All those cooking shows.

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I'm a child of the 50s & 60s. Back then, if you wanted to be a " gore-met", you used two different kinds of Campbell soups together. So, I was watching one of those healthful cooking shows. They were making quick and easy sandwiches. You started by cutting up some kind of cabbage I never heard of. Then you need these special French rolls. Of course, come on, only one kind of Bavarian sausage would do. Domestic sausage was tres gauche. Again, you add in a bunch stuff like the stuff that only comes from the east side of a mountain in Tibet. After 30 minutes, six pans, foil wrap, and using a griddle (apparently using a grill is frowned upon, or maybe it's the other way around), VOILA, you have a quick and easy sandwich, and it only took about one hour of shopping, 3/4 hour cooking, and another hour of cleaning up.
I can zap a big ol' juicy dog, with fixins, in a warm bun in 2 min. 1 plate, 1 knife.
 

yeah, sometimes it seems like all the prep and exotic ingredients don't really guarantee a healthy & tasty meal. :shrug:
 
All those cooking shows. Now all the bar and restaurant owner want to bes. I don't know sometimes I think people who desire really 'exotic', heavily flavored, spiced and seasoned food either don't like what they are eating or their taste buds are deceased.

All those cooking shows. With all those participants in arrested, in jail or deceased. It just seems like alot celebrity bad boy bad girl chefs and cooks that participated in those shows make the crime news. Something tasty for inquiring minds.
 

The cooking shows can be interesting as food porn...but making the recipe myself? I can bake really well. But all my favorite recipes are maybe ten ingredients and fifteen minutes prep time tops. Dinner is opening bags and cans and the handy dandy microwave;)
 
My wife likes the Cooking Channel & Food Network shows, which I personally don't care for most of. She was watching The Chew earlier today, when I got back from the gym. Plenty of silly, immature behaviour on the show, and (of course) featuring typically unhealthy cooking and food dishes. :rolleyes:
 
I can't remember the name of the show but you know the one where the guy tries to break records eating stuff? Hubby has it on sometimes and it makes me queasy. The other day this guy was in a pizza place and the goal was to scarf a whole stuffed pizza in like two hours. His eyes are running and the people are cheering him on...just gross.
 
I love to cook! The longer I'm in the kitchen the better. The aromas! The tastes! Heaven pure heaven! IMO the cooking shows are much more enjoyable viewing than a lot of the other let's-see-who-can-be-the-most-violent shows on tv.
 
Does anyone remember the Frugal Gourmet and the other one where the guy kept chugging down the wine. By the end of the show he had more wine in him than in the recipe. Then there was good old Julia Child. I loved it when a recipe wouldn't turn out and she would try and cover it up. I think she dropped a chicken once also.
 
I thought the cooking shows were kind of novel when they first came out but think they're boring now. I think fuzzy buddy really nailed it. And the cost! Pay half the weeks groc budget for some exotic flavoring i probably won't ever use again. The food editor in the local paper is just as bad. Her recipes sound as if she ran blindfold through a groc store after an earthquake and scooped up whatever wasn't totally smashed, then mixed it & cooked it.
 
fureverywhere said:
I can't remember the name of the show but you know the one where the guy tries to break records eating stuff? Hubby has it on sometimes and it makes me queasy. The other day this guy was in a pizza place and the goal was to scarf a whole stuffed pizza in like two hours. His eyes are running and the people are cheering him on...just gross.
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I agree -- that kind of stuff is just plain gross and disgusting. What is the earthly point in eating so much you make yourself sick as fast as you can?? And who i the world cares who can do it better and faster?? YUCK!
 
Julia Child was the BEST! I used to watch it with my Mom as a kid...in fact she reminded me of my Mom;) I was really young but even I could laugh along as my Mom howled through "The French Chef".
 
My wife like to watch FoodNetwork, and she often asks me to print out a recipe for her to try. Some of the meals have turned out pretty good, but others are only worth trying Once. It seems that the best meals she has made from these recipes are from a couple of ladies named Rachael Ray, and Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman).
 
Don M. said:
My wife like to watch FoodNetwork, and she often asks me to print out a recipe for her to try. Some of the meals have turned out pretty good, but others are only worth trying Once. It seems that the best meals she has made from these recipes are from a couple of ladies named Rachael Ray, and Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman).
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Yes, Rachael Ray and Ree Drummond are "for real", as are Alton Brown and Bobby Flay.

I recently printed out and prepared the Pioneer Woman's Mexican chicken soup recipe...very easy and tasty!
 
My father, who I don't remember ever cooking anything in his life, got hooked on the Justin Wilson cajun cooking show when he got old. I think he mostly liked the jokes and stories, though.

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I love Julia Child. I followed her recipe for French onion soup. It took me most of the day. It was super good-and, YUP, I MADE IT. But then, once you knew what the soup was supposed to taste like, it was so easy to spot the crummy stuff, even the most expensive restaurants were passing off.

Who was the old guy, who used to say "unyons" ( onions) with a thick French accent?
 
There used to be a show on quite a while ago called The Urban Peasant which I used to enjoy. He made cooking seem easy and fun and never took it too seriously.
 
I watch those shows for ideas about how and what to prepare.

Then I get thinking about why so many people I see out in public are so overweight.

Some of them have to turn sideways just to get past the subway turnstiles. Yuck.

How come they wait so long to do something about it?
 
WhatInThe said:
All those cooking shows. Now all the bar and restaurant owner want to bes. I don't know sometimes I think people who desire really 'exotic', heavily flavored, spiced and seasoned food either don't like what they are eating or their taste buds are deceased.

All those cooking shows. With all those participants in arrested, in jail or deceased. It just seems like alot celebrity bad boy bad girl chefs and cooks that participated in those shows make the crime news. Something tasty for inquiring minds.
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With all those participants in arrested, in jail- who are they?
 
Sometimes people wait so long to do something about being overweight for the same reason we all sometimes avoid dealing with our problems. Sometimes thinking about and dealing with our problems can be overwhelmingly terrifying.
 
mena said:
I love to cook! The longer I'm in the kitchen the better. The aromas! The tastes! Heaven pure heaven! IMO the cooking shows are much more enjoyable viewing than a lot of the other let's-see-who-can-be-the-most-violent shows on tv.
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I agree Mena. Its a pleasure to eat nice food and fun to make it.
 
I can only visualize Paula Deen in a Klan robe now...but ignoring the source...she had an ooey gooey cake my daughter used to make...even as racist swill the recipes were good.
 
FuzzyBuddy - See post #15 for your "onyuns" guy. I remember one of his shows when he was making "Chicken What The Hell". Funny, funny guy.

And we (my first wife and I) loved to watch "The Frugal Gourmet".

My own cooking is pretty much limited to the microwave. And wine. Lots of wine.
 

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