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Right Good morning everyone and welcome to ask the neighbor I'm your host Danko Sutter AUSkey we're going to go to a tune and light it up right away

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that's all put it all to bed forgive me and save me Don't forsake me a woman and go and choose somebody I need to be protected

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Alright DJ

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yeah that was Jack White with connected by love.

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All right, thank you for that. Thank you everyone for tuning in to w NZK. Ask your neighbor 690 am WNZ K, I'm your host stanco Swarovsky coming to you every day 9am till 11am Except on Thursdays today till 10am Give us a call to 48557 3300 something real interesting has happened all my neighbors. It looks like Dolly Parton and Duncan Hines are in some kind of a partnership here. Duncan Hines a brand of kanagaraj Brands Inc. is launching a new line of southern inspired desserts with beloved Grammy Award winning artist noted philanthropist and international icon Dolly Parton. This new line includes cake mixes and frostings inspired by some of Dolly's favorite family recipes like coconut cake and banana pudding cake. So I here's a I have always loved to cook and growing up in the South. I especially love that authentic Mom and Pop kind of cooking said Dolly Parton. I'm excited to launch my own line of cake mixes and frostings with Duncan Hines, bringing that sweet Southern Style baking experience I enjoy to others. So there we have it folks I think for sure now connecting with the cooking baking element we got to get a hold of Duncan Hines now and let them know about our show what we do and see if we can get dolly on the line. Right now we're gonna go to a dolly song Here we go

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tumble out of bed and stumbled to the kitchen for myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to live jumping shower and the blood starts pumping out on the streets traffic starts tapping folks like me on the job working

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use your

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credit or service promotion the boss won't seem to let me dream just to want to share it just a stamp on the boss man's in

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the same boat with a lot of your friends waiting for the day your ship will come in and the sides gonna turn and it's all gonna roll your way you ready you think no matter what they call it rich man's game. No matter what.

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Alright, DJ,

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yeah, Dolly Parton. Nine to five

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working nine to five. All right. You're listening to ask the neighbor Radio. I'm your host Danko Souter offski. Thank you for tuning in. Want to make sure that we say thank you to Louis Tire Service located on Eight Mile Road 248-542-0930. Thank you Tax solutions consultants Rene concetti 248566336 To thank you to father's justice law 313-819-9176 Thank you to Detroit bold coffee.com boldly brewed and Motown thank you to Troy jewelers located on Rochester road between big Beaver and wattles. 2485 to 80962. And thank you to kabob Island 58607517511 And don't forget to use one mag.tv your waiting room media solution check it out we're making updates on it all the time. Ask the neighbors connected to it all have a very Detroit very Chicago, very Ann Arbor all connected into one mag check it out. Right now we've got Peggy on the line. Good morning, Peggy.

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Good morning. And he's played exactly the song that was gonna request because I was gonna have to change it from from nine to 10.

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That's really more like it. I

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think these days. You don't I mean, you can't be can't make a living off a nine to five anymore. You gotta have a side hustle, another hustle, and things like that, that occurred

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to me last night. And I said, Well, I'm gonna request that song I was playing right off the bat.

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Well, you know, what's it you know? So interesting is, as I was pulling in today, I heard another radio station talking about Dolly Parton's new agreement with Duncan Hines. Oh, okay. Yeah. So she's made an agreement, all the recipes we're gonna start getting. Exactly, exactly. Exactly. So I think this just kind of is you know, the world laying itself out right in front of us. You know, how interesting that is that she's connecting to a baking show a baking products that we talk about all the time here on the show?

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No, maybe that'll draw in a lot of more people to our program, who I

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think so? I think so. You know, once you get a couple celebs on there, it really gets a lot more people talking. And I think it's perfect for her line really, to give her maybe a couple recipes and to do a couple things. So we'll There you go. I've even got a contact now for the person over there that deals with the brand. So

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we're getting closer.

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All things are possible.

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All things are possible. That's what I love about all the babies wanted

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me to call in because I found her recipe. Oh, good. It's, it's similar to what what you got yesterday. Okay, Grace, I think it was alright. But there was a little bit of difference. So I can read it very quickly. If you want me to do that. We love that. Okay, I think the ingredients are pretty much the same as you got. So this is called Cottage. Butter horns.

