SARA'S WEEKNIGHT MEALS Season 11


#1101 - ALASKAN SALMON TWO WAYS (available October 5, 2022) The incredible natural resources of Alaska are on the menu as Sara travels to Juneau to learn how locals are turning wild and foraged food into culinary delights. She talks to a fish biologist about the incredible journey wild salmon make to return to their home streams. Then, she learns the traditional way to make Cedar Planked Salmon and foraged sea asparagus with an Alaskan Native home cook. Back home Sara shows us an easy way to make any fish with her salmon-in-a-bag with borscht beets.

Local Listings: Sara goes wild in Alaska with cedar planked salmon and foraged sea asparagus. At home – easy salmon-in-a-bag.

#1102 - CHINATOWN VANCOUVER (available October 12, 2022) Chinese immigrants were the backbone of Vancouver as Sara discovers on a culinary tour of Chinatown. At a local tea shop, she learns to make two deceptively simple appetizers cooked with tea. She samples Dim Sum at a shop owned by an opera singing second generation Chinese local. Then, local Judy Lam Maxwell shows her a Chinese dumpling mashup filled with Korean bulgogi. Back home, Sara races the clock to prove she can make Chinese takeout faster than it can be delivered from a restaurant. Will her baby egg rolls with soy dipping sauce win the race?

Local Listings: Chinese food favorites – from Vancouver’s Chinatown, appetizers cooked with tea and dumplings with bulgogi. Plus, egg rolls at home that are faster than takeout.

#1103 - TWISTED ITALIAN (available October 19, 2022) Who doesn’t love Italian food? Sara’s got some of your favorites made with a twist. Like delicious ravioli made with wonton skins to save time, or lasagna made with polenta rather than noodles. For a show stopper, try her butternut squash farrotto, just like risotto but with the ancient grain farro. On top, delicious fried sage.

Local listings: Sara breaks down Italian favorites with new ingredients – lasagna, but with polenta; ravioli but with wontons; butternut risotto but with farro.

#1104 - SPOT PRAWNS VANCOUVER (available October 26, 2022) Spot prawns are so beloved in Vancouver they have an entire festival to celebrate the weeks they are in season. Sara learns fascinating facts about the critters from a local commercial fisherman, then joins a Vancouver home cook to prepare a spot prawn risotto. Prawns are also on the menu at the other end of the continent in Miami where a Cuban grandmother shows Sara her recipe for camarones enchilados after a spirited food tour of the city’s legendary Calle Ocho neighborhood.

Local listings: Sara makes shrimp two ways in two places – spot prawn risotto in Vancouver and camarones enchilados in Miami.


#1105 - SIX INGREDIENT MEALS (available November 2, 2022) Sara’s viewers love 5-ingredient recipes, so why not six? Her frittata has a secret ingredient – leftover spaghetti – enlivened with rich brie and bacon, and on the table in minutes. You could save the spaghetti from another pasta favorite – peppery broccoli pasta with feta. Her duck confit with braised leeks and sauerkraut is nice enough for company. Plus, Sara answers a viewer’s question about perfectly flattened chicken breasts.

For local listings: Fast and easy 6-ingredient meals including bacon and spaghetti frittata, broccoli pasta and duck confit with Leeks.


#1106 - HOLIDAY SWEETS (available November 9, 2022) The fall and winter holidays call for big celebrations with friends and family and, of course, lots of baking! Sara has the perfect recipes for any occasion. For Thanksgiving – roasted glazed pears topped with shortbread pecan brittle and crème fraiche. For Christmas Eve, a comforting warm chocolate cheesecake. And for Christmas morning – sticky buns that are super quick because they don’t require yeast. On Ask Sara, answers to a viewer’s question about vanilla beans.

For local listings: Holiday baking – glazed pears with shortbread praline, sticky buns and warm chocolate cheesecake.


#1107 - THE WORLD IN A MEATBALL (available November 16, 2022) Meatballs are so universally beloved almost every culture has a version. In Turkey, they have a meatball on a stick called simit kebabs. Sara travels to the farm of a Turkish cooking teacher to learn to make the along with pear salsa and quince liquor. In Catalonia, Sara joins local cook Juame Vidal to make meatball tapas with peas from his garden. Moroccan meatball tagine with couscous is achievable at home with a slow cooker, and master Michele Scicolone shows us how.

For Local Listings: Sara travels to Turkey and Spain to learn new recipes for meatballs. At home, Moroccan meatball tagine in a slow cooker.

#1108 - HOT DAY, COLD FOOD (available November 23, 2022) When it’s hot and muggy outside Sara keeps things cool with three recipes made without turning on the oven. First, seafood gazpacho to use all the bounty from the garden. Grilled steak tops a cool mushroom and tomato salad, and then, a refreshing watermelon screwdriver.

Local Listings: No need for the oven with three cool recipes – seafood gazpacho, watermelon screwdrivers and steak salad.


#1109 - GOLDEN STATE GRUB (available November 30, 2022) Sara travels to the West Coast for some delectable California food. She visits a Sacramento farmer with his own online video blog, then joins him and a local chef to make sushi two ways. In Napa, Sara discovers a book club with a difference – they only read cookbooks, and then each person makes a dish from that month’s selection. Sara makes shrimp tikka with mango chutney with one of the group’s members to bring to the dinner party.

Local Listings: California recipes – sushi with a video blogging Sacramento farmer, and shrimp tikka with a Napa cookbook club.

#1110 - TACO, TACO, NACHO (available December 7, 2022) Quick to make and much beloved, tacos are a staple on the weekday dinner table. Sara has her own recipe for duck tacos, then travels to Miami to learn a Cuban taco mashup with blogger Patty Ruiz – chicken vaca frita tacos. Almost a taco but just as good – Sara’s nacho pie.

Local Listings: Weeknights are taco nights with Sara’s duck tacos and nacho pie. In Miami, a Cuban twist from a local blogger – chicken vaca frita tacos.