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Southern Squash Casserole Recipe - The South loves a casserole side dish—especially a creamy squash casserole with Ritz crackers! This summer squash casserole with cheese is one of Paula's best Southern side dishes.
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- Hey y'all, hey y'all.
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You know the vegetables they're coming in,
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the good vegetables are still coming in.
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And I'm gonna share with y'all the recipe
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that everybody has always loved
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that we made at the Lady & Sons.
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People loved it.
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And it's very easy, very simple.
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You can use any kind of squash.
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I've been going to Davis Produce
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and getting me the pattypan squash, that's so good.
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So you can just mix it up.
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You can even add some zucchini.
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All we want right now is like eight cups of squash,
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and the recipe may tell you to put it in water,
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but you know, there is so much water
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in these vegetables,
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so I'm just gonna add a little butter
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and it's gonna make its own water.
0:55
And the reason I don't like to add water
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is because I don't want it to make my casserole soupy.
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So I wanna make sure I drain it good.
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So I'm just gonna keep stirring
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and let the natural water come out of the squash
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and then I will still drain it.
1:15
All right, so I hear our squash
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starting to respond to the heat
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that we've got it on.
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Now in this pan and don't ask me why, because I don't know.
1:33
But I always preferred my onion
1:36
that I put in my squash casserole and my broccoli casserole.
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I always like to cook those onions in butter first.
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To me, it tastes better in the casserole
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and I don't know why, but that's my opinion.
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So you do it any way you want to.
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And I like to do the onion separate from the squash.
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No interference.
2:07
My precious little Kari was here.
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She came and spent almost a week with me on the 4th of July.
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And she brought me this little duster.
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She's so sweet, but she can be so mean sometimes.
2:23
But this visit, she was so sweet,
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she only snapped at me like three or two times.
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And that's just when she gets hungry.
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From the time that child was a baby,
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you had to feed her on time
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or she would get very
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hangry, yes, wanting her food.
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And every Friday night she would spend the night with us
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and she would sleep in the bed with us
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in between me and her Granddaddy Deen, well, her uncle,
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Uncle Jimmy, she called him.
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I can't remember.
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But anyway, and as soon as we'd pick her up, she said,
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I want catfish tonight.
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We go find catfish.
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Those are wonderful memories.
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All right, y'all, I'm gonna put the lid on that now
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and kind of let it do its magic.
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And our onions are starting to stew.
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So from here on, it's so easy, you know, in fact,
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if you wanted to go ahead and prep your onions,
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prep your squash, get it cooked, put it in the refrigerator,
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and it will take you all of three minutes
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to put this together if you've got your prep done on it.
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And if you go into somebody's house
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and ask to bring a dish, this would be a hit, y'all.
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It would be a hit.
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So we've got our sour cream we're gonna add to it.
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Our house seasoning, our cheese,
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and then we're gonna top it with our buttery crackers
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that I'm gonna toss in a sauce pan with a little butter.
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'Cause you know it's hard to dot and get it all on it.
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No, you know what I think I'm gonna do right now, Theresa?
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I think I'm just gonna go ahead and do it
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and not think about it.
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I'm gonna just use my,
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my butter that's already been clarified,
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and that way I won't have to mess up a pan.
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Just stir that up.
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And that's the way you get all your crumbs buttered,
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just like that.
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I told you I was gonna put the lid on this
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and let it do its magic.
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And its magic is putting steam,
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which turns to water.
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And see, I didn't use one drop of water in this squash
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and it's got plenty of liquid.
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So I like my squash pretty done.
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So depending on your
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preference, I mean, it would work at this state right now.
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But like I said, I just like my squash
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a little bit more done.
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I also wanna share with y'all a casserole
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that is incredibly delicious.
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And it's from my friend in Albany.
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Her name is Q,
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and she's got a shop.
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I know she was thinking about moving downtown,
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so I can't tell you where Q's operation is right now,
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but she was one of the first, well, she was the first
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to put these machines where people could walk up to 'em
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and get 'em a slice of cake or a slice of pie.
