Paula Deen (trust me, it's gross)

Here's some good old fashioned lovin' from the oven deep fryer:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recip e/0,,FOOD_9936_36918,00.html

What did y'all expect? XD 

 

yeah, *nods to lileberly*

I thought this thread was going to be about the deep fried butter

that one made me feel completely nauseated - so, good for my diet!

I love Paula Deen! She makes me laugh even though just watching her cook clogs my arteries!

Yes I love Paula too! I would love to have her in my family. That would be the only way I would forgo my diet and just be fat is if she was cooking for me. That does sound extremely fattening though! LOL I love to watch her she is hilarious!!!

I think some of her recipies are a little over the top and I am southern. I do enjoy watching her show she reminds me of a cool grandmom.

 I normally take her recpies and modify them to be healthy - subsitute ingredients -  ground turkey for ground beef, light cheese, light sour cream, reduce the amount of butter used in the recpie etc etc.

This is a good idea for any cooking show or recipie - you don't have to give things up, just think about cooking them in a different way. Yeah sometimes things come out weird, you keep experimenting untill you get it right. I love to cook though so the trial and error is fun to me - I don't know if it would be good for someone who doesn't like cooking. 

As a southerner I agree with what several people have said. Southerners don't fry everything!! In fact, my dad (the cook of the family) and my grandparents hardly fried ANYTHING! In fact, a real southern supper in my house growing up included black-eyed or field peas, greens, string beans, fried okra, corn bread, white rice, corn on the cob (w/ butter), pork chops or grilled chicken. Very occaisonally would the meat be fried. Yes, it isn't the healthiest, but southerners get a bad rep for what we eat!

You guys should get a kick out of this (warning: it is possible to waste FAR too much time on this site...)

 http://www.tvgasm.com/shows/food-network/paul a-dean-coro-1402.php

I like Paula Deen.  She doesn't seem that big to me and I think she's funny.  Now, I don't want to eat half the things she fries up but some days I would kill for some good southern home cookin'.  I also like her because she seems happy...and with all that butter and chocolate and fried food how could you not be 

 My boyfriend likes to make fun of her though and every time she says "just a touch of butter" he says "just a pound of butter"  which is sad, but kinda true.

Original Post by runner_girl:

You guys should get a kick out of this (warning: it is possible to waste FAR too much time on this site...)

 http://www.tvgasm.com/shows/food-network/paul a-dean-coro-1402.php

OH MY GOD! Those are the hotdogs I mentioned earlier!!! EWWWW!!!!

You all sound so mean and shallow. Don't be hatin' on Miss Paula or on anyone who chooses to eat her food. It's just plain weird to be so obsessive about food you don't want to eat! Just don't make it and move on.

but kristi, it's not just about food.  it's all part of the more-is-better mentality: if a 2000 square foot house is good, 4000 is better; if a 5-passenger car is good, 9 is better; if fat is good, deep-fried fat is better.

i love paula deen and watch her show all the time...i don't cook any of it because I know how bad it is but that doesn't change the fact that her food looks yummy and she is entertaining to watch. mmm...her banana pudding though. man. thats something i'll splurge on every once in a while.

and i think thats a bit of a stretch to say that its the more-is-better mentality. I don't think people are consciously thinking "ooooh this is really good as fatty as it is, I would love to deep fry it because then its even fattier which means it would be much better." I'll agree with you on the house and the car thing but I don't think the same idea applies to fried foods. 

I can't say I hate all of Paula Deen's recipes (I certainly have no hard feelings against the woman herself). I do have a certain weakness in me for fried food in general - fried chicken, fried mozarella sticks, fried corn (yes, it is good), fried okra, fried ice cream...I'd probably even try some fried cheesecake should it happen my way.

But fried lasagna? Fried butter? Really now? Or those giant...weird hotdogs in that link? That's where I draw the line.

Original Post by ratinhat88:

Thank you, brighteyes, for mitigating the "that's just the way people eat in the south" comment.  I was a little put off by that, as a southerner.  Real southern cooking comprises fresh vegetables and meats with, yes, a little unhealthy stuff--butter and gravy and such.  But there is room for both healthy and less healthy things in southern cooking.  What Paula Deen does is just a caricature that should have no place in the American lifestyle.

