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I'm looking for some recommendations for the best olive oil to use on salads. Nothing too heavy.
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Who's your most/least favorite food personality on Food Channel?
Wow.....the animosity towards Sandra Lee in some of the comments is quite interesting. I’ve worked with and have hired professional chefs over the years and the short cuts they use in their cooking isn’t much different from Sandra Lee’s. She’s just honest about it. I know of one 5-star restaurant that opens a can of Campbell’s tomato soup, adds some garnish, gives it a fancy name and charges a ridiculous price. Anyone who utilizes a can of San Marino for a tomato dish cannot possibly sit in judgement of others.
I’ve tried some of the recipes of the highly rated “chefs” mentioned here and found them to be quite disappointing. The end result is what it’s all about....not how much one slaved in the kitchen.
Sandra Lee makes cooking fun....especially for those just starting out. And nowadays, with so many young folks working many hours in serious careers, I’m sure it’s nice to have a quick, fun recipe when one finally gets home at 7:00 pm and the kids are famished. I can’t wait to try some of her recipes with my grandson when he gets old enough.
I liked Alton Brown better before he went gimmicky and goofy.
My ____ sauce fails everytime!
I cannot find a decent bolognese recipe. I've tried so many and none to my liking. When I'm in the mood for it I just stop at my favorite Italian restaurant and buy a quart ......fresh......out of the simmering pot.
I like frozen _____
Frozen peas....right out of the bag, especially in the summer. Great for use as an ice pack, too.
Ed Levine goes on a diet. Offer some recipes please.
Check out The Schwarzbein Principle by Diana Schwarzbein, M.D. Lots of info on do's and dont's of dieting and healthy eating, some good recipes and a good 4 week meal plan......one for "regular" folks and one for vegetarians. She also offers The Schwarzbein Cookbook.
Her philosophy makes sense. Balance is key.
FYI.......low fat diets are now being debunked. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/low_fat.html
Mediterranean Cookbook recommendation needed!
Check out The Essential Mediterranean by Nancy Harmon Jenkins. It's a great read.
Cook the Book: 'The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics'
I've made her Tandoori-spiced flank steak and her seared beef and oranges with Arugula from her Healthy Quick Cook book. So good.
How did you first hear of serious eats?
I heard Ed Levine on one of Martha Stewart's Sirius radio shows. I was impressed and intrigued and couldn't wait to get home and check out Serious Eats. I'm so glad I did. What a great community! Thanks for all the tips.
I've been trying to convince my niece to apply to Serious Eats to work as an intern. She's a darling 35 year old who lives in Manhattan and has worked in the restaurant world for many years. She's cute, intelligent, articulate, upbeat, loves to cook and knows her way around the computer. She needs a push......any suggestions??????
eating with a head cold
Drink lots of hot tea with honey, gargle with sea salt or Kosher salt, take 1,000 mg of Vitamin C and soon your taste buds will be up and running.
What food reminds you of being a kid again?
Nalesniki.......a polish crepe made with water instead of milk. Very, very thin....we could see the design on the plate..... and no browned edges. We would sprinkle sugar on it, sometimes add sour cream or cottage cheese and then roll it up. Some folks would put jelly on top. A favorite variation would be to drop sliced apples in a little thicker batter and then fry them and then sprinkle these with sugar.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
ribeye.......smothered in kosher salt and garlic powder......crisp on the outside .......delicate and rare on the inside......
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Who's your most/least favorite food personality on Food Channel?
First of all I have to recover from laughing sooo hard at the remarks from:
Nance- re: Sandra Lee on the Kwanzaa cake (topping in with corn nuts) please tell me your joking, I don't know if you or Sandra's Kwazaa cake recipe want to kill ME. rotfl.
Jensings- your comment also made me roll off the couch, well put.
Alssa- same as above
Thanks y'all for a very good laugh.
Now who I like:
Alton - becuz he is silly and informative, I like that.
Emeril- becuz of due respect, but he needs to (or has) retire, his "bam" has gotten a little too old.
Ina- like her soft spoken demure and her recipes seem very good, but did she make a pact with the devil? Read her bio eveything thing she did she is successful at... hmmmmmm. That nervous laugh does get to me though.
Tyler- tried some of his stuff....really good.
Sara Moulton- like her alot, she is so relaxed, I like her cooking, she teaches, and she covers UP!! I miss her.
Cat Cora-total professional, she is very pretty but like all chefs ( iam one myself) cover's UP!! She wears a chef coat. I like her demure and professional knowledge.
Anthony Bourdain- Love his shows, they tell the real shit that goes on in cultures.
