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hi everyone welcome back today I am
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fixing to start on a casserole this is a
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baked spaghetti cream cheese casserole
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and it's got a ground beef pasta sauce
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kind of like any kind of sauce that you
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like with spaghetti that's what we're
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doing today so I'm going to be using my
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famous spaghetti sauce that I use for
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any kind of pasta dish around here we're
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going to start off with one pound of
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ground beef in a large Skillet we're
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going to start breaking that down
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Browning it up I got it over a medium
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high heat this is the perfect dish to
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make around the holidays if you have
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guessed over maybe you need to bring
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something to a pot luck bring this it's
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really delicious it's got flavors that
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you know and love especially with
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spaghetti but it's a fun way to make
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it okay I'm going to start breaking down
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a bell pepper and a yellow onion
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this is a pretty large bell pepper so
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I'm only going to use about two sides of
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it just going to slice it and I've
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already washed off the bell
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pepper I love bell pepper in spaghetti
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sauce if you don't you don't have to put
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it in there you can leave it out all
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right I just cut strips I'm just going
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to turn it around and I'm just going to
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run my knife through it now what I like
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to do is add the bell pepper and the
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onion to my ground beef as it's cooking
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so we're going to add it in that way it
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down getting a little color on
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it I've got a yellow onion it's about a
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medium already took the ends off I'm
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going to take the outer layer
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helper there they are cut the onion in
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half lay it down run your knife through
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I generally just try to follow the lines
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of the onion or just cut
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strips tuck your fingers
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in now I turn the onion around a quarter
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of the way I'm just going to run my
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knife through and that is going to get
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us our dices pretty fast and then once
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we get this all chopped up we're going
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to add it to the ground beef and the
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peppers and start softening down this
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also okay while we got the ground beef
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Browning up and the peppers and onions
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soft down I'm going to show you how
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we're going to get the spaghetti
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going I've got a large pot of water that
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I brought to a boil I just placed a lid
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on it so that it comes to a boil
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faster to the boiling water we're going
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to add half a tablespoon of salt this
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spaghetti we're going to add one pound
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of spaghetti this is regular 16 oz it's
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uncooked and place it in
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we're going to cook the spaghetti per
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the directions on the back of the
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package for all Dente I'm going to get
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my spaghetti in we're going to stir it
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around for 1 minute after the spaghetti
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is all into the water
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there now the spaghetti
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minutes okay the ground beef is browned
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up the peppers and onions are softened
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down we're going to go ahead and remove
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any grease from the pan here
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so we don't want that in our
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casserole so I've just got my paper
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towels here I'm going to place it into
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the pan and toop up any excess grease
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go now we're going to flavor up the
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ground beef we're going to add
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in 28 oz of a pasta sauce now I like
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garlic this is a big big jar of sauce
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but I'm not putting it all in I'm going
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there we're not going to add any water
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to it CU we don't want it too
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runny what we're going to do now is add
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a/4 cup or so of some Parmesan
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there or if you have a plastic tub of it
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in your refrigerator it's a/4
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cup woo that's going to add had some
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flavor I make a lot of pasta sauce I
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have never put parmesan cheese in it for
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the longest time because that's not how
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it but once I started adding parmesan
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cheese to it we love it like that heck
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yeah yeah keep going he said keep
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going all right we need the rest of it
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though for the top of our cast you
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guys we're going to add in these are
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like my secret ingredients 1 tablespoon
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of butter it's all flavor all
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flavor one tablespoon of minced
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garlic now because all the tomato sauce
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in there I always add a tablespoon of
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white granulated sugar that's for my
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husband offsets some of the acidity of
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the tomato sauce there and then we're
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Italian seasoning of course you have to
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tablespoon there we go looks good I am
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going to crack in some
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pepper we're going to combine this all
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we're going to give it a taste
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delicious all right we're going to go
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that we're going to simmer it for just 3
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minutes to pull all those flavors
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together and then we'll turn it
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off okay I've got my drained spaghetti
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right here we're going to add in one
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cheese I'll let it sit out for a little
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bit so I can kind of soften down that'll
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process and so will the hot spaghetti
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that we've drained I'm just going to cut
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it into strips and add it to the
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spaghetti that way it'll melt faster and
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okay we're going to mix this
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melts all right that looks good right
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there we're going to spray a 9x13 baking
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dish or a casserole dish you just want
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room we're going to place some of the
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sauce in the bottom of the baking dish
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just enough that will keep the spaghetti
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sticking have a landing place here let's
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over all right we're going to layer the
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spaghetti on top of the
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sauce we're going to do it
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Loosely this is a layered casserole kind
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of a fun casserole to put together
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let's get the rest of it
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out all right we're going to add the
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rest of the sauce on top of the
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spaghetti all right we're going to
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evenly spread it out it's nice to have
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extra hands in the kitchen
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y'all know Thomas or if you don't that's
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my husband Thomas he's my
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cameraman we're going to cheese it up I
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got mozzarella cheese about four to six
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oz we're going to spread that all on the
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top all right we're going move it
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around there we go got some Parmesan
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cheese going right on the top
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it we don't want to overdo it there we
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go boom now we're going to shake on yes
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we're going to shake on some
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parsley I've got my oven preheated at
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350° we're going to bake this for about
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30 minutes until it's nice and bubbly
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melted y'all better come back I'm going
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look how delicious that looks it smells
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delicious in the house it's like an
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restaurant y'all ready for the
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reveal look at that look at those
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bite that is delicious I love that
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creaminess from the cream
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cheese wow it just subtles out that
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sauce we got a pan of garlic bread back
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behind me we got winter you got the
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holidays make a pan of this and take it
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somewhere I'll see y'all on the next
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episode bye you guys
