Food Network's Sandra Lee debuts her own magazine

[Food Network Fan]

Food Network's Sandra Lee debuts her own magazine
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
BY PATRICK HUGUENIN Food Network personality Sandra Lee teaches her viewers - and her new magazine readers - 'real home economics.' One morning last week, ...

[Food Network Fan]

Real home economics???? Using pre made, pre packaged and pre cooked items is the most expensive way you can cook.

[BerryBaby]

25 ingredients and 5 hours to make? Huh? I have never seen a recipe that takes 5 hours unless you are simmering a sauce all day.

A lot of her fellow foodie celebs make things in less than 30 minutes...she needs to the Food Network's magazine for helpful hints.

[bakerman]

I can bet that a majority of the advertising space will be sold to pre-made food product manufacturers.

It sure doesn't seem like real home economics to me!

[BerryBaby]

There isn't anything economical about buying pre-made food. I'll pass on this one.

[Pluff Mudder]

“I see all these home dec magazines and I think, ‘They’re so beautiful but none of these projects are do-able, and these recipes take 25 ingredients and five hours to make,’ ” says Lee. “I can look at a picture, because of my product background, and say, ‘Oh my God, you don’t have to do that, you can buy X, Y and Z and it will be done in 10 minutes.’ ”

The mag is anchored by recipes, and also runs the reader through gardening and community service ideas — and even beauty (“You know,” says Lee, “being a girl”). Most important, she says, the magazine teaches home economics — and she doesn’t mean the high school kind.



“It’s not just the cooking and sewing that we learned in high school,” she says. “This is real home economics. You’ve got to figure out your budget.”

I wonder what magazines she been looking at to where the projects aren't "do-able" and it take 25 ingredients and 5 hours to prepare a recipe? And, from the sound of things, maybe she needs to go back to HS and retake "real" home economics because all the pre-package ingredients, all the items for tablescapes and the booze isn't budget-friendly unless you don't have a budget to worry about.

[bakerman]

I agree that it isn't really very economical to use all of this pre-made stuff, and it certainly isn't healthy.

My partner requested chicken, broccoli, and cheddar casserole last week, I was going to take a shortcut and use cheddar cheese soup in it as the sauce, I used to make it this way years ago, but after reading how much salt was in it and the insane number of ingredients in it, I passed on the canned soup and made my own cheese sauce. I made enough to put one 8x8 pan in the oven and one in the freezer to bake later, the entire recipe probably cost me less than $7 to make.

The great thing about avoiding the pre-made stuff is that you often have everything that you need already in your house, so there is no need to run out for a specific ingredient, and that my friends is being economical.

[Pluff Mudder]

I know... you can taste the salt in that canned cheese soup. Home-made cheese sauce doesn't take much work and is so much better!

MAC, have you ever made cheese sauce with a wee bit of cayenne pepper in it? Reminds me of cheese straws. It's good on veggies.

[BerryBaby]

I do that when making mac 'n cheese. The cayenne adds just a little zing. Also, I throw in a few red pepper flakes. Kicks up the flavor big time.

[bakerman]

I know... you can taste the salt in that canned cheese soup. Home-made cheese sauce doesn't take much work and is so much better!

MAC, have you ever made cheese sauce with a wee bit of cayenne pepper in it? Reminds me of cheese straws. It's good on veggies.

I'll try that next time. I do toss in just a bit of dry mustard though. Cheese straws are addictive, I hadn't even heard of them until I moved to the south!