Mario- real authentic chef. Love his shows and his foods. Wll miss him too.
Duff-I like but other then his oux and Mary Alice many of his workers seem liike there on drugs.
Guy- I like him. his show makes me sick becuz my city has very few diner, drive-ins and dives anymore( I live in Seattle). His other show I only saw a few times, but I liked what he made so far. He's funny.
Symon- I like him. He's professional and his giggles crack me up. I like his food.
Flay- His actual shows bore me to sleep but I do respect his success and I 'm sure his food is good. I hear good reviews about his restaurants.
Ming Tsi- I miss him, he too is a Pro. and I loved his show. I made a dish of his for Mother's Day once and it turned out great but man, I almost had to hop a plane to Asia to get some of the ingreds. for it.
Now for my dislikes:
Paula Deen- I like her home program (she's somewhat mellow) but the shit she makes.......
Paula's party- That is enough to make my ears bleed. Is she drunk on that show? She is flirting, forgetting what they are doing she is hamming it up. Nooooooooo!!
Robin What her name- Boring.
Giada- I liked her pogram when it first aired, but now it is a joke. Yes that phoney accent, the Farrah Fawcett smile, yes the low cut shirts. Shit she is making Italian food (maybe), she should be professional and wear a chef coat. You get shit all over yourself making Italian food. It's food food porn.
Sandra Lee- Ah wtf is she doing on FN? Yes she has a concept for making things go easy in the kitchen, yes someone above wrote that some chefs use canned this and that for fresh and its true, and that is good, but she can at least come through with some dishes that are homemade 100% for the times one has day off or special occasions ect. Anyone can open a box or packet and just add shit to it, but I thought the FN was to educate people how to make real dishes.
Bobblehead aka Rach Ray- She is over the top of WHAT???? Yes I play a game with my boyfriend, everytime 30 mins. airs we get beers ready and when she says her imfamous words "EVOO, sammies, delish, garbage bowl, awesome, eyeball it, giggles, ect., we take a drink. Guaranteed your tipsy (if not drunk) in 30 minutes. FN needs to restructure what their goal is really quick. Do they want the true chefs that really show people methods, ideas of real cooking or do they want to have circus acts like they are airing?
Who's your most/least favorite food personality on Food Channel?
Rachael, Guy and SLoP should be BANNED. Every Rachael recipe I've tried has come out like s**t.
I love just about everyone else on the FN.
I like frozen _____
Thought of a couple more...I like to dip a spoon into the peanut butter jar & then keep the spoonful in the freezer until it's as hard as it will get & then spread on graham crax for a snax:) Oh, frozen fig newtons taste pretty good, too!
I like frozen _____
I like frozen cherries too (along with the frozen grapes and frozen wild blueberries). I always have a couple of bags of the dark sweet cherries from Trader Joe's in the freezer to snack on. Also, I freeze a couple of brownies every time I bake them, as well as waffles whenever I pull out my waffle iron for brunch. Good idea to freeze lemon bars, will have to try that!
Ed Levine goes on a diet. Offer some recipes please.
Ed! I want to call your attention to a recently published book, The 28 Day Mediterranean Diet. I discovered it while eating last weekend at the Shish Kebab Restaurant on Main Street in Port Washington (Long Island), a historic landmark, by Port Washington's harbor and dock.
Turkish and Mediterranean foods have become enormously popular, especially during the past ten years. As a result of this wave of interest, "the Mediterranean Diet" emerged as a preferred weight loss method and health eating lifestyle. Even though it was only six or seven years ago when attention on "the Mediterranean Diet" surfaced (a little after The Atkin's Diet), people in the Mediterranean have been enjoying and eating this way for hundreds, even thousands of years, which is why they are considered to be so healthy.
These recipes seem to be simple and easy to make...all less than ten minutes....relatively inexpensive foods...healthy, interesting to eat...satisfying...
According to this book, followers of The 28 Day Mediterranean Diet can lose ten pounds per month. Exercise while encouraged and recommended, is not necessary here. ( Personally, I am seeking to lose thirty pounds!)
A major difference here when compared to other diets is that this one is not so radical or overly ambitious that it is doomed to failure and discouragement after a week or two. There is some information and expertise on www.ayhansmarketplace.com that "the Mediterranean Diet" contributes to sexual health and performance!
I like frozen _____
gummi bears
snickers
blueberries
kerosena, i don't know why anyone would object to vodka and pudding cups together? maybe not mixed together, but i imagine that frozen pudding would be a great chaser...
I like frozen _____
Frozen peas... I've loved them since I was little. Frozen green beans and corn are good too, but come in a long way behind the peas.
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