It makes me think of "Pod People" from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

The book is a compilation of recipes. You'll find it right next to Trisha Yearwood's recipe book at Crown Publishing. Maybe they should have her as a judge for some episodes.

Mmmmmmm Cooooookieeees.... Well you could of made the Magical Brownies but cookies are all right by me take a seat on the Grassy Knoll Porch I promise we will not vote you off the board as long as you leave some cookies for us judges....

LOL
This reminds me of mum and every time we would go to a restaurant she would question the poor server about the size of the ff's She would say What size are your ff's And the waitress would say....Oh you know reg. And mum would say..No but what size...I don't like the little ones. And the waitress would say..Oh about this big and hold her fingers up....And mum would say....But are they thiiiiiiiis big.......And she would hold up her fingers..Oh it went on....Once no lie the waitress
do you want me to measure them???
She only wanted the fat fries. Size really does matter.

Tele you are now the new B&B with the rice equations...Millimeters and all. Sexy rice is here
stay..Now Tele ..I did read you were staring at the rice bag...ummmm... Do you need this???

(I think this guy has a rice fetish and I think I'm liking it who knew?? )

I'm making cookies from a recipe I got from watching the Food Network last year. They're called Kitchen Sink Cookies. I make them a lot and in big batches since they are really good lol. I get asked to make them all the time. They're supposed to be a healthier cookie since there's not a lot of butter and sugar. I mix up the dried fruit and don't like to flatten my cookies like in that picture. I like them bulky

Sorry, I tried to reply to an earlier post and my computer posted before I entered anything (not to sound like Lisa!)

I think I responded to LISAISACOW when I joined this board a week ago. Was LISAISACOW the one who referred to raping and bleach? I thought she/he was hilarious. But I don't see a great difference between using over-the-top language like that that everyone knows is intended to be over-the-top, and talking about oral sex in elevators seriously.

It's all so human! I showed my 16-year-old son this MB and he is enthralled by the porch people and the hierarchies that the more compulsive posters have etablished.

And I'm afraid I'm among the compulsive posters. I've just had so much fun here.

You know What Toad I guess Padma could be in the same boat as Ted because her cook book is only a compilation of recipes as well..... Wonder if Tom has a cookbook?

But you Know Ms. Yearwoods cook book is better because she has lyrics you can sing as you make her recipes....

Whew! You really had me going there for a minute, Actor! I hope if JustMe still reads here, e's 'avin' hisself a reet chuff o'er it!

Congrats, Actor! Sounds yummy....


But can you use it for a floor wax?

AI

We don't disagree.
I tell you the truth and you are in denial

OK troll.... flamer...same diff.
But I hate the word troll and always have.

Because to me a flamer is red hot and ugly.
A troll might be a bit more subjective
and I analyze things WAY too much

Got cookies and milk please?????

Silver polish?????

The difference is...one was in an elevator and one wasn't.

Seriously (ummm, maybe I shouldn't use that word), if you can't tell the difference between a somewhat on-point true anecdote and the repetitive, multiple one-note derisive and somewhat abusive posts of LISAISA(whose name you cleaned up for posterity)COW, well then, Zia, I just don't wanna know you.

BTW, the last comment is simply a theft from the greatest one hour of TV ever, written by Aaron Sorkin - "TheTwo Cathedrals" episode of The West Wing, so don't take that too literally.

I really miss Mrs. Landingham...that much should be clear.

Ummmmmmm
mmmmmkay
(stolen from Psh he actually says that lol)

I didn't think the rape part was too funny
but you seem ok...so I don't know what to say.
I can't judge that as you didn't say it but
not funny to me...Never..not like that.
Wishing it on someone.....Nope.

Padma has two now. Tom doesn't need a cookbook, being a trained chef, I think he gets a pass.

No Zia you are thinking of Chef Chezch... Lisa Holly Cow was just being beligerent... so was Chef but that poster made the mistake of Child Rape that there were quite a few who resented it because of history in their own lives.... Lisa Holly Cow was a ranter... Chef Chezch was just not watching their mouth. I have read Chef Chezch in the past and like their post I just think he she was not thinking about what they were typeing this time around....

Neither one is a troll unless they attack a poster deliberately...

