Watching Rachael Ray

We start the show with a February Favorite today, a Fuji Bike! Hit up the Giveaway button to enter for one of your own! Then it’s time to head to the kitchen for a snack to feed to the Mystery Taster! This one is a vegetarian take on Oven-Baked Samosas with mint-Cilantro Dipping Sauce.

Time to bring down the Mystery Taster for the first round of questions. With the huge reaction of the audience, Rachael jokes that she’s grossly underdressed and should go change.

She finds out in this round that the Taster loves spicy food, that at this point they receive roses instead of giving them, and his closet in high school would have held really hip bell bottoms, and his success is rated by box office receipts.

Back in the studio, Rachael talks about the Flat Belly Diet that swears that it targets belly fat specifically. It contains four 400 calorie meals a day, that includes a mono unsaturated fatty acid that regulates blood sugar levels and insulin levels, and thus delays the return of hunger. It’s as easy as making slight changes to your diet - the Mufa’s are olives, oils, nuts & seeds, avocados and dark chocolate. Mary Anne swears by the diet, and in six months has lost 50 pounds. She says she’s struggled for decades, and is happy to have found something that works.

The importance of targeting the Belly Fat is because it creates inflammation around your organs, which causes aging, heart disease, diabetes, cancers and high blood pressure. Even small amounts can be dangerous - it’s the most deadly type of fat on the body.

Two of Rachael’s readers decided to test it themselves, putting their post-baby bellies to the test with the four-day jump start portion of the program. Heather lost two pounds, and said it was sometimes difficult to plan, but it worked. Maureen lost seven pounds in the jump start, and can’t wait to see the rest of the diet.

Rachael says she can’t cut out the carbs, and Cynthia says it’s not about cutting them out, but rather cutting back instead. It’s all about good food, keeping full and being motivated. Hit the giveaway button for a chance to win the book Flat Belly Diet!

Back to the kitchen to make the dipping sauce for the Samosas before asking some more questions of the Mystery Taster. This round of questions gives the answers that he’s all over the place with his movie genres, but is versatile, he’s sometimes mistaken for other people, and he’s got tons of lines he’s famous for, and says May the force be with you. Rachel says “Are you serious?!” and comes around the corner to find Samual L. Jackson!

He’s currently starring in the new movie, Jumper, and talks a bit about the film. He plays a sorta bad area - that chases Jumpers and kills them, but they’re not sure if the Jumpers are good or bad yet - they hope if the movie does well, they’re tackle the other two books of the trilogy too.

He loves going to work and being rough and tumble, and he loves to play guys that have agendas - good or bad. He loves to watch Hayden Christenson work, and he just enjoys kids that go to work and work well. In his house, all the adults got up and went to work every day, and that’s what adults are supposed to do. He likes that work ethic.

He says that he doesn’t get to call the shots much at home -while he was a kid, he was the only boy, and then he married and had a daughter, and it was the same thing. That’s why he likes to go to work is so he can order folks around! His wife does the cooking, and his daughter went to culinary school in New York - but doesn’t invite him over near enough. Rachael laughs and says “That was a subtle hint, Zoe, Dad wants more invites!”

Then it’s into the kitchen for Vegetable Curry for dinner!