As annoying as Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray are, did anyone else see someone named Mary Nolan on a new show this morning? She is the new leader in my home for being Food Network's "Most Unwatchable Host." Talks at warp speed, while setting out a tablescape of food for "girls' night" and then making a closing cocktail. Sound familiar? It was slightly interesting, only because I wondered why someone would do this on purpose, much less put it on Tee Vee.
Another vote here for Flaky Flix. Also Big John's Beans 'n Fixin's and Sugar Jets cereal.
Salt-roasted whole chickens turn out splendidly. I'm surprised there wasn't a recipe with the story. The meat literally falls off the bones, and even the breasts are amazingly moist, tender and flavorful.
I registered specifically to add my desire for
Regal Crown Sour Cherries!
I had a craving for them suddenly and went online to look for them only to find out they are discontinued. I am sad.
I also want to add one more gone but not forgotten, but I think I may be the only person who has ever eaten this cereal:
Concentrate
It turned to mush when milk was added and had a great taste. I guess most folks like their cereal crunchy but I never did.
Plus she LIES.....one online interview claimed she had "intense training at Cordon Bleu". It was a two-week course and she stayed for three days! She also gives out misinformation about food; even a foodie virgin can sit and watch her and listen to her give out erroneous info.
Watch her "Slow Cooker" episode. Who in the hell slow cooks risotto? She slow-cooked some bread pudding that looked like a baby elephant took a dump in it. To make it worse, she added cream soda and Dream Whip to it - it makes no sense!!! And her slow-cooked Chicken Stew? She took an already-cooked rotisserie chicken, threw it in the crockpot with some broth, threw frozen veggies on top of it (they should go on the bottom) and SLOW COOKED it for FOUR HOURS. The chicken was already cooked!! Read the reviews on the FN site on her slow-cooked meatloaf - it looks like a tumor!
Semi-homemade is a good concept, but she's doing it WRONG. The worlds first snake-oil saleswoman.
@Brooke - This is the first time I have laughed so hard that I cried in a long time!!! I'm waiting for her to get so nailed that she accidentally switches "Briceter's" kiddie cocktail with the real thing.
She has no culinary expertise, or for that matter, any expertise. Remember about 10 years ago there was a paid tv advertisement for some wire gadget that you could use to make draperies? All you needed to supply were bedsheets and you could whip up a window treatment in nothing flat. That was Shamdra. Too bad she migrated from bad home design to bad cooking.
I would prefer a female impersonator of Alton Brown. Which he often does and it is still funny. One with semi homemade ecoutrements. Maybe zip lock bags with canned pudding for buoyancy.
I think she is awful. One of my main gripes, among many, is that she takes the semi homemade gimmick way too far. If I'm going to eat something pre-made that is fine, but it is ridiculous to add french onion soup mix to canned soup or vanilla extract to Betty Crocker prepared cake frosting. It just seems so unnecessary. Furthermore, don't we all know how to do this stuff, does a show really need to be devoted to it?
My girlfriend jokes that she wants to pitch a new show to Food Network called "Semi Fast Food," where she goes to a drive through and jazzes up some Big Macs, fries, and Filet o' Fish with ingredients at home. Sad thing is, FN would probably love it.
@brooke - ROFLMAO! The opening sequence of Lee's show says "I've been cooking and entertaining for years..." She's got her guests so blotto they couldn't taste what they were eating anyway.
It always seems...I dunno, funny? ironic? that SL proposes using processed foods to "save" time and then proceeds to demonstrate some elaborate "tablescape" that more often than not, requires a trip to the crafts store as well as time to construct. It would seem more to the point to take the time to purchase/prepare real food and then perhaps buy some simple fresh flowers, or in the event of a special dinner for guests, spend a little extra time and money on both the food and the decor.
I remember when I was a kid going to someone's house for dinner with my family. They fed us shake-n-bake pork chops and there were crepe paper flowers on the table. Hello, Sandra! We weren't food snobs (not too much, anyway) but we didn't eat processed foods. It was pretty appalling, but in the final analysis, if you're eating in good company, that's the most important thing.
Welcome stephie!!!!!
Once you're hooked on this blog it's hard to not visit daily. (I'm not even a blogger!!!! lol)
Re: Sandra Lee; The above summarizes a lot of my feelings as well. I would prefer a female-version of Elton Brown personally (haha that sounds funny--) but serious(eats)ly, she portrays herself as self-centred, unintelligent, and uncharismatic I think. I wouldn't want to learn a single thing from someone like her (except maybe her fashion? which is for sure the result of the stylists back stage)
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