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hello everyone karen glasser here and
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once upon a story time i am so
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excited that you're here today we have
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and whether you're here live or on
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replay it doesn't matter make sure you
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in the comments today we are welcoming
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michael chang to the show and we are
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joining her in the kitchen
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for the halloween show eat drink and be
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at a very early age she knew what she
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wanted to be she wanted to be a chef
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every weekend she would stand on a
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dining room chair and position herself
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so that she had a clear view of her
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parents as they cooked
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she's been a columnist for several
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magazines and websites including
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cooking smart jasmine and she knows
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michael was also the resident chef for
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show eye on the bay which aired each
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evening in northern california
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currently she's the resident chef for
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home nutrition and carlos and lisa show
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she teaches their viewers practical
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cooking and entertaining tips
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as a celebrity chef she has cooked for a
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for former presidents not just one many
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fortune 400 moguls as well as some of
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the most celebrated actors
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in the world how cool is that we bring
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michael into the show hey michael how
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you doing hi karen how are you i'm well
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i am doing great i'm so excited about
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this show i love your shirt thank you
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keep it real i love it that's awesome
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wait i want to put a comment up craig
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hi craig thanks for joining us we're
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glad that you joined us
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we're so excited we have a lot of things
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going on today we're going to be airing
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a couple of it's actually three videos
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and guys when you go over to
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uh once upon a story time.live you can
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a copy of the free download it gives you
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tips it gives you everything go look in
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the comments right now there's a link
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for you to go download it
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so that you can join us later on and
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and decorate with us all right
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so we have a couple of videos we're
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going to show and then we're going to
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come back in the kitchen with our two
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young friends we have chloe and then we
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another young woman vivian who's going
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to be joining us and you're going to
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cook you're going to cook some scary
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really fun all right all right so i'm
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going to drop you down in the green room
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i'm going to throw up some videos so
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that we can watch them and then i will
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you back sounds good here we go i'm
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going to go ahead and put some videos
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one two here we go and three
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all right so here's video number one
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and enjoy so today i'm going to show you
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some really easy and cool ways to
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decorate your front entrance away for
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i'm all about creativity and
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affordability so let's start here
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i love the concept of doing like a white
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and black theme i think there's
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something super elegant and
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sophisticated about it
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instead of just using your standard
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orange and black so here we've got these
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white and black pumpkins
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these i purchased either at walmart for
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like three dollars or michael's for
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maybe two or three dollars
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and then this i think looks really
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amazing these are branches from my tree
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i simply cut it off i got some craft
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and i spray painted this in a matte
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black that's waterproof
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took a little bit of cobwebbing from the
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dollar tree and then bought these
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ravens on amazon i think for really
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15 of them for like 7.99 so i think this
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little prop for your front door entrance
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i got these crows from michaels you can
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just go ahead and put
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some animals like some rats and then
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bird bath on let go for about ten
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i filled it up with water and i kind of
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made this mock little bird bath with
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that which i think looks great as well
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um the other thing i did was i took this
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that i just bought on amazon for about
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20 bucks dressed up the skeleton in a
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and then made it look like she was
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having a cup of tea this is something
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that i bought from the antique store for
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um these little props the flowers the
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the rats and all of these chains i
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bought at the 99 cent store
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um and again more of the black
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branches spray painted with the ravens
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the last thing i want to show you up
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here is the door this is a really cool
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wreath that i bought at walmart
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and i bought this last year and it's
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and i was so annoyed because his finger
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was broken i went through like eight of
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and all the fingers were broken so
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instead of just putting it away what i
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did was i painted his broken finger red
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so it looks like he has a bloody
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bloody finger so again it's all about
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this chain is from michael's it's three
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dollars and fifty cents
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and again we did this with the doorway
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entrance and the birds and then again
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so these are just some really cool and
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easy ideas for you i want to bring you
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inside now because i want to show you
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how i decorated the mantels
