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Photo of the Day: Blue Zone
I will preface this quote by stating I am not a sane person, which may help explain why this picture makes me think of Hedwig & The Angry Inch:
"Hedwig: The taste is completely different from a gummi bear, yet somehow familiar. It's much sweeter that a gummi bear.
Hansel: Wow.
Hedwig: And softer too.
Hansel:I feel so optimistic.
Hedwig: I suddenly recognize the flavor in my mouth. It's the taste of power.
. . .
Hedwig: He searches my face for news of his fate. His expression is echoed in scores of tiny faces pressing against clear plastic. Panting faces of every imaginable color, creed, and non-Aryan origin. Fogging up the bag like the windows of a Polish bath house, I stumble naked through the ruins, back towards blander, less complicated confections, leaving in my wake a trail of rainbow carnage."
Yeah, I'm weird
Suggestions for Great Camping Food?
I second the dutch oven idea. If you have one, there's nothing you can't cook while camping. I've even made pizza in a dutch oven using canned biscuit dough as the crust. And cobblers are great in a dutch oven for dessert.
Dutch ovens aside, foil packet cooking is always easy and you can actually get pretty creative. Salmon, dill, asparagus, lemon, pat of butter and either a bit of water or white wine and you've got a whole meal in a bag. Best part - no dishes. And the possibilities are endless.
Suggestions for Great Camping Food?
I second the dutch oven idea. If you have one, there's nothing you can't cook while camping. I've even made pizza in a dutch oven using canned biscuit dough as the crust. And cobblers are great in a dutch oven for dessert.
Dutch ovens aside, foil packet cooking is always easy and you can actually get pretty creative. Salmon, dill, asparagus, lemon, pat of butter and either a bit of water or white wine and you've got a whole meal in a bag. Best part - no dishes. And the possibilities are endless.
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Cook the Book: 'Crescent City Cooking'
It's a toss up between really good gumbo and a crawfish boil.
Photo of the Day: Blue Zone
I will preface this quote by stating I am not a sane person, which may help explain why this picture makes me think of Hedwig & The Angry Inch:
"Hedwig: The taste is completely different from a gummi bear, yet somehow familiar. It's much sweeter that a gummi bear.
Hansel: Wow.
Hedwig: And softer too.
Hansel:I feel so optimistic.
Hedwig: I suddenly recognize the flavor in my mouth. It's the taste of power.
. . .
Hedwig: He searches my face for news of his fate. His expression is echoed in scores of tiny faces pressing against clear plastic. Panting faces of every imaginable color, creed, and non-Aryan origin. Fogging up the bag like the windows of a Polish bath house, I stumble naked through the ruins, back towards blander, less complicated confections, leaving in my wake a trail of rainbow carnage."
Yeah, I'm weird
Suggestions for Great Camping Food?
I second the dutch oven idea. If you have one, there's nothing you can't cook while camping. I've even made pizza in a dutch oven using canned biscuit dough as the crust. And cobblers are great in a dutch oven for dessert.
Dutch ovens aside, foil packet cooking is always easy and you can actually get pretty creative. Salmon, dill, asparagus, lemon, pat of butter and either a bit of water or white wine and you've got a whole meal in a bag. Best part - no dishes. And the possibilities are endless.
Suggestions for Great Camping Food?
I second the dutch oven idea. If you have one, there's nothing you can't cook while camping. I've even made pizza in a dutch oven using canned biscuit dough as the crust. And cobblers are great in a dutch oven for dessert.
Dutch ovens aside, foil packet cooking is always easy and you can actually get pretty creative. Salmon, dill, asparagus, lemon, pat of butter and either a bit of water or white wine and you've got a whole meal in a bag. Best part - no dishes. And the possibilities are endless.
Condé Nast Traveler's Hot List Tables 2007
I don't get the list either. The one restaurant listed for New Orleans is (inexplicably) Riche. It's little more than a crappy casino restaurant which Todd English has little to nothing to do with. In fact the only good thing I have heard about it, is that people like the onion soup.
