re: Jay Ducote-Bite and Booze on Next Food Network Star

quote:

---

keeping up with the neely's

---

Are they still around? I thought they divorced and were gone a long time ago. I didn't see but a few of their shows or parts of them.

I love Chopped, not for the competition of the show, but because over the years I've learned about a lot of ingredients and foods with which I wasn't familiar along with some techniques and some flavor balances. Some of those competitors get pretty creative and I enjoy watching that. I liked Iron Chef for similar reasons, though it's a much higher level of cooking, obviously.

I can't watch Pioneer Woman, but there are some recipes on her site that I've enjoyed like the crash hot potatoes and the Italian drip roast recipes, though I change those up a bit. Great game watching food whether it's her recipe or another one or my own. I also like her best baked beans or something like that recipe. She's got some decent things on her site particularly for weeknight family cooking. Can't say that I've used much else on it and I haven't looked at it in a long time, but the most recent was her husband's butter steak on the grill deal. Most of her stuff doesn't interest me at all.

I find Giada too distracting to watch. When she says "and now!" over and over again, I have to switch channels. That woman can spread her fingers apart wider than most normal people.

I don't watch FN like I used to about 5 or so years ago. I like watching the shows on LPB.

I don't know that a tailgate show is going to last long or even a strictly Louisiana show, but I do believe Jay has the personality to host a cooking show.