Oh see...I missed that part as my mind stopped
at wishing someone raped being funny.
OF COURSE it is different and you don't even
need to 'splain that because if you do we gots problems.
You didn't GET the oral sex.
You didn't describe the oral sex.
But man I wish you had..lol Are you crazy???
You turned down that????
You ARE one tough military guy.



And a song

Never but almost


Damn those peeps on floor 9!!!

AI you can use it as a Brazillian Wax if you want.....

I'm sure B&B has other uses for Green Goddess I would never think of but I'm pretty damn sure it is a dressing and not a sauce... lol

I just thank goodness I can still buy Seven Seas Green Goddess dressing online. My great grandma used to keep it around when I was a wee one, and I used to love pouring it on all sorts of stuff. It disappeared from the shelves sometime in the 80s, I think, then a few years back they re-released it in limited markets. Now we can't get it here anymore, but I do buy it a lot online.

Not until you admit that I'm right about Marcel and you're dead-butt-naked wrong.

I was reading on another message board this morning and there was great post: This guy went to Ming Tsoa restaurant and they got to talking about TC and Ming say's "Yeah Heard Dale really screwed up... "well this poster goes on to tell him how he was wrong and how Lisa screwed the pooch.... Ming looks at him and say's " Hey it is only a T.V. Show"

I grew up on it as well still a little place in my heart for the Seaven Seas commercials.. lol

Coops is the only reastaurant in town that makes it fresh so I decided to make some it was only suppose to make 3 cups but after trial and error I think I have like 6 cups.... so I'm giving it away now I can only eat so many salads...lol

Ummm
Jazz Maybe you could overlook
that rule for WED as my fake wedding to fool immigration is on that night on the porch.
I was sure you had a honeymoon suite available.
My last fake wedding online...they stayed in the bathroom all night crying and that was
a guy...so I dunno'.. but one can always hope.

Did you know we need wait staff???
A butler maybe???? Nothing is too
good for our boys are back

in town???

OK damnit.
I'm crazy about it but it'll do.
But I do so loves me some Gary
Moore....Swooon




Boys will be boys

Oh Giacomo..You do not understand
me at all...I am Sicilian and I'm a ram.
It's not my fault..I blame the God's and DNA.
It's a perfect out.. Once I have made up my pretty little mind about something and I know
I'm right there is very little you can do to change that.


BUT....for a lobster dinner right about now
I might sell my soul to the devils :
LISA & SPIKE!!!!!!!!


mmmmmmmm

Drawn butter..I love to say it and type it
Drawn butter. Lobster bib and hardware
I am good to go!.....Swooooooon

Marcel forever!!!!
He raps and he foams like nobody's biz.

That's kind of what I've been saying for quite a while now. Some of the time it's a real good one, some of the time it's a real bad one, and some of the time it's just indifferent, but, it's still just a TV show, and nothing to lose one's mind about.

When I see people blame one of the contestants for the demise of civilisation as we know it I just have to laugh. We all need to get a little perspective sometimes, and we won't get that by watching Bravo.

And, as much as I like this show, I watched some of season three of Runway the other day, and this show really does look like what it is, which is an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle. I'm looking past the end of this season of TC to the next season of Runway, because even when Runway is bad it's light years ahead.

But, even that, is just a TV show and, in an election year I would think that we, as Americans, have a lot of bigger fish to fry. The last time I checked none of these folks' recipes are going to give us universal healthcare, or solve our problems in Iraq. The only thing that we can be sure of is indigestion.

I have discussed the subject of sticky rice with my wife who is in agreement with you that sweet rice is the same as sticky rice. However, she is adamant that sticky rice is short grain rice and there is no such thing as long grained sticky rice. Maybe rice is like eggs. Depending on the brand and area, I have found that there is a huge variation in the size of eggs and how they are labeled - to my eye some "extra large" is not so large. The same for rice. Maybe there is rice that exceeds the 5 to 1 ratio that you mentioned.

The wife has been cooking sticky rice as long as we've been married (35 years) so she knows what sticky rice is. She cooks it for herself (using cocoanut milk and sugar)as I never cared too much for it stemming back 30 years ago when her mother stayed with us for the summer. At that time my mother-in-law put together a dish using sticky rice with pork and mushrooms. Maybe my palate has matured since then so I'll have my wife reproduce the dish and I'll give it another shot.

