On our series Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag, we often end up with a lot of extra food after doing the taste test with our guest chef. The burning question: what do we do with it all?

Kristina here. You may not know me but I have been following your career for many years: first as an actress, then blogger, trendsetter, and most recently, chef and cookbook author. But I gotta tell ya Gwynnie, (do you mind if I call you that? I see your face all over the place – it’s on my coffee table right now – and I feel like I kind of know you!) I have a small bone to pick with you.

If we could invite any celebrity over and cook a perfect meal, it would be…

If we only made our favourite foods on Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag, our menus would be full of pizza and dessert!

We’ve both tried many different cuisines, but if we had to choose just one…

Wine too warm? Put a CORKCICLE in it!

Up winding stone stairs off Vancouver’s main drag, Robson Street, lies a classic Italian institution: CinCin. Slinging wood-fired pizzas since 1991, this restaurant feels like it has been around forever, which unfortunately means it slips our minds from time to time. But there’s a reason CinCin is a stronghold in the ever-changing Vancouver restaurant scene, and after last night’s epic meal, it’s back at the top of our list.

Driving in my car this week, the song Hold Me Now
by the Thompson Twins came on the radio. I turned up the volume, sang along and was transported back to grade 9, when I spent some time outside of Bristol, England, and kissed a boy named Tim. Music transcends time. The Dixie Chicks` The Long Way Around
is my life’s theme song, and David Gray’s entire White Ladder album
will forever depress me. No need to get into why. It was a nasty couple of years…

Many of you have asked us this question over the years since we started filming Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag. Here are our recommendations for cookbooks that’ll never let you down!

We fell in love with Barefoot Contessa’s Back to Basics in season 2 of Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag. It’s on our favourite cookbooks list! We also recently had a chance to try Ina Garten’s latest cookbook, Foolproof.