Had it with the Food Channel...

[RICHARD]

The two latest 'food fads are kalamata (sp) olives and machenga cheese?

Check it out!

[Daisy and Delilah]

The two latest 'food fads are kalamata (sp) olives and machenga cheese?

Check it out!

What is machenga cheese? I've never heard of it. I love calamata olives. I would eat green olives if they weren't so salty. I can eat the black ones around the clock. The calamata are a good combination of the two.

[RICHARD]

What is machenga cheese?

Isn't it the Forbidden Cheese?

I have no idea.

It's just an ingredient that shows up on the channel and everyone uses it!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Isn't it the Forbidden Cheese?

I have no idea.

It's just an ingredient that shows up on the channel and everyone uses it!

It must be forbidden. I can't find a decent description of it anywhere. I'll keep watching the FN cause I'm sure they'll be using it alot.

[RICHARD]

It must be forbidden. I can't find a decent description of it anywhere. I'll keep watching the FN cause I'm sure they'll be using it alot.

I was thinking of the Macarena 'cheese'.

LOLOL, I saw TF open a can today, with a manual opener.

[RICHARD]

OH oh oh!


Insomnia and cable TV rock!

I was up late and turned on the tube.
I came across the termially bad SY Fy channel and the movie, 'I am Omega"-
Based on the book and two other movies? This movie sucked, but I watched it to the end!!!! . I love Sci Fi, the cheese-ier? the better!

The "chairman", Mark, D was the star of the flick and he had a few scenes with no shirt on.

He had no tattoo!

I looked verycarefully to see if it was makeup? I could not tell.......

Hmmmmm!

[cassiesmom]

I watched "Chefs vs. City" Chicago episode - I was smiling the whole time! They went first to a couple of places I didn't know about ... then they ended up at two Chicago classics, the Superdawg Drive-In and Lou Malnati's. But for two people to eat an entire Lou's pizza - that's just nuts. One piece fills you up.

[RICHARD]

http://www.parentdish.com/2009/09/24...es-kids-fat%2F

Oh, Paula Deen takes it on the chin!

That was tough.

[Daisy and Delilah]

Shucks, I wanted to read the story but I'm getting an error message so it was aborted.

I tried to watch Jeff Corwin last night. For some reason, I think this guy is getting more and more obnoxious as the time goes by. Anybody else notice this?

I really enjoyed the Mexican show but his shows since then have lacked in almost everything for me.

[RICHARD]

Barbara Walters Says Paula Deen Makes Kids Fat



When cookbook author Paula Deen appeared on "The View" on ABC Tuesday, host Barbara Walters lashed out at her for pushing fattening food for children. Deen, a zaftig, Georgia restaurant owner, was on the program to plug her book, "Paula Deen's Cookbook for the Lunchbox Set."

"This is a cookbook for kids. Obesity is the No. 1 problem for kids today. Everything you have here is enormously fattening," scolded Walters as she sat by the famous chef. "You tell kids to have cheesecake for breakfast. You tell them to have chocolate cake and meatloaf for lunch. And french fries. Doesn't it bother you that you're adding to this?"

All things in moderation, counseled Deen. "No, I'm not saying they should eat like this every day," she said.

Walters snapped that Deen's book is hardly a lesson in moderation. "Not when you're giving them this!"

We have two words for this. Awk. Ward.


And speaking of childhood obesity, our chubby brethren on the other side of the Atlantic are tipping the scales as well.

A Scottish couple reportedly lost custody of their two youngest children this month because authorities considered the kids to be too fat.




A family has been torn apart because the children are overweight. Credit: STV News
The couple, of Dundee, Scotland, has six children ranging in age from 3 to 13. WorldNetDaily reported that Scottish social workers told the parents last year the children needed to slim down or they would be taken into state custody for their own protection. At the time, the youngest girl reportedly weighed 56 pounds. The oldest boy, according to the online news service, now weighs more than 220 pounds.

The couple's 3- and 4-year-old children are now in foster care. Meanwhile, the mother is pregnant with the couple's seventh child.

"This whole case has been dreadful," Kathleen Price, the couple's attorney, told Scotland's television station STV. "Neither of these parents take drink or drugs. They have a big, happy, noisy family, which is prone to being overweight."

Social workers ordered the parents to enroll their children in dance and soccer classes last year while paid monitors watched the family's progress, WorldNet reported.

"They keep making an issue about the kids' weight," the mother told reporters last year. "I didn't even own a deep-fat fryer. All my food is home cooked and my kids are not fed junk food."

In Scotland, child welfare decisions are often made at the city council level. Tam Fry, a member of the National Obesity Forum, told STV that "more councils are now viewing obesity as an abuse issue."

Last January, Fry spoke out in the British newspaper The Sun in support of a decision by the city council in Leeds to deny a couple from adopting a child because the husband was overweight. Overweight parents are poor role models for children, he told the the newspaper.

Have we gone a little nuts in our concern about child obesity? Or are we setting our kids up for cream-filled doom?

[Daisy and Delilah]

Holy Cow!!!! Thanks, Richard.

Awkward to say the least. Baba has no problem coming down on people. I bet Paula almost melted into the floor. After all, Baba is right!! I am sorry I missed that.

Knowing what she knows, how could Paula produce a cookbook that pushes poor nutrition and overeating? Not to mention the fact that she's talking about it on The View. I know she knows what's going on because she always laughs about using the mayo and butter to extreme. I believe she's been criticized so long, she has built up defenses for the backlash. Baba's lecture must have been hard to handle, no matter how savvy southern Paula thinks she is.

Even though her recipes are delicious......C'mon, Paula, get it together. Did no one warn her of what the ladies of The View might do in response to this? I'll be honest, not just The View but everybody.

The family in Scotland:::if the mother thinks she's such a healthy cook, maybe the kids just aren't exercising enough. If someone took away my kids for being overweight, I would pack up the whole family and head to Weight Watchers and then to the gym.
That's horrible. This issue is so controversial.

[RICHARD]

I read somewhere that Paula Deen's favorite recipe was Mantequilla con Cuchara.

Butter with Spoon.....I gotta behave-I did see a Food Net special on her.
It was a special and all her family was out and about. Somehow one of the sons was on a tour bus and a fan asked his what was PD's favorite food.

The kid didn't skip a beat....."Butter!", he said.
Yikes.......


There is something about pushing a book on kids cooking and having a Surgeon General's warning on the spine?

As it is, kids do not eat anything you cook for them in the first place.

Do you remember the commercial of a baby in a swing looking out the window that overlooks the McDonald's sign?

The kicker there was the kid would laugh when he saw the sign, then cry when he swung and lost sight of it.

I can see her point for wanting to do a cookbook for kids, but feeding them sticks of "budder" will kill them faster than global warming!



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I just saw the best Dinner:Impossible.

It was the roller skating challenge. I laughed, very hard, especially when he was explaining the dish made from cucumber and soup to the Rainbow girl.
Classic!

[slick]

LOL
I was just watching an old episode of Jamie's Kitchen. He was cooking with freshly picked zucchini and demontrating on how to stuff some zucchini flowers. He picked up one, opened the flower and with a knife pulled out a live bumble bee. He just continued to stuff it and carry on without washing it.

Who knows how long that bee was there for and what he did hiding in there??? MMMM, bumble bee excrement!!!