Inactive Cooking with Simply Sara / Sara Potter

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Uncle Meat said:
You know, with the Coronavirus scare, my local markets are cleaned out of all the good stuff. Today, I shopped and had to resort to canned vegetables, very basic meat and packaged cheese. I can't get a lot of the herbs, ethnic stuff and more exotic vegetables I normally use. I've been watching a bunch of Simply Sarah today to get ideas. I have no use for her desserts or the more obviously blubbery stuff. But some of her recipes are OK, the proportions are just off. If you take her recipes and cut the sugar, salt, fat and refined carbs down to a quarter or less than she uses, some of this stuff works. I see her doing some things right- she tastes as she goes, she uses stuff like tofu and spring roll wrappers that I'm sure no one else in her trailer park uses. And she seems to understand how to mix vinegar and umami and sweet and spices in a basic way. It's just whenever it comes to cheese or mayonnaise or butter, she adds five times too much. I watched a teriyaki tofu sub video where she used WAY too much soy sauce, then boiled it down to thick seawater consistency and let the browned tofu soak in it for over a half hour while she did other things. I can kind of learn some ways to make different kinds of stuff from the dregs left in the market. It's not a total loss. I just have to adjust the quantities. A teaspoon of butter for her is like a snow shovel full.
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So if you don’t use her recipe, it’s palatable.
 
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No, I use her ingredients, I just change the amounts. Cooking isn't just following a list like a chemistry set with exact amounts. It's putting things together that go together to create something different... like yellow and blue going together to make green. But balance is a matter of perspective. I think some of her recipes are ok. She just doesn't know how to measure when it comes to mayonnaise and butter.

I also think that some of these videos are the first time she's made these particular dishes. She makes mistakes because she hasn't figured it out yet. I do think that she's made old fashioned bologna salad dozens if not hundreds of times though!
 
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Uncle Meat said:
No, I use her ingredients, I just change the amounts. Cooking isn't just following a list like a chemistry set with exact amounts. It's putting things together that go together to create something different... like yellow and blue going together to make green. But balance is a matter of perspective. I think some of her recipes are ok. She just doesn't know how to measure when it comes to mayonnaise and butter.

I also think that some of these videos are the first time she's made these particular dishes. She makes mistakes because she hasn't figured it out yet. I do think that she's made old fashioned bologna salad dozens if not hundreds of times though!
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So. If you don’t follow her recipe, it’s palatable?


If you’re white knighting Simply Sarah because you’re learning from her, that means you don’t/didn’t understand anything about cooking at all, because smelling and tasting the food you’re cooking isn’t an art form, it’s how you cook.
Pouring ‘exotic’ ingredients together from allrecipes.com isn’t cooking, it’s following directions.
 
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BowRB said:
Her accent is hillbilly southern. Her YouTube page states her address—she lives in Kentucky.
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She lives in West Virginia. Her p.o. box is in Kentucky.

Uncle Meat said:
I've known people from Kentucky. They are as alien in their thinking and way of life as you can get without being from outer space. I think they are interesting to study from afar.
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It really depends on what part of the state and how rural it is. Eastern and southern Kentucky (where Amberlynn lives, and near where Simpee Sara lives) are the most poverty stricken and uneducated people in the state. They tend to be very hillbilly and alien indeed.
 
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