I caught this ep yesterday...first of all, the whole concept was ridiculous. A full "meal" (I'm always compelled to put Simple Sandy's definition of a "meal" in quotations) made with, what, 5 slow cookers??
"Slow cooking fast!" Say what? Nothing she did was any faster than "slow cooking normal speed."
"You need to remember to use lots of liquid!" No, you don't. You use less liquid than conventional cooking, because the liquid doesn't boil away.
Yeah, we've all got five Crock-Pots hanging around our kitchens.
What was the deal with the plastic container she pulled out of the pantry, claiming they were mushrooms? The mushrooms we saw in the dishes came out of one of those cardboard basket thingies they come in at the store, and a ziplock bag.
The advantage of using a slow-cooker, Sandra, is that you can fill it with real food, go do something else for several hours, and come back to a completed dish. Stirring the damn thing every 30 minutes kind of negates that, doesn't it?I, too, have had really, really good risotto and I'm sure it was not cooked in a Crock-Pot.
Hey, put flatware into a basket lined with a napkin! My God! How has no one thought of this before! Alert the media! Except that people have been doing that for buffets since buffets were invented.
The Magic Morphing Potroast is a riot.
What with all the cans of condensed soup used on this episode, I'm going have to forgo salt for a week to get my sodium level down. Yowza.
Ping: Christine longWell, the test of the pie pastries is over and both were resoundingly successful. I used exactly the same ingredients in both...
Sauces for Whole Wheat Pasta 8256Louis Cohen I really do not understand the desire to taste almost exclusively the flavour of the noodle, using whole wheat flour is more nutritious...
Of all the crap she made, the one that disgusted me the most was the sangria. My dad spent a year in Spain during college and he makes the most faaaabulous sangria ever, with good red wine and cherry brandy and FRESH fruit, not frozen. Plus, sangria? Is not HOT. Blech.
I'm still baffled by the use of instant oatmeal in the bread pudding. And wouldn't it be more cost effective to keep, say, a regular carton of oats around (you know, the stuff that comes in a cylindrical can) rather than using packets of flavored instant oatmeal? Who are we kidding, Sandra doesn't think in terms of "cost effective." Plus, quit with the damn almonds. We get it. They're good for you. They have many uses. You are paid a lot of money to shill them. Just stop it already.
