cooking shows

Good Eats is my favorite cooking show, since it's entertaining and
teaches the science of food. I also like how his sometimes unorthodox
methods, such as the time he used a stack of 18 X 18 X 1 inch air
conditioner filters bungeed together to a box fan to make beef jerky.
Another show I enjoy is Diners Drive Ins and Drives, because they go
into restaurants across the country and cooks show how they prepare
their signature dishes. My least favorite cooking show has to be the
various Iron Chef shows, since I've never seen anything prepared on
that show that I would want to eat or try to make myself.
 
In article , [email protected]
says...

Cook some pasta while in another pan you cook up something to stir
through it; (prawns or veg or mushrooms); chop herbs or shave some
parmesan.

Spanish omelette, with salad.

Fry potato slices in a frying pan and while they cook, grill fish and
tomatoes and steam some beans

Grill bacon, black pudding, sausages and tomatoes while you fry some
mushrooms and an egg

Janet.
 
I_am_Tosk wrote:

You haven't watched The Next Iron Chef. Some of the Iron Chef America
judges have been contestants trying to become an Iron Chef. They've
done respectably in the competitions.
 
In article , [email protected] says...

I have to agree with the whole post.. I think it would be funny if one
time the producers took those judges from Iron Chef and turned the
tables on them. Have them cook for the 4 contestants and see how they
really do;)
 
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:13:13 -0800, "Julie Bove"
wrote:


- and yet he won't lift a finger for himself. He will never truly
appreciate how much time and effort you put in until he has to be
responsible for feeding the family nutritious meals... and I'm not
talking about an occasional meal here or there. I mean really
responsible for every meal every week.

Of course, you can take a different course of action and cook just for
you and your DD (she can make meals for the family too, so take turns
with her) and let him fend for himself. If he wants peanut butter
now, then fine - eat it... but he has to make it too.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
Janet Bostwick wrote:

I figure that's why I'm not a picky eater. My Dad brought home food
from the gardens of relatives or from farms or hunting. Then I ended up
at a college where it was so ethnically diverse I keep expecting
students from other planets to arrive - I especially liked it when a
group of Cantonese speakers met a group of Mandarin speakers and they
would switch to English to understand each other.

And so I end up in a state where goat meat is okay (well my favorite
actually) but it's so normal. I should try some other sort of critter
or plant or whatever.
 
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:17:38 -0500, I_am_Tosk
wrote:


Great idea, except I'd tell him to go to the freezer and do it
himself.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
"Blockade Runner" wrote in message
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Does anyone ever follow their menus ? I mean if I bought all the things
to make meal like they cook I be filing for bankruptcy . + all the clean
up etc. & time.
Seems like cheaper & lot easier eat out. When I am hyngry I am hungry,
not 5 hours later , I want to eat now.


Michael Lane

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You sound like my husband. The instant he sees or smells food, he wants it.
It is next to impossible to cook a meal for him unless I start it when he
isn't home. If I start cooking when he is, he just keeps hollering for the
food. Wants to know the exact minute it will be done. Maybe some people
can cook that way but I can't. Of course I know approximately when rice or
pasta will be done. But I never know how long it will take for the meat to
be cooked through or the sauce to reduce. I would not do well on a show
like Chopped where there is an extreme time limit.

I have made some recipes from cooking shows but I have never made a complete
dinner like they do. For one thing I try to do a lot of one pot meals.
It's just far easier for cleanup, serving, etc. If it's not a one pot meal
then we will have a salad and a main dish, maybe a side if the main dish
doesn't contain protein. If we don't have a salad, we have some other sort
of vegetable. We rarely have dessert. Tonight I will be making pizza with
a pre-made crust and we will have salad from the salad bar at the store.
This is a meal I can do in less than a half an hour, including the time to
pre-heat the oven.

Most of what I make takes about a half an hour to cook. Maybe an hour at
the most. Of course some things take longer but often I will use the
Crock-Pot so they will be done when we need them. I used to do pots of
beans or pot roasts, but these things do not work for my lifestyle as it is
now.
 
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:36:52 -0600, Omelet
wrote:


I know! It's kind of fun to eat down the refrigerator and clear out
the freezer that way. I don't consider myself a creative cook, but
for some reason I can go 4-5 days easily doing it that way.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:19:42 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

Thanks. I still don't know which one I want though. Is the thin one
crisp and the chewy one soft? I definitely do NOT want puffy
chocolate chip cookies (or to use shortening). I guess the first
thing I can try is adding 2T milk to the recipe I usually use.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
"Michael O'Connor" wrote in message
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I love Good Eats. Can't stand Diners Drive ins and Dives, mainly because I
can't stand Guy. Why does he wear his glasses backwards on his head? That
just bugs me. Sometimes I like Iron Chef. I really like to watch Morimoto,
but I don't really care too much about the rest of them. And you are right
that I wouldn't want to eat any of that stuff.
 
Goomba wrote:





The fact that this is a foreign concept to me does not mean I am
"eat to live". I enjoy cooking and eating same as anyone else.
Sounds sorta to me like some folks can't see the middle ground between
two extremes...


Steve
 
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:41:28 -0000, Janet wrote:


No salad?

Mine takes more than 20 minutes.

I'd never be able to do that in 20 minutes.
First you make the black pudding....

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:07:53 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
(Steve Pope) wrote:

She has said quite a bit about him over the years. I don't remember
her exact words, but the impression I am left with is he never cooks
for the family or even help in the kitchen and when he cooks for
himself it is more like pouring a bowl of cereal or making a sandwich.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:25:18 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:


They've used some oddball thing that I'd never heard of before maybe
once. The rest of the time has been just a gross out in combinations
for me.... like fish and chocolate. No thanks.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
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