Blaine's low-carb kitchen

"Mitchell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I like the show but they've been showing re-runs for nine months. I

wonder

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how Blaine is doing on the diet now?

Maybe he lost his contract casue he stopped losing weight?

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"Maybe he lost his contract casue he stopped losing weight? "

More likely he lost his contract because the fad stage of low carb is
over. Just as many of the LC products are being discontinued, I
wouldn't be at all surprised to see Blaine and possibly Stella
disappear from the air because they can't maintain the ratings.

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More likely he lost his contract because the fad stage of low carb is
over. Just as many of the LC products are being discontinued, I
wouldn't be at all surprised to see Blaine and possibly Stella
disappear from the air because they can't maintain the ratings.

There are a million ways to cook one type of wheat.
There is only one way to cook a million types of
veggies, meats, fruits and cheeses. Who would have
thought that lack of variety would kill low carb
cooking shows? ;^)

It looks like they made about 13 episodes. That's a traditional half
season for a weekly show. When a show is made like this, there is
usually an option for 9 more episodes, which is the network's call.
Since FitTV seems to run the thing two to three times a day, they ran
through the episodes very quickly. If it's popular (even minutely so,
being as it's on FitTV, which isn't in that many homes, including mine,
though I could get it with a $10 increase in my cable bill), it will be
back with new episodes, assuming Blaine continues with the WoL, and
continues to want to televise his diet progress/maintenance.

God only knows what the money looks like on a Discovery Channel new
launch channel. Probably makes PBS money look good. Any rate, if the
money is right, he will be back. If he's really popular, and good,
maybe the will take George Stella off Food and put Blaine on.

Mini-Rant here about Stella. I have watched three episodes. In two of
the episodes, he made LC muffins, with the exact same recipe, except
that one had blueberries and one had zucchini, and different portion
sizes (6 vs 12 muffin tin). He also made LC whip cream in all the
episodes I have seen (in fairness, in one of them, he used a beater,
instead of whipping it by hand like the two with the muffins). It seems
very redundant and not in the cause of furthering LC to make the same
damn thing every episode. For my money, I will take Alton Brown's show
over everything else cooking on TV. You actually learn stuff that you
can apply very broadly (This season's Cheese Show, or this season's
Steak show... two great recipes using cheap steaks).

-Hollywood

Mitchell said:

I like the show but they've been showing re-runs for nine months. I wonder
how Blaine is doing on the diet now?

Just wondering what channel on cable that's on?

"Jo Anne Slaven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Max Hollywood Harris said:

For my money, I will take Alton Brown's show
over everything else cooking on TV. You actually learn stuff that you
can apply very broadly (This season's Cheese Show, or this season's
Steak show... two great recipes using cheap steaks).

I've learned more useful stuff from Alton Brown's show than I can list
here.

My favourite is burgers made with ground beef and salt only - no
onions, eggs, fillers or flavourings. That's the only way we'll eat
them now. (I don't use a bun, of course.)

Another really good one was the coq au vin. Seriously tasty, even if
it did take two days to make it.

Jo Anne

Max Hollywood Harris said:

For my money, I will take Alton Brown's show
over everything else cooking on TV. You actually learn stuff that you
can apply very broadly (This season's Cheese Show, or this season's
Steak show... two great recipes using cheap steaks).

I've learned more useful stuff from Alton Brown's show than I can list
here.

My favourite is burgers made with ground beef and salt only - no
onions, eggs, fillers or flavourings. That's the only way we'll eat
them now. (I don't use a bun, of course.)

Another really good one was the coq au vin. Seriously tasty, even if
it did take two days to make it.

Jo Anne

Alton Brown's useful show is "Good Eats". It airs on FoodTV. The first
billion seasons are available on DVD. Check your local library, or put
in a request.

If I had to pitch all of my cookbooks, save one, I would save his
first, "Food + Heat = Cooking". If I could save another, it would be
either "How to Grill" or "the Barbeque Bible" by Steven Raichlen, but
that's just me.

Mitchell said:

Just wondering what channel on cable that's on?

"Jo Anne Slaven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Max Hollywood Harris said:

For my money, I will take Alton Brown's show
over everything else cooking on TV. You actually learn stuff that you
can apply very broadly (This season's Cheese Show, or this season's
Steak show... two great recipes using cheap steaks).

I've learned more useful stuff from Alton Brown's show than I can list
here.

My favourite is burgers made with ground beef and salt only - no
onions, eggs, fillers or flavourings. That's the only way we'll eat
them now. (I don't use a bun, of course.)

Another really good one was the coq au vin. Seriously tasty, even if
it did take two days to make it.

Jo Anne

Jo Anne Slaven said:

Max Hollywood Harris said:

For my money, I will take Alton Brown's show
over everything else cooking on TV. You actually learn stuff that you
can apply very broadly (This season's Cheese Show, or this season's
Steak show... two great recipes using cheap steaks).

I've learned more useful stuff from Alton Brown's show than I can list
here.

My favourite is burgers made with ground beef and salt only - no
onions, eggs, fillers or flavourings. That's the only way we'll eat
them now. (I don't use a bun, of course.)

My family always made them thusly. Whenever I went over to someone's
BBQ and they had fillers, I was positively baffled.

On the flip side, the burger recipe on the back of some Lee and
Perrin's bottles is pretty damn good (Burger, Worchestshire (sp?),
Bacon & Cheese, all in the patty).

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Another really good one was the coq au vin. Seriously tasty, even if
it did take two days to make it.

Had the best coq au vin I ever ate in a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur.
French Restaurant run by Vietnamese. Best french meal ever I ate was in
Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon district. Would have had the coq, but there
was no chicken in Vietnam when I was there, due to bird flu. Every
chicken item on the menu was crossed off in black market. KFC was
selling hotdogs and fries.

-Hollywood

Well, where I live, (Southern Ontario) it's on the Food Network.
That's channel 603 on Bell ExpressVu satellite.

Mitchell said:

Just wondering what channel on cable that's on?

"Jo Anne Slaven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Max Hollywood Harris said:

For my money, I will take Alton Brown's show
over everything else cooking on TV. You actually learn stuff that you
can apply very broadly (This season's Cheese Show, or this season's
Steak show... two great recipes using cheap steaks).

I've learned more useful stuff from Alton Brown's show than I can list
here.

My favourite is burgers made with ground beef and salt only - no
onions, eggs, fillers or flavourings. That's the only way we'll eat
them now. (I don't use a bun, of course.)

Another really good one was the coq au vin. Seriously tasty, even if
it did take two days to make it.

Jo Anne