lies Ina Garten told me

i watch a lot of cooking shows, like a LOT of cooking shows.  always have, always will.

one of my favorites is The Barefoot Contessa on the food network.

i don't know if you're familiar with this program but its host is a wonderfully ridiculous woman named Ina Garten.  she is this posh thing who seems to only socialize with beautiful gay men and everything she cooks has about 6 sticks of butter and a cup of heavy cream in it.  she calls everyone darling and everything is fabulous and decadent and- you get the picture.

well just now i was watching her program and she was making a Pastisio (which sounds really delicious actually but probably has about a day's worth of points per serving) and one element of it was a bechamel sauce.  since its a Greek dish she decided to add some Greek yogurt to the sauce and while she claimed she was adding 2/3 of a cup she probably put 2 cups in.

this is not a trait unique to Ms. Garten either.

i was watching some lady i didn't recognize earlier and she was making a cocktail and claimed to be putting 2 tablespoons of simple syrup in it, and then proceeded to add about a 1/2 cup in.

bullshit i cry! bullshit!

they make this stuff on TV and they're all loosey goosey with the "eyeballing" of measurements and yeah, of course it's delicious and looks great!  then i go home and try to make it and it's bland and gross because i put 2/3 of a cup of yogurt in it instead of your 2 cups!!!

anyway, i promise you that the measurements i put on my recipes will be accurate and everything will taste good because i've tried it all before.

with that, look forward to a lot of recipes this week.  the first round of cheeseburger experiments is done and i've perfected my chicken stir-fry recipe to boot!

thanks for sticking with me so far, things are about to get interesting around here!

-V