Any Food Network Fans?

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LaughingWater

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It seems I watch all of two things ~ cable news and Food Network (which means I'm totally out of the TV culture loop but I can make a darn good chocolate chip cookie :+ ).

Any other Food Network fans out there? I love to cook and use Saturday as my Cheat Day to cook/bake/eat anything my heart desires. My FN favorite is Ina Garten, who doesn't offer the healthiest menus, but darn her food is fun to make.

I have recently tried a couple of [a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ek/article/0,2763,FOOD_25716_4556547,00.html"]Ellie Krieger[/a]'s recipes, and those went over pretty well (especially her [a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_146081,00.html"]Lemon Broccolini[/a]). Since I attempt to make a healthier menu during the week, I plan on working my way through more of her recipes.
 
I am also a Food Network addict! I have learned soo much about cooking and food! I live in a remote area so it is nice to be able to learn about all the different cuisines! I cannot say my favorite, I like most all of the shows, except "Semi Homemade." My DH and I really like Alton Brown's "Good Eats." He is such an intelligent guy! Ellie Krieger is really cool! I am out of the loop with network tv as well! :)
 
Oh, count me in as another addict! I only watch three things...Food Network, Weather Channel, and local news. *Makes note to get a life*! LOVE Alton, Giada, Tyler and *some* of Rachel's stuff. While I don't really care for Sandra Lee, I have gotten a couple of great ideas from her show (no tablescapes, though LOL!). I make a curried butternut squash soup that everyone kills for that incorporates a few of her ideas that I then adapted to suit me. I feel like I've actually *learned* how to cook from watching these shows rather than just learning how to follow a recipe.
 
Another Food Network addict here! (the Weather Channel is my first love with Food Network a close second...) I really feel like I've become a *much* better cook because of it. It's a far cry from my old days of lipton rice mixes, I tell ya! I'm into deglazing pans with wine, making herbed sauces, braising, broiling, sauteeing, roasting....and then some! I do really love to cook when I have the time. When I don't have time, it's to the easy (and less healthy alternatives) stuff....we had pizza tonight. OMG, I freakin' love pizza. I'm not denying it, it's my cheating food, and I don't feel guilty about that one bit!

I also love Alton, Iron Chef, Giada (geez, much cleavage??), Rachel Ray when I can stand her perkiness and man hands, and Ellie. I really like Guy Fieri with his diners, drives show, but I can't stand to watch him stuff his face and talk with his mouth full - really grosses me out, but he's really funny.

Oh, I also love Charm City cakes - how in the hell do they do that stuff? Amazing - the challenges are fun, too.

Heidi
 
I also love Food Network!! I started watching it a lot when I was on maternity leave a few years ago and was forever hooked! Paula Dean is my favorite, I wish I could eat the stuff she makes, and her personality is so attractive!!
 
Me too, me too. We usually watch it while eating dinner. We grill most every night we eat at home so Bobby Flay is a big fave of ours. Went to Mesa Grill when we were in Las Vegas last fall.

I am happy to see many of the shows looking to healthier cooking, even Paula Deen has changed some of her recipes to lower fat and Rachel Ray has also.

We mainly pick up tips and try some of them out along the way.

And Alton - he's just a great teacher about anything having to do with food !

Do y'all watch Iron Chef? Fun to see the presentations and I absolutely adore the food combinations the put together.

Yep - hard to watch a food program and not want to eat all the dishes they make. I just try to make them healthier with substitutions or at least portions of the recipes.

OK - I'll stop now. }(
 
Love Racheal Ray, Ellie and Alton. DH and I like trying new things so we enjoy watching to get some new ideas.

Colleen
 
Me. me, me. Love the food network....LOL it's on as I post.

With a four year old in the house it's best to have the food network on than CNN,or any other entertainment channel, No questionable language and there is a learning advantage..... she is learning to braise a rib, reduce a stock, make a creamy frosting, bone a monkfish, cook for 400 firefighters, make lasagna, sides and desert in 30 minutes, understands how to make corn bread with a southern drawl, and make very cute holiday Martha Stewart treats that utilize a rosemary twig and a dixie cup.

I however, just watch.

Love it!

;-)
 
LOVE Iron Chef! :D My entire family watches it. How I wish I could plate like them.

Dinner: Impossible inspired us to create our own Birthday: Impossible dinner for my husband's 40th. I was the head chef, and my girls were my sous chefs. It was pretty funny.

Throwdown is becoming a new favorite with us. And thanks to Tyler's Ultimate, we learned how to make chocolate truffles.

I agree about it making you a better cook. I learn a ton, and I get the nerve to try new things.
 
