"Here's one I made earlier!"  

Hi Scarlet, the very inspiration behind this discussion.

We're great fans of Gordon here, my son is convinced he's the best chef in the world. But he can be seen actually cooking as he made little videos which you can see if you google Gordon and the Times newspaper. After many years of cooking scrambled eggs he changed my way and his eggs are the best ever. Everyone has some eggs around to be scrambled but no one scrambles them as well as Gordon. And at least he keeps his shirt on I think when he's doing it.

really? i'll have to look for that.

that one show he has..oh what is it called.."kitchen nightmares" i think..
some of the kitchens he's found should be ashamed of themselves.rotten stuff in the walk-in..good lord.i've worked in some borderline nasty kitchens,but none ever had rats.yikes..

I think that Kitchen Nightmares could be a bit of a set up for TV. The English version is much better as they don't keep replaying bits as if we were too dim to understand it all the first time.

Hi thea. I am interested in this new way of making scrambled eggs of yours! Having children(not goats) that are picky eaters often times make a struggle during feeding time(again, not goats). And scramble eggs seem to be always an alternative, if everything else fails.
Hi scarlet_woman. Sorry to butt-in here in your response.

Hi Bounce, well I grew up thinking you beat the eggs together and then placed them in the pan, a Gordon no no. You heat the butter on a very low heat and break the eggs into it and then beat, removing the pan continually away from the hob, not leaving it on all the time. A low temp is the key. Gordon shows it much better than I describe though if you just put his name and scrambled eggs into youtube. They really do taste so much better.

that's the way i always did them-i don't know why they taste different,but they do..

Hi Sandra, I sort of remember Keith Floyd, I don't remember much cooking though but a lot of drivel and wine. Trust you to bring up bacon sandwiches, you can do them at your next barbecue then instead of human remains. It's years since I had a good bacon sandwich. At the best we were stuck with only Liddle bacon and they've only had smoked for the last few years which I don't like.

I still use Delia but don't recall watching her much as a bit dull for TV, I just use her book instead, the one with a picture of the egg on the front. Nigella was my favourite, style and panache in the kitchen and her books are a treat. Now that is one show I do miss.

Sandra have you got a mo for Marti in box 7, I'm sure the Galloping Gourmet was ours but really can't remember?

Hatley that's awful, you mean there you are wanting a good old swoon over Doctor Kovaj in ER and everyone else wants to watch John Wayne. If I do want to see TV I use YOUTUBE on the computer but the picture is a bit annoying and you only get to see anything for ten minutes at a time. It's how we keep up with Gordon Ramsay and his cooking shows though.
I don't know any of your selection I'm afraid but imagine that they wouldn't be allowed to show a show now with all that butter in it. I haven't ever seen Martha Stewart but her reputation as a total pain has spread before her.

Hi Zandi, I don't think I've noticed that aspect of it but I'm not able to get my favourite one anymore of Nigella Lawson but know she made a range of cooking utensils under her name. I like to type Gordon Ramsay in as he does those ultra quick cooking clips.

What are you like? Of course I meant the language my dear, the Greek as opposed to my Greek doesn't need improving. He even cooks. I find I like the cooking shows if I like the host, which only ever left me watching Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson, the latter a great beauty who is known as the domestic Goddess. I still wonder why her second husband, one of the Satchi clan, was forced to endure a diet of six months of nothing but boiled eggs to lose weight, when he could just as well as eated everything in her chapter on 'food as something for the body temple' and lost weight. Maybe he just doesn't like her cooking much and married her for her foot rubbing qualities.

hahahahaha,, touché!! well done Goddess Thea of Kwikwit!!
Can you but imagine the gas from boiled eggs never ending?? SHE put him on this diet?? or He chose it?? either way, isn't it terrible!! a 'love to hate' situation!!

I can't for one moment imagine the domestic Goddess Nigella suggesting the boiled eggs for 6 months as she rather likes her food. Mind you hubby lost a ton of weight. It doesn't sound a very healthy way to do it though.

