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Skriven 2013-07-12 05:07:06 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: fancy that
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-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 RH> Never saw any of his original shows and very few of his other ones.
 RH> Probably saw him the most on "Iron Chef", sometimes visiting another
 RH> show. I thought I'd seen a fair amount of Food Network shows but
 RH> thinking back, I've really not seen that many, overall.

I liked the one he conned TVFN into springing for: Mario and his
assistant/stooge bucketing about Italy on a red Vespa or Lambretta (I forget
which) motor-scooter. Peeking into out of the way shops and trattorias and
cooking at the drop of one of his red clogs.
 
 DD> When I was running the satellite shop we had a TeeVee going all open
 DD> hours - after all, we were selling entertainment. And there really
 DD> isn't much on during the day after you have seen all the History
 DD> Channel and Discovery Channel stuff once or twice. We made it a point

 RH> I suspect the History channel has put out a lot of new shows with the
 RH> sesquicentennial observance of the war between the states. Discovery
 RH> carried the Nik Wallenda Grand Canyon walk on Sunday so you would have
 RH> had that to watch also, had you still been working there.
 
I probably wouldn't have watched. I saw his grandad Karl drop 10 stories in
1978 - on live TV. That was before Nik was born. Don't care to see another.

I was down to watching (not really down - but, you know what I mean, I hope)
the European variant of the History Channel which had a whole new rotation of
programs presented from a European viewpoint as opposed to the Americentic
thrust of the original History Channel.
 
 DD> to watch the Price is High w/Bob Barker and Jeopardy. But, mostly it

 RH> Price is Right isn't the same with Drew Carey. He tries, but just isn't
 RH> Bob Barker.

And Alex Trebek isn't Art Fleming - but, the show grinds on.
 
 DD> was the early days of the TV Food Network - when they had real cooking
 DD> shows. Emeril started as one of the assortment of presenters on a show
 DD> called "How To Boil Water". And believe me - he was so stiff and
 DD> wooden as to make the mind boggle that he has become the polished
 DD> entertainer that he is today. Mario was good. The early Emeril shows
 DD> (Essence of Emeril) before he got into all the schtick were pretty
 DD> good ... and he really can cook - no matter what you may have heard
 DD> elsewhere. There was Michelle Urvater with her "Cooking Monday to
 DD> Friday", Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger's "Two Hot Tamales",
 DD> David Rosengarten's "Taste", etc., etc., etc.

 RH> And I missed it because we didn't get cable until around 1998. When we
 RH> did go for cable, the local Time Warner affiliate in Sierra Vista
 RH> didn't carry the Food Network. But, I survived. (G)

Three of my all time favourite cooking shows were never on the Food Channel.
Urban Peasant w/James Barber, Yan Can Cook, and Frugal Gourmet. Oh, and mustn't
forgot Justin Wilson's Outside Cooking with Inside Help.

 DD> Like politics, all cooking is local.   Bv)=

 RH> With influences here & there from the folks that visit another area &
 RH> come back or others that move to a different place than where they were
 RH> brought up. I've added to the basic cooking I knew when I first got
 RH> married with every move we've made so now it is international in scope.
 RH> Used to be more or less plain northeastern US, as that was what I was
 RH> brought up on.

 DD> Well, yeah. Can you imagine Italian cooking without the tomato, which
 DD> originated in Mexico (thank you Cristobal Colon)? Or Asian (Thai,
 DD> Indian, Indonesian) cuisine without chilies (thank you Vasco de Gama)?
 DD> Or Ireland without potatoes (thank you Sir Francis Drake and Sir
 DD> Walter Raleigh)? Or for that matter Italian cooking without spaghetti
 DD> (thank you Marco Polo)?

 RH> And how much have we learned from each other here on the echo? Lots!

Few days go by that I don't pick up something new in this group.  Bv)=

I'm glad I looked this recipe up in my database. I am on a self-imposed (under
Dr's advice) low fat diet. This look like it will be both low fat and tasty -
something hard to do. Even if I substitute leg quarters for the breasts.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Chicken w/Cherry Tomatoes & Ginger
 Categories: Poultry, Vegetables
      Yield: 3 Servings
 
      2 tb Oil
      2    Chicken breasts; skinned,
           - boned, cut in cubes
      1    Inch fresh ginger; chopped
           - or grated
      2 cl Garlic
      1 pt (about 15) cherry tomatoes
    1/4 c  Water
      1 c  Frozen peas; still frozen
           Salt & pepper
 
  Heat a fry pan over medium-high heat, add the oil. Add the
  chicken, ginger and garlic to the fry pan, and cook for 2-3
  minutes, until the chicken starts to change colour.
  
  Add the cherry tomatoes, water and peas. Cover and cook for
  another 4 minutes, or until the peas are done.
  
  Season with salt and pepper and serve.
  
  Recipe by James Barber, The Urban Peasant
  
  From: http://www.vitalrecipe.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
MMMMM

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