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Oh, cottage butter. Horns, butter horns.

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Okay,

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let's see here. And it has the usual one cup butter. softened.

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One cup. Butter. softened.

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One and a half cups. 4% small curd. Cottage cheese.

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One and a half cups. 4%

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Four and a half. 4% small curd. Cottage cheese,

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small curd. Cottage cheese. Okay.

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Two cups. All purpose flour.

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Two cups. All Purpose.

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Flour.

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Half a teaspoon of salt.

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Half teaspoon of salt.

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And this is the only addition half a teaspoon almond extract. Half teaspoon

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almond extract. Okay, uh huh. Okay, that's like a vanilla

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glaze. The glaze is three teaspoons of butter,

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three teaspoons. Butter,

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one cup confectioner's sugar,

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one cup. confectioner's sugar,

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and we always shorten that with xx x one teaspoon almond extract, again,

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one teaspoon Allman extract Okay, and one

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to two teaspoons milk. One to two teaspoons

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of milk. Okay.

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Okay. In large bowl, beat butter and cottage cheese till blended in large bowl.

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Beat Can you repeat that one more time? Sorry, Peggy.

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In a large bowl beat butter and cottage cheese, too. blended

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butter and cottage cheese, no blended

what would you beat that with?

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I would use a hand beater

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a hand beater. Okay,

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I use that for everything good unless I'm using my hands itself. All right, I love that. combine flour, salt and extract.

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Okay, combine flour, salt and extract.

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Uh huh. Okay all right.

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I'm gonna sing nine to five in between.

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Okay, you can do that. You can do that

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gradually beat into the butter mixture,

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gradually beat into the butter mixture.

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Cover and refrigerate or chill dough is easy to handle. Okay.

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So okay, beat it out to the butter mixture and cover and recover and

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refrigerate overnight. Overnight. Chill dough is easy to handle.

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Dough is easy

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to handle. Okay,

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divide dough into thirds. Divide dough into thirds. Okay, on a lightly floured surface, roll each portion into a 10 inch circle

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on a lightly floured surface. Roll out

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each portion into a 10 inch circle

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each portion into a 10 inch circle

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cut each circle into eight wedges.

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Cut each circle into eight wedges

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wedges just like you were cutting up a pie. Ah, okay. That makes it a little clearer by the size that you're going to put together. And a few slivered almonds into each wedge.

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Add a few slivered almonds

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into each wedge into each

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wedge. Okay,

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roll up wedges from the wide ends and place point side down

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point roll up edges from wide ends ends

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and police point side down two inches apart

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okay, roll up on edges from wide ends in place point side down two inches apart

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on greased baking sheets

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on greased baking sheets.

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Okay

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bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or till golden brown

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Okay, great. So cooking baking 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown.

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Got it cool. Um wire racks

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okay

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for the glaze in a small saucepan, melt butter stir in confectioner's sugar that's the 3x Sugar extract and enough milk to achieve desired consistency stirring confectioner sugar extract And enough milk to achieve desired consistency.

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Okay, so in a small pan, um, I melted the butter and I stirred in the confectionery sugar, the extract and enough milk to

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achieve achieve desired consistency. We're gonna check your spelling.

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Oh boy, DJ Ciocca can't even read my sometimes I can't read it after I write it. You know, I do

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too. It's like, what is

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my husband? Who could decipher my own writing? Sometimes when I couldn't tell, that's awesome. And you just drizzle it over the rolls? Okay, just makes two dozen.

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Drizzle over rolls, and makes two dozen. Excellent. Very good. Thank you for this recipe.

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Very, very similar to the other. But I think it's a little clearer when you cut it into wedges. So that you know that it's going to look like a crossbow.

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Croissant. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty similar to the other recipe I'm looking at. No,

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I'm at that. I think that kind of clears up a little bit about, you know, the preparation and whatnot. Right? And it adds the little bit of the almond extract and the almonds into it. So that makes it just a little bit different. Yeah,

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it's gonna give it a nice flavor, almost like a cannoli. Kind of a deal. Feel. I'm

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not sure. I'm happy to make it before. Because I always make things before I come in with the recipes. But this time, it was a request from a dear friend. Yes, cottage?

