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We love Twitter! Not only does it give us plenty of fodder for writing material, but it also gives us the opportunity to talk with and get to know the FNH readers. The subject of today’s Twitter convo: Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa D’Arabian.
Meliss’s new show premieres on Sunday at 12:30 EST. The Food Network PR machine sent out the following Tweet, asking viewers what they want to see from Melissa (as if we really have a say in the matter):
The “best response award” goes to Twitter user @Sand2Stone for this witty retort:
Well said! Here at FNH, we’d like her to clarify if she’s talking about $10 per person, or $10 total (big difference). We’d like to see her appear on camera JUST ONCE without flashing her corny, forced smile. Also, we want to know just who she is (she grew up without a lot of money, but had a nanny?! She’s preparing extremely low budget meals, but her husband is an executive at Microsoft?!) And finally, we’d like to see her invite a real family of 4 over to eat one of her ten dollar dinners, and then see exactly how long it takes them to die of starvation after the fact.
What do you want to see?
(Oh, and if you’re not already following us @FNHumor, come join us! And keep those questions and comments coming – we love hearing what you have to say.)
Other posts on Food Network Humor:
---FNH Review: $10 Dinners With Melissa D’Arabian---Proof Melissa D’Arabians Dinners Don’t Cost Ten Dollars
---Next Food Network Star Winner: Melissa D’Arabian
---Twitter Conversations: Giada’s Boobs
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shes just like a less cuckoo and overtly drunk sandra lee. the second she starts to make a kwanzaa cake i will gouge my eyes out with a brulee torch.
I made Chicken with Mustard Tarragon Cream Sauce off of epicurious.com and I’m pretty sure it was under $10. Once you have a well stocked pantry, it’s pretty easy. (But what do I know? I buy the BAD vanilla)
First, she should use another stylist other than Sunny Anderson’s. The gaudy tops gotta go.
@_FoodNetwork
“How about a friggen show that _hasn’t_ been done to death on your network before?”
Over the past 5-6 years or so, FN has successfully dumbed down all of their programming. They obviously don’t give a rat’s behind about those of us who love to cook and would like to learn new techniques from experts who can impart this knowledge.
I just finished reading the Newsweek article about Sandra Lee that is linked in the Twitter Updates on this site. The Semi-Ho is FN’s “top chef”??? What a crock! Open a box of mac & cheese, pull the zip tab on a bag of frozen French fries, lift the lid on a tub of Cool Whip, unscrew the top of a bottle of Smirnoff… For this, she’s FN’s “top chef”? Dumbing down to the max!
I think this broad is already starting to turn into little puppet of the hierarchy at Food network. ( the guy with no lips ).
Ditto on the stylist. Sunny Anderson’s stylist must be visually impaired.
Who are we kidding? Sunny Anderson’s stylist is probably…… SUNNY ANDERSON.
That’s the sad part. FN is really catering to the majority of their viewers, and we really shouldn’t expect a change. Honestly, it’s good business for them. Bad for us, the minority. It truly saddens me that Sandra Lee can make canned pears with instant pudding and Cool-Whip on top, and people eat that shit up. Pun both intended and not.
I was very interested in reading the blog on FN when the competition was going on. Let me tell ya, for those of you who never gandered a look at what the climate was by the viewers. Now, there were a number of negative comments, but the bulk of the posters in Bob’s blog were in LOVE with Sandra Lee and Rayray and Poopy, and the most positive comments were for Ferry! (gag me) So don’t expect any new, exciting shows on FN. Too many dollars for overpriced products being spent and too many viewers tuning in on the shit being aired. I will add that the most negative comments were the inordinate amount of cake contests being aired. But other than that, it’s business as usual over at Bob World. With all that being said, Mommy Dearest will probably be a smash hit and the infliction will go on and on.
I still can’t believe she’s winning fan favorite.
I was a stay-at-home mom. My kids grew up eating sweet and sour pork,sukiyaki, yaki soba, pancit bihon, sour and hot soup, and other asian dishes I learned on the island of Okinawa in the mid 60′s. They also ate beef burgundy, steak au four, Belgian beef stew et al that I learned from PBS. The homemade bread, sausage, stock. soups etc. I learned from cookbooks and family. All that I put on the table for less than $20.00 per week. Granted it was the late 60′s up to the mid 80′s but still in that time period I was feeding two teenagers.
“I still can’t believe she’s winning fan favorite.”
If you’re talking about Sandra Lee, it must be the cocktails ;)
@CherryRose
Or her Ex buying her that too.
