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cportwine
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Posted: 6 Oct 2008 11:24 am |
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Do you watch any cooking shows? Which ones are your favorite?
I really like rachel rae (spelling?). I watched one the other day, and it just happen to be a somewhat healthy meal. So, I was pleased.
Are they any cooking shows that are for dieting and eating healthy? Just was wondering.
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MidgeH
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Posted: 6 Oct 2008 03:02 pm |
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there are VERY few cookign shows that are honest to god healthy cooking.
On the food network there is Healthy Appitite, which a nutritionist runs, good ideas but the host is a bit of a bore. On PBS there is this show, the name of which escapes me at the moment, but it's hosted by a health food freak (you know the kind- thinks it's perfectly normal to have gallons of almond milk laying aroung the house and says things like "the life force of the onion is in the root!" all the while still managing to be a little pudgy because your entire musculature has turned to mush because you used up all the energy those 3 carrots you ate today gave you by playing the bongos. ) It's quite fun.
I'm coming back around to Rachale Ray, even though I'm still not sure why she thinks I'm so stupid. Seh does seem to have gotten ahold of herslef lately. I think she'd be better suited to teaching a children's cooking show. Oh, and some of the stuff she does is so incredibly UNHEALTHY it isn't even funny. (She completely lost me the day she rinsed off chicken in the same sink where she had left her just rinsed salad lettuce to dry.)
Best cooking show (at least of those still on - the good ones got axed the minute the food network started making money) is America's Test Kitchen - PBS.
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cupcakets
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Posted: 7 Oct 2008 03:11 pm |
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| I always watch cooking shows.They may not all be healthy recipes,but it's easy to tweak them so that they are :)
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cportwine
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Posted: 7 Oct 2008 03:45 pm |
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MidgeH wrote: there are VERY few cookign shows that are honest to god healthy cooking.
On the food network there is Healthy Appitite, which a nutritionist runs, good ideas but the host is a bit of a bore. On PBS there is this show, the name of which escapes me at the moment, but it's hosted by a health food freak (you know the kind- thinks it's perfectly normal to have gallons of almond milk laying aroung the house and says things like "the life force of the onion is in the root!" all the while still managing to be a little pudgy because your entire musculature has turned to mush because you used up all the energy those 3 carrots you ate today gave you by playing the bongos. ) It's quite fun.
I'm coming back around to Rachale Ray, even though I'm still not sure why she thinks I'm so stupid. Seh does seem to have gotten ahold of herslef lately. I think she'd be better suited to teaching a children's cooking show. Oh, and some of the stuff she does is so incredibly UNHEALTHY it isn't even funny. (She completely lost me the day she rinsed off chicken in the same sink where she had left her just rinsed salad lettuce to dry.)
Best cooking show (at least of those still on - the good ones got axed the minute the food network started making money) is America's Test Kitchen - PBS.
Really? I kind of like that about her. I guess, I am dense and need someone to go over it and over it, to get it into my thick skull. lol
Yeah! the chicken thing is bad- shame on her...
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cportwine
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Posted: 7 Oct 2008 03:47 pm |
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cupcakets wrote: I always watch cooking shows.They may not all be healthy recipes,but it's easy to tweak them so that they are :)
I do that with every recipe, even the so called healthy ones. I like watching them just to get ideas. Seems like I am always eating the same things. Gets boring...
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MidgeH
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Posted: 7 Oct 2008 03:53 pm |
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C - for me it's, well it's a lot of things like that stupid "EVOO" but saying it "EVOO - extra virgin olive oil" everytime. Either have the acronim or don't. Some of her food looks pretty good though - except they are very high in fat and salt and usually low on complex veggie. Again, I would be fine with that, but stop calling something you just sauteed in a cup of oil - even olive oil - "healthful".
Sorry, that's the end of my rant. Weird thing is - I want to like R. Ray. And I think her kitchen is supercute. It's just that I grew up on cooking shows and I sometimes get worked up about where they have gone. I just know Julia Child is spinning in her grave.
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cportwine
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Posted: 7 Oct 2008 04:59 pm |
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LOL- Julia Child...
I don't watch allot of cooking shows, cause I usually have stuff going on here all the time and it is hard to focus on one for a period of time.
When I watched hers I was on the treadmill, so I could actually watch and follow it. And have to agree with on the EVOO- that is very annoying after awhile. But, since I don't watch them but once in a blue moon, then I guess it doesn't get my goat to bad.
Yea, I bet Julia Child would had a few words to say to her about the chicken ordeal...
I do get her magazine (r.ray) and I have to say. I would probably never cook anything in it. It seems all the recipes are long and complicated. I like to make fast simple things. You know- pork chops and soup, throw in the oven, kind of thing.
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sqzee
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Posted: 24 Jan 2009 04:30 am |
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I watch every cooking show there is! After starting my diet, and cooking food for myself (and my mother) instead of letting my mother do it, I have developed a passion for food! I love cooking shows, cook books and anything about recipies!
I even made tomatosauce yesterday, and I HATE tomatos. I've also started making my own pasta, like ravioli, which is quite fun.
Anyway, fav cooking show... Master Cheif I think, and one with a chinese lady I can't remember the name of... Cooked (because it takes place in in southern Africa, and I currently live in eastern Africa so I can actually by the food the guy is cooking)
And Gary Rhodes, although it's not soo much a cooking show...
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sqzee
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Posted: 24 Jan 2009 04:35 am |
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| And Jamie Oliver of course... The classic!
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ShannonOfDoom
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Posted: 9 Feb 2009 11:31 pm |
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Food Safari, its an aussie food documentary where people cook ethnic dishes from thier herigage for the host in thier homes.
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/foodsafari
Thier website is great too because after the show they put it online with the recipe & you can replay the person cooking the food to make sure you're doing it right. Lately I have made a lot of middle eastern food (Cyrian & Turkish) and also tried some american recipes.
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