I cook with local chefs and home cooks in Tunisia, Mallorca, Barcelona, Athens, Santorini, Istanbul and then head home to make a few dishes in my own home kitchen. Please check it out by going to the bar at the top of this homepage, clicking on Sara’s Weeknight Meals” followed…
I was there to emcee a food and wine weekend at the Grand Hotel called “Cork and Fork.” Even though I lived in Michigan for 5 years when I went to U of M, I never made it to Mackinac Island, a very beautiful small island on Lake Huron (no…
Earlier this year I flew to Tuscany to record two episodes for Rachael Ray’s new series on A+E — “Rachael Ray’s Tuscany.” and the episode is airing now on A+E and FYI. Rachael lives in a beautiful house in an astonishingly beautiful part of Italy. We had so much fun…
Coastal Maine wins. I was there last week with The Husband visiting my sister and my brother in law and oh what a beautiful garden. Here is how the website describes the garden: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is a people’s garden, a grassroots effort that began as a casual conversation…
Here I am with my producer/partner on “Sara’s Weeknight Meals,” Natalie Gustafson, at the crossroads of highway 61 + 49 where the legendary blues artist Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. We were in town to eat BBQ (you must try the pulled pork sandwich at Abe’s which…
I particularly liked this guy (gal?) that I saw at the market in Barcelona.
I will learn this iconic Spanish garlicy shrimp dish from expat Matt Goulding (of “Eat this, Not That’ fame) on the 6th show of the new season which starts airing around the country in October. It happens to be the perfect weeknight meal. Stay tuned!
Ever since I spent ten days on the Isle of Skye in Scotland when I was 21, I have had a thing for sheep (they are everywhere in the Hebrides). So, I was delighted to be surrounded by them in an ancient olive grove, on the Spanish island of Mallorca…
Zucchini Lasagne The Husband and I were in Providence, RI, last weekend dropping off some underground comix to the RISD library (he donated his whole collection) and while we were there we dined at a restaurant that I loved when we were there in 2021. Oberlin is a seafood restaurant…
When we were shooting on Santorini in May for “Sara’s Weeknight Meals,” I learned what a real Greek salad should be made with. You will have to tune in to Season 13 which starts airing on PBS in the fall.
Here are just two of the many dishes I will be featuring in the fall when Season 13 of “Sara’s Weeknight Meals” starts airing around the country. Chef Maria Loi shares a few of her unique tips when she shows me how to make these dishes. So stay tuned for…
Well, here I am in Barcelona, at Gelida restaurant with an ex-pat American tour guide, Sam Zucker. He tried to teach me how to drink wine from a porron, the typical Catalan drinking vessal. You are supposed to pour the wine directly into your mouth from a short distance. I…
In Athens. These are just two of the many new dishes we will be featuring on Season 13 of “Sara’s Weeknight Meals” which starts airing around the country in October.
It doesn’t get much better than this! I am with Maria Loi, the Julia Child/Anthony Bourdain of Greece, feasting on the three superb dishes we just made for Season 13 of Sara’s Weeknight Meals. https://www.restaurant-zefiros.gr/
Something I have always wanted to learn how to do. I took a class in the Culinary Center on Marina, my Oceania Cruise. The drink, “Galway Blazer Fence Reducer,” has only 3 ingredients: coffee liqueur, Bailey’s Irish Cream and Vodka. It is all how you pour them in….
Got to prepare escalivada, an egglplant, red pepper side dish with Joan Abrams at Sonmo Olive Estate on Mallorca. He also treated me to a local favorite dessert called Ensaimada, a spiral lard pastry, in this case stuffed with pastry cream. So tasty!
over an open fire at the Sonmo Olive Estate in Valdemossa. Here are all the ingredients.
This is the entrance to a tea house called Cafe de Nattes in the town of Sidi Bou Said. Reminds me of Greece.
It’s a thing! After dinner!! But, when the ingredients are so stellar (special local gin, special local tonic) it all makes sense.
Went to a beautiful winery, Venetsanos Winery, on a cliff in Sanotorini with an incredible view and drank the local dry white wine and vinsanto – the very tasty dessert wine that is only made in Santorini.
Vermouth is a big deal in Barcelona. I visited a popular bar, Morro Fi, to have a taste with Sam Zucker, an ex pat American and local tour guide. I thought of my Dad, the negroni king.
In the culinary center on Marina, my Oceania cruise ship where we are traveling and shooting season 13 of “Sara’s Weeknight Meals.” I feel so accomplished!!! The drink is called The Galway Blazer “Fence Reducer.” I think I have to shoot a “how to” video of this drink when I…