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Quizzila: Which Food Network Personality Are You?

You are ALTON BROWN, host of "Good Eats"!
Geeky and quirky, a former indie film director
turned foodie, you seek to put science to work
for you in your kitchen. You concentrate on
proper technique, and understanding why it
works. You also take pride in using your
clever wit to debunk popular (read: INCORRECT)
thought about cooking. Youre just a little bit
of a pedagogue, but thats cool, you know what
the hell youre doing.


Which Food Network Personality are you?
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Everyday Food

I don't think I've written about this topic yet, so I figured I would. I know a lot of people will scoff at what I'm about to say, but that's fine by me. I love Martha Stewart Omnimedia properties. That's not to say I like Martha Stewart, frankly I think she's vile, but rather that I applaud the quality of the media that comes from the company and how well she has distanced the brand from her. I think if she went to prison there would be a happy change where everything would be labeled MSO Something (MSO Living, MSO Everyday Food, etc). The only thing that might go away would be the television, although I don't care who hosts it, somebody else would probably better.

I love Everyday Food. If you haven't checked out this little magazine I think you'll find it worthwhile. I can't think of an issue that hasn't provided several good meals. Last night we made the Spinich and Mushroom Quesadillas. Mmm tasty.

Jambalaya

Aside from having been really busy lately and having no end in sight (we actually realized that we've already booked up all the weekends in April, ugh), I've not been cooking as much as I would like.

That came to an end last night. We recently received a 7.5qt Le Crueset dutch oven as the final remainder of Williams-Sonoma credit from our wedding (almost three years ago). It's innaugural dish was a jambalaya to make any cajun proud, even though it wasn't quite authentic.

I couldn't find any good red pepper so I just used green and it still came out okay. Sarah also doesn't like the texture of shrimp in this kind of food (usually paella at our house), so I opted to go without the shrimp. I did use a shrimp broth for about half of the water though. For meat we used a turkey smoked sausage (no andouille in our neck of the woods), cubed chicken, and some great local ham from Burger's Ozark Smokehouse.