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- I wanna ask y'all something.
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Would you have any idea what I've got on my mind,
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seeing what I'm wearing?
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Well, you'd be right.
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It's about Valentine's Day.
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And I'm not feeling very
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Valentine-sy today, y'all. (laughing)
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I have bent Eddie and Theresa's ears
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'til they about fall off,
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you know, just one of them little bitching days,
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It's not Monday, but it feels like a Monday, doesn't it?
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I think I'm just, after the holiday season,
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you know, it's kind of a letdown, isn't it?
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I hope I'm not the only one
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that feels this way. - No, you're not
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at all. - (laughing) Okay,
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so for Valentine's Day,
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I may have this on for the next three or four videos,
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so I got to try to keep it clean.
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So I got a note from Denise Madja.
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I'm so sorry Denise. (laughing)
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But her last name is M-A-D-A-J.
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And I would pronounce that Maddajay. (laughing)
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I think I missed phonics in school.
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But anyway, she sent me a note saying
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that her favorite recipe
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of her mom's was an Italian chicken.
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And she said, I'd love for you to try it
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and see if you like it as much as I do and my family.
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So I got to thinking this would
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for an Italian Valentine's meal,
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you know, this might be right up some people's alley.
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And good Italian food, you can get real romantical over,
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some good Italian food, can't you?
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In fact, I need to make chicken Parmesan one day.
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- [Theresa] I will. I love chicken Parmesan.
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- I do too. I do too.
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So we're gonna start with like a soup-size pot
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and Denise tells me to put
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two large cans of tomato sauce
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and I'm gonna get every drop out
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and I've got four chicken breasts and Denise said,
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because you know the flavor is in that skin
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and in those bones that...
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- [Assistant] She only tells us to use one or two.
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- One or two breasts?
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Okay, so it's gonna be a heavy pasta then, right?
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I think I may use more than one or two breasts
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'cause I got mouths to feed.
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All right. Now I'm gonna...
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What? How much was that?
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- Four cups? - Three cups.
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- Three cups of tomato juice.
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So this is gonna be nice and tomato-y.
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All right, now I'm gonna add my spices.
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And this is dried crushed garlic
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and there's a good bit of that
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which is gonna make it very, very good.
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I'm gonna add a fourth of a cup of
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shredded Parmesan cheese.
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I'm gonna add about one teaspoon
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and then I'm gonna add oregano.
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So, the only thing I might do differently, Denise,
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is maybe add a little bit more Italian seasoning.
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But I'm going to taste it and I may not need it at all.
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So I'm gonna take my chicken breast,
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I'll move that to a bigger eye.
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let's see, one of these breasts doesn't have any skin on it,
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so, and these are big breasts, aren't they?
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I can see why she would say just use one or two.
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Because we're actually gonna shred this after it's done,
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but we're gonna cook it for about an hour
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and let it cool and then we're going to shred it
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and put it back in the sauce.
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And then we are gonna cook some Rao noodles, rigatoni.
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So I guess you could use any kind of noodle
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you would like to have.
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But I'm going to use rigatoni just like Denise told me to.
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And I love using scissors.
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The recipe tells you to shred the chicken.
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I don't care for shreds
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'cause sometimes it can be stringy if you shred it.
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not stringy if I just take my scissors and cut it
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and I'm returning it to the pot.
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Oh, and I need to add the other half
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of my Parmesan cheese.
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And I did go back and salt it after it got to cooking.
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And I probably used close to a tablespoon with salt,
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Okay, I'm going to back up just a minute.
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When we started Denise's recipe,
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she said used one to two chicken breasts
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and they were big chicken breasts and I used two
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and I said, "Well, I'll take the other two
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and make Aunt Peggy chicken salad
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that I can bring to her tonight."
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Well, to me the meat doesn't match the amount of sauce.
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So I'm gonna have to think of something else
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to fix Aunt Peggy's supper tonight.
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And maybe she would enjoy some of this.
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Her appetite has changed so drastically.
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Things she used to love,
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she doesn't care anything about 'em.
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The only thing that's remained steady
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is she would never in her whole life turn down a milkshake.
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So I kind of trick her a little bit
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by making her milkshakes with that boost, that supplement.
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Here we go, Denise. Cheers.
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Very good, very good.
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I love the garlic, what that did to it.
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I would probably add a little bit more salt,
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maybe just a little bit more.
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But you know, we're...
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Or I'm a salt thing in this house of one.
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Michael's the pepper man.
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And I'm the salt girls.
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Alright, so I'm waiting on my pot of water to boil
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for my rigatoni and it's gonna take about 11 or 12 minutes.
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And then we're not gonna mix this all together.
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We're gonna put our rigatoni on our plate
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and then cover it with our sauce
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and the chicken and it's gonna be real good.
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And Denise recommends serving this with a salad
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and Texas toast, I think she said which so good.
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You know that big thick bread.
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Okay, Denise, as they say,
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the proof's in the pudding
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and this looks so good.
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That rigatoni is gonna get that sauce all down
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in the middle of it and it's gonna be so good.
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You know, and I'm a girl that likes a lot of pasta
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and a little bit of salt
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and Michael's the other way around.
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So I'm going to add a little bit more parm
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And Denise, I so appreciate you sending me this recipe.
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And it's easy, it just takes time, you know,
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cooking the chicken,
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but it just looks yummy.
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I actually tasted the sauce and it's very good.
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And I agree with Denise.
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A salad and maybe not Texas toast,
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but a nice French bread
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and one of the desserts that I've shared with y'all recently
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That's all you need.
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And maybe a couple of candlesticks on the table.
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It's delicious. Thank you so much, Denise.
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Love and best dishes and happy Valentine's Day to you.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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