Tempted by some recipes seen on TV.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230351)
Chile
February 28, 2013 5:46pm CST
You all know I love to cook. But I don`t bake much as I live alone. A couple of days ago I was watching a cooking program while mylotting and it was a grandma cook that taught her 2 granddaughters to make scones. I have not made scones for decades so I went to my Joy of Cooking, got the recipe, and made some. I changed the cream for whole milk and put a little less butter for weight`s sake. Still, they turned out awesome. Do you cook special food after watching a TV show or reading about a special dish? Share!
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18 responses
@lelin1123 (15594)
• Puerto Rico
28 Feb 13
I have done this numerous times. I also get ideas of how to change a recipe by using different ingredents. In fact one day I was watching a cookshow where they were showing how to make pretzels. Since then I have made them a few times and they taste as good as pretzels sold in the streets of New York City. I also have gotten ideas for baking bread, apple pie, pizza, cupcakes, etc... I have never had a scone and I'm not sure I know exactly what it is. I will have to do some research on this. Glad you enjoyed them though!
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@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
THey are tea breads, richer than the usual best bread you have eaten. As they have butter (I used margerine), they can keep fresh until you eat the last crumb

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@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
28 Feb 13
I love all those cooking shows on the food channel. I have tried many recipes in the oven from them. i learn so much on how to cook from those shows. So, when you cook a new thing from the show... dont forget to invite me over.


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@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
I would so wish we could get together sometime, Marìa, and not just for the cooking. By the way, some friends of mine told me we might save money to go to Las Vegas next year. Maybe, if all goes well, we can meet there
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.@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
1 Mar 13
I would love that so darn much. And the home Ill get there is 4 bedrooms. We will only use 2 of them..
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
1 Mar 13
I love Italian food. LOVE it.
So, one day the roomie was looking at recipes and accidentally printed out one she hadn't intended. It was a Baked Ziti recipe.
Well, it calls for ziti and hamburger (or sausage) but we didn't have ziti and hamburger and, even worse, sausage, would limit my ability to eat it, so, we used ground turkey... we have since also made it with ground chicken.
It is one of my absolute favorite dishes!
Yeah, its loaded with cheese, that's fine, it is DIVINE!
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@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
Sometimes a change in a recipe makes it even better, specially for our needs. I cannot eat much butter, so I change the amounts. I change part of the mayo in recipes for unflavoured yogourt and so on. Yummy!
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@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
1 Mar 13
Cooking is one of my passions. I make everything from scratch and love to see new recipes. I get several cooking/recipe sites' email newsletters and some daily recipe offerings. I also have three subscriptions to cooking magazines. Also have membership at many cooking sites.
I've not made scones but did see a recipe recently that looked good. I saved the recipe for maybe making later.
I watched Cooks Country the other night and then went to their site to get the recipe for ribs cooked in foil in the oven. Also another site has a recipe for using wood chips to smoke ribs or whatever meat you want in your oven. Did you know you could do that? I think I'll try it. I love hickory smoked ribs.
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@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
I cook from scratch too and TV shows help me make my dishes nicer looking or investigate new recipes.
@redredrose (1105)
• United States
28 Feb 13
I have not cooked like that in yrs.Tho i have cooked what i ave seen on t.v. before and so has my hubby. I love to cook just am not as good at it as he is as hes an executive chef for his job. The only baking i do is baking cookies but i'd love to bake more just don't know how need recipes. But yes i have cooked what i have seen on cooking shows before.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
I had not cooked cookes and cupcakes in years until 2 Christmases ago. I stopped baking sweets a couple of decades ago because my husband had diabetes. When he passed, I discovered that I had lost my sweet tooth and I got into salty appetizers. Bur grandchildren made me start to bake again. And these scones will be loved by them.
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@jenny1015 (13359)
• Philippines
1 Mar 13
I was inspired to learn how to cook through watching those cooking shows. I remember watching "Wok with Yan". He was a Chinese cook/chef and of course he cooks Chinese food most of the time. And so maost of my cooking would be Chinese food. Then when I grew older, I tried experimenting. I never really used recipe books. I just cook whatever I think would be fine together.
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@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
I learned a lot about chinese and japanese cooking with a chef who taught both a few summers ago. I had shoulder problems and didn`t go out much so my "cooking lessons" helped me have a nice summer anyway.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
2 Mar 13
Hi margui! How are you doing? I cannot help but reply to the discussion as seeing the subject already made me me think of the times before that I watch n these n cooking shows shows and I would be eager to do it myself. Hehe
Have never made scones before but I think I really would not dare though. I have never baked before so I guess I will mess that up only.
Every time I see or watch the show of ramsey I would wish I can try a soufflé! Ha that looked so lovely and wish I can try it.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
2 Mar 13
Scones have few ingredients and you just put together the dough. There`s no yeast or other difficult to deal with ingredients. Check them online. They are very yummy!

