Any Foodies out there?

Have you seen Paula Dean do a shot of melted butter? Ewwww. I'll take butter any day over margarine but a shot of pure butter? No thanks.

I love to cook, but lately it has been a bit of a trial. I have much less time to putter in the kitchen since we had the baby and my sweetie doesn't eat at all like I do. We usually make a meat that we will both eat and then have different sides (pre-packaged/powdered sauce pasta for him--yuk! and veggies/quinoa/etc for me). Like everyone else I am trying to make all of my old favorites only more healthy and looking to find new things to make. It's a bonus if he will eat it as well, but not mandatory. It just makes for less leftovers if he will eat it too. I am trying to stay away from fake food (fat free, etc). I just bought an ice cream maker for my Kitchen Aid and am also experimenting with sorbets and fruit ices. I also have a monthly dinner party club (10 ladies) where we take turns hosting dinner. I managed to make mine all healthy and low fat this year and the group had no idea and loved it all. I don't think it had that much to do with all of the wine. The next thing for me is to get my old food blog back up and running, I am just trying to get better at photographing since I moved and lost my photographer buddy who used to work for food. Feel free to add me, I'd love to be able to trade some recipes with someone.

I am fairly obsessed with food in general. I love growing it, shopping for it, preparing and cooking it (chopping veggies really is a great way to relax after a stressful day at the office) and eating it. One of my favorite things in the world is to take a recipe that looks delicious but unhealthy and prepare it in a healthy manner and have it still taste yummy. I will admit that the results are not always great and sometimes it takes more than one try to get it right. But it's so rewarding when it all works out.

FOR SURE! I'm a vegetarian as well and I'm addicted to my VT subscription. I try almost every recipe in that magazine!

Same boat here...
Totally addicted to Food Network and watch just about everything on it. Love Anthony Bourdain as well. Allrecipes.com is another obsession of mine. Love to try new recipes, usually reserve Sundays for "Cooking Day" and anything goes, lol!

With my username, can I really deny it? hehe Love love love cooking and food!

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.

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.

Bump!

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!

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

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.

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.