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Thanksgiving 2022 Dinner Prep With Me
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Mar 1, 2025
Hey Friends! Hope you're having a lovely holiday, spend the day with me prepping for Thanksgiving from cooking, to baking, I'm sharing how I make holiday dinner prep a little less stressful for me this Thanksgiving 2022! Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! Websites https://themomresource.com/ https://babesnbeauty.com/ Social Media https://instagram.com/heaven.shropshire https://www.facebook.com/HeavenS.BabesNBeauty
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for the past six years I have been
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preparing a full Thanksgiving feast for
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my family all by myself and over the
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years I have found a few tips and tricks
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that makes preparing Thanksgiving dinner
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just a little bit easier so that on
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Thanksgiving Day I can actually enjoy
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spending time with my family instead of
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being tired and overwhelmed from being
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in the kitchen and cooking all day and
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all my feet so today I'm going to be
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sharing with you how I pet for
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Thanksgiving dinner
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thank you
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hello and welcome my name is heaven I am
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a stay-at-home mom and wife I have a
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three-year-old toddler boy named noon
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Jay and here I blog about all things
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motherhood and lifestyle I create
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helpful realistic and relatable content
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for you all so if that's something that
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you're into definitely subscribe to my
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channel I post twice weekly and I would
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love to have you here but let's go ahead
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and get into today's video the goal is
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that you all will be watching this on
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Thanksgiving day so that maybe you can
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kind of just play it in the background
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while you prep your dinner as well so
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it'll kind of just be like we're cooking
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together kind of like a daily life Cook
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With Me video and we can spend a little
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bit of time together for the holiday I
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am also hoping that this video will give
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you some helpful insight on how you can
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make prepping for Holiday dinners a
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little bit easier in your life as well
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so first let me go ahead and just give
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you the rundown on what's going to be on
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our holiday spread so we're going to be
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doing a ham two Cornish hens greens
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dressing mac and cheese two pans of yams
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one from my home one for my mom's two
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sweet potato pies one for my home one
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for my mom homemade yeast dinner rolls
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and a three flavored pound cake it is
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Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving
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and it's already a little bit late in
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the day it's two o'clock so I kind of
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got a late start but that's okay all
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right so I went ahead and put my hair up
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into a ponytail because I don't think my
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family will appreciate hair in the food
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and in the past I have never used like
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recipes I've always just cooked based on
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like memory and kind of just looking and
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tasting but whenever someone asks me for
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my recipe I don't have one my husband
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hasn't even mentioned that sometimes
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like he will notice that the food will
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taste a little bit different it'll still
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taste good but he said he will notice
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that it's not like consistent every year
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so so that I can kind of just have a
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recipe that I'll use every year so that
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I can create some consistency and so
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that I can pass these recipes down to my
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children and my grandchildren one day I
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decided to go ahead and create like a
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little recipe book so I purchased this
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little box from Michael's it looks like
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a book
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and then I can just open it up and I can
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place my recipe cards inside of them so
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that I'll have this little recipe book
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that's actually a box with all of my
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recipes inside of it right now the oven
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is preheating to 425 because I'm going
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to put my sweet potatoes in there and
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let them bake for an hour so that once
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they come out they'll be able to cool
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off and then I also have a pot here so
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that I can start cooking my pasta
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noodles and I'm also going to be
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preparing the meats that I'm putting in
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the dressing and the green but I'll
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explain everything like as I'm going so
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let's go ahead and just get set up here
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on the countertop so I'm gonna go ahead
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and just get started so I got a bunch of
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sweet potatoes here on the counter and
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I'm just gonna go ahead and just rinse
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them off and then I'm going to pierce
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them so that I can put them in the oven
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all right so I'm going to be using two
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pounds of sweet potatoes so I just put
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it on my scale and this is
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2.25 pounds so because US every year the
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yams will range in size you don't know
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if you're going to be needing two or
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three sweet potatoes so I always weigh
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them to be either two pounds of sweet
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potatoes or two cups of pureed sweet
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potatoes I'm just piercing a few holes
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in it to help it bake a little bit
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faster and I'm gonna put several of them
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in here I can just boil these on the
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stove but I prefer to bake them
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fact
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pasta is on the stove and I'm gonna let
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that come into a boil and then after it
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comes to a boil then I'm going to let it
