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In 2008, we inadvertently ate at a restaurant featured in Kitchen Nightmares - in South Bend, IN. It was the ONLY PLACE OPEN on a Sunday and we were starving. The restaurant was smart and placed all references to Kitchen Nightmares on a wall one could see only upon exiting the restaurant...

It's such a tough call! Ina is a tremendously gifted chef and has made scads of money by cooking - the real "acid" test. Michael Chiarello's cooking makes my mouth water. While he created spectacular foods by cooking, one of his flagship creations HAS to be this masterful assemblage of the...

"As my hero Julia Child said, I never call myself a "chef," but a cook." ITA!! While it's flattering when someone introduces me as a "chef," I quickly relay "I cook all the time but the only kitchen I'm running right now is in my home." People try to elevate one by calling him or her a...

Ramsey lost me forever when I watched him spit into a pan of food. People went all crazy when Bobby Flay jumped on a cutting board but find it entertaining when a (supposed) chef spits into a pan of potatoes? I got nauseous and swore that show off forever. Actually, when I realized that Hell's...

Ah, now I have it. There are definitely shows I watch where I'm thinking, "Geez, this is going to be extremely difficult to reproduce for someone with limited cooking experience." It's times like that I think they're just showing off! :lol: I think I'd want to demonstrate recipes people...

If space is an issue, there are plenty of really great brands who make slim-line or smaller format ovens and stove tops. Be very selective when you choose small equipment like pans and mixing bowls. When I lived in Manhattan, my "kitchen" was no bigger than a phone booth. The floor...

Not sure if I'd write every complicated recipe off to TV. I've written recipes for holiday foods or celebration foods that had very long ingredient lists but it's because I was going for complex flavors. Take a recipe for gingerbread cookies. I've never seen one that didn't look like the...

Look, I don't want to get in the gutter over this. Buy what you like and happy cooking. I think I've navigated through this about as diplomatically as I can. As far as not being "Anthony Bordain" he's no me either. Cook your sliced mushrooms. Be happy.

Sometimes the "behind the scenes" stuff is ugly. There's nothing we can do about that. I didn't make it up. I shared it. The additional benefit to buying things like whole mushrooms is that you have choices of what you can do with them. If I buy a box of shrooms at Costco, I don't know...

Absolutely not - I know people get information from wherever they get it. I'm sharing what I know to be true. It's been true for years. I keep trying to explain that people can choose to do whatever they want but full disclosure is always nice. If you shop at a supermarket that you trust...

Anyone has a right to disagree but don't try to discredit my information. My father worked FOR A DAIRY and like I've said before, I got valuable information AND advice from my purveyor. Whoever wants to used the sliced stuff, go right ahead. If you want to drink the pre-made chocolate milk...

I've lusted after the Electrolux line of ovens. I have my eye on the double wall convection oven - that's SIX TRAYS of Christmas Cookies at once. Does anyone have an Electrolux oven? Feedback? Do you like it? Recommend or Thumbs down? TIA!:chef:

I think I qualify as both. I have owned and run a small restaurant in SW CO - around 1999-2000. I do catering and baking when requested and am an avid home cook. When I had my restaurant, my friends used to ask "How can you cook all day and come home and watch cooking shows???" I went to...

Do you have individual ramekins? It's really the "straight sidedness" of a dish that enables you to use it as a souffle dish. The souffle must "climb" up the sides of the dish. Doing the paper collar should help direct the souffle as it rises.

So much of authentic Italian food is peasant food anyway, it didn't seem out of the ordinary to have polenta and soups at home. My mother could cook a chicken more ways than Frank Purdue. We had lentil soup with cut up Hebrew National hot dogs (they were hot dogs but they were REAL). To this...