Los Angeles, March 30 (IANS) Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner has shared that her mom, Patricia, has become a fan-favorite guest on her ‘Pretend Cooking Show’.

The actress said there are two episodes that stand out from her culinary series, in which she shares recipes from her kitchen, reports ‘People’ magazine.

The actress said, “She’s so funny. She loves it. She loves being recognized. She loves when people say hi to her. She’s very opinionated about what we should and shouldn’t do. She likes to tell me that her episodes perform the best and are the best ones. And I’m sure she’s right because she’s been right about everything for the last 53 years of my life. Why not the next?”.

She further mentioned, “I always like when my mom is with me because she’s so cute and she’s just the best and I love it. And she’s a serious scene partner. I loved, early on we made bagels and that was funny. And then another time, I made beef bourguignon and I almost burned my kitchen down and that’s another good one”.

As per ‘People’, the enthusiastic home cook recently partnered with KitchenAid to launch the Artisan Plus Stand Mixer, which the brand calls “the most significant upgrade to its Tilt-Head Stand Mixer in 70 years”.

The product aims to bring better precision to mixing with features such as expanded speed range, a built-in LED bowl light and silicone edges that continuously scrape the bowl. Garner says she “dreamed of” having a KitchenAid stand mixer as a kid.

She said, “I wanted one more than anything. I thought it was just the coolest to have your mixer going while you were doing something else in the kitchen, and they’re so beautiful. There’s such an iconic look in the kitchen to have one. So I’ve called it my BFF forever. I cook a lot super early in the morning because I want something to be made fresh and ready when my kids wake up or I just want to get dough started before I do an early workout or whatever it is”.

Garner, who shares Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 14, with her ex-husband Ben Affleck, reflected on the most meaningful thing she’s baked for her family.

“I’ve baked probably a hundred million birthday cakes. I mean, if you think of it, I’ve been a mom 20 years. And so 20 plus 17 plus 14 cakes plus whomever else, that’s a lot of cakes. The smell of fresh bread in the house is something that means a lot to me because my mom made bread on Sundays when I was growing up and it was always like, it just made the house feel like home. There’s something very safe about the smell of bread baking in the house. There’s nothing more nurturing in the world than fresh homemade bread”, she added.

–IANS

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