Sam the Cooking Guy

One of my favorite new food shows is Sam the Cooking Guy, a San Diego local who makes up very fast recipes from the auspices of his own home. His wife does the camera work, and his dog sits on the floor in the background, but this homely environment is souped up with cute camera shots and a jazzy background. Nevermind that Sam has one of those "jazz band" strips on his chin that I so loathe. It's still very entertaining.

This week he made something that looked just so incredibly good that I'm going to make one of those marathon trips to Costco just to get the cheap goods to do it: crab wontons. It's a mixture of only four COMMON! AT HOME INGREDIENTS! that people like me never have in their cupboards (canned crabmeat? Come on. Cream cheese? Right) that you can mix in just seconds and then pile into wonton wrappers to bake in the oven.

Forget that I never have wonton wrappers, either, or that it will take a second special trip to a gourmet store to get them because Costco is hardly likely to carry such a thing. Forget also that these are all highly expensive ingredients, even if there are only four of them. Look at the picture. And maybe you should see the video, too, where he takes a bite and his eyes roll into the back of his head because he's just never tasted anything so good.

....Though a tiny cynical part of me wonders if half the success of a cooking show is pretending to have conniptions over your own out-of-this-world creations?