Do you try the recipes on TV?

[Ralphy]

Do you try the recipes you see presented on TV yourself or do you just enjoy watching the show?
Sometimes it's difficult to keep track of what you need or how to cook the recipe, but if you have a good memory you might catch something :)
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[Mancook]

I think that that watching TV is a good way to delight your eyes, but you will have to buy a lot of ingredients so that you can cook those foods that are being cook on TV. Those recipes are far expensive for me. I would never cook anything that I see on the television simply because it is not practical.

[Dishwashboy]

I have never done it because most of the ingredient that is needed on making that recipe is too hard to find. I think that you can do a lot of recipe if you are rich. This is the only reason why you can go on experimenting on foods. You have the privilege because you afford them.

[Benton Tarantella]

In my case I'll have to say it depends on the ingredients' price and finding difficultness level. I have tried a lot of recipes from TV cooking shows and was very impressed with the way some turned out. :p Most of the recipes seen on Tv are indeed not very practical. It's like the producer of the show simply picked something from a cook book and didn't spend too much time thinking if the audience can ever have the chanse to prepare such a dish. It's not often you watch a decent show on television these days.

[kitchener]

When watch tv cooking shows half of the time I have never heard of the ingredients or are imposable to buy in a every day superstore.

[malecook76]

When i'm watching tv and i see a delicious cake, i take a pen and a notebook and i'm waiting for instructions. In the end, i search for ingredients. If i don't find one of the ingredients i'm trying to improvize, but if many ingredients cannot be found, i give up.

[Mancook]

I think that watching TV shows will not make you a good cook simply because most of the ingredients that they are using haven’t heard or not available in our local markets. It’s just a way to entertain you. Do you hear someone who gets good at cooking by watching a show?

[she_cookie]

I like to watch them a lot. They make me want to try them, because they look so good on screen but i don't always do.
I do write them down, and so does my mum, but i cook what i see on tv very rare.
I think it is because the complexity of the recipe. It always seems so complicated to follow..
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[beginnercook]

I love cooking shows and sometimes I try the recipes. But I need to have the show taped first so that I can follow each step carefully and also know the ingredients and how much of them to use. Otherwise we are in a big mess. It's very challengin and I like this a lot.

[Denton15]

I rarely watch TV cooking shows, and I have never attempted to make anything I have seen because they don't usually make thinks that I would like to eat. I don't like onions or garlic and I don't like spicy tastes so I guess I am pretty boring really.

[Samuel]

I like to watch the shows, but I do not take notes. I haven't even thought of searching them on the internet. I just like to observe the technique...and the results. Plus, it's a great visual experience.

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

I also like to go to YOUTUBE and replay some of my favorite shows :)

[Rashid]

I love these shows. I would watch them over and over again. I find myself interested in some recipes too and try them on my own. With a bit of an experience and some ruined meals, I was able to make progress. What I love more is that I can try new things I never thought I'd try. It makes me get over my limits and find new things I like

[Clarissa_one]

If I see something that is doable , and I mean not too many exotic things , I will give it a shot.

[liowkc]

First of all, I don't really follow recipes strictly - I treat them merely as guidelines. But more importantly, I watch these cookiing shows for fun so I do not want to stress myself; TV make cooking sound so easy which is not the case :mad: :mad:

[Dishwashboy]

I just watch them to be amused because most of the ingredients that they are using are not familiar to me. I can’t seem to find the ingredients in our local supermarket. I don’t want to waste my time for anything that I would just be disappointed in the end.

[jglass]

I enjoy watching the Food Network.
I agree the spices can get expensive.
Luckily there is a bulk food store here that sells herbs and spices at much lower prices than grocery stores.
I make alot of Giada De Laurentiis's recipes. Her recipes tend to be lighter and my husband and I love Italian food.

[Max Sutton]

I'm a novice cook so I watch TV cooking shows for tips, techniques, and food ideas. I've picked up a lot from watching these Food Network cooking shows.

