Rachel Ray is impractical. It's a TV show. You can't make 30 minute meals. Not if you're a workin' woman with a family. Oh yeah, if you have somebody doin' all the prep work(choppin, dicin, slicin, etc. etc.) and havin' the pans, pots, dishes, and utensils ready and alligned for you. It don't work like that in the average household.
Now Paula Dean, big ol' Southern gal, is more practical and down to earth. Had it rough and sold chicken dinners to make it.....ain't that just SCRUMPTUOUS?
She loves her Michael. I'll bet she stuffs him with food and rides him right after supper every night.