• Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee: Thanksgiving

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Wed Nov 26 11:01:38 2025

    This ep starts with SLop walking outside and picking leaves from trees.
    She blah blahs about making something "very unique" for Thanksgiving. She walks into that faux pantry and grabs a pan with Stove Top stuffing ? she
    made the night before and left sitting out overnight to get dry and
    crunchy (she obviously does not live in Florida).

    She puts the giblets into boiling water for the gravy with a loud
    "Whoot!" and then chops the green onions into strips and puts them into
    her food processor, because it's so much easier to use it to make
    bite-sized pieces, except they look semi-pulverized after she's done. She credits this recipe with "Dicie" as she mixes the stuffing and pulp.

    She preps the turkey and stuffs it with the stuffing, then bastes it by rubbing a couple sticks of butter on it. She recommends cooking two
    smaller ones instead of a giant one.

    SLop then prepares the leaves upon which the turkey will be placed
    without washing her hands. SLop then says a little prayer to God that she cooked it right. Heh.

    She scrapes the drippings from the pan and empties them into a cup so she
    can make rue in a clean pan. Doesn't one normally just add the flour to
    the pan without scraping it clean? She puts a little vegetable oil and
    flour in the pan and miraculously, the rue is finished, so she adds the
    giblet broth to it. As the steam hits her in the face, she exclaims
    "Wooo!" and "Bamm!" and claims that "Emeril's got nothing on me!". I hate Emeril, but that is just all kinds of wrong. She mentions that everyone
    in her family calls her the "gravy queen". I suspect they really said
    "gravy train" and made up the former when she overheard them, but that's
    just me.

    SLop slices a piece from the MV turkey while exclaiming "Come on honey I
    am so going to eat you up!". SLop tells us that after the commercial
    break, she's going to tell how to fix turkey, because everyone talks
    about cooking it. Way to inspire confidence.

    If your turkey isn't brown enough, melt some butter and dump everything
    you can find full of sugar into it, like rum. The butter and sugar will caramelize, so if you paint it onto the turkey, it will look cooked and
    no one will know. Well, until they bite into that caramel turkey, that
    is.

    If your turkey is dry, slice it, baste it, and tent in the oven to steam
    it.

    If your gravy is lumpy, strain it and then dribble it over sliced and
    plated turkey. No one will ever know!

    If you burn the rolls, something SLop does every year, slice off the
    burnt part and make it into cheese toast. No one will know, yeah right.

    We return from commercial to see SLop make mini pumpkin bundts (didn't
    she make this on the other ep?), but first, she has to show-off how she decorated her kitchen. It's brown. We have this week's theme color! She
    shows off how she glued leather and lace to her valence, but I notice
    dead twigs and leaves as well. It kinda sorta looks S&M-y

    SLop bakes the mini bundts and prays "Please sweet lord, let them come
    out unbroken!" and crows about her good karma when they do. I think it
    has a lot more to do with MV than karma, SLop. She proceeded to make an
    orange juice glaze by melting white chocolate chips in cream. If memory serves, I recall her trying that before and them not looking very good.
    She gives it an orange color by adding one drop of red and one drop of
    yellow food coloring. It's a shame she didn't use this ratio in the "Half-Assed Thanksgiving" ep. SLop makes leaves and stems using green
    dyed marzipan.

    SLop reads her "fan mail" from a fan who read her books and loves her
    drinks. Yeah, I bet she does. Anyhow, SLop recommends attaching flowers
    and vegetation to the stems of her glassware with clothes pins. Heh.

    SLop saunters over to the tablescape, which is pretty nice when compared
    to the maimed pheasant monstrosity. Unfortunately, whoever she made
    dinner for will only be eating turkey, stuffing, and cake for
    Thanksgiving. Well, considering who is cooking, maybe that's a good
    thing.

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    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.






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