Melissa is winning fan favorite because all the stay-at-home-mom’s and Aunt Sandy/Ray Ray/Pauler lovers who fell for her sales pitch are voting every hour on the hour instead of making their children healthy, all-natural, reasonable portioned, from-scratch meals.
Sorry, I meant Melissa is winning on the FN site.
I’d like to know if her $10 dinners include the cost of all ingredients, or, a la Sandra Lee, many of the ingredients are magically not included in the tally because I’m supposed to already have them…
“Sorry, I meant Melissa is winning on the FN site.”
My apologies for introducing the Sandra Lee feature in Newsweek on this thread.
I haven’t been on FN for a few days and was not aware of continued blogging about Melissa’s victory. I’ll check it out later.
um…I am surprised FNH hasn’t put a post up about this…buuuuutt…
can we talk about how BRIAN BOITANO has a cooking show. The man is a figure skater. A FIGURE SKATER!!!! I think that the inclusion of BB into the Food Network Cast is a sure sign of the apocalypse. This is the lowest I have seen FN go as of yet. Who are they going give a cooking show to next? Michael Phelps? I would expect carbo-load stoner munchies from him…
@CHERRYROSE. It’s fine, post whatever you want.
I’d really like to see Melissa feed a family that includes children well out of the munchkin range. Toddlers eat like what, half a banana and 5 tater tots all day long? That’s no challenge. Throw in a Gluetin Free Allergy kid, a High School Senior Full Back, and a Dad who delivers for UPS and maybe you’ve got my attention.
@Patrick – go FIGURE!! ok, bad joke. But the potential to add skating equipment to their FN celeb products sold on FN, for FN profit is the name of the game. I can see it now. “Skates that double as a cheese slicer”.
Aw c’mon Jillian, you’re too hard on the woman. I can make a $10 dinner for 4 – it’s called Hamburger Helper >.<
“…Who are they going give a cooking show to next? Michael Phelps? I would expect carbo-load stoner munchies from him…”
Respectfully edited. Maybe FN is already thinking ahead to advertising during the next winter Olympics. Having Boitano onboard might expedite the campaign. Also, I think BB lives in San Francisco, so maybe FN is trying to cater to the gay community beyond “Barefoot Contessa”. They didn’t keep Dan & Steve around for long, and there show wasn’t half bad.
Shame on me! I meant “their” show not “there”.
@CherryRose – Nah! It’s the skate/cheese slicer money.
Hey, Lisa Loeb had a cooking show back in the day. And come on, if she isn’t the first person you think of when you think “good cooking,” I don’t know who is.
Can she still call herself a “stay at home mom” now that she has a TV show? Seems rather disingenuous to me.
it really isn’t tough to feed 4 on $10. If you know how to shop for food on sale, you can eat very well and from scratch for very little. Most meals that I cook for the 2 of us fall in the $5 +/- range and we eat pork loin, boneless skinless chicken, and the occasional steak (that may be an $8-10 dinner for 2 if we eat decent steak)
Buy only meat on sale, vacuum seal and freeze. There is no magic here and you will not starve, we are actually a bit overweight.
Next will be a cooking show with the Olson twins called “An Apple a Day” (which they split). A cooking show for people with eating disorders. Now, eating disorders are not funny, but I would not be surprised if the FN produced such a show, with these too eccentric Hollywood starlets.
Klaus, FN could team up with Tyra Banks, who did that appalling eating disorder-themed photo shoot a few seasons ago on America’s Next Top Model. I wouldn’t put it past them if they thought it would be profitable. They’ve already said it’s less about the food than the angle anyway.
Megan, great idea! Please be there with me when we make the pitch to Bob. I will talk “big picture” and the “artistic arc” and you handle the particulars: Tyra, The Olson Twins, a bag of apples (maybe some very small Red Delicious) for for the first five episodes. I’d also like the dynamic Padma Lakshmi to give “model tips” and meal plans: air, a Tic Tac and a cigarette.” You get the idea; let’s run with it! It has just as good a chance as Missy’s new show. Talk about meals for $10!! These will be $1.25 for four addict/waifs!
