Ok, maybe I’m late to this party because I don’t have cable and am generally cut off from mainstream media, but what the heck is the deal with Sandra Lee and this “Semi-Homemade” cooking ridiculousnes? Like, hello? This? This is not a recipe. Any “recipe” that calls for a package of Kraft macaroni and cheese mix and a cup of leftover broccoli florets is not a recipe. I’m also in awe of the “buy a cake and put some fruit on it” recipe. Like, do people seriously need instructions for this? Are people that dumb? Is it really that hard? And how has this woman built a career on it? Maybe I am some kind of horribly elitist food-hipster, but honestly. You can make food out of ingredients that don’t come in a box and it actually tastes better. Right now, I am looking at that website and laughing and laughing in disbelief, but on the inside, I weep. I weep and weep. I weep at the dessert whose main ingredient is Pilsbury crescent roll dough. But mostly I weep at the recipe for sangria that calls for Sprite. That is not sangria. That is merely punch. This food elitist thumbs her nose at it.
Please, please, please can we make fun of this person?
June 29, 2007 by admin
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My brother the chef aparently wowed his new roommate with one of my dad’s “recipes”. The family was a little shocked to hear that my dad has a recipe, but it all made sense when we found out it was the recipe for weiners and beans. My brother the chef can really wow em with a hot dog and a tin of baked beans. We’re so proud
I don’t know, that glaze has ingredients you can’t eat on their own. That’s sort of advanced. Ugh. I complain a lot that no one is going to be able to cook in ten years because no one is teaching them at home and home ec died at schools.
Last christmas I decided I wanted a full-sized gingerbread man cookie cutter and could not find one anywhere. I’ve been looking ever since and all I can find are the crappy small ones. I blame the lack of home baking. If there is no demand for full-sized gingerbread mans, beyond my repeated inquiries and withering stares, we’re going to be doomed to these pieces of shit passing themselves off as actual baking. I mean, for fuck’s sake, shortbread has three ingredients! Flour! Sugar! Butter!
Damn lazy people, preventing me from making old style gingerbread men to sate my craving for the gingerbread men I used to get at Der Brot Korb before they sold out . Grumble grumble grumble.
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I should probably post in my own blog about this, huh?
have you checked out her “crafts” section? It’s even more terrible. Seriously- it’s like, buy this stuff, then arrange it! You’re done!
The instructions could read:
“look at the picture. copy.”
It’s funny because I made some sangria and Friday and I actually thought, “Hey this would be even better if it had some Sprite in it!” It’s not that shocking since my greatest culinary achievement is basically sausage and fried tomatoes.