Had it with the Food Channel...

[RICHARD]

I saw part of the ultimate recipe show with Guy Feedme...

Unreal.
I cannot believe that a channel would invest so much on such freak.

The guy that won the last Chef Contest is starting to bug me too. It's called the FOOD CHANNEL, not the I COOK, THEREFORE I AM channel!

[Scooter's Mom]

I saw part of the ultimate recipe show with Guy Feedme...

Unreal.
I cannot believe that a channel would invest so much on such freak.

The guy that won the last Chef Contest is starting to bug me too. It's called the FOOD CHANNEL, not the I COOK, THEREFORE I AM channel!

What was wrong with the Ultimate Recipe show? I really wanted to eat that guys mac-n-cheese... it looked so yummy!

[Daisy and Delilah]

I'm getting a kick out of the latest on FN. For years, all we've seen is high fat, high calorie foods being prepared(not that there's anything wrong with this). Now.......everybody is suddenly going light. It just seems ridiculous because we know they won't stay light. It's so funny. FN is trying to keep up with the national trend that occurs after the first of every year. I vote we go back to the way it was and we can all put our low fat/low calorie spin on it ourselves.
Paula Deen uses one stick of butter instead of three. Do we ever see Paula as a healthy cook? She can't stop joking about it while she's doing it.

I'm having a problem with "Ask Aida". She's a little too arrogant for my taste.

What happened to NIgella? I am actually missing "Emeril Live" every day at 2:00. What happened to the guy they call the "Naked Chef"?

Iron chef's judges are getting more and more comical. Some of those people don't know what they're eating and nothing about food at all. Is it good to use them as serious judges?

I am starting to like Gina Neely a little bit. I really like the whole Neely family. I'm still in love with Pat.

I enjoyed the "Ultimate Recipe" show too. That mac and cheese almost put me over the top. Some of those dishes looked pretty darn tasty.
GF is another story. Where did he get this new wardrobe? From bowling shirts to western wear. Get along little dogie. Get along GF...........

Booby Flake is on every time I turn the tv on. He seems to be the Iron Chef chosen more than anyone else. Where are Maurimoto and Mario Batali?

I guess we all know that Ricochet Rachel is recovering from throat surgery now. I think she had it on the 16th of December. She actually has to have a voice coach to learn how to talk all over again to save her vocal chords.

Richard: Is it Aaron McCargo that's bothering you? He is one dynamic personality. Last Sunday's show, the first of the new season, was terrible. I was really dissappointed. I like this guy alot but his food was unappealing to me. Almost gross looking. He was treating his little son like his partner in a comedy routine. Unbelievable!!
You might be talking about Michael Symon. Another fairly dynamic personality.

[RICHARD]

Scooter's Mom,

I am talking about Aaron McCargo

The Ultimate Recipe Show is not my cup of tea! I HATE mac and cheese! It just a taste/growing up thing......NO way I eat it as a requested dish.

The AM thing is more personality than recipe, I want to see him cook, not preen.

I don't care for Symon, it's his laugh, he reminds me of my brother's laugh-forced and obnoxious.

[Daisy and Delilah]

Scooter's Mom,

I am talking about Aaron McCargo

The Ultimate Recipe Show is not my cup of tea! I HATE mac and cheese! It just a taste/growing up thing......NO way I eat it as a requested dish.

The AM thing is more personality than recipe, I want to see him cook, not preen.

I don't care for Symon, it's his laugh, he reminds me of my brother's laugh-forced and obnoxious.

I'm with you, Richard. AM started being a great chef/cook and he displayed that. It seems that FN has him performing way too much now.
Like Gina Neely. If she would just cook and cut the performance, I would really like her.

[Scooter's Mom]

I'm not fond of Bobby Flay at all. Everytime someone beats him at "Throwdown" I get so happy!

I find that I like Sunny Anderson. She's not as "stuffy" as some of the other hosts. I'll get tired of her too, I'm sure.

