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- Y'all the recipe that I'm gon' share with y'all today,
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I've never heard of, I've never made it.
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This is something that,
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did Eddie advise you on this, Theresa
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or did you- - He gave me the idea.
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Okay. - Yes 'cause it's
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St. Patrick's Day, my favorite time of the year.
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- And Eddie and I have been in Savannah
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the same length of time but apparently,
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he's been much more social than I have.
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- That doesn't take much. - Had a hard time
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getting out the kitchen. - I was just (indistinct).
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But Eddie's first St. Patrick's Day here,
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he got out among some of the locals that lived here
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and he was, were you invited in somebody's house?
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- [Eddie] Well, it wasn't my first.
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My first was when I was in college.
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This was probably my first party after,
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- after college, yeah. - After you graduated
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- Okay, so- - I've lived on
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the parade (indistinct).
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- Uh huh, I did too. I did too and it was so exciting.
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So tell me, tell me about it and talk loud enough
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- [Eddie] Well, a good friend of mine, at the time,
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she worked for our good friend,
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Elaine (indistinct). - Yeah.
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- [Eddie] And we were having
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the big St. Patrick's Day party
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so being on the parade group,
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I invited Elaine and Christina
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and Christina came in with a tray of these
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great little round balls
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and she said- - Were they round or oblong?
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- [Eddie] Well, they were oblong.
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She said they were Irish potato candies
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and we were like, "Oh gosh, potato candy."
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- Irish potato candies. - And they were so good.
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- That is made around St. Patrick's Day.
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- [Eddie] Yes and Christina was part Irish.
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- So many of us here in this town are Irish.
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I've been told, I don't know who I am or what I am
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but I'm Scotch-Irish is what my mother and father told me
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so I just think that's unbelievable
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that I had not heard or seen this,
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so I'm really excited because here in Savannah
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St. Patrick's Day is a very, very big deal.
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So the St. Patty's people will,
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they will own downtown Savannah for a couple of days,
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won't they? - Yes and this is a great
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little thing to be able to take to the parade.
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- I know. - I mean, you know
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you're having a party or if you're going down
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to the parade, (indistinct). - That's right, that's right.
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Okay so I've got my cream cheese, my butter and my salt
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and I'm just gonna whip this.
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I think it said three minutes.
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Just get it nice and smooth.
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A teaspoon of our fabulous
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homemade vanilla made from Tito,
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All right so we wanna whip this
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for about three minutes until it's nice and fluffy
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and then I'm gonna add my confectioners' sugar
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and we're gon' need one pound and we're gonna beat that
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until it's smooth, another three minutes
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and then we're gonna stir in our,
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we're gonna pour in our coconut and then beat it
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for an additional minute or two.
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Looking back, Eddie said he almost felt like Christina,
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the lady that brought those to the get-together,
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had almond flavoring in it.
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Well, we all adore almond flavoring in this house
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so I say let's go for it, Eddie.
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- [Eddie] Sounds good. Almond, cinnamon, cream cheese.
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- And with the coconut, it's gonna taste like
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a certain candy that I love.
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Right, now how much vanilla did this call for?
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- You put a teaspoon in. - Yes, that's what it
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calls for so I guess, I should do an equal
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teaspoon of almond and we'll see what we got.
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I don't think it can go wrong, Eddie
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so I'm gonna slowly add
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All right so I'm fixing to add our coconut, y'all
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and I'm gonna share with you something that I do.
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To me, the coconut in the bag,
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the shreds are really long
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and I don't like 'em quite that long.
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I like them cut a little bit finer
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so I just throw my coconut into my food processor
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and it gets it to more the size that I like.
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It's not mandatory that you do that,
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it's strictly up to you.
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This is a real, real thick, thick, thick
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candy and we gon' put it in the refrigerator
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and it's gonna get even harder.
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Oh gosh, this so thick.
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Oh but I know just what this is gon' taste like now.
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That candy that I've made for years.
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Okay so here goes my little tater
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and you might not want 'em just perfect.
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How about that, Eddie?
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Okay y'all, the recipe said it made
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four and a half dozen which would be 48 plus six.
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It's about 50-something.
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I got three or four maybe five more
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after you counted, Theresa so we're very close
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but we must have made this a little bit bigger than before.
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I think Easter coming, we could take that
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and dye them different co-, mix in
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pinks and reds and purples. - I like how you said
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about not doing the coconut in it
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but maybe rolling them in coconut.
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- Yes, yes. - In a colored coconut
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(indistinct), that'd be fun.
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- Yes. - But I'm gon' put it
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in the refrigerator. - Yep and then
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we're gonna be rolling them in just plain cinnamon
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or is it cinnamon sugar? - Just cinnamon.
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- Okay. Okay, we're ready to coat our Irish potato candy
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in cinnamon and we found some gold cupcake holders
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because this is gonna be served
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at our St. Patrick's Day party.
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Would you like to look for a pot of gold, Michael?
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- Yeah, already found one over there.
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- Well, you watch this
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and I'm gonna show you why they call 'em
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potato, Irish potato. - It looks like a potato.
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- Looks just like a potato, doesn't it?
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It reminds me of one of my favorite candy bars.
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Now some we made round.
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- [Eddie] What candy bar?
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- Well, it's a candy bar that you buy at the store
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- [Eddie] I've tasted every one.
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- [Theresa] Does taste like a (indistinct).
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All right, we made some in round circles
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'cause that kind of looks like truffles but I just love 'em.
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Well, I'm a potato lover.
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You know, potato's my favorite food
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so I just love the ones that look like a potato.
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Now, the party that you went to, Eddie, did they,
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How did they serve 'em?
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- [Eddie] She just had 'em all on a tray.
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- [Theresa] Can I taste one?
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- [Theresa] Are they all, are these all cinnamon?
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Yeah. I don't, I'm not a big espresso person.
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- [Theresa] It is different.
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- It's so good. - Yeah.
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- I'm glad we put the almond extract in it.
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- [Theresa] We made it our own
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- And I'm glad I ran the coconut
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through the food processor
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- Very good. - 'cause it's not such
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long strands. Very, very good, Eddie.
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- [Theresa] A+ Eddie.
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- What was I doing while you were out partying
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Love and best dishes, y'all.
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You got to try this, especially with Easter coming up.
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I'm gon' make all my grandchildren
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some but I'm gon' dye 'em.
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I'm gon' dye the eggs different colors
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and then dye the coconut another color.
