Post by jeaniebueller on Oct 12, 2017 9:51:15 GMT -5
I have never watched PW's show but have made things off of her blog. THe chicken tacos (where you deep fry the shells) are amazing. I love Ina too. Rachel Ray is who got me interested in learning to cook a zillion years ago when the Food Network actually played more cooking shows than stupid game show and diners, dives and drive in garbage.
I have never watched PW's show but have made things off of her blog. THe chicken tacos (where you deep fry the shells) are amazing. I love Ina too. Rachel Ray is who got me interested in learning to cook a zillion years ago when the Food Network actually played more cooking shows than stupid game show and diners, dives and drive in garbage.
Same!! I used to watch RR all the time and that was what got me into cooking.
Her recipes have gone off the rails and I don't use her cookbooks that much anymore, but she will always have a soft part in my heart because of that.
Post by debatethis on Oct 12, 2017 10:06:23 GMT -5
I used to love PW before she got a show and even more photo-happy. Like a decade ago she published a recipe similar to this and it's totally church potluck food from my youth and so good (don't judge - they're delicious). www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/mountain-dew-apple-dumplings-61755
Oh and to ruin Ina. A few years ago didn't she say that she didn't have time to meet with a child who had cancer and that was his wish? I can't recall the details.
I can't recall this specific story, but I know she's really not a 'kid' person. I think I remember she did a cooking class with special needs kids and wasn't great with connecting with them or wasn't super patient, something like that.
Ina always acts like she's ready to go have sex with Jeffrey when he walks in. I hate Pioneer Woman. She gets on my last nerve. If you want a kick ass Giada recipe, make her dirty risotto. I also don't care for Nigella. I wish Mori Moto would do a show. He was my favorite Iron Chef.
Nigella licks her fingers too much for me. It's nasty. I bet her fingers smell like hmmmm.
Post by twilightmv on Oct 12, 2017 10:31:04 GMT -5
Huh, I don’t recognize Nigella. Don’t know her.
I’m really over all the competition shows. They have gone off the rails. Not useful and too repetitive. Small exception for the kid ones. I like that they work together and I’m amazed at what they can do. I watch them grill like “no!! Hot!!! Get away from there!”
I used to love PW before she got a show and even more photo-happy. Like a decade ago she published a recipe similar to this and it's totally church potluck food from my youth and so good (don't judge - they're delicious). www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/mountain-dew-apple-dumplings-61755
I've made this too and it's pretty good ... I followed the recipe exactly the first time and I felt like I was about to shoot off like a rocket through my roof, so the next time I dramatically decreased the amount of butter and Mountain Dew.
jeaniebueller I also liked Rachael Ray's shows, but all the constant "Yummo! Delish!" crap was annoying.
I liked her $30/Day tourism show but it cracked me up that she'd leave, like, $2.87 for a tip. Cheapo. We tried to follow one of her recommendations for DC, for a hotel that served Bananas Foster on the roof overlooking the White House, but when we got there they had no idea WTF we were talking about.
My sister got tickets to RR's NYC show a few years ago, so she brought me and our cousin. Jamie Lee Curtis was the guest and she was bouncing all over the place like that Molly Shannon SNL sketch. I think we all got samples of her yogurt to take home.
They had REALLY strict rules about the dress code ... jewel tones, no casual shoes. I showed up in sneakers because we'd walked from the PATH train and I had flats in my purse to change, and someone from the show started yelling at me outside before I had a chance to change. A friend of my posted on FB after that that she'd gotten tickets to a taping and I warned her to follow the dress code, and I guess she didn't because she posted the next day that they'd turned her away at the door.
Jeans were fine (although they made it a point to say they had to be dark wash and well-cut), but they were REALLY adamant about the jewel-toned shirts and nice shoes.
I don't even remember if I had something suitable or if I had to go buy something.
I remember our cousin taking us to Jamba Juice afterward because we'd never been.
I've been to tapings of Conan and Letterman, too ... they were a lot more fun. Also that late-night show that Carson Daly had once upon a time.
And TRL. John Norris was giving some serious news report about Fred Durst and MH (BF at the time) guffawed by accident in the audience because Norris was acting like Walter Cronkite or something over it and meanwhile it was Fred Fucking Durst. When we went back to watch the tape at home you could see John Norris glance angrily in MH's direction.
Someone in the audience was also messing around in front of the camera (nothing vulgar or offensive, just being a stupid kid), and some MTV guy in a suit got right in his face and threatened to "end him." Geez, guy, it's TEE-ARRRR-ELLLL, take it down a notch.
Ina's Turkey Meatloaf and Parmesan Smashed Potatoes were one of the very first things DH and I cooked together. And let me tell you, it's *still* a favorite. We also learned all about roasting veggies back when we were youngens from her. I definitely attribute our foodiness and relatively advanced kitchen abilities to watching Barefoot Contessa in our early 20s.
Is Ina's blender hollandaise any different than Joy of Cooking? That's my go-to, and it's never failed JoC (the 2000 version) was my first cookbook, and though I have a cookbook buying compulsion and have quite the collection, I still reference it regularly. That and an ATK collection.
I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't doubt it. I know for a fact that her super-popular chicken & biscuits is a recipe taken from a WWII Victory Garden cookbook. It's original name was "Chicken in the Garden" because it used mostly ingredients from the victory gardens and very few rationed ingredients. It's been a favorite dish in my family since the mid-70s at least.
But Ina's super-rich Hamptons persona would never admit to something as peasant-y as knowing what a Victory Garden or rationing was so there is no way she'd admit the recipe was not original.
I have never watched PW's show but have made things off of her blog. THe chicken tacos (where you deep fry the shells) are amazing. I love Ina too. Rachel Ray is who got me interested in learning to cook a zillion years ago when the Food Network actually played more cooking shows than stupid game show and diners, dives and drive in garbage.
