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0:00
- Y'all I have dragged the old man
0:02
in the kitchen with me today.
0:04
Uh
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- Hey y'all!
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- (laughs) Thank you for speaking to my friends.
0:10
Uh, how long have we been married?
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17 years or 16?
0:14
- 17.
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- Yeah, 17 years.
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And Michael and I have had a disagreement
0:19
over the pot of chicken and dumplings
0:25
that he makes and I make.
0:27
He said that his are so much better than mine.
0:30
Well,
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- It is pretty tough down for me
0:32
to challenge Paula Deen, but, uh,
0:34
- Whoa, mine are so much better y'all (laughs)
0:37
- But mine all better out
0:38
- I know that you're not.
0:40
- Oh I wouldn't even go gone out on his limb.
0:41
- Y'all, well you better watch out
0:44
because that's a thin limb
0:46
and it's going to break with you.
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- No, we, we need an unbiased
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judge. - Taste tester?
0:55
- Taste Tester.
0:56
- Okay.
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- Which I don't know where we're going to find one.
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- (laughs)
1:00
Anywhere.
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We won't get down the street
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and ask a neighbor to come in and taste.
1:06
- Okay, well, we're going to do that.
1:07
- (laughs)
1:08
So, are you challenging me?
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- Yes. I've already challenged you
1:12
with your chicken.
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- (laughs)
1:16
Your is chicken is a chicken that you put
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in your chicken and dumplings. - (laughs)
1:20
- (laughs)
1:21
All right,
1:22
so Michael, you know, when I make chicken and dumplings
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it would be, uh,
1:28
the white grandma taught me
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and it would be a half a days project y'all.
1:32
(clears throat)
1:34
Because I would ball my chicken up
1:36
and I would pick it and I would roll my own dumpling
1:41
so, you know, it was an affair.
1:44
Or in the magazine, one of our easy,
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uh, recipes,
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that is like part of our comfort food down here
1:53
is an easy chicken and dumplings.
1:59
And we're going to start
2:00
with like a half a stick of butter, Michael.
2:04
And we'll go here and pour it in a pot.
2:08
And turn this on like medium huh?
2:12
Now for years, y'all,
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I made my dumplings just like my grandma
2:16
Paul taught me to make.
2:17
Plain flour, salt and ice water.
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I mean, my water actually had ice floating in it
2:24
because it has to be real cold.
2:26
And I would mix them up and it was so hard to roll out.
2:31
Do you remember ever helping me
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roll out dumplings? - Um, no,
2:34
but I can remember my mother have made them that way.
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- Yeah. Yeah.
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And you want them thin,
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real thin, and you won't be on tough.
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So when you go to eat them
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you can take your fork and cut the dumplings.
2:47
So, (giggles)
2:49
they are two different brands
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of frozen dumplings out there on the market.
2:57
Well, when I first discovered those, I said,
3:00
well I'm going to give it a try
3:02
'cause this year would be easier.
3:04
It was so much easier and it tasted like my grandma Pounce.
3:09
So I was over the moon.
3:11
Uh, when I saw I could have
3:13
chicken and dumplings in less than an hour.
3:17
And then the other great part about today,
3:23
is we can go to the grocery store
3:25
and have the most incredible roasted chi-chicken
3:30
at our fingertips.
3:33
So you don't have to ball your chicken
3:35
just buy it from the daily.
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You go to the frozen food department,
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pick up your dumplings and you go home
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and in no time, you've got a pot of chicken and dumplings.
3:46
So you'll need to put just a little bit of flour on you.
3:50
- (laughs)
3:51
- So people think, "Oh gosh, look at her.
3:53
She has worked so hard."
3:54
(laughs loudly)
3:57
All right.
3:58
So I'm going to take our celery, our onions and our carrots.
4:02
So I'm gonna cook this in that half a stick of butter
4:05
until they're almost done.
4:09
And then we'll turn them high a little bit
4:12
because it's gonna cool down.
