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Paula calls herself a Vegetable Beef Soup snob...because hers is simply the best! Paula's secret is using short rib for her soup. This recipe is perfect for big family meals or a chilly day. You can follow the recipe below and make your own:
The Lady and Sons Beef Vegetable Soup
https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/the-lady-and-sons-beef-vegetable-soup/
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Deen you know I am I'm I'm a
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vegetable beef snob vegetable beef soup
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yeah I'm a snob
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I never order or eat anybody's vegetable
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beef soup except my own because I think
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it's truly the best and the reason I
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think mine is so good is I always always
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use short ribs to make my stock with
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there's a lot of bone-in short ribs and
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that's gonna produce a lot of marrow and
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you cook that down cook those bones down
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and let that marrow you know just slowly
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seep out of it and the short ribs
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themselves are gonna wind up so tender
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like tender is your mother-in-law's love
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that's a bad example because I don't
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think my mother-in-law loved me but
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that's all right now that I'm a
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mother-in-law today I make sure I love
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my in-laws so anyway I want to share
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with you how I make my vegetable beef
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soup because it is how this world
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delicious hey y'all come on in
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I've got a wonderful recipe that I want
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to share with y'all today and in my very
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first cookbook Savannah country cookbook
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I did not put my vegetable beef soup
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recipe in there because I thought it's
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so many ingredients I don't know that
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people would enjoy making it while I'm
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walking you through it I'm gonna measure
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everything out and this is gonna go in
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the lady in sons to cookbook so you can
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find it there and you can also find it
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in kitchen classics
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what I love about this soup and I know
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many of you girls are like me with
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grandchildren you don't ever know how
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many people are gonna be in at mealtime
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so I love making this I've got a great
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big pot that'll feed a lot of people and
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to me it's the best vegetable beef soup
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hands-down
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in the whole world so I will share with
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y'all want the secret ingredient to the
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best vegetable beef soup is and that's
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these short ribs now I know you've been
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to the grocery store and seen those
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chunks of meat already cut up I never
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use anything like that because that meat
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is usually very tough and tasteless but
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these short ribs all have bones in them
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and they have enough fat on them that
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they're gonna render an exquisite strong
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beef taste and today since I'm doing
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this on my cooking show I wanted to make
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it quick so I'm gonna use my pressure
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cooker talking about pressure cookers
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all you seasoned cooks out there that
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have used a pressure cooker over the
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years I want y'all to help me join
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forces and teach the younger generation
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the value of a pressure cooker because
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once you use it you'll wonder how in the
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world you ever did without it the old
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timing ones that work on top of the
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stove I understand that made me nervous
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too and with my pressure cooker I wanted
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all the fear taken out and sometimes
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it's very very hard you have to get that
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top just right on a stovetop but on this
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one it's got the lines you put it on
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open and you close and you just walk
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away you never have to worry about any
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explosion and like I said I wanted to
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show y'all how quickly I can make this
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wonderful pot of soup using this
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pressure cooker now I'm gonna start by
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putting my short ribs into my pressure
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cooker
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and I'm gonna add some of my vegetables
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like almost like a Trinity you know that
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that you want to flavor your soup I'm
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gonna go ahead and add my celery my
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carrots my onions and my seasoning and I
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love using the top part of the celery
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where the leaves are because that just
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adds interest to the soup so in goes my
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celery and I always have the hardest
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time y'all I don't think well I'm gonna
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make a pot like half the size that I
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normally make and I always wind up with
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my largest pot all the way to the brim
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so it looks like I'm gonna have that
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same problem today another thing I want
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to share with y'all in case you've never
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used it is instead of bullion cubes I
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use a wet base and this just is gonna
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add so much flavor to this pot all right
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now the next thing I'm gonna add is some
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garlic powder not garlic salt and to me
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what makes this soup so good is I
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realized over the years I really like
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the flavor that Italian seasonings bring
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to it so this is just a blend of Italian
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seasonings I'm gonna put some salt and
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some pepper and I like to use crushed
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Tomatoes crushed tomatoes are kind of
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they're kind of a cross between a diced
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tomato and tomato sauce so I love the
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fact that it's a little bit more blended
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together I guess you'll say okay so in
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that goes now I'm gonna add just plain
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old water to this on a pressure cooker
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you have a line on your your bowl of
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your machine that tells you do not pass
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that line so we want to make sure
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that we don't go past that feel line
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normally when I cook in my pressure
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cooker I don't add much liquid just
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enough to cook whatever I'm cooking but
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because this is a liquid dish you know I
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filled it more than I normally would so
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all I'm gonna do is put my lid on I'm
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gonna match up the arrows the aera to
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open and then close and that's it and
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now I'm gonna set the timer for about 20
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or 25 minutes we're gonna come back
