anneofcleves

Very true. Good thing for that recipe that most of the time they're eaten around a campfire, in the dark, where you can't see what you're eating! My comment during that show was the amount she fed those children. I know it's for show, but I think any Mom and Dad in real life would have been screaming, "NO!," to having their small kids served a giant ice cream float and one of those banana boats. Holy sugar overload, Batman. Who knew? Unless you live in the middle of nowhere, why make a meal like that at home? That's what diners and mom & pop restaurants are for - let them do the deep frying. And it was such an odd meal for a date night with her current husband. She reminisces about the meal and old dates she had at the drive in, but how does that relate to her current husband who wasn't there with her? She's so...odd. I'll also be honest that some of the recipe choices she makes on this show disturb me. She's clearly not in great physical condition, and while I don't expect anyone to live on celery sticks and grilled chicken, she is pretty much on the Paula Deen end of the spectrum is terms of thumbing her nose at anything that resembles good nutrition. I'll never make this kind of meal at home, because I'm at an age where I have to watch my fat, sodium, and cholesterol pretty much all the time. Even when I didn't have to watch it, this kind of meal would be a once in a blue moon event. I do think she's a far better cook than many of the personalities on FN and tune in because she does, from time to time, make some interesting things. But again...she's so odd.

So Ree continues to make progress on the Pioneer Woman mecca? Looks like a cool building. I had to pinch myself to stay awake during today's episode. Chile (again) and brownies (again) with something swirled in. I nodded off, though, and didn't notice whether she added a bunch of crumbled candy, because that would be predictably unoriginal for her. Tune in next week for another version of some sandwich, pizza, lasagna or meatloaf. Can I get a "whoot" from my fellow semi-homemaders? I miss that.

I give her props in this episode. She made the potatoes completely from scratch (no cream 'o gack soup!), and she cooked an actual green vegetable. Her desserts rarely speak to me, but all in all it was a good show. The thing about her show that is consistently interesting (to me) is "life on the ranch" and watching her kids grow up. Her cooking is pretty rudimentary stuff. I really liked the mandoline she used for the potatoes. If anyone noticed it and knows the brand, please let me know.

It's her schtick, Lillybee. More butter, more cheese, more meat, more frosting, more candy. Bleh. No balance. She's actually a lot like Guy Fieri in her cooking style.

Right,grisgris. Lisin, if you google, she's pretty much laid claim to that cake. Her name is associated with it, and I think there are lots of people who believe it's hers. She's an unfortunate byproduct of the blogging culture who never learned proper attribution. People can nitpick about originality, like when demonstrating a classic fried chicken, but this stupid cake is ingredient for ingredient the same as the recipe in my box. Thank goodness she wasn't stupid enough to rebrand Toll House cookies as her own. That would be fun to watch.

Lisin, your comment about her chcocolate seet cake being commonly referred to as Texas sheet cake is exactly what bugs the shit out of me the most. That recipe is absolutely identical to the one I inherited from my aunt, who brought it to pretty much every party I can remenber attending since 1965. She presents it on her blog like it's hers. In a posting where she's bragging about some Italian person writing to her and praising her best ever lasagna, which I'm betting she lifted directly from somewhere else. She doesn't have the professional ethics or decency to attribute her material to other people. And yet, her people would probably be all over anyone who tried to rebrand her "best ever chocolate cake" to "super fantastic chocolate cake" on their blog. She's so much worse about stealing recipes and passing them off as her own than Paula Deen ever was. It would almost be better to name this Ree's Plagiarism Zone (aka Test Kitchen), but I'm sure that wouldn't last for long.

Me, too. At the risk of sounding repetitive, Ree is pretty much a cooking show hack. Her lack of originality is epic, and in fact I'm kind of surprised that groups like Taste of Home and the Pawhuska Church Cookbook Committee of 1975 haven't come after her with pitchforks. "Hey bitchcakes, that's our top secret recipe for garlic bread made with butter and garlic salt. Back off."

Ahhh, hello Shrikes. If only we could convince Sandy to go back into production of Semi-homemade. Those were the days. It feels good to be back wearing my old handle.