Paula Deen Idea of a Diet

Trilby • Mar 19, 2009 6:00 pm
Paula was on tonight and said her hubby is "finally!" eating better and on a diet; so, this is what Paula made for him:

Cream Cheese Stuffed New Potatoes

Red caviar, for garnish, optional
Finely chopped fresh parsley leaves
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, softened
1/3 cup whipping cream
Freshly ground black pepper
1 (5-ounce) package soft garlic herb cheese (recommended: Boursin)
24 bite-size new potatoes, scrubbed, with a tiny sliver cut off each potato so they will stand after filling
Salt

Directions
In a large pot with plenty of salted water, boil the potatoes until they are tender when a fork is inserted, about 10 to 12 minutes. Drain and let the potatoes cool until you can handle them.

With a melon baller, remove a scoop from each potato. Combine the cheese, butter, and cream. Taste, and add salt and pepper, as needed. Spoon or pipe the cheese mixture into the potatoes.

Garnish with a fine sprinkling of parsley. Stand potatoes on cut end on a platter to serve.


God I love this woman!
SteveDallas • Mar 19, 2009 6:15 pm
What the fsck kind of "diet" includes dishes like that??
Sheldonrs • Mar 19, 2009 6:49 pm
SteveDallas;546993 wrote:
What the fsck kind of "diet" includes dishes like that??


If you've ever watched her show, you know she cut down on the amount of butter she would have normally added. lol!!!
Beestie • Mar 19, 2009 6:50 pm
I just watched that show. I'm all over that stuffed snapper.

And she did only used a pat of butter on the fish instead of the usual 4 sticks.
Sheldonrs • Mar 19, 2009 6:56 pm
Beestie;547003 wrote:
I just watched that show. I'm all over that stuffed snapper...


I hope that's not a euphemism. :eek:
Beestie • Mar 19, 2009 6:59 pm
Sheldonrs;547008 wrote:
I hope that's not a euphemism. :eek:


Nooooooooooooo, I was talkin about the fish.

Uh, I just made it worse didn't I...
:blush:
Sheldonrs • Mar 19, 2009 7:00 pm
Beestie;547009 wrote:
Nooooooooooooo, I was talkin about the fish.

Uh, I just made it worse didn't I...
:blush:


Depends. (which is what you'll need to remove to get to the snapper.) hahahaha Ewwwwww...
TheMercenary • Mar 19, 2009 8:22 pm
The lady is a marketing genius and a total idiot wrapped into one package. It is so funny to see the Tourons standing in the 90 degree heat waiting to go into her place, buy her crap, and say they had some great home style food like you could get at any army mess hall.
Cloud • Mar 20, 2009 4:12 pm
reminds me of that "Mr. and Mrs. Butterer" commercial
Urbane Guerrilla • Mar 20, 2009 8:55 pm
Or Martita Hunt. David Niven's autobiography Blessings In Disguise recounts la Hunt throwing a snitfit over being unable to obtain six pounds of butter in which to cook one chicken. This in immediately postwar England, at that -- food rationing.

Neither David nor Primula ever got over their astonishment either.

Nor, for that matter, the recipe. Assuming the details are accurately remembered.
Sundae • Mar 22, 2009 7:41 am
None of this makes any sense to me.
Just thought I'd say.

Although.... I haven't read that one of Niven's, UG.
I'll have to look it up. I adore him. I've read The Moon's a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses a courses.
Even knowing he was a spin artiste - it's only the same as listening to any raconteur. Are there any left? I'd apply if I knew where to go.
Urbane Guerrilla • Mar 23, 2009 3:11 am
Then you'll like BiD too. Writing, in the Niven voice.

Always wanted to introduce David Niven to Larry Niven in an airport: "Mr Niven, famous author, meet Mr. Niven, famous author."
Urbane Guerrilla • Mar 23, 2009 10:49 am
Oh, dear -- not Niven -- Alec Guiness. Same Central Casting Anglo type, different fellow. But still if you liked Niven's writing, you'll like Guiness' too.
Sundae • Mar 23, 2009 10:52 am
Bwahahaaaa
Not laughing at you, just relieved MY memory isn't going to a hot destination in a receptacle.

I honestly believed that there was a Niven book I hadn't found.
I should be less trusting. Such ways are dictatorships made!

But I'm interested in a book by Sir Alec anyway.
Trilby • Mar 23, 2009 1:27 pm
from cream cheese stuffed new potatoes to Sir Alec in 14! pretty good!
Shawnee123 • Mar 23, 2009 1:41 pm
Damn that Paula Deen (shakes fist at air)--I'm so damn sick of lettuce I could scream!

:lol:
Sheldonrs • Mar 23, 2009 6:17 pm
Shawnee123;548716 wrote:
Damn that Paula Deen (shakes fist at air)--I'm so damn sick of lettuce I could scream!

:lol:


Maybe if you wrap the butter in lettuce. :D
Shawnee123 • Mar 23, 2009 6:19 pm
That would be healthy, wouldn't it? What kind of wine goes with butter wrapped in lettuce?
Cloud • Mar 23, 2009 6:24 pm
you can actually cook butter in lettuce--braised lettuce. A nice medium white wine would go well.
Shawnee123 • Mar 23, 2009 6:28 pm
lol...don't tell me that Cloud! It's OK, I don't know how to braise anything. Don't tell me. :)
Sheldonrs • Mar 23, 2009 6:30 pm
Shawnee123;548781 wrote:
That would be healthy, wouldn't it? What kind of wine goes with butter wrapped in lettuce?


How about a nice pork wine? It's the other white swine. :cool:
Shawnee123 • Mar 23, 2009 6:32 pm
:lol:

That's a hall of famer!
Cloud • Mar 23, 2009 6:33 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/dining/082crex.html