One of my sons, Jonathan, has discovered the Food channel on TV. Being a great fan of beautiful and charismatic women, he has decided that he loves the shows by Giada De Laurentis and Rachel Ray.
So we went out and purchased a couple of their cookbooks. Last night, we tried to cook a recipe in Rachel Ray's book 365: No Repeats.. It was called Couple of Minute Steaks and Potato Ragout. I had my son help me cook this. If he hadn't been there, I hate to think how the meal would have turned out. As it was, everything was overcooked. It still tasted good, though, except for the steak, which I turned into something so tough, it was almost inedible.
I have about 8 meals I cook on a regular basis, and my son is sick to death of them, so he thought that these cookbooks would help us have a change. However, by the time you go through pages and pages of recipes to pick out something everyone will like, you find out you don't have most of the ingredients. Then you go to the store and spend $18 on things you might not be able to use up before they go bad--like fresh rosemary and thyme. Then you spend one hour+ cooking something that it takes Rachel Ray 15 minutes to cook. It's nice to have a tasty meal, but I'd rather order a pizza!
