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If Ina Garten Advertised For Ipod
Published on: August 30, 2009 – 11:06 pm by Jillian Madison 
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Published on: August 30, 2009 – 11:06 pm by Jillian Madison
THIS WEEK: Ina Garten's "beginner" recipes, new Food Network shows starting in September, thumbing through an issue of Semi-Homemade magazine, Rachael Ray's daytime talk show, Aarti's "accountability group", Claire Robinson on Big Daddy's House, another sensual reading of Alex Guarnaschelli's tweets, sink or swim voicemail, and much more.
haaaaaa. so true. she says “turn up the volume” at least 93 times per episode.
Look at Ina rocking those pink rhinestone-studded headphones.
Just yesterday, she TURNED UP THE VOLUME on pasta!
LOL. Thank you for calling her out on this. I wish she’d come up with a few new catch phrases. The old ones are getting unbearable!
How come it isn’t denim covered headphones? ):
Love it! LMAO
Including her new season, Ina has been doing the same recipes over and over enough that you can turn DOWN the volume and still “sing along”.
“…Ina has been doing the same recipes over and over…”
Same recipes in her cookbooks, too. Names and/or some ingredients are slightly altered, but the same basic recipes appear over and over again.
Now I know from watching her new season and last season that you can put cooked lobster in mac and cheese or in a pot pie. How bad can that be? Guess what! You can also add, chicken or turkey or shrimp or hot dogs. Well, maybe not a hot dog pot pie (gak), but you get the picture. And if you’ve watched for any length of time you should be able to make a vinagrette, shortbread dough, hamburgers, pretty much any kind of soup (it all starts out the same), and of course meringues and stupid raspberry sauce. Enough with the raspberry sauce already. Now we are also being introduced to scrambled eggs, fried potatoes and grilled sausage! I would never have thought to do that! I think Ina is running out of ideas but still has to make that mortgage on the three million dollar barn.
Boy, ain’t it the truth, Byrdie!!!
Oh, and don’t forget her scones!!
I’d like to see more of TR!!
I had to laugh at one of her older shows when she took up walking. Remember that one? She made an angelfood cake because it was light and airy with ONLY 3 cups of sugar instead of 4! Ha! She doesn’t know a thing about diet food1! Just stick to what you do best, Ina!!
…”I had to laugh at one of her older shows when she took up walking…”
Do you mean the show where she gets on the treadmill? I figure she insisted that Jeffrey buy her a $5K treadmill so she could “pretend” that she has a healthy lifestyle. Methinks the only walking Ina does is into and out of all those specialty stores in the Hamptons – and maybe the trek back & forth from her house to the barn ;)
@UGH – Oops! I forgot the scones! I never saw the ‘walking’ episode. But I have seen her walk: on the beach (although walking on the beach during a hurricane is ill advised, Ina) (question: why is it so bloody windy on the beaches of East Hampton all the time?); or walking from the Benz to the green grocer or fish mongers or cheese shop. She has also walked to her backyard to barbeque, but remember! Prep everything so you can have it all outside and you don’t have to go in and out of the house! How annoying to have to walk inside and then, OMG, back outside! Horror of horrors. Oh, and she made it to the living/dining area to tap out yet another clone recipe into her newest cookbook. (said she never thought she would ever write more than one cookbook, and there she is, celebrating her fifth or sixth)(yeah, if it’s the same recipes over and over). Yep, gotta make that barn payment…
She really doesn’t need to walk. She can just have one of her gay friends do it for her while they’re out getting party supplies.
Wow, not only a denim button-up shirt but a popped collar too.
No, she was actually walking with another person down a road. Walking pretty briskly too, I might add!
She was all hepped up about eating healthy but she really needed a lesson or two about that! I forget what else she made but the angelfood cake stuck out in my mind. I still love her, though.
I don’t remember the treadmill episode. I’ll have to look out for that one.
“I don’t remember the treadmill episode. I’ll have to look out for that one.”
I think the “healthy foods” episode that you mentioned above is fairly recent. The “treadmill” episode was among Ina’s earliest shows and probably doesn’t air any more. Preparing health-conscious fare doesn’t quite fit into Ina’s lifestyle ;)
I bet there’s a lot of George Michael & Freddy Mercury on that playlist…
I have been calling her the Barefoot Pretensa for years. That fake ‘batting of the eyes lean her head to her left or right shoulder fake ass smile’ is so damn annoying, she makes Martha Stewart look down home. I can’t watch her for more than one minute cuz she does that every 30 seconds while proclaiming something to be wonderful or whatever.
Omg the video on the iPod! I love Taking Back Sunday! I know you don’t care :)
Ya’ll quit picking on my gal-pal Ina!
I thought her ‘Back to Basics’ cookbook was all her most popular recipes ~~ the ones we cook all the time.
Don’t think she has any ‘new’ recipes ~~ aren’t these all, plus her variations, from the store?
Where is TR? I miss him too!
