Re: Favorite TV cooking shows?

June 14, 2004

> What are your favorite TV cooking shows?

Good Eats! ALTON BROWN RULES! He's also not afraid of fat. Alton is my

hero and by cracky I will figure out a way to interview that man if

it's the last thing I do.

Batali--Tony Bourdain says he's doing God's work and I agree.

Sara Moulton--More conventional but great for learning technique.

Lynn S.

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June 14, 2004

>Hi Heidi, Marie and others too,

>

>What are your favorite TV cooking shows?

>I like the Barefoot Contessa. She is soooooooooooooo mellow.

>Thanks,

>Sheila

Sheila,

I haven't watched any TV cooking shows for a long time as I currently only

get one channel on TV. However, I used to love to watch Yan on Yan

Can Cook. He was very entertaining.

>

> >

> > >Anyway...what meals or snacks did you try out on your family that

>went over well? Or not so well?

> > > I'm waiting next for the squawks about the absence of

>cheerios....

> > >

> > > Marie

> >

> > My family loves roast chicken, and chicken soup. I do use long-

>simmered broth,

> > but I freeze it and use it with fresher meat (if you cook meat too

>long in

> > broth it does get mushy). My Mom cooked more or less NT when we

> > were growing up, and to me it just seems like " real food " . I cook

>for a lot

> > of people, and if I stick to more " normal " stuff (like, no chicken

>feet

> > floating in the bowls) most people call it " gourmet " cooking.

>Absolutely no

> > one complains about rare steak and baked potatoes, or a good salad,

> > or homebaked cookies.

> >

> > One thing everyone seems to like: Tzaziki sauce! There are tons of

> > recipes, but I just mix some kefir (or yogurt) with some chopped

>cucumbers,

> > dried dill (or better, fresh!), squeezed garlic, salt, and cayenne

>to taste.

> > Someone said " chicken is just an excuse to eat tzaziki! " .

> >

> > No one liked kefir until I discovered kefiili. But the kefiili sour

>cream is

> > the favorite ... people (even guests) get addicted to that stuff.

>No one

> > liked kimchi until I made it " dill " flavored, which tastes like

>dill pickles

> > kind of and people can relate to that. But a lot of it is learning

>how to cook ...

> > a lot of things I made at first really were pretty awful from a

>culinary

> > standpoint. Watching cooking shows helps!

> >

> > -- Heidi Jean

> >

> > >

>

June 15, 2004

>Hi Heidi, Marie and others too,

>

>What are your favorite TV cooking shows?

>I like the Barefoot Contessa. She is soooooooooooooo mellow.

>Thanks,

>Sheila

I like the " Naked Chef " and the Iron Chef ... but I hardly get

a chance to watch TV these days. I also really like some

of the " food " movies ... like " Mostly Martha " which was superb,

and " Fast Runner " (about Inuit life, pretty authentic it seems).

-- Heidi Jean

June 15, 2004

Alton Brown is great stuff! A lot of his material (recipes & theory) comes

from the book written by Shirley Corriher who often appears in his shows.

The book is called CookWise, which seems like a more accessible version of

On Food And Cooking by Harold McGee. I wish there was more of this sort of

TV!

Lately, I found some really good restaurant related reality shows! There's

NBC's The Restaurant, but I missed the first season. My Restaurant Rules is

a great Australian reality show about 5 couples building & running a

restaurants in different cities. And the most interesting one I saw was