Any Foodies out there?

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  • LilMissFoodie
    LilMissFoodie Posts: 612 Member
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    With my username, can I really deny it? hehe Love love love cooking and food!
  • fallenangelloves
    fallenangelloves Posts: 601 Member
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    The new Cooking Light Magazine just got here! I'm so excited! Not to mention Food Network and Rachel Ray got here earlier this week! I'm like foodgasming over here! Haha
  • malilamala
    malilamala Posts: 10
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    Oh my goodness, YES! I love cooking! I like the idea of a cheat day... hmmmmm. Lately, I've been trying to substitute lighter, but natural, ingredients and the flavor isn't always there.
  • nettie1969
    nettie1969 Posts: 107
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    I so laughed when I read your topic name. My immediate thought was "heck yeah! .... Isn't that what got us all here in the first place?" lol

    Yes, I am a foodie. I don't really do the cooking shows so much - just occassionally as I am not really a tv watcher - but love standing at the cupboard/freezer and going "hmmm ... what can I do with this?". Mostly the family loves what I create (if not a bit of a strange combination) but my partner is such a fussy eater I now save my experiments for just me.

    Am at this moment marinating some Chicken breast in yoghurt and spices.... smells yummy.

    Would also love some new friends - I am very new to this site...
  • fallenangelloves
    fallenangelloves Posts: 601 Member
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    HAHa I actually thought that too after I posted it...
  • MzFury
    MzFury Posts: 283 Member
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    Yes! I am gonna befriend you all!
    Hey, fallenangelloves - Julie Powell is a good friend of mine. If you read the book, Julie & Julia, I'm [badly] fictionalized as Isabel.
    And, I also submitted for Next Food Network Star, ha!
    And just got my new Cooking light.

    I prefer to call myself a gourmand, rather than a foodie, but it's really neither here nor there, and the same thing...

    I'm really happy to find this site - I gave up on other on-line tracking (and will continue to use a paper system I made, also good for when I'm NOT ON A COMPUTER - don't have a smartphone anyway...) as it's far too time consuming, but this seems quick and like it has a massive and quite thorough database.

    Nice to meet you all, I joined today, and thanks, Mike, for making this site!
    -Hannah
  • NiciS72
    NiciS72 Posts: 1,043 Member
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    MEE MEEE MEEEEEEEE!!!!! We watch Food Network more often than not. Due to not being able to eat gluten, I do make a lot of things most folks don't from scratch. I find the food is so much more tasty and way lower in calories than the pre-made stuff anyway. I absolutely LOVE Ellie Krieger and miss her show on FN. I make a lot of stuff from her cookbook as well as others. I just bought two new Cooking Light magazine specials at BN Readers' Top-Rated Recipes and Super Fresh & Simple Meals. There area ton of recipes in both under 3-400 calories.
  • fallenangelloves
    fallenangelloves Posts: 601 Member
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    Hannah- too cool!

    Nici - I love Ellie too! I've learned she is more on the healthy side than the low cal so sometimes on my cheat days I just make her stuff cause it's all delicious! Just made her crab cakes a couple weeks ago and my son loved them! (this is the former "I'll only eat chicken nuggets" boy!)
  • fallenangelloves
    fallenangelloves Posts: 601 Member
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    Power hiccup... Double post sorry
  • ab_shutterbug
    ab_shutterbug Posts: 203 Member
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    Definitely! I totally enjoy well prepared food. I just returned from Asia and marvel at the way they prepare food with ultra fresh ingredients. We Americans are so hooked on unhealthy fast food chains and processed foods. I typically prepare my meals from scratch, like I did tonight with homemade beef and bean tacos.
    I enjoy the culinary competitions on Food Network. Been to Bobby Flay's restaurant called Americas in NYC and it was excellent.
  • redfox43
    redfox43 Posts: 39 Member
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    Bump!
  • joimichele
    joimichele Posts: 382
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    MEEEEE! The only channels I watch are foodnetwork and cooking channel. I tried to start a group once but couldn't find fellow foodies!
  • MzFury
    MzFury Posts: 283 Member
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    Yeah, the few Krieger recipes I've made have been awesome. I like the healthy focus - she does use more healthy fats and stuff, so you do have to just watch that a bit, I guess, but it's really good in a world filled with totally nutso mindsets about food and body image and stuff. I love the people who champion the wholesome... I love what Jamie Oliver was doing in Britain before I left there, and still love to watch him cook his rustic Italianate stuff... Makes me feel sane, ha!
  • Goofy076
    Goofy076 Posts: 287 Member
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    Ohhhhh I am totally hooked on food network and cooking channel, I am forever adding recipes to my books and using my hubby and friends as guinea pigs Haha, they never complain lol
  • stace0308
    stace0308 Posts: 23 Member
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    Hello my name is Stacey, and I'm a FOODIE.

    Love, love love this thread. Food network is on our TV all day on Saturdays, Cooking Light is one of my favorite magazines, I actually cried while watching Julie & Julia.. I'm ashamed to say I'm that girl that cuts the recipes out of all of the doctor's waiting room magazines. Cooking is truly a pasion of mine & I'd love to compare notes & share recipes with any of you that would like to add me.

    ~Stacey
  • MzFury
    MzFury Posts: 283 Member
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    Dude - was this a good idea for a message board question or WHAT? Thank you! I joined today and didn't expect to use the social networking aspect hardly at all, but this has just brought out everyone that I'd imagine I'd want to meet on here :D
  • Suze54
    Suze54 Posts: 3
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    definitely a foodie. I am a mini Martha Stewart. Now, I know there are a lot of people who don't like her out there, but honestly, her recipes WORK. (I wouldn't mind her staff, however!!!). I love to bake. I am not doing that as much as if it is in the house, I will eat it. I am following Rocco Dispirito and his recipes for desserts are great. I had to get over the bean usage at first. They take the place of flour.

    At my work, there is soon to be a bake sale to raise money for women's health. I will be baking for that!!!

    Anyone else read a recipe and can tell exactly how it will taste? that is me.
  • fallenangelloves
    fallenangelloves Posts: 601 Member
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    My family refers to me as "little Martha"... I got started watching her 21 years ago when I was put to bed rest while pregnant with my twins... I'm embarrassed to say I have every book and magazine since 1991! But you are right... Her recipes are always a hit!
  • sarahmaryfearnley
    sarahmaryfearnley Posts: 366 Member
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    Well, now that we know there are others out there (on MFP), thanks to fallenangels for bringing us together, I think we should start a more formal group under Modivation and Support or Food and Nutrition.

    I know there is already a cooking challenge group so I'ld be interested in a different way for us to support and learn from each other. Maybe a group where we post the best thing we made or discovered that week? A daily posting of recipies from all of us will quickly become a 200+ posting thread, I think, and good ideas may become lost.

    Other ideas? Let us know here if anyone starts a new thread.
  • fallenangelloves
    fallenangelloves Posts: 601 Member
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    Hmmmm let me think... I usually post my meals on FB... I guess we could do something like that here! Not necessarily pics but what we had for dinner, where we found e recipe etc.... Anyone else want this?

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