Sara Schaefer

Attention all writers: if you put me in your book, it'll be a guaranteed best-seller.

A long time ago, I wrote a post about Food Network's lovable southern cook, Paula Deen.
Somehow, her husband Michael found the post, showed it to her, and she loved it so
much, she decided to put it into her memoirs. GOOD THINKING, Paula Deen. Now you've
got yourself a book selling quicker than your cheesy biscuits. As of this post, her book,
Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin', is #3 on the New York Times Best-Sellers List.

Here's what Paula said about me:

You know, sometimes I get kidded about my love for the ingredient that strikes terror into the heart of so many--butter. To paraphrase Saturday Night Live, which maintains that Barbara Streisand is so delicious she's like buttah, I always have known that buttah is bettah. Because so many people are afraid of butter (and sour cream and cream cheese), I have to have a sense of humor about it or end up defending my choices every day. One day I 'bout fell off my chair laughing when I read New York comedienne Sara Schaefer's idea of a "Paula Deen recipe" on an Internet blog. I thought it was so funny, I want to share it with you.

Sara Said, "I have made many successful Paula Deen recipes. I love her personality as well. I love how she is an independent, strong woman, yet maintains her grace, humility and kindness. She knows what life is all about – and she knows how to make it taste good. So it pains me to say this, but Paula, sometimes you cross the line. Your recipes often look like this:

Butter, for greasing pan
2 cups butter
1 1/2 cups butter oil
1/4 cup butter juice
3 cups all-purpose butter
1 teaspoon baking butter
3 cups peeled and finely chopped butter
1 cup shredded butter
1 pinch of butter, for taste

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Generously grease a tube pan.

For the cake: in a large bowl, combine the butter, butter oil, butter juice, and baking butter; and mix well. Fold butter, butter, and butter into batter. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bathe in it until you go into cardiac arrest.

BOOM! I'm even in the index! It's a sweet victory in my mind, because I was getting a lot of stupid comments from people who had stumbled upon my original post that didn't understand that I was joking around. (One particular dimwit told me that my 'butter' recipe was incorrect and I should check the original recipe.)