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Summer Squash Lasagna | Healthy Dinner Ideas - Need summer dinner ideas? Try a lasagna with ricotta cheese, ground turkey, and yellow squash! This healthy yellow squash lasagna recipe is perfect for Mother's Day.
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- Hey everybody, it's Bobby here today.
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Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there
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and to my mom.
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And, today, I'm gonna make a really great,
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I hope it's really great, recipe from my mom's magazine.
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And it is a summer squash lasagna recipe.
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So, it's, it sounds great to me.
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I've looked at the recipe, it sounds really good.
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It's not gonna be just a vegetable squash,
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it's gonna be a mix of vegetable and turkey.
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So I'm pretty excited about it.
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We're starting with these beautiful squash that we've cut
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with a mandolin and we've salted the squash
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and we've salted it in an effort to get the water out of it
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'cause vegetables, fruits, they're largely water.
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And when we make our lasagna,
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we don't want a watery pool of mess.
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So, putting the salt on it for a few minutes,
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15 or 20 minutes, really draws that water out.
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And Ed, if you can get in close, I think that you can see
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on the top of the squash,
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you can see the water that's been drawn out of it
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from the salt.
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So, what we're gonna do is we're just gonna pat it dry,
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just to get rid of some of that moisture.
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Okay, cool.
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So, we've patted our squash dry. It's good to go.
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Let's move over here to the stove top
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where our onions are already kind of translucent.
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We started them a few minutes ago,
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I started them in olive oil.
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And I've got them just on a low heat
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and they look really good.
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So, I'm gonna go ahead and add my turkey to this.
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And we will just cook it until it's brown.
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Yeah, it's beautiful lean turkey.
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This would be a really good combination
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of the turkey and the little bit of plastic.
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The turkey and the squash together,
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this should be really, really nice.
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Okay, so, I'm gonna let this turkey cook for a minute.
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We'll come over and go ahead
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and start to put together our first bowl of goodies.
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It's gonna be the tomatoes.
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I've got a riveted audience
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right on the other side of the camera.
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Some Italian seasoning.
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That's the executive chef, I'm just the sous.
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So, now I'm nervous 'cause the chef is watching me.
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And our garlic. We'll mix this up.
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This is gonna be one of the layers in our lasagna.
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So, with lasagnas, obviously, you got a base
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and then you got noodles
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and another layer and more noodles or meat or what have you.
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Oh, hey.
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Speaking of chefs over my shoulder,
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there's another one right now.
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I recognize that voice.
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- [Paula] I didn't say cook, I said cook.
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- Okay. Hey, mama. Happy mother's day.
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- Got a cook. Thank you.
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It's nice to have a man in the house.
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Hey people, don't take no offense to that, all right?
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- At the stove, at the stove, let me be clear.
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At the stove, cooking.
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- Yeah, he's the captain.
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- Yes, he is the captain.
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- He's got responsibilities.
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Okay, so, we'll go to our next bowl here,
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and we're gonna put together ricotta cheese.
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Calls for four cups, so, we're gonna use the whole container
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of ricotta cheese.
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- [Paula] Oh, that cup it's so...
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(spoon clattering)
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- It's hard to believe it's already mother's day, 2026.
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- [Paula] I know, I have.
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- Goodness gracious. Come on, ricotta.
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There we go. So, there's our ricotta cheese,
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we will add to that Parmesan cheese.
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The remaining Italian seasoning and the recipe.
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And also a little more garlic.
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And we will mix this together.
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So, this looks really good.
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And well mixed.
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Okay, so back to the turkey, which is getting close,
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but it's not quite ready,
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so this would be a good time for us to take a break while,
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make sure I've got everything I need
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and we'll come right back.
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Turkey's beautiful. Cooked it and drained it.
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And we got a good,
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got a good amount of liquid from the turkey.
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So, now the fun part, right?
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We're going to begin the process of making our
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lasagna with the layers.
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I'm gonna start with about a half cup,
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now with a half cup of our tomato mixture in the bottom.
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(spoon clattering)
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Spread that out evenly.
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(spoon clattering)
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Looks pretty even.
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And then we will add about half of our noodles.