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boil on low until it's Al Dente which is
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not fully cooked but almost cooked in
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the morning when it's time for me to
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bake my Mac and Cheese all I have to do
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is take out the Al Dente noodles which
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I'm going to store in the fridge
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overnight just take them out pour them
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in a pan and then just add like the milk
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the egg and cheese and the seasonings
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and things like that so that that's one
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step I don't have to do in the morning I
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can have fresh mac and cheese made
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tomorrow but I'm cutting down that time
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by preparing the pasta ahead of time I'm
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also going to make my dinner rolls today
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and then I'm going to store them away
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overnight in the morning I just have to
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put them back into the oven and let them
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warm up okay so I gotta take off my
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wedding ring so I don't get dough in it
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okay so I'm gonna go ahead and start
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prepping the dinner rolls and while I'm
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doing that since this is a day in the
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life I'm gonna just go ahead and update
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you all on how my morning went and how I
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got here to this point so we woke up
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around 8 30 Noah and I and we kind of
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just sat around in the bed for a little
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while and then after we got out of the
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bed it was like freezing in the house so
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we kind of just drank some hot cocoa and
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we had some coffee and we just sat in
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the bed and we watched some of like
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Noah's cartoons until we were like fully
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awake so since the kids are out of
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school for Thanksgiving break we just
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decided to go ahead and use today as a
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break day as well because I could really
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use some extra time prepping for
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Thanksgiving dinner so we just read some
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books this morning while we were in bed
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and then I got up and we got our day
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started snow went downstairs with my
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husband because I had to go out and tour
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this facility that I want to use for my
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husband's 30th birthday I had to go loud
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and tour this facility and just run a
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few like shopping errands and things
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like that and I got there and realized
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after touring the facility that I had
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left my wallet so I didn't have my
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license I didn't have my money or
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anything so I told the lady I will come
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right back I came home and I was looking
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for you know all of those things
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only to realize that the whole time it
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actually was in the car with me in the
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passenger seat but it was like buried
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under a bunch of my husband's stuff in
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my passenger seat of my truck so
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that was annoying but nevertheless I
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went out and got the things that I
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needed to get done done and then came
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back home and made some lunch and here I
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am now having food for Thanksgiving
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tomorrow so all I'm doing is mixing in
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six tablespoons of softened unsalted
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butter with a fourth cup of sugar until
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it's like well combined just sugar and
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butter
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I am flying or deep down by the sea
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anywhere we wish to be
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when we're loved we're happy all right
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so the bread is already starting to rise
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and it still has about 40 more minutes
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to go and the sweet potatoes have about
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10 minutes left and I just placed all of
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my pork on the stove to cook so this is
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going inside of my greens but I have to
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just cook it first so that tomorrow all
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I need to do is throw it in the green so
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I'm gonna cook it and chop it tonight
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and then tomorrow I'll throw it inside
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of the greens
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time to shine a brighter light in a
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world
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time for Unity and peace
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come and see how great we can be come
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together
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we're all family
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come together
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we're all family
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thank you
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the rows have finished Rising so I'm
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gonna go ahead and put these in the oven
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and I have already began peeling the
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sweet potatoes
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um so I have about two more to peel and
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then I'll go ahead and start chopping
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those up these are all my potatoes so I
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got a bowl of them here and I'm just
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gonna go ahead and chop them up and then
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place them back into the bowl so that
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they can soak in some water and then I'm
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going to thread them away for tomorrow
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I know a lot of people they choose to
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just boil their
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yams or sweet potatoes before they like
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cut them or peel them or even bake them
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because it's easier to peel them and
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easier to cut them when you boil them
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first but
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um like I mentioned this earlier I don't
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know I just like to do mines this way it
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preserves some of the flavor and then
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when you go to bake them
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it will have more time in the oven to
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kind of just like soak up all
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it's like the difference between
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something on high heat I will choose to
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slow cook it every time so if you boil
