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The Best Worst Sandra Lee Recipe Reviews (Part 2)
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A few months ago, an FNH tipster suggested I start reading Sandra Lee recipe reviews just for their sheer entertainment value. And boy, was he right. Some of the comments from jilted, bitter home cooks were laugh out loud hysterical, and should be highlighted and shared with as many people as possible. The Food Network recipe section is a treasure trove of Anti-Sandra hilarity! Who knew!
And so, without further ado, here is a brief compilation of the funniest negative reviews of Sandra Lee’s recipes on the Food Network’s official website:
On Sandra’s Gazpacho Monterey
“gazpacho is supposed to have a very fresh flavor, derived from fresh veggies. the frozen veggies and the off taste the orange juice gave it was quite gross. this show is completely useless and has worn out its’ welcome on my tv. i cringe every time she uses a knife, the rare times she uses fresh onion. it looks as though she’ll chop her fingers off with her poor technique.” -Debbie from Rochester, NY
On Sandra’s Black Pepper-Crusted Burgers with Mustard Sauce
“Horrendous. The burger is salty and dry and has a very peculiar, unpleasant taste. Sort of like burned rubber. The sauce was unbelievably bad — a horrible combo of flavors. Just NO.” -Dyanna from Seal Beach, CA
On Sandra’s Carpetbagger Steaks
“Foul. The filling was noxious. Spare yourself some grief and avoid it. The stuffing… tasted like carpet.” -Anonymous
On Sandra’s Life’s A Beach Cake
“Quite an absurd end looking product. Tasted just as bad. The kids got bored decorating it and then did’t finish their servings. It just wasn’t good.” – Siyaka from Naples, FL
“How much torture can an angel food cake endure?” -Mary from Illinois
On Sandra’s Bleu Cheese Olive Poppers
“DISGUSTING. They were like greasy, crusty eyeballs.” – Sharleen from Chicago, IL
On Sandra’s Creamy Succotash
“I tried making this recipe, and was BLECH!!! The consistency gave me the feeling of chewing on Vaseline with chunks in it!!! And the sauce had absolutely no taste at all to me. I very rarely throw out food (I’m not a very experienced cook, and if I mess something up my hubby can usually fix it) but this dish hit the trash can!!!” – Stephanie from Phenix City, AL
On Sandra’s Beignets with Raspberry Sauce
“Sandra should be ashamed of herself. Frying canned biscuits and calling them beignets? The least she could do was to have some authenticity in her recipe. I don’t think Sandra belongs on Food TV panning off nasty recipes like that. At the very least it’s unprofessional and she is not in the same class as the other Food TV chefs.” -Louise frin Encino, CA
“This is a bit offensive. As a Louisiana native born and bred, I can guarantee you that fried biscuit dough is not in any which way close to a beignet!! And I agree that there is so no such thing as a sauce… don’t mess with the powdered sugar. I like the idea of doing “Wal-Mart” versions of a recipe but don’t try to pull a “Dollar General” recipe and call it genuine.” – Brandi from Farmerville, LA
On Sandra’s BLT Dip
“Fatty and offputting. This is a dip you would not be proud to serve. People would definitely think less of you if you did.” -Anonymous
On Sandra’s Heirloom Carrot Spoon Cake
“The cake came out tasting good, but it looked like something i should be rubbing my dog’s nose in. You eat with your eyes, and I was very nervous to take a bite. But after I did, I was pleased. However, after a couple of days, this mysterious liquid started forming in the bottom of the plate. I threw the rest out. Will not try again.” -Anthony from Los Angeles
On Sandra’s Bacon Grilled Cajun Trout
“The fish was really nasty and unappetizing. It was all falling apart and tasted like a musty basement.” -Anonymous
“I am from Louisiana. I am a real cajun. We would never cook a trout like this. Sandra, do your homework!!” -Julie from Lake Charles, LA
On Sandra’s Hot Legs with Spicy Ranch Sauce
“These were so tasteless that I thought they were cardboard.” -Anonymous
On Sandra’s Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup
“Canned soup with mealy, disintegrated chicken and vegetables. That’s not “home cooking” in my book. Claiming that the crockpot makes canned soup taste home made is shameful.” -Anonymous
“After taking already cooked chicken and recooking it on low for 8 hours, what you are left with a nice thick soup. When your chicken has disintegrated to the point when you can no longer see it and the soup is one homoginized mass, it’s ready to serve. Perfect for those with no teeth or taste buds.” -Anonymous
On Sandra’s Cashew Chicken Salad
“I served this for lunch and my husband just laughed at me. He wouldn’t even try it. I ate a bit but I have to admit it was a bad idea. The mayonnaise in the slaw just serves to slime everything else up and the taste isn’t that great.” -Anonymous
On Sandra’s Provence Style Chicken Breast Fillets
“Lemonade on chicken. Yuckarooni!!!!!!!!!!!!” -Anonymous
(For more, check out part one of this series!)
