Haylie Duff's Latest Role As Chef
Actress Haylie Duff has a cooking show premiering this Saturday.
June 4, 2014 -- Haylie Duff may be most known for her skills as an actress, but the silver screen star has also been making her name for herself in the food world.
Since starting her food blog, “Real Girl’s Kitchen,” during some downtime on set about three years ago, she’s scored a cookbook and a show on Cooking Channel, set to premiere this Saturday.
“I’m so excited about it. I cannot wait for people to see it,” Duff told ABC News. Episodes run the gamut from the traditional steps to making a recipe to visiting a farm to see how the food is grown.
Duff’s rise to cooking star was pretty accidental, she said. “My mom still to this day teases me that I have a cooking show and a cooking brand and is like, ‘Haylie, I never in a million years would have thought that the girl making a hard-boiled egg in the microwave with no water would have a cooking show,” she joked.
Now, Duff said she draws inspiration for writing, testing and photographing her own recipes from farmers’ markets.
"I think the majority of my dishes are farmers market inspired because that’s the best way to know what’s in season. But I don’t really limit myself,” she said. “I recently d id an episode for the show where we made all kinds of Asian dishes, and I had never cooked any of that food before, and now I’m obsessed. We did a green papaya salad and now it’s one of my favorite things ever."
It’s been a busy few weeks for Duff between the announcement of her new show and engagement to now-fiancé Matt Rosenberg, and despite her crazy schedule, she’s already started thinking about the wedding.
"If we get a second season probably I can’t imagine how I’d avoid it [wedding planning on the show],” she said. “Matt’s funny – he’s not an actor and does not like being on camera. So he’s on the show a few times but he’s just like, ‘Babe, I’ll do whatever you need me to do, but please don’t make me do too much.’”
The couple is still throwing around ideas for the food aspect of their big day.
"There’s definitely going to be a food element to our wedding because it’s so much to who I am,” she said. “We go back and forth, like do we want to do some kind of seated crazy-course dinner, or do we want to have Texas-style barbecue, which is where I’m from, and have smokers brought in and do brisket and mac and cheese and keep it homey and Southern?”
For now Duff can focus on “Real Girl’s Kitchen’s” premiere on the Cooking Channel this Saturday. Tune in and try some of her recipes below.
