Had it with the Food Channel...

[cassiesmom]

so what did I miss on the Next Food Network Star? Is the Lisa creature gone yet? I think Nipa the Spice Queen should have been dumped last week after her little exit scene... last year's winner isn't even on food network anymore ...

[Daisy and Delilah]

Karen, I think you're so right about the little blonde. She's been rehearsing this thing for years. I hope she takes some of the enthusiasm down a notch. She seems to have a spirit and energy like Ricochet Rachel. Mothra can never be nice to anybody. Her huge empire, and ginormous head, hinder her from being polite and real. I can't help but wonder what she does eat
Lisa is pretty emotional. I respect Mothra for being so successful but I can't see crying over meeting her. I think other additional emotions brought out the waterworks. I see now that she takes a pretty bad fall on the next show. She gets up with food all over her face. It looks brutal and so does she. The average person probably would have gotten badly hurt in such an accident.
I don't know if she can hold up or not. It seems to me that we have enough women on Food Network. Do we really need another one? It might be time for something a little different.

Elyse: Lisa is still there. She was the one that won the challenge along with another fella-I can't remember who right now. I think it was the bald black guy.
Nipa makes everything too spicy to eat. How interesting is a show going to be with all Indian cooking? Oooooh, that's right, we have one with all Italian don't we? I don't see Nipa with the personality she needs for the network.
I would love to find out what happened to Amy Findlay from last year. I voted for the other contestant. I thought she would have been alot better. I think her name was Rori. She was pretty good.

[RICHARD]

I didn't get a chance to post this on sunday night.......

The judges on TNFNS are not from this planet.


What is the deal with their fixation with the 30 minute time frame?

Why are they fricking rude? And what is it with their bipolarity?
I don't think that they know why they are there and it shows as they keep changing the criteria.
They want bubbly, but think the contestants are fake? They need look no farther than the on air bozos they have on now.

I have to laugh at Danny Boome....Too many slapshots to the skull, Sunny Anderson licking her fingers while cooking and all the rest of the regular fare.

Their confused and contradictory comments just reinforce my idea that running a food channel and judging talent do not go hand in hand!

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Mothra Stewart rarely eats Sloppy Joes.

And probably has never used too little toilet paper in her life.

During last night's show she showed that she is the Queen of All That is Perfect When It Comes to the Kitchen. She looked like she floated over the floor and treated the contestants with all the dignity of a piece of poop picked up in a dog run.

She could not have been bothered by what the cooks showed her and if she 'was' interested she gave them a little eye contact, "Are you kidding me? You brought me here for THIS?"

I did feel sorry for you Mothra when you went to jail, It must have been painful to have to talk to the little people-you know, the ones that eat sloppy joes, drink coffee stored in a can and eat danish, bought at a gas station mini mart and wrapped in cellophane.


Oh, LOLOLOLOLOL, she probably ate a sloppy for the first time, and once a week thereafter, when she went to the clink. A subtle reminder that you thought what you did with your stocks still wasn't wrong. Cross me off your Christmas list, will ya?


I loved the Booby Fake comment about stealing the recipe to put on his restaurant menu......Struggling to get more ideas, eh?

My prediction?

Some lawyer is out there and will soon file a 'Intellectual Property' lawsuit on behalf of a contestant when these recipes show up in a TVFN cook's eatery....

Time to go eat some breakfast, I got 30 minutes to come up with my signature bowl of cereal and toast.....with a twist, of course!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Did anybody see the episode that was on yesterday of Everyday Italian? This is the one that Giada has a friend of her's there and she's teaching her to cook for her inlaws.

Giada treated the woman like an imbecile!! I honestly think she was embarrassed by the way Giada treated her. Giada was making a big deal if the girl knew what a spoon was. It was over the top. Hey Giada!! You're not the only person that can throw some pasta together.

Speaking of pasta, I think Giada puts way too much pasta water in her pasta dishes. Normally, the pasta is floating. Is that appetizing? Why water down the sauce?

Obviously, the 30 minute time limit is too strict. Especially when you have a woman fall face first on the set. Not a pretty picture. Perhaps her lawyer has stepped up and he will ultimately demand a win for her.

LOL LOL LOL 30 minute cereal and toast with a twist.......hilarious!! And, it's a signature dish. That's what I call my Grapenuts too

[RICHARD]

LOL LOL LOL 30 minute cereal and toast with a twist.......hilarious!! And, it's a signature dish. That's what I call my Grapenuts too

I use the extra 25 minutes to taunt the others in the kitchen and read the news paper!

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I can see the gal that won last year at a streetside bistro, trying to get the locals to recognize her!

[RICHARD]

There I am watching the NASCAR prerace show and who shows up? Guy Fieri.

HE shows up with plates of some kind of meat on it for the show hosts..

There should be a rule against wearing the kinds of shorts he wears. Men should not be allowed to wear bowling shirts with shorts that extend below the knee.

IT's not fashion, it's a costume.....

GF reminds me of this guy.....


He's a Denver Broncos fan that would show up to the football games dressed like that. He came to the El Lay Coliseum while the Raider's played there. He had to be escorted out of the stands.....It was brutal.

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A few more hours to NFNS!!!!

