I've always felt an affinity toward Jennifer Garner. Before she was the spokesperson for Capital One or tearing it up on the dance floor in 13 Going on 30, she was just a small-town girl growing up in Charleston, West Virginia. Her low-key approach to fame and her insistence of raising her children far from the spotlight makes me feel even more like we would be friends. And as with all of my friends, we all love to cook. Houston-born despite moving east at a young age, cooking seems to run in Garner's blood. Raised by role model parents, the Garner girls grew up learning skills that would benefit them later in life. That's why, when I saw Garner's Pretend Cooking Show on Facebook, I knew we'd be in for a treat.
The first two episodes went off without a hitch! In the first episode, she paid homage to her good friend Ina Garten and made the Barefoot Contessa's Honey White Bread recipe. I love the simplicity of the show, how she's just filming in her kitchen and don't even get me started on how much I love that cross-back apron! If there's one thing I could collect, it's aprons, y'all.
Check out the first episode here. Each episode is incredibly short, about two minutes long or so, and fun to watch.
Garner infuses personal anecdotes into her cooking show, and with every tidbit she shares, I'm even closer to the belief that we would be friends.
In the second episode, she picked up the cookbook from "one of her favorite restaurants in Santa Monica," Huckleberry: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes from Our Kitchen. For these English muffins, she lists the recipe in her video description on Facebook.