@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
5 Apr 13
Even when we don`t have all the ingredients, it is fun to try to resemble the recipe shown on TV. Sometimes we can concoct special dishes that are even better than our best known dishes.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
I often change channels when I`m mylotting and watching TV. If I`m not happy with my reruns, I turn the TV to a couple of cooking channels to see what they are doing.
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
1 Mar 13
With me, it is when I go through my recipe books that I become tempted to cook something. I used to make scones too and my kids would split them whilst hot and put on butter and jam or cram and jam if I had cream in the house. Now, you have tempted me to make some! Basically it is books not tv shows although last week I made a dish from youtube called cornmeal pudding. I had not madeone in years so there I was with my laptop on the kitchen counter watching the how to video
It tasted so very good as I love cornmeal and made it with coconut milk and added raisins too.
It tasted so very good as I love cornmeal and made it with coconut milk and added raisins too. @marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
I ate mine with butter (a lot more than I should have) and strawbery jam. I made strawberry jam last week and it turned out a little bit to liquid, so I put some away to use as syrup. I used that syrup over the buttered hot scones. YUMMY!

@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
15 Mar 13
I don't watch cooking shows on tv all that often. However, there have been plenty of times that I've ended up watching a cooking show and I almost always want to make something that was made on the show. There have been some things that I've ended up making at home that have been a great success and other things that haven't been such a good success. However this is always something that I have a good time with simply because I really do like trying out new recipes.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
17 Mar 13
When I was a girl, I loved to play at placing fake food in small dishes. One of the things I love about cooking shows is how beautiful they present the food.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
5 Apr 13
sometimes i did this but very seldom,especially when my rest day only or vacation time,sometimes not in Television but the help of the internet help me to follow the step of a recipe that i wanted to cook and eat,i tried some dishes that i only eat in the restaurant.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
5 Apr 13
Vacations are a good time to experiment on food. We have more time to check on new recipes and to think on whether we would like to make that special dish.
@Pegasus72 (1898)
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7 Apr 13
Yes Pinterest does that for me as well as all of the awesome recipes I come by while going through facebook, I put them in my lists to try, if they are good they stay, if they aren't I delete.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
7 Apr 13
I have such a long list of dishes I want to try from allrecipe.com (they send me a recipe every day) that I will not have life enough to try them all. And I delete a lot of them.

@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
8 Apr 13
I do that with allrecipes and with epicureous. Both are very good sites.
@Pegasus72 (1898)
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7 Apr 13
Yes they have some good ones too, of course with me I also search for recipes I have ingredients for, which brings up lots of new recipes too.

@leeandrew (1225)
• Philippines
2 Mar 13
I love watching cooking shows and it always makes me want to cook the same food, but since the ingredients is quite expensive it always kills the desires in my heart to cook the food I just have seen too. But I know in myself if I have the ingredients I know I can do it.
I am actually tempted to make a chili meatballs for pasta today which I have seen on tv this morning. Since I'm on a fast I just have to wait until my fast is over. I do hope I won't eat more rice after this fast and I hope too I get fitter.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
2 Mar 13
I change ingredients when they are too expensive, or use another chgeaper ingredient instead many times. Chili meatballs are not expensive to make, as I make them. But I add fried diced onions and a reasonable amount of breadcrumbs and that way the most expensive ingredient (meat) becomes softer and cheaper. I also grind my meat so I use cheaper cuts but take away the fat. As it is ground, it will not be tough.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
I know what you mean. TV shows give me ideas, but usually I make my own recipes with the aid of maybe an extra ingredient I hadn`t thought of. I had made scones a long time ago and the show made me crave for them. THey turned out delicious!.
@sizzle3000 (3036)
• United States
1 Mar 13
I don't cook after tv shows but I do love to follow recipe books. My daughter loves Ramsey shows and she wants the cook books for master chef. She's obsessed lol.
She thinks that she'll get them for any holiday. Sadly though no one really finds them and when they are found they are pretty expensive.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
I don`t use recipes much now, altohugh sometimes I open my cooking bible: The Joy of cooking. I haven`t bought cook books in ages as now we can ask internet all we want to know.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
1 Mar 13
hi marquicha I have often been tempted to cook something that I saw on a cooking show but now I m stuck in Gold C rest I have no way to cook. I still love to watch the cooking shows though. I
used to cook for myself all the time as I was newly retired and had all sorts of time to cook.


@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
It would be wonderful if you had a friend with her own home who could invite you and let you use her kitchen. Sometimes we need to do some work that we didn`t always like when we had to do it every day.
@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
1 Mar 13
I have noticed that cooking shows don`t use a lot of ingredients. And when they need cut up ingredients, they are already diced
. I know it`s not as easy as it looks, but there are some doshes that you can add little by little to your cuisine.
. I know it`s not as easy as it looks, but there are some doshes that you can add little by little to your cuisine.