It's really a shame too. The fastest growing industry in this town since the storm is probably the restaurant industry. So many better choices to choose from.
Killer Cajun Crawfish
um . . . While I am sure that recipe is in fact delicious, it definitely isn't Cajun.
Here's the easiest way to make boiled crawfish. Fill a pot with water. Throw in garlic, lemons, onions, salt cayenne and some Zatarain's crab boil (either liquid or dry works). Let it boil for a bit to make sure the water is fully flavored. add new potatoes and biol for 5 or so minutes, then add crawfish and boil for another 5 or so minutes. Serve immediately. Voila, real Cajun boiled crawfish.
you can buy Zatarain's products through their website here.
Question of the Day: What surprises your friends most to hear that you make yourself?
Definitely pizza crust. My grandmother taught me how and it's ridiculously easy.
People thinks it's way more work than it is. My brother's fiancee thinks I'm crazy (this comes from the girl who actually purchases pizza crust in a bag that you just add water to).
Cookbook Giveaway: 'Super Natural Cooking'
Fresh berries and greek yogurt with homemade granola.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
I am not sure which is scarier, that this recipe exists, or that , according to reviews, there are people who have actually made and eaten these things.
My First Recipe
Congrats on your first recipe. You'll get the hang of it soon. You already seem to know how flavors, ingredients and textures work together. Once you realize you have a firm grasp on this, you'll be inventing things left and right.
Your King Cake recipes. Laissez les bons temps rouler
Normally, here in New Orleans, a regular Kin Cake is just bread, colored sugar and icing. Most bakeries also make filled, but he plain bread is standard fare.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Its real and its here... (as disgusting as it is)
Paula's Fried Butter Balls
2 sticks butter
2 ounces cream cheese
Salt and pepper
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 egg, beaten
1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
Peanut oil, for frying
Cream the butter, cream cheese, salt and pepper together with an electric mixer until smooth. Using a very small ice cream scoop, or melon baller, form 1-inch balls of butter mixture and arrange them on a parchment or waxed paper lined sheet pan. Freeze until solid. Coat the frozen balls in flour, egg, and then bread crumbs and freeze again until solid.
When ready to fry, preheat oil in a deep-fryer to 350 degrees F.
Fry balls for 10 to 15 seconds until just light golden. Drain on paper towels before serving.
Full recipe is here: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/paulas-fried-butter-balls-recipe/index.html
Whats the difference between this recipe and deep fried mozarella or deep frying whole turkeys or chickens (before baking) or even Krispy Kremes which are deep fried TWICE?? All of which I cannot stomach.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
you people really need to get a grip.. its not like shes forcing you to eat any of her foods and she will tell you herself that she puts a lot of butter in her food.. i mean seriously butter and cream cheese isn't half as bad as deep fried ice cream or deep fried candy bars and twinkies.. and yes people really do fry these things or how bout Duck Confit (sp?) which is duck boiled and or baked covered in duck fat..lol fatty unhealthy recipes have been around forever, its up to us to learn self control and portion control..lol
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
people seriously...butter mixed with cream cheese isn't that crazy...if any of you have ever eaten cheesecake..guess what? its got both butter and cream cheese..only thing not there is the deep frying that paula added! :)
Killer Cajun Crawfish
Nope. This is the best site for crawfish.
http://www.crawfish.com/
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
It's hard to watch Paula Deen when she is making a dish or chicken soup.
Whatever the recipe is, I have trouble getting thru her programs. No. 1 She talks over making the food and her spittal goes right into the food! Yuck!
It is not professional at all. No. 2 she tastes everything with the spoon or
fork she is using. So gross! She does not show great hygine when cooking. Her dna is going into everything she makes when talking over preparations. I would not want to eat anything she makes! At least talk
away from the dish being prepared and don't touch the dog, or your hair.
Never put the dish cloth over your shoulders either...all that hair and who know what else sitting on the shoulders. Totally grosses me right out!
