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- You know, in the summertime,
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the heat brings in some good stuff,
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There's nothing like a Georgia homegrown tomato.
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A tomato sandwich is the best thing in the world
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during peak tomato season.
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So a dish that I loved to make at the restaurant
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when I was working on the line was okra and tomatoes.
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So I'm gonna share with y'all how I did it,
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and there's different ways you can do it, y'all.
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Just do it the way you want to. (laughs)
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I am using some diced up bacon,
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and that's where we're gonna get our seasoning from.
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And I've got two cloves of garlic
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That one won't go down in there good there.
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It wasn't in there right.
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This is much easier, Theresa, than trying
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to dice it, isn't it?
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let our bacon render some fat for us,
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and then we're gonna add our onions.
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We're gonna add our tomatoes, our garlic,
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and just let this cook.
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Now, we are actually using fresh okra,
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but you know, if you want okra
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and tomatoes in January and February,
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I highly recommend you using the cut frozen okra,
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They have perfected the art
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of freezing while they're fresh,
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and it's, to me, just as good.
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This is some of my newest equipment out is my cast iron.
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And this is, you know, nice and thick.
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So I really like the way it cooks things like this bacon.
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I mean, it gets in there and it gets the job done,
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'cause cast iron will hold that heat, honey.
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It will hold that heat.
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I don't want to brown this bacon.
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I just wanna render all that flavor out of it.
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And now I just added my garlic
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and now I'm gonna add my onions.
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And we've got that wonderful bacon fat
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that's gonna give it a tremendous amount of flavor.
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I've got my wet chicken base
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and I know I've talked to y'all a lot about all the bases,
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and now they come into so many different flavors.
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Now I'm gonna add my okra.
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I'm gonna add about a tablespoon of sugar.
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- [Theresa] What does the sugar do, Paula?
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- Makes it sweet. (laughs)
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- [Theresa] I always thought that it had something
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to do with the tomatoes.
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The acid of the tomatoes is definitely softened
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by using a little sugar.
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All right, now I'm gonna add our diced tomatoes,
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and for this particular dish, you know,
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I usually use crushed tomatoes
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and I love that product if I'm not using fresh tomatoes.
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But I like the petite cut for this
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because they hold their size.
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They hold their size real good.
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Ooh, it's gonna be so more ever good.
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And I like to get my okra real, real done.
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And I'm going to go ahead
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and add some salt and pepper to it.
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And I left a little bit of sugar in there,
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Now I'm gonna put the lid on this.
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I'm gonna turn it down low and just let her go.
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And I may add just a touch,
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because I want that okra to have some liquid
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I love, love this cookware.
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All right, so I'm gonna turn it down on low
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and we're just gonna let that little puppy eat (chuckles)
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and it's gonna be so good.
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So y'all, look, look, look, look
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at our okra and tomatoes.
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Now, I probably cooked these for about 30 minutes
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because I like my okra done in this particular dish.
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That is evermore somewhat good.
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I'm just gonna add a little bit more pepper for Mikey
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because he likes it, and I've got my rice
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and I put a little pat of butter on top of that,
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and now I'm gonna put my okra.
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- [Theresa] And it's so pretty.
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- And bacon right on top.
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And you see the steam just rolling up
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in my face, right? (laughs)
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I love summertime when it comes to food.
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I don't like that heat,
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but I sure do like what it produces, y'all.
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I made this last week one night
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to have the side of our meal.
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I can't remember what the entree was,
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but oh my gosh, we enjoyed this so much.
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It's out of this world.
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And if somebody in your family says,
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"Well, I don't like okra."
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Okay, if you don't like okra,
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we'll take the okra out.
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We'll put in butter beans and corn.
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But listen, don't turn down the okra
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until you have tasted it
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and verified that you don't like it.
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Y'all eat your vegetables. (laughs)
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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