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Hey, y'all, I'm Jamie Dean,
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I'm back here in Mama's kitchen.
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It's summertime, and I've got a delicious,
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fresh, easy recipe for y'all today.
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Poppy seed strawberry chicken salad.
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I made chicken salad,
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literally, of chicken salad
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in the last 30 years.
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Chicken salad was one of the first things that we did.
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I've always made chicken salad.
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I love how many different variations of it, it is.
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I've been making a lot of potato salad lately.
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Potato salad, (kiss squeak),
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real quick bonus recipe for you,
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I like to use the tricolor potatoes,
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season 'em really well,
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just smash 'em in a bowl.
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and some mayonnaise in it.
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Roasted potato salad, delicious.
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I've done that twice just this week for the house.
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But I'm sorry, today, we're doing chicken salad.
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So if you want to go to your local market,
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and find a rotisserie chicken,
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that is the best chicken to use for any kind
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of chicken salad that you're doing.
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It takes all the work out of it for you.
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It's already seasoned.
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You can pull it apart, chop it up,
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throw it right into a bowl.
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do y'all know that a whole fryer
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is $12 at the store right now?
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- [Off Camera] It's crazy.
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- A whole chicken is $12 at the store, which is really high.
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So if you wanna get yourself a whole chicken,
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you can boil it down yourself.
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A rotisserie chicken may be cheaper
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than a raw fryer right now.
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But put your onions, your carrots, your celery,
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boil your chicken down, season the water,
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and then you can pick it, and use that.
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This is repurposed chicken that has been laying around here.
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So it's not rotisserie,
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and it's not boiled, but this is some chicken breasts
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that Groover cooked the other day,
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and so I'm just gonna use those.
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It's a great way to repurpose any chicken
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that you might have around your house.
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because this is a pretty simple recipe.
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It's not gonna take but two seconds,
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y'all know I like to do the easy ones.
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this is what Jack got Mom,
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for I don't know what is it?
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- [Off Camera] She just wanted it.
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- She just wanted it,
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and so Jack bought it for her.
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So, you know, instead of coming through here,
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and pulling this off,
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we've got some fresh tarragon that we're gonna use,
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you just pick a hole,
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and then you pull this through there,
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and look, isn't, that's really a neat idea,
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- [Off Camera] It's a pain.
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And look that really does a good job with this tarragon.
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I love finding all these different kind of tools
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around Mom's house when I come.
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Boy that was a big one.
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Gotta do this one twice,
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a little bit smaller hole.
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It's a pretty neat trick right here.
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No wonder Mom wanted it.
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So we've got our fresh tarragon,
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and look at this other tool I found at Mama's house.
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It's a lot of scissors on there.
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I'm gonna be careful.
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I'm gonna see if I can chop these up with this.
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I've got some scissors similar to this,
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and it's rounded on the edge,
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so when I'm gonna do chopped salads,
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you just stick that tool down in the bowl,
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and one edge is round,
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so you just chomp, chomp, chomp.
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It's a easy way to chop a salad.
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There's some easy tips in this recipe today included.
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Plus I got my main man, Henry,
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is still sitting here waiting patiently
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on his chicken salad.
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- Say it, it's already looking good.
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So we've got our fresh tarragon here,
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and I've chopped it up.
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If you don't have some,
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these look really super dangerous,
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(scissors banging loudly)
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you probably don't have those at home.
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So we've got our chicken,
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and now we're gonna dress,
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what we're gonna use for our chicken salad seasoning.
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So in this, we're gonna do,
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pinch of salt, pinch of pepper.
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I'm gonna put some almonds in here,
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give it a little bit of texture, and crunch.
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Plus there's that little hint of almond flavor.
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We're gonna add our poppy seeds,
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which are just beautiful,
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and goes so well with our strawberries.
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The last part of our dressing here is a little bit
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And we're gonna squirt,
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some fresh lemon juice on here.
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You'd be amazed at the power
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of half a lemon's juice in any of your salads
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I've said for years, and years,
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it really, it tastes like sunshine.
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especially if we're doing 'em in salads.
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See how pretty that is?
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So we've got our dressing in here,
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and I'm gonna dress this,
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before I add my strawberries
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cause I really don't want to tear my strawberries up.
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Sprinkle my tarragon on,
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and you can always add,
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but you can never take away.
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So I'm gonna start with a little bit of our dressing.
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Now depending on how you like your chicken salads,
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it's about perfect for me.
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It's got enough where it's wet salad,
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but it's not too much,
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and I don't want it too dry.
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Finally, we're gonna stir in the star of the show.
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This is our strawberries,
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that we've cut, quartered,
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And now we're just gonna
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twist these strawberries up in here,
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(plastic bowl clinking)
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I'm gonna repurpose this bowl for our chicken salad.
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What do you think Hen,
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- I've been sitting here talking to Henry
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when we were getting ready to go,
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and I didn't have any silverware,
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I don't have a pretty bowl,
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I don't have anything,
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but I got some good food.
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And I got a boy that's ready to eat it.
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Strawberry poppy seed chicken, y'all?
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You wanna stand right here with me?
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You can, that's your bowl,
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(wooden spoon banging)
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- (chewing) That's good.
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- Are you surprised because the strawberry,
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and the chicken are together?
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- Do you taste that tarragon,
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do you know what that flavor is?
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Or is it just a different flavor for you?
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- Just a different flavor.
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- Mm hmm, it's kind of minty.
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Mm, that's good isn't it?
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- The strawberry, god,
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makes it taste so good.
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You'll turn your traditional chicken salad,
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into a summer chicken salad.
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Y'all enjoy your summer.
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and make some chicken salad for 'em today.
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We'll see y'all around the kitchen.
