Barefoot Contessa

She is hilariously OTT but I think she's fab. I'd love to live in her perfect house with her perfect garden and perfect selection of cake stands. ?

I do like some of her recipes, the ones that don't have a mound of butter to start off with ? but she is just soooooooooo smug ive taken to muting it ?

She isnt smug she is gorgeous - how very dare you besmirch st ina!

i am planning to stalk her this summer and she will be my BFF ?

? Janey.

AB, there is someone on another forum I use with your exact avatar and I keep thinking it's you. My little mind doesn't cope well with confusion. ? Or perhaps it is you and you really are JulieB and not an Anna!

Wahhh no its not me ? - there are many fans of the Beaker! i wonder if I should have abanana related avatar?!

Mrs M hope you dont mind me saying but reading your posts recently...if you need some time out, I live in Bath and would love to show you around! hope that doesn't sound too stalkerish ?

JulieB (ie the imposter AnnaBanana) should change her avatar as yours now means AnnaBanana to me, as does hers. ?

Oh bless you, thank you. That is such a lovely offer and not at all stalkerish, I do love my internet weirdies. ?

If you want to add me to your MSN/facebook (so you can see im not 60 and have a beard ?) email me on *********@*******.*** and at least we can laugh at Ina Garten together ?

Of course, Mrs Magic would have to stop for a small snackerel of something on the way to Bath, and you know, Cheltenham is On The Way...

Wooo yeah come on down Mrs M! no excuse now ?

Can I just jump in and say that AB is luvverly, cos Ive met her and once Ive got some time to meself I intend to have another trip to Bath to see her again <sooperstalker>

I love barefoot contessa ?

Awww thanks Dave ?

perhaps we should cajole Mrs M into coming down and we can all meet!

Am I the only one who finds her husband stupidly annoying and wants to throw her many blocks of butter at him?

I really love the Barefoot one but think her husband is a bit gormless!

Yes - you are the only one - st geoffrey should be revered - leave him alone

they are both adorable

This amused me

http://darthstantheprotector.blogspot.com/2007/03/dining-with-dave.html

In a very childish sort of way myself and H watched tonight and couldn't stop laughing at the fact she was going to see "Dick in the Windmill!" - sorry I am not a 13 year old really?

Also, why would you think it was right to decorate a table with a pot full of paint brushes.

The only thing that bugs me about Ina is her laugh, it's sooo forced and the fact that she says everything is/adds "great flavour"...

Exactly! So if she has doctors over she'll arrange a bouquet of scalpels and syringes? wrap stethoscopes round the (sterilised) naprkins? ?

despite all this I still watch the damn programme ?

Did you know she used to be a nuclear policy advisor to the white house???

She rocks and I'm sure the huge butter additions is a secret plot to kill Geoffrey off!

In one she came out with the classic 'If I don't cook for Geoffrey someone else will' as if he is some great catch. She must be loaded so its not his money. Must be something else going for him

actually i think jeffrey is the one with the money http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Garten

Wow, that is one clever bloke. Why do they insist on making him look like a brain doning numpty who is only fit for simple jobs like buying some bread on the show? She seems to talk down to him like a child as well.

Still love the show though

Noooo! Ina is not smug, she's fabulous. I watch it most days and have a couple of her cook books. I do find her relationship with Jeffrey a bit desperate. Can't help feeling he's off larging it in the city while Ina's stuck in the country.

I'd love her life actually (minus Jeffrey). A pretty house in The Hamptons, a beautiful garden, endless supply of cake in the pantry and lots of hot gay friends to cook for.

Wasn't she some sort of political / finance person in a former life?

Another one who finds her fabulous here. I am slightly addicted to her show, and was over the moon to discover a shop in Bath that sells her branded items. Although her food is a bit on the calorie laden side, and her table settings far too elaborate to even consider replicating, I do like to imagine I will one day be like that!