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Love & Best Dishes: How to Measure | Southern Mac & Cheese Recipe | Kids Cooking Camp
Jun 2, 2024
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- Hey everybody, it's Bobby here today
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with day two of our cooking camp
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and we are gonna prepare macaroni and cheese
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from our "Made with Love, Kids in the Kitchen" cookbook.
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This is so awesome.
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I've got kids
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and you have a lot of fun teaching kids how to cook.
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There's a lot to learn.
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I remember learning how to cook when I was old enough
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to see over the stove.
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And it's a great way to get invol-
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get your kids involved in cooking at an early age.
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So let's get started.
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I've got a stick of butter that I'm gonna melt in my,
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on my stove top here, and a stick of butter, y'all.
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Look right on the side here, shows you
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that it's broken down into tablespoons, right?
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So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 tablespoons of butter in a stick.
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Okay, my recipe calls for six to be melted over here.
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And then reserve two more for our topping.
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So here's what I'm gonna do.
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One, two, cut.
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And I'll save
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these two tablespoons for a little bit later on
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for my topping.
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So there's two tablespoons
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and they'll be over here waiting for us.
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So I'll take the other six tablespoons of butter
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and I'll go ahead and begin to melt them in our pan.
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And we're making one of my favorite things
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and something that all kids really love
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and that's macaroni and cheese.
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Such a fun dish.
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So tasty and I don't know, it's just always a big hit.
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And you can make different
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variations of macaroni and cheese.
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You can add things, take things out.
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It's just a fun kid's dish.
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So I've got my stove top on
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and my butter is quickly beginning to melt here.
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I'll help it out with my whisk.
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And to this, we're gonna add some flour.
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Won't take long.
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And I've already made, let's come right over here, Ed.
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I've already made...
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The recipe calls for 16 ounces,
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which is one pound of elbow macaroni pasta.
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And I've already cooked it and drained it
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and I've got it here in my bowl ready to go.
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And we're gonna get to that in just a minute.
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Okay, so going exactly by the directions.
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Cook the pasta, we've already done it.
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Preheat the oven, I've got the oven on,
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in a medium sauce pan melt the butter over medium heat,
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that's happening.
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Set aside two tablespoons of butter.
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We've already done that for our topping.
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Stir in the flour and slowly add milk.
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Okay, so our flour, how much flour does it call for?
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It calls for 1/3 of a cup of flour.
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Now my mom has got some beautiful measuring cups over here.
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Measuring spoons, excuse me.
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And this one's marked 1/3.
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So here's our 1/3 of a cup of flour.
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"Well, Bobby, that's a big tall,
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that's more than a 1/3 of a cup, isn't it?"
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And it is, you're right.
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So what we'll do is we'll pack it down
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and I'll scrape off the top, to get it nice and even.
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So that way we know that we've got 1/3 of a cup of flour.
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I'll add it into my butter.
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And little stir, stir, stir.
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Whisk, whisk, whisk.
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I wanna make sure that this is not too high, right?
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Because I don't wanna burn my butter.
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Butter burns everybody.
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Remember that butter will burn.
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You can burn just about anything,
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but butter will quickly burn on you
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if you don't tend to it.
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So I've got my butter and my flour together in our pan.
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And to that I'm gonna add some milk.
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Okay, let's see.
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Slowly add the milk.
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How much milk?
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Three cups.
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Okay, this is a dry measuring spoon.
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So it's made for dry ingredients,
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things like flour or sugar.
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And then you've got wet measuring cups for your wet stuff.
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How do you know that this is for wet?
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Well, if you look on the inside,
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you'll see that the measurements are facing you.
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So you can see them as you fill it up with liquid,
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with water or with milk or whatever.
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I need three cups.
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And there are different kinds.
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So you'll see like,
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here's a good example of one right there.
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And you can see how the numbers all face you
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so you can see them.
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So as you're filling this up,
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you can see the liquid rise up to what you need.
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So we'll do two cups of milk
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because this is a two cup measurer.
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We'll have to do two and then come back and do one more,
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okay, for our three cups.
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So slowly add in the milk.
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And that milk is cold,
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so that's gonna cool everything way off.
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And plus your milk will curdle.
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Butter will burn, and milk will curdle.
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So I want to add it in kind of slowly.
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I don't wanna scald it.
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You get these things going together.
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This is gonna be, make a nice wet base
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for our macaroni and cheese.
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Okay, so two cups and then we'll come back
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and we'll do one more cup.
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I can see my number one measurer down there,
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the line that says one cup.
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So I'll fill up to it.
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One cup.
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Alright, so I've got three cups of milk
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that I've measured out with my butter and with my flour.
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I've got my stove top on low.
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Let's see what's next in our cookbook,
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slowly add the milk stirring constantly
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while bringing to a boil.
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I'm gonna take my temperature up from really low,
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like a medium.
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What'd you do with your whisk, Bob?
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- [Crew Member] There it is.
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- We'll stir this and bring it to a boil.
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Now that's gonna take just a minute.
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So why don't we take a quick break
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and then we'll come right back to Kids Cooking Camp.
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So we've come to a boil with our milk, flour,
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and butter combination.
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It's nice and thick.
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I've turned off the stovetop.
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And now to this, I'm gonna add our cheese,
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and salt, and pepper.
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All right, let's see.
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The recipe calls for 12 ounces of cheddar cheese.
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This is a 12 ounce bag of cheddar cheese.
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But I think what I'll do is I'll add our salt
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and pepper first.
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- [Crew Member] It's actually a 16 ounce bag,
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just so you know.
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So you have to kind of cut a little out.
