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4 of the BEST CASSEROLES For Dinner Tonight
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Jun 12, 2025
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today we're going to make an easy fast
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tamalei pie This is a ground beef recipe
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You could use a cast iron or any other
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pan as long as it's oven proof We've got
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the ground beef We've got some cilantro
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or you can use parsley Garlic Going to
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need an egg the pepper and the onion
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Some taco seasoning I've got my homemade
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blend right here or you can use a packet
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from the store Got some corn sour cream
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an enchilada
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sauce corn muffin mix We got some cheese
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and then we've got some milk and some
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water as our liquid Now the skillet size
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that you're going to need for your oven
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is a 10 in This is one lb of ground
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beef Medium high heat Start breaking it
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up While this is browning somewhat we're
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going to start with our pepper and our
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onion I'm going to start with a yellow
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onion It's about a medium size Chop off
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the ends Peel off that outer layer I'm
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just going to cut it into fours and then
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run it through my
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chopper I'm going to take my pepper Just
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going to give it a little wash Cut off
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the sides Then I'll just cut the sides
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in half Now that poor
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chopper All right we're going to add
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that to our ground
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beef We're going to finish breaking up
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the ground beef browning it up softening
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down those peppers and onions
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Now once your ground beef is browned up
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and the peppers and onions are nice and
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soft you want to make sure you go in and
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drain off any excess grease you have in
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there I'm going to add in two teaspoon
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of minced garlic Just going to use the
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jarred
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garlic Cook that down for about 30
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seconds to a
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minute We're going to add in some taco
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seasoning Now you can use one package of
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your favorite taco seasoning blend that
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you can find in your store or you can
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use three
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tablespoons but this may come in a
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plastic container in your store or your
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homemade blend which I have right
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here Three
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tablespoons Now this recipe of mine
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homemade blend right here can be found
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on my recipe blog
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kathern'splates.com Big batch taco
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seasoning We're going to mix this all
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together with 1/4 cup of
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water We're going to add in 10 oz of a
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red anchilada sauce
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Now you can get it mild medium or hot
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Just using the
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mild We're going to pour that in and mix
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it
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in All right we're going to let this
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simmer We're going to top it with 1 and
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1/2 cups of shredded cheese
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All right lower your heat to a low
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setting while we make the topping In a
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medium bowl we're going to use one box
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of corn muffin mix Now I'm using the
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Jiffy original It's 8.5 oz size All
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right we're going to put in half a cup
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of sour
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cream We're going to add in one can of
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whole kernel corn
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Make sure you drain
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it We're going to crack in one
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egg We're going to add in 1/3 cup of
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milk We're going to crack in some salt
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Definitely need some salt And we're
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going to mix that all together I'm just
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going to use a
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fork All right We're going to pour this
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over our ground beef mixture that had
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the anchelada sauce in it
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I'm going to smooth it out
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evenly We're going to put half a cup of
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shredded cheese on the
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top I've got my oven preheated at
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350° We're going to bake this for about
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35 to 40 minutes until that cornbread
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mixture on top is nice and cooked
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through golden brown You want to make
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sure you don't want it doughy in there
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All right we're going to come back
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garnish it and I'm going to give it a
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try for you I'm going to grab a fork I'm
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going to give a
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try I love those flavors in there Give
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me a thumbs up on this one We are going
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to make chicken and dumpling casserole
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Perfect for your busy nights We are
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going to start off with a fully cooked
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chicken I'm using a rotisserie one
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You'll need about two to three cups
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We're going to give it a nice chop so
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that it's in bite-sized pieces Or you
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can shred the chicken if you want to do
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that also This is such a nostalgic
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recipe for me Chicken and dumplings
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We're giving this a modern twist in a
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casserole form All right I'm going to
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measure out my chicken
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here All right we got two cups We're
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going to take our cut up chicken and
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we're going to put it into the bottom of
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a 9 by13 baking
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dish nice and
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evenly Now I'm going to take a stick of
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butter and we're going to melt it in the
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microwave Takes about 40 seconds 45
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seconds So just put it in your microwave
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safe bowl cup whatever you have I'm just
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going to break it up a little
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bit All right I'll be back
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We're going to pour it evenly over the
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chicken Give that chicken some nice
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flavor We're going to flavor with some
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salt and some black pepper All right Now
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we're going to make the dumpling layer
