Food Network Motivation

I love The Food Network.  Seriously.  I really enjoy watching other people cook.  My mom cooks all the time and I used to sit at the kitchen counter and watch her.  I didn’t often participate unless she was making something good (read somthing full of sugar that would rot my insides).  I remember watching The Frugal Gormet on Saturday mornings when I was little (didn’t that guy end up being convicted of child molestation or something?).  I never really got in to Julia Child, though.  It was too scary to me.  I just remember her thick arms, big butcher knife, and huge, whole fish.  Scary.

In the last five years or so I discovered The Food Network and it’s one of my favorite channels.  I love watching other people put things together and make all these yummy looking dishes.  I especially like watching the chefs cut stuff up with their really cool sharp knives.  They’re so quick and so good at it.  It’s hypnotizing to me or something.  I’m strange, I know.  I also love watching how taffy or pulled candy is made.  It’s just cool.  As has been mentioned, I’m not much of a cook.  I don’t have the patience for it.

NYDD thinks it’s weird that I don’t love cooking but I love The Food Network.  He doesn’t care much for it unless it’s a Food Network Challenge and sometimes Iron Chef America.  The thing is, I have been actually making dinner more often lately.  I think it’s because I’m watching The Food Network more.  I think it motivates me.  I see the chefs making cool stuff that looks so good and think, “I have the stuff I need to make that.  I think I’ll give it a try.”  Then I do and it actually works!  I think the next time I’m watching Nigella Feasts or The Barefoot Contessa and NYDD changes the channel, I should point out this motivation connection to him and, for the sake of food, he’ll give in and change it back.