2. Bake hot dog buns for 2 hours at 225 degrees.
3. Dice green onions, bell pepper, and celery. Saute your vegetables in half of the b.u.t.ter on medium-low heat.
4. After your hot dog buns are done, take a very large roast pot and dump your buns, cornbread, and saltine crackers into the pot. With your hands, crumble the bread mixture into a fine consistency.
5. When your ducks are done boiling, remove them from the pot and pour a third of the broth into crumbled bread mix.
6. Stir until it reaches a paste consistency. Add vegetables.
7. Add broth until you get a thick but pourable consistency.
8. Add eggs and evaporated milk to your dressing mix and stir.
9. Add sage.
10. Place ducks lightly on top of dressing. Sprinkle Phil Robertson"s Seasoning on top of ducks. Lightly coat ducks with rest of b.u.t.ter.
11. Bake duck and dressing at 375 degrees for 2530 minutes.
12. Enjoy!
Acknowledgments We feel blessed beyond measure to have been able to put our life into a book. Really, how many people get to do that? It doesn"t just happen, though. Our sincerest thanks to John Howard, not only a great father and father-in-law, but also an excellent book agent who knew we could do it and helped us work through this process with lightning speed. We want to thank our editor and friend, Philis Boultinghouse, who sweetly encouraged us along the way. Also Amanda Demastus, who kindly kept us on schedule, not always an easy task. Thanks to Mark Schlabauch, who helped with the writing process. A special thanks to our a.s.sistant, Angila Summitt, who, along with the other things she does for us daily, helped us gather and choose the pictures to include in the book. Narrowing your entire life to just forty pictures is tough! Thank you to A&E for believing in us and allowing us to show our crazy family to the world. Thanks to our children for being patient while we added one more thing to our already busy lives. Thanks to our big family: our brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins with whom we are blessed to be able to work hard and play hard. And last but certainly not least, thanks to our parents who gave us this story with a life well lived and who continue to be an integral part of our story and our lives. We couldn"t do it without you.
Days before Willie came into this world. Alan, Jase, Kay, and Phil, 1972.
Willie"s baby picture, 1972. Check out that hair!
Korie"s baby picture, 1973.
Willie with his granny, 1975.
Korie with her brother and Papaw Howard, who taught her how to fish and skin a squirrel (and push a wheelbarrow). Alton, Korie, and Ryan Howard.
Robertson family photo taken for the church directory, 1988. Clockwise from top: Phil, Alan, Jase, Kay, and Willie. (Photograph Olan Mills Photography)
Uncle Si hanging out on the steps with Willie and Jase, 1974.
Korie"s family"s annual ski trip, Colorado, 1990. Left to right: John, Chrys, Ashley, Korie, and Ryan Howard.
The Robertson men BTB (before the beards) playing golf on the family beach vacation in 2001. Willie, Jase, Alan, and Jep.
Willie and Korie. Young love! Camp Ch-Yo-Ca, 1991.
Willie and Korie on their wedding day, January 11, 1992. So happy! (Photograph Lamar Photography)
Korie and Willie on their honeymoon trip to Hawaii, 1992.
Korie"s 1995 college graduation from Harding University, with proud grandparents Luther and Jo Shackelford.
Willie at his 1996 graduation from Northeast Louisiana University (now the University of Louisiana at Monroe). He is holding John Luke.
December 15, 2001, the first time Willie and Korie held Little Will. They were in awe of this sweet little boy!
Willie with Sadie and John Luke on the steps of the house at Camp Ch-Yo-Ca, 1998.
Willie before the beard, rocking blond tips. Left to right, Sadie, Korie, Willie, and John Luke at Gulf Sh.o.r.es, Alabama, in 2000.
John Luke and Sadie in 2002 at their school"s Grandparents" Day, getting hugs from their two grandmas, Kay Robertson and Chrys Howard.
Korie with the kids, 2003: (clockwise) John Luke, Sadie, Bella, and Will.
The first year Rebecca was with Korie and Willie for their annual beach vacation at Gulf Sh.o.r.es, Alabama, 2006. First row: Rebecca, Korie, Bella, Will, and Willie. Back row: Sadie and John Luke.
Family beach trip to Gulf Sh.o.r.es, Alabama, 2012. Front row: Rebecca, Bella, Korie, and Sadie. Back row: Will, Willie, and John Luke.
Sadie and Will in 2012. So proud of how the kids love each other.
Sadie and John Luke celebrating the Fourth of July, 2012.
Papaw Phil in 2012 teaching Bella about building duck blinds.
Papaw Phil with the grandkids, 2005. Back row: John Luke and Reed (Jase"s son). Front row: Bella, Will, Phil, Sadie, and Cole (Jase"s son).
Family trip to California, 2012. Left to right: Rebecca, John Luke, Bella, Sadie, and Will.
All the grandkids and great-grandkids with their awesome Mamaw Kay. Back row: Cole, John Luke, Reed, Kay, Sadie, Bailey, and Will. Front row: Bella, Lily, Merritt, River, Carly, Priscilla, and Mia.
Willie and Phil in 2006, posing for the label for our seasoning bottles.
Phil and Willie in the "Boss Hog mobile" for a Benelli commercial, 2010.
The women of Duck Dynasty, 2012. Left to right: Missy, Korie, Jessica, and Kay.
Si with his now-famous gla.s.s of tea at Willie and Korie"s house, July 4, 2012.
Korie"s first deer! Willie was proud. Olla, Louisiana, 2010.
The Duckmen had a good day in the blind on Robertson land, 2011. Jase, Phil, and Willie.
Willie doing a photo shoot for Buck Commander Weaver Scopes.
(Photograph Lee Kjos Photography 2011)
John Luke and Willie in 2011, getting ready to pick the ducks.
Willie singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at an Atlanta Braves game in 2010. He is on top of the dugout during the seventh-inning stretch.
Willie and Korie in 2012 accepting the Golden Moose Award for Duck Commander.