Hey Lori,

OMGosh - big time Foodie here - I mean FN Fan! It's either channel 43(FN) or 58 (HGTV) - either learning how to cook/eat it or how to build/destroy it, ha!

Both dh and I love Alton & Good Eats - he's the man! And following Japanese tradition - Iron Chef. We also do alot of grilling (yeah, Bob-bee...Bob-bee)and Cajun cookin' (Emeril)and Ina & Michael Chiarello have the most wonderful recipes! Ahh, Sara, Mario, Nigella, Ming Tsai, Sandra, Paula, Tyler, Ellie, Giada, Masahara Morimoto, Wolfgang and even the new girl Sunny - what a lineup. Don't you just love Throwdown and Unwrapped and don't forget the FN Challenges.

Only negative, imho is RR - not a fan; don't mean to offend anyone, but please - stop with the "baby talk" evoo, sammies etc - and even muted she's too much for me (sorry -but I'm being honest).

Also -- very cool: Robert Irvine did Dinner Impossible just 10 miles from my house and Triple "D" - Guy F. did a "Dives" show at a little place that we like to go to. - We actually talked to some of his crew after the filming was finished :+

CookBooks - one of my favorite pastimes, could just live at B&N visiting one section at a time--next onto Health and Fitness-HA! Got to keep the balance.

Here's a peek:
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* Cynthia *

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Cynthia that is quite a collection! I love the FN too, and the weather channel and HGTV and TLC. I don't watch any "real" TV shows! I like just to leave on the FN in the background and then I can just stop and watch if something catches my eye. I love Paula Dean, but everything has at least 2 sticks of butter!!Yikes!!
 
'Nother Food Network addict here!

Giada and Ellie are my absolute favorites--they're on my DVR every week :). In fact, apart from Dancing With the Stars, Ugly Betty, and Men In Trees, Food Network shows are the only ones I consistently record on my DVR.

LOVE The Food Network!! :)
 
A Paula Deen and Nigella Lawson fan here!:) I love Ace of Cakes--wow! And watch Semi-Homemade with a combination of fascination/horror as Sandra whips up her goods on her color coordinated sets.:7 She loves to use canned frosting, which I secretly adore, so she's alright in my book.

And as far as recipes go, Giada's always get rave reviews around our house, I still love Emeril Live too. Agreed, Rachel Ray drives me nuts..not into her personality at all. And her meals take more than 30 minutes to make, sorry RR.
 
Another fan of FN!! Sadly, the only time I can watch is on Saturday so I miss a lot of my favorite shows. Giada and Ina Garten are my favorites, and I like Ellie Krieger a lot, too. Is Ina Garten done filming new shows? They changed her weekend time slot and they haven't aired a NEW episode in months. I'll be so bummed if she stops filming new shows. ;(

Cynthia, I didn't think anybody had more cookbooks than me, but I think you just might have me beat! :7
 
Wow, Cynthia. I feel much better now about my "issues." I'm a die-hard Ina fan (have all of her books - love them!). I also watch Giada, Ellie (great cookbook) and the new one - Ingrid Hoffman (Simply Delicioso - latin cuisine). I love Bobby Flay's flavors, but they don't air his cooking shows anymore (I don't like all the kitschy, competition and theme shows - I prefer just straight cooking). Guy's Big Bite was good, but they moved it. I love Jamie Oliver, but he's at weird times, too. I don't understand why they put all the good stuff at bad times. Sunday's new lineup sucks. I HATE Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee - HATE. Like itsy-bitsy pins running up and down my spine! I could not eat a meal at one of Sandra's tablescapes. yikes! I may be a snob, but there it is. (oh, I would kill to be a judge on Iron Chef - as long as it was a non-meat day).
 
I can't watch Rachel either, but that's a preference thing on my part and not her fault. I get the feeling she's a pretty good person. And Sandra Lee really catches it from many FN fans on the net. I admit I'm not a fan of her either, but after watching her story during that whole Chef Biography thing FN did last year, I'm quite impressed with her ambition and perseverance. Her annoying habit of having matching outfit and kitchen decor won't stop me from trying a recipe or two. :+

I love when the judges on Iron Chef squabble a bit.

Fritters are supposed to be crispy.
Not the ones I've had.
Then those weren't fritters.

Have YOU been to Greece?
Yes. Have YOU?!

And just once I'd like to see a chef chase Jeffrey Steingarten around the kitchen with a frying pan.
 
Me and DW like Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, and Unwrapped, love the nostalgic topics the show sometimes covers.

Allllay cuisine!!!! Or something like that.
 
I also love Food Network! My very favorite is Good Eats; Alton Brown is so funny and informative at the same time. I also love Ace of Cakes.
 
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