I’m sad. There’s a beautifully artistic food show on Netflix called Chef’s Table. I marvel at how well shot and put together it is, the amazing chefs and their stories. I’m into season four now and the first episode is just…just so bad! It’s an everything that’s wrong with America episode. I don’t know if the whole season is about baking but, the person in the first episode bakes. You get to watch her order deep fried cookie dough, Twinkies, a sundae, snow cone, and feed them to her young children. She goes on to talk about how food and baked sweets are how you show love. I’m waiting for the part where she says she’s also diabetic or something (they usually have a sad moment in their stories.) I’m ruined by keto, I’ve become a food art critic. THAT CAKE IS DIABETES THROW IT OUT! STOP FEEDING YOUR KIDS THAT STUFF! No more Chef’s Table for me. Excuse me while I light a bag of sugar on fire and cook bacon on the flames.
New season of Chef's Table rant
I can’t lie and say it wasn’t shot beautifully as usual. That’s what’s always drawn me to the show. But, the episode itself was just ugh. I’m thinking maybe it was because it was American too. The next chef is in another country and I’m hoping to like it better. It really is such a good show.
I love Chef’s Table but have been avoiding the new season because even after 2 1/2 years Keto I’m still super suggestible when I see food porn. Only difference now is I’ll end up over eating Keto stuff instead of Oreos. I’m also still grieving baking because it was a huge destressor for me. I love to cook but it isn’t the same…
Thanks for the warning…I may have ended up yelling at the tv!
I still bake. It’s just keto friendly. Some stuff I haven’t figured out well, other stuff is really good, even to non-keto friends.
Still don’t have a really good sandwich bread. I have one that will do but it’s not great. A couple of muffin and cake recipes, though, really good. Ice cream, nope, haven’t made anything I’d call good (mostly texture, flavors aren’t usually as hard as texture).
I know some people can’t really do dessert type stuff and not go flying off the wagon. I understand that. We like some here but it’s always at the end of a meal, so a little can go a long way. Goodies are not snacks and they are not meal replacements. That may be where some get into trouble.
Would love to see keto/low carb cooking and baking shows on tv. I suspect their popularity would be bigger than network execs might think.
A lot of the non American chefs have these amazing stories steeped in tradition with a twist and in amazing locations and really unique ingredients. In this episode she made cereal milk with corn flakes and used the milk to make panna cotta. Somehow, gelatinized cereal milk just isn’t as exciting. I will credit that a cake she made is very trendy now and I do like the look. It makes me imagine a similar cake for keto.
I wont even bother wasting my time watching an episode if it doesn’t look like they are cooking meat of some form and style. Still get much inspiration from seeing new techniques, flavors. I just think about how I can improve them into Keto-carnivore meals
There were two amazing chefs that I really liked for rustic cooking. One cooked outdoors and the other had a restaurant 200 miles from the nearest town. He stored food in a cellar and had wild mushrooms. Really love that rustic type of ideal.
TONS of recipes. So far, my favorites have been the Chocolate Pecan Pie Muffins and the Italian Cream Cake. The Chocolate Peanut Butter Mug Cake is also one that gets used on a fairly regular basis. Lots of ones I want to try but haven’t yet. But I really like Carolyn.
I’m very sad. Here in Australia we have two major supermarket chains that bring our a free cooking magazine … if you want to see a what’s wrong with mainstream food just take a look at one of these https://www.coles.com.au/magazine#2018 or https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/discover/home just take a look at one of their weekly catalogues … this is what most of the general population is feeding to their children. The specials of the week are terrifying!!