<Carrie> Cate, blinker, blinker!

Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

[Carrie sighs in despair] <Krysten> The only thing left to do is to pray ♪ <Tarah> We are going to host 20 women on Carrie's porch <Jennifer> ...put the balsamic in.

<Carrie> Ugggh!

My pork is coming out [Carrie screams] <Krysten> Carrie thrives in chaos.

<Carrie> And what time is it?

Can you check on the hush puppies?

Cate, you are literally on the grass Currently, John is in charge of the gardening.

Am I planting all these myself?

Turn the car off.

<Cate> Oh!

[car door locks and beeps] ♪ ♪ <Carrie> I took my mom's best recipe and started selling handmade Southern biscuits.

Now I'm balancing a family, a business and biscuits every day.

Thank you so much.

I'm Carrie Morey, and this is How I Roll.

♪ [birds chirping] ♪ <Carrie> Currently, John is in charge of the gardening.

This is John's side garden, and it...is something, something else.

<John> Well surprisingly, the gardener in this family is me.

I don't think I do it the way she wants me to do it, but I grow things and we eat those things.

<Carrie> I thought it would be a great gift to have a professional service come in and teach us and just have it be more than it is.

<Rita> We're going to put it into two four foot by eight foot by 17 inch tall metal beds.

And then we're also going to put an herb garden in the backyard right next to the kitchen door for easy access when Carrie is cooking.

♪ <Rita> Do you like that placement?

<Carrie> Yeah.

<Rita> Yeah?

Okay.

Great.

♪ upbeat music ♪ <Rita> This is called a solar path finder, and I can stand in any location in anyone's yard, and it will tell me exactly how much sun I get in that spot throughout the entire year, and in this particular spot, she has full sun throughout the entire year, which makes it the perfect garden location.

<Carrie> I love a pull up van.

<Carrie> Ready made with veggies <Kimberly> I mean it's a wagon queen.

and flowers and such.

<Kimberly> So this is going to be your bag of fertilizer there, and I'll write on there the exact dosage, but it's two tablespoons per planting hole.

<Carrie> So, I'm planting all these myself?

<Kimberly> I think so.

I think that's... <Carrie> I thought y'all were planting them.

[laughs] <Kimberly> Let's kind of lay stuff out and kind of see what it all will look like.

How about that?

So, we want to plant the tall stuff, so it won't shade everything to the back.

The lettuces will go kind of in here.

♪ All the neighbors are going to be asking you all the questions.

You're going to be the garden expert.

[laughs] <Carrie> I don't know about that.

♪ <Carrie> I actually love this.

It is very therapeutic.

<Kimberly> It is.

I call it garden therapy.

<Carrie> Yeah.

Honestly, I was dreading the whole process of putting it together and that was why I hired them, but it's a... it's an interactive experience where we get to do it with them, and it wasn't as hard as I thought, and I learned something new, and I'm sure in a few weeks I am going to really enjoy the fruits of the labor.

♪ <Kimberly> Sprinkle like sea salt and stop about halfway down this row.

♪ <Carrie> I'm so excited.

It's like a new baby.

I can come out and check on it every day.

♪ ♪ music ends ♪ <Tarah> Our marketing team is five people, but that doesn't include Carrie, who's creating content.

It takes the entire team being able to be on camera, being able to supply the, the goods.

It really takes an army.

<Kelsey> We had a really good week with Instagram.

<Tarah> Social media is one of our key marketing pillars.

It helps us really define our brand and who we are and what we want to say.

So, Thursday is the pork supper.

As y'all know, we're going to have social, all hands on deck.

National Women's Day is March 8.

We are going to host 20 women on Carrie's porch.

It's not just going to be a way to celebrate women and get women collaborating together.

It's going to be a great way to strategize content.

<Rachel> We can do a whole YouTube video of like talking about like, "Hey, you want to plan a party?".

This is how we did it.

<Kelsey> How many recipes are they all doing?

<Tarah> Maybe 10, total?

<Kelsey> That's like 10 different blog posts that could be.

<Tarah> For sure.

Planning social media is like this weird science of posts and pillars and content buckets.

It takes a lot of planning.

<Kelsey> I think anything with her family and personal life, everybody loves that.

Everybody's been interacting with those on her stories.

