Well it's about time!

Took them a few weeks, but it seems that the Cooking Channel finaly has a show featuring Julia Child!

It's possible I just always missed the ads and didn't see it in the listings, but I'm glad it is on there. How can you have a cooking network with out a show staring Julia Child?

I'm watching Molto Mario (YAY!!! I can watch a show with Mario Batali in again! turns out I always could since it was moved from Food Network to FLN, but I really had no reason to care about anything involving FLN except for seeing Emril Live! every once in a while listed while scrolling through the programming guide. Now it is the Cooking channel. I spent a fair amount of time watching it yesterday)

He was talking about chopping up stuff (In this case, mushrooms) and he said that he didn't like chopping up stuff into little bits. That way you can't see it or taste it as well (BTW. I'm paraphrasing here) Since he is making a more rustic dish from northern Italy, big chunks make sense.

Big chunks have their place. He is making a sauce that has bigger chunks and big big flavors and in this case, big chunks are a no brainer. But if you are making something that has a more of a blended flavor to it, then small pieces are a good thing. the flavors blend more and you get a little bit of each ingredient in almost every bite. In a Marinara sauce, I wouldn't mind biting into a big piece of garlic, but I would rather have small pieces and have the flavor mixed in through the whole sauce (plus, in the case of garlic, the smaller the piece, the stronger the flavor.)

There is a place for big chunks, there is a place for small chunks. It just depends on what you are making.


On the bright side, he was cooking with a lot of butter. That is never a bad thing :)

Galactica Goodness

For the first time in a long time I am excited about a season DVD release. Just saw a commercial for the Battlestar Galactica Season 1 DVD, which had all of season 1 as well as the mini series that Sci Fi channel did a few years ago. I realy like this show. I have been watching season 2 since the season premier (the last episode of the season airs this Friday.) Since Smackdown moved to Fridays, I haven't been able to watch Stargate SG1 or Atlantis, but I can still watch Galactica (I tape the replays of the other shows and try to watch them the next day.) I wasn't able to watch the miniseries because I didn't have cable at the time, and I couldn't watch much of season 1. When I was able to see an episode, I usually didn't know what was going on. Since I was watching season 2 since the start, that really helped. Now I can watch season 1 and the mini series :) Now I just need the coin for the discs.