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self-rising flour If you don't have
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self-rising flour I'm going to show you
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how you can make it really quick using
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your allpurpose flour So we're going to
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add one cup of all-purpose flour just to
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a regulariz bowl Measure that out just
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scrape off with the back edge of my
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knife We're going to add in 1 and 1/2
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teaspoon of baking powder 1/4 teaspoon
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of
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salt We'll whisk that together Now if
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you have the self-rising flour you do
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not need to do this step Just measure
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out your one cup All right Now we're
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going to add in our milk All right I'm
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just going to use my measuring cup that
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I melted the butter in so we don't have
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to use another
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one We're going to slowly add it in
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while we're
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whisking I'm going to add the rest back
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in Combine this until it's nice and
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incorporated and
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smooth I'm going to bring our chicken
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back
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over We're going to spread this evenly
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over the chicken Do not
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stir Just drizzle it on there
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We got another layer coming and give it
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some nice
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flavor We're going to bring over a
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medium bowl One can of cream of chicken
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soup And then we're going to add in two
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cups of chicken broth We're going to
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measure that out Oh it smells
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good All right I'm going to pour it in
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my can so we can get all that goodness
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out of
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[Music]
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there Then we'll fill it up with the
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rest Now it's not two cans of chicken
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broth okay it's two
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cups I'm going to bring my whisk over
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Blend this all
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together I am going to add in some
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cracked black
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pepper Got to season all your layers
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Let's blend this
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together And then we're going to pour
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this over the dumpling mixture here
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We're not mixing any layers
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okay do not drag a spoon through this
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and stir any of this together okay leave
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it layered like that I've got my oven
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preheated at
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375° We're going to bake this for 45
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minutes
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uncovered I'll be back I let it rest for
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about 10 minutes and that's very
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important for those dumplings to finish
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forming in here Let's go in
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It smells
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delicious
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Yes All right I'm just going to cut this
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into pieces here
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This is a baked spaghetti cream cheese
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casserole and it's got a ground beef
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pasta sauce Kind of like any kind of
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sauce that you like with spaghetti
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That's what we're doing today So I'm
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going to be using my famous spaghetti
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sauce that I use for any kind of pasta
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dish around here We're going to start
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off with one pound of ground beef in a
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large skillet We're going to start
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breaking that down browning it up Okay
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I'm going to start breaking down a bell
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pepper and a yellow onion So we're going
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to add it in That way it can start
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softening down getting a little color on
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it Okay while we got the ground beef
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browning up and the peppers and onions
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softening down I'm going to show you how
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we're going to get the spaghetti going
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I've got a large pot of water that I
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brought to a boil I just placed a lid on
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it so that it comes to a boil faster To
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the boiling water we're going to add
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half a tablespoon of salt This will help
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flavor the spaghetti We're going to add
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one lb of spaghetti This is regular 16
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oz It's uncooked and place it in We're
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going to cook the spaghetti per the
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directions on the back of the package
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for al dente Takes 11 to 12 minutes Okay
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the ground beef is browned up The
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peppers and onions are softened down
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We're going to go ahead and remove any
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grease from the pan here I've just got
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my paper towels here I'm going to place
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it into the pan and sop up any excess
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Going to add in 28 oz of a pasta sauce
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We're not going to add any water to it
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cuz we don't want it too runny Add 1/4
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cup or so of some Parmesan
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cheese Grate it on in there
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Keep going He said keep going All right
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All right we need the rest of it though
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for the top of our casserole You
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guys we're going to add in these are
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like my secret ingredients One
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tablespoon of
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butter one tablespoon of minced
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garlic a tablespoon of white granulated
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sugar and then we're going to add
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in Italian seasoning Of course you have
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to right about a tablespoon I am going
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to crack in some salt some black
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pepper We're going to combine this all
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together We're going to simmer it for
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just 3 minutes to pull all those flavors
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together and then we'll turn it off Okay
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I've got my drained spaghetti right here
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We're going to add in one block of cream
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cheese I let it sit out for a little bit
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so I can kind of soften down That'll
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help the
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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
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faster Okay we're going to mix this
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in All right that looks good right
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there We're going to spray a 9 by13
