Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Buy Any Cookbook by Food Network's Sandra Lee

10 Reasons Why You Should Not Buy Any Cookbook by Food Network's Sandra Lee

Do you love good food? How about quick and convenient but tasty food? Are you searching for kid friendly recipes? Why not some entertaining and decorating advice so you can look like a pro? If so then you must steer clear of anything written by Food Network's Semi-Homemade queen Sandra Lee.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good meal I can throw together with shortcuts. There are ways to do it right, and there are ways to do it wrong. I'm just not sure I can count how many ways Sandra Lee does it wrong. On the surface her philosophy is ok…70% store bought ingredients and 30% fresh foods (although really, where does she suppose we're getting the fresh foods? ok, ok, I'll be fair, there are gardeners out there.)

Take a look at an episode of Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee on Food Network; peruse her website semihomemade.com; or a glance at some recipes in her cookbooks and you will begin to understand what is so wrong with her philosophy. I happened to come into possession of a cookbook, and tried a couple of recipes. Yikes, I certainly won't buy her cookbooks, but I will catch her show - -it's quite comical.

From simply silly to "she's kidding right?" to the disgusting and completely irresponsible, here are 10 reasons not to buy her cookbooks:

1. "She's kidding right?" Let's start with a romantic tip. It begins with pixie stix…or maybe it ends with pixie stix, because I can almost guarantee that a bed "dusted" with a gritty pixie stix mixture will be a very lonely bed. Yes, this was an actual tip on her website for a romantic evening. Want a romantic recipe to go with that pixie stix dusted romantic evening? Try autopsy salmon…oh wait, that's the term affectionately coined by the anti-Sandra Lee "shrikes" (that's another story)…it's tropical salmon. Looks like 4 salmon filets being prepared for autopsy: http://www.semihomemade.com/entertaining/04_romantic.htm