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inside my house that are really fun and
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super easy for you now for the inside of
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my house and i want to show you how i
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decorated the mantel this year
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we'll start off with these these are
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candle holders that i recently just
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purchased in michael's arts and crafts
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and they were 50 off so they were about
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and i just put the dollar store candles
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in here um the skulls i love they look
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these i purchased at cost plus last year
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along with these candles at cosplus
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that were on clearance and i think these
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were about three dollars these were
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seven or eight dollars um i took some
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old antique books that i had from an
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old bookshelf from 20 years ago and i
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just stacked up two of the books
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a little bird cage from the 99 store i
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put a little raven from amazon
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and then um down here i did these
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skeleton little animals here again i
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love the black and the white look in my
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in my home this is just a little fake
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leafy branch that i picked up from
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and again these are super easy i didn't
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have to make anything
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um inside here and really cool looking
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so welcome to my family room and i
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wanted to show you the mantel that i've
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here in the family room so again these
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are white pumpkins that i recently just
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three dollars each these are real white
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pumpkins that i purchased
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at pavilions they were 89 cents on sale
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and then again these candle stick
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holders these are silver candlesticks
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that i've owned for over 30 years
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so be creative and look for things in
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your house that you can actually use
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and then the owls here i bought at the
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and then again the cost plus candles
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here i bought this little prop
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from i think it was michael's the
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feather from the dollar store
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and then what i did was i've had these
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antique print pictures for over 30 years
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and what i did was i just hung them up
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and i put a little bit of webbing if you
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want to get real close you can see the
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there's a little spider right there and
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i hung them crooked which i
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think adds kind of like this spooky feel
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to your house if you don't have prints
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i would just go online and download
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black and white prints
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and buy really cheap frames they even
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sell the frames at the dollar store
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black frames and go ahead and do this
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black and white theme super cool looking
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elegant sophisticated
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i hope you try these at home and we're
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oh my gosh i'm so excited you are so
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talented um we have a comment i want to
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put up on the screen okay um
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adrienne says can't wait to see what
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i can't either i think it's scary food
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it's fun kid and inspired food i love
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halloween i always have i remember going
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trick-or-treating with my two
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older sisters and i mean what kid
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doesn't love getting dressed up and
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getting a bunch of candy
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so i hosted a halloween party every year
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for my daughter here at the house since
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three years old and we decorate the
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and the inside and we do really fun
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um and it's just honestly the last part
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of the year you know and in this day and
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age that we're living in right now and
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so many of the states are saying
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you know it's not safe to send the kids
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out this is a perfect thing to do
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at home and it's why we did this show
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you when i talked about this
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it's why we did the show it's a way to
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bring halloween inside
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if you're used to being outside all the
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time so i'm going to put you on
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solo i'm going to have you introduce our
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friends and we're going to start cooking
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in the kitchen with you
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here we go so the first thing that we're
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going to make is a bloody tomato soup
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and i call this the vampire soup
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and my first little uh kitchen assistant
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vivian so vivian come on out hi how are
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good good good you put your little
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poker down okay so we're gonna do this
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tomato soup and i'll tell you why i love
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most children and kids as you know they
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really do like the flavor of tomato soup
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but i do notice notice that there's a
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lot of cream and butter and it tends to
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on the not so healthy side so this is a
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really delicious roasted tomato soup
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that i make that doesn't have
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any dairy in it we're going to use a
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little bit of yogurt just to do the
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garnish at the end but that's something
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that you can obviously
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omit as well so video we're going to
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start i'm going to just kind of direct
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you and you're basically just going to
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be doing this by yourself
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so we're going to start with about a
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tablespoon of olive oil so if you want
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to grab that olive oil
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and just drizzle it into the pot it's
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that's perfect so we've got about a
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tablespoon of olive oil in here
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and then we're just gonna put the onions
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uh brown onion that's you know medium
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dice as well as two cloves of garlic so
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go ahead and grab that bowl
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and i'll hold it for you and just pour
