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- Today I'm fixing a recipe
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that my daughter-in-law Brooke makes
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A lot.
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And
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Especially at Christmas time,
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I guess 'cause it's the color of Christmas,
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but it's hot.
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It's hot here in Savannah, sweats dripping
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off my hair right now and so I want cool things to eat.
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And this is definitely a cool thing.
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It's Brooke's strawberry pretzel salad.
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And the first thing we're gonna do is make our crust
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using crushed pretzels, sugar
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and a stick and a half of melted butter.
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And that's going to get baked
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off at 400 degrees for about seven minutes.
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Our first step is to melt a stick
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and a half of butter, not margarine, but butter.
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Our butter is melted now to our melted butter.
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I'm going to add three tablespoons of sugar
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(clattering)
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and now I'm gonna stir in my crushed pretzels.
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So you get, we're going to have a sweet
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and savory, sweet and salty.
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I do love, love, love that.
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(bowl clatters)
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You give me a candy bar with some salt
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in it and some sweet and I am a happy, happy girl.
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All right. Now this is the crust for our salad.
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And we're going to bake this
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off about seven, seven minutes not long.
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On like 400 degrees.
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Okay.
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- [Mikey] Wow. That's just an amazing smell.
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- I could live off of that.
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- [Paula] I know! Butter and pretzels.
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- [Theresa] With sugar.
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- [Paula] With sugar, yes.
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(clears throat)
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We're just going to use my little measuring cup to
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try to get it mashed down pretty even as, even as I can.
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All right, now. I'm going in with a utensil.
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That's the best of all.
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And that's these grubby little hands.
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Okay.
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Let me check my notes and yes, we're going to bake this
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for seven minutes.
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And you're gonna need to allow your crust
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to cool before you start putting your layers on it.
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And we have let this crust get nice and cool.
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And you got the sweet and the salty here.
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It's gonna be so good.
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I've got fresh whipped cream.
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Now I think Brooke uses a frozen,
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green product,
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but you know, anytime it calls for that product
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I always use freshed whipped cream.
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Freshed?
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Freshed-ist whipped cream?
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(laughs)
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and I sweeten it and it, to me, is just good.
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So for this next layer, I'm going to put
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in eight ounces of cream cheese.
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Come on, fall over
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and
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I'm going to mix them with sugar.
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And I think that was like three-fourths of a cup of sugar.
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Oh, we're gonna scoot this around.
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(electrical whirring)
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(bowl rattles)
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I got that on low speed to start with
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Now, Brooke uses strawberries to
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make this particular salad, but you know, I don't
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see why you couldn't do it with other fruits
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like blueberry.
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I know I used to make a blueberry pie that had
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this same kind of crust and the cream cheese
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and then fresh blueberries.
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So, you know, whatever, whatever is in season.
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I think the blueberries would be wonderful.
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But since we're coming up on the Fourth of July,
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I may dot this with some blueberries
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'cause we gon' have our our red, our white,
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and we ain't got no blue right now.
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So we may find something,
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to put a little blue in the picture.
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Okay. This is nice and creamy.
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Now we're gonna fold in our fresh whipped cream.
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And we don't want to do this part
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with a mixer because we don't want it to break
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down or over-whip our whipping cream.
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So, you know the drill for folding:
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over, under, and back again.
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Takes a few minutes,
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but this is really the best technique.
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Okay. Oh my gosh.
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That looks so good.
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I'm starving.
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Mm.
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All right. We're bout there ya'll.
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Now I think it's safe to
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give a little stir.
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Make sure it's all mixed up.
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(bowls clatter)
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Oops.
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All right, now we're going to spread this layer evenly
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over our first layer.
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Getting every last drop, as I'm known to do.
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I can't wait to get back into my kitchen ya'll
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where I've got lots and lots of room.
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This kitchen has been wonderful.
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I'm so thankful that Bobby was gracious enough to let Mikey
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and I come live in their guest house
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But, um,
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I am looking forward to getting a little bigger
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kitchen back.
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You know, this is called a salad y'all
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but I think it just as easily can be a dessert
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especially during the summertime.
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Okay. That's it.
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Okay, now we're going to move on to our next layer.
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- [Theresa] I'm gonna put that in the refrigerator
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because it needs to chill.
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- Okay. I think so too.
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So, we have two packages of strawberry jello.
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So is this bowl Theresa?
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- Yes. Ma'am I literally just turned it off.
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- Okay. So we are going to
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dissolve our jello,
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and allow it to cool, just slightly, ya'll.
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- [Theresa] Does that mean Paula?
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- What?
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- [Theresa] When it says just slightly?
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- (laughs) Just slightly.
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- [Theresa] I mean, does that mean, 5 minutes, 20 minutes?
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- It doesn't mean cold.
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It doesn't mean cold.
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It just means give it a few minutes.
