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Italian Bread Casserole Recipe | Air Fryer Side Dishes - Have some old bread? Paula's making a garlic bread casserole—one of her new favorite stale bread recipes. Try this air fryer casserole tonight, y'all!
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- All right, y'all.
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On this recipe,
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I hope that y'all will pay closer attention
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than my three dogs are right now.
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Because I just mixed this up last night.
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There's really no recipe for it.
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So I hope that y'all will pay close attention
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because I thought this was out of this world.
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Years and years ago,
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I had formulated a recipe
0:47
using tomatoes and bread.
0:50
So I would highly recommend y'all that you use old,
0:58
not necessarily old, but stale bread,
1:04
because I'll put,
1:05
when I have this much leftover of a loaf,
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I will put it in the freezer.
1:13
And then I can make croutons out of it
1:16
or breadcrumbs to go on top of a casserole.
1:21
And it sure does cut good when it's seen better days.
1:28
All right, I am gonna start by spraying my dish
1:35
because this will have a tendency to stick.
1:39
And you know, I had cooked some wonderful
1:44
boneless fried chicken breast and fresh peas and rice,
1:48
but I needed one more dish.
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So I started digging through the freezer.
1:52
I started digging through my pantry.
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And I said, "Okay, I'll see if this doesn't work."
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Well it worked and it was delicious, y'all.
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So I'm gonna take my bread.
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And I'm gonna put just a little butter on it.
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Just a little bit.
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And I'm just gonna butter the one side of it.
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All right, now I'm putting a little dab of cream cheese.
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Talk about quick and easy.
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This is quick and easy
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and delicious.
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And it would be a good side with about anything
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you wanted to serve it alongside of.
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Is that butter?
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Yeah, that's just butter.
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All right, let's see.
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This one's just butter, isn't it?
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- [Camera Operator] And then that last one over
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to the right at the bottom right.
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- Right here?
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- [Camera Operator] Nope, go one more down.
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- Bottom right?
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- [Camera Operator] Right there.
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- This one?
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- [Camera Operator] No, your bottom left.
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- Bottom left?
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- [Camera Operator] Okay, okay I should have said
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my bottom right.
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- That's all right.
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All right, so I'm gonna.
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I found if I cut them like this,
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I could get a little bit more in there.
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(bread crackles)
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I do love bread, any way I can get it, y'all.
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All right, now this just set it apart.
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- [Camera Operator] What is it?
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- Fresh mozzarella cheese, y'all.
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And I wanna make sure every piece of that bread
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gets a dollop of that mozzarella.
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To me, that just made it.
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It's amazing, you know, what all you can come up with, y'all
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when you have to, isn't it?
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Is somebody snoring?
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- [Camera Operator] And that would be Lulu.
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- Poor thing, she's exhausted from helping me.
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(Paula laughs)
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All right.
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There we go.
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And I'll just finish off putting a little bit more.
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Is that butter or cream cheese?
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That's cream cheese, isn't it?
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- [Camera Operator] Yeah, you have both on those.
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- Yeah, I'll go ahead and stick it in someplace.
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And just to make sure I have enough cream cheese,
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because between the cream cheese and the mozzarella,
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it's so good.
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Now I hope that y'all will take this
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and maybe do a little something different to it.
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So I can't wait to see what y'all come up with.
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All right, now I'm using a can
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of fire roasted diced tomatoes.
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And this has garlic in it, which I'm so happy about.
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(pan clinks)
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Does this remind you of anything, Theresa?
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This, does it?
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- [Camera Operator] Like a pizza and a.
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- [Paula] Kinda, I mean, yeah.
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Yeah, kinda.
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- [Camera Operator] Well, like a French stuffing,
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I mean like a stuffing with.
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- [Paula] I don't know.
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- [Camera Operator] It sounds, I can't wait to taste it.
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- [Paula] It's delicious.
6:17
Just a little bit of salt, not a whole bunch.
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And a little bit.
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Michael actually loved it.
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- [Camera Operator] I bet.
