Paula Deen

[burleytog]

Eaten at her restaurant? Does the food there suck?

I've tried two of her recipes from the Food Network website. Mac & cheese and banana pudding. Both sucked balls. The mac & cheese was like concrete noodles. The banana pudding is more like banana soup.

Take the banana pudding recipe for example. Calls for three cups of milk and two tablespoons of corn starch. Then look at Alton Brown's recipe from a recent episode of Good Eats. Two cups of milk and three tablespoons of corn starch.

Two TBSP's of corn starch is nowhere near enough to thicken three cups of milk. Even after six hours in the fridge, the 'pudding' is more like soup.

Although I find her to be a hot granny, I find myself wondering what exactly she did to merit a television show.

[Long Mike]

She's famous for her soups.   

[preach4bass]

My wife loves reading her cookbooks and magazines, so when we were in Savannah a couple of years ago I took her to the restaurant.  We walked in, looked at the little buffet, and were totally unimpressed.  There was fried chicken, a few vegetables, and a peach cobbler.  I told my wife that the entire buffet was no bigger than our kitchen table and that the food looked the same both places.  She agreed, and said that there was no need in paying $15 a head for food that she could cook at home.  So, we left Paula Deen's restaurant and picked up a pizza for supper!

[1inStripes]

I have heard good and bad things from her restaurant.  I will say that peach cobbler is dang good in her cookbook.  I will try to check her cookbook burley and see if the measurements have been printed wrong online possibly.

[Glenn]

She's famous for her soups.

LMAO!

[bmadd]

When my girlfriend and I went to Savannah last summer, we were advised by several people to hit the Paula Deen gift shop, but not to waste our time in the line to eat. They said it wasn't worth the wait or the price.

[bilgerat]

This is the place to eat in Savannah:

http://www.mrswilkes.com/