'Get It Done'
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
I think that if you did chicken in a red wine sauce and said that you did chicken in a red wine sauce because it is impossible to find an old rooster in most grocery stores and because you wanted to make a modernized version you would be okay.
Of course, first you have to know what coq au vin is.
(Road Tasted with the Neeleys, the new show that is essentially Follow That Food with Sunny whatserface.)
yeah, they are really pushing the Neelys. Which is unfortunate because I find them very annoying.
What little I've seen of the Neeley's has me convinced they are trying to kill their viewers with their food.
What little I've seen of the Neeley's has me convinced they are trying to kill their viewers with their food.
They're too schticky and cutesy, with their "spice fairy" nonsense, the "we're so in love" bit, etc. I just want straightforward cooking without a lot of hoopla. The one exception to this is Alton Brown, and I don't like the schtick any more (it was so much better the first season or two), but the information is good enough that I deal. With the Neelys, I can just go online for the recipe.
How un-Buffista of me not to know that "coq" = "cock". Oh well, you learn something new everyday.
Although now that I think about it, I think Alton Brown did a Good Eats on coq a vin where he discussed it (I think he went with chicken, too, though).
(I think he went with chicken, too, though).
Well, as Jess pointed out, you kind of have to. I remember when I was younger and my cousin was visiting and cooking some classics; my mother was reduced to calling local farms because he insisted he could not use a simple chicken for his coq au vin (@@). I think we ended up with a capon at least. I don't remember how he managed to make his cassoulet.
Neeleys - I saw a repeat of the Memphis episode of Feasting on Asphalt: the River Road and they went to Neeleys' place but I think that the Neeley they spoke to was a brother of the one with the tv show.
Is anyone watching The Singing Office? Joey Fatone and Scary Spice each recruit a team of five form a workplace and that group learns a song an choreogrpahy and performs in front of a live audience. It's incredibly low-budget, but its heart is in the right place. I have to say, Joey Fatone just seems like a very nice affable guy, so he is fun to watch.
Okay, this sounds fab! what channel? whens it on?
It's on TLC. Sunday at 9pm, but repeated a zillion times during the week.
Caught up on NFNS finally - can they just send everyone home except Shane, Kelsey and Lisa NOW and skip to the end of the season? I really have to wonder what the casting people were thinking with this group. Most of them can't cook and NONE of them have personalities I want to watch on TV!
Though I do agree that the challenge was unfair - cooking a simple weeknight family meal and cooking for a 12-person dinner party are *completely* different challenges. (Unless you're Jon and Kate Plus Eight, but I'm pretty sure they're not serving beef wellington every night, easy version or not.)
I would have plated the beef wellington differently - duxelles underneath, puff pastry on top. More visually appealing, and the puff pastry doesn't get all soggy.