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- Hey, guys, welcome back,
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once again, it's Joseph,
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I am filling in for Ms. Paula
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while she's taking some time away with her grandkids,
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and such an honor to be here with you guys again.
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Today, we're still sticking with the summer theme
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and we are going to be making a delicious,
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simple smashed date dish,
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it's a dessert that you can enjoy for the summer.
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You know, we're all about calories,
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and wanting to look good in the summer,
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it might be a little late now
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to try and start thinking about it,
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'cause it's a little late in the summer,
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but it's still just a healthy option
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that's quick and easy, affordable,
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that you can make for you and your family,
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especially the snack on during the week,
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when you're just wanting to soothe those sweet cravings
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that you might be having.
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And so we're going to make this today,
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what we're going to do is take some pitted Medjool dates,
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and we are going to take them and put them
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in-between some parchment paper right here that I have,
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and we're gonna use the bottom of a glass,
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and just smash the date.
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Just smash it until it's just a little bit thin.
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And we're going to take this,
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and you don't have to smash it
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until you like pulverize it, but ...
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Just smash it until it's just a little bit thin,
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and then we're going to just put it on a parchment sheet
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to rest while we finish prepping the rest of the these.
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Okay, so now we have smashed a couple of our Medjool dates,
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as you can see, if you don't have a glass,
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you can just do it with your hand
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in-between two sheets of parchment paper,
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and now what we're going to do is
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take a little bit of peanut butter,
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and place it on top of the dates.
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You could use almond butter,
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or any other type of nut butter that you like,
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peanut butter is just, you know, readily available,
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and you can find it in any grocery store,
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but again, I love almond butter,
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that would be really, really good in this,
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if you wanted to keep it really healthy,
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you could do like an organic peanut butter,
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or fresh peanut butter.
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If you wanted peanut butter with nuts in it,
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It's yours to really play with and to make your own.
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Yeah, whatever you wanna do with that.
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I had this dish in South Africa a couple of weeks ago,
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I was there doing some work with, again,
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the missionary support that we provide in other countries,
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and one of those is in South Africa,
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and while I was there, one of my friends made this,
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and Sylvie was like, "Oh, do you wanna try it?",
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and I was like, "Yeah, absolutely."
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And I tried it, it was addictive,
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I kept wanting to eat this,
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and we had a bunch of other dessert,
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one night we had this huge,
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they call it "a nation's dinner",
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and it was like 40 different people there
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from all different countries,
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and everybody had to create a specific dish
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from their country, and so, you know,
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I made something America, I don't even remember,
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but we had so much food, so many desserts,
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and she made this just to make,
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and I didn't want anything else,
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I just kept going back to this,
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because it was so delicious and so healthy,
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and you know, sometimes when you eat healthy food,
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you think you have to sacrifice the flavor,
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but you really don't, not with something like this,
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because it's so easy to make,
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and you're using really good quality ingredients,
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and the flavor is just, that's the byproduct,
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because you're using very clean, natural ingredients
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and so now what we're gonna do is just finish this up,
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and then I'll show you guys what it looks like
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when we put the chocolate on.
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Okay, so now that we've added our peanut butter,
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we are going to now spoon
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some melted semi-sweet chocolate,
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if you are Ms. Paula, you're gonna to use milk chocolate,
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'cause she does not like dark chocolate,
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but we're just gonna spoon a little bit of milk chocolate,
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or dark chocolate, whatever you want, melted down on this,
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and just cover each one.
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If you like a lot of chocolate,
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you could just freeze the peanut butter and the dates,
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and then dip it in, dip the whole thing in chocolate,
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and then just use a fork to dip it out and then refreeze it,
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but this is just the simplest way to do it.
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And the good thing again is you are using semi-sweet,
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so it's not super duper sweet, you can cut the calories,
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if you wanted to use carob chips instead of chocolate,
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you can do that too, as well,
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it really is however you wanna make it, okay?
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This is a good dessert to, you know,
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if you have a pool, sit out by the pool and enjoy.
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Sometimes for the summer,
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I like to just take some fresh fruit,
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and put some lemon juice in it in a bowl,
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and then add in some fresh mint,
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and then I also will take some Greek yogurt,
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some full fat Greek yogurt, put it in a bowl,
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and then spoon some of that fruit on top with mint,
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it's delicious, it's super healthy,
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and again, you don't have to worry
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about sacrificing calories,
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because you're eating something so healthy and delicious.
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Fruit in the summer is so sweet,
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and just pairs perfectly, again, with
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if you wanna have a healthy summer,
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and so now that we've done this, while this is warm,
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if you want, you can take a couple of walnuts,
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and just breaking them up with my hand,
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but I'm just taking a little bit of walnuts,
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and adding it to the top of this.
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It's almost like a candy bar, okay?
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So just adding a little bit of walnuts,
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or if you want, you can take some pistachios,
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and put them on top too, as well.
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Again, you can cut these,
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and it would make it look really pretty,
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but you don't have to.
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if you want like, you know, kind of,
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you know, more whole nuts, you can do that,
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and then also what you want, if you want,
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what you could do is take some flaked sea salt,
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we don't have any today,
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but you could just use some regular salt,
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this is flaked enough,
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and just put a little bit on the top,
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and it adds that little bit of balance
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between sweet and savory,
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and now what we're going to do
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is just place this in the refrigerator,
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or you can place it in the freezer for about 30 minutes
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until it becomes hard, the chocolate becomes hard,
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and then I'll show you guys
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the finished product in a second.
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Look how beautiful these are.
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Smashed date with peanut butter, and chocolate,
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and some delicious nuts on the top of it,
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little bit of flaked sea salt if you have it,
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and again, this is just
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such a really easy, delicious recipe.
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We're gonna try one now.
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You know what it tastes like?
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for you. - Better for you.
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I really wish you guys could taste this, but you can,
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'cause you're gonna make it yourself.
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I think you guys are gonna enjoy this very much, again,
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very simple, delicious, healthy dessert alternative
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not just in the summer but anytime around.
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So anyway, love and best dishes.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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