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that in and that's going into the
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soup pot here and we're just gonna cook
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i usually cook this for about 10 minutes
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and so i've got it on pretty high heat
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right now so go ahead and give that a
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and i love this recipe as well because a
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lot of the stuff that you
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that you have here we have in the pantry
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you know we really have olive oil
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usually some crushed tomato
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i'm using um crushed italian tomatoes
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you can use fire roasted tomatoes you
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can use a really good
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bottle of marinara sauce just use what
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you have i'm all about practicality
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so we're going to go ahead and saute
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this and obviously we're doing this in
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real time now so we're going to move a
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um so begin let's go ahead and put the
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dry spices in there's some dry oregano
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and basil it's a teaspoon of each
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that can go in and then we're going to
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and pepper it's about a teaspoon of
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kosher salt about half a teaspoon of
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and a teaspoon of sugar it's not that
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much but the sugar is important because
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the tomatoes are acidic and so it's just
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going to take a little bit of that
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acid out of the out of the tomato soup
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we're going to give that a serving you
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smell the onions in the garlic that's so
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yeah so i know you really like to cook
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yeah what kind of things do you like to
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cook at home well um my grandma makes
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like they're kind of like meatballs and
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fresh and they're called
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okay and yeah they're really good also
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cut salads and pumpkins that sounds
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so let's go ahead and pour the crushed
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tomatoes in here now just
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use two hands and you're gonna go ahead
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and dump the tomatoes in
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perfect all of it great
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and you're just going to give it a stir
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and then the last thing that we're going
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to add here just to give it a little bit
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um body and liquid to the to the soup
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we're going to add a little bit of
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again you can use vegetable broth if you
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wanted to you don't have to use chicken
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i feel like the chicken definitely adds
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but by all means go ahead and use
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vegetable stock if you want to keep it
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so go ahead and take the cap off of that
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chicken stock and just pour i would say
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maybe about two cups and i'll tell you
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when so just go ahead and pour
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and just give it a gentle stir um this
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is one of my favorite this is probably
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organic chicken stock that's on the
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market right now it's from a company
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and it's the only one that i buy
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literally you unscrew the top
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and you smell it it smells like a pot of
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chicken soup that's been boiling in your
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highly highly recommend this company
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okay so now we're gonna what we're gonna
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do is we're just gonna bring this to a
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and then we're gonna reduce it to a
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simmer and we're gonna cook this for
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over the stove so we obviously don't
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have that time right now
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so i already have a batch that's already
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made so we're gonna scoop this aside
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so i'm gonna put this on the stove to
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and i'm just gonna move my burner
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and so we're going to pretend that uh
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the soup has been cooking on the stove
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for 20 minutes and it's done
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and so this is what it looks like it's
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it's reduced a little bit the tomatoes
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have gotten really sweet bit
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and now what we want to do is puree it
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so there are a couple different methods
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i like using the vitamix blender because
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you're going to get the smoothest
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creamiest puree with this if you don't
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have a vitamix you could use a regular
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you could also use a food processor or a
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but by far this is i think the best way
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and because it whips it up so creamy
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and so it purees it so so much it adds a
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soup that you wouldn't be able to
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something that wouldn't puree it as well
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so we're gonna put a few spoons of the
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tomato soup in here and we're just gonna
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lid on and it's just gonna take a couple
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so i'm going to take a quick peek
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and i think that was about 10 seconds
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and this is the texture that you're
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looking for i mean there are no clumps
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or anything chunky anymore and then i'm
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always white bowls i think it looks
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i think a really fun garnish that um i
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there's some greek yogurt in here you
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can also use sour cream
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if you don't want to use dairy you don't
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have to garnish but i think it looks
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really cute so i just put it in a little
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it's like my makeshift pastry bag i'm
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gonna do one in the show viv
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and then she can do her own and then um
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i just cut the little tip right here
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and then i'm just gonna start in the
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middle and then i'll bring this closer
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so that the viewers can have a better
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i'm just doing a swirl just like this
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just like that so go ahead and try this
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strut in the center and just do like a
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just squeeze down and squeeze gently
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and then i'm going to get a skewer and
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i'm going to start from the middle
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and i'm just going to bring it out to
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the edge oh you did a
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better job than i did so you bring
