I like The Great British Menu.

The only one I like is CDWM 

ooooh, I am not sure if I have ever even seen that....is it like the Great British bake off, but with meals, rather than cakes?

I like Masterchef.... but also like CDWM and the Great British Menu

as background and not having to concentrate I like CDWM

but as christmas approaches and I note they have already starting showing 

I love Nigella  .....  she makes it look so easy and stress free 

yeah, she's right filthy too!!

If we're talking about watching cooks - I love Nigella but lately I'm really liking that Lorraine Pasquale (sp) person who has been on BBC2 

oh maybe why I like her and her show then   she's a gem 

Dont think I have seen her! I watched a thing last year, I think, some odd kind of women was frying dandelions and saying that she felt pretty while she fried them...who was she?!**blink**

I have a book of hers....made a nice guiness cake out of that book!! and a Thai chicken soup

There is a big banquet at the end of the series.

in the run up to it they have professional chefs compete within their region starter, fish, main, desert.

A winner from each region goes to the final and then the best dish from catergory goes through to the banquet. 

I love it!

Keith Floyd paved the way 

Food became fun.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/chefs/lorraine_pascale

her programmes might still be on iplayer if you want a squizz   she's a down to earth kind of cook and I like that 

Saturday Kitchen (let's get Rawky to do the omelette challenge ).

I like seeing the old clips of Floyd, Stein etc., and a bit of live cooking in the studio.

I like Nigel Slater too.

I like most cooking programmes, Hells Kitchen is an entertainment (Of sorts) programme and gives me indigestion.....

I like Masterchef, but I don't like how they messed with the format for the last series. Love how you get to see cooks at audition and how they progress through the stages.

oh I like that too And Saturday Kitchen, and Great British Bake Off, and CDWM

Masterchef on now.....Have any of you prepared a whole fresh crab?.....I haven't, looks fiddly and daunting.....

All of 'em..... love any cookery programmes, and love cooking too

The stuff she did with the sieve and all the horrible bits, eww I'll pass on that one!

Life is definitely to short to prepare a crab 

No, thankfully!!

cdwm.... love it

Ready Steady Cook hasn't had a mention so far.....love that too

We keep meaning to play this indoors!!

Anything that Rick Stein does

Hmmmm, that's an idea - might get hubby a weekend at Rick's B&B in Padstow for Christmas 

Chopped on The Food Network.  Love it.

Hells Kitchen is ok too and I watch the odd ep of CDWM.

I have cooked a curried fish recipe from Rick Stein ....was lush!!

I haven't tbh, but looks v similar to doing a lobster, not at all difficult and q satisfying in a way

Braised little gems, did that once....never again

Have a gander at his Far Eastern Odyssey book zazz ... it is doubly lush!!

We have cooked our way through all of his fish books - so this was a lovely change, we are about a quarter of the way through it

Little gem lettuces? 

I will look into it, I have my eye on a few cookbooks at the moment, was going to boy some a while back and just didnt get round to it, I may add it to the list!!

Yes...doesn't work for me

I have loads of cookery books, look at them for ideas, but rarely follow a recipe.....Good Housekeeping ones are hard to beat imo

hmmm, think I'll pass on that too

I have done them and I liked them......another thing I was shocked I liked was peeled cucumber cut into large chunks and added to a curry, I thought they would disintegrate and go watery, but they were lovely and refreshing and held their shape. 

what, what Syd?? What did you braise them in? Stock? Wine?

Recipe?