Either way you look at it, the premise of Melissa’s show is ridiculous. $10 for a family of four can work for a real person, with coupons, bulk buying, and general grocery store know-how, but look at Sandra Lee’s new show. Her information is completely distorted, the portions are hamster sized, and she doesn’t buy one single thing a normal person would. Melissa won’t have any new or helpful information. And if it’s $10 a person, that’s even more ridiculous! That’s $280 a week on food, guys. As a child, I was poor. We lived on $100 worth of food a month. Fast food was a treat every couple of months and we never, ever went to bed hungry–and this was a family of 5 people, including two teenage boys! My mom used to joke that she could take Rayray’s $40 in one day and make it last 8. Not to mention the mile-long list of allergies I had that mom had to work around. Someone get my mom on the phone–her shit is what we need to see!
@Klaus and Megan: Funny stuff to read first thing in the morning…after a night on a Diprovan drip! Who needs food when you can survive on Jackson Juice and a handful of Xanax?
The next foodnetwork show would go to the soon to be ex Mrs katie Joel.
When exactly has Melissa ever shown herself to be about fast food?
Cherry Rose! OMG, I had forgotten about MJ’s anorexia, he would have been a perfect guest. Maybe we can have his “nutritionist” make a guest appearance for one of Michael’s meals: Jesus Juice, demoral, and Reese’s pieces.
Btw, who left a better corpse? Billy Mays or Michael Jackson? MJ weighed 113 at the time of his death. They found cocaine in Billy Mays corpulent body, but I think it was the black hair dye that finally did him in. Please discuss and get back to me.
My question to Melissa is “When can we expect this joke of a show to be cancelled?”
Kitty, I like how you think. Get your mom on FN and she can show RR, Aunt Sandy and Melissa how it’s really done!!!
From Comcast TV listings re: Premiere of Melissa’s show:
10 Dollar Dinners With Melissa D’Arabian
Perfectly Priced Parisian
Sun, Aug 9, 12:30p – 1:00p
078 FOOD
2009 | 30 mins
Potato-bacon-Gruyere torte; green salad; applesauce granita with maple yogurt.
WOW!!! Just where did she buy her Gruyere cheese?? Last Thursday I paid $9.99 for 8 oz. of Gruyere at my local Kroger Store!!
My thoughts, exactly! Just an oz of Gruyere per person blows half the budget.
This show is just all kinds of awful. I give it two weeks, tops.
I agree with you guys, Cherryrose and and Judith.
I also thought, well, the show’s title is $10 DINNER, isn’t it? Usually it cost more money to put together a dinner than lunch. Is she going to just do lunch recipes so she can stay within the budget? But with the Gruyere, that premise is already starting to look precarious …
Ok…new drinking game!
Let’s count and drink to how many times Melissa says “I got their secret recipe, now I will pass it to you”….
This chick was not poor growing up – that much I can tell.
I am so annoyed already by her.
Right…gruyere cheese for under $10.
FN’s math skills are right up there with their programming skills.
Per her
Salad was under = $3
Potato/Bacon/Gruyere Torte cost = $4 (RIGHT!)
Applesauce granita = $ unspecified
FN’s creative accounting abilities = priceless
The crazy eyes killah cook. She sighs into the mike every few seconds and it is unnerving. Horrible show. Had to watch the first one to see how bad it would be. Let’s just say it didn’t disappoint. Truly awful.
WOW that show was boring.
Apparently, the same delusional accountant is calculating the cost of both Aunt Sandy’s and Melissa’s meals. Having said that, the torte looked okay but the show was DULL. And no, I really didn’t want to hear about her MIL. Stop with the family histories already!
My “evil twin” ;) insisted that DH watch Sandra Lee’s “Money Saving Meals” prior to the premiere of “$10 Dinners”. It comes as no surprise that the Semi-Ho can’t do the math, but well-educated Melissa’s numbers were out-of-whack, too. Thankfully, she wasn’t playing a pricing game throughout her show like Ms. Lee does.
The torte looked awesome, and Melissa does have a gift for making pastries, but there is no way that this “$10 Dinner” – or lunch – can be prepared for that amount of money. The show’s premise is a farce, the set is tacky, and it’s possible that Melissa has a “bun in the oven”. Looks like FN doesn’t plan to invest much in their newest star, and Melissa will likely be a one season wonder.
I forced myself to watch the entire show (Ok, I did fast forward through some of it). It was I had expected it to be: a frantic, boring, cheaply made production. Gary, I understand what you are saying. That constant sucking in of air was disturbing. I think it’s because Mommy Dearest is still operating in frantic mode. The longer I watched, the more I wished I had counted the number of times she used the word “pretty”. She said yum to the point that I was waiting for “yummo” to pop out of her horse-tooth mouth. It was like watching Rayray/Aunt(hic)Sandy, so if you missed her show, just watch either of those two and you wouldn’t have missed a thing. The funniest part of the show, and I truly LOL, was the secret ingredient in her Parisian (cough, cough) vinagrette: soy sauce! Bet That Korean Hot Dog Chick choked on her kimchee on that one!!
