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Season’s Greetings From Katie Lee Biegel

By Jack Houvouras Photos provided by Katie Lee Biegel, Hallmark and Lucy Schaeffer Photography

C hef, television celebrity, author, movie pro ducer, wife and mother. There aren’t many roles Milton, West Virginia, native Katie Lee Biegel can’t master. She is the co-host of The Kitchen on the Food Network. The show has been nominated for multiple EmmyAwards, including Outstanding InformativeTalk Show and Outstanding Informative Talk Show Hosts. She is also the host of Beach Bites with Katie Lee on the Cooking Channel and a judge for the Food Network’s popular Halloween Baking Championship series. You can also find her on Meat Sweats on FoodNetwork.com and the upcoming digital series WhatWould Katie Eat? She’s also a regular on such shows as Beat Bobby Flay , Best. Ever. , Rachael Ray and Today on NBC. Her cookbooks include Endless Summer Cookbook (2015), The Comfort Table (2008) and The Comfort Table:

Everyday Occasions (2009). Her first novel, Groundswell , was published in 2011. The novel was adapted into a Hallmark movie earlier this year and premiered on the network Aug. 21, 2022. Groundswell the movie fol lows an Atlanta chef named Emma, played by actress Lacey Chabert, who travels to Hawaii on the heels of a personal setback. There she meets a surf instructor named Ben whose lessons help her to regain her footing. “It was thrilling to work with Hallmark and bring my novel to the screen,” said Biegel. “This project has been a long time in the making, and it’s a dream come true to see my characters brought to life for viewers.” Today Biegel resides in the West Village of New York City with her husband Ryan, daughter Iris and their rescue dog Gus. We caught up with her recently and invited her to send us a recipe for the holidays. She suggested our readers try her take on Prime Rib and Brussels sprouts. Sounds delicious to us. Prime Rib with Beef Gravy by Katie Lee yield 6 to 8 servings active time 30 minutes total time 3 hours 15 minutes (includes standing time) ingredients One 6- to 7-pound bone-in prime rib (to make slicing easy, ask your butcher to cut the bones from the meat, then tie them back into the roast)

Katie Lee Biegel's first novel has been adapted into a Hallmark movie, which premiered on the network Aug. 21, 2022.

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