<Tarah> Okay, here's Carrie.

[silence] <Carrie> Hi.

<Tarah> Hey!

We're just meeting about your content calendar.

<Carrie> I love that.

<Tarah> Did I hear you're driving with Cate today?

<Carrie> I told her we had to do some practice driving if she wanted to work towards getting her license.

So, we'll see.

<Carrie> We'll see how that goes.

<Tarah> Love it.

Okay.

Well, I have a favor to ask.

We are looking at your content calendar and we could use a little bit more pink on the board, which means we need more family.

So, if y'all do end up driving, we're going to need some behind the scenes.

I'm thinking like, real old school, hand in the air, selfie situation of you and Cate.

[silence] <Carrie> Okay, I can do that.

You know, she's going to want to turn it into a TikTok.

<Tarah> Oh.

<Kelsey> Even better.

We need more Tiktoks.

<Carrie> Talk to you in a little bit.

<Tarah> Perfect.

Sounds good.

<Tarah> Okay.

<Carrie> Bye.

<Tarah> Bye.

<Carrie> Okay.

Can anyone relate to this?

Oh my gosh!

Practice driving, with this one.

You got your seatbelt on Cate?

[nervously]Oh, boy!

You're checking both ways.

I'm holding on for dear - why...why.

<Cate> Because that person's right there.

So I'm just going to wait.

<Carrie> Okay, so then back up.

Good call, since this is a skinny street, and once you go, you don't hesitate, but you don't... that doesn't mean you have to bust out of the gate like you're Mario Andretti or whatever.

[Cate laughing] Driving with Kate is like, being with somebody that knows everything.

Two hands on the wheel, please.

10 and 2.

<Cate> We're literally stopped.

<Carrie> Brakes, brakes, brakes.

Blinker, blinker, blinker.

You're getting bet...Cate!

<Cate> She tends to overreact at nothing.

Really nothing at all.

<Carrie> Alright.

Quick, quick.

We're coming to a stop sign, stop light.

<Cate> I see the brakes.

<Carrie> How fast are you going?

It feels like you're going... <Cate> I'm going 36.

<Carrie> Okay, but the speed limit is 35.

<Cate> Yes, it's fine to go over.

<Carrie> No, it's not fine to go over.

<Cate> Dad says it's fine to go over.

<Carrie> No.

<Cate> I see you driving 40 down here.

<Carrie> When you pay your own insurance, you pay all of your expenses, then you can make your own choices.

She's confident, very confident.

So, I guess there's that.

That's good.

So, we just have to make sure she's not too confident.

Go...but go doesn't mean like you're not going out on two wheels.

<Cate> Yes, I am.

It's not complicated.

<Carrie> Hold on.

Let's do a little video.

Well, we have survived.

Watch it!

There are cars...

There are people behind you.

<Cate> I can see them mom.

I'm not blind.

Love you.

♪ [birds sounds] <Carrie> Let's see if we've got some radishes to take to Krysten.

Oh, yeah.

Look at this guy.

Gosh!

How beautiful.

She will love this.

[birds sounds] <Krysten> Those are amazing.

They're huge.

Carrie and I have known each other since we were kids.

We met probably early middle school, and so, we've known each other, I feel like our whole lives.

♪ <Carrie> That sound makes me so happy.

♪ <Krysten> Frothy coffee.

<Carrie> Krysten and I are creating a perfect porch supper for International Women's Day.

We're going to plan the menu and a grocery list and a prep list, all in one.

<Krysten> She has all of these amazing women in our community that have all these different businesses and I think she's been so inspired and motivated by all of these women, that she wanted to do something to kind of celebrate them.

<Both> Cheers.

<Carrie> Thank you.

Okay, International Women's Day.

Persian-ish.

Porch supper.

<Krysten> Porch supper.

My husband Perry is from Iran.

His family taught me how to cook Persian food and I just fell in love with Middle Eastern food in general.

The sabzi platter.

I usually do some green onions and then radishes.

You have those gorgeous radishes.

We have to use those.

<Carrie> And then I was going to make a boiled peanut hummus, just to throw in a little southern in there.

<Krysten> I'm dying to see how this turns out.

<Carrie> Okay.

<Krysten> Carrie calls it Persian-ish.

