Saturday morning ritual

One of my favorite things to do on the weekend when I inevitably wake up two hours before I want to (today it was at 7 a.m.) is to turn on the Food Network and zone out.

The interesting thing is that have a bunch of shows that air in the early morning hours on the weekend that don’t seem to air at other times.

One that I’ve really been enjoying is Five Ingredient Fix. It’s sort of a boring premise — use good ingredients, and only five of them, to make knock-out cuisine. But the thing is, the food she cooks actually looks good! None of that “lasagnizza” crap that Rachel Ray makes. Today’s episode includes steak with blue cheese compound butter, roasted grape tomatoes, white chocolate mousse and creamed spinach (steakhouse theme).