Cherry chocolate instant rice with a steak covered in taco seasoning, onion soup mix, Merlot, and chocolate!

Good old Aunt Sandy. She didn't give a shit about food other than booze. She was mostly interested in home decor, but a cooking show on the Food Network was what her rich husband at the time was able/willing to buy her. Watching the show you can see her little face light up when she gets to the Cocktail Time and Tablescape segments.

The Internet of the day lit her ass up. It was like early rage bait. The moment you see here where she calls out the importance of always washing your hands after touching raw meat came after multiple seasons of her being excoriated online for handling raw chicken or whatever and then cross contaminating everything within reach. At the time I was raging online with everyone else, but now I look back with a fuzzy feeling of nostalgia and affection.

Fun fact: She would eventually leave the rich husband. Then she was with Andrew Cuomo for a while, while he was governor, making her New York's Aunt Sandy in a way. There was speculation he might go for president, so presumably there's an alternate timeline where this lady we're watching destroy that poor steak could have become First Lady of the US. Probably better than this fuckass timeline.

I’ve get stoned occasionally, but I’ve never been stoned enough to eat this shit.

Is this the same lady?

Sandra Lee's fuckery knew no limits.

Gon’ head and post this to r/Stupidfood because this looks absolutely awful. They were really digging in their asses back in the ‘00s on some of those cooking shows.

What's crazy is that the basic idea of using chocolate in savory dishes isn't out of the ordinary. Plenty of people add some chocolate to their chili. Mole sauce is another obvious use. I havent used chocolate in this, but brown sugar is often used to enhance caramelized onions and onions cooked that way pair great with a steak. A dark chocolate and red wine reduction is a thing too and is sometimes used with meats.

So the general idea isn't bad, but the execution seems poor and the amount she used is excessive.

https://preview.redd.it/znlhad7v3f1i1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b3c0a7e44d8324f39970625c1f6f3f7c19b693e

So I guess white chocolate shrimp from 1000lb sisters wasn't that far off.

I remember hearing rumors that her staff hated her and knew she was clueless about food and cooking so they would compete to get her to make the most outrageous, disgusting food. This might be the best evidence yet. Although the Kwanzaa cake will always be her magnum opus.

Sandra was groundbreaking before the ground started breaking