Create with Linda Pt. 2

Nightmare is a good way to describe it. I really couldn't believe what I was watching. I usually skim her videos because they are so long but watched the whole macaroni and cheese horror show. For some reason I just couldn't stop watching what she was doing. Hahaha. I just keep thinking how or why does someone cook this way.

Ripping off the seals on jars of seasonings with your teeth? Tasting the cheese sauce with her fingers. She has no idea how to make a roux or a cheese sauce. She just wings it. And then thinks its Yummo!

A 2 hour video? Give me a break! Who has 2 hours to waste on her? I listened to some of it while cleaning but I won’t watch 2 hours worth of the same repetitive junk.

I haven't watched it yet. I turned it on and the first thing I saw was her quote. Isn't it the fear of God that gives you strength. I won't get into religion here. But how does fearing God give you strength. I grew up as a child as a fearful Catholic. A mean pulpit pounding priest as a young child who just scared me. And I just knew everything I did wrong was going to send me to hell. Confession every Saturday and confessing my sins. Sitting in the horrible dark little confessional we as children called the box. The little window with a screen would open. Forgive me father as I have sinned. I hit my brother arguing over a toy or I told a fib. I did accidently hit him one time with a shovel and cut his forehead. We were just shoveling in the yard. Each had a shovel, and I swung with my shovel full of dirt the same time he leaned down over the wheelbarrow. He had to go get stitches and I just knew well that's it. I'm going to hell. Lol I confessed it and told the priest I hit my brother in the head with a shovel. He sounded surprised, did you do it on purpose? No, we were helping daddy. He did tell me that was not a sin, but then said just be more careful when you have a shovel. Hahaha. I will never forget that. And I know he knew who I was because the next morning at mass there was my brother with a little bandage across his forehead.

So, I skimmed through the video after we ate supper while I was finishing up cleaning up the kitchen. I had to stop and stare as she made what she calls semi homemade gravy. Butter and then she just dumped in flour. Gets panicked. Oops, that's way too much fricken flour! So, starts scooping the flour back out. Don't know where she was disposing it. Just taking her spoon and scooping it out and flinging it somewhere. Then we are back to some butter and flour that looks like a huge lump of play doh. Let's add two cups of hot tap water a package of brown gravy mix, some bullion and pour in salt. Then stir it like mad. Surprise, surprise, it's fricken lumpy. Lumpy sodium bomb gravy. But she is going to add the drippings from the pork roast she made to the gravy. Yes, that will make it Yummo!

Never once washed her hands after handling the raw pork.

Why does she use that stupid vegetable chopper. Who cuts up parsley or garlic like that? It was stuck inside of all the cutting blades, and she was taking a knife trying to scrape it all out. Then let's make instant chemical filled mashed potatoes that she says are amazing. She doesn't know how to cook a pork roast. But let's all do a happy dance and clap and smile like a little girl for the camera at the amazing sodium filled supper she made.

I'm willing to bet baby Huey didn't eat any of it.

I watch her simply for the shock value. Never get through a whole video. Just skim through.

She has mentioned several times now that people are commenting that her videos are so long. Or about how she picks up food while she is preparing it and grazes. How she licks her fingers or about her not washing her hands. She just blows it off with a comment that this is just how she is. All they are trying to do is give her some commonsense helpful suggestions.

The cell phone on the counter and constantly stopping during her videos to text her children. Jenny must text her all day long and Linda has to respond immediately. It's annoying. At least edit that out. I can only imagine how filthy her cell phone is texting the whole time she is cooking. Then the walking off camera in search of some ingredient she can't find while all we see is minutes of empty screen time. Yelling at Cooper because he is constantly trying to get into food. I wonder if she used the meat she had setting out one time and Cooper grabbed it off the counter onto the floor and was trying to eat it. She was completely clueless and said she wasn't sure it she should try and save it. So she decided to put it in the freezer. No Linda, don't save meat your dog bit into and pulled onto your dirty floor trying to eat it and think you can wash it off and it is just fine. Just throw it away.

The clapping with baby girl hands, the singing. Does she think she is being cute? I have no idea how she can call these cooking videos. Or think that they are instructional videos. It's like watching a train wreck. Sticking her nose down into all the meat and food she is preparing to sniff it because she is not sure it's still edible. She even kept picking up her gooey glob of pie crust dough and putting it up to her nose to smell it. Why? Ripping off the tops of her spice jars with her teeth. That's just disgusting.

She needs to prepare for a video. Instead, we watch her rummage around constantly for everything from food to a pan she can't find. Can't find anything and regularly blames her husband. No Linda, that's because you are so completely disorganized. Why doesn't she know where things are in her kitchen or pantry?

Staring at her cell phone when she is trying a new recipe completely confused about what ingredients she needs or the measurements. Print off a new recipe. Make sure you have the ingredients before you start trying to cook a new recipe. And can't find what you need and then start making substitutions to it. She just wings it.

Cooking for your family for over 30 years and she can't make gravy?