Love lobster too and "drawn Butter" makes the dish! Funny, I don't particularly care for fish, but I'll go all out for some that have only texture, with little flavor, needing a ton of seasoning and that "DB!" Give me lobster, shrimp, and logistinos any time, all the time! Yummm! Marcel redeemed himself at the end! THe bahavior of the other chefs made it easy though! Most of them lost it, forgetting the prize, and just bullied that poor boy mercilessly; Betty, Sam, ILAN, with Elia going along even though she knew the kid beforehand! He hosed himself though choosing Sam and Michael to be his Sous Chefs at the final! What could he have been thinking of? Mia was right there offering her services and he went with people who made his life miserable! Total moron in that respect!

survey: who are you guys voting for fan favorite? (the deadline is tomorrow at noon!)
out of curiosity, is anybody (besides her family) voting for lisa?

Well, I wouldn't think it was funny if Bob Dole actually stabbed his 20-something Real World housemates in the throat with a pencil, but I laughed pretty good when the SNL writers structured a parody around the idea. And I wouldn't really want Jackie Gleason to arse f@!* Art Carney, but again, I sure did laugh when Eddie Murphy parodied Ralph Cramden doing it to Ed Norton. Laughed harder when Mr. T came into the skit.

Well it seems Bravo has ccasted Ted as the official Top Chef excuse maker. Top Chef Judge dismissing a questionable decision by telling the viewer "We Tasted the food" and not giving an explaination = A Parent telling their chirldern they are not allowed to do something "Because I said so"
This is the magic wand that Production and the Judges know they have over the viewer. "We tasted the food" can be wavied over what ever contraversy they have to explainaway everything. I don't know about you but I expect more from the judges on this show than to use the equivilent of a lazy parent's cop out to justify their eliminations.




At least Ted admits it's not all about a cooking competition.



Correcting someone's spelling before you answer their question. A clever way to marginalize their opinion by casting aspersions on their intelligence.

Ted has an excuse and he is still the only one blogging. I agree completely that Tom and Padma have no excuse why they can't do their jobs for this show aside from it is impossible to justify their decisions.



Uh Ted, the NFL most certainly does reward past performance. In football someone like Dale would have a first round bye at this point while the lesser contestants face each other. Stay away from the sports analogies, Ted, Tom sucks at them too. American Idol? Even worse. Very funny you bring that up since the views vote. Guess how we would have voted this week. The Illinois Lottery? What are the odds of winning that? 1,000,000,000,000,000 to 1? Oh that's right, about the same odds of Lisa actually outcooking Dale.



People on a TV show claiming they don't care about the ratings is like Athletes claiming they don't read the papers. Complete and total BullSh!t.



Yeah Ted you answered the "polish sausage question" a week late and you couldn't even claim it was in there yourself. You needed 3rd party evidence to tell us what was in the food you yourself tasted. Not exactly convincing.






Agree completely. This Sausage issue is not going to go away because it wasn't addressed until much later and that was because there was never any sausage used. Conversely Dale used Cabbage instead of Leattuce and we get front page coverage.

Ted is just doing his job on the show, which unfortunately has forced him to become the Top Chef version of Bagdhad Bob. "Yes the Running Dog Westerners used mountains of glorious polish sausage!"



Amen to that.

Well if you want to win my heart you give me lyrics & music.
But you already did that more than once.

Ya' think....about me getting what I
want??? That hasn't always been the case in my
life..but we try.. 5 minutes away this place
is...so no fuel worries..We'll see.

Do you hear lyrics first or the music????
I always hear the lyrics frst.

Some lyrics that I think might be some of the
best ever written and a gawjus arrangement
If you do ever adopt a kidlet this is the
song you'll want to play for Denny.
Boylet or girlet


Back on topic :
It's all rigged and Tom sucks
I don't mean that new peeps.







The Greatest Discovery

I can't find dvd sets for Top Chef. I love this show and it boggles my mind why we can't actually PAY to watch this awesome series. Anyone know why?

Only you would have a scale like the above handy. By the way, 1/2 inch is equal to 12.7 milimeters or 1 inch = 25.4 milimeters

Well again they have been caught with there pants down being as hypocritical as ever! I just finished watching the challenge dealing with movies! Antonia was up for elimination along with Miguel and SPike! Tom admitted she shouldn't have even been there except the "story" didn't match the dish presented! On the other hand the one responsible for the bad dish is spared and the follower is axed! PLS GIVE ME SOME CONSISTENCY! The judges make fools of themselves almost every challenge saying one thing one week and the total opposite in following weeks! SO SAD for these poor people who give up all their talent and time just to be auf'd for ratings! Tell me it doesn't happen! lol!!

