[JRandomFreeper]

Rachel Ray is someone who I am beginning to respect. I hate her chipper attitude, but she is technically competent at reducing things to a minimum. And she is efficient in the way she prepares her meals. And she is correct about mise-en-place is very important.

/john

[MozartLover]

She's a tad too chipper for me too but I like watching her work. She makes it look sooooo easy.

I actually made a recipe of hers once; a carrot salad.....shredded carrots, fresh lemon & orange juice, raisins, a bit of brown sugar........it was very tasty.

With the kids home there has been some interesting activity in the kitchen. Younger boychild adores mashed potatoes and will whip up a pot and consume them all by himself; girlchild has been experimenting with pasta.....last night it was sauteed zucchini slices with bowtie pasta and some kind of sauce. She is also the queen of tuna salad and makes it often, always using whatever is available as tossed in "extras."