Ubiquitous wrote on 9/3/2005 in rec.food.Ubiquitous (aka "Sandra"):

> From the Food Network web site:

> Picnic
>
> Who needs a love potion when you can have a picnic
> basket filled with romance? Sandra Lee prepares an
> Herb Salad Nest, Cashew Chicken Salad, a Prosciutto-Pesto
> Baguette, Roast Beef and Blue Cheese Tea Sandwiches,
> a Lemon Love Cake, and a fabulous Lemon Drop Champagne.

<snip>

Looked at purely abstractly, i.e., without taking into account who
the "cook" is, and without looking up the recipes in advance - so
just taking them at face value based on the names of the "dishes" - it
doesn't sound half bad.

Actually, let me reflect on that a bit more.

Herb Salad Nest - maybe, but what's the "nest"? Why not just a salad?

Cashew Chicken Salad - might be ok.

Prosciutto-Pesto Baguette - like prosciutto, like pesto, like baguette,
but the combo sounds bad.

Roast Beef and Blue Cheese Tea Sandwiches - not sure what to say, other

than I'm a little bored with beef/blue cheese combinations, especially
if she uses a cheap, super salty cheese, and I doubt it would put me in

the mood for romance - more like in the mood for throwing up and
passing
out, especially when you cram it down with the rest of this stuff.

Lemon Love Cake - pass.

Lemon Drop Champagne - why not just a bottle of wine?

To recap - of the six "dishes" (yes, I'm counting the booze as a dish)
-
4 sound bad and 2 sound marginal - giving full benefit of the doubt. So
I take it all back.

By the way, do I observe that nothing is misspelled in your post? Are
you
going high brow on us? Shedding your street cred for fancier threads?

Looking forward to the post mortem and the condemnation of those who
say
they hate your posts but apparently look at them anyway.