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- Y'all I got two for one today.
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So I'm turning it over to the two Deans men.
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- [Paula] I love y'all to death.
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- [Paula] You're welcome son.
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- We all love each other.
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- [Paula] I love my son.
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And we also love super easy delicious recipes.
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Today we're doing one.
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This is mom's recipe.
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It's a cucumber Greek salad.
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And Jack, I was going to ask you,
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do you remember in Athens
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when we would go to the farmer's market
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and they had a great gentleman there
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that would make his own chips
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- [Jack] Oh yeah, I remember that
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and he made little cucumber salads.
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So there's lots of different ways
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that you can do this salad.
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But we're going to follow her mom's recipe today.
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So we have English cucumbers,
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and I've kind of rough peeled 'em.
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I love to see, you know, textures and colors and stuff.
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So I'm going to take this off because
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- [Paula] Excuse me, Jack.
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- Jack when I was a little bit younger than you.
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- Eat it? (Paula laughs)
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My mom and daddy kept a garden
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and in the garden we grew cucumbers
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and this is how we used to eat 'em.
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- [Paula] All right, Jack - My daddy
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I think maybe I might be.
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Look I found two lids that are the same size,
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so you can totally show Jack
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a neat way to cut, slice those tomatoes up, okay?
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- [Paula] You're welcome.
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- So when I was about your age,
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we had a garden and this is how I would eat cucumbers there.
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And also the ones in Athens,
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The gentleman there in Athens would chunk them up.
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But mom's recipe, simple slice.
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Going to be in ovals.
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I don't want them to thin or too thick,
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kind of right in the middle.
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Every now and then one's going to get caught under there.
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Wanna put these in that bowl?
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- [Jaime] We just had some cucumbers in the lake
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this weekend, didn't we?
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- [Jack] With cream cheese which is also good.
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- Yup, a friend of ours just keeps a garden in his house
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and he brought some cucumbers
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and some onions that were delicious.
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And he's just starting to get his tomatoes up.
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And we put cream cheese on his cucumbers
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and they were delicious.
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- Have y'all planted some tomatoes Jaime?
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- We hadn't done a garden this year.
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We're just still kind of getting settled down.
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'Cus you know, as Southern folks,
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we can always find a way to take a perfectly good vegetable
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and change it's whole complexion
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by spreading creme cheese on it.
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Of course, I've got a little bit of dill here.
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- I don't understand what's wrong with that Jaime?
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- Nothing wrong with it.
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- Got a little bit of our dill
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that we're going to throw in here.
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We've got some onions that cut into little rings.
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This is kind of like Great-great used to do.
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Now, if this were a Great-great's recipe,
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there would be no dill.
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And this would be the end of it.
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Be apple cider vinegar goes in there
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and it just soaks in that vinegar.
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And you could put some tomatoes in there.
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But we've done ring onions,
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we've got crumbled feta here.
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But I love the great cucumber salad that we had in Athens.
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And that guy, he used the cubes of feta
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and he would chop that up as well.
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So he had Turkey, cucumbers, and feta.
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We're going to use crumbled in mom's recipe, grape tomatoes.
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And this is the trick that mom wanted me to show you Jack.
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So this is a way to make cutting a cherry tomato
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so much easier according to my mom.
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- [Paula] Just have to make sure you got a sharp knife
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Dig through the kitchen and find two of these,
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make sure they're this size, it'll take you a while,
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And then you put this here and then you put this one on top.
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- [Paula] Let me get you a sharp knife.
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- And then you take this knife and then you do this
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- [Paula] Is that one sharp enough son?
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- And then completely safe - [Paula] Oh, you just did one
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- And look how easy it is
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to cut cherry tomatoes with these.
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Or we'll take a handful of these cherries.
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- Or Jack you can do the whole batch with one slicing.
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- You can, I'm teasing mom.
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You can put, that is not very strong.
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- [Paula] Well here, that one's not either.
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Let me, my sharp knives I keep in here.
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Be careful with that one 'cus it's very sharp.
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- If you wanted to, you could put a bunch of these on here.
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See this is the trick.
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You want to see the trick?
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- [Paula] Hey girlfriend!
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I forgot that you're getting off
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like at 3:30 or something.
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- [Woman] Yeah, guess what?
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- [Jack] See that makes more sense.
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- Yeah, that's actually a pretty good trick,
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but I like flexing around in the kitchen
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We're going to add some of this creamy dressing.
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This is mom's, what is this?
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- [Man] Creamy cucumber
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- [Jaime] Creamy cucumber dressing.
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I love creamy cucumber dressing.
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- [Paula] Yes, we've got some wonderful dressings, son.
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- [Jaime] Imma put about a tablespoon in there maybe.
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- Hey Jack, look what else we've got in our gift store.
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I know you're not interested in this son.
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But we're carrying a few pieces of clothing now.
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And this look, what does that say on the tag?
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What does that say on the tag?
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- Paula Dean's store.
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- Yes, it's pretty ain't it.
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So we've got some neat things in the store.
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I'm going to add a little bit of pepper to it,
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A little bit of salt.
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- Yeah, it's really good.