Paula Deen was making an apple Bundt cake that looked both easy and delicious. Paula didn't even use any butter! I went to the Food Network website and copied her recipe for that Bundt cake. I've made it three times and I love it.

Most of the time I simply enjoy watching Giada DeLaurentiis, Guy Fieri, Tyler Florence, Paula Deen, and Rachel Ray cooking in their kitchens.

[Semigourmet]

I love to watch the shows on Food Network mostly because if I want the recipe I can get it. other networks make it near impossible to find and get their reicpes.

I have cooked many recipes from Tyler Florence, Rachael Ray, a couple of Giada's, one or two from Robbin Miller, Emeril, Juan Carlos Cruz, Sandra Lee, and some from Paula Deen. not expensive ingredients nothing Exotic,

I have tried and like these reicpes from these Chef's even though I have changed them a bit or a lot to make them mine.
Tyler = pot roast, chicken broth, chicken soup,
Emeril = blue cheese butter, Remoulade
Sandra Lee = beefy stew but change it up quite a bit
Robin Miller = angel food cake with berry sauce, Very easy and Very good
Rachael Ray= shrimp scampi with angel hair pasta, very good.
Juan Carlos Cruz = four cheese macaroni and cheese
Paula Deen = beer can chicken (changed recipe a lot), Not Yo Mamma's banana pudding
Giada De Laurentiis = bruschetta (easy and very good).

I love to help and teach and learn so if any of you have questions or want recipes and so on I would be glad to share, help, or learn.
Liowkc, you have the right of it. Recipes should be a guideline never set in stone.

[johnnyreno13]

I am no chef of any standard but I love to cook for friends and family. Gordon Ramsay. He is my favourite chef. I watch all his shows his mixing of ingredients is usually so easy to follow. He uses only fresh ingredients, not expensive and can be bought at most stores. Johnny

[Sonja]

I usually try to note all the ingredients and always want to try for myself. Most of the times I add a bit of me and change some of the ingredients if are not available, and most of the times is a success :)
The one recipe that I still did not make, and I'm craving to, is the Gordon Ramsey's Beef Wellington, seems soo hard to do.... :(

[lovely09]

I love to watch cooking shows.Sometimes i'm trying to prepare some of their recipes but mostly i'm making my own version.I mean just getting the recipe but i want something slightly different.

[miseenplace]

I mainly watch Alton but I make lots of his recipes. Or he will inspire me to make something, it may not be exactly like his recipe but I learn technique and put it use.

His potstickers are great example. Mine are nothing like his recipe, but I use his technique and was inspired to make them after watching the show.

[Whoopie Pie]

I don't usually follow specific recipes from the shows, but get lots of inspiration and ideas. I have made a few baking recipes and I do follow them to the letter.

[Big Daddy's House]

I've tried several, but I mainly stick with my own.

[lesley]

I enjoy watching TV cooking, it gives me ideas for recipes..including the programme that made candle holders out of artichokes..they look so pretty on the table (photo is an ornamental artichoke, but I make them with real ones)
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm162/bazmj_1/CANDLES.jpg

[electrictoaster]

Hi Guys,

The thing that really annoys me about TV recipes is often;

1. You cannot access the recipe in complete form (ie. someone just reads it).
2. They often forget to specify how much of an ingredient is required.
3. My own outcome looks very different to the result on TV!

ET

[TheMetalChef]

Hi Guys,

The thing that really annoys me about TV recipes is often;

1. You cannot access the recipe in complete form (ie. someone just reads it).
2. They often forget to specify how much of an ingredient is required.
3. My own outcome looks very different to the result on TV!

ET

1) Most TV shows have a website where you can get the complete recipe.
2) Those recipes are exact to the last detail.
3) If you weren't aware of 1) and 2) above, I totally understand your frustration.

;)

[dev_3047]

no,
not really..!
as i am really bad at cooking..!:cool::cool:

[suke]

Yes i do watch recepies in TV and do try them

[Chowhound]

I try a LOT of recipes that I first see on TV. Like last night's dinner.