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baking dish or a casserole dish You just
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want to have room We're going to place
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some of the sauce in the bottom of the
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baking dish Just enough that will keep
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the spaghetti from
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sticking All right we're going to layer
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the 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
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together Let's get the rest of it out
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All right we're going to add the rest of
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the sauce on top of the spaghetti
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All right we're going to evenly spread
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it out It's nice to have extra hands in
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the
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kitchen Y'all know Thomas Or if you
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don't that's 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 Got some Parmesan cheese going right
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on the top Let it snow on
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it 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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and the cheese has melted Look how
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delicious that looks It smells delicious
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in the house It's like an Italian
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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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layers That is delicious I love that
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creaminess from the cream cheese Let's
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make a chicken Alfredo tater tot
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casserole This is a very fast easy put
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together weekn night meal You're going
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to love this one This is an 8 by1 11 and
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that's what we're going to be cooking in
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And we want to start cooking our tater
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tots Give them a head start We're going
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to par cook them Means just cook them
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halfway I got my oven preheated at 425°
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We'll put enough on the pan that will
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cover the 8 by1
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11 which I'm going to be doing 14
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oz Yep that'll be perfect right there
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I'm going to cook these for 8 minutes
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and then we'll pull them out I'm using a
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rotisserie chicken That'll give us about
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two 2 and 1/2 cups of chicken that we
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need for this recipe And if you don't
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know what a rotisserie chicken is it is
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a flavored fully cooked chicken that you
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can get from your deli of your
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store There we go I'm going to start
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shredding this up and then we're going
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to put it into a large mixing bowl I
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can't tell you what happened to the rest
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of the chicken but might have been the
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dog or it might have been Thomas Who do
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y'all think i think it was the dog Yeah
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the dog said "No way I'm on a diet."
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There we go Let's put this into our
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large
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bowl There we go Okay I've pulled my
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broccoli out of the microwave I just
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drained it a little bit in the sink just
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to get some moisture out of there I'm
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just going to put it on a cutting board
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and we're just going to chop it
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up Now it's going to be hot so be
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careful Y'all didn't see what that was
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right here
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Let's go ahead and add this to our bowl
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with the
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chicken We're going to add in a jar of
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Alfredo sauce Now I'm using the
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Homestyle Alfredo sauce And this is
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14.5 oz size
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jar There we go A jar opener
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Put that
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in So we're going to add in 1/4 cup of
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milk into the jar Put the lid on We're
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going to give it a shake shake
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shake All right in it goes We're going
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to add in a/4 cup of Parmesan
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cheese A little extra There we go
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Tracked black
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pepper Get that in there I love that in
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Alfredo We got some garlic powder and
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onion powder Probably about 1/4 teaspoon
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of
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each All right get you a spatula and mix
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everything
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together That looks good in
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there Now we're going to bring over our
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baking dish Now remember this was an 8
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by11 I'm going to spray it lightly with
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some cooking spray Y'all this is as
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natural of a cooking spray as you can
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get right out of the bottle Just spray
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it on there We're going to take the
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mixture We're going to pour it into the
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bottom of the baking dish It smells so
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good What do you think dear that could
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be really good We're going to spread it
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out
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evenly I'm going to
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shred 8 oz of mozzarella
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cheese Look how fresh that looks I'm
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going to put this all on top of our
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casserole
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here Now I've got the tater tots We're
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going to put them all on top of our
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casserole Remember they're
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parcooked That cheese will help hold
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these tater tots on our Alfredo
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bake Okay we're going to place this in
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the oven It's still heated at the
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425° We're going to bake this for 35
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minutes until the tater tots are nice
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and crispy on the top the cheese has all
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melted and everything is heated through
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I'll be back with a big spoon Here it is
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I let it rest for a few minutes to kind
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of pull itself together The tater tots
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are nice and crispy on the top Look at
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that cheese Nice and melty Let's go
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in Look at
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that Here's my bite
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M That is
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delicious I'm giving this recipe to
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Joseph He'll really like to make this
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And it's so easy to make and really fast
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to put together All right you guys give
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me a thumbs up on this one That tastes
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delicious I might be back for seconds
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That can feed four people It's a good
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amount All right you guys I'll see
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youall on the next episode Bye
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