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it out to the edge and it makes this
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really cute you start here vivian and
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out and it makes this really cute web
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spiderweb pattern which i think is
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that looks great vivian's it's better
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than mine i have to say
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so there you go that's our vampire
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bloody tomato soup you did such a great
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so i'm going to clear this up and then
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we'll get on to our next dish
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which is going to be a bloody eyeball
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and i'm going to have my little cook
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hi chloe hi how are you good
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good i'm just going to clear this and
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bring the other things in now
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so if you hold that there
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all right so we're going to make these
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turkey meatballs and we're going to make
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them look like eyeballs so
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what we want to do is get the
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ingredients um incorporated first
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so we have about a pound of ground
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turkey i love using the dark meat i feel
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like it has more flavor
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i feel like it's more tender and it's
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not that much more caloric than the
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white meat as well if you wanted to use
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you could use ground chicken if you
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wanted to use beef or pork you could
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do that as well i like the turkey
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because it's really tender and it
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tends to be a little bit more healthy so
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we're going to add some ingredients
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to this um so club let's add about um
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half a cup of bread crumbs and you can
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just the whole thing in there yep
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perfect and then we're going to add
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about half a cup of parmesan cheese
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perfect that's okay and then we're going
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seasonings and what i love about this
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i use all dry spices like dried onion
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powder and garlic powder dried oregano
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and it's great because these are items
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that you normally have in your pantry
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they're not going to go bad you don't
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have to use fresh garlic
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or onion you don't have to run out to
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the store these are ingredients that
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a really long time in your pantry so go
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ahead and put the dry spices in chloe
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and again onion powder yep garlic powder
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uh fresh black pepper kosher salt some
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we are going to add one egg and whatever
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i know a lot of people have different
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ways of cracking eggs you know some
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crack it on the edge um i would
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always crack the egg on a flat surface i
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never crack it on a bowl
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because the shell could crack here and
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eggshell in your food which you don't
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want so i always use a flat surface and
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in a bowl first because if i crack it
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directly in here and i get a piece of
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i'm going to try digging through it
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through all of this cheese it's it's
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especially with baking as well so go
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chloe one tap here right in here and
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let's make sure that we don't get any
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shell in there and then if we do get a
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shell in there we can pull it out before
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actually put it in there
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excellent you've done that before
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nope that's not that's not a shell if
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you happen to get a little piece of
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the easiest way is to just go ahead and
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this shell put it next to the piece and
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it scoops right out it kind of
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wants to attach itself to it so that's
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good so we can get the egg in there
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okay and chloe's hands are clean so
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she's just gonna go ahead and start
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so go ahead and mash i'll get all of
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so you get the meat and everything in
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there and we're gonna start rolling
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a couple of the meatballs if your hands
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while you're doing this you could use a
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bowl of cold water just to rinse them
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and then form the meatballs as well but
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if your meat's really cold
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it tends to be pretty easy to roll the
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meatballs and i would say
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roll them about the size of a golf ball
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i think is a good size
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they will shrink slightly as we're
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good job so just give it a few more
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it like all went together we're still
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doing it for now yeah right
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okay so once it's incorporated i would
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say i think your hands are fine so i
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maybe like the size of a golf ball just
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like this i think this size is perfect
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so just go ahead and put a couple in
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here club use your pant your the palm
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zip your hand roll over all
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great and then we're gonna put we're
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that's perfect and then what i do is i
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put about one cup of water in here with
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and i cook this for about 30 minutes on
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the stove and then i drain the water and
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then i add some really good quality
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usually i make my own and i put in the
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freezer but if you don't have
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any homemade ones my favorite is brows
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that i use this is an amazing
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amazing marinara bristol farms also
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makes a really really good one
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so you can wash your hands chloe so i
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have some meatballs that have already
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been cooking for 30 minutes
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because um we don't have time to wait
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so i'm gonna move these here
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so these have been cooking on the stove
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in the water for 30 minutes like i said
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we drained the water
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and it added a little bit of the
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and so what we want to do is we want to
