Giada De Laurentiis and daughter Jade.Photo: Giada DeLaurentiis Instagram
The Food Network star gave atour of the gardenshe keeps at herCalifornia home. Gardening is something she’s done since her daughter,Jade, 15, was young, she said.
“One of the things I started doing when I had Jade, almost 16 years ago now, is plant a garden,” De Laurentiis said in anInstagramReel. “And I love my garden.”
TheGiadzyfounder gave a look at everything she grows — including Meyer lemons, tangerines, Mexican limes, broccoli and “lots and lots and lots of greens,” she said, while wearing a chic hat and cozy black coat. The impressive produce beds sit outside the home sherenovated during the pandemic.
“I have to say it brings me so much joy to watch things grow and I started doing it because of Jade and I wanted her to learn where things come from, and how they grow, and seasonality,” she said. “I’m certainly not a green thumb but I do… I do love watching things grow, and they do supplement what I cook.”
De Laurentiis even shared a go-to dinner with PEOPLE in August that she makes to utilize everything she grows in her garden.
Giada De Laurentiis’s vegetable pasta recipe.Courtesy of Giadzy and Giada De Laurentiis; Jen Causey
Courtesy of Giadzy and Giada De Laurentiis; Jen Causey
“Taking whatever you have left in the fridge or growing in your garden, roasting it and putting it over pasta is the easiest way to get a meal together,” she told PEOPLE of herroasted vegetable pasta recipe here. “Plus you can put it together in advance. It’s good hot, cold or room temperature.”
Jade is De Laurentiis’s only child, whom she shares with her ex-husbandTodd Thompson. Jade and the chef’s longtime boyfriendShane Farleyrecently whipped up a dish for De Laurentiis as a Valentine’s Day surprise.
Giada De Laurentiis’s daughter Jade and boyfriend Shane Farley make her a Valentine’s Day meal.Giada De Laurentiis/YouTube
Giada De Laurentiis/YouTube
In the fullYouTubevideo on her lifestyle brandGiadzy’s channel, Farley and Jade chronicled their time in the kitchen making cacio e pepe.
“Shane and Jade cook twice a year: Valentine’s Day and my birthday. Every other day…” De Laurentiis said and pointed to herself.
source: people.com
