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Website: http://www.dishondieting.blogspot.com

Location: Atlanta

About: Food loving registered dietitian who writes about food, nutrition and cuisine. I'm on Food Network as "Lady of the Refrigerator" on Good Eats. I was on CNN for 20 years covering everything from pate to pesticides as anchor and exec producer.

Favorite foods: Anything but Indian food or food with eyeballs.

Last bite on earth: stone crab claws with fresh meyer lemons.

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Dinner Tonight: Blue Smoke’s Iceberg Wedges with Roquefort Dressing

Iceberg lettuce may not contain all of the antioxidant rich plant nutrients
found in deep green leafy salad choices such as spinach and arugula; but it gets this dietitian's approval because it's so high in water content and helps to fill you up without filling you out. It even helps hydrate your body just like water in a glass. OK OK..the blue cheese dressing is a splurge but don't think that eating iceberg is a waste of time. As far as dining wedge-iquette goes- yes you do use a knife and fork to cut the lettuce into bite size pieces. And please don't cut it all up at once creating a messy pile of chopped lettuce. Maintain the art of the wedge.

thedish at 6:37PM on 06/12/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread

My favorite Paula Dean quote and she uses it often as she presents her potato soup riddled with cream and festooned with bacon crumbles and shredded cheddar cheese and winks, "Today's not a day for cutting back!"

thedish at 4:43PM on 06/04/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread

No wonder she's a tubber! Dean, and many people who eat her fat-laden recipes, is at risk wind up having a massive coronary. The Fred Sanford variety, chest-clutching et al, "Elizabeth, I comin' to meet you darlin'. I ate a deep fried butter ball and deep fried mac and cheese!"

bmcc9498 at 7:16AM on 07/12/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread

I like to watch her show just to see how she's going to top herself from day to day. Bacon wrapped mac and cheese in a deep fryer. I missed the fried butter balls episode. Too freakin funny!

cocosmom at 5:49PM on 07/08/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread


Paula Deen???? I don't get it!!! Her incessant cackling, sticking her tongue into chocolate fountains, and please, stop with the y'alling.
The worst thing?... her recipes. Soooo bad.
She's Food Network's performing monkey and... they love her. Apparentley, so does the audience. Yeesh.
You can fool some of the people some of the time...but Paula Deen fools all of the people all of the time.

Paul Deen, please, just go away....and take Guy Fieri with you.

cher128 at 9:08AM on 06/16/08

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Dinner Tonight: Blue Smoke’s Iceberg Wedges with Roquefort Dressing

I used to be ashamed to admit that I love iceberg lettuce, but now I don't care what people think. It's cool and crunchy--I frequently add it to my leafy salads, and it's always so refreshing to get a bite of it with the soft stuff. And it's a nice foil for bitter greens. One of my favorite snacks used to be a slice of cheddar with some iceberg wrapped around it. The nice crunch with the texture of the cheese is great!

jenjen at 9:13PM on 06/12/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread

OK, OK..we certainly want to eat a bit healthier and be honest: do y'all eat this stuff every day? Once in a while all this fat and cholesterol is good for your soul..but that's about all it's good for. My grandmother, rest in peace ate full-fat everything; half & half, sour cream, cheeses, an occasional piece of red meat and lived to 95.
So a LOT of this is genetic and hereditary.
BTW..Jerzee; My mom is from South Cackilacky and they just got an IGA!

RichardCrystal at 12:19PM on 06/06/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread

I have not made Ree's olive bread, why you ask? From Ree's Blog quote "The Cast of Characters: French bread, green olives, black olives, green onions, butter, real (not low-fat or fat-free) mayonnaise, and Monterey Jack Cheese." That is why! It is a Paula Deen recipe. Sitck a buttah, mayo, cheese....comprende. All recipe deal breakers for me.

Now I lived in rural NC, and I was not near anything that resembled a good grocery store other than the freaking piggly wiggly. I managed to get good ingredients. How did I manage that? Survey says, I got in the car and drove (sometimes for over an hour) to them. Some I ordered by phone or catalog and some kind people (bless you) shipped to me. I do not accept that she cannot get good ingredients. I will not accept that as an excuse. In the early 90's there was not an "internet" and I got them in Cow Patch North Cackilacky.
The piggly wiggly had three kinds of cheese grated kraft, yeller and owrenge.
Giada doesn't appeal to what I would cook because like her I am italian and I cook those things all the time. I am the everyday italian. Everyday I am "italian".

JerzeeTomato at 12:39AM on 06/06/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread

Jerzee: I hear you. I have a problem with Giada who is now "Boob Girl" in my household. Watch the early shows, then look at what's been filmed in the past 2 years. Food Network is trying to make her look sexy where ever she goes and wherever they film her. The center of the camera image is not on the dish she is preparing, but on her chest 100% of the time. And it's clear that they have a fisheye lens on her because her forehead has become enormous! OGM what would Julia say!!!

Hot Tomato at 6:39PM on 06/05/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread

Check that: Clarissa and Jennifer rode up to every venue in a motorcylce with a sidecar. The white van showed up later with their provisions in it later. Sorry - senior moment!!!

Hot Tomato at 6:02PM on 06/05/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread

RichardCrystal: I DO remember the Two Fat Ladies on BBC and I absolutely adored them showing up in their little delivery van and setting up parties.. The were constantly bickering about each other to the camera! They were so entertaining in their delivery. Their show was precious, not because of the recipies and entertaining tips, but because of the way their personalities played off each other, and because of the whispered quips the camera picked up on as they bantered. I miss them. This show was the closest thing to a real small-scale catering experience!

Hot Tomato at 5:59PM on 06/05/08

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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 5: Butter, Mayo, Whiz Cheese Spread

I'm new here, and don't know Pioneer Woman. I am intrigued. If she is cooking up this stuff for people who are not living a corporate, reticent life style and are physically active for 8+ hours a day, then she may be doing a good thing. You need carbs and fat to run on if you truly do the daily physical labor that our grandparents and great grandparents did. My grandfather would have collapsed on a South Beach diet while he walked to the coal mines! However, if the title of Paula's show was something like "Cooking for Your Cowboy" I wouldn't have the same problem. She's presenting this fare as a daily routine to the average American family!

Hot Tomato at 5:46PM on 06/05/08