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Love & Best Dishes: Mama’s Roasted Acorn Squash with Brown Sugar Recipe - Jamie’s in the kitchen today with a wonderful side dish that’s perfect for winter or fall and is a must-try…Roasted Acorn Squash with Brown Sugar!
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- Hey y'all, it's Jamie Deen here today.
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I'm gonna share a delicious fall recipe with you.
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You know why I call it a fall recipe?
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Cause we're using acorn squash.
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Now, what is an acorn squash?
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I don't know.
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It's a squash.
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But it's kinda like an acorn.
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It's a fall gourd vegetable that we love.
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I've been making these for a long time.
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They're super simple.
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My mom's made them at home my whole life.
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Here's another little benefit to 'em.
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It is perfect for baby food.
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Our third son Davis is nine months old
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and Brooke makes all of his baby food.
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Which is not as hard as you might think.
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She follows this recipe,
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although we don't use any sugar in it.
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And then you just put it in a blender, whip it down.
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We put an ice cube tray, we freeze it
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and then we thaw two of those out
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and that makes up his lunch.
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So it's not only good for you,
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it's good for your babies too.
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So we got two acorn squash here today
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and we're gonna slice and deseed.
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But the first thing we're gonna do,
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is get a little sauce pan going.
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I know you like measurements here.
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So I'm gonna read.
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Make sure I do this exactly right.
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Five tablespoons of butter,
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three tablespoons of light brown sugar,
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two tablespoons of maple syrup
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and two teaspoons of fresh top charm.
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So thyme.
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Chop charm. - [Lady] Chop charm.
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(lady laughs)
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- So I'm gonna put my butter,
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in our little sauce pan that we had going here.
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I'm gonna get it.
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This won't take but just a couple of seconds.
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What we really want to do, is melt the butter
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and introduce it and get it married to our brown sugar
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and our syrup too.
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This is gonna bake in the oven for one hour.
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So this is one of those recipes
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that if you find yourself with time in the morning
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or the afternoon, you can fix this ahead of time.
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And if you'd like to whip it up later,
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you can mash it and serve it to your family.
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Or you can do it an hour before dinner time.
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We like to eat it right out of the gourd.
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That really makes it fun for the boys too.
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So let's get our butter melted down here.
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And we're gonna add our brown sugar.
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Get our maple syrup down in here.
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It's always time for thyme.
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(lady giggles)
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You like that one mom.
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- [Lady] I like it.
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- So this is it.
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Once our butter and our sugar and our syrup
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and the thyme gets all together.
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This is all the ingredients
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that we have going into our roasted acorn squash.
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Save for just a little pinch of salt and pepper
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that we're gonna do.
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Oh, this is melted down here.
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Why don't we step over to the cutting board
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and let's get our acorn squash ready.
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So we've got a knife here.
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I'm gonna cut it down a sim.
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It's like carving a pumpkin.
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So you wanna be careful.
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Use a nice long knife, crunch fingers and toes.
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We'll cut right through the center.
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It looks just like a pumpkin on the inside.
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Gonna pick a good sim here.
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Straight through
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and then I give the knife a little twist at the bottom
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to help pop the cord off the top.
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We wanna save as much of this meat as we can.
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So just be careful to get all those little strings
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that keeps the seeds connected to the inside
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of the acorn squash.
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We wanna go just deep enough
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to get all those guts out of there.
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It's a lot easier than carving a pumpkin.
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(spoon scratching the acorn)
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Just take time and make sure
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that you don't wanna eat any of those things.
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It's not as good.
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It's like leaving corn silk on a corn.
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You don't want any acorn squash silk
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to pop up when you're eating your roasted acorn squash.
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(bangs spoon on the bowl)
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(spoon scratching the acorn)
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Now, don't you for one second,
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think that this is too much trouble.
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For this little bitty acorn squash,
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I promise you,
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you are gonna love how delicious this is.
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So while I've got this open,
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I'm gonna take just a little bit of salt.
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Sprinkle it on the top.
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We love the savory and the sweet around here.
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Little bit of pepper.
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Just to kinda balance everything out.
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Just a little bit.
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I'm gonna take these four,
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I'm gonna put them on a cooking pan.
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Right there.
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This couldn't be more easy.
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Make sure you got a nice stable base.
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If you've got a rocker, if you want to,
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you can always come in and take a little bit off
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just enough to find you a flat edge.
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Being careful not to cut all the way through
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because these little vessels are gonna hold all of this.
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Look how delicious that looks y'all.
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Mmh. Mmh.
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(bangs spoon on pot)
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Just use my same spoon.
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(water splashing on spoon)
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(bangs spoon on sink)
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I'm gonna try to divide this equally
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between these as I can.
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I'm gonna start with three tablespoons.
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- [Man] It's like a savory caramel sauce.
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- Yeah. You cannot go wrong with butter and brown sugar.
