Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[merylinkid]

25 minutes ago, crazy8s said:

I don't use actual recipes very often"

Doesn't even use imaginary recipes.    Or actual food that human beings would eat.

[oliviabenson]

Honestly it looked like she cleaned out the refrigerator leftovers and threw them in together and said to herself. Good enough for my kids.

I don't think a dog or a pig can eat that mess.

 

[Absolom]

Is it a fundie thing? I remember the Maxwells making some similar nasty concoctions to finish off leftovers.

[libgirl2]

2 minutes ago, Absolom said:

Is it a fundie thing? I remember the Maxwells making some similar nasty concoctions to finish off leftovers.

I wonder if it a way to not waste money and be economical. But look at all the money she wastes on c---.

[laurakaye]

Her caption on the video said, "I love to cook for my family!"  I guess it all depends on her definition of "cook."  For that matter, her definition of "family."  Because whatever she was making would serve maybe 30% of the people that live in that house, if they could choke it down in the first place.

I doubt the Rod kids are allowed to express any opinions on whether or not they actually like what Mahmo is serving, so Jill probably does just throw in whatever nearly expired food items she has laying around and presents it as a delicious casserole.  And I have a feeling Dave will eat pretty much anything.

[libgirl2]

16 minutes ago, laurakaye said:

Her caption on the video said, "I love to cook for my family!"  I guess it all depends on her definition of "cook."  For that matter, her definition of "family."  Because whatever she was making would serve maybe 30% of the people that live in that house, if they could choke it down in the first place.

I doubt the Rod kids are allowed to express any opinions on whether or not they actually like what Mahmo is serving, so Jill probably does just throw in whatever nearly expired food items she has laying around and presents it as a delicious casserole.  And I have a feeling Dave will eat pretty much anything.

And the kids are so hungry they will eat anything whether they like it or not. An empty stomach won't let you be picky. Add to that, they grew up on this slop. 

[BetyBee]

My MIL used to call thrown together leftovers a "pick up dinner". Since she was putting together a meal from previous tasteful meals, it made for a pretty good dinner. Jill's recipe, on the other hand, looks absolutely disgusting!

[libgirl2]

2 minutes ago, BetyBee said:

My MIL used to call thrown together leftovers a "pick up dinner". Since she was putting together a meal from previous tasteful meals, it made for a pretty good dinner. Jill's recipe, on the other hand, looks absolutely disgusting!

She probably knew what would go together and what wouldn't. She had an innate cooking talent unlike Jill (though I think some of that is laziness). 

[realityfan26]

Has anyone ever watched a chef reaction to recipe videos? This one would be gold! 

On instagram look for chefreactions

Edited December 10 by realityfan26

[Nysha]

3 hours ago, Absolom said:

Is it a fundie thing? I remember the Maxwells making some similar nasty concoctions to finish off leftovers.

My ex-pastor did something like this when his wife went out of town. She would make freezer meals & the day before she was supposed to come back, he would toss all the leftovers in a pot with a can of chicken stock and put blue food coloring in it. It was called Blue Soup and his boys weren't allowed to leave the table until they had finished a bowl of it. 

[Notabug]

43 minutes ago, BetyBee said:

My MIL used to call thrown together leftovers a "pick up dinner". Since she was putting together a meal from previous tasteful meals, it made for a pretty good dinner. Jill's recipe, on the other hand, looks absolutely disgusting!

My sister, an excellent cook who makes most things from scratch, can go to the fridge, pick out 5 completely unrelated items and put them together into a delicious meal.  That does not resemble Jill's 'cooking' in any way, shape or form.

[libgirl2]

2 minutes ago, Notabug said:

My sister, an excellent cook who makes most things from scratch, can go to the fridge, pick out 5 completely unrelated items and put them together into a delicious meal.  That does not resemble Jill's 'cooking' in any way, shape or form.

I wish I could do that. I need a recipe. I have a few things that I no longer need one for, but many things I still need measurements, how long to cook, temp..... 

[Westiepeach]

Oh! I forgot to mention the “strudel.” Lady, that ain’t no strudel…

[Nysha]

8 minutes ago, Notabug said:

My sister, an excellent cook who makes most things from scratch, can go to the fridge, pick out 5 completely unrelated items and put them together into a delicious meal. 

I can go to the fridge, pick out 5 things, and Google the ingredients to find a recipe. Usually, that recipe contains staples I already have and tastes good. This is a skill that even Jill has, she doesn't care enough about her family to make her food taste good.

[libgirl2]

3 minutes ago, Westiepeach said:

Oh! I forgot to mention the “strudel.” Lady, that ain’t no strudel…

It seemed almost like some kind of crisp or cobbler. I used to make a slow cooker dish called cherry delight. It was cherry pie filling, cake, butter (can't remember what else). It wasn't fancy but it tasted really good. 

