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- I'm gonna share with y'all an old standby recipe
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for the Fourth of July if you wanted to do something easy
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and easy to tote or whatever.
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It's just a macaroni salad, y'all, and I love 'em.
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And I make 'em much like I do my potato salad
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and I love a warm macaroni salad.
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You know, if you boil it and drain it
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and then just start mixing it all together,
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I love that just like I like my potato salad,
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All right, so I've got like, what do we start with?
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Two cups-- - [Teresa] Two cups.
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- Of cooked macaroni, so you start with one cup of raw.
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And all this is to taste, y'all.
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It's eggs, celery, bell pepper, mayonnaise, my silly salt,
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lemon pepper, and mustard, and that's it.
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And so I recommend that you just do it to taste.
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If you don't like celery,
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find something else to put in there.
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And I wanna show you,
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and I just got through washing my hands,
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so I wanna show y'all the way I chop an egg.
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I like to do it with my hands and just mash it.
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And it's like, it makes it like believable-looking,
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rather than a sliced, perfectly sliced egg.
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To me, this just looks like fresh fresh.
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- [Teresa] Paula, what are you doing
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on the Fourth of July?
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- What am I doing on the Fourth of July?
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- [Teresa] Have you got plans yet?
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- Nope, do you? - [Teresa] Nope.
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- I'm gonna stay right here at home
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and let the professionals have it.
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- [Teresa] I'm with you.
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- 'Cause I'm not a professional.
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- [Teresa] And it's gonna be hot.
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It is gonna be so hot.
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Okay, I'll, come on, Paula.
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Where's your strength?
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Now I'm gonna have to wash this one 'cause of the egg.
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And you wanna be careful because one of the main spices
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in lemon pepper is salt, so you don't want to overdo it.
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And, I think it calls for a teaspoon,
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no, a tablespoon of mustard.
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And there again, you can use it or not use it.
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And then we've got a cup of mayonnaise.
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And macaroni salad is a lot like potato salad
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and homemade pimento cheese.
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When you put 'em in the refrigerator, the,
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you may think you got too much mayonnaise,
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but then there's a good chance you have to come back
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and add more because it absorbs it.
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Look how good that looks.
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Okay, I believe I will.
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I'm hungry, I don't think I, oops.
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I'm gonna eat out of my mixing spoon.
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I love the crunch of the celery and the bell pepper, Teresa.
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Do you like that type of thing in your salads?
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- [Teresa] Yes. - So good.
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I wanted, this is something that I don't like very often.
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I love making this just like this and adding tuna to it.
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A tuna macaroni salad.
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Michael and I love that.
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So that's it, Happy Fourth of July.
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You can fall back on an old standby.
