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Mama's Chicken and Rice Casserole
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Jan 30, 2025
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hey welcome into a snowy cold Camp it is
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but woo what are we talking about today
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chicken and rice casserole with some
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green chilies why is this dish favorite
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why should you try it because my mother
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taught me how to make it when I was
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about 10 or 11 years old and she would
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Grace it on our table so many cold days
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when you'd come in horseback and that
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would be sitting there it just warm you
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up you heart and your soul my mother
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taught me to cook and she said cook what
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you love for the one you love so I'm
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cooking this for all of y'all because I
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love you and I'm cooking it for my
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little sweet wife which I love more than
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anything so I think we better get
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started because my feet is
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freezing you know this is pure comfort
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food at its best to me because I can
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remember my mother and dad and Cindy and
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Randy and Dale and me all gathered
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around a table and Mama would put this
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out there in some of that old Corning
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wear that casserole dish and lay it on
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the table we had blessed the food and
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eat it and to me there was nothing more
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special than that moment uh growing up
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because there was all the family there
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but my mother put so much heart and soul
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into everything she cooked and she
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taught me to cook that way too so I hope
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y'all enjoy so you know what I say you
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can't get full on fancy so let's get
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after it
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melted in a half a stick of butter diced
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up two celery stocks and a white onion
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we're going to get it in there and let
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all the love
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again I can remember coming in the house
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when Mama would just start this dish and
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there's just something about me that
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when you're cooking onions and celery in
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some butter that it just that Aroma just
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brings about happiness there's a lot of
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memories come flooding in so hey I look
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forward to this dish y'all be sure and
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pay attention it's pretty easy to do
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pretty quick really and you actually
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don't like celery no I don't I won't eat
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raw celery but I don't mind it cooked in
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something like this you know I put it in
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Mama's cornbread dressing I put it in
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this I don't mind having it with uh some
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kind of soups and stews sometime but
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just to just pick up a stalk and bite it
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no I ain't going to have
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not even like with peanut butter no no
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ma'am not even with peanut butter not
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even not even with grape jelly I mean
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just ain't going to
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happen well while them is sauté and we
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done put us a little sauce pot over here
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one can can of cream of chicken soup and
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then a can and a half of warm water back
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in there then a half a stick of butter
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let that we're going to have to bring
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that to a bowl but this here when you
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think that you got them onions and that
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celery soft it is time to add the green
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chili now this is where me and my mother
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differed a little bit because she'd say
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I bet them's hot she'd use a green bell
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pepper a lot of times but if I ever
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cooked it for I'd always put green
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chilies in it she never even knew the
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difference so we're going to add about a
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third of a cup if we can get them shook
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in there I'd say that was pretty close
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give them a stir we don't want to cook
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these much longer I just want a little
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flavor that them green chilies are going
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to bring about in here and then we're
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going to slide it off the fire see if we
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can get that chicken soup to boil and
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then I'll meet you back over here we'll
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go to putting it together
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well cup and a half of white rice
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uncooked went right down in the bottom
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of that spread it out pretty evenly if
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you can the recipe that my mother always
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used called for six chicken breasts but
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these are pretty honk and big they are
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so if I can find me some of them rubber
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gloves which will make my hands even
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colder here and you can see me in the
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glow inthe darkk gloves right here Shan
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mhm but we're going to trim a little fat
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off that chicken if there is
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any cold as it is there ain't ain't
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going to be much problem getting it off
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there because it always fat trims better
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cold than it does hot little piece right
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there but I think I'm going to cut like
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this one right in half since it's extra
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big same
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here and I'll see if I can get that off
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right
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there it's about 30° out here probably
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about 28 shade so this chicken ain't
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thought out much well first in goes the
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chicken right on top the rice now if
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you're doing this at home You' be
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putting it in a 9 by3 casserole dish and
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you preheat your oven to about
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350° so we're going to see can we get
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all these to fit in here the boat may
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get a little overcrowded but hey I bet
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it works so we're going to season that
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chicken with some of this mosquite and
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be pretty generous with it because the
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only thing else that we seasoned was the
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celery the onions there so we're going
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to give this pretty good dosing I got a
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spoon somewhere rake all this down
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here I could probably eat this all by
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itself right here just sprinkle it
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around spread it around whatever you got
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to do just make sure that everybody gets
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some on
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it I think I could do that probably
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better by hand Shan don't you you got
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your gloves on
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yeah and it's warm sort of helps warm up
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my
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fingers we're going to take that chicken
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soup and just drizzle Plum over here
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across the top then we're going to get
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us a tribute ready to go and we going to
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bike it
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you know if you're cooking this in the
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house we told you to preheat that oven
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to 350° you're probably going to cook it
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about an hour and a half now my mother