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---Ridiculous Food Network Recipe Of The Week: Rachael Ray’s Store-Bought Pound Cake
---The Funniest “Dark Chocolate As A Snack” Recipe Reviews
---Ridiculous Food NetworK Recipe Of The Week: Sandra Lee’s “Italian” Mac and Cheese
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64 Responses
“Bacon Grilled Cajun Trout” – just reading the NAME of the recipe makes me angry. Bitch has no idea what cajun food is.
I’d still nail her anytime.
That says more about YOU than Aunt Drunkard.
I’d think you’d probably want a piece of her.
Ummmm, no.
She tried to make gazpacho with frozen veggies & orange juice? Puke!
Most of these recipes made my stomach turn. It’s a mystery to me how she ever got her own cooking show in the first place.
One would have to match her alcohol consumption in order for any of these dishes to taste as delicious as they do in SandyLand.
Two other recipes that got really funny, but terrible, reviews are her Smothered Meatloaf and her Kings Cake. I purposely read her reviews for a laugh. I wouldn’t be caught dead even trying one of her “recipes” This was priceless!
About that King Cake…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtvaX5rNEA4
Ugh!
That was hilarious! Thanks for posting.
Blasphemy. That is just awful.
I died a little inside after reading that gazpacho recipe.
It’s never a good thing when someone says your recipe tastes like carpet…
or….. greasy, crusty eyeballs
I choked on my coffee over that one!
…Or if it’s like chewing on Vaseline with chunks in it. Mmm, mmm.
That one did me in. Vasoline with chunks in it…..Ewwww.
“Yukarooni”…I am so stealing this!!
RR is jealous now!
She needs to go….and they need to bring in Tony Bourdain to escort her out the back door at FN.
I looked at a couple of the recipes and honestly, a lot of them were stuff like, get chicken strips from the store, throw in nuts, throw in canned mandarin oranges, mix with mayo, and serve.
How the hell is this an actual recipe? *barfs*
It’s so funny now to see her reruns of “Semi-Homemade” where she encourages buying frozen, pre-cut vegetables and stuff from the salad bar. I’m amazed that on “Money Saving Meals”, her food is equally as awful but she’s on a completely different bandwagon (“If you shred these carrots yourself, you will save four dolllllars and fiffffty centtts. That’s a saaaaavings of 61%.”).
Her $-saving ‘ingredients’ are canned, boxed preservative-chemical-sugar-salt-laden fake-food. Who eats like that?
Most of America, actually.
The best was when she whipped her own cream instead of using cool whip. She was probably thinking: “this is going to hurt me a lot more than it’s going to hurt you”.
Yes, I’ve thought it ironic that buying a bunch of pre-made crap from the store is usually WAY more expensive than cooking with fresh ingredients, and now she’s touting cooking fresh food. And I get the feeling that she doesn’t even see the irony. Dumbass.
Her new show is SO.MUCH.WORSE.than Semi-Ho. At least her campy, trailer parky show with matching outfits, curtains, and “table-scapes” was entertaining. Now with her state of the art gazillion dollar kitchen, telling me how to save fifty cents by grating my own cheese (once she even offered to come and grate it for me!) comes across as so disingenuous.
She does not have a cooking show. Assemblage, yes. And not even a good one.
I call it “modular food”. You assemble the various semi-edible modules and voila! ummm…something!
Posted by Anonymous in regards to the “Gazpacho” recipe:
(4/5 Stars) “I normally like my gazpachoe served warm, but to do it chilled was really interesting. I liked her idea of using the frozen stir-fry mix instead of chopping real vbegetables. What a time saver that was for me. I don’t have a blender, so I just put everything in a bowl and whisked it and tried to get it to look as smooth as Chef Lee’s did. I did okay, but I really think you need a blender. I lost the lid to mine, so I can’t use it anymore. Great recipe!”
