how much?
I do not watch a lot of TV as I work during primetime television hours. I can honestly say that I do not miss any primetime shows. I should perhaps, but I don’t. I hate having my life dictated by television. I’ve even considered not getting cable when we move into the new house, however…and this is a BIG HOWEVER, I think we’d go berserk without cable because we’re not big “go-outers”. We are both homebodies and we both prefer to hang out in our crib doing nothing much of anything. I also prefer to watch HGTV and FoodTV over pretty much everything else on TV. Going without cable would mean going without watching cooking shows and real estate shows. Blah…that would suck.
This weekend for the first time ever I caught a Nigella Lawson show on FoodTV. It drove me nuts because she was making homemade pasta and yet her measurements are in metric and therefore the entire time I’m feeling like I’m watching her speak in another language. I could not follow along without any thought for the measurements. It drove me nuts. She made pasta and I was totally about that as my grandmother makes her own pasta. It looked like Nigella made her’s quite similar if not the same. Perhaps the measurements were different but the process was the same. I have no idea about the measurements though because again..they were in metric.
I just found the recipes on foodtv.com and they’re not in metric. whew….
I can highly recommend having no tv at all - we’ve been tv-free for the past two years and it’s changed our lives.
I’m not a big tv watcher either because I go to bed so early and there is too much to do before then to sit and do nothing. If anything, I prefer to read. However, on the odd days that I have nothing to do and don’t want to read, I would go crazy without having cable as a backup. Plus, Scott would never allow us to not have cable and miss out on his precious sports.
Btw, I watched Nigella this past weekend too. Must have been the same show because she made yummy looking pasta. She annoys me though… I’m not quite sure why. She’s kind of a sexier Rachel Ray but still just too much. I think maybe she comes off as trying to be too sexy to me.
Hi there! It’s been nice to read your blog again. I’ve started mine back up in a different spot as well.
I haven’t been able to catch Nigella’s show. I used to love her series she had a few years back.
:-) Rochelle