She loves to take a theme and then kind of use local southern ingredients.

<Carrie> Should we just do traditional or should we go with the mayo?

<Krysten> Do it.

Do it the way you want to do it.

<Carrie> With the mayo and the bacon grease.

<Krysten> Yes and the Carolina Gold rice.

<Carrie> Yep!

Carolina Gold rice.

♪ <Greg> To me, Carolina Gold is like the Vidalia onion of Georgia.

It's a prize to this state.

It does represent South Carolina.

It's got this stickiness.

It's got this flavor you just can't get anywhere else.

<Brad> This is the raw stuff from the field.

This is just what it looks like after it runs through the combine and the cleaner.

The main breakdown is, this machine takes the hull off [machine whirs] and this machine separates the broken pieces from the hull pieces.

[machine whirs] This is the polisher.

I'll put the brown rice in here and when it comes out the chute, it will be white rice.

[machine whirs] This is the finished white after it's run through the huller and the sizer and the polisher.

This is how it started when it came in from the field.

♪ <Carrie> I think we're ready.

I think the next thing is we roast the tomatoes now, and then let's marinate that chicken and knock that out.

<Krysten> Perfect.

Let's do it.

<Carrie> Let's do it.

[paper rattling] <Krysten> Persian food is actually pretty simple.

Lots of meats, and vegetables, and greens.

They use a lot of saffron, a lot of fresh fruits.

So, for the saffron, I just get a little bit of boiling water, heat that up and then add the saffron to it.

This has been sitting overnight so look how golden that is.

So, this is simple.

It's just garlic and onions, yogurt, the saffron, salt and pepper, and a little bit of olive oil.

So, throw those in there.

♪ ♪ <Carrie> Okay, she's ready.

♪ <Carrie> These are like Persian swords.

<Krysten> Persian pirate fighting.

<Carrie> They're going to make the good food.

<Krysten> So put them down and then like... [mouthing sounds] so the grill is like eight inches wide.

So let's do like three per...three per skewer.

♪ <Carrie> Alright, let's take them down.

<Krysten> Okay.

The tomatoes will just be simply roasted over the grill and then they'll get really blistered and blackened, and they go really fast so, <Carrie> Flip 'em?

<Krysten> You just gotta keep kind of turning them.

See, the skins already starting to blister a little bit.

You're so close to the cooking surface.

Look at the steam coming, the juices coming off of that.

♪ I love this grill.

It really is just like a metal box.

There's nothing fancy about it at all.

You see them on the side of the road everywhere in the Middle East, that's how they cook their food.

♪ <Krysten> Oh, those look so good.

They've really cooked down perfectly those coals were perfect.

♪ ♪ [Horn honks] >> Cate, do you have your license?

<Cate> Yeah.

<Carrie> Did you clean your room?

<Cate> It's halfway done.

<Carrie> Go.

Carefully, go.

♪ We're getting tons of practice.

I make her drive me at night.

I'm trying to get her to drive a ton, and in lots of different scenarios.

<Carrie> Blinker on.

<Cate> I don't know where I'm going.

<Carrie> Remember when turning right we stay in that first lane.

Do not try to get all the way over.

♪ Okay, that was cutting it a little close, and now you're getting to a stoplight, so you want to slow down.

<Cate> Mmhum.

<Cate> I like to drive with my dad more.

<Carrie> Blinker, blinker.

You're making me nervous.

<Cate> She holds on to the thing and she'll like go like, uhhhhhh.

Cate, you need to slow down.

It's a lot but... [intelligible] <Carrie> You want to have your foot <Cate> I am on the brake when you're going into a turn.

[Carrie sighs in despair] [Cate giggles] What?

<Carrie> Cate's very carefree and that's the part that worries me is that she's chill.

Cate, you are literally - if there was a person there, you would have hit them.

I need you to stay in between the white and the yellow lines and do not go outside of them.

<Cate> She...she likes to lecture me about like driving and stuff and how I need to be responsible.

<Carrie> Stop, stop, stop, get in there.

Get in there.

Take a left.

Take a left.

<Cate> I wouldn't say I'm an excellent driver, but I'm not like, crashing into everyone.

<Carrie> Turn the car off.

<Cate> Oh!

