Yesterday, my co-author and I filmed a cooking segment for the morning show Home & Family on the Hallmark Channel! The experience was a bit surreal because the show’s set is in an actual working house that was built on the Universal Studio Lot; so on one side of us was a wild west street right out of Bonanza, up the hill was the Bates Motel (a guy playing Bates actually popped out and gave me a creepy wave when I drove by), and then down the road was the New England village they used to shoot Jaws.
While we hung out on our set by the trailers and craft services, trams with tourists would drive by and I could pretend for a moment that I was an actual sitcom star (or more like a sitcom extra) rushing to the set. Here is me, pretending to be a character from Desperate Housewives in the green room:
For our cooking segment, we made Shrimp Wonton Soup with the extremely lovely host, Cristina Ferrare, who has always wanted to learn how to make wontons from scratch (it’s super easy if you buy the store-bough wrappers and a great thing to make with kids who are interested in cooking). We made the filling, filled the wontons, cooked some up, and then served them in gingery broth with bok choy for the rest of the guests…luckily there was a lot of hmming-and-ahhhing, especially from Ed Begley Jr. (he was on as a guest to promote his new reality show about building a new “green” home).
For the recipe click HERE and to view the episode, just go to the Home & Family website. And of course, it’s also in our cookbook KEEPERS, along with lots of helpful step-by-step photos for your DIY wontons that I promise are better than take-out.