Now, one other observation. While she was rubbing garlic on the wooded salad bowl (gee, that’s never been done before) she was wearing a simple wedding band. Place your bets folks! How long will it be before she’s on the diamond dripping band wagon like Pauler and Rayray and the like? I say by show number six….
Just watched Melissa D’s first episode. Her recipes looked great and I will watch her again. Hopefully she’ll get a bit more relaxed.
Only problem..with Melissa coming on immediately after Sandra Lee, only makes Sandra look even worse than see is.
I am a well seasoned cook of 48 yrs. I am always open to new ideas, but food network needs to get a grip!Of all the shows on now the only ones worth watching are Michael C, Giada L, sometimes Paula if she stifle that laugh, Ina G.& best of all the Neely’s. Melissa d’Arabian was the very worst choice. If I had prepared her potato tart & dumped a bag of lettuce in a bowl & served, my family would have politely gotten up from the table & gone & fix their own food, which I can assure you have been a lot better. Please contact the food network & tell them bad choice.
I watched her first show and it cost alot more than 10 dollars!more like 30 dollars.So is that for one person or four?
We thougt we watch the show once, just to see. You can not make that dinner for $ 10 for 4 people. Potatoes and bacon together are good and once in a while a pie crust, but together, yuck, all that butter and carbs, not good. I agree with viewers comments on that forced smile. (very anoying)She seemed like she couldn’t talk and cook at the same time and told too many stupid stories in that half hour. We would rather watch Jeffery – he is more pleasant to look at. Her voice is irritating too, unlike Jeffery’s.
What I’d like to see from this SAHM is, well, her staying home. And off TV and out of magazines.
10 Dollar Dinners is a terrible show, but what do you expect when the host lied and cheated her way to victory?
During every crucial vote she had a ‘gut wrenching’ story about either her mom’s suicide or her growing up poor. Which makes no sense since she had a nanny (I make six figures and we can’t afford a nanny), she was part of a sorority (which is usually not a breeding ground for poor girls) and her husband is a wealth executive.
The food network is trying to hard to find winners who appeal to viewers and not enough to just find the best contestant….
This show, It’s AWFUL. She’s totally all over the place, and talks too much. Her stories are pointless and her lack of organization drives me nuts.
She has no charisma on camera, and comes across as totally manic. Manic to the point where I was fast forwarding because it was making me anxious to watch her and listen to her nonsensical rambling stories and utterly useless “tips”.
Not to mention that she practically gave me an anxiety attack when she was using a MANDOLINE while talking to the camera and seemed to totally forget she was slicing vegetables with it. With no finger guard.
Why is she lugging rice around the kitchen? Why doesn’t someone give her a paring knife to use to open the parchment instead of a huge kitchen knife?
Her recipes are not that spectacular. I don’t really think soggy chocolate bread looks amazing, sorry.
This show sucks and I really don’t understand how it’s even being renewed. I’ll watch other people like Giada, who actually are warm on camera and seem to know what they are doing instead of floundering through with a listless smile plastered on their faces. UGH.
I actually like her – it’s funny, she has all the makings of someone that I wouldn’t like but I find her to be genuine. I think it’s because she reminds me of a friend that is so nice and sweet that she appears fake but once you get to know her, you see that is who she really is. I have learned a few things from her and I don’t care if she grew up with more money than Paris Hilton, she gives lots of good money saving tips. And I don’t know what people are talking about in regards to her potion sizes but they seem quite large to me and I am no little eater. I am also a strategic shopper and I think her prices (when items are bought on sale) are right on target.
This show is NOT real! She has no idea. A person who HAS to cook for under $10 a meal and feed a family of 4 can tell you what’s up! Until you HAVE to do it, shut TFU! Sorry. She’s just to entitled and fake! I shouldn’t be so direct, but that’s how it is. Some of us really only have $10 a meal and need to feed our family. Get real FN and you may have something here.
Why the HE** does she have to open BOTH doors of her fridge to get anything out????????
looking for receipe shown on the ten dollar dinners by melissa d’arabian. It was a side dish, zucchini with onions ‘ I lost this receipe and trying to find again. Tried one time and liked very much and i believe the show was in 2010.