I'll finally admit it...
I'll finally admit it...
BroadwayBulldog
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/06
#1I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 4:49pm
I'm in love with Mary Ann Esposito's cooking.
She's one lady who knows what she's doing.
Fresh ingredients, simply prepared.
Ciao Italia
There's more to Italian food than pasta.
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#1re: I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 5:04pmI also love MaryAnn Esposito. She's so likable and she makes everything seem so simple to cook. I am hooked on all Italian cooking shows though, Lidia and Mario Batali also. I wish I could just throw ingredients together and create magic.
BroadwayBulldog
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/06
#2re: I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 6:55pm
Lidia is terrific, too.
Mario, well, when I first saw his program he was cooking with extremely dirty fingernails. That turned me off to anything he would make. Refuse to eat in his restaurant, too. Having worked in professional kitchens in Manhattan for several years I know just how clean, or not, they can be. Dirty fingernails is a major "no no." for any true professional. Especially for anyone cooking for the television camera.
Mary Ann make delicious looking dishes, with high level of practical knowledge.
#3re: I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 7:00pmway to lure me into a thread.
I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#4re: I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 7:14pmI saw Mary Ann Esposito do a cooking demonstration at the Big E in Massachusetts a couple of years ago. She let the audience sample the dinner she made but not the dessert!
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#5re: I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 7:32pmBulldog maybe Mario was cooking with squid ink and it got under his nails
#6re: I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 7:32pmLike MaryAnn too..but LOVE Lidia..she cooks just like my Grandmother did. Watching her cook brings back so many memories for me helping Grandma in the kitchen.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#7re: I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 7:36pmBoobs when I watch Lidia's show and she has her grandchildren cooking with her, I love her even more.
#8re: I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 7:41pm
trc....that's how grandma taught me to cook...without letting on that she was teaching me...having me mix things...adding ingredients..before I knew it I was making her meatballs on my own....to this day my meatballs and sauce (gravy)taste just like grandma's. No measuring done either...so when someone ask how much of this or that do you add I just hold my hands up and say "that much". 
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
BroadwayBulldog
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/06
#9re: I'll finally admit it...
Posted: 11/7/06 at 8:18pm
Nothing like a pair of home grown meatballs on one's plate.
Yum Yum.
I had some recently that were worth fighting over.
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