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Rachael Ray: Rachael's Daytime Talkshow

"Stop Taking Over My Kitchen!"

"Stop Taking Over My Kitchen!"
Aired on: August 14, 2009March 2, 2009

Lynda, 39, says she never had any issues with her cooking until she met her fiancé Rob, 32. Whether it's adding another pinch of this or a palmful of that, Rob always needs to put his touch on Lynda's recipes. "I have a certain way of doing things," he says about his Italian cooking background. "And I always try to throw my knowledge and experience into hers." He even sneaks ingredients into her food when she's not looking! "My dream," Lynda says, "would be to be able to compromise and work together in the kitchen side by side. I don't think Rob will ever go for that, but to me that would be the ultimate."

To show Rob and Lynda that you can have different cooking styles and still get along, Rachael invites her nightly cooking partner -- her husband John -- to weigh in on the subject. And John wastes no time addressing Rob. "What are you thinking, dude?" John asks him. "Never mess with the wife's food, dude!" Rachael shares the compromise she and John have reached. "If John's cooking, John's cooking. He can tell me what to do and that's what I do and it's his food. Even when John makes my meals and I come in the middle of the process ... I never say, 'Well, I usually put more pancetta in it or would have used more garlic.' If he made it, he made it -- hands off. Because it's a love thing and I know it's going to be perfect."

"On the other hand," Rachael adds, "when I'm cooking my food, it's my food!" She then gives the couple a system to help them out -- a spinning wheel with their photos on it, and whichever photo the wheel lands on, that's who is cooking that night! And the other person has to leave them alone and play with another gift from Rachael, Wii cooking games. "You're going to go in the living room," Rachael says looking at Rob, "and you can only chop with your little Wii hand!"



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