Hope she takes some advice and changes many of her way's!!!
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
I have been eating for close to 5 years a low carb diet. I eat tons of fat, butter, eggs, red meat, pork chops, veges galore. Have not eaten one bite of sugar, flour, rice, bread in this entire time. Not one cheat. I am not over weight, I am very healthy. So you roll your eyes and say, Wow her cholesterol must be very high. Not so. I recently had my cholesterol checked and was told they could be framed and put on a wall as being ideal. Fat is not the evil it is combining fat with high carbs that cause great problems. No I will not eat deep fried butter balls not because it is butter but because it has bread crumbs in the recipe. I love Paula, I love the South and I love southern cooking just the low carb way.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Number of times Paula Deen’s heart beats per minute: CLOSE TO ZERO!
Credit: www.Pophangover.com (CLOSE TO ZERO)
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
@sarahstephking: You're right. I think we may close this thread. There's not really much more to say here.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Didn't read the article. Oops!
But, after reading some of these posts, I am not sure a lot of other people have either.
There is a lot of truly sounding negativity on Paula and on Southern food in general!
This food is not meant to be eaten everyday!
But, neither is fast food, junk food, or any other high-calorie foods.
I am not sure that a lot of people that posted are getting the joke either.
Some of the posts come off as down right mean!
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
@sarahstephking: THE PDITTKU series is a bit of a running gag on SE. We sort of grudgingly love and respect Ms. Dean for her over-the-top-ness.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
What is wrong with you people? Live a little!!!
Paula Deen makes homestyle cooking. What is up with these post of where can I find Creme Fraise or other European products?
You live in America don't you!!!
Eat American and shut up.
What is wrong with a lady cooking on tv?
You are all way to analytical and judgemental.
Quit sucking the happiness out of life.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
@Luvcooking13: THE PDITTKU series is a bit of a running gag on SE. We sort of grudgingly love and respect Ms. Dean for her over-the-top-ness.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
This is such a problem with humanity. Judging always judging others.
No one can kill you with food without your permission!
I eat a low fat diet, that is my choice. I absolutely love watching Paula Dean. She is wonderful and fun loving person. I find myself smiling and laughing when she is on tv.
Paula so loves to cook and she loves to eat her high fat recipes.
I induldge myself by watching her eat it. She makes recipes that SHE LOVES. When I am interested in a dessert, I modify it.......hello you can subsitue heavy cream for milk etc. Don't accuse her of killing you, I'm sick of people that blame others for their health issues. Paula Dean eats what she loves to eat and if you don't like it OH you can change the channel.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
I love Paula Deen. She is one of my heros. She is comfort. She reminds me of what my what my mother did in her kitchen all of her life. My mom lived to be 94. My dad till he ws 89 when a drug taking driver killed him. If you don't like the way she cooks or what she cooks, don't listen to her. You've got a remote control, use it. "Lettuce" not forget that you've got a choice.....
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
I love Paula! She is a genuine and caring person. If you are "grossed" out by what she is preparing, or with receipies she's sharing with us, don't watch or prepare her food. Simple as that. Why put yourself thru all that?
Keep up the great work Paula!
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
I have seen Paula at numerous events and parties and she is genuinely vivacious and her accent is real. She talks, laughs, and flirts with everybody. Don't be a hater!
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Come on people. Fat(s) are not the problem, except for trans fats. If your liver and gall bladder are working properly you can easily digest the fat.
The problem with this is the calories, if you are counting such things. A little butter-ball (not the turkey) every now and then is good for the soul.
(The gall bladder is a small pear-shaped organ on the underside of the liver that is used to store bile. Bile is made in the liver and is stored in the gall bladder until it is needed to help the digestion of fat.)
