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- Y'all, I've got another dish to prepare,
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and Michael and our friends Wendy and Robert,
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they're all sitting at the table,
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eating baked spaghetti casserole.
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So you'll hear them in the background,
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but I think they'll be happy
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that I'm over here in the kitchen making this,
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because it's an easy, breezy crab stew.
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I can say that the last few videos I've done,
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it's been all about taste and easy.
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So this one is really good
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if you're looking for a quick crab stew.
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Now, the first thing I'm gonna do is melt my butter.
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Y'all continue to talk.
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Y'all talk amongst yourselves. (laughs)
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- [Wendy] Did you say crab?
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- And I'm gonna listen!
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(Paula laughs) - Oh, okay, great.
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- Just remember, language, Mikey, language. (laughs)
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When my butter melts, I'm gonna saute these onions
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for probably three or four minutes,
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just until they become translucent, kinda clear.
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I've put this on the smallest eye on the stove.
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I don't know why I did that.
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All right, it's melted enough
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that I can go ahead and start the process
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of cooking those onions off.
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And I've got my crab meat.
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This is a lot of crab meat.
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(clears throat) Now, if you use lump crab,
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it's gonna be so, so, so expensive.
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So, quite often, I will mix the claw and the lump together.
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Easy, easy crab stew!
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All right, it calls for two cans of soup,
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one is a cream of potato,
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and the other one is cream of celery, I believe it is.
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Yeah, cream of celery.
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Because normally, if you were making crab stew,
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you would be sauteing onions and celery together,
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So we gonna get our flavor from our soup.
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Okay, and this is cream of celery.
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I mean, this is one of those five-minute dishes.
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Unless you have caught your crabs in the crab trap.
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It would take Michael hours and hours
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to get out this much crab meat.
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I mean, hours. (taps spatula)
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And he knows how to pick some crabs, he can do it fast,
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but it's very labor-intense.
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So fun to catch 'em, but labor-intense.
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All right, so I'm gonna add a soup can of half-and-half.
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I'll finish off with a little heavy cream.
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Don't need but two tablespoons.
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All right, let's see.
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We're gonna need a little salt and pepper.
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There may be some chillun watchin' us.
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And now, I'm gonna use a can full of milk.
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Now, you want to get this hot.
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You want it to just come to a boil.
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And you'll wanna pick through your crab meat,
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and make sure that you've removed
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all the pieces of the shell.
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And an easy, easy way to do this
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is to spread it out on a cookie sheet
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and put it in the oven for just a couple of minutes,
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and if it's got any shells on it,
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they'll turn bright pink, a bright coral color.
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So you can just pluck 'em out that way. Makes it real easy.
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Our crab stew is basically ready.
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All I have to do is add the crab and the sherry.
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And you can add your sherry to your pot,
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or you can put this in a little pitcher
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and let people pour it on top of their stew.
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Whatever you wanna do, however you wanna do that.
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So, how about if I just do a little sherry,
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and leave some for those that want more?
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I've gotten a messy...
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Gotten a messy spoon.
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Okay, so, I'm gonna fold in our crab.
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And you wanna do this rather gently,
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'cause I don't like to break up my crab very much.
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(pepper mill whirs) It's amazing, the flavors
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that you get out of those two cans of soup.
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Gives it all the flavor you need.
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So you can make this dish as easy as you want to
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or as hard as you want to.
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So today, I'm picking the easy way.
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'Cause you know what?
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I wanna join Michael and my friends over there.
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I wanna hear what they're talkin' about! (laughs)
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'Cause I'm nosy that way.
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All right, 'cause I wanna get this pipin' hot,
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and I'm just funny that way.
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All right, now where's the hot sauce? There it is.
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I like my cold food cold,
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and I like my hot food hot.
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Now, I'm just gonna top this with a little Parmesan cheese.
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And I think this is ready to serve!
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Hope I got it hot enough. I think I did.
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(silverware clatters)
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So I got three guinea pigs! (laughs)
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All right, guinea pigs!
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I hope I got it hot enough.
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Pass that to Miss Wendy, please.
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Pass that to Miss Wendy.
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Looks really good. - And hot sauce.
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- [Michael] Do you have any other type of-
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- You better shut up, man,
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before I pop you! (Michael chuckles)
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You know Paula Deen is the best hot sauce in town!
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All right, who wants more sherry?
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Because I didn't put all the sherry...
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I didn't put all the sherry in,
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so you can always add more if you like it.
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- That's good. - I like that.
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- Thank you. Five-minute crab stew, Robert.
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Can't beat it, honey! (laughs)
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I hope y'all enjoy that quick and easy recipe for crab stew,
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and as always, I send you love and best dishes
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from my home to yours.
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