Saturday, February 10, 2007
Bizarre cooking show
I was flipping through the channels in our break room here and came across the most bizarre show, checking the listings I find that ACC has a feed on Time Warner but no program listings, I guess they just get a raw feed from ACC? So this woman is hosting a small cooking show but something is very wrong, it looks like it's about 1985, intrigued, I continue to watch. As I tune in she's working with a vintage Cuisinart filled with what looks like white beans to which she adds a ridiculous list of ingredients including Marmite and I'm pretty sure every single spice in the typical American cupboard. To the right she is sauteeing some onions in a tiny nonstick pan on what looks to be a portable camp burner, these get added to the Cuisinart and pureed. The mixture is then spooned into a metal cake pan (sprayed with non-stick spray, natch) which she puts into the toaster oven on the left. Toaster oven? I'm watching a cooking show and she's using a toaster oven. The instructions are to cook for an hour, no temperature is given. Cut to an hour later, the bean cake ready she explains that she likes to arrange this creation in an attractive mound over lettuce, which she then does, with her bare hands sort of like an insane ape sculpting it's own dung. It was at this point I started to wonder what alternate universe I had accidentally stumbled upon. Finally she garnishes this culinary nightmare with green olives and pimentoes. That last act really put it over the top. I still have no idea what the hell it was she made but I'm determined to find out what this show is, I must see more of this domestic goddess. I wonder if the theme of the show specifically requires the camp stove and toaster oven (dormroom delights? divorcee dining?), or did the budget not allow them to use an actual oven...you know...on a cooking show.
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