Favorite TV cooking shows?

[Guest guest]

Hi Heidi, Marie and others too,

What are your favorite TV cooking shows?

I like the Barefoot Contessa. She is soooooooooooooo mellow.

Thanks,

Sheila

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> >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....

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> > Marie

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> 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.

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> 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! " .

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> 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!

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> -- Heidi Jean

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