- Hi, this is Catherine Zeta-Jones
and this is everything I eat in a day.
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First thing I do when I wake up
in the morning is get my coffee going
because I really can't do anything properly
without my coffee.
So I get that brewing though I usually put it
into a French press
because there's something very nostalgic about that.
I get up very early, so my house is super quiet
and it's my little time just to be.
And then I go out and take my dog for his little pee-pee
and then we come back in and by that point
I just do my French press, I pour my cup of coffee
and I just sit.
I don't usually eat breakfast until about eight o'clock.
I like to have breakfast,
I'm a three meals a day kind of girl
but I do have very, very specific breakfast needs.
And it's all about daylight saving.
So basically, in the winter hours, I'm a porridge girl.
I have porridge with brown sugar, bananas and I make it
so the bananas are all soggy and full of brown sugar.
And I put some blueberries on the top
and I literally have that every morning,
definitely Monday to Friday.
I'll let you know what happens on Sundays and Saturdays.
When we spring forward, I go into my yogurt.
Non-fat vanilla yogurt, Bear Naked Granola,
blueberries, raspberries.
And that is my summer months go-to breakfast.
Cut to Saturdays and Sundays, that's when we as a family,
do a good British fry up.
I get my imported British bacon,
we have sausages, which we call bangers.
We have baked beans, scrambled eggs
and then for the American contingent in my family
which is my husband and my two children,
we do French toast, it's actually the Martha Stewart recipe.
It's really good.
Brioche bread, let it soak, put a little bit of cinnamon,
a little bit of vanilla and then of course,
good old Canadian maple syrup.
Every weekend, it comes together
in a fabulous family brunch, we love it.
I look forward to it all week.
Next is 11 o'clock.
I always have a cup of tea and usually have
a cookie or something.
I'm not a big snacker, except for anything chocolate.
For me, chocolate is a real treat, I deserve it.
I like Cadburys milk chocolate because it's, again
it's a British brand that I was brought up with
and it's very comforting.
Lunch, I always sit down to lunch with my husband
if we're not working, we're very big on family meals.
I don't know whether it's my European connection.
If the kids are here, any family members, anybody who is
in our household, we stop and we sit down and we have lunch.
Lunch is usually a light affair for us, always a salad.
I always have a salad with my lunch and my dinner.
So my favorite kind of salad would be a spinach,
arugula mix of leaves, pine nuts, tomatoes, tomatoes,
tomatoes, nice farm tomatoes.
Not, I don't like the little tiny ones,
I like the big ripe ones.
Especially if I'm in Europe,
I eat tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes.
I have sometimes put a little blue cheese,
I love blue cheese, my husband loves blue cheese.
It's an acquired taste so I wouldn't serve
that to my guests.
I like to throw some dry cranberries in
and my dressing, extra-virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar.
I sometimes put some mustard in there,
mix mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, shake and toss.
I have a salad, every meal other than breakfast
because I just adore it.
To accompany my salad, a little breast of chicken,
grilled simply, maybe some grilled cod.
Sometimes like a stuffed aubergine, so something light
that doesn't weigh me down too much.
In the afternoon I always, 4:30,
I brew my Casa Zeta-Jones coffee.
I love it because it's my blend
and it's the kind of coffee that I love.
If I'm really, really good,
I've already baked some scones and clotted cream and jam
so I have like an afternoon tea.
Michael and I usually sit down for dinner at eight.
Usually if we go out, you know before COVID,
we always make our reservation for eight
because we're not really into eating late at night.
But when we are in Europe, we do tend...
Everything, our whole life tends to, like, shift
into European hours, so we do eat later.
Then we go to bed later and then we get up later.
So it kind of works itself out.
So a typical dinner for me would be my salad.
In this salad at night, I love fruit.
I always chop up an apple, throw it in a salad.
Of course I love avocado and a salad too.
I would put oranges in my salad, figs in my salad,
I love that combo.
So my perfect supper probably would be, I'm a big fish
and chicken, white meat kind of girl.
But I do love just a regular fillet mignon
with like a mushroom, shiitake mushroom sauce.
The way I make it is that I usually buy the Bouillon base,
the, kind of, base of it and then just add in
a lot of mushrooms and then vegetables, clean sauteed.
If someone was to say to me
"What would be your final wish for a meal?"
What I do love is cauliflower cheese.
I guess I'm a big cheese lover.
I love cauliflower cheese, I think it's
because my mom was never a great cook
but that was like her thing, a big cauliflower cooked whole
with cheese sauce and melted cheese all over it
and that was like one of her specialities.
That's something that it's a little piece of home.
Some of my favorite cuisines, and I love to travel
and I find that through food, you really get a sense
of the life and the culture of a place.
And just from community of cooking together,
of chatting over making a meal,
it's something so comforting and so universal.
When I was pregnant, I craved Indian food every day.
I was brought up on Indian food in Wales
and where I come from, we have a fabulous,
huge Indian community.
Indian food has been really, you know,
intermixed into Britain.
Things I avoid to eat.
I don't like offal, liver, kidneys so that's...
tripe, can't do that.
MSG, for me it's not just I feel thirsty.
For me, I look like I've had five rounds
with Mike Tyson in a boxing ring.
I have lips that look really pretty
for about two minutes because they're all plumped
and I go, wow, my lips look great.
And then all of a sudden they get really dry
and I get really bulbous
and it's an awful, awful reaction that I have.
My love dessert, ice cream is just across the board,
I'm just a huge ice cream lover and of course,
how could I forget my mother's apple pie.
The only other great things she can cook coupled
with a little scoop of ice cream
and I'm a really, really happy woman.
Some people say, "Do you live to eat or do you eat to live?"
I'm somewhere in between.
That's everything I eat in a day.
Enjoy.
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