Lately, I’ve been wanting to try the “challenge” of the 30 minute Rachel Ray meal.\u00c2\u00a0 She seems to inspire strong emotions in people — rabid fans and equally rabid detractors.\u00c2\u00a0 Those that hate her complain of any number of things — her bubbly personality, the annoying abbreviations and catchphrases sprinkled through her speech, and most often, that her meals really can’t be prepared in 30 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Personally, I can take her or leave her.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, hearing her say “EVOO” and then immediately following it up with “Extra Virgin Olive Oil” a half dozen times even in the same half hour (really, whats the point of an abbreviation if you have to explain it more than once!) gets on my nerves, and I don’t watch her talk show or her travel shows, but I do still watch the original “30 Minute Meals”.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I appreciate that she is enouraging people to get back in the kitchen and cook when eating out seems the norm these days.\u00c2\u00a0 So anyway, I do own a few RR cookbooks and I thought I would randomly<\/a> pick\u00c2\u00a0a recipe and see how I fared.\u00c2\u00a0 It came up 34 which is Sweet Sausages Braised in Onions with Horseradish Smashed Potatoes<\/a> in 365: No Repeats<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I knew that wasn’t ideal for my family (peel on potatoes did not go over well, and I left the horseradish out of the potatoes, adding in a little parmesan instead, and the kidlet hated the chicken sausages I picked), but I finished the meal (and even added a green vegetable) in 32 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 And that was with being interrupted in the middle for a potty break for the kidlet.\u00c2\u00a0 There was enough time even to clean up as I went so there was nothing left except the actual cooking and eating vessels.<\/p>\n I’ll try another again soon.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe next week.\u00c2\u00a0 The hubby gets traumatized by my forays into different foods and recipes and healthy cooking (he’d be thrilled to eat the same thing 7 nights a week!), so I have to space them apart \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately, I’ve been wanting to try the “challenge” of the 30 minute Rachel Ray meal.\u00c2\u00a0 She seems to inspire strong emotions in people — rabid fans and equally rabid detractors.\u00c2\u00a0 Those that hate her complain of any number of things — her bubbly personality, the annoying abbreviations and catchphrases sprinkled through her speech, and most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}