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i'm hungry! ate mostly cookies today! I made them! containing lots of chocolate pieces and brown sugar and butterscotch sauce! but they're all gone now...
Fabulous! I can't wait to try these!Saladsamurai said:OK. Here goes my first addition to the food thread. It's a Filet or Tenderloin with a simple Port glaze. It is my variation of Steak au poivre. I have also included some optional sides below main recipe.
FrancisZ said:For the past two days, I've been trying, very unsuccessfully, to get my hands on even just ONE can of pumpkin glop (figuring, it's that time of year again).
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Somehow, I can't help but be reminded of that Mencia quote: "Oh no, the world's going to run out of cookies!"
Well, apparently, it ran out sieved pumpkin, sometime in July (which was the last time I saw it on the shelf). Tons of berry filling, but no pumpkin. Very sad. :(
turbo-1 said:Find someone who grows pie pumpkins and store the pumpkins in a dark cool place. They store well. Then you can incorporate them into pies, breads, cookies, etc, this winter.
Evo said:There was a pumpkin blight last year, canned pumpkin is rare now.
lisab said:Looks like fall has come early. It's rainy, in the mid-50s.
Perfect day for red beans and rice, yum!
Evo said:I had a nightmare about cake decorating last night. Perhaps I have finally OD'd on Food TV?
turbo-1 said:The Food Network is 99% junk.
I don't watch team sports, either. Huge waste of time. If the Food Network had cooks of the caliber of Julia Child and Graham Kerr (who actually taught you things with their shows), I'd watch those. Some of Alton Brown's shows have been OK - but not the competition ones.Evo said:Turbo, food competitions are no less reasonable than say, a football game. When in real life are you going to find a group of refrigerator sized men wearing armor and throwing a piece of leather at each other?
It's entertainment.
The point is that the information on his Good Eats show are from a script written by show writers. Some of the mistakes on that show have been doozies.turbo-1 said:His tips on searing and cooking steaks are not bad, and his tips on brining turkey are useful. His advice on allowing itinerant nuts to sharpen your prized cutlery on belt-grinders was so bad that I wanted to puke. No chef, meat-cutter, or fish-monger with an ounce of sense would ever allow that! That was his worst show ever, IMO! People who love to cook are very attached to their knives, and if they have a couple of firing brain-cells, they know that you have to sharpen them carefully with proper lubrication and cooling. The thought of letting some nut "sharpen" my Thiers-Issard knives by overheating the edges and throwing sparks off a belt-grinder is repulsive.
There are very few Food Network shows that impart any useful knowledge, so I don't watch any of them. You could pick a random person off the street and force them watch the Cooking with the Neeleys show, and after an hour or two they would confess to the Son of Sam murders, the WTC attacks and the Murrah building bombing. Just make it stop!
Oh, yes, he has perpetrated some real stinkers. I don't know his history, but he was probably involved in producing a show or two and said "this food stuff is easy" and fell prey to his own ignorance/lack of experience.Evo said:The point is that the information on his Good Eats show are from a script written by show writers. Some of the mistakes on that show have been doozies.
I know what you meant. I'm home about every day, and when the weather is bad, it would be nice to have some informative cooking shows on TV. Unfortunately, the Food Network falls far short of that mark. I learned basic French cooking, canning, pickling, etc from my mother, and learned how to manage meals for large groups from my grandmother, who cooked for a large log-driving crew every day for years.nismaratwork said:Wow... I just meant that I enjoyed some of his shows, not that Alton Brown should be a messianic food-figure. No one should learn to cook via TV, so these things should be approached with a ready knowledge of food.
Oh, I don't ever watch her, she's got to be the worst and most annoying.nucleargirl said:I watched food network today! and oh my god they've brought in a new and even more annoying (than Eva Garten) chef! she was doing some 'healthy eating' show, Elaine or something...