The sun rises and sets on more than your opinions.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Hey flooky.. you might want to consider adding a little fat to your diet. Maybe then you wouldn't be such a snarky old bat. You said Paula makes you want to vomit... as much as being fat disgusts you, vomiting probably comes easy to you. You are such an opinionated, rude moron. If you don't like Paula, turn off the t.v. and go vomit your tofu up.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
This woman makes me want to vomit. I swear to god they turn up her mic the second she starts tasting the food and makes the most disgusting sounds while eating. I do not want to hear a fat person breath heavily and smack there food around their blubbery gullets in restaurants and I sure as hell don't want to hear big mama butter balls over there do it on tv. Her food is gross, disgusting, and vile. It makes my mother's reeses cups addiction seem like a healthy diet. Jesus Christ. I don't care how humble and jolly this bitch is. She should have never gotten a tv show.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
now i usually try to eat healthy, and like most healthy eaters i have my days where i dont stress about it and eat fattier foods...but BUTTER BALLS!?!? I can never get through 5 minutes of Paula's show without changing the channel in disgust(this goes for Emeril too) America is the fattest country in the world and with people like paula and emeril proliferating our TV screens i can see why.
i just think its sad that gut busting chefs get prime time spots while healthy chef's (Ellie Kriegr) get crappy time slots
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Alright people...first, yes it is true Paula's son Bobby joked about the "deep-friend butter" on her Chefography episode, however it wasn't any member of the family that came up with the recipe, it was a loyal fan and viewer. This viewer showed Paula how to make the recipe on her show "Paula's Party," where even Paula exclaimed "THIS IS SICK!" LOL. Ok, so that bit is square away...
Next, everyone that is complaining about Paula's use of REAL ingredients such as butter, whole milk, cream, eggs, etc...that is how humans have been eating for many centuries and they survived just fine. We were not meant to eat or grow accustomed to the "partially hydrogenated," heavily preserved, artificial, genetically modified, altered and manipulated, processed and high-sodium monstrosities we consume now. It isn't natural, and that's why Type II Diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and other such uglies have taken hold of our present world and RUN with us!
Lastly, I highly doubt anyone does eat like that on a daily basis, including Ms. Deen and her family, and it would be quite silly to assume they do! And as far as her TV persona, HELLO, it's purpose is for entertainment and the woman is doing her job...and well. Obviously, or you all wouldn't feel the need to discuss her to this degree. She overcame a lot and is now being blessed with success and happiness. I admire her for it.
Ok, now I'm done...lol.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
So what? No one is forcing you to make it and eat it. Its not harmful to eat things like this once in awhile, and in moderation. If you don't like her, don't watch her. RELAX. Besides butter is PURE FAT already anyway. Aren't there more important things in the world to b**ch about?
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Dean: "I'm gettin' fatter by the day. I just hate my arterae. I'll plug 'em up and make 'em die, 'cause everything I eat is fried."
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
As a Southern belle, born and bred, and having lived in Georgia for 45 years, I have to say that everyone in my family agrees that Paula puts on a lot of that drawl. In all my years I have never heard ANYONE talk like she does, unless they are parodying ignorant Southerners. But hey, it seems to be getting her what she wants - lots of attention.
As for her recipes, they too are mostly for show. Southerners know about serum cholesterol, triglycerides, and diabetes. Yes, we have regional favorites, but they wouldn't make Yankees gawk and watch a show. Folks, "that's entertainment," I suppose.
For a true slice of Southern cuisine, please pick up a copy of Southern Living magazine or one of their cookbooks. For a funnier parody of Southern rednecks, watch reruns of "HeeHaw."
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Do some of you people just watch these shows because you've run out of everyday things in your lives to "crab" about. I agree with "turn the channel" I'm a Paula fan, no I don't fix everything she creates. She is pure entertainment though. And.... which one of you are such a perfect specimen of human figure that you feel the need to even comment on the physical features of another human being? Your jealous the women is successful while seeming to enjoy life. Get over it. Cook her recipes or don't. Watch her show, or don't. Get your own life, you might be happier.
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It's a toss up between really good gumbo and a crawfish boil.