Like it served warm?? Stir fry vegetables?? Whisked in a bowl? Chef Lee?? Great recipe???
FN has truly lost their cred with actual foodies, and now caters to the hamburger helper crowd.
Posted by Anonymous in regards to the “Gazpacho” recipe:
We can only hope this was written by one of Sandra’s relatives.
And where did they eat warm gazpacho? Are they Rimmer from “Red Dwarf”? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=511VL3VEvQM
Niiicceee! I always love to see a fellow Red Dwarf fan!
Miss Stephanie must have written that one.
I nearly wet myself reading that. WTF are we doing whisking vegetables? And Chef Lee? C’mon, you’ve GOT to be f-g with me.
Come on guys! Whenever I need to crush ice, I pull out my wisk and go at it!
Someone needs to mention the fact that roughly 97 percent of the people that comment on FN’s website cannot spell or make a gramatically coherent sentence.
Apparently, neither can you, since “whisk” is spelled with an “h”. And you crush ice with a whisk? Really?
The only word that comes to mind for this contradictory, no good, talentless hack is… WHORE! Scamdy was good for a laugh a few years ago, now she is just down right insulting!
On Sandra’s Bleu Cheese Olive Poppers
“DISGUSTING. They were like greasy, crusty eyeballs.”
ROTFLMAO!!
Many of the posts addressing “Chef Lee” are satire posted by members of the Television Without Pity forum which has a whole section devoted (so to speak) to the Semi-Ho.
That might explain some of the comments, which have me despairing for the future of the human race.
To wit, regarding “Provence style chicken breast” apparently made with LEMONADE?!?!?: “made the recipe exactly except I used Montreal Grill seasoning because that’s all I had, plus Montreal is French.”
And: “Since I am watching my calories, I used Crystal Lite but I’m not sure if that was a good decision.”
I would love to know if these are real, or if the TWOPers are making the positive comments.
The first is most definitely a shrike (a term of derision given to TWoP forum members by Fandras which we have taken to heart). There was an episode where she called France the “City of Lights.” It’s a common theme to use the most tenuous of connections, much like Aunt Sandy herself.
Forum can be found here: http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?s=7fbb0b3103eca9bc2b15bdd4a40d4862&showforum=743
I hope most (if not all) of the positive comments are from the TWOPers because otherwise it’s just too depressing to think about, especially all of the commenters on the crockpot, canned soup “recipe” that said they’d never made homemade soup. Seriously? Soup is probably one of the easiest things on earth to cook.
“After taking already cooked chicken and recooking it on low for 8 hours, what you are left with a nice thick soup. When your chicken has disintegrated to the point when you can no longer see it and the soup is one homogenized mass, it’s ready to serve. Perfect for those with no teeth or taste buds.” -Anonymous
Jillian, did you write this comment over on TFN? ;)
I don’t understand why anyone would try her recipes in the first place. On what planet do any of her food combinations sound edible?
Why, on Yuckarooni, of course! The Yuckaroons lllllove Sandra’s recipes.
Coz they have no teeth or taste buds!
Yuckarooni.. hahahahaha!
Joy took the words out of my mouth. I just..ugh..I don’t understand why anyone would even attempt these and then be shocked that it tastes like carpet, or burned rubber, or cardboard, etc. Looking at the ingredient list alone should be enough to make you rethink even trying her food! Some of these reviews are entertaining, but in my opinion, those people are just dumb. Can’t respect someone who watches her show and then tries to recreate her “food”.
(But it is a funny post Jillian!)
Re: the creamy chicken noodle soup recipe – Not that I ever understand her recipes, but why would you throw *cooked* chicken and canned soup into a crockpot to cook for 9 hrs??? It honestly breaks my heart that there are people in this world who think that overcooked poultry and condensed cream of whatever soup is where it’s at. Bleecccch.
Apparently there’s an entire cookbook line dedicated to recipes using store bought rotisserie chicken. I don’t get it either.
I sometimes wonder whether Aunt Sandy just sits down on rainy afternoons and provides the five star comments on her recipes to combat the realistic ones.
Aunt Sandy’s “recipes” always remind me of stuff I’ve seen over on The Gallery of Regrettable Food.
I’ve got a better one for the Cashew chicken Salad.
