Food Network / Cooking Channel

wewon
wewon Posts: 838 Member
edited September 25 in Recipes
Does anyone else watch these? If so, what are your favorite shows?

I like the Barefoot Contessa, Chucks Day Off and French Cooking at Home.

Suprisingly, a lot of the recipes are pretty healthy.

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  • Shannoncore
    Shannoncore Posts: 135
    i stay away from those channels. they make me very hungry and since i would have to go to the store to get the ingrediants i end up impulse buying alot of crap i really don't need to be eating. i also prerecord my shows and fast forward through all the McDonald and Bk commercials.
  • DeidreJean
    DeidreJean Posts: 51 Member
    I also love Contessa and French Food at Home!
  • hop3
    hop3 Posts: 61 Member
    paula dean, iron chef america and guy feiori (can't spell it) lol
  • bmmiller4
    bmmiller4 Posts: 39
    I don't watch any of the cooking shows...just had to say that I love your profile picture and wanted to say GO BOILERS!

    I am not a fan of cooking so really avoid those shows like the plague! :tongue:
  • sexygenius
    sexygenius Posts: 1,078 Member
    thats food porn for me lol
  • MochaMixAZ
    MochaMixAZ Posts: 844 Member
    I watch - and I even tried out for the Next Food Network Star! LOL

    I like 30 Minute Meals, Barefoot Contessa, and anything by Robyn Miller. I try to change up the recipes to keep them healthy, but they give me great ideas.
  • Dippydog
    Dippydog Posts: 154
    Challenge, Iron Chef, Ace of Cakes (love that).
  • merrillfoster
    merrillfoster Posts: 855 Member
    I like Giada, and I like alot of the food Contessa makes but she annoys the holy hell out of me as a person--like half the show is devoted to table settings or some other ridiculous thing. And it's a level of pretension that even I, as someone whose friend's husband recently called a 'pretentious f*** (in a nice, funny, joking around way)', find irritating, lol. I love Iron Chef, Throwdown (though Bobby Flay can get annoying too), etc.
  • bachooka
    bachooka Posts: 719 Member
    The Food Network is like foodie porn... I watch it all the time... especially the ones that cook stuff i can never eat... lol. But I also like to try and make healthier versions of the stuff I see on there. :D

    I love Diners, Drive Ins and Dives, Iron Chef America, Food Network Challenge, Chef at Home, and i miss Paula Deen so much... "you can never have too much butter" so wrong but soo good... lol

    P.S. Man vs Food is another show on another network I love!
  • OliveBruises
    OliveBruises Posts: 68 Member
    Hungry Girl on Cooking Channel is my fave!
  • wewon
    wewon Posts: 838 Member
    My sisters kids love Man Vs Food!

    They find the guy hilarious!

    They get the biggest kick out of seeing him lose. :-(
  • sillygoose1977
    sillygoose1977 Posts: 2,151 Member
    We call Giada "Cooking with Cleavage". I really only watch Challenge and Iron Chef.

    I get most of my food shows on the Travel channel. I :heart: Anthony Bourdain.
  • htimpaired
    htimpaired Posts: 1,404 Member
    I love Chopped on Food Network, and Restaurant impossible. I am trying to get more into cooking (that way I have control over what we eat and how healthy it is) and those shows are intruiging.
    I loved watching Worst Cooks in America, but that season is over now :-(
  • wewon
    wewon Posts: 838 Member
    We call Giada "Cooking with Cleavage".

    LOL!

    I forgot, Chopped is my favorite of all time.

    I like the ingenuity that it takes.
  • therobinator
    therobinator Posts: 832 Member
    I can get into most all of the shows, but....

    I heart Alton Brown -- like, HEART him.

    A lot.

    It's kind of sick. :)

    And Paula Dean, too (she's a dirty, dirty girl). Anyone else know what I mean about her - lol?
  • TheEnd10
    TheEnd10 Posts: 20 Member
    Ellie Krieger has a lot of low cal recipies and I like Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee. I love cooking with fresh ingredients, but sometimes there just isn't time. Sandra uses a lot of packaged items that she manages to pull together into good meals. And although I prided myself in watching no reality tv for a long time, I must admit that I am addicted to cooking challenges....Iron Chef, Chopped, Next Food Network Star.....the list goes on.
  • TripleJ3
    TripleJ3 Posts: 945 Member
    I like Chopped, Restaurant Impossible.

    I also like *****in' Kitchen and Nigella's shows. I used to really love Alton Brown but don't watch him as much anymore.
  • TripleJ3
    TripleJ3 Posts: 945 Member
    lol.......Well the first word of the show I like that MFP bleeped rhymes with kitchen and starts with a B;)
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