4:14
Now, the thing is with your chicken and dumplings,
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your frozen convenient dumpling,
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you have to be careful
4:25
when you're taking them off the sheet,
4:26
you have used those beforehand, you might?
4:28
- (indistinct)
4:29
- Do you use those in your chicken?
4:30
- I do, but I'd like, I would, right now,
4:32
I would like to, um, keep
4:35
my recipe a secret,
4:36
because there's going to be a competition.
4:39
Um, uh, but I do use those.
4:42
That's uh, convenient - [Paula] Le-le-let me
4:43
let me tell y'all something.
4:45
Eddie, If you'd put that telephone up there,
4:48
on those eyes,
4:50
They're brown for a reason.
4:52
- [Eddie] (laughs)
4:53
- (laughs loudly)
4:57
- [women in background] Michael I'm gonna take up for you.
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I has faith in you.
4:59
- [Michael] Well, I'm telling you,
5:01
did just make the challenge.
5:03
I know they're good.
5:05
- So there is an "Anne's",
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and then there's a "Miss B's".
5:11
So, you know,
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- [Michael] I thought it was Ms. Mary's.
5:14
Was it B's? - No.
5:14
She does pass. Ms. Smith does pass.
5:17
So this is our chicken and dumplings,
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and to me,
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- Let me get one. - Uh, yes.
5:24
and are a little bit easier to get out of the,
5:28
out of the paper, to me.
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So that'd be great if you do that, Michael.
5:38
- [Michael] My mother used to do a drop dumpling
5:40
like everybody like biscuits. - [Paula] Yes?
5:42
Nah, I think of that is a Northern chicken and dumpling.
5:46
But some reason, uh, did you don't cook those.
5:49
- [Eddie] I never really hits you (indistinct).
5:52
I just think about that as being a Yankee dumpling,
5:55
but you know, I've been wrong before.
6:00
- [Michael] That's the way it is.
6:02
- [Paula] Huh?
6:03
- [Michael] That's the way he did when (blabbers).
6:05
- [Paula] What's that?
6:06
- [Michael] Uh, I, I, like a biscuit.
6:08
- [Paula] Oh, I thought you,
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you said your mama rolled them out?
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- [Michael] No, But she would, um,
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It took her awhile to do it all.
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- Yeah.
6:18
- They'll roll them out.
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But drop dumpling, when you know that's pretty quick.
6:23
Yeah. That's a pretty quick way to do it.
6:29
All right. It's going to take
6:30
I probably should've put those carrots on first.
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(mixing the pot)
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I'm gonna take this, uh,
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Cloud feeds the triplets.
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What a pasta.
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You know, the really tiny pasta, Eddie.
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- [Eddie] Yes.
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Where they almost don't have to chew.
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So I'm going to take some of these over to Cloud
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and see if the babies will eat them
6:58
since they've been eating pasta since they had teeth.
7:02
So we'll see.
7:04
I know, I bet you a dollar
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that our little Davis, genuine Brooks baby.
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I'll grant you, he would eat them.
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Cause that boy likes to eat dumpling.
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(stirring)
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(tapping the wooden spoon)
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Okay. So we'll just going let that cook for a few minutes
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and then I've got two quarts of chicken broth
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and we made this using the wet base.
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In fact, I saw an ad for y'all the wet basis.
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The first time ever on TV, yesterday.
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You remember me saying something until you're 80?
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- [Eddie] Yeah. Yes.
7:50
- I said, I think Molly, they finally are advertising
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that because it's such a good product.
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Once you've used the wet face, you'll never,
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you'll never want to use the granulated, but see,
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this is, this is what it looks like.
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And you can, it comes in like low sodium,
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if that's what you're needing, but it's great.
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And it doesn't expire.
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It's good until December the 20th, 2022.
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So it's got a good shelf life on it.
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(taps wooden spoon)
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Okay. This has been cooking about 6 or 7 minutes
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and we've got a roasted chicken
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from the daily.