3 minutes ago, Nysha said:

I can go to the fridge, pick out 5 things, and Google the ingredients to find a recipe. Usually, that recipe contains staples I already have and tastes good. This is a skill that even Jill has, she doesn't care enough about her family to make her food taste good.

I'm not quite so sure she does. She might be able to throw things together but that doesn't they are edible. 

[crazy8s]

5 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

I'm not quite so sure she does. She might be able to throw things together but that doesn't they are edible. 

Since she had already said in her fb live that she should do a cooking "tutorial" on how to make the "sausage casserole", it is astounding this was the result.

[oliviabenson]

1 hour ago, realityfan26 said:

Has anyone ever watched a chef reaction to recipe videos? This one would be gold! 

On instagram look for chefreactions

Gordon Ramsey would have a field day.

[crazy8s]

In Jill's live she also mentions Renee is almost graduated form a bible course.

Renee is going to have a visit with the Keller family "all the way down in Florida." She starts with it will be nice for the sisters to have time together and changes to Renee is going to be  a blessing to Nurie. Jill states they will bring Renee back when the come for christmas.  (pack for Nurie and tend kids in a long car ride is what i hear there)

So it is Dec 10th. The Kellers will certainly spend 2 full weeks at the barndo. so renee is going for what a week?

Also who is taking her?

[lookeyloo]

5 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

I thought the same. My mom was an amazing cook and I'm not even close to her talent but in my own limited way, I make pretty decent and easy meals. 

 

My mother was a terrible cook, but, I got cookbooks when I was first married the first time in  1965 and am now a pretty decent cook. I guess it can go both ways.

[Tdoc72]

14 minutes ago, crazy8s said:

In Jill's live she also mentions Renee is almost graduated form a bible course.

Renee is going to have a visit with the Keller family "all the way down in Florida." She starts with it will be nice for the sisters to have time together and changes to Renee is going to be  a blessing to Nurie. Jill states they will bring Renee back when the come for christmas.  (pack for Nurie and tend kids in a long car ride is what i hear there)

So it is Dec 10th. The Kellers will certainly spend 2 full weeks at the barndo. so renee is going for what a week?

Also who is taking her?

I hope she’s flying. I hope she has a meet cute and runs off with someone. Won’t happen though. 

[crazy8s]

19 minutes ago, Tdoc72 said:

I hope she’s flying. I hope she has a meet cute and runs off with someone. Won’t happen though. 

I wonder if Phillip is having a next stop with the Nathan Keller family.

[CalicoKitty]

5 hours ago, merylinkid said:

Doesn't even use imaginary recipes.    Or actual food that human beings would eat.

Jill's cooking doesn't shock me too much.  My grandmother's cooking was worse than Jill's.  She put dried apricots in everything.  Apricots in a salad or oatmeal was passable, but hamburgers with apricots  took some getting used to.  Then she discovered fake bacon bits.  Those were ok in hamburger, but finding them in Jello was kind of a shock.  When my dad enlisted in the Navy, he thought the food in the mess was terrific.  He also always ate very fast so he couldn't taste as much.  I have no desire to cook and I eat the same things most of the time.  Oddly, I love watching cooking shows while eating my daily salad.  It's hard to mess up lettuce and tomatoes.

[Salacious Kitty]

Jill's tree before and current. Naw, she doesn't believe in the "commercialization of Christmas." 🙄

[ALittleShelfish]

Jill making this dinner is like a crossover of Chopped and Worst Cooks in America. 

One where she goes home first because she's just so personally insufferable. 

Edited December 11 by ALittleShelfish
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[EmeraldGirl]

I can’t believe she called it sausage casserole. There was less sausage than anything else. I saw her sprinkle it on. It was like enough for a medium pizza. 
 

I don’t even get what that bottom layer is. Was that some leftover concoction? Because those ingredients don’t go together with anything else that was happening in there. 
The funny thing is that she thought this one was good enough to actually film and show off! Imagine what else they eat (shudder). No wonderful Philip came back looking plump and healthy.

[Chaos Theory]

15 hours ago, Notabug said:

My sister, an excellent cook who makes most things from scratch, can go to the fridge, pick out 5 completely unrelated items and put them together into a delicious meal.  That does not resemble Jill's 'cooking' in any way, shape or form.

My mom hated to cook but you know she loved us her kids and came up with a few staple meals.   There are a few that would work that don’t take much effort that would work for a large family.   Meat Loaf for one.   It’s literally a chunk of ground beef with a couple ingredients added to it.    I thought everyone had a meatloaf recipe.      Mac & Cheese with those little hot dogs cut up in them.     Heck even Broccoli and Vermicelli isn’t hard to make.    

