Favorite Food Network show/host?

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bluerose said:
I love that show! I don’t get to watch it often, so I have just one question…

Does Bobby EVER win??? :confused:
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You know what, he sometimes does! He won a bartending competition on one of those throwdown shows…pretty impressive! I forgot about Flay–he is really a funny guy, too…and since he got married, he is much more down to earth, it seems. I like his shows!
 
The Galloping Gourmet was Graham Kerr and in the early days he was very much the comedian.
 
Re: “Semi-Homemade Cooking” (a little rant- sorry! 😛 )

Personally, I have no problem with the semi-homemade concept.

My problem with her show may have something to do with what I said in my previous post - how these FN shows have been going on for years, so the hosts are bound to run out of good ideas.
Many times her fast and “super-simple” semi-homemade recipes are actually more difficult and time-consuming and require more expensive and impractical “specialty” ingredients then the actual homemade recipe would. Like she’s going out of her way and adding unnecessary steps just so a recipe will technically fit into her semi-homemade formula.

Why not spend less money on fresh ingredients…? Buy fresh onions and chop 'em yourself! Don’t buy expenive bags of grated, processed cheese…Get a hunk of good chedder or american and a grater from the 99-cent store! Why even bother with canned oranges? Sliced mushrooms in a jar?? And some of the recipes are just wacky. A recent show featured chocolate sauce on steak :eek: …I also remember ( I wish I could forget!) some neon-green wasabi mashed potatoes.

But, yeah, I do still occasionally watch her show. SL herself both fascinates and disturbs me…I think there’s something wrong with her. The odd way she talks and mis-pronounces her words, and the frozen smile-stare. I don’t mean to be uncharitable…I saw her “Chefography” and can see how her life story can be admired. But her TV persona is just weird, IMO.
 
brotherhrolf said:
Do Southerners really pay attention to receipes? Neither do Cajuns or Creoles. So if Paula’s receipes look wrong, it’s because she’s cooking by sight, texture, smell and taste.
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Good point about southerners and recipes. I’m always changing them up…'cause I know what I like and I’m sure I know how to make it better. 🙂

Frequently Paula will start with a recipe that just looks awesome…but then she’ll go and ruin it (IMO) with a carton of sour cream or some chicken fat or ham…So, I would definitely change those up a little. (Rachael Ray also has a weird thing with ham, and adding cheese on top of everything.)
Emeril - you gotta understand. He cooked with Julia Child (now there was a chef who could cook!)
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Amen! 👍
One of the first cookbooks I ever read was Julia Child’s Art of French Cooking- (I think that’s the correct title.) My mom had a million cookbooks around, but when I was a kid I liked that one best. I think I was fascinated by some of the weird recipes. I particularly remember the sauteed brains, and the many uses for beef tongue…
 
ac_claire said:
Re: “Semi-Homemade Cooking” (a little rant- sorry! 😛 )

Why not spend less money on fresh ingredients…?

But, yeah, I do still occasionally watch her show. SL herself both fascinates and disturbs me…I think there’s something wrong with her. The odd way she talks and mis-pronounces her words, and the frozen smile-stare. I don’t mean to be uncharitable…I saw her “Chefography” and can see how her life story can be admired. But her TV persona is just weird, IMO.
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I agree. I think a lot of recipes from these shows call for expensive ingredients. Well, many of them anyway.

But I kind of feel the same way about her diction and pronunciation. She spends a lot of energy on that!

The frozen smile stare is probably botox!!😃
As I said in a previous post, dh swears she has b implants…

…and I cannot stand how her clothes always match the window treatments.

I agree about the biography. She definitely works hard, loves her familiy and is good to them. I just wish she’d relax a little bit on screen.
 
ac_claire said:
Good point about southerners and recipes. I’m always changing them up…'cause I know what I like and I’m sure I know how to make it better. 🙂

Frequently Paula will start with a recipe that just looks awesome…but then she’ll go and ruin it (IMO) with a carton of sour cream or some chicken fat or ham…So, I would definitely change those up a little. (Rachael Ray also has a weird thing with ham, and adding cheese on top of everything.)

Amen! 👍
One of the first cookbooks I ever read was Julia Child’s Art of French Cooking- (I think that’s the correct title.) My mom had a million cookbooks around, but when I was a kid I liked that one best. I think I was fascinated by some of the weird recipes. I particularly remember the sauteed brains, and the many uses for beef tongue…
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Don’t forget the liver! Can always do something with the liver!😃 Oh, yeah the lady on Semi-home made cooking. Her receipes remind me of what they served us in grade school - straight out of the can.