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Now the squash, everybody,
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the recipe costs for three squash.
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You know how vegetables and fruits and stuff are,
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they can be in different sizes.
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So, you might have smaller squash,
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you might not be able to use three, two might be enough,
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or you might need four, it just depends on the size of your,
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you know, squash.
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So, let's see.
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The tomato mixture, the noodles,
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and squash on top of the noodles, so here we go.
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That is some beautiful yellow squash.
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Now, these were cut, you'll see how uniform they are.
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These were cut with a mandolin,
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which is a great kitchen tool,
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but, you gotta be really careful with a mandolin,
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they'll take your finger off.
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They'll take your,
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okay, I only got room for one more squash,
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so let me pick a real good piece.
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Now, the rest of it, you know what we'll do with that?
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I'll put a little bit of olive oil on that
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and we will put that in the air fryer
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if whatever we don't use.
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Okay, so, on top of the squash
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and that'll be a nice little appetite, sir.
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We'll add some ricotta.
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Mom, this recipe is gonna be great.
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- [Paula] Good.
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Think be happy.
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- Okay. We'll spread this evenly.
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The ricotta looks great
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and I've leveled it out as much as I could.
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And now, here comes the turkey.
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And we're looking at this recipe as we put it together.
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And this is a two and a half quart container,
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which is what the recipe calls for,
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but, we all here think
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that if you wanted to use a 9 by 13, you could.
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- [Paula] Definitively.
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- Yeah, you could use a bigger vessel if you wanted to
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and you'd be able to get more layers.
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(utensils clattering)
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Okay.
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Turkeys with tomato.
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And we'll take one more break while I finish this up
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and we'll come right back.
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So, the last layer of tomatoes
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and then we will add the last of the squash.
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And we have a very full.
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But that's the way it should be, I think,
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a very full, very hearty lasagna dish.
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That looks real good too.
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So, we've got our oven preheating.
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We'll get our layers all put together,
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we will pop it in the oven,
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and then we will finish it off
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with a little bit of shredded Parmesan.
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Or excuse me, shredded mozzarella right on top.
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Okay.
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Voila. That's beautiful.
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- [Person] It's pretty pretty.
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Okay, so let's go into the oven with it. Okay?
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Think our lasagna is nearly ready,
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so we're gonna go ahead and pull it out
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and top it with the mozzarella cheese.
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Yeah, it's looking really good.
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(packet rustling)
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Ooh, that thing smells good. It really smells, smells great.
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I think it's gonna be great.
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This is gonna be a home run.
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Look at Paula Deen using vegetables in her lasagna.
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So good.
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I'm gonna quit messing around
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and I'm just gonna use all of this cheese.
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And so, back in for about five more minutes. That's hot.
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And then we'll come right back.
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I know I'm gonna burn myself tasting it, but, oh well.
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- [Person] You and your mama can't help yourself.
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- Here goes nothing.
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First I wanna taste the squash.
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Very good.
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It's not mushy and soggy,
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I still got a little bit of a bite to it.
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- [Person] I like it like that.
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- I'm a little bit of a snap, me too.
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Little bit of a snap to it. Perfect.
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- [Person] So, you could cook that as long as you wanted.
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If you wanted your vegetable cook longer,
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just don't put your cheese on until-
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- That's exactly it.
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- [Person] Till you're really-
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- Till you're ready to fill it out in five minutes.
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- [Person] Yeah. That's the ticket.
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(utensils clattering)
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- Very good.
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Very hot.
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Super tasty.
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The squash really helps it a lot.
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Turkey's good. Different than ground beef, obviously.
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Really nice.
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I think that turkey is a good choice with the squash
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'cause it's like light and light,
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and what I mean is like in color,
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do you know what I mean?
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The turkey is like blondish and the squash is like blondish
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and they both sort of taste like blondish.
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But, the tomato with it is great.
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And it is, it's really, really good lasagna,
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so, please enjoy.
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I think that you'll like it.
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And get your kids to enjoy it too
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to get their vegetables.
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Mama, it's good.
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- [Paula] Good. I'm so-
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- Come here see ya.
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So, see you later, alligator. It's really good.
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- [Paula] Ooh.
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