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make these meatballs look like eyeballs
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khloe i just have slices of provolone
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any cheese that you want you can use
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mozzarella slices provolone
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jack um yours bring anything you like so
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we're gonna go ahead and use a basic
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and just go ahead and maybe try to get
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three of these chloe think i can get
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okay you probably can't
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okay and then once you cut it you're
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gonna put this on the meatball
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and that's gonna be like the white part
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of the eye go ahead it looks like a
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so let's do a couple more
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perfect you put it right directly on
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one more piece of cheese and put it on
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once she finishes the cheese here we
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have little olive slices just sliced
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they look like the middle part of the
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eye so that's going to go on top
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and then i'm just going to put the lid
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on it and it's just going to kind of
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like melt a little bit so it looks kind
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of like a gooey eyeball
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okay so let's go ahead and put the olive
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oil afterwards and while you're doing
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that i just drained my pasta and i
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tossed it in a little bit of the
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so i'm going to get that onto a platter
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and then we're gonna get this on the
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melt the cheese make these look like
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bloody gooey eyeballs and then we're
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gonna plate our pasta
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so two more here and then put the lid on
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please and can you bring that pan
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and just set it on the stove here for me
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got it yeah right there you're great so
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this is the pasta that i've drained i've
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just tossed it lightly in the marinara
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and so this is just going to go on the
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bottom of your platter
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and again i love white platters and
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and then i'm just going to clean up this
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that literally is just going to take
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like 30 seconds for that cheese to melt
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and make it look like a runny bloody
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eyeball so i'm just going to move this
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and i'm going to bring vivian back over
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why don't you come over here next to
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chloe and i'll let you guys put the
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so just a few more seconds for that
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so chloe um if you could eat
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one thing for the rest of your life you
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have to pick like one thing to eat
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what do you think that would be maybe a
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a fruit is like a specific kind of fruit
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watermelon watermelon sounds good i
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could do that blueberries
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okay and what about you baby if you
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eat one food for like the rest of your
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life like what would that food be
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probably um probably sushi
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sushi good choice woman after my own
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okay so let's check those meatballs
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okay so if you can see in the camera the
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cheese is melted they look like little
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eyeballs they look really cute
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so i just go ahead and put the meatballs
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right on there do you girls want to do a
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so this is our bloody creepy eyeball
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you girls did a great job thank you so
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do you guys want to give a shout out to
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anybody out there that's watching today
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sure um i want to give a shout out to my
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mom my dad my brother
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ben and my grandparents and what about
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you chloe what about you do you want to
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give a shout out to everybody
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shout out to my stepmom and my sisters
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charlotte sierra all right thanks for
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joining us everybody
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thanks oh my goodness i'm hungry
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guys i'm totally starved right now
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totally starved i want some eyeballs oh
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my gosh that is those are just
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great recipes we have we have comments
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here let me just put
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um adrian said that was a great tip for
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and and really good ideas guys really
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um go ahead and pick up a copy of the
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free download it has
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all the recipes in there it has all the
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different items that were in
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the rooms that you were showing us in
25:27
the video um and it just popped right
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into the the comments over there
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any last thoughts my friend about
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and because it's coming up in two weeks
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i'm kind of disappointed because we
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usually have a party for about 20 people
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i'm still gonna do a very small party
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with maybe just five
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five of the girls that we've seen since
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and just maybe descale it a bit and
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since we can't go trick-or-treating from
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what i'm going to do is get a huge
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pinata and fill it with candy
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and then that way it breaks and they can
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take as much candy as they want because
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i love it to have fun that's awesome
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that's totally awesome
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well i want to wish you a happy happy
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and um and we want to thank vivian and
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chloe for joining you today they did
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awesome in the kitchen
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and i hopefully you will come back and
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join us again and we'll do some fun
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in the kitchen with celebrity chef
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guys we are so thrilled that you joined
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us today on our halloween show to eat
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and be scary oh my gosh i am i'm scary
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i'm scary myself oh and we've got we got
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it chloe a lot of fun again i know it's
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all right guys go out and give somebody
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an awesome day and we'll see you
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next time on the next episode of once
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upon a story time goodbye everyone