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In today's podcast, Paula and Michael sit down and talk about the first time they met and the first thing Paula made Michael.
Paula also talks abut making her breakfast casserole:
https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/breakfast-casserole/
Ingredients
4 slices white bread
Butter for greasing
1lb breakfast sausage
2 cups half and half
1 whole white onion - chopped
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch pepper
1 pinch garlic powder
6 beaten eggs
1 cup cheddar cheese
1 cup colby Jack cheese
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Deen today and you see I got my
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sidekick here with me because you know
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one of the things that we have in common
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we've got a lot in common but enjoying
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good food is certainly one of amid Nick
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I'm telling you my favorite thing yeah I
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mean we were a match made in heaven we
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met each other um when I first met you I
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had gone on that Atkins diet because I
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had just finished my dessert cookbook
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and I had put on probably 25 pounds all
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as probably went type 2 diabetes started
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creeping in on me and I wasn't aware of
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it but you know I just lived off of
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sweets cuz that's what I was cooking so
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when Michael met me he thought mmm she's
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gonna offer me something so good well oh
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she did she said no would you like I
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said would you like a snack I certainly
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know no one it would be a pastry or a
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cupcake or a cake or pie or muffin or
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something it was an egg sweets cookbooks
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yeah she made microwavable pork rinds
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uh-huh which believe it not we're really
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good they're delicious delicious but
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they have no carbs so there's kind of a
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letdown but I pulled out the cream
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cheese there's no carbs and cream cheese
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so at that moment that I met you I was
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living off of microwavable pork skins
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and cream cheese out and then then I
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think I kind of chucked it and when I
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realized that you like to eat as much as
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I like to cook and feed people so it
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worked out great you know this morning I
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want to talk about especially with st.
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Patrick's Day coming up you know a lot
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of people here in Savannah have friends
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over for breakfast before the parade and
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all the drinking starts there's a lot of
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green drips a lot of green grits served
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up in this town that's exactly right
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along with green beer oh yeah you know
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the only
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Green that I know of that people don't
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want on March the 17th is collard greens
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oh that's right but let me tell you
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something honey on March the 18th folks
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will step over your back to get in that
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restaurant have those collard greens
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anything anything they can do to get
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Mama's cooking in their belly because he
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had had a large time on the day before
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but how many times have I'm you seen me
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make that breakfast casserole oh that's
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delicious one of my favorites it is it
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is so good and I think I reason made
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this recently on a show and you know
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there's so many ways that you can do
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that breakfast casserole you can kind of
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kick it up you know any way you want to
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but I take six slices of just white
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bread and I butter one side of it and I
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put it down in a 13 by 9 by 2 pin and
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then I crack 6 large eggs and beat up
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with 2 cups of half-and-half so that
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half and half it's gonna make it so nice
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and rich you know rather than using just
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regular milk because you and I normally
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I keep 2% milk around for us instead of
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whole milk
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so the half-and-half works real well and
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then I just take a pound of breakfast
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sausage and I scramble it up and I like
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cook it maybe like half way and I take a
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whole white onion and I chop it i salt
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and pepper with my eggs and half and
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half
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the recipe says to taste but I'm not
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tasting raw eggs so I just put what I
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want in there and I also add a little
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garlic powder y'all and that really
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kicks it up and then I have a couple of
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different cheeses in it a cup of cream
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of cheddar cheese and a cup of Colby
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jack cheese and I'll tell you something
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else it's real good in it like I said
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you can do anything you want to but
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cream cheese
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is cubed up in it it's mighty tasty so
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it's so it's so easy to make you just
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par cook your sausage and then add your
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onions and cook it for three or four
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minutes and then you drain most of the
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liquid off your sausage but not all of
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it because remember where there's fat
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there's flavor so you want to leave some
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of that in there and you just pour that
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egg mixture over your bread over your
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buttered bread and you'll want to
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because you put your cheese on it last
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you'll want to take your piece of
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tinfoil and spray it with a nonstick and
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cover your casserole with that so the
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cheese won't stick to the aluminum and
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you know how can almost just like peel
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off and get on your food so make sure
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you spray that top and then all you have
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to do is cover your casserole put it in
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the refrigerator and it's ready for the
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next morning or Oh
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4 to 6 to 12 hours it doesn't matter so
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you just take it out of your
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refrigerator and bake it in a preheated
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350 degree oven for about 45 minutes and
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it's a wonderful brunch dish but you
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know you do it any way you want to you
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can add bell pepper you can add bacon
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with it or you can do it with ham like I
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said I I like to use red potatoes with
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mine
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I'll ball them whole and then I slice
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them you have to par cook those then
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just pour your egg mixture over that and
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it's so simple and then cover it with
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cheese it's that easy and that tasty in
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fact it's even a wonderful dinner dinner
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dish you know you can make it around one
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o'clock and has plenty of time to see it
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for dinner why are you looking at me so
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funny
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[Laughter]
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I'm kidding I did you get it thanks huh
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I guess it's mascara just all of a
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sudden I looked at him and he was he was
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that's one eight hundred six five nine
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3300 we're back yelling I was just told
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that I've already taken up too much time
7:53
telling stories
7:56
Michael is really funny and sometimes
7:59
his humor King could like look did you
8:05
see that hair coming up I hate when he
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does that to me and how long we been
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together new six happy years has not
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been six it might be five you have had a
8:20
good time hanging I think we've been
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together 16 yeah that's right are you
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think I hurt my feelings
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ah-6 happy years so out of 16 there's
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only been six happy ones maybe seven
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bye y'all haha love and best dishes
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between you and your husband
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I hope he's the sweetest man you are a
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devil the space that you live in really
9:01
affects the way you feel so my first
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recommendation is start by updating your
9:07
window treatments with Smith & Noble
9:10
Smith & Nobles beautiful handcrafted
9:12
blinds drapes shades and shutters are
9:14
custom made just for you and they offer
9:17
different service options to fit your
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needs
9:19
to get started today contact Smith &
9:22
Noble to get my special limited time
9:25
offer 25% off on your window treatments
9:28
plus free design consultation create a
9:32
space that you're gonna love but details
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about my special offer
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go to Smith & noble.com slash Paula that
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Smith & noble.com slash Paula or call
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one eight hundred six five nine 3300
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that's one eight hundred six five nine
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