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- Ah, 16 ounce bag of macaroni and cheese.
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Sorry, I didn't read the label.
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There's a lesson right there.
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So I'm gonna have to leave a little bit behind
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'cause I only need 12.
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Okay, salt and pepper.
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Let's see how much salt and pepper.
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3/4 teaspoon of salt and a 1/4 teaspoon of pepper.
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So we'll find our 3/4 teaspoon.
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We don't have a 3/4,
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so we'll go with 1/4 three times of salt.
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So one...
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Two...
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Three 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
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And 1/4 teaspoon of pepper.
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This is my 1/4 teaspoon measure.
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So in goes my pepper.
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And now...
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Stir that in a little bit,
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get our salt and pepper in there.
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Now to that we'll add our cheese.
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So 12 ounces.
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This is a 16 ounce bag.
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A little bit more.
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And that's gonna be about...
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I'm imagining two 2 oz cups.
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That's gonna be about four ounces of cheese left.
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That's really gonna thicken up our custard.
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My mama calls this a custard for the macaroni and cheese.
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This is really gonna get thick.
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Let that cheese melt,
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and salt and pepper get in there real good.
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Yeah, that's quickly, quickly melting, looking real good.
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And we will add this to our macaroni
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and mix it all together
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and then we'll put it in our casserole dish.
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Wonderful, that looks great!
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All right, here we go.
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All over that macaroni.
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Mm-hmm!
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All right, and now we'll mix together
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our macaroni and our custard together.
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And Eddie, take a look while I'm mixing this,
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right down in front of Eddie, there's this super,
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super neat little apron.
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This is from the Made with Love collection.
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Look, there's Mom on the front.
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Some cool stuff that you get
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in that little box with this great little cookbook.
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I'm really, really happy that my mom taught me how to cook
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when I was a kid and how to clean up after myself.
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And those two things have served me very, very well in life.
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Alright, now that looks really, really, really good.
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Couple things I still have to do.
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I've got to grease my casserole dish here.
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So I'm gonna use some PAM coating.
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I think I'll find it right down here somewhere.
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Let's see. - Middle drawer.
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- Middle drawer, here we go.
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Alright, so lightly greased.
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Just a little spray.
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So our macaroni doesn't stick.
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And we'll add that, whoops,
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right into our casserole dish.
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Yeah, look at that thick and creamy macaroni and cheese.
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Gosh, wow, look at that, woo! (laughs)
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Have your friends come over, guys.
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Bring all the kids from the neighborhood.
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Have them come over for macaroni and cheese
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'cause you're gonna have enough to feed a kid army.
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All right, get it all spread throughout.
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And now one more thing that I have to do
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is make the topping.
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For the topping two tablespoons of butter.
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We've got that here already melted
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and we measured it earlier
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so we know that it's two tablespoons,
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and four tablespoons of dry breadcrumbs
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and a little bit of salt and pepper.
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It doesn't tell us how much salt and pepper.
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I'm just gonna use a little pinch salt
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and a little pinch of pepper.
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And now our four tablespoons of dry breadcrumbs
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and this is our one tablespoon measuring spoon.
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So one.
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Two.
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Three.
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And four.
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Great.
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Now we will mix that together.
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And we'll put it right over the top
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of our macaroni and cheese.
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And that's gonna give us
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a nice golden brown crust on the top.
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Yeah, that looks great.
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Not a whole lot of it.
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So we're gonna have to be strategic
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with how we put this on top of our mac and cheese.
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Okay, let's try to evenly
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spread this out.
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Okay, and what does it say to do with our macaroni
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and cheese now that we've got it ready?
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Bake for 30 minutes and remove from the oven
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and let it cool prior to serving.
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So we're done.
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All we gotta do is pop in the oven 30 minutes at?
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What's the temperature?
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375, oven's already hot.
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So we'll pop this in the oven,
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take a break and we'll come back.
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Our macaroni and cheese is outta the oven
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and it looks and smells so, so great.
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Okay, guys, way too hot to taste right now.
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I'm gonna have to let that cool a little bit.
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But let's talk about the measuring that we did earlier.
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You'll remember that our recipe called
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for a 16 ounce box of pasta, right?
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It called for like three cups of milk and a stick of butter,
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which is broken down into tablespoons.
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So the tablespoon of butter, or excuse me,
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the stick of butter is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 tablespoons.
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And we cut that and reserved off two tablespoons
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for the topping.
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We talked about a wet measuring cup, right?
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And why it's a wet measuring cup.
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So when you're pouring in your liquids and stuff
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and you see your lines on the inside, you can read them,
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they're facing you.
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Which is really handy for measuring like milk
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or water or stuff like that.
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And then you got your dry measuring cups, right?
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So it would be a dry cup
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and it would measure a little bit differently than this.
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This is for things like flour and sugar,
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and then for water and milk and things like that.
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And you've even got teaspoons, tablespoons,
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1/2 teaspoon, 1/2 tablespoon.
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My mom has this beautiful set
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of measuring spoons that I love.
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And she's even got, look at this, guys,
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you've probably never seen anything like this.
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Look, so here's a smidgen, here's a pinch,
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and here's a dash.
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How about that?
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You ever seen anything like that?
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I love it.
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So anyhow, we're learning to measure
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and we're learning to cook at the same time.
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So cook with your family, make delicious things
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like macaroni and cheese
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from this great "Made with Love" cookbook,
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"Kids in the Kitchen".
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I think that you'll really enjoy it.
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Anything that gets you in the kitchen cooking
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with your family is a plus.
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So that's it for Kids Camp today.
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Keep joining us for more and we'll see you next time.
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