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Maybe 15 minutes.
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- [Theresa] Okay.
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- [Paula] You know, to just cool off a little bit.
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(dog barking)
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What is it?
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- [Theresa] Nobody's here to visit you.
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- Okay. Now this one, this particular strawberry salad where
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you send pineapple, we gon' put some
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pineapple in it, as well.
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You don't have to, but we are.
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We're going to use one eight ounce can of crushed pineapple.
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And we're going to add it to the cooled gelatin
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along with our strawberries.
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So that's it, 15 minutes, and I think that will do it.
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We just don't want to put our beautiful strawberries
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into scalding hot boiling water because it will break 'em
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down and we don't want our strawberries broke down.
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So there we go.
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Now, if you want to, you could always sit this
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in the refrigerator and encourage it to cool
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a little bit quicker,
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- [Theresa] Which is what we're gonna do.
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- which is what we gon' do, okay?
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Okay, y'all, I put that gelatin
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in the refrigerator to help it cool alone,
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and we gave it like 15 minutes.
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So that's slightly, slightly cooled.
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Now to that - I'm going to do it this way, I think.
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Let's do it this way.
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(grunts)
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- I don't want any strength left in my hands.
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- [Theresa] You want me to come open it?
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- [Paula] Well, if you can.
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It's amazing how
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how much strength as you get older
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that you lose in your hands
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Aunt Peggy was with us on vacation last week
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and she is the same way, said it's frustrating that
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you lose that strength.
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- [Theresa] What are those things that you can do to
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- Yeah. Yeah.
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Those rubber things.
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- [Theresa] Yeah, whatever they are.
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I just need to do the hand exercises
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and get my strength back.
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All right.
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So we've got our strawberries, and to that
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I'm going to add our pineapple and I'm not draining it.
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Look at the beautiful colors on it.
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It's so pretty.
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All right.
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Now I'm just going to pour our gelatin
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Our slightly cooled gelatin.
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And we're going to stir these together.
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(sloshing)
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My momma used to make strawberry jello
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and put sliced bananas in it.
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Oh, I loved it.
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- [Theresa] We had every kind of jello known to man.
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- [Paula] Did you?
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- That was a staple. It seems like.
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(Paula laughs)
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How about you, Eddie, did your mom do jello?
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- [Eddie] Oh yeah.
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- [Paula] It's a geriatric.
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My children call it an geriatric side dish.
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- Do they really?
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- That's what my boys say because the old ladies
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they met, they like it.
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(Theresa laughs)
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All right.
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So I'm just gonna, I'm using a ladle.
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So I'll have a little bit more control over where this goes.
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And my mother also used to make, and it's
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in my first cookbook, I believe it is,
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a lemon-lime, gelatin salad.
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That was so good, it had
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a little bit of horseradish in it, and mayonnaise.
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And it was just delicious.
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- So just like any jello, now
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this is gonna to have to sit, ya'll.
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and we're going to have to wait a little bit
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before I can dig into it.
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We may have to wait more than a little bit.
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You might have to wait till tomorrow.
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I don't know.
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But int' that beautiful?
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Just beautiful.
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And Theresa.
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I know you want the honors of puttin' it where you want it.
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- [Theresa] Of course I do.
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- Let me make sure that it's spread
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- [Theresa] I just have a spot at this point.
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- I figured you did
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So strawberry,
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(clanking)
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gea- ge- geriatric,
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(laughs)
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strawberry gelatin salad,
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well, I like it so
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those boys can keep teasing me cause I'm- I just like it.
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Well, our beautiful strawberry salad is firmed up nicely.
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(crunching)
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(clattering)
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Oh my gosh.
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That pretzel crust.
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When you bake it off, it get so nice and firm in there.
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Mmm.
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Mmm, Mmm.
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This really could maybe stand a little bit longer,
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in the refrigerator, but
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All right, now let's see how bad I'm gonna mess
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this first piece up.
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(clattering)
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Once you get that first piece out, it does cut,
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nice for y'all.
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I promise,
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like I said, this is not quite firm enough,
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but,
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I do want to show y'all what this looks like
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now,
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I want to show y'all what it tastes like.
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It's so good.
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(clears throat)
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See that pretzel crust?
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I don't know if you can hear that.
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It's so crunchy and sweet and salty.
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Mm.
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It's so delicious.
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It's hard to believe that,
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I'm eatin' a salad.
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- I just had a salad for lunch.
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(laughs)
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Did I forget to say it didn't have
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about a cup a sugar in it?
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(laughs)
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Hmm. Hmm.
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So delicious ya'll.
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- If you never fixed it before,
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you must, you must try it.
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And remember, you're going to change up your fruit
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with blueberries or raspberries
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or whatever your favorite berry is.
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It'd be delicious with blueberries.
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Mm.
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I took too big a bite ya'll, I'm sorry.
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