Cooking for Real

[Lucinda]

I don't have cable so I am WAY behind on cooking shows. I couldn't sleep tonight so I started surfing HULU and ran across Cooking for Real w/ Sunny Anderson. Lots of short clips with great ideas and yummy looking food.

Just a FYI for anyone who hadn't seen her before. I have a bunch of new ideas to play with now :)

Is there anyone else out there in food tv land that I should be web surfing?

[Denninmi]

1. Rachel Allen and the chefs of New Scandinavian Cooking?

Have you seen either of these series -- Rachel Allen's Favourite Foods at Home or New Scandinavian Cooking? I find both of these quite interesting. The NSC program has 4 separate series, one each hosted by a chef from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Although I don't know as I would be inclined to make a lot of the Scandinavian recipes, which tend to rely on things I don't eat, such as pickled fish, it's still great fun to watch. Rachel does a lot of traditional British/Irish type foods, but some fusion cooking as well.

Both of these shows are on the PBS Create digital sub-channel, and air at various days and times through the week.

[grasswire]

2. I like to watch Jamie Oliver when I can

He cooks in his backyard -- some kind of a quaint old potting shed and makeshift stove. Everything he makes is something I want to eat right now. Fresh, fresh produce. Old odd pots and pans. Dishes that look a hundred years old. I really dig it.

[Warpy]

4. Yes, and instead of cooking the bland English stuff,

he uses plenty of spices. I drool to that show.

The other one I love is Bitchin Kitchen. A lot of people find the punk rocker comedy style off putting, but that show has told me a few things I didn't already know. I want to eat her food RIGHT NOW, too, although I'd regret it since she uses a lot of wheat. Plus, I think she's a scream.

[Inchworm]

3. I've been watching "Take Home Chef" on Netflix

Curtis Stone, the chef, is such a flirt hehe. The basis of the show is that he picks up women in the grocery and talks them into allowing him to come home with them and cook for their boyfriend/husband etc.

He likes his wine too. A really fun show.

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