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Love & Best Dishes: Wayne’s Beef Macaroni and Cheese Recipe | Ground Beef Recipes for Dinner
Feb 25, 2026
Wayne’s Beef Macaroni and Cheese Recipe | Ground Beef Recipes for Dinner - Need family dinner ideas? Jamie is making a mac and cheese casserole with ground beef everyone will love!
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0:00
- Hey y'all, back in Mama's kitchen, Jamie Deen.
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And you know all I do is easy, delicious recipes.
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Today's no different. I got started before y'all got here.
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And look in this pie right here.
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And the first thing you're going to say is,
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"Jamie Dean don't like green peppers."
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Y'all, please write a note to Theresa
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and tell her that Jamie Deen does not like green peppers.
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He would prefer the red peppers or orange peppers
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or any other pepper other than a green pepper.
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- [Theresa] Okay, she did bad.
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- She did not do bad.
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I'm just having fun with Theresa. Theresa's awesome.
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None of this would happen if it weren't for Theresa.
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But into this, y'all what we're doing is a,
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this is Wayne's Beef Macaroni and Cheese bake.
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This is actually Wayne's recipe.
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He's using brown peppers and onions.
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I've got some garlic in here and a little bit of olive oil.
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I'll let these cook down.
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I really want this to soften because this isn't gonna,
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this isn't like a soup
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or a stew that's gonna sit on the stove
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for a really long time.
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We wanna really get these cooked before,
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'cause it's gonna go whoop into there
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and whoop into that oven.
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So I've seasoned my ground beef.
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We've got two pounds of ground beef in here
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that I'm gonna brown.
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(wooden spoon thudding)
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And this will be the start.
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This is kinda like the goulash
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that you all have heard about so much,
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'cause it's been my brother's birthday meal
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for literally his entire life.
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And it's just a Beefy Mac and Cheese really.
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We're gonna change this up by putting it into a casserole.
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So I'm gonna brown all this meat off.
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I put some salt and pepper on here.
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I've seasoned it a little bit ahead of time.
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(wooden spoon clacking)
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And we've got our pasta that we've cooked off before.
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As you can see, I have that here. You've got our elbow mac.
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(bowl thuds)
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And so we are just about ready to go.
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Now all I have to do is suffer through five or six minutes
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of browning ground beef.
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We've been here before, friends.
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Why don't we take a break,
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and I'll see you when this gets done?
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Don't go anywhere.
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All right y'all, we got our ground beef browned off.
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We've got our green peppers and our onions
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and our garlic cooked down.
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Now we're gonna add our crushed tomatoes.
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Crushed tomatoes, delish, delish.
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And I'm gonna put our seasoning on top of this
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so we can help incorporate it through the whole thing.
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I'm gonna add some cumin. Ooh, I love cumin so much.
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I love it in my chili, most especially.
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I've got one teaspoon of cumin.
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Let's do a teaspoon of oregano.
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And I know I shouldn't be doing this over the top of my pot,
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but I am a professional y'all.
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And lastly, some delicious basil. Love basil.
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(spoon clinks)
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I give that a little mix into our tomato sauce,
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and then incorporate all this through here.
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Did you notice I did not drain this off?
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This recipe does not call for me to drain this off.
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We used a little bit of a lower fat content
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of our ground beef.
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And we're gonna need that liquid,
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'cause what we're gonna do now,
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and I'm confident that we can do this,
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we will see if I can get these elbows into this pot.
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(wooden spoon scraping)
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If I can get all this mixed up without overflowing it,
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making a huge mess.
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(bowl clinks)
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All right, we've got our elbows.
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One of the easiest things you can do
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if you wanna change up a pasta dish that your family loves
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that you've done for a really long time,
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change up your pasta.
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Everybody in the whole entire world uses macaroni elbows.
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Go crazy on a Tuesday and throw some corkscrews in there.
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See what happens. Or some pinwheels.
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Or even if you made it with long spaghetti.
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I tell you what,
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one of my favorite people in the whole world...
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I'm gonna tell y'all a story while I'm doing this.
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I'm headed to Albany, Georgia to see him.
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My favorite old friend that I went to school with,
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he's turning 60 years old this weekend.
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Happy birthday, Rob. I love you brother. Love you.
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This is a surprise he doesn't know,
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so he will be surprised to see me on Saturday.
