Kitchen

[qualitygal]

I had to watch her today on You Tube.  She's great in those shows.  I never saw her when they aired the first times.  I was looking through some of our cookbooks, and I thought, why not her?  

Did you ever watch her?  I learned a few new things today on veg's, I never knew.  What fun!  I have to watch more in days to come.

Any new things in the kitchen for you?

[Kitlynn]

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@qualitygal wrote:

I had to watch her today on You Tube.  She's great in those shows.  I never saw her when they aired the first times.  I was looking through some of our cookbooks, and I thought, why not her?  

Did you ever watch her?  I learned a few new things today on veg's, I never knew.  What fun!  I have to watch more in days to come.

Any new things in the kitchen for you?

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I watched her and now I watch reruns. You might enjoy the movie Julia/Julie it is really good. I do have her cookbook also.

[PA Mom-mom]

@qualitygal  I remember watching her shows on PBS. She had great information, but the best take away for me was that you could make mistakes while preparing the dish and still fix them before presentation. Also, she stressed that presentation should be unapologetic and gracious.

[qualitygal]

@Kitlynn   I did see that movie.  It was good and thinking back on it, I didn't understand how I could have  a cookbook of hers.  I think I thought, it might be too complicated.  But from what I saw today, she seemed straight on and just used a few more steps.  If the taste is worth it, why not, right?!

[Kitlynn]

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@qualitygal wrote:

@Kitlynn   I did see that movie.  It was good and thinking back on it, I didn't understand how I could have  a cookbook of hers.  I think I thought, it might be too complicated.  But from what I saw today, she seemed straight on and just used a few more steps.  If the taste is worth it, why not, right?!

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A lot of her recipes in the cookbook are more complicated and I am sure some of it has to do with the era it was written in. But some of them are not so yes why not go the extra step if the recipe sounds good.

[chrystaltree]

I remember watching her shows on PBS.  I watched with my mother.  She had a couple of her cook books but I don't think she ever made anything from those books.  

[Still Raining]

Long ago, like with Nixon, she was live preparing the state dinner as a show.

Must have been having game hens since she was cutting them up with her shears.

She stopped mid snip, looked at the camera, and told us that if we didn't have game shears.....pause.....thinking.....thinking of such a world of bad cooks...

Still cracks me up.

[bigtraps]

GURL...   Loved Julia.  She was the greatest.  Blows the Ina's and Pioneer Women away today.

Oh did everyone see David V gushing over Ina this weekend.  OMG.  GURL,  come on.

[ninjawife]

I have a couple of her later cookbooks from the Cooking/Baking with Julia series.  There are a lot of great recipes from her esteemed guest chefs.

[Whitney400]

Julia was one of a kind. Very talented.  The funniest presentation I ever saw her give was one on Good Mornin America (New York) years ago.  She was heavily into French cooking and she used a lot of wine in her dishes.  I don't know what time she started preparing for the show, but by the time she was actually on air, she must have consumed more wine than what she put in the food.  Charlie Gibson had to help her out with the cooking because she was pretty tipsy.  She was slurring her words. The whole show was hysterical.