Podcast host and luxury lifestyle creator, Kit Keenan, joined Cheddar to dish all about food, fashion, and family while making one of her favorite recipes. 

How to Make Kit Keenan's Orzo Salad

a fashion designer, podcast host, luxury lifestyle creator Kit keenan joined cheddar to dish all about food, Fashion and family. Take a listen first, let's talk about your social media series. What's Kit cooking? Where did your passion from food even begin? So growing up, my mom is a fashion designer and she works very hard, especially during fashion week. She'd be like home at like 8 39 every night. And so our bonding time was always in the kitchen and she really gifted me my love of cooking and now we cook all the time together. And I started sharing my recipes on instagram when I was in high school and it has just become this safe space online for me. Um and it's just grown so much. I love my little chefs. So yeah, well tell us what kits cooking, Walk us through what we're making here and how viewers can recreate this very meal that you're gonna make for us. Yeah, so today we have a meal that I love making because it sits so well in the fridge for meal prep. Sure. Um so we're doing an Orzo salad and yeah, we can get started. Um so if you want to add the Orzo or the whole thing, yeah, you could do like half of it. Okay. Um usually I say like eight oz or so and then we have some veggies here and what's also great about this recipe is that it's totally customizable. So you can do the whole thing, get enough veggies, can't get enough veggies, cucumber tomatoes and then for our protein, I have some rinsed and drained chickpeas? Which is great. And you can add chicken to this. Um any sort of protein you like. And then the key to this recipe is my Golden Tahini dressing. What you need for golden Tahini dressing is a super runny Tahini and we've already almost filled this every time. Yes, it's good because it means it's very runny. So I do normally like a third of a cup of runny Tahini. Okay. And then we'll do some sweet. So I like to add some maple syrup that was not expected. Maybe a tablespoon of maple syrup. Just measuring that with our hearts today. And then we're gonna do half of a lemon for some zest in there. And then this is also great because I feel like it's good to have just on hand throughout the week. And it's also really easy to pack. So if you're someone who likes to pack their lunch for work. This is meal prep. Um and it's a great base for salmon Chicken. Yeah, whatever you like. And I'll start mixing this amazing. And we're gonna do also a little bit of garlic Already smells so fresh guys. Okay. It's the best one of my faves. And then I just like to throw in some mixed olives as well. Mm hmm You know, while we do this? Your mom? Of course. Cynthia Rowley one of the most iconic fashion designers. How has she inspired your career path? Your love for fashion. and what's the best piece of advice she's given you? So, my mom has never, what what I find like really fun is that my mom has never told my sister and I what to wear, which is very funny because I feel like a lot of times when people meet us, they think, oh my gosh, she must have been trained your whole life have a similar style to her. Um but she was always super flexible about what we wore. And my sister, on her first day to kindergarten wore a barbie life vest. I wore a birthday crown for a year. She's very open about our personal style. So I feel like that's always something that she has like just instilled in us. Yes, exactly. Which I think is really important to have. Um by the way, I'm just adding some fresh basil and this smells so good. So good. Okay, where that spoon go? I don't see a fork here, but I can I can taste it with this. Yes. Okay. My producer was saying that to go, You're allowed so good. So and so much flavor incredible. I'm so happy. You like it