Has anyone watch Damaris Phillips on Food Network? I LOVE her

deb-in-mi

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I rarely watch cooking shows but I caught her the other and couldn't believe how much I loved the show. I just learned so much in what sitting; a great instructor!

 
I like the Heartland Table too, with Amy Theilan.. A trained chef who returns to her home town in

the Mid-West to do real mid western cooking in her cabin in the woods. It is a real cabin and she cooks with pots and pans that look like they have been handed down through the generations. Her Le Creueset is well used, for sure. Her cooking is simple, but different and everything is grown in her garden or from a neighbor. She gets her eggs at the local beauty shop. Plus, she is adorable, and a bit of a sassy attitude which is cute.
Last week she pulled horseradish from her garden and cooked her meal around it. My mouth was watering by the time the show was over. She made an amazing stew that sounds wonderful and I am making it tomorrow.

 
Her family's meat market is very well-known in Minnesota

I grew up close to the town where her family's meat market is. Really amazing ring bologna, bacon, sausages of all kinds. Great butchers, wonderful place. Been there many, many times. Miss it a lot. I hope this show does not ruin it by causing busloads of people to descend on it.

 
Oh man I love this show!!! She's fun to watch and I have already

gotten so many recipes from her. I can't wait to make the Swiss Chard with Honey Roasted Garlic. That's what I love about her cooking. Little changes that are similar but different. I hadn't planned on making the Smore's but for some odd reason John picked up a little Buttercup Squash and he didn't even see the show! It seems like destiny right? I will modify it though. Like I'll just make a small portion of the squash/cream cheese mixture and smear it on crostini and skip the chocolate and marshmallows. It might be really nice with a cup of coffee in the morning.

 
I think I remember one of her shows had something to do with

the shop. I think she talked about her brother making all those things.

 
After watching the ring bologna show, I tracked some down here in town

It was OK. Then today I read that two small communities there share a ring bologna day every week....really a chance for folks to get together to grill the bologna and drink home made wines. She says that the bologna is at it's best just off the grill.

 
Don't know about homemade wines but I sure know about "Bologna Days" in the two communities

There is a bar called the Red Rooster Inn and you can go for "Bologna Days" once a week- you get a pitcher of beer for $5 (inflation could have changed that a bit), homemade pickles, home-churned butter, homemade white bread and a basket of ring bologna right out of the pot steamed with beer. Dennis, the owner, often brings out his concertina and plays a few tunes. The place is PACKED with locals and it is all an old-fashioned dream come true. The towns of Pierz and Genola are about one block apart. The meat market is in Pierz and the Red Rooster in Genola. Been there many, many times. Will go again any time I even get CLOSE to Minnesota.

I guarantee no ring bologna you can find will rival that of the quality the Pierz Meat Market produces.

 
it doesn't appear that food network is carrying her (yet) - there's a few others i'd like punted>>

and swapped out for her!

 
I bet it is but I have seen several shows that come out of Canada

that have been fun to watch. There was one guy I watched several times when I first returned to the states that was so intriguing. He did his show inside this tiny little silver(?) camper trailer. He took a food dish and turned it completely around. I remember "Shrimp on the Barbie" for one. He used a Barbie doll. I always got a laugh out of his interesting way of thinking about food.

 
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