Jennifer Garner Brings ‘Cooking Fairy’ Ina Garten for AnotherPretend Cooking ShowEpisode

Mar. 15, 2025

Ina Garten and Jennifer Garner.Photo:Jennifer Garner/ Instagram

Jennifer Garner/ Instagram

Jennifer Garneris celebrating her cooking fairy,Ina Garten!

The Food Network star — who turned 76 on Friday — was featured in a new episode of Garner’sPretend Cooking Show.

“Happy birthday to my Queen, my friend, and my Cooking Fairy,@inagarten. Making a Pretend Cooking Show with the Contessa who inspired it was 🤯 meta for my brain,” wrote Garner, 51, onInstagram.

The video showed the two making cacao e pepe scrambled eggs with Garten’s recipe found in herGo-To Dinnerscookbook released in October 2022.

The video began with Garner cracking eggs and adding the mixture and milk into a bowl. After she started cooking them “nice and hot,” Garten popped in to advise that the stove should be “nice and low.” Garner added butter, salt and pepper to the mix and was advised to let it “sit for a minute.”

“Once it sort of sets a little bit, you just keep stirring it, and you end up with really fluffy big clouds of scrambled eggs,” said Garten.

After they waited for it to get “custardy,” they turned off the stove and added pepper, salt and cheese to the mix.

Jennifer Garner cooks with Ina Garten.Jennifer Garner/ Instagram

TheAliasalum has been a long-time fan of theBarefoot Contessahost and has mademultiple appearanceson her show.

When Garten released herModern Comfort Foodcookbook in October 2020, Garner used it during another episode of thePretend Cooking Showandexpressed that she was “reading it like a novel.”

“Everything in here is exactly what you want to be cooking and exactly what you want to be eating right now,” said Garner.

Garten previously told PEOPLE thattheir friendship began after they first cooked together.

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“She was very sweet she invited me to her birthday party. It was all girls in swimsuits—it was so Jennifer! It was so fun and not fancy, which is what she’s like,” Garten added.

source: people.com