One of Taylor Swift's go-to recipes to make at dinner parties is Ina Garten’s Real Meatballs and Spaghetti. But the pop singer has her own trick for the meatballs – she omits the pork and veal, using packaged breadcrumbs and beef mince only.
This Aussie actor is a bona fide foodie who credits his dad for getting him into cooking. He told Food & Wine that, according to his father: “If you’re ever looking to really impress someone, particularly a girl, flambéed crêpes suzette is a good way to go.”
Model, writer and cook Chrissy Teigen is famous on social media for her culinary creations. When she makes fish fingers she uses panko breadcrumbs and cooks them in the oven at a high temperature – they taste just like they've been fried, except they're healthier.
A Tennessee girl through and through, Dolly Parton's speciality dish is chicken and dumplings. Her recipe for the dish is a straightforward one. She simmers a whole chicken in water with a few vegetables and the recipe contains just eight ingredients, proving less is sometimes more.
The Kardashian star is known for rustling up soul food feasts for her family and her offerings include fried chicken, green beans, rice and cornbread. Kim has a hack for making perfectly crispy cornbread: line a muffin tin with butter and sugar before pouring in cornbread mix. A drizzle of honey on top makes it extra sweet.
A staunch vegan, actress Alicia Silverstone has some great tips if you’re planning on becoming vegetarian. On her blog she suggests simple tweaks including trying some veggie restaurants, investing in vegan cookbooks, turning your favourite dish into a veggie version, and trying mock meats such as Field Roast and Beyond Meat.
Given his Galician heritage, it’s no surprise actor-director Emilio has a thing for Spanish cuisine. He recommends frying padrón peppers in Spanish olive oil with salt and lemon. He also likes to grow the peppers himself and is impressively green-fingered.
Actor and author of the Italian-inspired Tucci Cookbook, Stanley Tucci knows a thing or two about cooking. His tip for rich and savoury mashed potatoes is to use olive oil instead of milk or cream, and to beat in a raw egg yolk just before serving.
Emma Watson finds the best way to start the day is with a Mexican-inspired breakfast. The Harry Potter star makes guacamole, salsa, and scrambled eggs, throws the lot into a tortilla and toasts it. It sounds simple, filling and delicious.
NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers mom’s homemade Chex Mix (a cereal mix that can include nuts, bagel or potato chips, pretzels and seasoning) is so good he declared it his death row meal. The secret to making it so moreish? Add melted butter.
The instantly recognisable My Fair Lady actress had a few foodie secrets. Audrey Hepburn never skipped breakfast and regularly indulged in spaghetti al pomodoro, serving it smothered in sauce.
In a cooking tutorial uploaded to YouTube, the reality star and makeup mogul revealed that when she makes burgers, she adds teriyaki sauce to minced beef to give it flavour. Kylie calls it "the secret potion".
British actor Tom Hiddleston has a few tricks to make sure his bolognese is exceptional. He uses a generous amount of butter, plus bacon, and braises the minced beef and veg on the stove. Once all the ingredients are in the pot, it goes in the oven to thicken the sauce and boil off the red wine.
One of Twilight star Kristen Stewart's favourite dishes to cook is Mexican tortilla soup and she kindly shared her recipe with Vogue. The spicy broth takes little more than 30 minutes to make and is topped with diced avocado, shredded Cheddar, coriander, lime and toasted tortilla strips.
Actress and comedian Amy Sedaris has good advice for entertaining in her cookbook, I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence. One useful hack for meatballs is: "Freeze them on a cookie sheet before putting them into a freezer bag so they won't stick together".
Mexican food is a favourite for Friends star Jennifer Aniston, and she loves nachos in particular. Her hack for a healthy, homemade version of the snack is to take tortillas, cut them into triangles and fry them in coconut oil.
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria knows how to make a killer guacamole. Her trick is to dice avocados instead of mashing them, use serrano peppers instead of jalapeños, lemon juice instead of lime and lots of salt. She says she basically makes a salty lemonade for diced avocado, tomatoes and onion to swim in.
Singer Jennifer Hudson has an easy trick for making healthy baked turkey wings taste like they’re fried. She covers them in reduced-sodium taco seasoning by adding both to a zip lock bag, sealing and shaking. She only uses a smidgen of olive oil cooking spray to coat a baking sheet and cooks the wings for 18 to 20 minutes.