I have never watched PW's show but have made things off of her blog. THe chicken tacos (where you deep fry the shells) are amazing. I love Ina too. Rachel Ray is who got me interested in learning to cook a zillion years ago when the Food Network actually played more cooking shows than stupid game show and diners, dives and drive in garbage.
Same!! I used to watch RR all the time and that was what got me into cooking.
Her recipes have gone off the rails and I don't use her cookbooks that much anymore, but she will always have a soft part in my heart because of that.
Yes! We were newly married 22 year olds in a 1 bedroom apartment in DC and learned to cook from Rachel Ray! I watched sooooo much food network in the early weeks while I was job hunting. I would watch Food Network shows and write thank you notes.
Let's face it we all know that Martha is the freaking Queen and no one can ever beat her.
Martha on Seth Meyers last year was one of the funniest episodes ever. Where he keeps chugging the rose and she’s like “of course I make my own jam you plebeian.”
She seems so stuffy but then she also really seems to get that she is stuffy and she’s able to play off others surprisingly well.
Let's face it we all know that Martha is the freaking Queen and no one can ever beat her.
Martha on Seth Meyers last year was one of the funniest episodes ever. Where he keeps chugging the rose and she’s like “of course I make my own jam you plebeian.”
She seems so stuffy but then she also really seems to get that she is stuffy and she’s able to play off others surprisingly well.
I used to love the show where Martha's daughter watched old episodes of Martha Stewart Living with her BFF, got drunk, and tried to make the crafts.
I harbored a soft spot for PW for years because a) Oklahoma and b) she taught me how to cook. I know the incessant photos are annoying, but they literally taught me how to chop veggies.
Martha on Seth Meyers last year was one of the funniest episodes ever. Where he keeps chugging the rose and she’s like “of course I make my own jam you plebeian.”
She seems so stuffy but then she also really seems to get that she is stuffy and she’s able to play off others surprisingly well.
I used to love the show where Martha's daughter watched old episodes of Martha Stewart Living with her BFF, got drunk, and tried to make the crafts.
I know it's not a show, but these days I'm all about Food Lab. There aren't a ton of recipes, but it's a lot of methodology and science. So, for someone like me who likes to experiment and do my own thing rather than follow a strict recipe, it's perfect.
“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent,”
So I record Barefoot Contessa and rarely watch but I watched an episode yesterday. Now I'm making her chicken with shallots this week for dinner. It is super easy if anyone else needs a quick recipe for the week.
I will say too that partly Food Network just goes in themes. And they all have a shtick. So 5-10 years ago, it was all Ina and Giada and Nigella and this luxurious but effortless lifestyle they give off, in their pristine white kitchens with fancy camera work etc.
Now in the past 3-5 years its become this down home cooking spiel - Ree, Trisha Yearwood was pushing it (laughably), and a few others - just wholesome outdoor living that requires lots of butter and cheese at the end of the day.
In a few years Food Network will be pushing another set of shows with a different shtick.
Ree's just been very good about marketing and packaging herself separate of food network (I think she's only had her show for three years?) And that's all it is. It's marketing and packaging.
I completely agree, and it makes me so sad because Ina is my personal domestic goddess. Her cookbooks are set up in my kitchen in such a way that my husband calls it my shrine. I have no shame about that. She should reign forever!
The same thing is happening all over the domestic art TV sphere. I remember when HGTV was real designers who designed expensive spaces for real people. Candace Olsen is my forever fav, and I enjoy Sarah Richardson as well. The Property Brothers can take their chinless faces and fall off a cliff, and this farce that everyone just loves MCM crap and that it is the only way to update your home is infuriating.
I don't want to watch amateurs slapping up a brass pendant and call themselves designers! I want to learn how to cohesively put a room together, or learn to throw a dinner party that my husband can invite his office to. I am a fucking adult that wants shit from Target to look like shit from Target and expensive shit to look timeless and like I know how to put a home together where people visit! I'm so sick of the consumerism, TRENDY BULLSHIT, AND ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM PERMEATING THE PUBLIC'S CONSUMPTION OF ALL ART FORMS! AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IS DYING ONE CHEVRON TILE JOB AND CHEESE COVERED MONSTROSITY AT A TIME!
I think I just went full lasagna. Apparently I have very strong feelings about the Scripts network.
I have never watched PW's show but have made things off of her blog. THe chicken tacos (where you deep fry the shells) are amazing. I love Ina too. Rachel Ray is who got me interested in learning to cook a zillion years ago when the Food Network actually played more cooking shows than stupid game show and diners, dives and drive in garbage.
This is why I stopped watching food network. That channel honestly taught me how to cook. Now it's all crap. It makes me sad.
I have never watched PW's show but have made things off of her blog. THe chicken tacos (where you deep fry the shells) are amazing. I love Ina too. Rachel Ray is who got me interested in learning to cook a zillion years ago when the Food Network actually played more cooking shows than stupid game show and diners, dives and drive in garbage.
This is why I stopped watching food network. That channel honestly taught me how to cook. Now it's all crap. It makes me sad.
Food Network has basically pulled an MTV. There's like a 2 hour block a week where they play what made them famous (actual cooking shows/music videos) but you have to get up at like 6 in the morning on a Saturday to catch it.
I too loathe what the Food Network has become. I'll give a plug for the Create channel from PBS. They have a decent number of real cooking shows with new talent, specialized cuisines, and a bunch of the classics too.
My first cookbook was a Care Bear one from the Scholastic ordering form. It had such classics like Ants on a Log and Rainbow Sticks (fruit on skewers). Incidentally it was also my last cookbook.