Had it with the Food Channel...

[RICHARD]

Top Chef Masters?

I didn't much care for the hostess..she irks me in a strange way.

She was at some kind of a press/food gathering here in Hollywood/Lost Angeles last week.

She was walking the area where people were eating and someone noticed that she wasn't tasting anything. When asked she said something like, "If I eat I'll just throw it up".

Nice to know.

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I haven't gone back to watch the first NFNS, I have to catch up!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Richard, what would I do without your stories?

I loved the show in Mexico you mentioned. That grill was really cool.

Yesterday, on "Grill It" with Booby Flake, someone was grilling watermelon. She made a salad out of it with onions and a couple more ingredients. BF loved it. I can go for the grilled melon but she lost me with the onions. Onions are just too savory for me to mix them with fruit. I can't stand to eat chutney because it's usually fruit with onions. Yuck!

I watched NFNS on Sunday but I have forgotten the whole show. I guess I was busy doing other things. I'm sure I can catch a replay of it.

If I accidentally turn the FN on and see GF "Off The Hook" again, I'll probably hurt myself turning the channel. What is with this guy? I'm seriously afraid he's going to blow a gasket if he doesn't calm down.

I watched "Chopped" last night. I think it was the season premier. The ingredients were the worst I've ever seen. What in the world are sea beans? I lived by the ocean most of my life(still do)and I've never heard of them.
Does anybody know what they are and have you ever eaten them?

[RICHARD]

Onions are just too savory for me to mix them with fruit. I can't stand to eat chutney because it's usually fruit with onions. Yuck!

What in the world are sea beans? I lived by the ocean most of my life(still do)and I've never heard of them.
Does anybody know what they are and have you ever eaten them?

I love to to talk about food, it's fun to swap stories with other people about what they eat, how they cook and what spices they use!

I hear you about the chutney and onion/fruit combos. Blech.

I know that it is a 'taste' thing....I just do not like the sugary sweetness of some foods. Example? A few years ago my brother was cooking a T-giving day turkey, with oyster stuffing.

I had to get past my gag reflex when I tasted it. It tasted like bread with oysters, raisins and carrots and brown sugar, It was soooooo sweet I had to push it over on the plate so I could taste the rest of my meal.

I can do the apple/berry/walnut/sweet styles of stuffing, but anything that is too sweet just turns me off. I just don't get it.


I was trying to find a reference to the "I'll throw up" story, but I have to check the old newspapers.

http://www.seabean.com/what.htm

Again, it's a catchall-dare I say politically correct?- term for anything that washes up on the beach????

[Daisy and Delilah]

I would have puked over the oyster stuffing too.

Interesting story about the sea bean. That is the only sea bean I've ever heard of in my life. I've seen those on the beaches here. It's been a long long time but I do remember those.

On "Chopped" last night, they must have had the plant that they come from. Very interesting.....
What they had looked like long, skinny, asparagus. I think I'll research further. Thanks for the link.

[RICHARD]

Thanks for the link.

No prob, we all learn here!

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Have you seen the commercial with the Top chef host, Padma in it?

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc...rss_topstories

I found it to be a turn off.

While the thought of a nice looking gal eat a hamburger on your front porch is kinda appealing, I don't want her to smell like "secret sauce" or red onion, or wiping her greasy fingers all over my pillows, later on.....

And if she's eating a burger with a bun littered with those little balck poopy seeds, I don't want her to stand up and spill them all over MY FLOOR.

Food is sexy, Spending a few hours with a SO in the kitchen is way better than a sloppy hamburger on some gum encrusted sidewalk.

An old college t-shirt, sweats cut into shorts and a pair of flip flops is my kind of dressing up for dinner.

Seriously, I have seen the commercial about 4 times and I still don't know what kind of hamburger it is.

The only thing I think about is the greasy clump of ketchup soaked meat, dropping off the burger and having to hear the moans and groans all night long...

"OHHH, this is my good dress!", "That will never come out!", Quick get some club soda!" "See what you made me do?"


If you can't pull the spoon out of the pot and hold it for your SO to taste?


It ain't sexy.


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I have to toss this in.

If I see food on TV, I'll stop there and see "what's cooking" (pun intended)

Today I stopped at the QVC channel when I saw something being cooked.

They were selling tilapia filets-each 3.25 ounces- 14 for $44.95.

I checked the price per pound and it came out to 15 bucks a pound.

I bought a bag of four, gutted tilapia, individually wrapped- I have to check the price per pound and the weight of the packaging- I wrapped them in foil, tossed them on the outer edge of the grill. After they cooked I put them in a plastic bag for later in the week. I steamed veggies and tossed the fish on top for the last 5-7 minutes to heat.

Even thoough it's a spiny fish, it is one of the best eating fish you can have.
It's white, tasty meat that only needs salt and pepper as seasoning.

I know that boning fish for filets is an art, but I just can't see paying 15 dollars a pound for less than three lbs of fish! Half the fun is puling apart a fish with a fork and a piece of toast.

[Daisy and Delilah]

I can't get the commercial to load but I'll keep trying. It sounds pretty gross. Not sure if I want to see it.

I don't know why but I never get to see Top Chef much. I watched it a few nights ago and I enjoyed it. I've noticed that these chefs on tv are on all the shows. Some of them at least. I saw a blond lady on Top Chef that was also on Chopped last season.

I have a picture of CA, in my own mind, of all residents out on their patios, grilling around the clock. There is just not that much grilling going on in Florida, as far as I can tell. Not in my neighborhood anyway. Usually, if they're grilling, it smells like the cheapest meat you can buy. I think it's too hot to go out and cook. It's just unbearable. People are stuck inside the house or shopping in the cold AC.

Richard, for years, all the restaurants here have served tilapia. It's real common here. I love it. I buy it all the time and cook it too. It's really delicious. Grouper was a big staple here but it got so expensive, many restaurants went to other fish like tilapia.

I also love mahi mahi but I haven't had any lately. I agree--$15 a pound for fish is ridiculous.

Tomorrow nights NFNS looks like alot of the contestants are in tears. I think someone is in tears every week so far. I would love to see Jamika win. I think she's delightful. I read somewhere that Debbie is probably going to get it. Let's face it, Giada likes her so she must have something going for her. I think she might be the first person Giada has ever liked.

What does everyone else think?

[RICHARD]

I have a picture of CA, in my own mind, of all residents out on their patios, grilling around the clock. There is just not that much grilling going on in Florida, as far as I can tell. Not in my neighborhood anyway. Usually, if they're grilling, it smells like the cheapest meat you can buy. I think it's too hot to go out and cook. It's just unbearable. People are stuck inside the house or shopping in the cold AC.

LOL,
You have to live in a Mexican neighborhood. Out here people find any reason to fire up the grill. The worst possible thing to happen is you walk outside your house in the middle of the week and you smell someone cooking! You can smell the citrus, onion and chile in the air, after I identify what the neighbors are cookling, I head indoors and open up a can of soup:rolleyes.:

Out here, the main meat is marinated skirt steak, it's cheap, not too thick and you can feed an army with a few bucks. You can buy pre marinated meat, a few dozen corn tortillas, Someone will make the salsa, A pot of beans, someone makes rice.

One guy grills the meat and heats tortillas, the meat is tossed onto a butcher block where someone takes a cleaver to it! It gets dumped into a bowl and everyone goes buffet!

Maybe you don't want people partying in your hood.

Sometimes we get parties that go until 2-3 in the A.M.


BTW?

Yeah, it does get way too hot to cook outdoors in the summer.