“Sorry I hate when people change a recipe and rate it but I did cause I think it would have been good original way also. I didn’t have mandarins so i used pineapple chunks and added some chopped green onion to the top as garnish and like a rater stated I used vadalia onion dressing instead of oil but used about 1/4 cup. This variation was exceelent and my husband loved it and so did I. I thihk it would be good with grilled chicken also. Just an over all good recipe to add what you want. thanks Sandra and your are soooo pretty, love yoru show!”
I’m amazed at the POSITIVE reviews she gets. Were her fans dropped on their heads repeatedly as infants? Holy crap.
I think they have “Cocktails” before they watch her show>
I have been banned from FN and can no longer leave reviews for Aunt Sandy. I snapped one day and left a truthful review of this moron.You would not believe the amount of Sandyheads who rushed to her defense. It’s frightening that some people actually think she can cook and has great ideas.
My very favorite review of all time was from the Lakeside Inside show. The idiot wanted to know how to keep the cobbler batter inside the holes of the colander she was using. These are the people who watch her for actual recipes. I have to admit I watch for the comedy. Watching her chop anything as she propels herself to the right is hilarious. The right hand that is held out to catch nothing. The outfit that matches the mixer…..I think anyone who has the stupidity to try one of her”russipes” deserves what they get!I have actually threatened my family that I will make one of her recipes.They stop annoying me right away. Works every time.
Sandra Lee should never have been on Food TV to begin with–my set gets turned every time she is on.
Wandah from KY said that she used Crystal Lite (!!!) in the Provence Style Chicken recipe instead of lemonade because she is “watching her calories.” As if the lemonade wasn’t repulsive enough, why make a bad situation worse? Crystal Lite as an ingredient? SERIOUSLY?? *shudders*
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You folks have so inspired me to post here.
So, why are there so many Rachel Ray haters and no one ever seems to mention Sandra Lee? I mean, Rachel’s no chef, but at least she’s actually using real ingredients and not store-bought processed crap!
I have new found respect for Rachel after reading about these “recipes”.
Seriously, though, these recipes sound absolutely disgusting! I think I only saw her show once when she was prepping for some “weekend biker” party. I recall most of the show was “cocktails”. She must drink a lot to prepare these kinds of dishes.
“I mean, Rachel’s no chef, but at least she’s actually using real ingredients and not store-bought processed crap!”
Ok, I’ve been a long-time lurker and now I have to comment.
I am not a fan of Sandra Lee but I’ve found a few (maybe two of three) of her recipes to be creative time savers. The rest are usually crap. I get tired of people whining over the use of store-bought stuff, the “processed crap” you speak of. Believe it or not, not everyone has the time to make wonderfully fresh, five-star meals three times a day. I don’t see anything wrong with store-bought ingredients, so long as you use them wisely. I always try to incorporate fresh fruits and veggies in my meals but I am not beyond buying a rotisserie chicken once in awhile.
Those of who who bitch about the store-bought ingredients should put your money where your mouth is. I’d love to see you whiners exist one week ONLY on fresh ingredients, (no store-bought, nothing previously prepared) and then see how far you get.
I’m sure I’ll get labeled a “Sandra Lee fan” for this comment, and rest assured I am not. I just choose to live in reality.
Thanks for saying nice things,I think some people just like to hind behind their computer and be as mean as they can be.
I am realistic too!!!!!Watch her show cause it is entertaining
It’s interesting to read all the vicious statements on here.I am a food snob and would never dream of cooking like she does.The cakes are usually a disaster and look like something a kindergardener would make.Thing is,she is nostalgic about her beloved grandmother so why not show us how grandma made a cake.Truth be told,people still cook and bake like that.I don’t see a problem taking shortcuts if you don’t know how to do stuff from scratch.Why is everyone up in arms about the cocktails??Let the woman enjoy herself.She is super successful and pretty.Fake boobs,fake smile unhealthy food cooked with packaged stuff,lets be real and think how often we alter our appearance with haircolor,botox,new clothes,hat,sunglasses,how often are we pretending to be happy when we are not and how many times have we eaten processed food and loved it.
Remember,I am a great chef who cooks everything fresh!!!If I have something nice to say about her show more people should.
Nice ideas about the tablescapes too….change everything all the time and coordinate!!!! you go girl
I’m sorry, but I didn’t get anything out of your boring commentary other than the fact that you’re still using the phrase “YOU GO GIRL” in the year 2011. Sad indeed.