She better hit that treadmill a time or two again. In the recent breakfast barbeque episode for some friend with a fabulously wealthy name, she made scrambled eggs with about a pound of feta cheese thrown in and then she finished it with some butter. Add in hash browns with giants chunks of ham, corn bread and breakfast sausages in buns, I was bloated just watching.
On the Ipod, I think she’s listening to some Color Me How Badd Could That Be. Or it’s her friend Michael’s with all Judy Garland.
Maybe she has “Ina-Garten-Da-Vida” on her iPod. I’m sure Iron Butterfly is all the rage in The Hamptons.
“Maybe she has “Ina-Garten-Da-Vida” on her iPod. I’m sure Iron Butterfly is all the rage in The Hamptons.”
OMG! You must be psychic, Kev In Delaware! I was already thinking about penning an Ina version of the Iron Butterfly classic! I’d call it “Ina Garten the Diva”!
How easy is that?
@Cherry Rose – I did an “Ina Garten Da Vida” on this site somewhere…just can’t remember where. It was a while ago and my memory ain’t what it used to be!
Here it is! I posted it in June in honor of Ina and all her Broadway buddies singing the glory that is Ina:
In honor of Ina and Iron Butterfly (get it? BUTTERfly??)
Ina Garten of Hampton’s, honey
Always cooking for your gay pals!
Ina Garten of Hampton’s baby
Don’t you want to hang with the gals?
Oh, you won’t cook without
Good vanilla and lemon zest!
Oh, but Ina you just don’t need
Michael’s hydrangea flower fest!
Please take a tip from us fans!!
@Byrdie: Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t seen this previously. I’ll skip it ;)
Hey, write a couple more verses! The more, the merrier!!
“Hey, write a couple more verses! The more, the merrier!!”
I’m working on a Motown classic in honor of Bobby Flay’s Emmy ;)
Ok, the ultimate in lazy. In the newest Barefoot, she is making lobster mac & cheese. Of course, she pulls out the food processor to grate the cheese. As she explains how it’s the easiest way to grate cheese she says “if you wanna get exercise, you can do it the old fashioned way, buy why?”.
So much for Ina and healthy living! HA.
haha Byrdie I noticed the same when I watched that episode this past weekend. It did seem like she was telling us all not to bother exercising :)
I’m a fan of Ina’s but i have to agree that her recipes are getting a bit redundant. Everything that was Italian is now….Greek! Seafood classics have morphed into fowl, Pot pies have everyday, average person’s 1 1/2lbs of Lobster now.
Formerly Italian and now Greek panzanella salad has kalamata olives & Feta cheese, Chicken pot pie is Lobster pot pie, Boullabaise is now Chicken Boullabaise. While I appreciate the “twist” on old favorites, it’s getting a little tired.
Still, she’s one of the very very few FNTV hosts that I still enjoy. She’s maintained her integrity and although she’s rich, she’s not dipping her dripping with diamonds rings and bracelets into batter like Ol Paula does. Or topping a fat laden mac & cheese with potato chips like that Screechin’ Gina fingernails on the chalkboard Neely.
So turn up the volume but do it with a twist!
“…she’s one of the very very few FNTV hosts that I still enjoy. She’s maintained her integrity…”
Agree on both points. I also hope that if FN pushes Ina too far, she’ll tell them to FOAD, and she’ll head to PBS.
Right CherryRose…and PBS has a top-notch line up with no BS Shlockmeisters! Still FN gives us such a treasure-trove of material so we can have our fun ;-)
The treadmill episode was designed to be a part of her regular show…until she had chest pains and was rushed to the ER. End of treadmill.
Rod, it’s because she pulls out a electric appliance instead of getting just a tad of exercise by, oh, and this is such a difficult task…grating cheese by hand. Oh, the humanity.
It’s really too bad that Ina let herself get so heavy because she was quite attractive and svelte in her younger days. Not to mention the fact that all the butter, cheese, and cream she uses is likely taking a toll on her overall health and well-being. Not good for Jeffrey, either.
Or any of the “guys” she feeds.
First of all, she needs a complete makeover…the manly shirts and the “i don’t need a man” haircut has GOT to go!
Second, please, Ina, stop telling me to use “good” vanilla or “good” butter.. because I’d clearly use bad ingredients if I didn’t have you telling me to use “good” ones.
Third, drop the fag-hag routine..just because Jeffrey’s never around to service you, doesn’t mean you can make up for it by a pretense of how hip you are based on the number of gay male friends you have..what, the lesbians too close to home for you?
Most of her gay guy friends look like they could use a good meal. There’s one in particular (he lives in the museaum/funeral parlor house) who appears, for all intents and purposes, embalmed.
“Most of her gay guy friends look like they could use a good meal. There’s one in particular (he lives in the museaum/funeral parlor house) who appears, for all intents and purposes, embalmed.”
LMAO!! Must be the “good” Chardonnay, or I am beyond tired. Sleep well…