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And I just thought that was genius.
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I really admire and respect her.
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She's got quite a story.
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And what is the name of her little book?
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It was about being bad, but you had to, something like that.
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But she's got one hell of a story.
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- [Theresa] And her squash casserole amazing.
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- Her squash is amazing,
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and her squash casserole recipe is in this book.
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And she was making a squash casserole one day.
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And she said she didn't have all the ingredients,
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but a regular one.
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So she did good.
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It's so good.
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And she cooks her squash in water where I don't,
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I mean, mine's cooking in water now
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because the steam has produced the moisture.
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So I think this is gonna be good.
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And I do like my squash sliced real thin.
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'Cause the thicker it is,
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the longer it's gonna take to cook.
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So I've got my,
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I've got my colander over here for me to pour this in.
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And I will try to mash as much of the water out of it
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as I can get.
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All right, it's looking good.
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And now I'm gonna add my onions.
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And the onions really, really do
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make a big difference in this recipe.
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But I think I told y'all in another video, you know,
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if your family just refuses to eat onions,
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but you need that flavor, you can use onion powder
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or I like the dehydrated onion bits
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'cause I used that for years.
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And my children's daddy never figured it out
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that he was eating dehydrated onions,
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whether he wanted them or not.
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So there's a couple ways to get around it.
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All right, so I'm gonna add my cheese to the squash
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so it can melt
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while it's all real hot.
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I am gonna add my house seasoning,
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which is salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder.
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So we might wanna taste it
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and maybe add a little bit more salt.
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And now the sour cream.
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So see how easy this is?
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And I'm sure you probably got all those ingredients
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in your refrigerator.
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Well, maybe except for the squash.
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Okay, so you know, sour cream, once you add
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that sour cream, to me, sour cream just screams for salt.
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So like I said, I'm gonna give it a little taste
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and we going to see if it's screaming at me.
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I could actually eat this squash casserole
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just like this without even baking it.
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Maybe just a little
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and a little more pepper.
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You can always add salt and pepper at the table.
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See now eight cups of squash didn't make that much.
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I was trying to decide which size casserole dish
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I wanted to put it in so I got a larger and the smaller.
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But I definitely am gonna use the smaller.
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Plop, plop, fizz, fizz.
10:58
Where'd I put my spatula?
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Well, I didn't have one I don't guess.
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I thought I had a spatula out, but I got plenty.
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I'll get another one.
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I wanna get all that goodness
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out of the bottom of that pan.
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These pans are getting harder and harder.
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Well this is my line, so I can hold it pretty good,
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but I couldn't no more do this with a cast iron pan,
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you know, or some of those heavy aluminum ones.
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Okay, so this is hot.
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It's not gonna take long in the oven at all
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because we did
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mix it up very quickly while it was hot,
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so I'm just gonna top it with these butter crumbs
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and oh my goodness, to me,
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I just love the crunch
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and look, making it in that smaller casserole dish.
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Look, we're gonna have a thick layer of crunchy crunch.
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Love it.
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So we're gonna put it in the oven, 350,
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maybe for 20 minutes, just until it's hot and bubbly.
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So our squash casserole is ready, y'all.
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And it looks delicious.
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And just to prove that it is, look at this dish I got me.
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Whoa.
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And I love my casseroles like deep.
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I don't like a little thin layer, you know?
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I like 'em deep.
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So I'm glad that we chose the smaller,
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the smaller dish to cook it in.
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'cause it made it nice and thick.
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And it's gonna be so hot.
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People ask me Paula, why do you torture yourself
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trying to eat that stuff right outta the oven?
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It's so hot.
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And I know your mouth is on fire.
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Yeah.
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Mm.
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You will love it.
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I guarantee it.
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I can't wait for you to taste it Therese,
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look at some of those breadcrumbs right there I done lost.
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Never met a breadcrumb I didn't like either y'all.
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