Paula Deen jumps the shark with her "Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole



Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
See this recipe on air Tuesday Jul. 29 at 12:00 PM ET/PT.
Show: Paula's Home Cooking
Episode: Gone Bananas



http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/cheesy-ham-and-banana-casserole-recipe

Butter
12 slices white bread
8 large slices deli ham
4 bananas, sliced on the bias
2 cups shredded Cheddar
2 cups crushed potato chips
6 slices cooked and crumbled bacon
4 large eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup cream
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Butter a 9 by 13 glass baking dish. Butter both sides of the bread and layer 6 of them into the bottom of the baking dish, overlapping them as necessary but keep them even. Layer the slices of ham on top of the bread and then the bananas, 6 more slices of bread, then the cheese, potato chips, and bacon. In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs, milk, cream, nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Pour this over the casserole almost to the top. Bake for 45 minutes until brown and bubbly. Cut into squares and remove with a spatula, like lasagna.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. "like lasagna"

More like vomit inducing hell-cuisine. :scared:

[FloridaJudy]

2. Wasn't that Elvis' favorite dish?

Only with peanut butter.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

27. If you go to the link...

...she DOES prepare a fried peanut butter & banana sandwich on the same show.

:rofl:

[MrCoffee]

3. It's better if you serve it with a big dollop of mayonnaise on top.

[Sheets of Easter]

4. She'd be better off giving instructions on how to surgically implant

C4 in people's chests. Same difference.

[Missy Vixen]

5. Ewwww!

How did she come up with this, anyway?

Julie

[southpaw]

6. Paula jumped the shark

when she petted a dog and then kept on cooking.

This was at least a couple of years ago, on the show where she is cooking in her home kitchen. One of her dogs walked into the room while she was in the middle of cooking, she knelt down and petted him, and dove right back in to the recipe. :wow:

My wife and I both did a double take and then broke up laughing.

Paula's OK, but that was a telling moment. I'm amazed it wasn't edited out before the show aired.

[Shell Beau]

11. Just shows she is human!

She does do lots of fatty foods, but they are usually pretty damn good. Not so sure about this banana one though!

[Bunny]

19. Those gigantic rings she wears really squick me out. She mixes up meatloaf or other stuff

with her bare hands, and all the while those gigantic rings are on her fingers, and whatever she's mixing gets caught up in the settings. :puke: The woman is unwatchable for that reason alone!

[Lyric]

7. Full-fat cheese...check,

Salty meat...check.
Greasy potato chips...check.
Bacon...check.
Eggs...check.
Heavy cream...check.

...now wait just a damned minute. Where the hell is the pound of real butter? :wtf:

[Phillycat]

8. "Butter both sides of the white bread..."

It's there. :)

[Lyric]

10. OH! Now I see it!

It's in the destructions!

Butter a 9 by 13 glass baking dish.
Butter both sides of the bread and layer 6 of them into the bottom of the baking dish, overlapping them as necessary but keep them evenly buttered.
Butter the slices of ham on top of the bread and then the bananas, 6 more slices of bread, more butter, then the cheese, potato chips, and bacon, and butter.
In a separate bowl, beat together eggs, butter, milk, butter, cream, butter, nutmeg, more butter, salt, a small dab of butter, and pepper with butter.
Pour this over the casserole almost to the top, then add ten pats of butter.
Bake for 45 minutes until brown, bubbly, and swimming in an ocean of molten butter.
Cut into squares and remove with a spatula, like lasagna. With butter.

[Phillycat]

9. Appropriate side dish: angioplasty.

[Critters2]

12. She jumped the shark when she became spokeswhore for Smithfield. nt

[Deja Q]

13. Ruh-roh. I sense a basket of baby Deens being brought by the stock coming our way...

:yoiks:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Sounds good if she used plantains.

But that's probably too ethnic.

[Squatch]

17. Mofongo!

Good stuff...mashed plantains, bacon (or salt pork)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. sounds awful. thats not even real food. white bread, deli ham, potato chips

:wtf:

[deucemagnet]

26. My thoughts exactly.

It sounds like she's encroaching on Sandra Lee's territory. :scared:

[SacredCow]

16. ...

[BarenakedLady]

18. Blerg.

[Courtesy Flush]

20. I can't listen to her for more than five minutes

I was born and raised in the South, but I've never known anyone who poured on the accent so thick. It reminds me of my brother. We didn't have heavy accents growing up, but whenever we traveled out of the South he'd lay on the accent extra thick, as a show. Later he moved to Virgina and came back with the heaviest phony accent, which he kept for years. It was faked the whole time. One day he suddenly decided to stop talking that way... all at once. He's been a phony all his life.

I don't mean to put Paula Deen down, but when someone in your group -- in this case, Southerners -- seems to perpetuate a stereotype, it just grates the nerves.

For the record, I'm from Louisiana. I have about as much of an accent as Ellen Degeneres, who is also from here.

[Shell Beau]

22. Well I probably sound a lot like Paula. I have a very

heavy accent. I think it depends on the person. Some people from here just sound more "country" than others.

[TommyO]

21. What the f.... OM....

EWWWWW!

I've liked some of Paula's recipes, but this one makes me want to remove any vestiges of her from my TiVo!

edited to add: Well, what do you know, I have an ID on the Food Network site. I just rated this monstrosity a "one", though I really wish I could do zero.

[YankeyMCC]

23. That is...

...i don't know...i can't even find the words to express my reaction to that...:shrug:

[RebelOne]

24. Her cholesterol count must be up in the quad-triple digits.

[Blue-Jay]

25. I'd rather have a ham & cheese sandwich and a banana for dessert.

[Ysabel]

28. hey you the lounge is mine i say...

you won't get awy with this attempted take over (despite the fact that i've never started a thread) i will prevail (!!!) i will be the lounge queen / i AM the lounge queen i am i am i am yessssss and btw what's her name uses way too much butter anyway...

[WCGreen]

29. One Y'all over the line sweet Paula, One y'all over the line...

Sittin' in a bar in a railway station one Y'all over the line...

[u4ic]

30. She forgot the anchovies!

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