You Know What KSBoy and WAJ I have lost my faith in Ted as well... His we Tasted the Food should of just as easily translated too "Because we said so Nener Nener"

Oh I have a really warped sense of humor too.
But I don't think they will ever paradoy a rape
on SNL.
I'm not trying to fight with ya' I just see it differently is all....Parady is one thing.
Wishing it on someone is another.

jmsvnho!

LOL!!!!!!!!!

That scale ain't even gonna' get it!

Why John....methinks you are a
rogue undercover

Or perhaps the polish sausage (2 oz) was like the pork in a can of Campbell's pork and beans - hard to find. Also the judges (except for Padma) don't devour the entire dish so perhaps if there was any polish sausage it could have been in the uneaten portion. They just sample because of the large amount of food to be judged.

Marcel rapped like any other wanksta--badly. As for being a ram, Aries is impulsive and always open to trying something new. It's Taurus the bull that is stubborn and intransigent.

***edited out, sounded way too sarcastic*

BUT....
All kidding aside now....I came up with the porch a season or two ago when emotions were running very high here on the boards. The porch isn't any actual private board or site or anything like that. The "porch" was initially just an imaginary virtual place here on the board that you could go to and be on neutral ground. If the emotions were running too high, you could say "I"m going to go sit on the porch until things calm down." and that way you could avoid being drawn into some pretty heated disagreements. That it grew into an imaginary meeting place complete with food, beverages, and what all is a result of the other folks on this board. I dislike the term "noobies" just on a personal level. I appreciate those folks on the PR board who made me feel welcome when I first started posting. I've used the porch as an easy way to welcome new posters without making them feel uncomfortable as "noobies."

You can join in, or not. Some people do, some don't. There's no set 'porch peep' mentality. Nor would I want there to be one. If you truly found this boring, I am sorry, but again, it is a choice nothing else.

Now...I haven't seen the previews for this week...sounds pretty interesting.
Jazzie

Quite true--and on my football boards, I do indeed have a signature spelling out to my fellow liberals exactly what's at stake come November.

But I don't like being played, and I don't like seeing mediocrity rewarded. That's the case no matter what year it is.

Why thank you!!!
Too right...Impulsive ...Oh yeah!!!
Aries is really a great sign..I love my sign. lol
But we are driven beyond your wildest dreams and rarely give up...Tell me about a Taurus with a bad moon rising. .I was married to one. Tree stumps are easier to try and rationalize with.
Conyoooooo


Back on topic :

Marcel is great and Lisa and Spike are
going to the finals!!!!

Ruuuuuuuuuuunning!

Well, I love 'em both--my mom's a Taurus and my kid brother is an Aries.

I'm not going to chase you; I'm going to simply shake my head in disbelief that an otherwise intelligent woman would fall for Marcel's "poor me, everyone's picking on me, boo-hoo-hoo" routine.

Poor me???? I never saw that.
He hung in he had determination where
others might not have.But honestly...He probably was annoying.I guess I don't know I never saw it.
I thought Betty was annoying as hell..I mean compared to this cast???? He is an an angel.
And I really do not know how I would have reacted to him. But I do know that they ostracized him. And Carlos told me he wasn't that bad. He turned in them for the Vicodin..Oh well he did the right thing and I think that was the turning point. I admire the guy for how he handled it all.
Even Cliff said he wasn't that bad and Mikey.
Why won't anyone believe that????

The further along we get this season the more I find I don't really care. I'll be annoyed if Richard, the most creative of the bunch, doesn't make it to the finale. Otherwise, I feel like it doesn't make a lot of difference to my life. I have much bigger things on my plate, and I find I don't care that Lisa can't make rice, or that Spike may make it to the finale without really cooking anything.

I'm not paying extra to view it, don't go out of my way to see it and, if I miss it, so what? I'll come across it while channel surfing one day, as Bravo will show it to death, and I'll find it modestly amusing when that inevitably happens. I don't expect more than that for basic cable. Nor should you.

My comment to that response still hasn't been posted on blog. Not sure if it will. If it was really about the food made that day it's interesting that Dale's 1 bad dish overshadowed his 3 good ones that they apparently liked, while the 2 they really hated from Lisa were left alone. Doesn't make sense to me.

