cornbread.. love the smell when it's baking, don't care for the taste.. same goes with onions that are sauteed or grilled....love the smell, party-dud in my mouth... maybe in a couple of years, my palate will agree with my nose..
Hehehehe...Thanks, eggplant43!
I don't mean to veer off the topic at hand, but I have to make this statement: It is now 1:10pm central and I've been on this site since 11am this morning... THIS SITE ROCKS! I have emailed this blog to several of my good friends who are going through the very same things you all mentioned above.... I should be doing laundry, but I just can't seem to stop... maybe one more hour....
i love the science behind food and cooking, so Alton Brown has my vote! Ina Garten is wonderful, too... I've made some of stuff and they came out great! Jamie Oliver is another fave. and I have a small crush on Tyler Florence... :)
Ohmy..BRILLIANT! I needed this! Ya'll are awesome!! Gotta join in on the fun:
To my roommates:
Please DO NOT LEAVE the following in the fridge:
An opened can of ANYTHING, still left IN THE CAN (even more gut-burning, leaving the damn thing uncovered, so that you end up knocking it over...then proceed to do a poor job of 'cleaning' it out...leaving us with a rank smelling fridge for the entire week!), Leftovers,UNWRAPPED/UNCOVERED and with all the tupperwares in the apartment, is it really neccessary to put the ENTIRE 2 QUART POT in the fridge, uncovered, with BARELY A CUP of whatever it is you cooked last night in the fridge we barely have space in??
Arm&Hammer can only do so much to keep our fridge fresh.
After cooking on the stove, it's great that you wipe it down. Thank you and I really appreciate it. But how is the kitchen any cleaner when you wipe down whatever crud/crumbs/spills onto the floor, but don't even bother cleaning THAT up???
Why am I the only one taking out the garbage?! I'm pretty sure when there are 2 other names on that lease! And by taking out, I mean ALL THE WAY OUTSIDE TO THE GARBAGE CONTAINERS. It's disgusting to come home and see 3 bags sitting on the kitchen floor, around a garbage can that is filled to the rim... at yet here you are, with the last 2 days off, sitting in the living room, fresh out of the shower, putting on makeup..and when asked, "where you off to?", your reply: "oh no where. i'm just chilling'...and proceed to 'chill' in the living room, on the computer, for the next 4 hours... while i'm sweeping the floor in the kitchen because i CANNOT STAND CRUMBS beneath my feet...only then to have you tell me 'oh, don't worry about the trash, i'll take it out'. That 'later' is now TODAY...and guess what! Now it's no longer 3 bags, but 4 and the garbage can now has NO GARBAGE BAG...yet, there's already garbage INSIDE! and because I CANNOT STAND it I'm the one going to have to take it out...AGAIN!
And the microwave...ever heard of covering up whatever it is your cooking so that it doesn't splatter all over the place? Okay, so maybe there was a time that you 'forgot'. Fine. It happens sometimes. What I don't get is why can't you clean up the mess you made up in there??? And NO, NO, NO, that does not mean taking the HAND TOWEL and smearing the mess on one side to the other side! Please don't use the hand towels to wipe spills off the floor either! Hand towels..get it.. FOR HANDS.
As for my kitchen equipment, you're more than welcome to use them. But clean them up aftewards! They don't have a self-cleaning option and I'm getting tired of having to clean up after you.
I'm tired of telling you to NOT USE METAL utensils on my TEFLON PANS!
And speaking of pans, what's the deal with LEAVING A DIRTY PAN IN THE OVEN???? For crying out loud, the stove is right next to the sink!
Speaking of sink...don't leave the sponge soaking in dirty water from the dirty plates sitting in there. And please don't put wet dishes in the cabinet. I mean, really...
LEAVE MY KNIVES ALONE. They are not to be used to scrap whatever you burned on my baking pans nor are they the next best thing when your rusty can opener fails you. Use the knives in the drawer. If it's in the block, that means they are off-limits.
We all use the kitchen all the time yet it really seems and feels like I'm doing all the cleaning..and we've already discussed these issues..so the next time around, when that happens, I'll be sure to hand each of you a bill for my services or better yet, I'll just dock $50 off my share of the rent... :)
Good day.
