Coming this saturday on Semi-Homade: Picnic
 

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.

The first picnic ever that would be improved by the appearance of ants!

BTW, this ep was filmed at the same park that served as her back yard
last week in the Swinging Bachelor BBQ ep. I guess that's why these
items are so picnic-unfriendly...

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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.

In article . com>,
wrote:
>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.
>
>
>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?

Are you talking about the portion I quoted from the web site?
Food Network desperately needs someone literate working there.

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

Funny, that. I'll post a post mortem later this afternoon. It was
amazing!

"Ubiquitous" > wrote in message
...
> 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.


Cashew Chicken Salad? Don't you mean Almond Chicken Salad? Or maybe Cashew
Chicken Salad Guest-Starring Almonds?

-rah

Ubiquitous wrote ON 9/3/2005:

<snip>

> >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?
>
> Are you talking about the portion I quoted from the web site?
> Food Network desperately needs someone literate working there.

Ah, right - got it.

"kevin" <> 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.
>

Really. A picnic in the hot summer sun and who wants to pound down
prosciutto w/pesto and and blue cheese on roast beef? That sounds like
stomach-torture. Add champagne and it will be gas-intensive with some
stomach-cramps followed by diarrhea.

I wonder if these cooks ever eat all this crap (at the same time, like they
serve it on the show) and then see how it digests before recommending it to
others. Not to mention that using white-bread for roast beef and blue-cheese
tea-sandwiches would add up to a soft gloppy sandwich that would pull apart
as you bite into the glop.

Ubiquitous wrote:
> In article . com>,
> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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?
>
> Are you talking about the portion I quoted from the web site?
> Food Network desperately needs someone literate working there.

Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but you usually have many
misspellings in your critique posts.

In article >,
wrote:
>Ubiquitous wrote:

>> Are you talking about the portion I quoted from the web site?
>> Food Network desperately needs someone literate working there.
>
>Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but you usually have many
>misspellings in your critique posts.

I run it through a somewhat crude spell-checker, but I'm sure it misses
things.

--
WARNING!!!
Use of these recipes may be hazardous to your health, food budget,
standing in your community and liver function. Use at your own risk!! We
assume no liability from any illness or injury sustained while eating the
"food" or being exposed to crapass tablescapes. And no, we're not sure
where she grew up either. The Cordon Bleu disavows any knowlege of Miss
Lee.

In article >,
wrote:
>"Ubiquitous" > wrote:

>> 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.
>
>Cashew Chicken Salad? Don't you mean Almond Chicken Salad? Or maybe Cashew
>Chicken Salad Guest-Starring Almonds?

Heh. Those Almond Council goons can be very convincing.