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And his sister, who was a year younger than me,
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(can clacks)
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who I thought was just the nicest girl in the whole world,
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and I asked her one time if she would come over
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and let me cook something for her.
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So this brings me back to the pasta and the meat
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and this dish and the cheese in the oven.
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I made her a spaghetti casserole,
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and we did a nice salad.
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And so I've now been married 21 years,
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but not to her. (chuckling)
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So my date night didn't work out so well,
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but I still love them so good.
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And I'm so excited to get back to Albany.
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This looks delish.
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Let's make sure it tastes delicious
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before I put it in the oven.
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'Cause you know I salted my ground beef
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before I browned it off.
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Lemme see.
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(wooden spoon clatters)
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I just wanna make sure
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(spatula scraping)
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that I have enough flavor,
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'cause y'all know that pasta will just eat it up.
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I'm gonna come in with a, just a nice big pinch of salt
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and pepper on top of this.
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And I was missing the basil.
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I'm gonna add a little bit more basil here.
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(spatula scraping)
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Just a few more turns to get all this incorporated together.
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You could put some hot sauce down in here too. Woo wee.
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(spatula scraping)
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All right, good enough for government work.
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(dish scraping)
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We've got our casserole dish here,
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and Theresa has greased it up for me, thankful for her.
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Let me make sure I don't burn myself.
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Where is that? Ah.
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There we go.
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(spatula clinking)
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Straight in here.
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Boy, this is a fantastic day for this.
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And it's still a little cool outside.
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(pot thuds)
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And if you're looking for something hearty, woo wee,
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you'll find this recipe under the Hs.
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And look how much I just put in this container.
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This is gonna be fun y'all.
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'Cause guess what I'm gonna do now?
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Cover it all with cheese.
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Y'all think I ought to put it in a different container?
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What you think?
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- [Theresa] I say no.
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- [Jamie] Theresa says no.
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And if- - We can put it on a,
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we will put it on a pan to cook it through.
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- I am happy and have been blessed
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and lived a full and happy life
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following the advice of women around me.
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And if you say yes, I say yes too.
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(plastic rustling)
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But we might wanna put a little pan underneath it.
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I'm not gonna use both of these packs,
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but I am gonna use about a pack and a half, I guess.
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(plastic rustling)
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Y'all, I am guilty, I eyeball everything in the kitchen.
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You know, I was making chicken salad at The Chicken Box,
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and a lot of people enjoyed
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and ate my chicken salad at The Chicken Box for two years.
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It took me 18 months before I put a recipe on paper,
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'cause I'm so hardheaded and I just do everything by myself.
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And that is not a good way to grow The Chicken Box,
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but I can't help it.
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Look at there. We're going in 350 degrees.
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We got eight pounds of food in a five-pound pan.
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Let's see how this turns out. Y'all don't go nowhere.
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Y'all know, sometimes you just leave
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the casserole in the oven a minute too long.
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It just happens.
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Sometimes the casserole is in the oven
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for a minute too long.
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And what am I supposed to do?
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You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna eat it.
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I could have baked this a little bit
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and then added the cheese.
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I could have paid closer attention to the timer.
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I could have went and looked in there a little bit earlier.
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I did none of those things.
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So we're a little brown on the top,
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(spoon clinks)
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but I don't think anybody's gonna be too upset about it.
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What I mean to say
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is not the prettiest casserole I've ever put together.
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It happens to the best of us and to the worst of us.
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This is Wayne's Beefy Mac.
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(fork clinks)
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(plate clinks)
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Mm-hmm.
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It reminds me so much of the goulash
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that my mama makes for Bobby.
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And I guess when ground beef and elbows and cheese
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and heat and tomatoes and all that comes together,
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it's goulash no matter who calls it what?
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It's delicious, Beefy Mac.
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This is the time of the year for this too.
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It tastes so cozy.
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And we're still a little cold down here in Savannah,
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so if y'all want to get all your family's feet
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under the table, this is a easy, delicious recipe to make.
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And I hope everybody that you know and love enjoys it.
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And I'm gonna say, y'all come back, okay?
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I appreciate the time that you spent with me.
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Until next time, I'll see y'all around the kitchen.
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(fork clinking)
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I'm going to eat this brown Mac and Cheese.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
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