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we're gonna check on our short ribs
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we're gonna remove the bone and cut up
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the meat and then we're going to add all
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these vegetables and then we'll give it
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like 10 minutes more welcome back y'all
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our 20 minutes is up on our pressure
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cooker so I'm gonna release the steam
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and take it out of the pressure and we
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don't see how they look
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Chattanooga Choo Choo so all I have to
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do to release the pressure is just hold
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the button down and it does look like a
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train doesn't
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you know if you were gonna make your own
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stock from scratch you definitely want
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to throw some short ribs in there
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because it's the flavor that you get
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from the bone marrow so you gotta have
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bones to make a good stock I want to
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tell y'all a funny story I heard not
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long ago and somebody came up and told
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me a story about either their
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grandmother or their mother had passed
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away so they went into the kitchen to
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kind of redo everything and while they
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were working on the ceiling y'all they
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said that they found 23 of the little
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things that sits on top of the stove top
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pressure cooker
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they found 23 embedded in that lady's
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ceiling I just about died laughs and
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when they told me that story 23 all
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right I've mashed the button nothing's
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coming out so just that easily and you
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always want to open it away from you oh
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great granny's alive look at this these
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are beautiful and I'm taking them out
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because I'm gonna take the the meat off
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the bone cut the meat up and then add it
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back to my soup and it's amazing just
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how much meat is only short ribs oh my
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goodness all right so now I've got to
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taste my stock and correct my seasonings
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I'm gonna put a little bit more salt in
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there a little bit more pepper and you
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know what I forgot to put in I forgot to
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put in Worcestershire sauce so just a
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little bit of that to give it a little
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kick so the fun part to me about making
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vegetable soup is you put your favorite
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vegetables in it you don't have to put
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these it's just what I choose to put in
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mine and that's the green beans and I
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always use a canned y'all because
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they're consist
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I've got my butter my baby lima beans my
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Silver Queen corn my Black Eyed Peas
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with snaps fresh red potato cubed up and
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this beautiful flash-frozen fresh okra I
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buy it already sliced up but to me the
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favorite ingredient in this soup is this
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elbow macaroni and normally I cook it in
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my stock but since I'm doing it in the
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pressure cooker today I decided to go
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ahead and cook this off on the side so I
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don't have to worry about it
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all right so I'm gonna start by adding
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my beans and I'm gonna have to be very
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very careful that I don't make this too
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thick because I like a lot of liquid in
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my soup some people like real chunky
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soup all right now I think I'm gonna put
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all that corn in there cuz my kids just
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love corn all right I'm gonna put the
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Black Eyed Peas now I'm gonna add my
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baby llamas and I'm gonna turn this up
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to see how much room I have for other
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stuff look at that oh you know what else
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I forgot great time of day you know
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that's why it's hard trying to teach
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somebody how to make soup there's so
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many ingredients
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I always put bay leaf in mine so I'll
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just put it in now because these are
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gonna go back under pressure so I'm just
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gonna add my face leaves now I added a
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little extra time too and I think I may
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add some celery seeds I love celery
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seeds in my soup like I said I just love
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the looks of the celery seed so let's
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see I've got to add my potato and okra
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oh my goodness I love okra any whack and
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get it course down south we love it
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fried but I love to just ball the whole
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pods and then drain it and put a little
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butter on it a little salt and pepper
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and oh gosh I just love eating it that
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way all right so now
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I'm gonna add my yummy ingredient and
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that's the pasta so I'm gonna add some
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garlic salt this go around now that's
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the amazing part about making soup you
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can correct all your seasonings you know
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if it doesn't have the flavor that you
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want just at the last minute just
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correct everything oh my gosh it's
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getting good y'all it's getting good I
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think I'm gonna add a few more Black
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Eyed Peas
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okay I'll add the rest now now we're
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gonna put the top back on y'all and I'm
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gonna cook this for another 10 minutes
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and all those vegetables will be
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beautiful in tender and while that's
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cooking I'm gonna remove the bone in the
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fat and I'm gonna cut up these wonderful
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short ribs and put them back in the pot
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and we're gonna have soup its soup y'all
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okay y'all soup is ready now I remove
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the fat and so it's ready to just be
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dropped in the pot because the
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vegetables should be ready now you saw I
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forgot my Worcestershire sauce I forgot
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a bay leaf so it didn't matter though
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because it was gonna cook 10 more
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minutes under pressure so I'll still get
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my flavor even though I forgot it on the
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first round so it really made it quick
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today y'all because I decided to cook
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the soup in my pressure cooker rather
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than on top of the stove for several
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different reasons it saves time money
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and nutrients and I like all three of