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Because remember this is easy,
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fast, and easy,
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- [Eddie] Do you use the entire roasted chicken? Or maybe
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- [Paula] Yes. All the dark meat is what makes it so good.
8:51
Yes. She used every piece of that chicken.
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All right, so,
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I just added a fourth of a cup of flour,
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and we just gonna make sure the flour is worked in good.
9:08
And now we are going to slowly add
9:12
our chicken broth.
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You want to come help me Mikey?
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- [Michael] Sure.
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- [Paula] Mikey. Mikey has been on a diet y'all
9:18
and how much have you weight loss?
9:20
- 30 pounds?
9:21
- I'm stuck on 30.
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- Okay. Just you can just start slowly adding there.
9:26
(sizzles)
9:31
Oh,
9:33
he's doing real well good.
9:35
He's on my keto diet.
9:38
So he can't have chicken and dumplings.
9:41
- [Michael] Nah.
9:42
- [Paula] (chuckles)
9:44
- Okay. Wonderful.
9:46
Thank you, Michael.
9:47
All right, so we're going to bring this to a boil.
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I'm going to add my parsley.
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Oops!
9:53
Darn!
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- [Michael] There's thyme.
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- Yes. And I'm going to add my thyme.
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Look at me.
9:59
I've been making chicken dumplings nice today.
10:02
Look at me Eddie.
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- [Eddie] (chuckles)
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- [Paula] (laughs)
10:06
Okay.
10:09
So we're going to bring this up to a boil,
10:12
because we've got the add-on dumplings,
10:15
and we're going to add a tablespoon of fresh thyme.
10:20
- [Eddie] Well, now that, that was already
10:21
in with the parsley
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that the, uh,
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- [Paula] Oh did Theresa put the thyme in with the parsley?
10:27
- [Eddie] I, I, you put the parsley in with the thyme
10:29
that I chopped. (chuckles)
10:32
- [Eddie] Oh, you didn't say anything.
10:34
So this is thyme.
10:35
- [Eddie] That's thyme and then you added
10:37
some parsley in there.
10:38
- [Paula] And parsley! (laughs)
10:38
- [Eddie] Okay. (chuckles)
10:41
- I tasted the thyme.
10:44
I tasted it, but you know what?
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- [Eddie] You can add some,
10:47
- [Paula] I like, aha,
10:48
I just like it kind of floating around in there.
10:51
See they're, they're
10:51
so ahead of me y'all (chuckles)
10:56
When I'm thinking about doing it, they've done it.
10:58
They've already done it. (laughs)
11:02
Okay. So thank you, so,
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if I wanted to, I could just add
11:06
some more parsley with towel
11:07
probably do.
11:09
How much thyme did you?
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- [Eddie] It, It was a tablespoon of thyme
11:11
- A tablespoon, so,
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I'm going to just throw in a little bit more parsley.
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Since,
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I thought it was all parsley.
11:26
Thank you, Eddie.
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Now, Michael, with all like for kids
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chicken and dumplings to be black with pepper.
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- [Michael] I'm not telling you my recipe.
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- (laughs)
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Now my folks in the kitchen
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and cooking with Paula Deen magazine,
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they test all these recipes and they tell us to stir it.
11:51
Now I'm always told y'all not to stir it.
11:54
Because it can break up your dumplings,
11:58
but um, since I tested this recipe
12:00
I'm going to do just as they say.
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And uh,
12:06
you wanna make sure you don't uncover
12:09
your dumplings too early
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because they will stick together
12:13
and they fall very, very quickly.
12:21
(bell rings)
12:22
Good they those come out of the package so easily.
12:26
So, you know, if you're going to stir them
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you just make sure it's a gentle
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a real gentle movement,
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through your pot.
12:38
Now, when we get all the dumplings in,
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we're gonna, uh,
12:44
put the lid on our pot
12:47
and we're gonna turn the heat down to like a medium low
12:53
and we'll gonna let them cook for about 30 minutes.
