Hello, I am a Food Network and Cooking channel aholic

Hi readers,
I have a slight confession, I am a cooking show fanatic. I don't care if it is a bake off or Barefoot Contessa, I will watch it. My husband doesn't understand how I can watch it so much. It is good TV, there is no fighting, no yelling,no swearing, and lots of promise. I learn a bunch from watching it. For instance I just learned how to make an easy inexpensive white truffle butter pasta. So, why not watch it. It is easy watching food shows. I don't have to think a whole lot when watching it. Right now I am watching someone make a Turduken. Which is a chicken stuffed into a duck which is stuffed inside a turkey. Have you ever had any? I have to say, I am not really interested in it. But, it seems interesting. I also have seen Paula Deen deep fry a turkey. The question is, do you fry your turkey, or do you do it the old fashioned way. Do you brine your turkey? Do you baste your turkey?

All this turkey talk makes me want it to be Thursday already!
Just a few days left!

Fall fun! Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies!

I have a can of pumpkin and did  not want pie. So I went to the food network app and found  pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. It has everything you could want pumpkin and chocolate.  Done! I had to make them and make them I did!
I followed the recipe but one thing Florida people; you may have to use baking powder with the soda. I made them with the recommended baking soda and poof. They are delish but had a cakelike consistency.  My hubby didn't complain but we will see when they are cold.
So here is the recipe:
3 cups of flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar packed
1 cup unsalted butter (2sticks)
2 eggs
1tsp vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2teaspoon of baking soda  fl people use equal parts soda and powder. 1 tsp soda and 1 tsp of powder.
1 can of pumpkin
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cloves
1  bag semi sweet choc chips.

Preheat oven to 350
In one bowl cream butter and sugar. Then add vanilla and pumpkin. Next add the eggs. I didn't use a mixer, don't have one. Then in a separate bowl sift flour and spices. Add the pumpkin mixture a bit at a time to the dry and stir. Once that has been mixed together stir in chocolate chips.
On a parchment lined cookie sheet spoon a tablespoon full of batter on the sheet. Cookies will bake for 10-15minutes.  Or until cookies are brown.
They are soft cookies.
Can make up to 60 cookies. Courtesy of Food Network. 

How Alton Brown saved my kitchen knives.

Lately I have been on a Good Eats Marathon binge as well as Martha Stewart shows. I have been watching them due to the show being fun and very scientific. While watching one show I realized something; my knives. I had been abusing my knives. Wow.This one particular episode was about knives and their care. I was storing them improperly. Meaning, that putting my knives in the dishwasher was a no no. I had no idea. 

Knives do not like being jiggled around the dishwasher and the harshness of it. It breaks the handles and the blades do not like the harsh dishwasher chemicals. Whoops! You should always wash and dry the knives by hand. This was something I rarely did,well it takes 2 weeks to break a habit. I will never dishwasher my blades again. EVER! Thank you Mr Alton Brown for sparing my knives from a fate worse than anything, broken and dull chopping. 

I am now currently waiting for my hubby to do the whole "I told you so". He told me this kind of thing months ago.....