Cameron Diaz offers an abundance of cooking advice in The Longevity Book. However, our favourite has got to be her simple trick of adding a squeeze of lemon juice to a dish to jazz it up. Make like the movie star and squeeze the citrus fruit over salad, grate the zest over pasta and throw a wedge in your water.
Apparently, Scarlett’s vegan chocolate chip banana muffins are so good she’s had marriage proposals because of them – fellow foodie Gwyneth Paltrow even asked for the recipe. So what’s her secret? She makes it up as she goes along.
When Julia Roberts' children were younger she had a great tip for getting them to eat their greens: making crispy kale chips covered in cheese. The Oscar-winning actress would put a bowl on the table and they'd be gone in no time, then she didn't need to worry about them not finishing their salad at dinner.
Formerly kitchen-shy Drew Barrymore knows how to make one thing well and that's an open breakfast sandwich. Her version requires crusty bread, eggs, basil, tomato, black pepper and a secret ingredient: Boursin cream cheese. It adds flavour yet it doesn’t overpower.
The retired footballer is a fan of homemade pasta since completing a cookery course in Italy – he now makes his own from scratch and serves it to his family. He’s also a dab hand at risotto which is difficult to perfect. His advice? “You have to constantly stir”.
Juices are a penchant of Breaking Bad and Jessica Jones actress Krysten Ritter. However, she keeps them healthy by sticking to veggies such as kale, spinach, parsley, cucumber and celery instead of sugary apple or agave.
Singer Patti LaBelle’s makes a mean mac 'n' cheese which contains no less than five different types of the yellow stuff, including Cheddar, Monterey Jack and Velveeta. Follow suit to turn this comfort food dish into a memorable indulgence.
One of actress, Goop founder and author Gwyneth Paltrow's most popular recipes is her Green Goddess Dressing and she shares a tip for turning it into a dip as well. Skip the water and it'll have a thicker consistency for enjoying with raw vegetables, or add a little H20 so you can drizzle it over lettuce.
She starred in Julie & Julia, a film about a blogger who attempts all the recipes in legendary chef Julia Child’s Mastering The Art Of French Cooking, but Amy Adams is also a dab hand in the kitchen. When cooking with garlic she keeps the smell off her hands by using a rubber device to remove the skin.
A keen cook and baker, Emma Stone uses baking to help her cope with anxiety and panic attacks. The actress told Vogue that, during the filming of Spider-Man, she had baked so much "There were stacks of things in the kitchen that nobody could possibly go through."
Actress Jessica Biel has a great trick for staying healthy when there’s not much time to cook. She roasts vegetables then blends them into a simple soup, seasoned with just salt and pepper, for a speedy but nutritious meal.
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According to an interview with Food & Wine, Norah Jones can whip up a mean cocktail. The singer shakes vodka, cucumber and ice really hard so it mashes up the cucumber and the ice waters down the vodka. She also adds a little fresh mint, a drop of absinthe or a squeeze of lime.
Iconic talk show host Oprah Winfrey shares her favourite healthy recipes on her website. The businesswoman is a fan of swapping beef burgers for lower-fat turkey burgers and using lettuce leaves as wraps instead of tortillas or burger buns.
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Paris Hilton set social media alight when she debuted her culinary YouTube series Cooking with Paris. The heiress' top tips for making lasagne include not breaking up the pasta sheets (because it ruins the lasagne vibe), wearing chef gloves to avoid cheese-grater injuries and donning sunglasses while chopping onions.
Before she became the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle shared a number of great tips for making homemade pasta on her blog The Tig. She advised to always prepare sauce first as cooked pasta can’t wait for sauce, but sauce can wait for pasta. Also, save pasta water for a silky sauce and never let fresh pasta cook for longer than seven minutes.
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Florence Pugh is known for roles in films like Little Women, Midsommar and Black Widow, but she's also gained a reputation on social media for her culinary skills. The actor has hosted several cookalongs on Instagram, showing fans how to make everything from the perfect roast chicken to homemade pasta. For Florence's easy tzatziki, her favourite dip, mix together full-fat Greek yogurt (it's essential to use full-fat), salt, olive oil, pepper, grated cucumber and grated garlic. Florence suggests keeping the skin on the cucumbers as it holds the dip together and adjusting the amount of garlic according to personal taste (the more, the better for Pugh).
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