I love the chuckwagon show on foodtv, it is as close to cast iron chef that you can get.

I would really like to see more of these types of shows, i know the "iron chef" shows have been popular, but the ingredients are sometimes so far out there. i am a simple foodie, I wish they had a show like cast iron chef, or or iron chef with real foods.

I totally agree with you xannie, puff pastry can be really good simple food stuff.

I’m with you, xannie. I’d like to see some Iron Chef type shows where the main ingredients are things like you mentioned. Or like potatoes, or chuck roast, or chicken breasts. And I’d like to see them prepared in different ways, without all the impossible-to-find expensive ingredients, like truffles, or lamb brains or whatever. Call me backward, but I have never cooked with a truffle in my life. It would be nice to see them create delicious dishes that I might have some hope of copying in my own kitchen.

I think I know what your leaning to. PBS had a few shows like this, the two fat ladies cooking from England was one that comes to mind and the Woodwright shop projects all done the old fashioned way by hand. It would be a nice concept give the viewer an old southern type that dose some canning still makes their own butter and brines or cures their meats. The closest to that type show is Paula Deen or the two Italian ladies Lydia and Mary Ann on PBS. With world events being what they are it would never hurt to learn some of the forgotten arts that were praticed by our grandmothers on a daily basis. Chow Jim

Yeah, other than the truffles, I don’t see what’s so expensive or exotic about any of those.

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Well, the main ingredient on American Iron Chef tonight is andouille sausage. Not long ago it was potatoes. It’s been lamb, beef, various fish species, too. It mostly seems pretty basic to me. Nothing exotic in any of those.

Yes, the main ingredient was andouille sausage. But the winning menu (by Challenger John Besh) included dishes which combined the sausage with (among other things): lobster, sweet breads, truffles, white asparagus, scallops, and porcini mushrooms.

Right, and except for truffles and porcini mushrooms, to which I’m allergic, it was all regular fixin’s around here.

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Originally posted by Michael Hoffman

Well, the main ingredient on American Iron Chef tonight is andouille sausage. Not long ago it was potatoes. It’s been lamb, beef, various fish species, too. It mostly seems pretty basic to me. Nothing exotic in any of those.

Yes, the main ingredient was andouille sausage. But the winning menu (by Challenger John Besh) included dishes which combined the sausage with (among other things): lobster, sweet breads, truffles, white asparagus, scallops, and porcini mushrooms.

Well…I dunno. I watch Project Runway, but I can’t sew. Not everything has to be directly applicable to my own life, so I can’t get too worked up about the ingredients they use on Iron Chef.

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exactly, skylarOne!!
it kills me when they pull out lobster,
caviar and truffles when the main
ingredient is puff pastry.[:(!]

Ah HA!
I know what you were watching last night..
(so was I[;)])
(all those dishes looked crappy to me)

The Two Fat Ladies show was on Food Network. I didn’t know it was on PBS, too.

Well, the main ingredient on American Iron Chef tonight is andouille sausage. Not long ago it was potatoes. It’s been lamb, beef, various fish species, too. It mostly seems pretty basic to me. Nothing exotic in any of those.

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PBS had a few shows like this, the two fat ladies cooking from England was one that comes to mind

Oh man I love that show, so much that the show’s theme music is my Windows opening sound.