[Daisy and Delilah]

I was sitting there watching Nascar myself, at a family get together. I see Guy Fieri on the tv set cooking meat!!! Holy cow!! Can we go anywhere without seeing him?? To make it worse......I was at my Son's house and he has one of those HD 300 inch screens. Guy looked scary with his new blonde/dark beard scheme. Where does he buy all those shirts?

Tonight is the night that Lisa gets up with food all over her face. It should be memorable.

[RICHARD]

Yikes! Was that his wife and son standing next to him when he gave the command to start engines.

It probably was.

You know.....I didn't even notice them, I was blown away by Nicky Blonsky and her singing the Nat'l. Anthem- She was very good!

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Why would you go into a cooking contest with little or no experience with seafood?

I knew a gal I worked with that would not touch raw hamburgers-that used to make me laugh- but the fish thing with Nipa was hilarious.

[Daisy and Delilah]

I forgot to mention......I think that new show is hosted by Ann Burrell(blonde). I think she's one of Mario Batali's sous chefs.

Also: What the heck are udon noodles??? Are we, as home cooks, supposed to know the difference when seeing them in a dish, as opposed to linguini, vermicelli, spaghetti, bla bla bla? What happened to the simplistic part of the concept of the NFNS?
I can honestly say I've never heard of them.

[cassiesmom]

Karen, I think you're so right about the little blonde. She's been rehearsing this thing for years. I hope she takes some of the enthusiasm down a notch. She seems to have a spirit and energy like Ricochet Rachel. Mothra can never be nice to anybody. Her huge empire, and ginormous head, hinder her from being polite and real. I can't help but wonder what she does eat
Lisa is pretty emotional. I respect Mothra for being so successful but I can't see crying over meeting her. I think other additional emotions brought out the waterworks. I see now that she takes a pretty bad fall on the next show. She gets up with food all over her face. It looks brutal and so does she. The average person probably would have gotten badly hurt in such an accident.
I don't know if she can hold up or not. It seems to me that we have enough women on Food Network. Do we really need another one? It might be time for something a little different.

Elyse: Lisa is still there. She was the one that won the challenge along with another fella-I can't remember who right now. I think it was the bald black guy.
Nipa makes everything too spicy to eat. How interesting is a show going to be with all Indian cooking? Oooooh, that's right, we have one with all Italian don't we? I don't see Nipa with the personality she needs for the network.
I would love to find out what happened to Amy Findlay from last year. I voted for the other contestant. I thought she would have been alot better. I think her name was Rori. She was pretty good.

Amy turned down a second season on the FOod Network and moved to France with her family. I voted for Rori too!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Thanks, Elyse. I had no idea. I know how much she loved France. Good for her. She never seemed really suited for the bright lights anyway. Can we get Rori back?

[cassiesmom]

so what did I miss on the Next Food Network Star? Is the Lisa creature gone yet? I think Nipa the Spice Queen should have been dumped last week after her little exit scene... last year's winner isn't even on food network anymore ...

It's now two weeks later and the Lisa creature is still there. I hate to admit this, but she is starting to grow on me. Jennifer was eliminated last night and I was not surprised. I am rooting for Shane and Kelsey, though. Lisa is too much like last year's winner (Amy).

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Thank heavens for Rick Stein

[RICHARD]

I had to laugh at the 90 second presentation of a meal that you didn't cook!

The 'judges' kept insisting that the presenter had to "take ownership" of the plate. How do you do that if you don't know what the F it is?

Udon noodles? Spaghetti? Whatever.....Here's a hint for the FN....try to give us a recipe where you can substitute foods. I am sure that udon noodles aren't too far off from any long flat noodles. You could put s on a shingle and serve it to me -I'm glad you thought enough of me to cook me a meal.

I still do not understand the challenges of trying to cook a 4 hour meal in 15 minutes- Turducken in 45 minutes? I start planning my Thanksgiving spread in mid October. It's patently unfair to expect someone to cook and impress you with a 45 minute meal-for me a 45 minute meal is usually a trip to McDonald's.

The snobbery and jabs are so over the top it's not funny. The long haired moron, Andrew Knowitall is the worst of the worst. How can a food "critic" possibly know anything about cooking? He just tastes stuff and compares it to the city/country where he ate it and how much better it tasted there.

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Lisa is a princess and the kind of person that lines up all the pot handles on the stove so they look uniform while she cooks! Can you say retentive?



BTW,
IN all the years I have watched TVFN they have never given any kind of shows-besides the Alton-Brown-buy-this-widget-for-150-bucks-to-core-green-apples that show you how to navigate inside a kitchen.

Even me, as a stupid male, know that if you want to open a glass jar you don't bang it on the counter. You grab a butter knife and tap the top at an angle, not straight on, but with a glancing tap. Spin the jar 90 degrees and tap again, four should do it an you don't have to throw away the duck comfit!

[Karen]

Even me, as a stupid male, know that if you want to open a glass jar you don't bang it on the counter. You grab a butter knife and tap the top at an angle, not straight on, but with a glancing tap. Spin the jar 90 degrees and tap again, four should do it an you don't have to throw away the duck comfit!

I immediately thought the same thing - and thought that she would even DO that immediately would disqualify her from any television cooking show, unless it was a "what NOT to do" show! Good gracious, what was she thinking?

I was not surprised, and a little relieved that she got sent home.