[Big Daddy's House]

Sometimes I do.

I'll see it and in my mind, I pretty much know what is in it down the road. Like the recipe that I tried from Giada. It was Spaghetti Carbonara.

It was around the summer of 06. I found out that the procuito ham is wicked salty, so several times, I cut down on that drastically to eliminate so much salt in the dish.

Most of those recipes I often tweak to suit my personal taste. There's no law that says you have to do it exactly as they do it. There are no "Food Police" around, as Emeril often says.

[Love2Cook]

I have never done it because most of the ingredient that is needed on making that recipe is too hard to find. I think that you can do a lot of recipe if you are rich. This is the only reason why you can go on experimenting on foods. You have the privilege because you afford them.

Me too. I can never find the items. And also they make it look so easy. So I just stare and eat with my eyes :eek: I will sometimes incorporate some ideas in the meal which is relatively easy to spice up a normal dinner.

[Chowhound]

Let me change my answer.
I will make something I see if it is "relatively simple". Even if I make a drive into a large grocery store, they don't seem to have a lot of the ingredients you see them use on TV.

[LeMagnifico]

I'm thinking of trying Tyler Florence's Ultimate White Cheddar Mac 'n Cheese recipe. Think that's the name of it.
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[megan]

I often use recipes I see online. Do you have "come dine with me" in America? Its on in the UK and there is a new Greek one just come out here - the new craze! I like most cooking shows. We get "Top Chef" here but I just watch that for entertainment or ideas cos obviously what they do is out of my league!

[fahriye]

I have been watching Jamie Oliver's Family Christmas which I have been enjoying. Today I made the " make ahead gravy" to freeze. It was fun to make and very tasty too.
ALL YOU NEED is some chicken wings, 2-3 carrots, 2 stalks of celery, 2 onions, all roughly chopped. Some bay leaves and rosemary, salt and pepper.
Place the wings at the bottom of the roasting tin. Pile all the veg on top together with herbs, salt and pepper. Bake at 200C for one hour. Then take the tin out of the oven, mush everything with the potato masher adding some hot water as you do this. Place the tin on top the stove and bring it to boil, still mashing and mixing. Then strain and leave it to cool. Freeze the gravy in small feezer bags.
When you roast your meat add this mixture to the meat juices for a ferfect gravy.

[Chowhound]

That sounds good fahriye.
Are you using the wings, too, mixing the skin and meat in with the mashed veggies? Does this naturally thicken the juices you are adding it too? No flour or cornstarch?
I think I might give this a try. I usually do pretty good on my gravy, but this sounds like it would push it over the top.

[fahriye]

That sounds good fahriye.
Are you using the wings, too, mixing the skin and meat in with the mashed veggies? Does this naturally thicken the juices you are adding it too? No flour or cornstarch?
I think I might give this a try. I usually do pretty good on my gravy, but this sounds like it would push it over the top.

Hi Chowhound, yes you mash the chicken wigs with all the veg. That made it really tasty, adding salt and pepper to taste. You freeze, just the juice from chicken wings and vegetables. When you are ready to make gravy: Melt some butter in a pan, add 2 -3 tbsp flour, mix the juices from your meat and the stock from your freezer to make the gravy. This Christmas I am going to add splash of red wine which will make the gravy extra special.

[Chowhound]

Your method for making gravy is different from mine, but you answered my question. I'm going to try this and add it to my gravy that's already going.
Thanks :^D

[fahriye]

Your method for making gravy is different from mine, but you answered my question. I'm going to try this and add it to my gravy that's already going.
Thanks :^D

Can we have your recipe Chowhound? It is nice to know how people do things different and get good ideas lol!!
This method seems like a hussle to make but good only if you are going to freeze the stock, made with wings and vegetables. It is just as good when I am roasting a joint, I pile the vegetables at the bottom of the tin, place meat on top then roast it. Then make the gravy with some flour, juice and stock from the roast. I am fairly new to gravy as in Turkish cooking gravy is quite different to English gravy. Have a happy Xmas!!

