Television. It can be so good or so bad, depending upon how you use it. I suppose this is true for most things, now that I think about it. One of the great things about TV for me, at least, are the cooking shows. I have truly learned how to cook from watching PBS shows like America’s Test Kitchen and other channel shows (I like Mad Hungry but I don’t follow it regularly).
However, there is one cooking show that I think stands head and shoulders above the rest, from a simplicity perspective. It delivers on a promise to feed four a complete dinner for ten bucks and with good, tasty food to boot.
It’s Ten Dollar Dinners with cook Melissa D’Arabian on the Food Network.
What’s the big deal?
Well, the recipes don’t taste good, they taste great. And they don’t take many ingredients. (Good for time and for money.) And they are easy to put together. It’s simple living in a kitchen.
Now, you can follow the recipes online or in Melissa D’Arabian’s cookbook and that’s fine. That will get you there. There’s an added benefit of watching her TV shows, though. Maybe more than one.
In her show, where she’s cooking a $10 Dinner on the TV screen, Melissa D’Arabian adds tips and tricks that are great and that you don’t get in the books or recipes. Thinks like buy up Italian sausage when it’s on sale and freeze it. Buy milk that’s about to hit its expiration date by going to the grocery store early in the morning (she goes around nine o’clock) – if your family drinks dairy.
You get the idea, Dear Reader.
I am a big, big fan of Ten Dollar Dinners and Melissa D’Arabian and I think, Dear Reader, you might like what she’s doing, too.