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There we go. Thank you so much, Peggy. If you know, I'm glad

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you played that nine to 10, nine to 10 of nine to five, let me know when to request that job. So

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good. I mean, it was like, it was like DJ chub cut knew what you wanted to hear this guy's incredible reading my mind through the wire, you know, matter of fact, you know, what was interesting, I was actually listening to an audio book last night about, you know, our, our brains sending signals, you know, messages. And it's, I think there's something to that, you know, and I think

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so too. I get a lot, a lot of messages, like,

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all from all. You don't

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see all these people. And then all of a sudden, you think about someone for about two days, and you're getting ready to telephone and the phone rings and it's the person you've been thinking about. Right? Exactly. Now, that happens very often. It gets kind of spooky.

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Yeah. No, it's cool, though. I mean, I think that there's this ability that we have not, we do not understand to communicate with our minds. Yeah. So we'll have

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time getting those signals right now. Get that character off the line so that I can call. Alright, so I will say goodbye. We'll give you some

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more music to dance to here in a little bit. Okay, all right. Take care. Bye bye. That was Peggy from Southfield giving us the recipe for cottage butter horns guys. That's been a second type of recipe that's a little bit different than the one Grace supplied us with but either one I think is going to be fantastic. Thank you everyone for tuning in to 690 am. Here we go. Here's some foreigner for you

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feeling down and feeling confident Good job. I'm going to push it to the limit.

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Alright DJ, yeah those foreigner with double vision, double vision foreigner coming at us all different ways today, folks, we played some interesting music some interesting calls already give us a ring. 248557 3300 is the number every day Monday through Friday 9am to 11am Except on Thursdays up until 10 9am till 10am right here on 690 w NZK. Give us a call 248557 3300 is the number, folks. We're coming up on our first one year anniversary, and that's happening March 1. So this next month is going to be our countdown to our one year anniversary. Right now. We've got grace on the line. Hello, Grace.

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Hi. I found that water pie recipe if you want it for Oh

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yeah, yeah. Well, no,

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it was for Greg. Right. Greg. All right. Yeah, he didn't. I made a mistake of calling him Roger. The one time

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Oh, well, that's okay.

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Yeah. All right. So

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you got the water pie recipe?

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Yeah, it's the recipe from the Great Depression.

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Wow. All right. So did you hear stories about these kinds of recipes?

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I've never heard of this recipe in my entire life. And my mom and dad married in the depression and she never mentioned anything like this. Okay, so, I mean, people are talking about it, you know, on the blog underneath the recipe. And many of them have used it and made it but me I've never heard of it.

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Wow, well, let's hear it.

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I want to hear what this is gonna taste like.

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All right. Well, here's the ingredients. Okay. They want you to use one nine inch deep dish pie crust and bake.

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One nine inch deep dish.

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pie crust.

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Okay, I'm big. On big. Okay, one and a half cups water.

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One and a half cups. Water.

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Four tablespoons, all purpose flour.

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Four tablespoons. All purpose flour.

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One cup sugar,

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one cup sugar.

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Two teaspoons vanilla extract,

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two teaspoons. vanilla extract.

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five tablespoons butter. Bite into five pieces.

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five tablespoons butter. Cut into five pieces. Okay,

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here's the instructions. Preheat your oven to 400

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Preheat oven to 400.

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Set your empty pie crust on a baking sheet.

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Set empty pie crust on a baking sheet.

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Pour the one and a half cups water into the pie crust.

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Wow. Okay pour. One and a half cups water into the pie crust.

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In a small bowl. Okay, in a smaller together flour and sugar. Stir together flour

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and sugar. Okay,

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sprinkle this mixture evenly over the water

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sprinkled across this mix evenly

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over the water to the water in the crust in the don't stir.

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Do not there. Okay,

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drizzle the vanilla over the water in the pie crust.

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Drizzle the vanilla?

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over water. Okay,

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place Pat's of butter on top of this,

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please. pads of butter

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on top of this.

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Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.

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400 degrees for 30 minutes.

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Okay, do see two 375.

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Okay, reduce heat to 375.

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And if you see that your sides of the crust are starting to get more brown. Cover the sides with foil or if you have a crust cover, you can use that

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cover ends across cover

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the little metal thing it's a metal ring that grows around your pie crust to the end of the crust. Wow. It prevents the INS from burning.