[Chowhound]

The ingredients are the same, the order is different.
I always add the flour to the juices already in the pan first, cook for a bit, then I'll add the butter. In essence I am not making a separate roux, I am making it with the juices and fond already in the pan. If I am making a mushroom gravy (for instance), I'll still add the flour to the juices and the cooked shrooms. It seems to break up and disappear more easily for me this way. Once it is cooked a bit and mixed in with the pan drippings, then I'll add some butter, cook some more to thicken, then add beef or chicken stock to get volume. Sometimes cream or milk, too if I am making gravy to go with chicken.

[QSis]

Oh, HECK yes! I make TV show recipes ALL the time!

In fact, there are so many wonderful new recipes on TV, that I rarely make the same thing twice, unless it's 1) spectacular and 2) fairly easy.

I usually have Food Network on when I'm at home, even if I'm busy doing other things. I just print the recipes from their website.

Lee

[arunkumarrr]

Only once I have tried as i failed miserably in that attempt so I gave it up after that..

[PotnpanMan]

I indeed tried a "Sloppy Joe" recipee that was featured on "30 minute meals" with Rachel Ray but it lacked the intensity I like in my foods so I had to alter it and add some POP;)

[cookingwithliz]

I make things I see on cooking shows on a regular basis. It is not necessarily the same, I write down the ingredients and hope for the best. What I like about cooking shows the most is being able to get new ideas. I will watch something and think, boy I never thought of that...cool. I really like to watch Alton Brown to learn new techniques.

[cooking queen3]

i tried a saterday kitchen recipe i substited calfs liver for lambs liver the result was verry good

[Semigourmet]

I like to use Rachel Ray, and Tyler Florence, also Emeril's recipes but change a bit about them. I do like them but need to changed them to my taste.

[martfay2010]

I usually watch these shows to serve as a guide for me...and then when I try one of their recipes, I put my own twist to it. I don't really follow everything they say.

[officerange123]

yeah offcourse i am crazy about to make new cuisines and i love to note recipes and i have wrote 130 recipes in my cooking diary..

Regards

[stormbind]

No I do not.

If there was an option to email the instructions to my BlackBerry then I would consider it. Otherwise its just too much hassle.

[HattoriHanzo]

9 times out of ten, most recipes on TV can be found on their web sites. Inevitably most cooking shows have there own recipe area. But I know how frustrating it can be when it is that 1 time in ten. Especially trying to find that piece of paper :D

[Big Daddy's House]

Yumy, please delete that link.

To me, it constitutes spam and solicitation, which is not allowed here.

[SwisCooking]

I've tried a lot of recipes. I love Nigella Lawson recipes. It always works!

U can find some recipes which i've tried on my website http://swiscooking.webs.com/

I will find recipes Gordon Ramsey, Nigella Lawson, Jamie Olvier, Marco Pierre White, Bourdain, Anna Olson, Michael Smith, Antony Worrall Thompson, Martha Stewart, Antonio Carluccio and more...

:o

[likestocook45]

Yes I try recipes from TV.
I agree with most here that if the recipe looks good, does not have any unusual, hard to find ingredients, then yes, I give it a try.

hi miseenplace, have you tried Alton Brown's soft pretzel recipe? I thought it was quite good. Reheated frozen pretzels are good too. You get an extra crunch in the reheating process.

[taste12]

I 've tried a lot of recipes from TV. They are usually very interesting so.. why not ? :)

[LuvsToCook]

Yeah I do, if there will be a new recipe that I don't know yet. :)

[Amora]

Yes I do, and not only from shows on FN but also PBS, like somebody said, just watching the cooking shows, you get great ideas.

