It is my suspicion - just a suspicion - that her husband when he first met her, looked at her boobs and decided anything she cooked would be absolutely delicious, and she believed him. Maybe he produces this show?
You know, I think the show would be a lot funnier and easier to watch if you were to transplant Rachael Ray’s dopey giggle and laugh at everthing attitude into Sandra. You would then have the ultimate blonde ditz in the kitchen making this crap. A more mature Jessica Simpson.
I would be open to recipes like this, if done correctly. I have a cookbook devoted to recipes that originally came from the back of bottles and jars, and use it all of the time.
The difference is that those recipes were developed in test kitchens or were contest winners. The stuff on this show sounds horrid by comparison.
That’s what I assumed, so i made sure to get the name of the production company: follow productions, which, it turns out, is run by Gordon Elliot, the Brit from the Campbell’s Soup ads. Her husband, meanwhile, is the CEO of KB Homes.
Not that the semi-ho (as she is known on the other board) might not be granting Elliot some “love favors” to keep her show on the air, for all I know.
My searches also revealed that TWOP had to grant Lee her own forum because the thread for her show had run to 727 pages.
I thought I was being a little too critical of Giada but I guess I wasn’t the only one to notice her extremely large head on her itty bitty body. At least she can cook, as opposed to Sandra Lee.
I’ve seen Sandra Lee’s show a couple times. She talks and works so fast that I think she might be on speed … and possibly some other drugs. Her ideas for “semi-homemade” may not be totally crazy but I think she takes it to extremes. Some things, like truffles, if you are going to make them you may as well make them right or just buy them premade. Dressing up boxed cake mixes isn’t a bad idea, but her decorating ideas can be over the top as evidenced by her holiday cakes episode. I realize the semi-homemade bit is her gimmick but I would rather watch a show that’s mostly straightforward cooking from scratch with occasional shortcuts or one just recipe out of an entire meal made “semi-homemade”.
Sandra Lee was being touted as the next Martha Stewart when Martha first had her legal troubles but Sandra is no where near being the next Martha Stewart … unless she’s done some insider trading.
I don’t often misread thread titles, but with the death today of Sandra Dee, I misread the title and assumed this was a thread about her death. And I was trying to figure out the pun behind “cook like me”.
That’s a bit lengthy, even for TWoP! :eek:
I sometimes see her show, and she’s freaking clueless about cooking. “Look, I can slice Pillsbury refrigerated cookie dough, bake it, and slop some canned frosting on it, and voila! Designer cookies!”
I saw her wedding episode a couple of times, and it was mind-bogglingly green. Apple-green EVERYTHING. She is about the last person I would allow to cater my hypothetical wedding reception. I can buy Brach’s mints and Betty Crocker cake mixes myself, thankyouverymuch.
As Neurotik said, she must have been a trophy wife. I’m guessing she’s a divorced trophy wife who wants to be the new Martha Stewart.
There is an almost identically titled thread regarding her passing. I had no idea she had died, or I would never have given this thread the title it bears. I have already posted an apology in that thread.
<Grover>Oh, I am so emBARassed!</Grover>
…I thought the idea of dusting was to remove the dust. Why would anyone want to sprinkle pixie stix (or, I suppose, any sort of powder) on sheets that people’ll have to sleep on? What’s dusting powder supposed to do?
Fenris
Just a WAG: Turn into a sticky mess and stain the sheets, your skin, and anything else it comes into contact with?
No, no, wait . . . I know . . . it’s supposed to attract ants. That must be it.
She’s a very kinky girl, the kind you won’t take home to mother…