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those so I started with four beef short
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ribs and I cooked those 15 or 20 maybe
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20 minutes along with my tomatoes my
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salt my pepper celery carrots almost
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like a Trinity that I wanted those
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flavors you know to be in my soup and
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cook that for 20 minutes and then I took
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my short ribs out and added all my
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vegetables and cooked it for another 10
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minutes so I'm fixing a reveal what the
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soup is gonna look like all I have to do
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now is just add my beef to my vegetables
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normally y'all when I make vegetables
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beef soup it takes me like 4 to 5 hours
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on top of the stove but it's taken maybe
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in an hour and a half all total to make
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it my pressure cooker I've got some
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French bread that I'm gonna serve along
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with a soup and I've also got over here
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y'all I've got some flour tortilla
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shells and I'm gonna throw those in the
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deep fryer pull them out and so
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autum so the crew can dump those in
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their suit and that'll be so good that
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crunch in that suit you know I want
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y'all to know when I cook something it
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gets eaten as soon as we get through
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shooting the show the crew sits down and
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enjoys whatever I've cooked so we've
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worked up a good appetite for them this
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show haven't we and you know the the
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weather is starting to cool down a
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little bit now and getting a little nip
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in the air and there's nothing better
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than a good old pot a hearty soup to
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feed the soul as well as the belly okay
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I think we're empty y'all so I'm gonna
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turn this to open I'm gonna raise it
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away from my face and let all that hot
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steam out and look at this wonderful
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finished product now I think the
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consistency is perfect because I like a
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lot of juice because she's gonna serve
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bread alongside for Duncan
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I'll make grilled pimento cheese
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sandwich for dipping or corn muffins so
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I just like having all that broth and in
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goes the secret to the best pot of
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vegetable beef soup you've ever eaten
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look at that YUM eat all right well crew
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it's finally time to eat seemed like it
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took a long time cutting it but it
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really didn't take very long at all but
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look at there mmm and I love to put it
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down in there and let it soak up all
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that rich broth
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mmm I think while I let that cool minute
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y'all I've got my deep fryer turned on
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so I think I'm gonna go ahead let that
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cool for a second and then I'm just
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gonna drop my flour tortillas down here
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and let them start cooking and maybe by
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the time I get through with this I'll be
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able to eat my food how about it all
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right the fry my tortilla shells you
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want to just keep them moving and these
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are so much better than store-bought you
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know max Gus what are y'all doing I'm
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gonna give you some of that short rib
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okay and I found that different brands
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of tortilla shells will cook differently
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you know some will get real Brown real
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quick and these are the brand that is a
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little slow and getting brown oh my gosh
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you cook these in salt and they are so
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good now I'm gonna turn these loose in
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my fryer to make sure they all get good
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and crispy and then I'm gonna take my
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spider and I want to get those salty
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before they dry out all right so
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hopefully my soup is cool enough now
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that I can taste it oh my goodness do I
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have a place for you
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it's still really hot mmm and so are
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these oh I hear it frying in there I
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hear that talk to you shell frying y'all
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know this is this is hot when your
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tortilla shells continues to fry in the
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soup oh my goodness y'all so um I know
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you can probably find this on the
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computer or a tablet or something but
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it's in the lady in sons too and kitchen
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classics cookbook and I did this up for
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my little brother Bubba oh my goodness I
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forgot to tell him about frying the
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tortilla chips oh so when it gets a
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little nip in the air y'all and you
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never know who you gotta feed make a
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part of this soup and she won't be able
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to get rid of nobody and for goodness
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sakes don't forget the power of the
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pressure cooker it'll change your life
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thank y'all I'll see y'all next week
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love and best dishes
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mm-hmm so yellow the day I formulated
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this recipe my brother called and said
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can you tell me how to make vegetable
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beef soup and I said yeah I've been
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needing to formulate it anyway so
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formulated it and it is in my second
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cookbook and the ingredients are this
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long but don't be scared because most of
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its Italian seasoning or seasoned salt
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or something like that so don't don't be
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scared by it at all and I think one of
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the reasons my pot of soup is so good
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I put elbow macaroni in it and when you
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bite into that just kind of squishes in
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your mouth and it just feels good and it
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tastes good and there's nothing like it
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in fact you know what I think I make a
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pot of vegetable beef soup today
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I'm starving y'all try that recipe
23:18
you're gonna love it the space that you
23:22
live in really affects the way you feel
23:24
so my first recommendation is start by
23:28
updating your window treatments with
23:30
Smith & Noble
23:31
Smith & Nobles beautiful handcrafted
23:33
blinds drapes shades and shutters are
23:36
custom made just for you and they offer
23:38
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23:40
needs to get started today contact Smith
23:43
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23:46
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23:50
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23:53
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23:57
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noble.com slash Paula that Smith &
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