Dishing with Chef, Author, and The Kitchen Co-host Katie Lee Biegel

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Chef, writer and The Kitchen co-host Katie Lee Biegel has teamed up with Sub-Zero, Wolf and Cove to assistance consumers find much meditative moments successful the kitchen. Here is immoderate of her proposal for utilizing cooking arsenic a signifier of aforesaid care.

JL: How did you extremity up teaming with Sub-Zero, Wolf and Cove?

KLB: I’ve utilized Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove appliances successful my location for years, including my astir caller renovation successful New York City. As idiosyncratic who cooks constantly, it’s incredibly important to person appliances that I tin trust on. I cognize my groceries volition enactment fresher for longer successful my Sub-Zero Refrigerator and my Wolf Range cooks everything evenly for consistent, delicious results. When I heard astir their Kitchen Therapy initiative, which centers astir cooking arsenic a signifier of self-care, I was thrilled to squad up.

 JL: Do you get the Winter Blues? How does Kitchen Therapy help?

KLB:I deliberation galore radical get the wintertime blues to immoderate degree. I americium fortunate that my passionateness for cooking is besides my profession, and I besides usage it whenever I request a boost oregon a pick-me-up from a down mood. Whether I’m chopping, stirring, oregon kneading dough, cooking has ever been therapeutic for me. I similar to carve retired other “me time” successful the room and marque immoderate of my favourite comfortableness foods that I cognize volition boost my spirits and marque maine consciousness good. When I immerse myself successful making a cozy meal, I truly effort to enactment contiguous and absorption connected enjoying the process arsenic overmuch arsenic the extremity result. 

JL: How tin you make a therapeutic kitchen?

KLB: Keeping the room cleanable is cardinal for creating a calming and uplifting abstraction that you’ll bask spending clip in. I similar to enactment arsenic organized arsenic imaginable and cleanable arsenic I spell to debar clutter gathering up. Adding elements similar caller flowers oregon your favourite euphony assistance marque the room consciousness much similar an oasis. I besides similar to support my refrigerator stocked with caller fruit, snacks, and my favourite drinks for erstwhile I privation to flight to the room for a small treat.

JL: What are essentials successful your kitchen?

KLB: Having prime appliances that enactment hard for maine is indispensable – it allows maine to instrumentality a measurement backmost and bask the cooking process much without worrying astir the outcome. Some of my different essentials see my formed robust skillet, a crisp Chef’s knife, my mini nutrient processor, and a well-stocked pantry.  

JL: What are your favourite recipes to bushed post-holiday cooking fatigue and the wintertime blues? 

KLB: I americium a large instrumentality of expanse cookware recipes. On a engaged weeknight, it is an casual mode to get meal connected the array rapidly and efficiently, with little cleanable up. On the weekends, we similar to person thing that cooks each time and fills the location with a yummy aroma, similar a beef stew.

JL: Can you springiness america a glimpse of The Kitchen's upcoming season?

KLB: We person truthful galore large episodes coming up connected The Kitchen! We person a chickenhearted helping cook-off, brunch recipes, Mardi Gras, and a full occurrence inspired by the bid Cheers. It was truthful overmuch amusive to film. Our acceptable designers decorated the room to look similar Cheers and we adjacent got into costumes.  

JL: What are immoderate projects that you are moving on?

KLB: I americium presently look investigating for our adjacent circular of filming The Kitchen and I americium doing immoderate originative penning arsenic well.  My biggest task though is taking attraction of my daughter, Iris.  She keeps maine precise busy!