Hello, Fjaril. So you don't like cookery programmes then? What are you going to do with all my oranges? Nigella's husband didn't lose weight by eating the egg, though. He produced so much gas - I'll be polite as it's Thea's discussion - that he kept blowing himself down the street and had to walk back home about 6 times a day. It was the extra excercise that did the job!

Why would I think of the word' cooking' in the same breath with ' oranges'.. Am I soo incredibly 'xy'd that I cannot think why I would cook an orange? Never mind if there are the Jamies and the Paulos and the Gordons who can and will do that.. I am just an original type of male mammal and oranges are juicy and sweet and can be squeezed and sucked.. and will you stop this now!!??

WHEUW!! thankyou .. on to something else rather appropriate being we have just gassed ourselves out of Christmas!This egg thing is harmful to the system.. you could go ,,um,, blind, broken, homeless or unconscious, or even murdered, taking the neighbours with you , with all the power coming from the rear and blowing you through the streets and into others.. Film at 11!.

fjaril, how do you think I produce my delcious marmalade without cooking up Sandras oranges?
Sandra has just put a discussion in an interest to your mutual taste where I won't be joining you as Sandra well knows. Please please Fjaril do everything you can to reduce my number on the ranking board, I only popped in to say hello to Sandra once and ended up as no 2 on the ghastly leaderboard. Sandra understands.

ojoj!! apparently I like cooked oranges.. especially if they are made in to marmalade,, although the process is well beyond me... yes THAT would be very fine then.. on toast or bisquits perhaps.

I wonder what ‘everything I can do’ IS exactly?? I am not so familiar with ranking boards or reducing them either,, yikes, I have a secret coded job of which I know nothings..

Even if you have no wish at all to be associated with a certain interest, and Sandra know full well I have no wish to be anywhere near this one strange interest she has, once one has visited said interest, and said no thank you to said interest, one ends up on a leaderboard in that interest. However if other people visit it more and get plussed up in there too, then the ranking of that person will rise above the rankings of other people.

You just look at your ranking above your name when you are in an interest. I am ranked number one in PE and Greek Lifestyle and you should have a high ranking there too I would expect.

You are truly not kidding.. I am going to be ranking high in something I consider rather private!! O MY, I never even realized this.. How much proof does anyone need out there that I don't multitask.. YOU made me look at these dim little numbers and words beside my avatar.. This is a first in my life..

Do we celebrate the Awakening of the Swede. or the Dawning of Capricorn??

I really look like this symbol right now. l really do

Not kidding at all my dear. Your ranking in Sandra's interest is likely to be most high, whilst it is only a respectable rankining here in cookery.

Do hope you're feeling less glum.

O yes, thea of the 'cookingranking'. I am feeling unglummed and even tired, after the journey.. I am grateful for my friends both here and 'here'. Life goes on and I will try to behave, especially now, since I have had a lovely Swedish coffee!AND a chocolate.

Hi vandana, I never heard of anyone learning to cook from TV shows before, though certainly there's methods I've picked up, usually to save time. Really though I learnt to cook from cookery books. Lots of people don't learn to cook until later on and end up being good cooks. One of the things the woman on the Greek tv cooks includes lots of onions so you can just imagine how long that takes on live TV.

Not exactly cooking thea. I got the crucial tip about when the masala is to be sprinkled. It makes a lot of difference to taste. :) And the quantity as well. I am not going to tell you that! :) Everybody will read it, and there will be nothing special about my cooking anymore. Cookery books yes, but the thing about cookery books is we tend to focus only on special dishes. Here she said you can do it with every vegetable. That changed my cooking. :)

Not going to share your masala tip Vandana

Find your own pickle ideas then.

Hi Marti, where's Sandra when I need her. I'm sure we had the Galloping Gourmet in the UK too but she'd know for sure. I like photos of the finished product too though one of my favourite cook books has not a picture to its name, I think its called 'old peasant traditional cooking' or something like that and it has all the old dishes which used to be concocted out of nothing expensive in Europe.
Now tell me, did he manage to get lost in a snow drift of were you stuck with him at home?

