Except, Sandra Lee wouldn't just add stuff to Mac'n'Cheese. That's a normal, sane way to use prepackged ingredients. She would throw away the macaroni and use the cheese packet as an ingredient in some kind of unecessarily complicated fake cheese sauce with fifteen other non-food ingredients, and then make her own pasta out of wonton wrappers and puffed rice cereal.
No, I take that back about throwing out the macaroni. She'd probably spray-paint it gold and use it to create one of her signature hideous "tablescapes."
[And, shit, I just realized I haven't eaten lunch. No wonder I've got a headache. Off to the kitchen...]
Now I want mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs.
Or velveeta mac n cheese with ground beef and canned green beans on the side. Num.
OMG, her mole. [link]
1 cup meat-flavored spaghetti sauce
1 cup red wine
1 cup low-sodium beef broth
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 ounce semisweet chocolate
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
2 rib-eye steaks, about 1-inch thick
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Meat-flavored spaghetti sauce is my favorite part. It's from the "romance" episode.
It's adding stuff to Mac n Cheese!!
Nothing wrong with that. It was one of our tried and true camp meals. But putting it on your website and calling it a recipe!!!
I have made brownies from a mix and jazzed them up by adding kalhuha. Somebody get me a show on food.tv.
If the speculation thread isn't whether Alton Brown or Bobby Flay will kill her first (and with what), it should be. Hey, it could be another Clue spin-off. Emeril Lagasse in Boston with poisoned pudding mix.
nothing makes me feel better than to see people rant about Sandra Lee. She makes my blood sugar rise. Everything vaguely dessert like gets an extra dash of sugar....and the tablescapes ..eww. and so fussy -- and it is amazing to see her do so much with out barely touching the food. I only watch her to be appaled.....
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Just for Jessica. Note last ingredient
I should be working, huh?
Now I want mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs.
Word.
And Anthony Bouradin is too busy hating Rachael Ray. He was in China bad-mouthing her in passing and worrying about one of her fans sneaking up and killing him.
Damn, I miss cable! I want Bourdain and Alton and Mike Rowe! Just let me have Travel, Food Network, Discovery, and TLC, and I'd be a happy, content woman! Oh, and Fox on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Seriously. The woman is whacked.
don't. even. get me started.
Issue 1 -- skinny cooks. Don't trust 'em. Clearly, you don't actually eat. If you don't eat, how do you know how the food tastes?
Issue 2- The recipes are OFTEN more time and effort (and cost) than just making the damn thing would be. In addition, your "recipes" are so simple that you add elaborate steps and ingredients to justify your existence. As Aimee said, it's adding stuff to mac 'n cheese.
Issue 3- you're a drunk. Every show features a cocktail, even a child's birthday party show. You are more excited about the booze than any other aspect. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Issue 4 - Your "tablescapes". People come to dinner parties for the food. The decor is nice, but your over-the-top, tacky, EXPENSIVE ideas seem orchestrated to distract attention from the food. Which is bad. further, your decorating ideas often involve items that people do not already own (who owns "card themed" bowls? much less in multiple sizes!), inciting them to spend more money.
Issue 5 - Lay off the mascara. It makes you look even more scary. You're stick thin with big black lines around your eyes and a tube of mascara per show. Corpse much?
