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CREAMY ITALIAN Grinder PASTA SALAD A Cool No Cook Salad
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Apr 25, 2025
Favorite Salad Ingredients, Italian Meats & Cheese, Pulled together with a Creamy Grinder Dressing. CREAMY ITALIAN Grinder PASTA SALAD A Cool No Cook Salad. Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/creamy-italian-grinder-pasta-salad/ **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media
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my creamy Italian grinder pasta salad
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has a few components to it we're going
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to make a salad part of it that's going
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to have Italian meats cheese our
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favorite salad ingredients we're going
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to make a grinder dressing it's going to
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kind of pull it all together the first
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thing that we're going to start with
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though it's pasta because it is a pasta
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salad so I've got a large pot of water
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that I'm bringing to a boil happens
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faster with the lid on it
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i'm going to add in half a tablespoon of
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salt this is going to flavor the
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water make our pasta
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delicious this is what I'm using right
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here it's a pennet pasta and it's 16 oz
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you can use any other type of pasta that
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you want as long as it's a short pasta
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we're going to add that
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in i'm going to stir this for about 30
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seconds that'll help the pasta from
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sticking as it's cooking we're going to
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cook this per the directions on the back
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of the package for al dente or if you
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want it more tender then just add the
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minutes to it this will take about 11
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minutes
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all right what we're going to do is cool
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down the pasta by running cold water
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over
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it all right the pasta has cooled
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down i'm just going to take some paper
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towels i'm just going to blot the pasta
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a little bit before we add it to our
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large mixing bowl get some of that water
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off of there
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y'all it is so tender
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[Music]
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mhm
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magic there we
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go for the salad portion of our pasta
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salad I'm going to be using a red onion
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some cherry tomatoes and iceberg lettuce
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now for the red onion I'm just going to
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use about a quarter of it but it's going
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to add a nice color to the
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dish all right so I'm just going to use
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this portion right
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there just cut it in strips then I'm
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going to cut the strips into
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threes now I'm using iceberg lettuce and
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I'm just going to go in with quarter of
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it
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and I'm just going to cut it into strips
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we want to keep everything into
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bite-sized
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pieces that way you get a nice bite on
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your fork with
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everything just like
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that we got some cherry tomatoes i've
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already rinsed these
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off got about a pint of them you can use
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as many as you want
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it's going to become one of your
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favorites for the summertime
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here all right I've got my cherry
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tomatoes all chopped up let's talk about
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the banana
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peppers these are a mild pepper but if
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you'll want more spice to the dish this
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is where you can put the peppercinis in
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it now these are rings i'm going to set
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them right here
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that's going to be good in this
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salad all right that should be about
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enough right there put about half a cup
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there that look like half a cup yeah
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it's pretty close it's pretty close
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right there there we
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go this is what I'm using right here all
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right I'm just going to chop them up
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that way they get mixed really well into
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the salad now we're going to add our
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salad
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portion to our cooled cooked pasta
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all right we're going to add those
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banana
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[Music]
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peppers the
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tomatoes
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lettuce the red onion all right let's do
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the Italian meats and our cheese now
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what's great about the salad portion of
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this pasta salad is that you can put
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what you want in there okay if you don't
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like something then you don't have to
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add it in there you can add more of
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something whatever you want to do it's a
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cold pasta salad so it'll serve well
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with other ingredients we're going to
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start with our Italian meats i'm going
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to show you what these are and how we're
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going to chop them up got some black
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forest ham here i've got three five
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slices you want about 4 ounces if you're
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going to make this to a true grinder
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salad but like I said you can put
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whatever you want in
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there i'm going to roll it up now what
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I'm going to do is run my knife through
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lengthwise and then I'm going to cut
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these into small
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slices we've already been eating the
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ham it's so
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good all right once you get that chopped
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up we're going to take some salami again
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this is about 4 oz this is a What is
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this genanoa and then what I'm going to
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do is just slice this
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yeah it's a hard one
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yeah and then we've got some
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pepperoni just going to cut it into
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strips oh this stuff is
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good now we are going to put some cheese
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in our salad
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got that right
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provolone cheese now you can get it
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shredded or you can do the cubed or you
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can get it like this is which is what we
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have so I'm just going to put six thin
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slices and then we'll just chop that up
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just going to cut it into
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threes kind of turn it there we go and
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chop it all right let's add all of this
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to our pasta
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salad oo smells
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delicious just the meats here smell
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delicious i don't know if we got a big
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enough bowl i know we're going to keep
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going that's the biggest one we got too
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there we
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go we're going to make a creamy grinder
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dressing to pull it all together so I'm
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putting one cup of
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mayonnaise i'm measuring it out right
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here i think that's it all right we're
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going to put that into a medium
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bowl a little extra doesn't hurt we're
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going to add one tablespoon of minced
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garlic 3 tablespoons
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Go red wine vinegar two and
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three we're going to add two teaspoon of
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white granulated sugar now you don't
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have to put any in there if you don't
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want
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to just balance out that vinegar that we
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used right here we're going to add in
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one teaspoon of
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salt it's going to go a long way you saw
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that big salad
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and then we're going to add in one
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teaspoon of black
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pepper we've got some Italian
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seasoning one
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teaspoon we're going to balance it out
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even more with some Parmesan
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cheese whatever I got in there about 2
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to three
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ounces i'm just gonna put it all in
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there
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Thomas liked that he's like "Yeah." All
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right I need a
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whisk let's whisk this all
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[Music]
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together give it a
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taste see if you need to add anything
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else that looks good in
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there let's go
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m oh
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wow all right let's stress the salad
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y'all get some big tongs you got to
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knead
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it and get all that goodness out of
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there all right let's start
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mixing give it a few minutes make sure
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everything is nice and
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coated oh my goodness you guys grab a
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fork and a big bowl creamy
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Italian grinder pasta
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salad you're going to be the star of the
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show when you bring this for any
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occasion let me tell
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you oh do y'all see everything in there
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you need a bigger shot closeup all
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right there you
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go i'm going to grab a bowl i'm going to
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put some in and I'm going to give this a
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try for
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you oh how big's my bite right
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[Music]
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there it's creamy it's Italian i love
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that crunch from the
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lettuce that dressing is the bomb y'all
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make some you can half this recipe if
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you don't need all of
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that we do though right you guys give me
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a thumbs up on my creamy Italian grinder
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pasta salad if you're looking for the
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grinder sandwich that's on my blog also
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catherine's
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plates.com all right you guys woo those
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banana peppers they wake it up too i'll
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see y'all on the next episode bye
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