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Sara’s Weeknight Meals Season 13

Greek Beet Salad and Roasted Lemon Potatoes

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…

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Attempting to Drink from a Porron

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…

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Made Lemon Potatoes and Beet Salad with Chef Maria Loi

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.

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Dining In Mikrolimano Bay, Athens at Zefyros Restaurant.

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/

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Made the Mallorcan Version of Dirty Rice

over an open fire at the Sonmo Olive Estate in Valdemossa. Here are all the ingredients.

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A Blue and White Town in Tunisia

This is the entrance to a tea house called Cafe de Nattes in the town of Sidi Bou Said. Reminds me of Greece.

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Gin and Tonics in Barcelona

It’s a thing! After dinner!! But, when the ingredients are so stellar (special local gin, special local tonic) it all makes sense.

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Wine Tasting in Santorini

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.

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Vermouth and Tapas!

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.

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I Learned How to Make A Layered Drink!

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…

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Sagrada Familia at Night

Here is a view of Gaudi’s famous (unfinished) church in Barcelona at night as seen from our deck at our VRBO apartment. It is reminiscent of a Superman movie, don’t you think?

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