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I want one of those for Christmas grace.

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I'll go to probably have them there. Yeah.

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So it's called a pie crust. Ring. Yes. Okay. All right. That's my official first Christmas gift. I'm looking for this coming up Christmas is anything weird

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like that I'm

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all about.

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Okay, now where were we reduced heat to 375 and covered the size of quest if needed to prevent burning? Right, continue cooking an additional 30 minutes.

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Okay, so we've cooked it first, at 400 for 30 minutes. Yeah, now we've reduced the heat to 375. We're looking at the pie crust on the outside. Make sure it's not getting too dark burning. covered if it is with either a pie crust ring or something else like aluminum oil. Yeah. And then reduce the heat to 375 in bake for another 30 minutes.

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This pie will be watery when you pull it out of the oven. Pools.

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Okay, well, we would expect it from a water pie

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to get sick, but instead it will be water. All right. All right. Oh, it'll be watery when you pull it out of the oven, but will gel as it cools.

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Okay, be watery. Out of oven, but gels as it cools. All right. Well, this is interesting. The water pie recipe from the Great Depression using very minimum ingredients. And I would say um, the only thing that I thought was gonna be in there was a couple eggs.

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No, there's no eggs in this one. Well, here it is. We're hard to get back in those days. So

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yeah, I mean the egg was like big time hard to get and you know people people had in the in that in those days and some some of our neighbors might remember or know. You know, they had a you know, people kept their own chickens to a lot of folks.

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Well, I remember when I used to walk to Catholic school there was well, a building that sold a eggs and my mom used to send me there to get a dozen or two. And they used to put them up like to a candle and look inside before they put them in the in the container.

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Oh, to see if there's been growth.

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Yeah. And I'll never forget that. So that's really quick and the day

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well it's it's interesting they were probably really healthy and great eggs yeah they were they they didn't have the all the chemicals are feeding the birds now and all this attempt to get everything pushing and moving and you know all this fake food. That's not good so I love getting our Mia eggs from the Eastern Market from farmers down there the last time I was down at Eastern Market I got two dozen eggs. And they were beautiful. Each egg was a different color shape. You know, everything was yeah, it was like, there was the brown ones like blue like light blue ones light green ones. It was really cool. Good mix. Yeah,

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I have to go down. I know they're open on Tuesdays. Right?

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I think they're open on Saturdays and Tuesdays, but I gotta make sure the Tuesdays

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only one shed was open on Tuesday. I think it was 32. Oh, okay. Yeah. 33. I don't know three or four. I don't know how many shows. I think three or four was open. And they had not as many vendors as on Saturday, but they had what you needed when you went down there.

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Did you did you go recently? Yeah. Oh,

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I didn't go this week. But I've been going on Tuesday with my daughter. Oh, nice. Yeah, we love to shop down there. All right. And they had a lot of vendors the last time I was there selling clothes on Tuesday. Yeah. Mostly women selling beautiful things.

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Oh, yeah. Homemade handmade kind of things. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, Detroit.

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Jewelry, I remember. And then the vegetables and everything. So they had pretty much whatever anybody needed. It's a

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great way to get out of the house and do something that's kind of interesting. And you get some nice people too, and you meet a lot of nice people

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write down at least I hope somebody makes this and tells us Oh, it is I hope

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so too. Thank you so much for that.

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Alright, I'll let you go.

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Alright. Thank you. You too. Take care now. All right. That was Grace from Troy giving us the water pie recipe. You're listening to 690 am WNZ K, I'm your host Danko sinner offski. here on Ask the neighbor show. Don't forget you can always listen to this show by going to very detroit.com and or listening to all ne w NZK. program when you go to very Detroit calm and click on the WNZK button, and it'll stream live and probably the best stream that's out there. So check it out. It's a very detroit.com Click on the WNZK button and you can also follow us on our facebook.com forward slash very Detroit facebook.com forward slash ask the neighbor. Check us out on Instagram at at Ask the neighbor and at very Detroit. Also on Ask the neighbor.com I've uploaded a few pictures you're going to be able to see DJ chub cars on our front page. Now. We've got a couple pictures of our banner that's over there at the Eastern Market with the W NZK. Banner. And we're still working on our van DJ. I

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don't know where our W NGK van is but we're looking for that van.

