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Quarantine Cooking: Fried Brim (Bream) Recipe - Paula's in the kitchen today with her grandson Henry (who loves to fish) so they're cookin' up a delicious fried Brim dish that's bound to please!
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- I know that y'all will recognize grandson John,
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because we made a big red Texas cake together, didn't we?
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Well, you know what?
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Now it's brother's turn.
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So you can go do your homework or read a book.
0:18
- I did it.
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- Oh you did it, yay.
0:22
So we decided that John was number five, right?
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In the pecking order.
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- [Camera Man] Yes.
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- And so would you would be number four.
0:33
All right, there's Jack, Maddie.
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- Me.
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- You, so you would be third.
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- [Camera Man] Yeah 'cause Sully's birthday is what?
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December.
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So you, you're third in the pecking order.
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- 'Cause I'm eight.
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- Yes.
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- I'll be nine in 10 months, in 10 days.
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- Days, yep.
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You're fixing to have a birthday.
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And Henry is,
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don't listen to what I'm about to say.
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Henry is an incredible young man, y'all.
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(laughter)
1:07
He is so independent.
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He doesn't want anybody doing anything for him.
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He wants to learn how to do everything
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in the world out there, don't you?
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And if you tell him he can't do it
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well, that's a big insult to him.
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Isn't it?
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And this boy would rather fish than eat.
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And we have a little fresh pond out here in our front yard.
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And so when Henry comes over, first thing he says is,
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"I want to go fishing, I want to go fishing."
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So you can go that way and you can saltwater fish,
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or you can go this way.
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- [John] Say cheese.
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- Cheese.
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Oh, we got another camera man y'all.
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(laughter)
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Or he can go out there and fish for freshwater
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because personally I grew up in Southwest Georgia
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and all we had was ponds
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and so we ate a lot of brim and a lot of catfish,
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but over here, you eat tuna and grouper and spot tail,
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things like that, right?
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- Right.
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- Which do you like the best?
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Do you like Guinea?
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- King Salmon.
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- King Salmon.
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Okay, I was going to ask if you like salt water
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or Guinea's fresh water fish.
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Which one you liked the best.
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So you're saying salmon.
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I'm with you, honey.
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When I first cooked brim for your Papa,
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he didn't even know how to eat it.
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He still doesn't know how to eat it.
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'Cause you know, I've shown you how to do it
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where you're less likely to get bones.
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But Papa's kind of like you, or you're kinda like Papa.
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He don't want you telling him what to do.
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(laughter)
2:56
- Remember that time where I caught that female that big?
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- Uh huh, uh huh.
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- She was huge.
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- She was huge and probably full of eggs.
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Wouldn't you think?
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Alright, so Henry, I think our grease is ready.
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I have heated you up some peanut oil in here,
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and this is a mighty big pan for just three fish.
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But I wanted you to be able to cook your fish
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and look that way instead of looking at your back.
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So what we're going to do,
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and I'm going to use Gimmes fish fry.
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But the first thing we want to do is
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scoot down just a second baby.
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First thing I'm going to do
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is just sprinkle it with a little salt now.
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Not much because the fish fry has salt in it.
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So there you go.
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And you want to make sure you get inside the body too.
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You know, you want a little,
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little something, something in there.
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So.
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So tell everybody what you've been doing this summer.
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- [Henry] Uh fishing.
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- [Paula] Fishing?
4:08
- [Henry] On the boat and when I went,
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I went camping up in North Carolina last week
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and every day I went fishing up there in the pond,
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caught brim, some black tail bass, koi, catfish.
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- Koi?
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- Yeah, there was koi in there.
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- I didn't know koi would bite a hook.
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- No they didn't, they didn't bite the hook.
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They will bite the hook if they have their chance
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and when they were putting the koi in,
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they didn't have a little border
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by the little teeny weeny little pond over there
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and a couple koi got in.
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- Little bit more baby.
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Little bit more.
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Oh, oh okay.
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So they really got in there accidentally.
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Is that right?
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- [Henry] Right.
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- [Paula] And there's a place,
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- [Henry] And there's half of the pond
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that you swim with the fish and half of the pond you fish.
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- [Paula] You got it figured out don't you?
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Well, I tell you what,
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I just love you going fishing and me seeing you
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and all you get up and that white powder,
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that white cream stuff on your nose.
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'Cause you're real fair.
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You're real fair complected, so you have to be careful.
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And there's a place that you hang out a lot
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over at the dock.
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The what is that?
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- White dock.
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- White dock?
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- The park dock?
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- Park dock.
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Yeah, you go there and fish a lot don't you?
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And what did you catch yesterday you was telling me about?
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Don't you remember?
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Oh, you've got a memory like an elephant.
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Now why are you not remembering that?
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You were at Aunt Jodie's.
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- And I caught a stingray off the dock
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and it had two babies.
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- I didn't know this,
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but if you catch a female stingray and she has babies,
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she gets so frightened and upset that she has the babies.
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So when Henry pulled her in,
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she had two babies right there on, on the,
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- She had one barb that she had full grown
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and then she was starting to grow a tiny little barb in it.
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And she was so happy, she has bending my pole
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and she bit my cork, which was copper
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and I had to pull her up by my hands and I got cut.
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- Oh my gosh, yes.
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Listen, they are,
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and even these will brim, you know, that's a sharp.
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- I got cut by the line.
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- Oh my goodness, Henry.
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You might want to think about wearing some gloves.
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All right, would you like to put your fish in the hot grease
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and I don't have to caution you how careful to be right?
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- Right.
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- Don't drop it, but just lay it in there.
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Okay, it said it was hot enough, but.