[RICHARD]

I'm not fond of Bobby Flay at all. Everytime someone beats him at "Throwdown" I get so happy!

I find that I like Sunny Anderson. She's not as "stuffy" as some of the other hosts. I'll get tired of her too, I'm sure.

Flay is a chump. IT's his ego. I feel sorry for the gals that cook with him on UT......

Guy Feedme gets more and more obnixious, the TGI Friday's commercials make me flip channels very quickly.

Oh, Nigella is on early on the weekends and RR had sir jury on her throat?
Hmmm, Has anyone seen the DELISH or NUTRISH dog food commercial?

I had to laugh, What does RR know about dog food or nutrition. She probably starves to dog so it will eat her cooking!

KIDDING!

[Karen]

Scooter's Mom,

I am talking about Aaron McCargo

The Ultimate Recipe Show is not my cup of tea! I HATE mac and cheese! It just a taste/growing up thing......NO way I eat it as a requested dish.

The AM thing is more personality than recipe, I want to see him cook, not preen.

I don't care for Symon, it's his laugh, he reminds me of my brother's laugh-forced and obnoxious.

I do blame The Food Network for that - remember in the "Next Food Network Star" they kept criticizing him for not having "enough personality"? They said that about him almost every week, when he obviously just wanted to cook and present his food - they have created a "character" out of him, instead of letting him be who he wanted to be. Sad, but true. You can tell he's uncomfortable, at least I can, being so "over the top" about things and mugging with his kid. But that's what The Food Network pushes and pushes and I don't know why, frankly. I liked watching him before they "transformed" him a whole lot better. Interesting to see Adam, who lost the "Next Food Network Star" show apparently now has a show ... I don't know what it is, as I have the DVR on "skip" over the commercials, I just see his face flash by.

I watch the Ultimate Recipe show today, and Richard, for some of us, mac and cheese - the REAL stuff, not the orange stuff in the box - is comfort food. Yet I know people who, even as adults, still eat the orange stuff as their own "comfort food" - all has to do with what you ate as a kid, obviously!

And I'm guessing growing up where you did, in the climate you did, there wasn't a lot of call for heavy "stick-to-your-ribs in bitter winter weather" type food!

[RICHARD]

And I'm guessing growing up where you did, in the climate you did, there wasn't a lot of call for heavy "stick-to-your-ribs in bitter winter weather" type food!

We so have a cold season, It's on December 17th from 4 a.m. until 6 a.m.

Dad was a M&C, SPAM fiend. I used to go to the pantry and look for something quick to make......and all there was was M&C and cans o' SPAM!
Sometimes I'll bust out a can and box and go to town!

Part of it is not having a 'dairy' gene, when I get real M&C, it sours me, literally, on the dairy in real food!

If I am invited to dinner or I have a frozen M&C hanging around, I'll do it! It's just not my cup of tea. All the people back east eat good food anyway, what else is there to do during the winter except cook?

The AM thing is really irritating, the guy CAN cook! The smiles and over presentation make me numb. I don't care for the catchy phrases and sayings....

JUST COOK!

LOL,

Rice, beans and tortillas are multi-seasonal!

[Karen]

All the people back east eat good food anyway, what else is there to do during the winter except cook?

Let's see - shovel snow, try not to fall down while dealing with ice on the driveway, spend time hacking ice off of driveway and the vehicle one intends to drive, refilling the windshield washer fluid again, shoveling the front stairs again ... digging out the end of the driveway after the plow refills it again ...

Cooking is the warm alternative!

Believe it or not, I actually enjoy all that stuff, except for the "trying not to fall down" part which takes more concentration for me than most ... having half the sense of balance that normal folks do. After all, what other kind of exercise is as immediately as gratifying as shoveling snow? For each shovelful thrown onto the pile, you not only are rewarded with a clean patch of pavement, but a taller pile AND calories burned! And even days later you can look at the snow pile and think "Hah! I did that!"