Had it with the Food Channel...

[Daisy and Delilah]

Did anyone catch the Giada episode where she is cooking with a woman in a brown shirt/top?

Talk about obnoxious.

The gal was making some pasta and GD was getting a little irritated about whe was the woman was cooking the dish. The woman had a accent, I take it she was from Italy, and was cooking A traditional dish of pasta. GF was hovering over her- More cheese? Put some green in the dish! Add my meatballs! The woman held her ground and GF got a little put off by the whole thing, she got snitty and went to sit down while the woman finished the dish.

It was really funny to watch her get an attitude because the woman wouldn't budge from her recipe.

I didn't see it but she really does get upset if someone doesn't go along with her. She thinks she's the only chef in the world. Yada yada yada.......

[RICHARD]

I didn't see it but she really does get upset if someone doesn't go along with her. She thinks she's the only chef in the world. Yada yada yada.......

She was really a tool, She'd suggest something for the dish and when the woman said 'no' to her, she'd look into the camera, smile with the "I cannot believe she'd turn down my ideas" attitude.

LOL, I just cannot turn it off.....I may have to go for intervention!

[Daisy and Delilah]

She was really a tool, She'd suggest something for the dish and when the woman said 'no' to her, she'd look into the camera, smile with the "I cannot believe she'd turn down my ideas" attitude.

LOL, I just cannot turn it off.....I may have to go for intervention!

It's no big surprise to any of us that she would react this way. Poor little thang has never known the word "rejection" in her life.

[RICHARD]

BATTLE HAM!

I'll get hammered for this, But I have to post it anyway.

I loved Iron Chef when it was the original......Fuke-San! I would run thru the GF's place trying to get her attention by yelling that!

This version runs me hot and cold. I like the 'secret ingredients" but find that the ICA chefs a little more conceited and the guest judges too flamboyant for me at times.

Last night I watched the HAM BATTLE-like who really is the loser?

The pig that died to be on TV, the chef that drops the challege or Alton Brown?

The judges were Mark Ekco, Ted Allen and some gal that I have seen before on the panel and I have to say that I was CAPTIVATED by her. LOL< let me run down my judging the judges?

Ecko looks like he smells, You'd think a 'fashion' maven would dress-or know how to dress himself appropriately. He wore a cap and t-shirt. I know he wore his own clothes from the line, but I was shocked that they didn't let him wear an overpriced T-shirt with his name/company on it.
I can do a really good Ted Allen imitation - so I'll pass on him. The woman, I know her initials are KB-I remember that from the chyron the had on the screen when AB spoke to her.

Anyway, I was obsessed with her cleavage. LOL, bear with me, it has to do with food, trust me! I was trying to figure out what her nationality/background is, She reminded me of a woman I worked with years ago. She was Iranian, was stunning and had ample 'assests' like the judge.
The dress the judge was wearing was low cut, It wasn't really trashy and you would have to be "special" to wear it and not look cheap.


Anyway, when they first introduced her I stopped and thought to myself, "WTF happens if she drops something on herself?"

Now, I know that probably is the last thing you may think about during a cooking show, but, I am a man, I like ham, women and..........I like food..

Now, being the idiot I am I stayed up until they fed the judges just on the off chance gravity came a' calling- I wanted to see her dig that morsel out.

Just a second?

God? Please forgive me for having impure thoughts during the Iron Chef Ham Battle. Mom always taught me not to play at the table or mess around with my food, or act stupid while eating but this woman's cleavage was really distracting! AMEN.

After a mega-second I realized that I would never get to see that, and if it happened it would go onto a blooper reel somewhere, so I went to bed
and never found out who won the Battle Ham and the Battle Gravity.

But, for some strange reason, I have a hankering for some ham at the moment........

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I saw the Chef Jeff program where he took the kids to eat the seafood at the farmer's market.

That was funny and sad at the same time. To think that there are people out there who live in a state next to the ocean who have never tried shellfish.

We would go camping by the beach in Mexico growing up and my dad would go pick mussels off the rocks and cook them up......

It really makes me think about the people who think a Filet-o-Fish sandwich from Mickey D's is seafood!

[Daisy and Delilah]

LOL LOL LOL You never stop cracking me up, Richard.

I saw Battle Ham too. My first thought was that every dish would automatically be loaded with fat and cholesterol but that's the norm.
With ham, what else is there?
In my feebleness(is that a word?)I can't remember who the Iron Chef was. Cat Cora I think. Anyway...the Iron Chef was the winner by one point.

I love Alton Brown but his voice during that show is really starting to annoy me. He never shuts up.

