Did I say cooking show? Oh,I meant a lifestyle show,because it seems to me that to Ms.Lee making her food to match her table-scapes or kitchen-scapes is more important than making said food TASTE good.
The 'Semi-Homemade' food-making credo is that you take 70% store-bought items from your kitchen,add 30% fresh items,and you have 100% fast and easy meals.This concept in and of itself is not a bad idea,if properly implemented.And the main problem with this show is just how Ms.Lee attempts to do just that.She tends to prepare meals at a very novice level of expertise,kind of like a 10-year-old pretending to be a world-class chef with all the ignorance of the job that comes with trying to pretend.She uses words like "cut into nice pieces" instead of "dice" or when she's brushing any liquid to any solid at any temperature,it is called "basting".She also consistently mangles foodie words like 'EXpresso' for 'ESpresso' or 'MARScapone' for 'MAScarpone',giving other words too much of a lazy Mid-western dialect* like 'melk' for milk or 'frush' for fresh.But it's the way she phrases her sentences that drives me nuts and makes Yoda sound like he's freaking Shakespeare (ex:"...a cup of sugar into the pot it goes" WTF???).
I can forgive her show not being the apex of culinary terminology if the food she makes looked or tasted good,but she tends to make unusual flavor combinations and to over-flavor the bulk of her concoctions with seasoning packets and pre-made sauces out of the bottle.
And speaking of bottles,Ms.Lee has the infamous 'Cocktail Time' which is where,near the end of the show,she puts together her versions of alcoholic delights her to enjoy.These cocktails are usually made up of tons of booze(almost never properly measured into the drink *wink-wink*)and these drinks always has some big piece of garnish floating in it that serves as a choking hazard after knocking back a few of her 'tinis'.
After all of this I still will give the show a 10 out of 10 because no matter how terribly bad her show is,I will continue to religiously watch it for the "it's so bad,it's good' factor...kind of like watching a roadside crash of a clown car,if you know what I mean.
*Note: By this,I don't mean to put down the dialect of the fine folks of the Mid-west...heck,we here in the South talk about as good as y'all do up yonder,I reckin'!
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