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- Hey, everybody, it's Bobby here filling in for my mom.
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And I have got a wonderful, delicious, fresh recipe for you.
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You know, Mother's Day is right around the corner,
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and we're gonna do a week's worth of Mother's Day recipes.
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And today I've got one that takes me back to my childhood,
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because my mom used to do something like this,
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my aunt Peggy used to do something like this.
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And virtually every southern table has got a version
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of this right in the midst
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of all of that abundant deliciousness
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that we all enjoyed when we growing up.
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So it's a really simple,
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I would call it like a summer salad,
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because what it's made up of is,
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cucumbers, Vidalia onion, and a fresh vine-ripe tomato,
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a little vinegar, salt and pepper, and some dill.
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Super simple, as a lot of the best recipes are.
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So what we're gonna do is,
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throw a cucumber, and vinegar.
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- [Camera Person] Onions?
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- I'm sorry, cucumber and onion,
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I was getting ahead of myself,
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'cause we're also gonna add vinegar to it.
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And then I'm just going to slice up my tomato,
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and sort of fold it all in together.
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This is a beautiful tomato.
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I love this time of year for lots of reasons,
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but fresh fruits and vegetables
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are just something to really get excited about.
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And you could cut your tomatoes however you'd like.
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You could cut 'em into a rough cut like this,
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or you could leave them in, you know wedges,
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I think I'll cut 'em in half.
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Mother's Day, I can't believe another year.
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It seems like it was just Christmas.
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Where does the time go, especially after you have kids?
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Now let's talk about the vinegar,
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because I'm sure some of you noticed
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that that was a part, a very small amount of vinegar,
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Now, when my mom made this, Aunt Peggy too,
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or my grandma Paula, for that matter,
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these things were swimming in vinegar.
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I mean, it was a virtual pool of vinegar,
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and probably a little olive oil.
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So you could play with it and do that if you'd like.
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This recipe comes from, "Y'all Come Eat,"
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which was a book that my brother Jamie and I did together.
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Add a pinch of salt here.
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We'll sort of fold this together.
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So it's not much vinegar,
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but a little bit of vinegar can go a long way.
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Uh uh, back in there tomato.
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- [Camera Person] Can we have more vinegar,
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if you'd like to add some?
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But I mean, you can see,
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even that small amount of vinegar,
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has coated these fresh fruits and vegetables.
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And there's even a little bit pooled down on the bottom
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You can see the vinegar down in there.
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So it's not as if it's not enough.
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It's just not that much, you know,
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it's not it's not gonna be loaded.
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Now to our bowl, it's got tomato, onion, vinegar,
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little salt and pepper.
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I'm gonna add some fresh dill, which is so wonderful.
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I recently bought one of those
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little countertop herb gardens.
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We've got a great garden in the back of our house,
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and we really enjoy it.
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But during the wintertime, you know,
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sometimes you want some fresh herbs,
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that you just can't grow outside.
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So I've got one of these, it's about this big,
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And golly, you wouldn't believe the fresh herbs
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that are growing right in my kitchen.
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Got basil, Thai basil, Italian parsley, mint,
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You know, I love my little countertop herb garden.
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If you've ever seen one, they really do work.
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All right, so look at this beautiful salad.
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And I'm just gonna fold it together,
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so as not to tear everything up.
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And voila, this took about five minutes.
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It's a beautiful, fresh summer salad for your kitchen table.
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- Hey y'all, it's Paula Dean.
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