[laurakaye]

14 hours ago, crazy8s said:

I wonder if Phillip is having a next stop with the Nathan Keller family.

I kind of want Phillip to drive Renee to Nurie's but on the way they have a true conversation about their messed-up family, take a detour to some small town, and figure out a way to live on their own while they deconstruct.  I know this will never happen but if any two Rodlets need to escape Jill's clutches, it's those two.

Love Jill's "after" Christmas tree with so many decorations on it, you can barely see the actual tree.  It would not surprise me if she feels the need to come up with a new tree decoration "theme" every year, hence another excuse to totter off to Hobby Lobby to fill her cart with more crap, probably while singing along loudly to the hymns they play in that store.

 

[laurakaye]

6 hours ago, EmeraldGirl said:

I don’t even get what that bottom layer is. Was that some leftover concoction? Because those ingredients don’t go together with anything else that was happening in there. 

The bottom layer might have been stuffing?  At first I thought it was a dessert crumble of some kind, but decided it probably wasn't after she topped it with chopped onions, a dozen eggs mixed with milk and tomatoes, deli ham, what seemed to be pre-cooked sausage in a bag, and topped with cheese slices.  I find it so on-brand for Jill that she filmed herself chopping and baking like she's some kind of cooking influencer, lol.  It was definitely exciting to see what on earth she was going to use for every layer, I will say that.

Edited December 11 by laurakaye

[Westiepeach]

9 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Jill's tree before and current. Naw, she doesn't believe in the "commercialization of Christmas." 🙄

Whoa. That is some "decorating" job right there. I always forget that decorating is Jilly's passion.

[CalicoKitty]

4 hours ago, Chaos Theory said:

My mom hated to cook but you know she loved us her kids and came up with a few staple meals.   There are a few that would work that don’t take much effort that would work for a large family.   Meat Loaf for one.   It’s literally a chunk of ground beef with a couple ingredients added to it.    I thought everyone had a meatloaf recipe.      Mac & Cheese with those little hot dogs cut up in them.     Heck even Broccoli and Vermicelli isn’t hard to make.    

There are always TV Dinners.

[PradaKitty]

And now the Christmas tree, like most of Jill’s “decor” looks like crap. 

[libgirl2]

3 minutes ago, PradaKitty said:

And now the Christmas tree, like most of Jill’s “decor” looks like crap. 

And it wasn't that bad before. Does this woman have bad eyesight? Or just bad taste? 

[oliviabenson]

6 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

And it wasn't that bad before. Does this woman have bad eyesight? Or just bad taste? 

Why not both?

[oliviabenson]

12 hours ago, EmeraldGirl said:

I can’t believe she called it sausage casserole. There was less sausage than anything else. I saw her sprinkle it on. It was like enough for a medium pizza. 
 

I don’t even get what that bottom layer is. Was that some leftover concoction? Because those ingredients don’t go together with anything else that was happening in there. 
The funny thing is that she thought this one was good enough to actually film and show off! Imagine what else they eat (shudder). No wonderful Philip came back looking plump and healthy.

Ellen asked and Jill answered. Some one posted it here. Scroll up. I think it's noodles, etc.

[mythoughtis]

6 hours ago, laurakaye said:

I kind of want Phillip to drive Renee to Nurie's but on the way they have a true conversation about their messed-up family, take a detour to some small town, and figure out a way to live on their own while they deconstruct. 

Which is exactly why Phillip wouldn’t be allowed to drive her   - he would not be considered a suitable accountability partner. 
I can’t imagine that David would let Renee be in an airport by herself.  But it’s not like Jill to let someone drive to Florida without her - or for  Jill not being the one to stay with Nurie

[Salacious Kitty]

If that footage from the print shop was recent, maybe Dave and Gabe will drive down to deliver and drop off Renee. 

But it's suspected that the footage was recycled to quell the critics' complaints that Dave doesn't work. 

Edited December 11 by Salacious Kitty

[ginger90]

7 hours ago, laurakaye said:

The bottom layer might have been stuffing?

She answered this question in the comments, “pre-cooked noodles, chicken, potatoes and spinach.  😊”. In other words, leftovers.

Edited December 11 by ginger90

[AstridM]

2 hours ago, PradaKitty said:

And now the Christmas tree, like most of Jill’s “decor” looks like crap. 

She completely ruined it. 

37 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

She answered this question in the comments, “pre-cooked noodles, chicken, potatoes and spinach.  😊”. In other words, leftovers.

What a gross bunch of crap all thrown together 🥲

[CalicoKitty]

Is there actually a tree under all that mess?  If there is, it is completely hidden.  It is hard to believe that she thinks this mess is so beautiful that she posts a picture.  She might as well have a stack of boxes "decorated" and just skip the tree.