You've reminded me that the Galloping Gourmet was British. He did like his wine! LOL

I was stuck with him. Luckily, he had a lot of work to do from home. Normally, he sits at the dining room table with his laptop when he works from home but, because I needed the table for the holidays, he went to the basement where he has an office set up. I barely saw him all weekend! He was rather a wet rag when my youngest son was the only visitor here (he has a terribly negative attitude towards my son because my son hasn't been able to find steady employment... nice guy, huh?) but he managed to perk up a bit when my friends came by. I think it was the beer, though. Nothing conscious on his part. Shame he has to be that way. He misses out on a lot of good times. Oh, well. His loss!

Now, what was that chef's name? Grahm something? Maybe spelled differently? I'll have to look that up. It'll drive me nuts until I know for sure.

Aha! Graham Kerr!

Graham Kerr? I think that rings a bell but I'm almost sure he was on when I was a child on the black and white TV. I'll pop up and ask Sandra in a moment.

Glad to hear you locked him in the basement for most of the time for christmas and got to have some fun with your friends after all, I gather they must have made it up your lethal driveway then.

They almost didn't make it up the driveway, thea. We heard them very clearly before we saw them. I think they left half the rubber of their tires in my driveway just sitting in one spot and spinning them. My husband and son went out with shovels and rock salt and managed to get them up the driveway.

But, when they were leaving, they had more trouble. My friend's husband went out again, after coming in to tell us he was having trouble and that they may need to spend the night, and was able to slide his car down the driveway without crashing. Then, the real fun began. Everyone had to walk down the driveway to the car. My friend's husband came to help my friend, who had 3 strokes early last year so it was even worse for her.

I didn't know it until she called me to tell me they got home okay, but she had slid and fallen on the ice. What she was really upset about was that her husband assured her that he would catch her if she fell. Well, he fell on top of her!

Luckily, no one was hurt. Hey, I TRIED to warn them!

I just looked up Graham Kerr. His show, The Galloping Gourmet, began in 1968.

Here's a more recent photo of him. This is definitely the guy I watched on TV.

I'm here, but you don't need me now! However, I can add to that. Graham Kerr was of Australian origin, but he made his shows in the UK, he was a sort of early Ainsley Harriott, as he was really enthusiastic about the food. Talking of Ainsley Harriott, anyone remember Rustie Lee, the Jamaican cook? I think she was on breakfast tv, and she had such an infectious laugh. She used to show us how to cook Carribbean food, and she was really entertaining. They're all coming back to me now!

I do not recall Rusty Lee. I'm most assuredly not a morning person. I don't do breakfast. I think I would have loved her, though. I love Caribbean food.

No, I was thinking of the chap with the face like a dog. Either Freud or Craddock possibly.

Hi jillhill, I love meringues and they are the perfect sort of thing to be inspired by a cookery show as the books make them sound so technical to make and they really are easy. Of course the longer they sit in a cold over afterwards the better so definitely the 'here's one I made earlier' is needed if cooking meringues on TV.

Ha, you'd certainly have no patience at all with the Greek one I used to try and sit through, it was like watching paint dry seeing the same pan of something brown being endlessly stirred. I couldn't believe they did it live rather than producing a made for camera version cooked up earlier.

U are so right, i wouldn't. Never have been known for having alot of patience except w/ryan i do.

I think she should. Rose. She has a shiny new skillet to cook in.lol

Ha, you are all after my marmalade I see

I used to just watch the two shows, Nigella and Gordon. I have her books but his are expensive and too fussy, but he does do those really good 2 minute video clips where he cooks something up. I think on the whole the shows are watched by people who don't cook much but think they will when the watch the shows.

Are you a good cook rose?

Ahhh..lets see..am I am good cook. I will ask the hubby that. I think that I am as long as a I stick to the basics. Hubby says that I am good cook...LOL..I think he was afraid to say anything any different..LOL