graham kerr

Graham Kerr established himself as 'The Galloping Gourmet' back in the late 60s, and his work helped inspire Rachael Ray to cook. Wednesday, Ray got to fulfill a dream by cooking with Kerr on 'Rachael Ray' (weekdays, syndicated). The pair made a healthy dish, cauliflower with carrot cheese sauce.

Kerr has been cooking more healthy dishes lately, and chronicled his efforts to cook with foods he grows himself in his new book, 'Growing at the Speed of Life: A Year in the Life of My First Kitchen Garden.' The cauliflower and cheese sauce recipe is in the book, and, as Ray mentions, is mostly just vegetables and skim milk with a few spices like cumin, cayenne, and Dijon mustard. "Very rich, but this has no fat in it at all," said Kerr as he poured the sauce on the cauliflower.

I'm sort of a cooking show geek. I can watch Martha Stewart bake a pie or Alton Brown explain how a convection oven works any time of the day, even two in the morning. And it's not like I just started watching cooking shows in the past several years because it was hip to do so, I've been watching them since I was a kid. I was rather addicted to The French Chef and The Galloping Gourmet when I was younger.

Both shows make it to our sister site Slashfood's list of the ten greatest cooking shows of all-time.