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would always cover it with tin full till
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about the last 15 minutes and then she
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would jerk that off that way keep a
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little more moisture in there with that
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chicken now out here probably not going
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to take me maybe 45 minutes to an hour
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we're going to try to keep it uh pretty
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medium heat uh try to slow it down just
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a little make sure that chicken doesn't
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cook too fast and you'll see that we pre
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that ground really more than y'all
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probably ever seen it done before move a
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snow off but that old ground is cold if
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you just put coals on there it suck the
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heat out of them things so quick you'd
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be gone that first batch would so always
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heat the ground with that torch if you
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don't have one lay you a lay coals out
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there where you're cooking with that
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Dutch oven and then you can rake them
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aside put your trivet down put some
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fresh coals you'll be in pretty good
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shape today I am using some mosquite and
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Oak and uh it is a good hot wood it is
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uh pretty heavy around the bottom a
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little bit lighter on the top not much
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Breeze today so we probably won't have
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to rotate too much but we'll keep an eye
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on it we'll check this after a while
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after we know everything is really good
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and hot and probably between a simmer
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and a bowl just to keep it constant all
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the way around there to get that rice
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good and tender but make sure that
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that's chicken done we'll use the chef's
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temp here at the last to make sure that
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chicken's the right temperature hey I'm
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going to try to get my feet warm by Bera
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we'll just keep on the cooking you know
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as we're standing here waiting for that
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to cook let's talk about cooking in some
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cold weather and some tips I have for
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you especially dealing with cast iron
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number one you know say it's 10° out
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there and you've got some cast iron and
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you're in a hurry so you're just going
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to throw it out there on the ground and
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put you a bunch of hot coals on there
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that cast iron is cold I mean you stick
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your tongue to that it's like that kid
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that stuck his tongue to the flag pole
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in that movie it's going to stick to
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that you shock that cast iron what's
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going to happen it's probably either
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going to crack or it's going to warp
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pre-warm that cast iron I put it up
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there around old ber and rotate it
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around to it's got to be at least I'd
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say body temperature that's why I want
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it then when you start cooking ain't
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nothing going to happen to it another
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thing when you're cooking in cold
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weather is you're probably going to have
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to refire an oven because it's not like
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a hot day to where you're putting some
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coals out there and it's 110 degre we're
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talking about freezing temperatures you
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may have to put you another layer of
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coals around the bottom shake them off
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on the top if they're not hot remember
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that we showed you this distance away
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from it can you hold it 5 seconds if you
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can it's not hot enough shake them off
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get you some fresh cold now a lot of
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times on ranches when I'm cooking and
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it's sort of like this weather right
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here today and I've got to keep food
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warm I take a Yeti ice chest and I go
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ahead and boil me some water pour it in
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there let it pre-warm that ice chest
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dump it out dry it out then you can
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store bread in there baked potatoes in
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there I've stored meat in there I've
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even cooked brisket in there after you
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get it off the fire put it in there shut
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that lid it will continue to cook
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there's so many things that you can do
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and figure out when you're out here in
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this kind of weather and don't think
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this is not good cooking weather it's
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better than sweating
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now as you're checking that you won't
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have to maybe do that in the house but
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out here in a dutch oven you know the
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moisture in there the rice is going to
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absorb all that moisture it is and then
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that chicken is going to get done right
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there on top but I took it off the
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bottom heat because we about got all
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that moisture out of it and then I put a
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few more Cs on top to try to Brown that
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chicken just a little you know when
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you're cooking chicken I like to make
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sure that chicken is done and I use me a
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chef's temp thermometer hey accurate
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reading it's really quick and for our
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fans they have got you a special code
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down there to where you can get one it
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is a great product but remember to check
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that chicken right there end make sure
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it is that desired temperature that you
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want well I have braved the cold weather
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me and Shen and I am going to get a
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piece of this chicken sit out here long
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enough it has got cold in the snow first
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let's just get a bite of this
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rice thank you Mama God bless you you
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are a great cook and a great
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mother made me want to do a chicken
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dance you ain't seen too many chickens
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dancing out in the snow though and a
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freezy little beak off you know that
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chicken is so tender and the flavor that
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you get with the celery and the onions
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all seems to seep up through there and
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that M SK just tops it off hey it is a
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great dish it is 100% comfort food and I
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hope you enjoy it because we've enjoyed
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it for many years but it is with great
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pride privilege and honor that I tip my
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hat and salute all the servicemen and
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women and all the veterans who have kept
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that old flag of flying in Camp whether
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it be warm or cold windy or dry we
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appreciate you one and all we do rest of
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you get on up in here really close I'm
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going to give you a cold weather
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hug God bless you each and everyone and
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I'm going see you down the chicken and
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green chili and rice casserole
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Trail oh what happened
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K seasoning fell in there
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