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So 30 minutes, we're going to come back,
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we're going to add the chicken and,
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That's it.
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Check, check it for salt and pepper,
13:07
how quick is that?
13:11
(taps wooden spoon)
13:11
- [Eddie] That looks good.
13:13
- [Paula] Don't it look good?
13:21
It's so good.
13:23
Now I just added a little garlic powder.
13:29
So now I'm just going to add a little salt, (clears throat)
13:34
a little pepper,
13:37
just a little bit.
13:40
And, uh,
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the recipe calls for a half a pack
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of the frozen dumplings.
13:49
But my folks around here, like more dumplings,
13:53
they like it thicker.
13:56
Me, I like a little bit more broth, uh,
13:59
so just depending on how your family likes it,
14:04
is, uh,
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you know how you would do it
14:08
but I would probably follow the recipe
14:10
and only use a half a package
14:13
of the frozen dumplings.
14:14
But, if this gets too thick for us,
14:17
I'll just add some more chicken broth
14:21
and that'll fix it.
14:23
But I'm fixing to add the chicken right now.
14:25
So it's going to be extra thick just the way Eddie likes it.
14:32
And I think Michael likes it that way too
14:34
but Michael can have any.
14:36
- [Michael] (chuckles)
14:37
- [Paula] Look, Michael.
14:40
(stirring)
14:42
Oh my goodness.
14:44
- [Michael] It looks good for a quickie.
14:45
Cause mine takes all day.
14:47
- [Paula] Well, I know.
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I mean, I was looking at a half a day.
14:50
All right, but I'm definitely going to have
14:52
to add some more base.
14:54
Some more, um, stock, chicken stock.
14:59
Because just adding those,
15:01
- [Michael] Hey, may I row it in?
15:03
- [Paula] Just very gently, please, Mikey.
15:08
All right, now don't stir it,
15:09
just kind of push it.
15:10
Take your spatular and wait, let me show you now.
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Do use like that. - [Michael] Okay.
15:16
- [Paula] Okay?
15:17
(pours broth)
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So we're going to let this simmer for about 10 more minutes.
15:30
There you go.
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There you go, just kind of fold it together.
15:38
And because I added,
15:42
more stock,
15:49
I'm going to add,
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- [Michael] I know let's take it both.
15:51
- [Paula] I can't get to that pot. (chuckles)
15:53
(taps spoon)
15:53
No, I'm going to add a little bit more butter.
15:56
Very gentle, Mikey.
15:57
- [Michael] That's a bath.
15:59
That's what's called (indistinct)
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- [Paula] (laughs)
16:07
Okie dokie artichoke.
16:17
What?
16:22
(whispers)
16:30
Awwww!
16:31
(cat meows)
16:33
That's lunch.
16:35
This is the one that ate the doves.
16:37
Thank you!
16:38
(cat meows)
16:40
Eddie, you want me up go ahead and dip you up some
16:42
so that they can speak to him.
16:45
'Cause they say you're so hot,
16:46
young little taste of the Jews.
16:48
- [Michael] No I'm watching
16:49
- You watching? (laughs loudly)
16:53
This would almost be considered like porn witney.
16:56
(laughs)
16:58
- Put somebody on a diet. (laughs)
17:05
- Hmm.
17:07
See? to the tooth.
17:11
Hmm
17:17
- [Michael] Good?
17:18
- No, they're not good.
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- [Eddie] You're not missing anything?
17:21
- You're not missing anything.
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- [Eddie] (chuckles)
17:23
- (laughs)
17:26
Look at them.
17:27
Look on that little face.
17:30
(laughs)
17:34
Hmm.
17:35
Hmm.
17:37
So good.
17:40
So so good.
17:41
It's so quick.
17:45
So loving best dishes y'all. (laughs)
17:49
- [Michael] (disagrees) Whoa.
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