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You are here: Home / Food & Recipes / Cooking / Michelle On the Food Network

Michelle On the Food Network

by John Cole|  June 13, 20129:31 pm| 30 Comments

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Not sure if Restaurant Impossible is something you like, but Chef Robert Irvine will be working for FLOTUS tonight at 10 pm.

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  1. 1.

    some guy

    June 13, 2012 at 9:33 pm

    things continue to go swimmingly in Syria.

    from the LA Times:

    BEIRUT — Much of the Christian population of the besieged Syrian city of Qusair has abandoned the town after an “ultimatum” from the rebel military chief there, reports Agenzia Fides, the official Vatican news agency.

    The ultimatum expired Thursday, the agency reported, adding that most of the city’s 10,000 Christians have fled the city, situated in the battleground province of Homs.

    “Some mosques in the city have relaunched the message, announcing from the minarets: ‘Christians must leave Quasir,’ ” read the report from the Vatican agency, which has sought to document the parlous plight of Syria’s ancient Christian community.

    Qusair has been the site of intense clashes for months between armed rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. The strategic city is close to the Lebanese border and has been a smuggling hub for arms and medicines destined for rebel forces in the embattled city of Homs, about 15 miles to the northeast, which has already seen its large Christian population flee, the Vatican agency reported.

  2. 2.

    BGinCHI

    June 13, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Well at least you know what Steve Doocy is watching tonight.

    Cole, how did you get the cat dry? No way you got a towel on him without getting stitches.

  3. 3.

    cathyx

    June 13, 2012 at 9:35 pm

    I do wish I had the food channel and Home and Garden TV. They are the only cable channels I would want.

  4. 4.

    MikeJ

    June 13, 2012 at 9:37 pm

    @cathyx: Turner Classic Movies is 75%+ of my TV viewing.

  5. 5.

    cathyx

    June 13, 2012 at 9:45 pm

    @MikeJ: What are classic movies? Just old ones?

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    June 13, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    @cathyx: I would almost get cable again just for that. Almost. That and I’d have to buy a TV.

  7. 7.

    BGinCHI

    June 13, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    @cathyx: A classic movie is an old movie that has Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant in it.

    The judges will also accept Barbara Stanwyk.

  8. 8.

    ruemara

    June 13, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    Love them both and I have no broadcasting duties tonight. So I know what I’ll be doing. WoW, FLOTUS-gazing and wondering what to do with my life.

  9. 9.

    arguingwithsignposts

    June 13, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    How is this not just a rip-off of “Kitchen Nightmares“?

  10. 10.

    cathyx

    June 13, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    @BGinCHI: I liked The Big Valley with Barbara Standwyk, but I’m not a fan of old movies. I know I’ll get flamed for saying this, but I think the acting is terrible in old movies. It’s like they’re just saying their lines.

  11. 11.

    cathyx

    June 13, 2012 at 9:54 pm

    @Yutsano: Yeah, it’s too bad you can’t just pay per channel. I would pony up for just those two.

  12. 12.

    J.W. Hamner

    June 13, 2012 at 9:54 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Uhm, there’s a different guy? But yeah, it’s basically the same.

  13. 13.

    BGinCHI

    June 13, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    @cathyx: As opposed to Michael Bay movies?

    You need to take my film class and sit in the front row.

  14. 14.

    kindness

    June 13, 2012 at 10:05 pm

    Unpossible!

    I want to see what the reichtwingnutz say about Michelle/food/the chefs who visit. Should be entertaining.

  15. 15.

    YellowJournalism

    June 13, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    @cathyx: You’re watching the wrong old movies. Try The Snake Pit.

  16. 16.

    cathyx

    June 13, 2012 at 10:14 pm

    @BGinCHI: I don’t know who Michael Bay is. Old movies just turn me off for some reason.

  17. 17.

    Comrade Mary

    June 13, 2012 at 10:17 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Cole, how did you get the cat dry? No way you got a towel on him without getting stitches.

    From my experience, the only way a cat wants to get dry is by licking itself dry. I’ve bathed a few cats, but none of them tolerated being bundled in towels or set up beside a space heater. (Don’t even ask about the blow dryer. Don’t.)

    So right now Tunch is spraining his tongue trying to dry off. Poor thing.

  18. 18.

    Tripod

    June 13, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    @cathyx:

    They reflect a very different acting style to post-war realism.

    In the context of TCM, classic is anything Uncle Ted hoovered up the rights for.

  19. 19.

    Tripod

    June 13, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    @cathyx:

    They reflect a very different acting style to post-war realism.

    In the context of TCM, classic is anything Uncle Ted hoovered up the rights for.

  20. 20.

    Keith

    June 13, 2012 at 10:34 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: It’s a blatant ripoff (down to the abrasive Brit), and I’m pretty sure everyone knows it.

  21. 21.

    gogol's wife

    June 13, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    @cathyx:

    You don’t know Barbara Stanwyck if you haven’t seen her in 1931 or 1932.

    It’s an acquired taste. Watch enough of it and you’ll get it.

  22. 22.

    Mnemosyne

    June 13, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    I made dinner by mixing up a bunch of stuff in a skillet to see what happened. It was … not entirely successful, but I ate it anyway.

    (If anyone’s curious, it was sweet potato tater tots, turkey Italian sausage, garlic, asparagus, onion, and an egg. Definitely needed more spices, but I’m not sure what.)

  23. 23.

    JasonF

    June 13, 2012 at 11:19 pm

    Things that depress me: someday, a Republican is going to be elected President, and when that happens, he’s going to rip out the White House vegetable garden because Fuck You, liberals, that’s why.

  24. 24.

    feebog

    June 13, 2012 at 11:25 pm

    I’m on a Park Advisory Board for the home of the Actor Jack Oakie in Norhridge CA. The home was originally built for Barbara Stanwyck. The house was built in 1937, along side a home for Zeppo Marx, who was her agent (he quit acting with the Marx Bros. sometime earlier). The two homes and the 150 acres south was a horse ranch they named Marwyck. Stanwyck sold the house to Oakie in 1940, shortly after she married Robert Taylor.

  25. 25.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    June 13, 2012 at 11:29 pm

    @JasonF:

    Things that depress me: someday, a Republican is going to be elected President, and when that happens, he’s going to rip out the White House vegetable garden because Fuck You, liberals, that’s why.

    You obviously haven’t been getting enough Greenwald in your diet.

    BTW, any nun rape jokes on the food network?

  26. 26.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 14, 2012 at 12:47 am

    @Mnemosyne: That sounds like a coriander and thyme combination. Maybe some lemon juice.

  27. 27.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 14, 2012 at 12:49 am

    @Stuck in the Funhouse: What is the Greenwald flavor palate (or is that palette)? All fiber and acid?

  28. 28.

    ruemara

    June 14, 2012 at 3:22 am

    @Mnemosyne: I would suggest a pint of bourbon to make the flavours mellow out.

  29. 29.

    rikyrah

    June 14, 2012 at 9:33 am

    I thought it was cool

  30. 30.

    SBJules

    June 14, 2012 at 10:23 am

    She was on NPR yesterday talking about “let’s Move” & the new cook/grow vegies book.

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