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the sweet potatoes first then you know
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everything goes faster peeling cutting
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baking but I feel like you just put some
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love and some tenderloin hair and
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it just it comes out so much better so
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half of these potatoes are gonna be for
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home and then the other half is going to
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go to my grandmother's house my mom and
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my grandmother are cooking there so I'm
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going to take them some rolls some sweet
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potato pie and some yams all right so
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that golden brown color that I'm looking
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for so I'm going to melt some honey
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butter and then I'm gonna brush some
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honey butter across these and then take
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them out of the pan and set them on a
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cooling rack to cool
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all right so I got a bigger bowl here
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for the yams so they're all in this big
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bowl here and then I mixed the macaroni
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in with a little bit of olive oil and
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then here I have the greens that I
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cleaned and already like tore up into
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small pieces off of the stem and I
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actually have them in cold water inside
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of this little bag here
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at this point I am pretty much just
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cleaning up my mess and getting ready to
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prepare for dinner like dinner for today
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but I have my pie in the oven and I have
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my cake just sitting here
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waiting for the pie to come out of the
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oven so once the pie comes out the oven
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then I'll put my cake in the oven and
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then I'll be done prepping for the night
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down in here I put the greens in there
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with the rest of the vegetables there
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are the greens too it's like all the
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other vegetables so that I chopped up so
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they're in there these are the rose the
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pasta those are the yams and they're
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still in cold water and then back there
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that's the meat that cooled off on the
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neck bones and the ham hocks besides
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that the pasta is ready for the macaroni
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and cheese all I have to do is add in
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like all the dairy items and then bake
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it in the oven and let the cheese melt
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and let everything stick together and
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then the meat is up for the greens and
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the greens are clean and I soaked them
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so first I scrubbed them like I
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literally scrubbed them like this in
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between my hands each Leaf one by one
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and then I peel them off the stem break
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them up and then I washed them like this
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in warm water and vinegar like I'm
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washing like hand washing clothes or
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something and I just kind of like twirl
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them around and wash them like this and
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then I soak them inside of like cool
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water and vinegar for a little while and
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then I rinse them and then I do it again
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and then rinse them one more time and
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then I store them in cool water inside
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the fridge so there's still kind of
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soaking overnight tomorrow I'll strain
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them again rinse them through again and
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all it has to do is toss them inside of
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a stock pot with like some chicken stock
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I'm gonna saute the vegetables that I've
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already chopped up hospitals in there as
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well and then add in the meat that I
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already cooked I'm glad that I was able
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to get a hair start today and I feel
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that tomorrow I'll be done cooking very
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very early I'm ready to go ahead and get
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it done and just enjoy the holiday so I
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hope that you guys enjoyed you know this
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kind of like Thanksgiving prep with me
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and just spending like the day with me
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like a real raw realistic and up for
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today like I got all of these baggy like
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little households that I got like
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flowers blotches all over like you can
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literally hear my husband downstairs
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yelling on the video game so this is a
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very real and raw realistic Day in the
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Life I'm just prepping for Thanksgiving
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so I'm gonna go ahead and cut this video
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here because I have to go ahead and get
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myself cleaned up and I have to edit
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this video if I want to get it out by
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tomorrow on Thanksgiving I'll just be
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popping in on like the community Tab and
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just sharing a post wishing you guys all
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a Happy Thanksgiving and I'm just hoping
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that you all get to spend it with family
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and break bread around the table and
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fellowship together we're just thankful
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over here that the Lord has put food on
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our table so let me know what are some
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of the things that you do to prepare for
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Thanksgiving dinner so that when
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Thanksgiving comes you kind of just make
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the process go along faster
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um the first time that I prepared
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Thanksgiving dinner wasn't done until
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five six o'clock in the afternoon but
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now I am normally able to be done with
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that well before afternoon like done in
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the morning so let me know what you guys
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do also you know any tips or tricks that
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you all have to share with me to make
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this process go a lot smoother again
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Happy Thanksgiving to you all and your
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family and if you enjoyed this video
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