[EmeraldGirl]

Meatloaf is a great idea. With a bunch of potatoes or noodles for carbs. I suggested before the million things you could do with beans that are filling and have the protein they need. Besides the gross processed lunch meat. I make a black bean soup, it’s very cheap. And then you can chop up tortilla shells and put them inside to add more calories to it. She just doesn’t wanna try. Jill Dillard is always doing something with beans. She’s always soaking them for some kind of interesting international dish. Hell I used to even throw them into pasta in poorer days. Pasta fagioli. I just used kidney beans, pasta, and some seasoning and it was actually very good. 

Edited December 11 by EmeraldGirl

[libgirl2]

6 minutes ago, EmeraldGirl said:

Meatloaf is a great idea. With a bunch of potatoes or noodles for carbs. I suggested before the million things you could do with beans that are filling and have the protein they need. Besides the gross processed lunch meat. I make a black bean soup, it’s very cheap. And then you can chop up tortilla shelves and put them inside to add more calories to it. She just doesn’t wanna try. Jill Dillard is always doing something with beans. She’s always soaking them for some kind of interesting international dish. Hell I used to even throw them into pasta in poorer days. Pasta fagioli. I just used kidney beans, pasta, and some seasoning and it was actually very good. 

Beans are a great stretcher in many dishes. You could make a chili with less meat and just use more beans or how about a bean soup with some leftover ham? My mom used to make bean soup with sausage. If you cut it in smaller pieces it goes further. 

[EmeraldGirl]

Rice and beans would be a great filler too. A lot of ways to season that up. You can live on beans and no meat easily with all the protein. You can do a ton of pasta dishes that are very inexpensive, and always tasty. Although her kids are used to eating such slop, they probably don’t even know what good food taste like. We can sit here and come up with all these meal ideas without having to do it, and this B refuses to try anything.

A good breakfast is a hearty rice pudding. Not sugary like dessert, but like a morning meal porridge, kind of thing. Not much money involved with rice. Or the strattas. Basically eggs poured over bread and whatever else you want to throw in (not what she did with tomatoes on top of all that other crap) and bake it. Those both could go a long way and not cost much of anything. 

Edited December 11 by EmeraldGirl

[crazy8s]

Dave won the Noyes clan manly chili cook off last Thanksgiving, Gabe second, Daddy Noyes 3rd. Maybe should ask them for an ingredient list at least. She admitted she doesn't use recipes.

Jill has posted her menfolk having successful deer hunts many times, stated each time her freezer was full. Not once have we seen Jill actually cook anything with venison.

Edited December 11 by crazy8s

[libgirl2]

12 minutes ago, crazy8s said:

Dave won the Noyes clan manly chili cook off last Thanksgiving, Gabe second, Daddy Noyes 3rd. Maybe should ask them for an ingredient list at least. She admitted she doesn't use recipes.

Jill has posted her menfolk having successful deer hunts many times, stated each time her freezer was full. Not once have we seen Jill actually cook anything with venison.

I wonder if the manly men use recipes and if their chili is even good. 

[crazy8s]

5 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

I wonder if the manly men use recipes and if their chili is even good. 

They at least looked like chili. Meat, beans and such. One even had what looked like corn and maybe red pepper.

But with those men I can see spicier is better and if you make someone cry by using ghost peppers or whatever you win.

[CalicoKitty]

Slightly off topic, but all these food ideas sound good.  Has anyone made chaffles?  (eggs, almond flour and cheese in a waffle iron). They look good, and the recipe seems easy to make.

[Lady Edith]

1. The first tree looked better.        
2. Pasta, chicken, eggs, tomatoes, precooked sausage and lunch meat, all topped with cheese is gastroenteritis personified. 
3. I wonder if Philly’s Christmas stocking will be mysteriously missing from the bunch hanging on the stairs this year?  
4. I wonder what movie Davey was enjoying on the map?                      
5. That music video was nightmare fuel.          
 

 

Edited December 12 by Lady Edith
Spacing is not my strong suit.

[PradaKitty]

Just saw Jill’s latest Instagram entitled “Christmas Winter in Ohio”. 
…What the hell is Christmas Winter??!

[CalicoKitty]

6 minutes ago, PradaKitty said:

Just saw Jill’s latest Instagram entitled “Christmas Winter in Ohio”. 
…What the hell is Christmas Winter??!

I haven't spent much time in Ohio.  Do they have an Easter Winter and a 4th of July Winter?  "Christmas in Ohio" -or- Winter in Ohio" would make sense.  I'm afraid my "jillese" doesn't stretch this far.  She must be so exhausting to live with.

[oliviabenson]

Jill is selling Xmas outfits on 12/12/25. Like it might not even make it to the buyer by 12/24. She is so disorganized.