Semi-Homemade: Gatherings

by Sandra Lee

Features more than one hundred recipes and ideas for entertaining, using a combination of prepackaged and fresh ingredients.
Sandra Lee Semi-homemade Gatherings
Lee, Sandra
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication 2006/12/12
Number of 261
Binding PAPERBACK
Library of bl2006026775

Genres: Cookbooks

261 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 2006

About the author

Sandra Lee Christiansen, known professionally as Sandra Lee, is an American television chef and author. She is known for her "Semi-Homemade" cooking concept, which Lee describes as using 70 percent packaged and 30 percent fresh products. She received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Show Host in 2012 for her work and her show. As the partner of former New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, she served as the de facto First Lady Of New York from 2011 to 2019, when the couple ended their relationship.

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Reviews

[Melissa Lee-Tammeus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay, maybe I'm just over the whole production of making sure everything is matchy matchy and that everyone oohs and ahs over my placeholders. And I even think I'm over the whole matching drinks thing - Sandra Lee sure adds some weird alcoholic beverages together! It is a beautiful book to look at but completely unrealistic for the average person with average time and a pocketbook that does not have 1000 dollars just waiting to be spent on matching rooster plates, along with oversized roosters (like ten of them) to have your annual hoe-down BBQ. I'm being snarky, I realize that. What was the funniest part to me is the last two pages - there are pictures of the entire crew working to put the pictures together - someone to put the tablecloth on, another to do the makeup, another to arrange the centerpieces, etc., etc. There's about twenty people that I could count - so, it takes twenty people dor sandra Lee to just get the end result? But I can pull these all off alone without losing my mind and my bank account? Um, right.

[Carlotta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tablescapes and party ideas. I'm always ready for a party.

[Gayle Kee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great. Wonderful. Love Sandra Lee