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The maple syrup adds itself to this dish too.
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It goes really well with the acorn squash.
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And now you see, I've got three tablespoons in each.
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So now I'm gonna take my little pastry brush
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and I'm gonna take care of the brush the sides.
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Cause we want everything covered with this flavor.
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Most of this is gonna cook off
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or absorb into the acorn squash.
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So don't think
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that you're gonna be eating a bowl of syrup.
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By the time this is over,
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this is gonna cook down and it is gonna be delicious.
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Mmh. Perfect.
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I love it when a recipe looks good before you even cook it
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and this looks delicious.
6:58
I got a oven y'all preheated at 400 degrees.
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- [Mom] I wanna see.
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- This is it Mom.
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Look how pretty this is.
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You can actually open the oven for me, please.
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- Oh my gosh!
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That looks delicious Jamie.
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Mama used to make those and she put brown sugar butter
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and little pineapple tidbits in it.
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- Yeah, that's a good idea too.
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- And we'd eat it right out of the shell
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like you's talking about the children.
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So I'm hungry.
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- So that's it.
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I'm gonna feed her acorn squash in one hour.
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(Mom cheers and claps)
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Hey, I'll let you in on a little secret.
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Whenever we get the chance to come over here,
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it's kinda hard to coordinate all of us together
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and I'm watching the clock.
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Cause I gotta pick up my kids from school today
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because my wife's got somebody coming in the house.
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Cause they gotta have something done.
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Y'all know how that is.
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I've done four or five recipes today,
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but I'm here to tell you,
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this is the end of the acorn squash recipe.
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It's ready.
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It's been in the oven for an hour.
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Let's have a gander. Shall we?
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- [Man] Whoo. Ah.
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- Now y'all be careful.
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Cause this is hot.
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Hard.
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Now you see, this has retained
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a little bit of that liquid that we had in there.
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So before I serve this to my family,
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this is a little tasting cup.
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This flavor has been sitting in there
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and it's just been soaked up by this acorn squash.
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That's a little too much for me to serve.
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I'm gonna tip it over.
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I'm gonna leave the inside moist.
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But I don't want it quite so full.
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I'm gonna give it a little tip.
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Y'all be careful cause that's hot.
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It was been in the oven for an hour.
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Look at that.
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- [Mom] Owen, you need to come taste this.
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- Now you might not wanna eat two.
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A whole acorn squash at one time.
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But for a side dish,
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of anything that you're doing at your house,
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most especially this time of year in the fall or the winter
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or the late winter, this is a delicious compliment
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to anything that you're cooking.
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A nice slice of pork.
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See that, you just eat it right out of that little cup.
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- [Mom] How you do it?
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- Bring it down in there.
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Like anybody has ever had to tell you how
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to get food out of something. (mom laughing)
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Eat the one that I've drained the syrup out of already.
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- Well, I was gonna get my straw.
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I kinda like the looks of these.
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- [Jamie] Mmh.
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- [Mom] And just pull it apart
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and deep down in that wonderful sweet soup.
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- Oh my gosh!
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Y'all, I'm not kidding you.
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The brown sugar and the butter
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and the syrup and the earthiness of this gourd vegetable--
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- Have you ever thought how different you and I are?
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- Everybody's different mom.
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Everybody's kind of the same
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but there's a million different things
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with every person that makes us all different.
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That's what I tell my kids.
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Everybody's kind of the same,
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but everybody's completely different.
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(Mom giggles)
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- [Lady] That's what makes the world go round.
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- That's what makes the world go around.
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I say it every day.
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- Mmh.
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I see what I like.
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I like all that juice.
10:03
You certainly don't need it.
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This is really delicious and real easy--
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- I know cause I'm sweet enough. Right?
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(lady giggles)
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Is that right? - [Lady] Of course.
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- I'm gonna hold my tongue so it helps on the editing,
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but sure you're sweet enough.
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That's it y'all.
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Really delicious acorn squash.
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- It's hot--
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- Give it a try. Let us know what you think.
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- Well, I'm trying.
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I'm trying--
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- Not the best dishes?
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- I gotta get my kids from school. Eat.
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- Get your own tagline.
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- Y'all do good things and love one another.
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Thanks y'all
10:31
- You gotta to push.
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We're not going anywhere till I taste this.
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- Well, take your time.
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- Get your own tagline.
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- I just dropped it.
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- What you drop?
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- I'm gonna save everybody on the editing.
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You're right mom.
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I'll get my own tagline. What do you think about the squash?
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(Mom laughing)
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I'm always worried.
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Cause we give each other such a hard time.
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I want y'all to know,
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I love my mama more than anything.
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- Oh.
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- She's so sweet and has achieved more in her life
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than most people ever would dream to do.
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- Mmh.
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Oh son, come here. Mmh.
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- It's good y'all.
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