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If anybody has a van out there that's equipped with audio and everything else so that we can go live to the location. DJ Chuck was willing to drive it man I think and we will do it. So give us a call. If you got an extra van laying around. That's all ready to go. You never know Right? DJ Oh, and you never know.

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Somebody might have a van ready to go for us? And

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if they do, hey, we can definitely get it with the right graphics on the side. Can you imagine man with that WNZ cake. Hmm, it'd be nice. Be nice. Yeah, we could have different pictures of the different people that are on our shows here moving billboard moving billboard, man, you got it. That's why we're doing it. You're on the radio right now with ask the neighbor asked a neighbor calm is a way to connect with us. We're gonna go right now to a TEDx piece. And we will be back after that.

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Well, it's time for garden reboot. I've been a gardener for over 30 years. And grill gardening has not only made me happy, but it's made me successful and rich as well. For those of you who don't know, guerilla gardening is the act of gardening without permission on land that does not belong to you. And basically, you do it for the purpose of improving your surroundings and to provide fruit flowers and vegetables for yourself and everyone else to use. Enjoy. I first learned about guerilla gardening, when I came across this, quote, gardening is the most therapeutic and define act you'll ever do. And it was attributed to someone named Ron Finley. Now, I understood the whole part about gardening been therapeutic. But I couldn't wrap my head around how gardening could possibly be considered defiant. So I decided to research this Ron Finley guy. Turns out, he calls himself a gangster gardener. And he uses it's true, and he uses him he uses guerilla gardening to improve his community. So he started off by planting vegetable gardens all along the curb in front of his house. And he allowed the people in the community to come by and pick whatever they wanted. Next thing you know, Ron gets a citation from the city for gardening without a permit. Because there was actually laws against planting anything but grass or trees on the side of the curb. So mom decided to defy the law. And he fought for his right to grow food on public land, the community rallied behind him in the city back down. Now, this made perfect sense to me, because well, it was public land, and public lands for everybody. Please, that's my definition of public. And I couldn't see why there was ever even a problem with this in the first place, because it was a benefit to the community. Well, I thought this might be kind of a good idea. And I realized that because, again, I believe it's easier to ask for forgiveness than beg for permission. So I thought that guerilla gardening just might be a really good idea. For the first time in my life, I lived in a house. And then I moved to a townhouse. And with a townhouse use there are rules. So here I am a townhouse dwelling plant obsessed, guerilla gardener without a without a yard. So I started off planting vegetables and seeds and flowers that my neighbor's places, even though, even though I didn't ask for permission to seem to make the neighbors pretty happy. So I feel encouraged. So then what I did was I got an apple tree, and I planted it between my townhouse unit and the one next door. And I did this because while I like apple pie jam. Turns out my neighbor does too. This came in very handy and she was very forgiving when the ripe apples were falling over her deck. Now, there happened also be children in my townhouse complex. So I decided to create some fairy gardens on the public space as well and, and I built them under a tree just there on the common area. And the children in the neighborhood would pop by every now and again to see if there any new occupants. My guerilla gardening experiment was going pretty good. But in every townhouse complex, there is always a but I know you've been there, right? So when I started lining up multiple containers of flowers and vegetables all along my walkway. And then I started calling it my pot garden. Something happened, I got a letter, and it was from the townhouse council about the excessive number of pots on my walkway. Now, to be fair, my pot usage was a little excessive. I did have almost 40 different pots lined up down the walkway and around the corner. But because I was a guerrilla gardener, I didn't let this bother me much. I figured the letter was just a suggestion or maybe an ill formed opinion. So I promptly ignored it. Surprisingly, nothing happened at all, like absolutely nothing. It's a fact you can actually buy off your neighbor's with plant seeds and jam. So it was all going really really well. So I thought well, I'm gonna expand my gorilla garden activities. So I continue to leave plant seeds and jam on my neighbor's doorsteps which I think helped distract from from the greenhouse I had set up on my balcony.