Because secondary sources ("so-and-so told me") are trumped by primary sources--what we see from the people involved. We saw Marcel try to sabotage Betty--yes, she called him out and called him awful names, but she did so after he was done cooking; he, in turn, escalated it by trying to distract her while she was cooking, and that, I think, is what turned people against him.


Also, we had seen and we've seen since people just as competitive as Marcel--Harold, Lee Anne, Sam, Elia, Casey, Brian, Richard, Stephanie--who did not and do not have anywhere near the interpersonal problems he had.

I know that I'm usually leery about trusting blindly in the majority, but if all but one person around you think you're a tool, you're probably a tool.

And, to be blunt, Marcel just wasn't as good as the rest of the final four. Sam won far more quickfires; both Elia and Ilan won more elimination challenges.

No it's because of the simple fact that any diner, anywhere, with a brain, will choose a restaurant with a chef famous for their quality AND consistency. A chef that can hit a high point once every 10 tries and is otherwise mediocre, or garbage compared to his/her competitors will not be a chef very long.

I didn't have complaints in season 1 because the best four chefs throughout the season were the final four, and 2 of the top 3 were two of the top 3. Season 2 got it somewhat right until the finale, and in season 3, one of the top 2 chefs survived and won. This season we've just seen a chef eliminated whose not just a little, but enormously better than his two competitors that survived the latest "butt's up" so to speak.

Find me anyone on the planet who'd thinks Spike or Lisa could produce better food consistently than Dale, and you'll find me an idiot or a masochist.

That's the problem in my view. Part of being a top chef is consistency. PERIOD. Indeed most of the elite and even just solid chefs will tell you that the difference between being a cook, and being a chef generally rests on three things: creativity-consistency/production-leadership. Now the show just rewarded two chefs whove shown themselves consistently incapable of winning team or individual challenges, and punished a chef whose repeatedly shown himself more than capable of doing both, and doing both consistently. Even Bourdain himself has written more than once about consistency and productivity being the difference in what determines who could survive a career in the kitchen, versus whom simply can't.

Unfortunately part of the show's format fundamentally ignores these realities for Top Chefs, and in so doing, renders at least a core aspect of the show, utterly fraudulent. I'm sorry, the sports analogy is just ridiculous. When it comes to cooking, if you're going to use an analogy, use should use an analogy to Europe and Soccer because that's what determines the value, talent and respect chefs are given. Consistency, and Europes table format (no playoffs or title games, the best team is the team w/the most points at the end of the year and usually the top 3-4 get awards (Cup's, plus tickets to UEFA Cup or Champions League Competition, if you are one of the 3 worst, you get relegated, analogous to restaurants that, if bad enough, go belly up or change ownership) is a perfect illustration. Your illustration is a fair analogy to how the show works, but it doesnt make it any less patently absurd that the show actually works that way.

Btw, you still kick arse, I just happen to disagree w/you here .

I guess it never occurred to me that Chef Chezch really wished it on someone. If you think he really meant that, you shouldn't rely on the MB administrator to shut people like that down, you should call the police and tell them about your concerns.

It sounded like a funny rant to me. I've heard better, but I do believe it was intended as off-color humor. I can't begin to count the number of parodies on TV and in movies that make light of rape, as we technically define the term. Every sitcom that has its main character thrown into jail plays on prison rape as a humorous motif.

Maybe it's a commentary about the failings of the human race, or maybe it's a commentary about the resilience of the human race, but all forms of abuse by one human upon another has been parodied for centuries. I have seen abu ghraib parodied on network TV.

A troll is someone who talks trash about long-time posters that have become friends...or says mean and hateful things to hurt someones feelings. I don't know about you.... but I don't like for people to talk trash about my friends.

Sigh.....NO........ SIGH!
I'm worn out!!
Not many men can do it but you just have.lol
Do you know it's breezy and cool here which is a miracle this time of year and I'm taking the dog to the beach to wish on the ocean stars.

Ciao Giacomo.
The second most stubborn man alive.
The other one rhymes with WAJ

Do you love cannolis???
Oh I love cannolis....You made
me think of cannolis..Don't ask.
My guy's here fly the filling in from Brooklyn
and I'm going to get me one.

Back on topic:

Lisa is a miscreant and Spike
is her evil fraternal twin.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww