
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So it doesn't taste like very much unless you add to it, so.
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- [Teresa] And you don't leave it on the water.
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Like once you put it in-
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- Nope.
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- [Teresa] That's one thing that's-
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- Put it in.
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I'm going to stir that couscous and the oil together.
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I'm going to cover it with the lid, boom, turn it off,
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pull it, and remove it from the heat.
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And in about three or four minutes,
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that couscous will be fluffy and delicious and ready.
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So why don't we go ahead and take a break now
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and when we come back, we'll finish it up.
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All right, everybody.
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Welcome back.
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I love saying that.
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The couscous looks fantastic.
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Look at that beautiful couscous.
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And the steam pouring out of it.
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And how you check it is just prick it
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with a fork a little bit, yeah.
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Look at that rake.
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And you know, if you wanted to,
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this recipe is specifically,
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you know, a little bit of olive oil,
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but if you wanted to use butter,
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or if you wanted to use more olive oil,
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you can do what you want.
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But this recipe is good the way that it is.
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So our couscous is ready.
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Now I'm going to mix together the dressing,
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which is very light.
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It's just a, a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice,
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little bit of olive oil, teaspoon,
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and little S&P.
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Great, really simple.
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Nice and bright with the lemon juice.
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This is perfect for something like a couscous.
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And folks really like it.
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So we'll add that to our couscous.
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Pour it right over.
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I'm going to come back to this bowl because
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this bowl is where I'm going to mix everything in.
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So I guess I could have just put the couscous right
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on top of it maybe,
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but I did not.
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Okay, so why don't we go ahead and grab a spoon.
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We'll use one of my mama's handy wooden spoon back here.
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I like couscous.
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I think that I was saying this before
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we we took a little break,
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but I like couscous because it's a blank palette
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and whatever you add to it is what
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it's going to be, you know.
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It kind of reminds me of grits a little bit.
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Grits are that way too, they're just, you know,
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when you meet sometimes, sometimes people from,
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from up north let's say, above the Mason-Dixon line,
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will say oh, grits, this is gross.
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Well, no, they're not.
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They really just don't taste like anything.
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But when you slam 'em with butter and cheese, man,
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oh, or make some gravy, red eye gravy with some ham
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or shrimp and grits is a big deal down here.
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Charleston also.
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So grits, couscous, things like this
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really are what you make of them now.
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So we're going to make this couscous really nice
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with the dressing that I just made.
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Okay, and without mushing it up and tearing up,
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I'm just going to kind of fold it together
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with the dressing.
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Into it, I'm going to add just some of my favorite things.
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I think I'll add the feta cheese first,
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so it can sort of get a chance to melt a little bit.
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I'm going to add, you know, I'm eye-balling this,
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these containers, I'll tell you what,
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I go through a lot of feta cheese in my house.
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A container this size doesn't last long at my place, man.
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We make a lot of salads, wife and I do at home
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and feta cheese is really sort of a staple in there.
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So I'll fold in a little feta cheese
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and you can see the cracked black pepper in there
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from the dressing that I made.
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It's just nice.
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And also I'm going to fold in some tomatoes.
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I've got some tomatoes here that I've cut
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into pretty small slices.
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And then some that are just in quarters
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and some that are in a couple of halves.
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This is a really kind of a rustic cut here.
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It doesn't have to be diced up.
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It's whatever you want it to be, you know?
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So if you liked the way it looks
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with chunky tomatoes in it like that.
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And I do, I think that's really pretty,
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Very pretty actually.
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And I'll add, I'm going to use all of these olives.
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That's probably a half cup, three-quarters of a cup,
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or maybe even a couple of olives.
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I didn't measure that.
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I love Kalamata olives and feta cheese together.
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Oh my gosh.
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Just wonderful, wonderful flavors.
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Now that is a good salad.
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And like I said earlier,
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a lot of calories and couscous, you might be surprised
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there are a lot of calories in couscous.
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But that's okay with me.
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What am I missing?
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How about a little parsley?
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I've got some fresh parsley here,
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and I'll just pop off a few sprigs of it.
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It's nice to have.
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I'll tell you this.
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It's nice to have a garden around.
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And my mom has just got a beautiful garden here
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that's got pretty much everything you need.
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And I'll tell you what, something that I got.
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I like having citrus trees too.
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And you know at this time of year,
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a couple of months back at Christmas time, wow,
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the citrus trees really start giving.
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And I'll tell you something interesting.
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I've got a beautiful Meyer lemon tree in my yard.
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It's just gorgeous.
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And it gives Meyer lemons just the size of your fist.
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And there, it's interesting because
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sometimes a Meyer lemon tree or other citrus trees,
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they'll give a one year and then maybe not the next,
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you won't get anything the next year,
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But, man, mine gives without fail every year.
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So I'm so, I feel so fortunate to have that.
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There's nothing like, and we use a lot of lemons
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at our house too.
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We drink lots of warm lemon water in the morning
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and we squeeze it into, you know, different,
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just things like this.
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We use a lot of lemon juice.
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So I love this time of year,
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you know, a month or so back to,
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to get those big Meyer lemons.
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They're so juicy and wonderful.
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And you know what I found out about my tree, too,
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this year that I didn't know,
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is that I didn't even know such a thing existed,
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I'm kind of embarrassed, but my a UPS guy came over
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and we were having a chat out in front of my house,
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and I say, hey man, I got, I got a lemon tree
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back here that's just, it's more lemons than we can use.
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Come back here and get some.
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And I invite anybody that's, you know,
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that's at the house like that.
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Come back here and get some lemons.
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He went back there and he grabbed a couple of lemons
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and he came back out from back and he said,
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hey man, is that a, he said those are beautiful.
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He said, is that a fruit salad tree?
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And I said, what are you talking about?
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He said, well, you know, a fruit salad tree.
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It gives you different types of citrus.
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It'll give you some lemons will give
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you tangerines or oranges or whatever.
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There is such a thing.
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And I said, you've gotta be kidding.
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And he said, no, I'm not kidding.
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And so lo and behold,
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I went out there and checked it out after he left.
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And yeah, it had big Meyer lemons on it.
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And then it had what appeared to be oranges
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and tangerines on it.
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Just, just really, really beautiful and interesting.
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And also I have a grapefruit tree in my backyard
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that has never, ever given me a grapefruit.
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It's big, it's beautiful, it's healthy.
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It's never given me a grapefruit.
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And this past year, man, one, the size of a basketball.
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(laughs)
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You never know.
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All right, we'll see you next time.
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Couscous is delicious.
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