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And I started learning how to collect seeds. Well, I gave away 465 packs of seeds. And I did this for three reasons. One because my mother taught me to share too, because people really seem to like getting free stuff. And three, my seed stash was vastly overcoming my storage capabilities. Now a lady should never discuss the size of a seed stash. But I'm no lady and let me tell you, there was plenty to go around if you know what I mean. In an effort to become greener, I decided to, you know, take some stuff from the junk pile and repurpose them into garden planters. Now, this old radio that I recycled, not only did I save money on a container, but when I entered it in the fair, I won first place for best novelty platter, and $5 in prize money. I was making money and I'd save something from landfill. I felt like some kind of eco warrior. So then I thought, well, I'm going to take some more recycled items, and I'm going to create some other fairy gardens on public spaces. And people started adding stuff until it became an entire fairy village. It was amazing that my people were becoming involved in my Guerilla gardening activities without knowing anything at all about it. And they continued as these little gardens that I had here and there progressed, I left flowers and vegetables on various people's doorsteps, even if I didn't know them. And I joined not just one but two community gardens. And I continued to plant flowers, seeds and vegetables wherever I could find room, even if the space did not belong to me. Someone once said to me, Well, how are you gonna make money doing that? But the truth is, guerilla gardening made me rich. I realized that I created happiness, not just for myself, but for other people as well. Grill gardening was kind of turning out to be my superpower. So of course, I had to get an outfit. When gardener World Magazine was pulled, they pulled 1500 people, and 80% of those who garden said that they had greater life satisfaction. 93% said that gardening boosted their mood and left them feeling happy. One study even showed that you can reduce the incidence of dementia by 36% by gardening daily 36%. That's huge. Plus, there's also financial benefits to gardening. You can actually save money on groceries, especially if you're buying organic, and it can help increase your property values as well. So with this in mind, I wrote something called the guerilla garden manifesto. And it was about how he's gonna encourage people to, to become involved in gardening and use my Guerilla gardening skills to help reboot and improve my community. Then I had a TEDx moment. What if I could use my gorilla garden manifesto, to inspire people to do what I'm doing so that they could reboot and engage their community as well. I could start like a girl garden revolution. And then not only would I be happy and rich, but I would be successful too. Now, this may seem like a really big idea. But you know, I've never started a revolution before, but I think I can pull it off. When I was growing up, I was actually a bit of an influencer, when other people's mothers were saying to them, if the kid next door jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? My mother never once said that, to me. That's her. She really never said that. Because she knew I'd be the one on the front line saying, Come on, it's gonna be so much fun. And she knew there were always people willing to join me, my adventures, just kind of resigned to the fact. And, you know, I still believe that. If something scares you and excites you at the same time, it's definitely worth doing. So who here likes to have fun and adventures? Okay, so there's a few of you. I know some of you might not want to say because your mom's here, you know, but we can talk later. So show of hands, who here likes the free stuff? I ever everybody likes the free stuff. Well, you know what you guys are in luck, because I have brought enough free seeds for everyone in the audience to start their own guerilla gardening adventures. Now, for those of you who may be in the cheap seats, here's a close up. Always wear gardening gloves before practicing any kind of guerilla gardening activities.

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Now, for those of you worried about the implications of guerilla gardening, you know, you may want to start off slow, maybe plant them in your own yard, plant them at your neighbors, leave them on someone's doorstep that you don't even know. And that's great. However, every manifesto needs some rebels and a call to action before it can actually become a garden guerrilla garden revolution. So this is what I'm going to encourage you to do. I'm going to I'm going to tell you guys, you guys need to be rebels and you need to take back your green spaces. This is the most important thing that you'll ever do. I want you to take seeds and plants and I want you to plant them in that empty ditch in the curb in front of your house, or maybe that ugly, vacant public law that you pass by every day on your way to work. Now, you don't want to plant anything invasive because you don't want to wreck the environment. And if you're going to plant food, you might want to make sure that the the land itself has not been contaminated with herbicides or pesticides or possibly any other toxic substances, because it's not fun if you poison yourself. And if you must give crap to someone, buy a little manure for your local community garden. The city will know who they are and where they're located. So give them a call. And while you got the city on the phone, see if you can talk them into incorporating edible plants into your landscaping. The city spends 1000s of dollars every year on plants. You might as well make some of them edibles. This is your tax money people make it work for you in your community. Don't wait till cauliflower is $9 ahead before you channel your inner garden rebel. Join the gorilla garden revolution today. And it'll not only help you reboot your community, but it'll make you happy rich and successful to Go Rebels

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