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It's Jamie Deen today, back in Mama's kitchen.
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I'm going to share a delicious recipe for you
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and your children this morning.
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And I'm doing it out of the single greatest cookbook
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that our family has ever written.
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Maybe the greatest cookbook ever.
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I had a great time doing this with my son, Jack,
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look how young he was.
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So this recipe, this book,
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Jamie Deen's Good Food is full of fresh meals,
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not healthy meals, not diet meals,
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but fresh food that you can cook for your family
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'cause no family wants to go on a diet together,
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but fresh, good food is delicious
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and fresh applesauce is one of our youngest son,
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Davis's, favorite things.
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If you want to follow me on Instagram or Twitter,
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you'll see thousands of beautiful pictures of Davis.
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So our applesauce is really simple. We've got,
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let me check. I don't know how many I've cut.
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We got six large apples.
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I love to use Honeycrisp apples
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and I like to use Granny Smiths.
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Whichever apple you decide to use,
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make sure it's got a nice
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'Cause you do not want to use a soft apple,
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'cause we're gonna cook this down for about 35 minutes.
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So as you can see Terry and I stood here,
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we peeled these and then you chunk them out.
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And while you're doing that,
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get you a big large bowl like this,
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put some water in it,
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and squeeze you a lemon or a orange.
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Anything citrus in there
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will keep your apple from turning brown.
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You don't want that to happen.
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So let's go with our liquids first.
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We have one, two cups?
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[Terry] - One cup. - One cup of apple juice.
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We have one cup of water.
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two cinnamon sticks that we're going to drop in here.
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A quarter of a teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
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I got two tablespoons of granulated sugar
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and two tablespoons of brown sugar.
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Now we're going to put a dash of salt in here
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a couple of shakes of fresh ground nutmeg.
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There's a lot of water and apples.
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So all the liquid in these apples
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are going to cook out slowly.
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So once you get your six apples in here,
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let's just give it a good twist.
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Make sure everything gets coated.
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So this is going to cook for 25 minutes
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and probably, you know, maybe 10 minutes or so into it,
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and you're going to cook this softly.
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[Terry] - I was gonna say, what kind of heat, Jamie?
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- You definitely don't want this to boil.
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All we want this to do is to cook softly and slowly
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over 25 minutes and soften up.
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you don't even have to put it through your food processor.
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This is going to be soft enough and easy enough for you
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to eat without messing up another appliance in your kitchen.
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If you get this on a big roll in bowl,
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you're going to have a mess at the end of it.
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So I'm going to cook it on like a medium,
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low heat for 25 minutes. Look how simple that is.
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And we're this close to fresh applesauce.
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Hey, I also brought these to a boil, you see.
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A very slow come up boil
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and I'm going to stir them kind of gently,
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about maybe 10 or 15 minutes into the process.
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I'm going to turn it down a little low.
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We're going to let them finish cooking.
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I've cooked this down.
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Now, the last thing you have to do is
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remove your cinnamon sticks.
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- [Terry] Oh, it smells so good.
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- I just prop those up there.
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They did not cook that way.
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'Cause what I did was I pulled a bowl out
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and put in the refrigerator real quick so I could taste it.
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'Cause the other day I was over here
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and I burnt the entire top of my mouth off.
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'Cause I'm not very patient.
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- [Terry] Look how easy that was. That's fresh.
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- This is fresh applesauce.
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And I'm going to be bringing this home
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for Davis later today.
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You see the consistency that you have here.
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Now, if you don't like texture in your food,
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if this ain't for you,
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put it in a blender or a food processor
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and you can get this as smooth as you like,
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but I really love this because it looks
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and really tastes homemade.
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- [Terry] You could serve this at Thanksgiving.
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Let's give it a test drive.
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I can taste everything that I put in there. It is so good.
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I love applesauce. Homemade applesauce.
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- [Terry] You can put raisins in there too.
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10 out of 10. And you want to add blueberries.
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Like for the last 10 or 15 minutes
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you got blueberry applesauce.
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And it's good for you and I'm Jamie Deen
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and I'm at my mama's house.
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And I'm glad that you tuned in.
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I'm going to eat this and I'll see y'all around the kitchen.
