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- It's Labor Day, y'all.
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The last hoorah before the snow comes, right? (laughs)
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Savannah, we ain't gonna see no snow, but if we're lucky
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maybe it'll get down to like 60 degrees.
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All right, I've got a question for y'all.
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Everybody takes a day off on Labor Day.
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Why do they call it Labor Day if we're not working?
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- [Theresa] I think it's to celebrate working.
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Is that what you think too, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] It's a break, a break from work.
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- It's a break from work.
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- [Theresa] You're supposed to go and enjoy yourself
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- Yes, and that's why I'm here today is to do a recipe
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that will make your Labor Day go so easy.
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It's a delicious recipe.
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It sounds like a lot of ingredients, but it's not really.
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I have whole Greek yogurt, lemon zest, lemon juice,
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So that's gonna be the dressing part to our pasta salad.
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So let's just start dumping, y'all,
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because Theresa has made this so easy for us.
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She has just gotten everything together.
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In goes our lemon zest,
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every piece of that lemon zest,
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along with our lemon juice and our olive oil.
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So we'll just whisk this together
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and then we're gonna start adding our seasonings.
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You know, for those of you that don't like yogurt,
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you know, you can substitute mayonnaise.
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- [Theresa] Sour cream.
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Okay, I'm gonna need,
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I think a teaspoon of fresh thyme.
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And remember, fresh versus dried,
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takes more fresh than your dried does.
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In other words, your dried herbs
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are more potent than the fresh.
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All right, so I'm gonna need about a teaspoon of fresh dill.
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And this is such a wonderful flavor.
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I love dill in salads, any kind of salad,
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a protein salad or just a green salad.
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That looks like about a teaspoon.
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All right, now we're gonna add about a teaspoon of sugar,
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a little salt, a little ground pepper.
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See how easy that is, y'all?
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- [Theresa] Did you add the parsley?
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- Not yet, but thank you.
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- [Theresa] I didn't prep that for you.
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I noticed that I had made it look
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kind of like an arrangement.
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- No, (laughs) it is pretty, but yeah, you had told me
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that you had stuck the parsley up here,
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and, you know, this is really mainly for color, you know.
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Parsley definitely has a flavor.
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A lot of people say it doesn't, but it really does,
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and you can almost smell what it tastes like
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before you ever put it in your mouth.
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But it's one of those herbs
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that we love to color up our dishes.
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And I'm using a flat leaf.
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Sometimes I'll use flat leaf, sometimes I'll use curly.
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And we needed a teaspoon of that, so that gets that.
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And now for our green onions.
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And we've got our pasta already cooked off.
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And we're gonna need two cups of arugula.
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It's all right, kind of got
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a little hot flavor to it, doesn't it?
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Yeah, I just love it.
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I'm gonna kind of push that down a little bit.
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And we've got some beautiful fresh carrots
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that have been ribboned
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and we've got some cherry tomatoes,
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a cup of cherry tomatoes that's been been cut in half.
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And we've got our penne pasta.
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I may not use all of that.
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Where'd I put my spatula? (laughs)
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Right there. (laughs)
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Look how pretty this is gonna be to put
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on a picnic table or even an inside dining table.
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This is just pretty and delicious.
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All right, so I'm just gonna put
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what I think is a appropriate amount
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of carrots to the pasta.
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You can put more, you can put less.
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All right, now for the arugula.
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So this is not gonna be drowned in a dressing.
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So if you like your pasta salad drowned,
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you can always double your dressing ingredients.
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This is beautiful just like this.
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Put that in a pretty clean glass bowl
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and take it to the table and let your family enjoy.
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Because that's what I think I'm fixing to do.
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Look how pretty that is.
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And y'all, I finally moved my utensils into a box over here,
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because you know, I said every time I wanted to get a fork
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somebody was standing there at the sink washing dishes.
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So now I don't have to worry about the drawer being blocked.
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Don't ever put a sink in a corner.
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I learned that. (laughs)
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The lemon flavor is pungent.
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Can I fix y'all a bowl?
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- [Theresa] Let sit for just a little bit.
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So hopefully this will help y'all
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in a small way towards making it through Labor Day,
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because I know what it's like to feed our
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or have our whole family here,
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because there's what, 20 of us?
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22, something like that.
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And that's just like the immediate family.
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So anytime you can produce something delicious
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and not labor intense,
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that will help us celebrate Labor Day in a true fashion.
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Happy Labor Day, y'all.
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Hey y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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