Sandra Lee's Test Kitchen

After watching the latest installment of that great Food Network sitcom, Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee, I was inspired to try one of the recipes shown. Now mind you, I had no hopes that this recipe would actually turn out well. In fact, I fully expected this recipe to be absolutely horrible. Sounds like a good time, huh?

In "Log Cabin Camping", Sandra Lee made Smorritos. These apparently are her answer to S'mores.

The ingredients are flour tortillas, marshmallow cream, ground cinnamon, vanilla extract, caramel, graham crackers, bananas and chocolate chips. I had semi-sweet chocolate chips on hand, so I followed "chef" Lee's advice to use what ever I had in the pantry.

First I poured some caramel topping in a bowl and added a few drops of vanilla extract. As this is a Test Kitchen experiment, I was careful to use the same methods shown. Thus, the misuse of the cap to measure the extract. My daughter made sure that I had rinsed out the cap afterwards.

Then it was time to spread some marshmallow fluff on one half of the flour tortilla.

Next, one half of a banana was sliced and layered on top. I am happy to tell you that the remaining half of the banana was delicious.

I was directed to sprinkle about a tablespoon of the chocolate chips on top of that.

Then, some graham cracker was crumbled on top.

The tortilla was folded over and wrapped in foil.

The original recipe calls for the Smorrito to be cooked on a gas grill, but "chef" Lee says that I could cook this in my oven if I'd like. I'd like, so I am.

These took longer to cook than the 3 minutes on each side that "chef" Lee promised.

The 'dolled up' caramel sauce was artistically drizzled over the Smorrito.

And how did this taste?

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  The poor daughter took one bite before spitting it back out. She pronounced it to be the most disgusting thing she had ever tried to eat.

I wasn't much better, as I could only stomach the one small bite that I took.

This is where this recipe belongs.

Do yourself a favor and don't even think of making this dish.

Well, I'd say this was a successful Sandra Lee's Test Kitchen experiment.