[rheadewey]

Do you try the recipes you see presented on TV yourself or do you just enjoy watching the show?
Sometimes it's difficult to keep track of what you need or how to cook the recipe, but if you have a good memory you might catch something :)

Well I don't take down notes while I watch so I try to remember as hard as I can...then when I go to the grocery store I tend to forget the ingredients so I'll just cook something else :(

[ruthmoore]

When I watch cooking shows, I always take note of the alternative ingredients that can be used for a dish when the orig is not available and if the dish that the chef is preparing seems interesting I usually get a pen and paper to scribble the steps and ingredients. :)

[LuvsToCook]

I enjoy watching cooking shows and I also try them at times especially the quick and easy ones.

[rossgarner7]

I like this guy Eadie Manson and his food looks great, but it is very very complicated stuff. That said you can get the recipe off the website (http://programmes.stv.tv/the-hour/news-gossip/193932-seared-scallops-with-carrot-fritters-and-crme-fraiche-dressing/)afterward but even then it's so complicated I'm hesitant to try it. And you need a whole HEAP of ingredients!

[mars777]

I am totally new to cooking, so much so in fact that I haven't even burned my 1st. salad yet. I need to clear a good size prep area before I could ever begin. But by golly it all looks like good fun and if I can succeed in some recipes that'd be far out.

Some of Alton Brown's recipes, or at least the ones he uses on "Good Eats" seem simple enough so that I could even pull it off. An example would be "Welsh Rabbit", or "Welsh Rarebit" as it's sometimes referered to. None of the ingredients would be difficult to locate and tho I've never tried "Welsh Rabbit", I've always been intriqued by seeing Gomer Pyle have some of it and then tell off Sgt. Carter, walking in his sleep in an episode of that old show. :)

Mike

[ggt_10]

hey!!! im new here!! im just letting u know! lol..
well im looking forward to hear bout this cool recepies of yours!!
thnkx!!! KIT :

[Offshoreally]

I love to try some dishes created by Nigella Lawson....I really enjoy watching her show.

[ggt_10]

I found this web page were u can cook ur own restaurant recepies!!

check it out!

[abi_csi]

I often try recipe's from TV, however often I will add my own slant to their ingredients or method. For example the insertion of spices or chilli's to dishes that wouldn't usually contain them, as I love spicy food, or replacing potato for example with sweet potato or squash to suit my tastes. But TV recipe's are always a source of inspiration.

[chrissss]

I tried about 10 recipes from the show "The F word" and I loved them all. the rabbit fricassee is one of my favorite meals I have made myself. sometimes I use the show "sos" PIET, its ok, but nothing great

[abi_csi]

I love watching the cookery shows for tips and recipe ideas - I'm often really upset that I can't try the finished results that the chefs have made though.

[abi_csi]

I enjoy the show, but if they're simple - I try them.

[Azazel]

I watch them for a bit of both really, I love the shows, especially Daily Cooks Challenge in the UK, apart from being hosted by an idiot its a great show, I love to watch Gino D'Acampo for entertainment value as well as the fact that he is a very good cook, he has a good sense of humor but is also very serious about his cooking. Rather than make an exact recipie 'as seen on tv', i tend to get inspiration from them and learn techniques by watching the chefs do them on the tv

[Darkginger]

I don't have a television, but I watch some cookery shows online (Come Dine With Me, The F Word, Kitchen Nightmares, that sort of thing). Sometimes I'll try a recipe from one of them (anyone try Kish's curries from CDWM? Very much worth it!), but most of the time I just take inspiration from them. There was a salmon and lobster terrine cooked on CDWM a little while back - it didn't work properly for the contestant - came out too soft - but I'm planning to try to make something similar, but making it up as I go along (using a cheap frozen lobster from Lidl - not wasting one of the glorious staight-off-the-boat ones we get here in the summer!).

If I particularly enjoy a TV cook, I'll often buy their recipe book - and those I DO use. Most of all though, the web is the best source of recipes from celebrity cooks - did Gordon Ramsay's Roast Goose for Christmas this year, and it was tremendous. Next project - Nigella's Guinness cake - both recipes found online :)