I so wish Shirley Corriher had a show of her own. The lady is brilliant and absolutely ebuliant. She is just so cute on Alton Brown and if you have Cookwise or Bakewise, you know how much you could actually "learn " about the cooking process and food science in half an hour with her.
...those who say Alton Brown is not a chef. he may not be technically a chef cause he has no restaurant, BUT he has helped redo and open enough ...
I don't consider Alton a "chef," I do consider him an expert educator. His subject matter, area of expertise if you will, happens to be cooking and the culinary arts. Same thing with David Rosengarten, not technically a chef but an expert educator.
I also love Shirley O. Corriher for this very same reason. She also looks cherubic...LOL.
Wow talk about only garnering information from single sources!
Here's some very bad ones for your consideration.
Then Hippy gourmet:
http://www.hippygourmet.com/
Beyond annoying yet the stuff he makes probably isn't terrible. I'm sure his brownies are winners though;-))
Wendy Brodie and her *Art of food*:
http://www.wendybrodie.com/
Quite possibly the single worst voice for broadcast ever and her lush of a husband and thier disgusting little dog! The hieght of worthless snobbishness. I actually like it because it's so bad.
Rick Bayless, a very weird guy but everything he makes I think looks really tasty:
http://www.rickbayless.com/tv/season5/
Oh and don't forget how truly terrible Maryann Esposito andf her *Ciao Italia* is! "Today we will make Pasta e Fungi* roughly translated as noodles and mushrooms.
And then L. Bastianich must we watch that zaftig wench stuff her face with yet another stew and tell us how great it is while her whole family proceed to bore us?
*Everyday food* is also beyond annoying. Could we possibly find a more white bread group of condesending SSRI junkies?
How about the chunky vegitarian (Christina cooks) lady that tells us how horrible we eat yet every subsequent season looks worse herself then the season before?
And then all the lowcarb/lowfat cooking shows out there. Trust me compared to PBS the food channel looks very good at times.
It's really simple there are far more nad shows out there in TV land then there are good ones.
America's test kitchen is probabaly the most educational yet the formula is pretty simple. Make simple recipies complex, and complex ones simple.
I also hate the "Nasty Sponge." My step-mom is a big believer in keeping the same kitchen sponge for a lifetime. It smells horrible! When I wash dishes at their house, I have to use a paper towel. How can you get the dishes clean with something so filthy??? I try not to think about it too much.
Ok, I'm going waaaaaayyyyyyyy back. I was a newlywed, working 2 jobs, 7 days a week, while my husband was a college student. I took laundry to the laundromat on my lunch 45 minutes and picked it up on the way home if nobody stole it out of the dryer. Had a few minutes to cook and eat and off to job #2, which was full time on the weekends. My ex liked to go through the fridge in my presence and ask, "what did this used to be?". My reply was, throw it out. He'd get mad. And so it went. I could never understand why it was my job - just because I did all the cooking and cleaning and laundry and working? How did I last 30 years?
With a huge fireplace in the kitchen, the family invariably ends up there to sit. And watch. And chit chat. No one offers to help, not even to set the table. Then complains when dinner finally hits the table at 8:00, or later. Then complains because I don't ASK for help. An idiot can get out plates, napkins, and flatware, but in their credit, they all appreciate the home cooked meal EVERY night. Gotta love them, worts and all, I guess.
Yes ikasenter, the notice would be nice, but the gesture would also be appreciated, in my case. I think many many years ago it was asked if they (family members) could bring anything and, having the dining experience all planned already, I said no. Unfortunately, they took it quite literally and never bring or ask - EVER. And I'm such a pushover wussy girl, I never say anything. Everyone knows we just love to cook so there will always be plenty of good food. But trust me, if they ever ask, I won't say no again! Ok, maybe to gray spinach eggplant casserole...
I retract that statement I made about Nigela being "huge".
I certainly didn't mean it in that way.
I loved grappa when I drank it in Italy. Everyone else said it tasted like "fireplace."
More on the fruit theme - cutting an unripe pineapple that smells wonderful is probably one of the worst things that can happen to a pineapple-loving innocent.
I also adore chestnuts. I'm very sorry to see that they (along with brussel sprouts!?) have disappeared from the local supermarkets . . . .
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