Paula Deen or Serious Eats Trying to Kill Us?
I was too busy eating my ice cream and missed the article about the deep fried bacon. I can't imagine anything better fried + bacon = heaven.
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Sweet Potato Biscuits
I tried these last night. They were extremely tasty but because I didn't measure the sweet potato (I just used two medium ones and assumed it was one cup), they came out very flat...not biscuit-like at all but we loved them. They were more like pancakes that you could pick up with your hands :-)
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 23: What's Your Ideal Diet Breakfast?
If that's what you like, who is anyone to tell you not to.
I'm on a homemade smoothie kick lately. Frozen blueberries, banana, non-fat milk and non-fat yogurt. I whip it up in the blender and drink it on the road. It does however lack the salty factor. :-)
Cupcakes in LA
Leda's is unique. Most of their cakes are minature (two bites), except for the kids cupcakes that are regular size - funny right? The flavor of the adult cupcakes are out of this world and often special like key lime and blood orange. The ccakes I've had from the famous Sprinkles were dry and not impressive to me. I think the Leda's cupcakes benefit from being smaller in that they don't dry out and most of them contain a small amount of excellent filling. Biggest negative is their new and extremely ridculously limited operating hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
Open for pre-order pick up only
Orders must be placed 24 hrs in advanced
24 cupcake minimum per flavor
Friday and Saturday
Open 10:30 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday and Monday
Closed
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Paula Deen or Serious Eats Trying to Kill Us?
Wow, Dianeneb, why do you bother to watch any of the cooking shows if you re such an obvious "downer?" Why don't you change the channel? Ummm??
Paula Deen or Serious Eats Trying to Kill Us?
What ever happened to understandijng the concept of diversity. To the Indivdual beauty as well as passion is in the eye of the beholder Practice more tolerance of other cooking styles. These folks grew up around their cuisines and cherish their traditions as much as you do yours ! Our sensibilities are all different and take a lifetime to develop..Acid tongued food critics .....what R WE gonna do with them ?????
Paula Deen or Serious Eats Trying to Kill Us?
@Susquehanna I agree with you. It pleases me that your aunts find her entertaining. Paula can be comical. With the health issues our country faces due to our chosen diets, I would like to see cooking shows promote healthier ingredients and use them in innovative ways.
Now that you mentioned it, I find Paula being called "the drunk cook" to have some merit. She does act a bit tipsy. Remember Julia Child's early episodes? "One cup of wine for the beef burgandy and one glass of wine for me." Gulp
Paula Deen or Serious Eats Trying to Kill Us?
It's true that eating Paula's brand of food everyday would lead to poor health, but most reasonable people understand this and do not eat this way. Plus, I don't think Serious Eats OR Paula *ever* advocated eating over-rich food as a habit or lifestyle.
Serious Eats doesn't have a duty to preach about health food. It's an all-food site, as Ed Levine emphasized above, that assumes it's readers are reasonable people with decent self-management skills. We should all be flattered!
Parenthetically, some of the healthiest, fittest people I know -- who run marathons and complete triathlons -- rarely, but occasionally, eat stuff like Paula's cooks on her shows. They're good self-managers and aren't too rigid in their thinking or eating. I admire them.
@dianeb: I respect your opinion (and others'), but Paula's lack of class is what kinda' endears her to me. And my two great aunts, Evi & Kalli, get a real kick out of her. They claim that she is "the drunk cook" and they imitate her accent. Kalli believes Paula drinks a fifth of scotch before every show. Don't think so, but that is hilarious.
Paula Deen or Serious Eats Trying to Kill Us?
Personally, I have never been interested in duplicating any recipe seen on the Paula Deen show. She literally "throws" ingredients together to produce recipes popular in the 1950's. She doesn't have the skills to be in front of a TV camera. Paula's Party should be removed from the network. Simply, it is disgusting. She lacks class.
So, deep frying bacon and doughnut hamburgers is just part of her act. I love bacon, however, common sense tells me that it shouldn't be deep fried. Her ratings are down. Rachel Ray's ratings are down. Giada's ratings are down. Emril has been cancelled. Mario Batali has been cancelled. It's just a matter of time before Paula walks.....and The Neeleys.....and SANDRA LEE, please. They need to get the charlatans off the network. Thank God for PBS!
Paula Deen or Serious Eats Trying to Kill Us?
I think we would if it was a good show. Everyone, including Paula Deen, understands that just because Paula Deen makes deep-fried bacon on her show doesn't mean we should eat deep-fried bacon every day. But a couple of times a year, sure.
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 23: What's Your Ideal Diet Breakfast?
@HeartofGlass - Thanks for mentioning aspartame! Artificial sweeteners, while they may be noncaloric, do foster sweets cravings the same way that refined sugar does, so diet sodas can actually encourage overeating. And there's that little bit about aspartame being a neurotoxin...
I do take exception with the smoothies comment - when they're made with no added sugar, they can be an excellent breakfast food for the times of year when fresh fruit isn't readily available. Frozen fruit is not very palatable thawed and eaten, but it's perfect for a smoothie.
Paula Deen or Serious Eats Trying to Kill Us?
So...if Paula Deen did a show about deep fried bacon, would everyone here be excited and singing her praise? trust me, I am no fan of her cooking style, I'm just trying to understand the thought process
maybe I just chalk it up to "to each his own"
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 23: What's Your Ideal Diet Breakfast?
Diet soda, while not having calories is full of aspertame, which (unlike Splenda) is an artificial sweetener that spikes the blood sugar. Strawberries or a real potato have more potassium than a banana, actually, and while some fruit is better than no fruit, a high sugar, high GI starchy fruit plus aspertame is very hunger-spiking, combined with potato chips (also high GI) that have little nutritional value.
A typical 'breakfast sandwich' of an egg on an English muffin with cheese or even lean meat would be lower in calories and have more protien, depending on the bread, how the egg was cooked, and so forth.
Smoothies are very high in sugar too, btw, for all of you 'fans' out there...
I've never understood smoothies, personally--as long as I have teeth, I like to chew my fruit!
Nothing is wrong with an occasional indulgent breakfast, but if I'm going to indulge, hell I'll have cake for breakfast, not packaged snack food and good coffee, not preservative-laden soda!
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