 

Thank you, fellow southerner!  One of the best memories I have about growing up in the South was the HUGE vegetable garden my grandmother had.  During the summer there was never a shortage of various peas, beans, corn, cucumber, tomatoes, and squash...So, I guess if that's unhealthy, maybe it wasn't all the Little Debbies I noshed on in college that made me overweight...

WEIRD!

I totally agree with Beagle I watch Paula Deen most of my family is overweight and not just a little I am 50lbs over the weight I want to be but not like the rest of my family, They all love the paula Deen show. It is something to keep you entertained not to mimic. You can ALWAYS make all the recipes with less calories and she does have some really good ideas.

And come on people you can eat just about anything if you dont go overboard if you have a craving for chocolate eat a little piece you dont have to eat a giant bar of it. I find that if im craving something really bad I eat a little piece if its a cheeseburger I eat half and the craving is gone. Because It helps ya out in the long run to find that you can eat somethings just dont go overboard. But some people cant eat just a bite I realize that and that is why they stay away from it entirely and kudos to them. Im just glad for myself that I started getting on with the health kick now and not 15 years from now so I will never look like the rest of my family. Everyone on here is great and I just want to say to yall keep up the good work!!!

Didn't she have those "magical peanut butter cookies"?  I don't think they were too bad calorie-wise =]

Original Post by lbh:

Original Post by ratinhat88:

Thank you, brighteyes, for mitigating the "that's just the way people eat in the south" comment.  I was a little put off by that, as a southerner.  Real southern cooking comprises fresh vegetables and meats with, yes, a little unhealthy stuff--butter and gravy and such.  But there is room for both healthy and less healthy things in southern cooking.  What Paula Deen does is just a caricature that should have no place in the American lifestyle.

 

Thank you, fellow southerner!  One of the best memories I have about growing up in the South was the HUGE vegetable garden my grandmother had.  During the summer there was never a shortage of various peas, beans, corn, cucumber, tomatoes, and squash...So, I guess if that's unhealthy, maybe it wasn't all the Little Debbies I noshed on in college that made me overweight...

 I'm a westerner, never been to the south. But when I visit my brothers in the midwest, we go out for deep-fried cheese curds (sounds gross now...). And isn't it the midwest that serves up deep fried twinkies and deep fried snickers (each on-a-stick) at state fairs?   Maybe I'll start a new thread - "What is the strangest thing you've ever eaten "on-a-stick?"

Original Post by hgielrehtaeh:

Some of the nasty things I've seen her do:

Fry lasagne
Fry fully loaded baked potatos
Pour a butter honey sauce over fried chicken
Frosted muffins (doesn't that make it a cupcake)
Homemade Pork Rinds (Fried pork fat)
Bacon Wrapped hotdogs topped with butter fried onions and melted velveeta cheese then topped with scoops of coleslaw dripping in mayo.

And when her fat little face lights up to taste her coronary inducing fare I realize she's the "Fat American" at it's worst.

  I saw the show were she fried the lasagne and the patato, the lasagne she had said she had never done before and the potato was a just for fun thing.  She makes old fashoned southern cooking for the most part.  If you look in any old cook book you will find that the way that she cooks was at one time acceptable. 

 

I also have to admit I have made her pumpkin gooy butter cake once and it was wonderful!  Yes it is not good for you, but it is okay to splerge every now and again! 

I like her personality but I definitely can't have her food, if I ever did it may be once a month and only one item lol

Let me defend my "that's just the way people eat in the south" comment. 

I am a southerner, I was born in the south and I have lived here my whole life.  Traditional southern cooking involves a lot of fried food and high fat.  Even our collard greens are cooked with some kind of animal fat, when they are prepared traditionally.   Certainly modern southern food is evolving and when you go to a nice southern restaurant they have improved the recipes considerably.

I suppose I should have said "that is a traditional southern way of cooking."  Paula probably grew up eating this way and she has certainly experienced TREMENDOUS success with her "disgusting" recipes, so she can hardly be blamed for continuing on in the same way she always has.

I didn't mean to offend any of my fellow southerners, but I don't think my comment was that far out of line.