I just don’t trust a skinny chef. Julia when she cooked with James Beard was just awesome. And Jacques Pepin.
 
ac_claire said:
Re: “Semi-Homemade Cooking” (a little rant- sorry! 😛 )

Personally, I have no problem with the semi-homemade concept.

My problem with her show may have something to do with what I said in my previous post - how these FN shows have been going on for years, so the hosts are bound to run out of good ideas.
Many times her fast and “super-simple” semi-homemade recipes are actually more difficult and time-consuming and require more expensive and impractical “specialty” ingredients then the actual homemade recipe would. Like she’s going out of her way and adding unnecessary steps just so a recipe will technically fit into her semi-homemade formula.

Why not spend less money on fresh ingredients…? Buy fresh onions and chop 'em yourself! Don’t buy expenive bags of grated, processed cheese…Get a hunk of good chedder or american and a grater from the 99-cent store! Why even bother with canned oranges? Sliced mushrooms in a jar?? And some of the recipes are just wacky. A recent show featured chocolate sauce on steak :eek: …I also remember ( I wish I could forget!) some neon-green wasabi mashed potatoes.

But, yeah, I do still occasionally watch her show. SL herself both fascinates and disturbs me…I think there’s something wrong with her. The odd way she talks and mis-pronounces her words, and the frozen smile-stare. I don’t mean to be uncharitable…I saw her “Chefography” and can see how her life story can be admired. But her TV persona is just weird, IMO.
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haha–or do what I like to do…MAKE RESERVATIONS.😃
 
ac_claire said:
(**I have wondered, though, how it’s possible that Giada eats her own food. She’s awfully thin. **And yeah, I agree that the cleavage/neckline thing is out of control.)
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See, this attitude really bothers me. It’s like a woman can’t possibly enjoy eating food unless she’s big. Have you ever looked at Giada? Yes, she’s small. But she’s not bony. In fact, I’m watching her show right now. Her upper arms have meat on them, her face isn’t skeletal, you can’t see her ribs. She’s built like me. If I eat normally (1600-2200 calories/day, depending on how I’m feeling) and get moderate exercise, I settle at a size 4/6. I’m 5 feet tall with a small frame. I cook as often as I can and don’t shy away from things because they’re full-fat or high-calorie (only if I don’t like them). I refuse to starve myself or only eat “good” (aka fat-free, carb-free) foods because I feel like garbage if I do. It really bothers me when people assume that I and other small women must starve ourselves or exercise like fanatics to stay slim. No thanks, I’ve done that. I respect myself too much to ever do it again.

Not all of us are the same size, not all of us have the same metabolism. Two people can be born of the same parents, be raised in the same family, eat the same foods, and one might be noticeably smaller than the other. It doesn’t mean that the larger one overate, or that the smaller one starved him or herself.
 
I HAZ NEW FAVE!!! 😃

Don’t know the exact title of the show but it’s on Saturday mornings and it features the Neeleys, who have a BBQ restaurant in Memphis (I THINK).

Love the family! I printed out the recipes for their cole slaw and BBQ spaghetti. Can’t wait to see what else they come up with.
 
I have to go with Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. My cholesterol goes up 10 points every time I watch the show.😃
 
My husband REALLY likes to watch Giada…and I think only 50% of that is the food. 😃

I like Rachael Ray.
 
I like Alton Brown, Tyler Florence, Robin Miller, and Giada De Laurentiis. Ellie Krieger, sometimes, sometimes not. Contessa, I like her, but she doesn’t like my budget.

I get tired of Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee real fast, besides, their recipes don’t inspire me. As to buying “canned oranges”, up here in the winter, it’s awful hard to get a ripe, sweet orange. In fact, it’s darn near impossible, unless you ordered online and paid a fortune.

Paula Deen is a sweet, loveable lady, but my goodness, my hips gain an inch, each time I watch her show. 😦

Has anyone watched “The Gourmet Next Door”, Amy Finley?
She was the winner of the Next Food Network Star, last season. Some of her recipes look pretty good. She, however, seems stiff on-camera, and makes a few mistakes. I’m thinking her show isn’t going to make it. Thoughts, anyone??
 
SeekerJen said:
Have you ever looked at Giada?
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Oh, *Lord *yes! 😉

Ahem…I like Alton Brown, because he’s as big a geek as me (“Don’t cross the streams,” in reference to, I believe, getting some wet ingredients in with some dry ones prematurely–or all the Bladerunner references?).

I also like the original Iron Chef, in part because Chairman Kaga:
http://www.foodtv.ca/DMM/T/A/Takeshi_Kaga_001.jpg
looks eerily similar to Hijikata Toshizou (when he’s not making that face, anyway):
http://sak2-2.tok2.com/home/toshizou/hijikata-toshizou001.jpg
 
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