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Okay, you want to kind of, you know,
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just shake the, the, okay,
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just lay it down right next to it.
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Just don't drop it where it'll pop on you.
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Like I said,
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this pan is really too big for just three little fish.
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- But it fits perfectly 'cause they're huge.
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- You think they're huge.
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I think that's some of the smaller ones that you caught.
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- No, those are about the biggest ones I catch.
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- [Paula] Out in our pond?
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In our little pond?
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- That's about the biggest ones I catch.
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- You know, my daddy used to love to brim fish
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and I remember he and his daddy, my granddaddy Howard,
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they would go fishing in lakes down in Florida
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and they would come home with brim,
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Henry, as thick as two of your hands.
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I mean, they were huge.
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You could almost get filled up on one brim.
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All right.
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- I know I can't.
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- You can't?
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- Can I flip them?
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- I don't know, now that part scares me a little bit.
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Now here's the deal about cooking fish.
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It doesn't take long, you don't want to over cook fish.
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I wish we hadn't had a whole mess of them.
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You know, like a dozen.
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'Cause Great Great loves these too.
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So maybe y'all could arm wrestle
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who's going to get these three fish.
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- It's gonna be her, she's gonna win.
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- Oh, you think so?
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You know what?
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I think you would win at arm wrestling.
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All right, so Henry caught these three fish
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and the afternoon he caught them, he had to leave.
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He couldn't stay and let me cook them for him
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so that's why I put these in the freezer
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because I wanted to wait
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until I knew Henry could help cook them
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and Henry could eat them.
9:08
So what else have you been doing?
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- I don't really know.
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I've been riding my bike down to the park
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and going to play basketball.
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- Yeah.
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- And we've been going to the pool
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but we can't go anymore because John's ear infection,
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we have to wait a little bit longer.
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- Okay, so if John can't swim, you can't swim either?
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- But I've swam over here when he wasn't here.
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- When he didn't know.
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- All right Henry, I think they're ready to turn buddy.
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So I'm gonna gently turn these.
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Now normally I would fry these in deep grease,
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you know, where they were you know, completely covered.
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- [Henry] And when they float, they're done.
10:01
- [Paula] Yes, but they can't float in this
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'cause there's no room.
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I didn't put nearly the amount of peanut oil
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that I would normally.
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Of course, you get that to 350
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so you can see what I'm doing
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that I would never recommend you do them.
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I'm holding, I'm holding this electric skillet up
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so they can lay completely covered in the peanut oil.
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But it's dangerous, I should not be doing it.
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What's the best part of this fish, Henry?
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- The belly.
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- [Paula] Oh, you think?
10:38
- The tail.
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- [Paula] You think the tail is so good?
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- [Henry] It's crunchy like a chip.
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- [Paula] Yeah, and I love to take that top fin out
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and just suck, just suck on it
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and suck all that fat out.
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So we just got another couple of minutes on this
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and then we will be eating.
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Okay, now I was telling Henry
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that you don't want to overcook fish
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because that just kind of ruins it.
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But so I just put the,
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I just pulled these out of the grease, Henry,
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so they are so hot.
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And normally when we eat brim or catfish,
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we don't normally serve a tartar sauce or anything with it
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because the fish itself is just so good.
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All right, so you want to see if you can do
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how Gimme showed you?
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You don't want to?
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- I don't know how to.
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- Yes you do.
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What did I teach you first?
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- Oh yummy.
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- To pull out that fin and just suck.
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- Bones are hot.
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- Uh huh.
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Just make sure you don't pull a bone out,
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but you can just suck that.
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It's really just fish fat Henry, in that top bone.
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- It's really hot.
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- I know, and really good.
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- So hot.
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Can I eat it?
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That part has bones.
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- [Paula] Yeah, you can eat like this end
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where it's just fin and not bones.
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All right, you wanna squeeze a little lemon on it?
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Or do you wanna eat it?
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Oh, it's so hot.
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All right, now we gonna go ahead
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and pull this bottom fin out
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and you can do the same thing with that.
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- Hot.
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- I know.
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- That's the hottest part.
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So hot.
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(laughter)
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- I know it.
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You can eat that,
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'cause see that that fin is not bones, it's just.
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- The very bottom of it is.
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(laughter)
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- Great time of day, that's good.
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- Grab those two bones.
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- Okay.
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- There's two bones right there.
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- Okay.
13:30
Okay, let's start eating it.
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And let's eat it the way Gimme showed you.
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Isn't that good?
13:51
All right.
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You start on the top.
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- Hot.
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- Yes.
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- Hot. It's so hot I can't even eat it.
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- Why don't I just pull it away for you?
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But brim has,
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- A lot of tiny bones.
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- Uh huh, it has a lot of tiny bones.
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It's got the,
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- Spine.
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Yes, and then it's got some bones up here
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around the belly.
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- And sometimes if you keep it all,
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you can wash it off after and put it in a case
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and you'll have the whole entire bone.
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- Yep.
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- That's what I want to do with this one.
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- That's what you want to do?
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Okay, I'll try not to tear him up too much.
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Okay, it's important to Gimme that as you get older,
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you're able to teach people how to properly eat a brim.
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So I want you to know how to catch them,
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I want you to know how to clean them,
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I want you to know how to cook them,
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and I want you to know how to eat them.
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- Hm, and you feel for bones with your tongue.
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- Yes.
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So you want to tell our friends out there bye?
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- Bye bye.
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- We send y'all love and best dishes.
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I hope that y'all have the opportunity,
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if you're a grandmother,
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I hope that y'all have the opportunity
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to spend some time in the kitchen with your grandchildren.
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