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Cream cheese does not a yummy meal make - posted at 23:43
I'm not a big fan of adding fats to everything for flavor. It's a serious cheater route. Anyone can make something laced with butter taste good, but real culinary skill comes from, well, being more sophisticated in your approach to food.
With that, I'm not a big fan of Paula Deen. Shocker, I know, but she represents the worst of the Food Network: someone with no culinary skills beyond cream cheese but with mass marketability (which is why I'm not a big fan of most of the people on that network *cough* Rachel Ray *cough*).
I always joke about how Paula Deen adds a pound of cream cheese to everything. I never thought it was 100% literal, but....
She's managed to add cream cheese to....
... wait for it...
I couldn't believe it. That woman has got some serious cream cheese talent. It's talent she needs to keep to herself, but it's talent nonetheless.
Seeing is believing: link
Happy Thanksgiving menu planning to you all, and for god's sake, leave the cream cheese out of it!
Update: Ye gods!!! She's gone one step beyond cream cheese and - get this - DEEP-FRIED some cranberry sauce!!! That's just offensive. It's like a train wreck, I can't look away. And we wonder why Americans are the fattest people on earth....
Chrissa commented:
I wouldn't completely disregard Rachel Ray and her recipes... Last Thanksgiving we used her turkey, mashed potatoes and veggie recipes from last years holiday special and they were nothing short of AMAZING.
Jitterbean Girl commented:
Eh, I'm just not a fan of her. I've never found her recipes interesting or inspiring and her personality just drives me freakin' insane. I can appreciate that it's good that she can show people who aren't cooks that preparing a meal is not an unachievable goal, but beyond that I'm just not impressed. Again, personal opinion.
Jared commented:
...OH YEAH?! Well keep your personal opinion to your OWN blog...
Oh, wait.
:)
I like Rachel Ray. Chrissa and I had the basic cable package for a time and it had 3 channels--Food Network being one of them. Rachel and Alton were practically family!
Jared commented:
Did I also mention that I would love to try a deep fried Snickers bar? That would be yummy.
Chrissa commented:
I myself like fried pickles!! They're YUMM-O!
Jitterbean Girl commented:
Ooooh, now I am a huge fan of Alton! Food + science, I'm sure you're so surprised that I love him :) He's fantastic because you can actually use all that science stuff he teaches!!!
Deep fried Snickers??? I've always wondered how that could work. Seems like the chocolate would melt. As for pickles... I don't like pickles so maybe they would actually be improved by being fried.
Chrissa, I'm enough of a Rayophobe that I almost didn't get the reference! The only reason I did is because my in-laws bought one of her books for me as a gift and the shirt she's wearing on the cover says "YUM-O!"