<Carrie> Put your foot on the brake.

<Cate> Oh my word.

♪ [car door locks and beeps] [soft tone] ♪ <Tarah> Do you have a second?

Let's go over shot lists for today, and who's coming and how we can kind of prep.

We are going to be filming reels behind the scenes.

We're going to be recording recipes.

We're going to be talking to the entrepreneurs that are coming and sitting at the table.

So we've got Tia coming at 9:30.

She's going to show you how to clean a crab.

Janice is going to come and make the steamed pork dumplings, and then Jennifer is making her salad dressing.

<Carrie> Perfect.

<Tarah> After that, we're really set for a few hours just for you and Krysten to cook.

We're not going to do any filming until we're ready to set the table at 2.

<Carrie> Perfect.

<Tarah> Okay.

<Carrie> Thank you.

Let's do it.

<Janice> So we're going to be making some pork steamed dumplings today.

<Carrie> I'm so excited.

<Tarah> A big thing about social media is authenticity.

So, the more we can catch her in the moment, the better.

<Jennifer> I always put liquid in first.

So we'll put the balsamic in.

<Kelsey> So, we get a lot of comments on YouTube asking if dumplings can be made out of biscuit dough.

Do you think that'd be possible?

<Janice> I mean, we should try.

>> I smell a collab.

<Janice> I know.

<Kelsey> People on social media, kind of have a shorter attention span than what we're used to.

So things are getting shorter and shorter, and you got to grab people's attention within like a short amount of seconds.

[Carrie yells] [intelligible] <Carrie> So, keep it going really slow?

<Jennifer> Keep it going and then just start adding that guy in slowly.

<Carrie> Okay.

- Thank you.

Now, I don't have to make dressing.

<Jennifer> No, you're good.

♪ music ending ♪ <Carrie> Onions, juice, cilantro, cayenne... <Krysten> Instead of making hummus, which actually isn't really Persian, but it's Middle Eastern.

She wants to use boiled peanuts to try and make a hummus out of that.

So we'll see how it turns out.

<Carrie> This is Valencia red skin, the peanuts that I grew up on.

It's hard to find these, like you know, Matt and Ted started a boiled peanut farm.

It's the first Peanut Farm in South Carolina.

[silence] <Josh> Good Old South Carolina soil's probably some of the best in the country to grow peanuts.

Generally speaking, we want a lighter soil that drains well.

Peanuts do not like wet feet.

So, a lot of land in South Carolina is just what a peanut likes.

As a farmer, the month of May is our time to shine.

People planting 97,000 seeds to the acre, which is about 150 pounds, and we're trying to get about 50 acres planted today before dark.

They're going to make some great hummus for Carrie and everything else she does.

Also, these peanuts are going to go to make a Hershey bar with some nuts in it.

They're going to go to the ballpark.

They're going to be at your good steakhouse where you eat peanuts and throw the hulls on the floor.

That's what these peanuts do.

They provide happiness everywhere you go.

[tractor engine whirs] [grinding] <Carrie> So, garlic, cilantro, green onions, about two cups of peanuts [bowl clapping] and some spices cumin, paprika, cayenne.

[bowl clapping] Give a little zest.

[scraping and banging] and I boil down the shells to create a liquid.

So, this is what we're going to use to get it to a consistency.

<Carrie> So, go for it.

[blender whirs] <Carrie> Take a look at it.

[silence] <Carrie> I love it.

<Krysten> Do you like it?

<Krysten> Delicious.

I love it.

<Carrie> Do you need salt?

<Carrie> The boiled peanut hummus.

♪ <Carrie> Fresh herbs on the side.

♪ Pretty too, right?

<Krysten> It looks pretty.

♪ I love that you're using the Carolina Gold rice, and this is just a simple rice dish that when you flip the pot over you have this crispy golden tahdig, which literally means the bottom of the pot which ends up on top.

<Krysten> Let's rinse out.

<Carrie> Okay, so let's rinse this out.

Okay.

<Carrie> This is a part of the traditional process to get the... <Krysten> Yes.

<Carrie> liquid clear.

[water running] >> Alright.

High and then as soon as we see the first, the rice will come to the top then we rinse again.

<Krysten> Yes.

<Carrie> Right?

