Mrs NoCo likes to watch the "The Pioneer Woman" cooking show on the Food network. Ree Drummond prepares simple meals with fresh ingredients and minimal chef skills. Mrs NoCo gets ideas for things to do with fruit & vegetables, and ground meat, and canned goods. Stuff we have on-hand.
This week's show is a special "stay at home edition." Instead of a camera crew and lighting crew and sound engineer, Ree drafted her teenaged kids (two daughters and a son) to film her on a couple semi-pro home cameras. We've seen her kids before, eating her creations at the end of the show but hell, why not put them to work? The show actually looks and sounds almost as good as the network production.
Perhaps because of that, she's loosened up the production values. She has left in footage where the butter slides off a warm spoon onto the stove. She talks to the camerawoman and warns her not to get splatter on the lens. She flubs trying to set the microwave, and leaves in the bloopers.
It actually makes the show more entertaining.
Another case where the pandemic might change something permanently, for the better.
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