I had also forgotten who the judges were but I think it must have been the lady that always shows plenty of cleavage. FN website probably has some info about her.
I like Ted Allen. He's always gracious. Ecko did not impress me in the least. Was he stuck up or what? I was also questioning the t-shirt. It was a cheesy move to let him wear that at best.

CJP The young man puking almost put me over the edge. I was irritated that the chef made them taste things whether they wanted to or not. I understand her reasoning but for heaven's sake. The kid was turning gray from the thoughts of it. Of course it was national tv so I know it was more for show than anything.

Has anybody seen the new Barefoot Contessa shows yet? It's on here on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. I have missed it every week so far. It's been a long time coming. I was surprised to hear she actually made new shows.

What exactly is that thing inside the Filet-O-Fish? It is pretty sad that some people think that's all there is to seafood. In my opinion, there is nothing better on this earth than an excellent seafood meal.

[RICHARD]

CJP The young man puking almost put me over the edge.

Has anybody seen the new Barefoot Contessa shows yet?

What exactly is that thing inside the Filet-O-Fish? It is pretty sad that some people think that's all there is to seafood. In my opinion, there is nothing better on this earth than an excellent seafood meal.

The CJP? I think that when you intro people to food that small should be the operative word. I LOVE Oysters-but doing shooters the first time out is probably daunting for the first timers. The texture is the first hurdle!

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I am not a huge Contessa fan-I like her recipes, but she's too nice to all the people she knows-can't they cook for her once in a while? :0

Did you ever see the commercial where they show fishermen pulling a net onto the deck of a boat, the net opens and a bunch of square fish fall out?

The tagline was something about getting a "square of fish" in some kind of meal. I really don't know, but when I want something different I'll buy one. I am not proud to say that!

Boullabaise, french bread and a good beer, with some oyster shooters to start? That's a seafood dinner!

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I just popped on the tube for a second and got some Nigella! I thought my love affair with her was over.....she's making a dish and pulls out an electric pepper mill! Like WTF?

Then she did something that I just adore.....

I have this think about KILTER. DON'T LIKE IT.

For example? If you want to make me really nervous, put me in an Architectural Digest home. AD is a mag that focuses on really nice homes and the way they were built. They do photo layouts of the house and they are immaculate. The house looks like no one lives there. They are beautiful, but they are cold because of the way they are kept. I can see the anally retentive owners freaking out and telling you to take off your shoes and dusting you off to keep their homes clean. Anyway, I like to see things like a book, glasses and a cup of coffee on a table, a cat asleep on a couch, Pair of slippers on the rug...little messages that people do live in the house, Something out of kilter.

So, Nigella is making a crab salad and goes about chopping up a red chili. She cuts it into little pieces, then drops it into the bowl.

As she goes to chop up a lime for the dressing, she pulls out the knife that still has flecks of the chili on it and goes to work on it.

I LOVE THAT. I know that sometimes you HAVE to wipe or get a new blade for the next step, but I hate the cold and clinical way that some/most of the people cook on TVFN. No, it's not surgery and there is a certain amount of care that you have to take when you cook or prepare chicken, eggs and stuff like that, but it was refreshing to see someone cook 'normally'!

[RICHARD]

I watched the Vegas episode of CJP.

That was pretty neat to go by limo, but it was a rapper's ride, the lights and side show was a little too much-Why not rent a motor home? The ride from El Lay to Vegas is about 5 hours. Slower in a huge limo or motor home, but why not spend the money to rent a MH and then let the kids play cards, go the the RR and snack? That would have been more fun and a way to get everyone into the swing of things.

For me it would be more tolerable that sitting in a car looking across at someone passed out in their chair.

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And here is another peeve of mine-I pay way too much attention to these programs and all the shiat that goes on during them.I love to cook and get some good ideas from the channel but I feel that they sometimes take advantage of the contestants/cooks/guests.

Here is my view..

CJ takes the crew to his home to see what it is like to have family.

He then puts the kids to cook for his momma's birthday!

WTF? Come on Chef, that was really a put off to me.

Why not have a nice spread put out by your restaurant?


Side note?
The only other place I have been invited to where the hostess made me cook, clean and slave-and it was for almost a whole week- was that lady GINI-she's fun but I heard she also let people clean out her cat's boxes!


And what is it with these kids? NO GRILLING EXPERIENCE? Half of the smog in Lost Angeles is from BBQs and homeless people setting the hills ablaze when they light up an illegal fire to cook.

That should be one of the pre reqs to any cooking school. You have to cook a three course meal in a charcoal pit, then a gas or propane grill. THAT will separate the wheat from the chaff.


I just watched the rerun of the CJP and the kids offered to cook at his party....my mistake!