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Paula's back with another easy recipe that's an old favorite and won't disappoint! If you like chicken salad, you'll LOVE this!
Enjoy Y'all!
Recipe Link (this is the sandwich version, just remove the bread to create the salad version seen here): https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/jamies-chicken-salad-sandwich-2/
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hey y'all it's great to have y'all back
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in the kitchen with me this afternoon
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and the recipe that I'm gonna share
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today with y'all is one that really
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brings back a lot of memories for me
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in 1989 June the 19th as a matter of
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fact Jamie and I ran the first bag lady
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round I had $200 to start this business
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that I had figured out in my head I can
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I want y'all watch alright rush I can
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I'm not telling you to the pin how I
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spent that $200 but it was a business
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license food and a cooler to carry the
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food around and and because we had to
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keep the food a certain temperature but
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I would make these wonderful little
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lunches when I started out mainly just
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making sandwiches and everybody it was a
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big success right from the start
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people really seemed to enjoy my cooking
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but even more than that they loved
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seeing Jamie and Bobby coming in every
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day showing their their food off so one
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of the most popular items on our menu
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was grilled chicken salad I mean
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everybody loved those and we would get
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up every morning at 6 o'clock and Jimmy
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the boys daddy would get out and start
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the griddle up fire up the grill for me
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and cook all these fresh chicken breasts
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and I cut them I cut I chop them up and
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then I would marinate them in a
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gosh I can remember now what I used to
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marinate them in but a dirt keys songs I
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anyway it was ugly but one of the most
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popular mayonnaise salads was our
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chicken salad and there is so many
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recipes y'all out there for chicken
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salad you can add curry make a curried
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chicken salad you can make a chicken
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salad with grapes in it or raisins you
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know some kind of fruit so there is so
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many in fact I've got a lot of different
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chicken salad recipes in my cookbook but
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my favorite ones still to this day and
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my family's favorite chicken salad is
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the one that I named Jamie's chicken
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salad because I show Jamie how to make
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it and how I wanted it made and dadgum
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it that little thing got where you could
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make it better than me and to this day
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he makes incredible chicken salad
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incredible and it's so simple it's so
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very simple and I'll tell y'all another
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little tip fry left if you have any
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leftover fried chicken or leftover a
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roasted chicken or baked chicken or
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fried leftover fried chicken if you'll
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take the skin and the bones off of it
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out of it it makes the best chicken
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salad because that chicken is so well
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seasoned and that's what I'm using
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I had Fried Chicken yesterday so what
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was left over I'm gonna make chicken
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salad I'd off and like I said it's very
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very very basic it calls for celery and
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I love the celery because it gives it
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the crunch a teaspoon of lemon pepper
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there we go
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four chopped Baldy and love I love
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onions in my chicken salad shrimp salad
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egg salad whatever I just like it and I
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have found that these dried onions are
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really really good in a salad so I'm
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gonna put in this is I tricked the boys
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Baba for years because he did not like
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gun yinz and he thought I made the best
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potato salad and the best chicken salad
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in the world he didn't know that I was
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using green he they're doing this cuz I
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just want this plane without onions but
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he ate it you know so what you don't
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know won't hurt you will it alright so
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that is it except I've got one more
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ingredient that I use but first I'm
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gonna put enough me an ace and this is
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to be determined by you it depends on
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how wet you want it alright now I'm
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gonna add some pepper too I had the
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lemon pepper but now I'm gonna add just
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some black pepper and like I said it
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just really depends on how wet you want
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it and sometimes after you put it in the
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refrigerator it will almost that chicken
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will absorb all that mayonnaise and the
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next day you very well could have to add
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a little bit more mayonnaise to it
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oh my gosh I'm telling you wanna and
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walking down memory lane today with
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y'all we going back we started the bag
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lady in 1989-90 30 years 31 years Wow
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and when I started you know I thought I
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sold I was 42 and I said I don't know if
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I can do this because I'm my old lady
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honey if I had known what was coming I'd
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have probably gone to bed because I've
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got some stories to tell about being in
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the restaurant business if you're
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thinking about going into the restaurant
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business I just have to tell you it's
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hard it's hard but if it's your passion
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there's nothing you can do about it but
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go with it all right so my last
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ingredient that I'm gonna use is my
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silly salt and because I'm using my
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leftover fried chicken remember it was
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already seasoned with salt and pepper
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and all that stuff so I'm gonna be very
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very light with my silly salt because
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the lemon pepper that I used it's got
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salt in it too so there you go just that
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easy and if you want to change it up
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tomorrow or your family you can sprinkle
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some curry powder in there or cut some
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grapes in half and add those and add
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your some pecans or slivered almonds all
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of that just is so good it's just
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depending on what kind of chicken salad
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you want and to me this traditional
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southern chicken salad makes the best
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sandwich you know somehow making a
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chicken salad sandwich and eating grapes
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and nuts you know that doesn't quite
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compete with me but that kind of chicken
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salad I would eat unless I had the
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freedom and so that's it the bag ladies
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chicken salad can't believe it's been 31
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years you remember the day I called you
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ain't piggy and said I had decided well
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I wasn't going to mama well I have to
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tell y'all ain't Peggy uh-huh she was my
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biggest supporter she and my uncle
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George uncle George passed away on March
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the 17th 1996 we had just gotten the
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restaurant opening he never got to see
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it oh hush but he came over here and he
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met with me with the bankers and looked
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like I wasn't gonna be able to pull off
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opening that restaurant downtown but
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ain't Peggy put her money where their
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mouth was and she loved me a CD did use
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this collateral uncle George was so
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smart and he was really a self-made man
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and he was just very smart and we'll
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miss him till the day you know we leave
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this earth but ain't Peggy
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it was so hard when I started off y'all
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I couldn't afford to pay you no help so
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I was the only one I knew that would
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work for free me and they Peggy so I
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call her and I'd say oh god Peggy I I'm
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not gonna be able to do this I'm so
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tired I'm so so tired and she would come
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over hush she would come over it's like
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two weeks at the time and she would get
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in that kitchen and it was so funny I've
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got pictures to prove this knew y'all
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before she came in the kitchen
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she'd take a clean pair of my underwear
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and put it over her hand cuz she said I
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don't want any of my hair to get in the
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food so that was her internet and I've
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got the picture to prove it oh it was
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just hard it was so very hard but you
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know what I think it made the person I
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am today and so on try not to am i
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acting hard because I've been blessed um
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a living testament that God bless his
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hard work so on that note y'all I'm
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gonna go have some chicken salad and
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I'll see y'all next time
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loving best dishes to all y'all out
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there
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