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(machine whirs)
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Now you had out some heavy whipping cream is it?
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- [Paula] I do.
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- [Camera Operator] I'm just jumpin' ahead.
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- [Paula] Yes, because of all of that bread y'all.
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It was not a whole bunch of liquid in those tomatoes.
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So what I did was I just drizzled.
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You know what, I'm gonna clean out that tomato can.
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I just went around and poured some heavy cream
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in there so we'd have some kind of liquid, you know,
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for that bread to soak up.
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- [Camera Operator] And I guess if you didn't wanna use
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cream, you could use like a.
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- [Paula] Oh half and half or, or a evaporated.
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- [Camera Operator] Could you use
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even like a bouillon, like a chicken?
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- Yeah, yeah, chicken broth.
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Yes you could.
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So as this is cooking, I'll keep an eye on it
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to make sure it doesn't need any more liquid.
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So I think I cooked this
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for about 20 minutes in my air fryer.
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Y'all just won't believe how good
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this bread and tomatoes are together.
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(pan clatters)
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430 for about 20 minutes.
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Oh, there you are.
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For about 20 minutes.
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I love my air fryer.
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And it's been cooking about 12 or 14 minutes.
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Because of the bread,
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you know, I'm having to give back the casserole some liquid.
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So I'm out of the heavy cream,
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but I do have some half and half.
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And so I'm gonna just make sure
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and then after, after this sets real good.
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I'm gonna take my knife now.
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So that juice can get all the way in there.
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(pan clatters)
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Let that cook some more.
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And then I'm gonna top it with buttered panko,
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and it's gonna be mighty fine.
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All right, the last step, oops.
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The last step on this is a buttered panko
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and that's gonna give it this nice crunch on top.
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I forgot to turn the voice down on the TV,
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so I hope y'all can hear me.
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Theresa and I are trying to watch the news.
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(Paula laughs)
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- [Camera Operator] How many minutes, Paula, would you say?
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- Okay, so we'll probably do this for about five minutes.
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It really does cook fast in the air fryer,
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so we're just gonna let that brown and get a crunch on it.
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Ooh.
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Look at that fresh mozzarella the way it just strings.
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I love it.
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Love it, love it, love it.
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And look how hot Theresa.
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- [Camera Operator] I think you might need
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to let that sit for a second.
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- You think?
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- [Camera Operator] Yes.
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- We'll be right back.
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Mm.
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Mm.
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This is so yummy.
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And to me, if you like Italian food,
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to me, this is very Italian, mm.
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And so very, very, very good.
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- [Camera Operator] And a great way to use that bread.
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- Mhm.
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- [Camera Operator] Because people are always
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trying to figure out what to do with old bread.
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- That's right.
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I feel like I could eat all of that by myself.
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So remember it was the stale French loaf,
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sliced, buttered, cream cheese, fresh mozzarella.
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Just put it in your casserole dish,
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make sure you spray it, so it won't stick.
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Fire roasted tomatoes on top.
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- [Camera Operator] Whipping cream.
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Or half and half or something.
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- Heavy cream or half and half, just pour it around there.
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So you've got some liquid for that bread to,
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for that bread to have something
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to absorb so it won't be dry.
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- [Camera Operator] And then I would say you did
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about 20 minutes in the air fryer.
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- Yeah.
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- [Camera Operator] And then added on the topping?
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- Uh-huh and then buttered my panko
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and put that on the top for the,
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like the last five minutes y'all.
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So like I said, take this, do it just like that,
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or do something to make it your own.
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You know what else would be good in this?
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Is maybe some sliced real thin, fresh eggplant
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and it would almost be like eggplant parm, you know?
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- [Camera Operator] Or you could put like a,
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you could put like a cooked sausage
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or, I mean there's all kinds of things you could do to it.
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- Mhm, mhm.
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But it's so very good just like this.
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Mm.
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Just make sure you use the fire roasted tomatoes
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with either basil or garlic or both.
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So here's to y'all, love and best dishes.
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Mm, mm.
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Mm, mm, mm.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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