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- Hey everybody, it's Bobby,
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and I'm here on my mom's channel.
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And today, I'm gonna do for you, and with you,
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a nutty orange chicken salad.
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Chicken salad is one of my favorite things.
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It's something that we did a lot of
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back in our bag lady days when we started our business.
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My mom always made the best chicken salad,
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and there are many variations of it.
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And this is a really good one.
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A nutty orange chicken salad.
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So we're gonna use mandarin oranges.
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We'll have some scallions, some celery,
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some mayonnaise, some walnuts,
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of course, some chicken,
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and some hard boiled eggs, a little lemon juice,
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and salt and pepper too, for flavor.
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So you see, it's pretty standard stuff.
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The mandarin orange is what's really gonna make it
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sort of stand out, and that's a nice flavor
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So I was just prepping my boiled eggs here,
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and I'm just gonna give them a rough cut
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'cause I'm gonna throw 'em in there and chop 'em up anyway.
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One of my favorite things, when I was growing up,
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was my mom's cold salads.
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She would do egg salad,
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she would do tuna salad, chicken salad,
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just anything under the sun that you can imagine.
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And they were all always so, so great.
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And this is sort of a take
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on my own flavors here.
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So I'm taking something that's sort of
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like my momma's chicken salad.
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It's definitely the celery my mom would use as a filler.
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And I'm sort of gonna add my own twist to it.
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I like lots of fruits and vegetables,
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and one of my favorites are scallions and celery.
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One of my favorite vegetables is a mandarin orange.
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Whatever your favorite flavor is.
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I know what mine is and I know what my mom's is,
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but mayonnaise is one of those things we all have.
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Well, first of all, you either love it,
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or you do not love it.
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And we all have our favorites.
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And our mandarin oranges.
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Look how beautiful they are.
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And I'll just toss them in kind of rough cut, rustic.
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Little bit of kosher salt.
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All right, this is literally just a stand-and-stir recipe.
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So we'll just, and I'm gonna use a
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I'm gonna use sort of a folding stir here.
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'Cause you don't wanna mash everything up
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and tear it all up with your spatula
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or with whatever you're using.
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I want those mandarin oranges to stay intact.
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So I'm just gonna fold everything together, kind of gently.
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It looks real, real, pretty.
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I love the color of the orange in there.
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You know, what would be nice in here too?
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I don't have any here, but what would be nice in here too
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would be some raisins.
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It might be a little different, little bit good.
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I found myself lately, ate more and more raisins.
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I think they're great.
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I wasn't a big raisin fan when I was growing up as a kid,
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but I have come to love it 'cause I eat it in my oatmeal
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And now, kind of a new thing,
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I love to snack on cashews.
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I just like any kind of like a hardy nut like that
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like walnuts or cashews or pistachios.
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I like all that stuff so much.
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And I've gotten into the habit of buying a big container
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of cashews and then just dumping a bunch
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of raisins in it and shaking it up
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and just having sort of my own little version
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of a trail mix, but just cashews and raisins.
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And oh boy, I just find myself
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with my hand in that jar all day,
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every day, kind of in between my meals.
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I get now my children are coming up to me saying,
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"Daddy you let me stick my hand in the cashew jar."
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But you gotta be careful with nuts with small children.
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Those of you that have kids and know that.
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Big choke hazards, so chop up the
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chop up the cashews when the kids want some.
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All right now, just a big spoonful
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right on top of our lettuce.
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That is a beautiful butter lettuce.
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And you can say how pretty that is, and it's crisp,
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and it's got that snap to it, and it's wet from washing it.
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And we'll just put some chicken salad right on top of that.
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And this is gonna make a beautiful,
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Look how pretty that is.
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Chicken salad for two.
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So I hope that you enjoy this.
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Thanks for tuning in to my mom's channel
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and getting me instead.
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Mmhmm, ooh, that's great.
