Rachel

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Okay, my sister and I have started to keep track of Rachel...

We're trying to see just how many days in a row the woman cooks a rendition or derivitive of either sloppy joes or mac & cheese!

Lordy, I swear the woman has "cook's block" and cannot come up w/ anything else these days!

[jfain]

Don't forget her 1000 figure flattering hamburgers that she makes with just a little chorizo so she can use extra cheese! She really needs someone to explain to her what figure flattering food is. Having one of her jumbo burgers followed up with one of her jumbo ice cream sundaes ain't it.

[jglass]

I was just telling Jon that the other day about Rachael Ray lol.
I downloaded a couple pasta dishes she made but those are the first of her recipes I have downloaded in months. Most of them are tired remixed junk she has done a thousand times before.

[Jafo232]

Yeah, part of me feels for those celebrity chefs when it comes to recipes. I mean, honestly, it must be difficult to come up with new dishes all the time. Eventually, after 5-6 years, I would be out lol. Of course, most of my recipes change after that much time. The way I cooked dish X 5 years ago is a bit different from how I cook it now.

[jglass]

Alot of the chefs on the FN say that is why they like to travel. They pick up cookbooks and magazines where ever they go and it gives them ideas for new dishes. It seems like to me Rachael Ray is especially running out of material. Paula Deen and Sandra Lee have even started doing viewers recipes on their shows occasionally.
Jamie at Home is probably my favorite show they have on the FN right now. Jon got me the first eight episodes of it on DVD.

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I don't know... I don't ever tend to run out of ideas. Criminy- I cooked professionally for years- wrote menus, planned banquets/buffets/events, did everything from camp-grub to bar-apps, outdoor patio/deck fare, fine dining, casual, cafe, bistro, Kosher, holiday, etc. Possibilities are limitless! I not only question Rachel when she does the same ol/same ol repeatedly, but also her staff. I mean, Cripes! Does she even HAVE a reaseach/development crew? Hiring three moderately-skilled 20-something restaurant hash-slingers from anywhere would give her at least three years of recipe ideas! Couldn't she at least go out and buy ANY 10 current cookbooks, look thru them and fake it w/ HER version of the recipes she finds and wing-it that way? Maybe I'm just being over-critical...

[jglass]

Have you caught that new show called Chopped?
Four chefs compete for $10,000.
They have had some of the most arrogant chefs on there I have ever seen. None of them take criticism well at all. They were giving this one young chef who thought he was all that a talking to over double dipping when he tastes his dishes. Then he turned around and did it again during the next challenge. You see some of the chefs on FN doing that though or sticking there fingers in dishes to taste. I think that is so disgusting. I remember when Rachael Ray's talk show started and she had this one guest who was on Grey's Anatomy. She read RR the riot act over double dipping all the time.
I would not want someone preparing my food to double dip and I won't do that to someone else. That is why I always have tons of spoons to wash lol. As far as sticking my fingers in..I don't do that either. I wash my hands before I start cooking but I could touch my face or get my hands around my nose and not even realize I had done it.

[Jafo232]

I think it was Julia Childs who said something to the affect of "What happens in the kitchen, stays in the kitchen" heh..

[jglass]

Probably..yuck!
My biggest fear is always getting my hair in something I cook for others. I have alot of it and it is fine and breaks off easy.
When Im cooking for big family dinners I always pin it up and have Jon take a lint brush and go over the back of my shirt for me. So far so good on that one. I would be mortified if it got into the food.

[Jafo232]

Yeah I hear ya, I worry about that too.. Long hair is just the worst when it comes to cooking lol..