Okay.

We'll just keep an eye on that while we keep moving.

♪ ♪ <Carrie> More dill, more garlic, a little lemon zest, steal a little bit of capers, the beautiful tomatoes.

[banging] [Carrie shrieks] We must do a little bit of red clay.

[blender whirs] <Carrie> Sumac.

<Krysten> That's perfect.

It has just this great lemony flavor.

<Carrie> Yeah.

<Krysten> Oh, the color of it is beautiful.

[blender whirs] <Carrie> Stay there, right where you are.

[silence] I love that, just the melding of the cultures.

Roasting those tomatoes over the coals gives it really good, deep flavor.

♪ Okay, so prep cabbage, I'll do that.

We can do that That's a last minute, frying... <Krysten> Carrie thrives in chaos.

<Carrie> You're making the Sabzi, so I can mark that off.

<Krysten> She'll make a list and her list will have all these notes hanging out to the side which I don't know what it is, but it all comes together perfectly.

<Carrie> So, we're down to three things.

That makes me feel really good.

♪ And what time is it?

♪ <Sarah> So, I thought it would be a good idea to ground it with chargers that are all the same.

<Sarah> So we have a little bit of cohesiveness, <Carrie> So smart.

and then we just add our dinner plate, lay our napkin and then place our mini card on top of it, and it just... <Carrie> Oh, that just, it makes it pop.

<Sarah> Yeah.

♪ <Carrie> I'm not a measurer, but this makes me nervous.

<Krysten> That's good.

<Krysten> So this just kind of holds it together.

Traditionally, we would use yogurt to kind of bind it together, and then the bacon fat and the ghee are going to crisp the bottom of this.

<Carrie> Now do put saffron in here now, or wait till it holds?

<Krysten> I do.

I do.

Yep.

Look how gorgeous that color is.

<Carrie> So pretty.

You better get crispy.

Get in there.

I don't think it's enough.

<Krysten> It is.

You just need a thin layer.

Everything I've ever been taught is this rice dish only works if you use a very cheap nonstick pot.

She said "No, I can do it in a cast iron".

It's the perfect amount.

You just tamp it down.

<Carrie> Okay, now it's time to put the rest of the rice on.

<Krysten> Yes.

♪ <Krysten> This will give it even more of a golden color.

Smush her down.

♪ <Krysten> There she is.

<Carrie> Okay.

<Krysten> Good luck little buddy.

<Carrie> All right, do your job.

Make me proud.

♪ ♪ <Carrie> A little sneak peak.

[clanging] <Carrie> What do you think?

[background music] I don't see any crispy crust.

Will it crisp up this late in the game?

<Krysten> Alright, so what I think we should do is take the top off and fire it from the bottom.

♪ <Krysten> We've got time.

♪ <Carrie> Oh uh, I lost a bowl of peanut hummus.

♪ <Carrie> Ahhh!

How about right there?

Do you think everybody can see that.

<Krysten> The chicken kabobs go right on.

Oh, can you hear them sizzling?

Gorgeous.

♪ <Carrie> How are you?

You look gorgeous.

<Woman> So do you.

♪ <Carrie> This is a smoked tomato remoulade.

<Krysten> So these look perfect.

They smell perfect.

I hope they taste perfect.

♪ [intelligible] ♪ <Carrie> Okay.

We're going to do it, where?

Right there?

<Krysten> The only thing left to do is to flip the rice and to pray, [laughs] and I think just fast and confident.

<Woman> Time to say the prayers.

[Krysten claps] <Krysten> Yep, that's good.

[Carrie scrapes] [banging] <Krysten> Come on!

[Carrie squeals] <Carrie> Ahhh!

<Krysten> Wait, it's okay.

We can do the scraping technique.

<Carrie> This is what the grandmothers talk about.

<Krysten> Oh, but the color is perfect.

But nobody has to see!

It's really perfect.

<Carrie> It's artisan.

<Krysten> It's perfectly crispy and crunchy though.

<Cate> There she is.

♪ ♪ <Krysten> She's so good about bringing women together, and especially women that motivate and inspire her.

I love being a part of it.

[intelligible] [glasses clinking] <Carrie> Cheers to all the most amazing women, and thank you for coming <All> Cheers.

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