Actor Jennifer Garner revealed in the latest episode of her Instagram ‘Pretend Cooking Show’ on Wednesday that she “almost lit the kitchen on fire” this year while she was making Ina Garten’s beef bourguignon recipe.
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“Ina would never !” Garner, 49, joked.
Her video showed how she tried to burn off the Cognac she had added to the pot. According to people.com, the problem was, she had doubled Garten’s recipe to ½ cup of the brandy, and lit it all at once. The alcohol burst into a ball of fire, with flames nearly hitting the ceiling of Garner’s kitchen.
“A thousand pardons,” a shocked Garner said, as she watched the flame die down. “Don’t double the Cognac.”
“Can you believe that just happened?” she joked. “That was wild!”
Seems like this is not the first time such accident has happened. In the comments of her video, Garten assured, “I almost set the kitchen on fire every time!”
“Happy New Year!!! Love you,” Garten added.
Garner said she had been making Garten’s beef bourguignon recipe for every Christmas, after reading it in the Barefoot Contessa star’s 2004 book, Barefoot in Paris.
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“The thing about traditions, all you do to give them meaning is keep them,” the actress wrote in the caption to her video.
“I don’t know when I started making @inagarten’s beef bourguignon (from Barefoot in Paris) for Christmas, it was long enough ago that the smell of this perfect stew makes me feel happy, cozy, and relaxed,” she added.
In the end, she can be seen serving the dish with or over country bread, writing in the Instagram caption that the end result is a “Yum.”
“Maybe this will make sense for your New Year’s Eve. Wherever this weekend takes you, we wish you a healthy, a joyful, and a peaceful New Year,” she wrote.
