Chad thought my family was crazy when we first started dating for the insane amount of Food Network... or really any food show... that we watch.
Here are a few of my faves:
"Top Chef" (Bravo TV) - oooooh how I heart you Top Chef. I mourn when seasons end.
"Chopped" (Food Network) - they have to make dishes based on three or four random ingredients. Very interesting.
"No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain" (Travel Channel) - A. Bourdain is a badass. He ate chicken sushi while in Japan. Enough said.
"Barefoot Contessa" (Food Network) - okay maybe the whole talking about Jeffrey all the time is annoying, but homegirl can COOK. Plus I love her kitchen. I wish she would let me come stay with her for a month.
Okay - sorry. This post was not supposed to be about shows I like. It's about a show I caught on TV the other morning.
It's called "Five Ingredient Fix" on Food Network.
What it really should be called is "Cooking for Dummies." The episode I watched before I got so annoyed I had to turn the TV off she made SCRAMBLED EGGS. Really? A cooking show for scrambled eggs? I mean - I get it. There isn't much you can cook with less than five ingredients. But everything she made was just common sense. French toast - bread, milk, egg, cinnamon, butter. If you put those ingredients in front of a 5-year-old they could probably figure it out on their own.
In other words - it is a waste of time. Sorry Claire Robinson. At least you're pretty. Which is perhaps the only reason they let you have your own show on a COOKING network. Kind of like Sandra Lee. Any person that uses Cheez Whiz as a sauce for pasta loses any credibility with me.
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What's wrong with "Cooking for Dummies?" I'll admit I like her show. Sure she's easy on the eyes, but I like the idea too. I'm new to cooking, so it's still kind of intimidating. Showing me easy things that only take 5 ingredients to make is encouraging. Some of the stuff she makes looks pretty tasty to me.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen the breakfast episode though. I probably would have turned that one off too.
I guess my issue with the show was that it was presented as: "Claire Robinson combines her passions for food and television in 5 Ingredient Fix, a new Food Network series featuring deliciously eclectic recipes made with five ingredients or fewer."
ReplyDeleteI see nothing eclectic about scrambled eggs. So if they were to present it as a show for the novice home cook (a la: "Cooking for Dummies") I'd be fine with it.
But I'm glad she's teaching you a thing or two, Lewis! Maybe I just caught a bad episode. Cooking is a great pastime - I hope you enjoy it and try some of my recipes from MPLT!