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" Sara Moulton, executive chef of Gourmet magazine and host of PBS&amp;#039;s Sara&amp;#039;s Weeknight Meals, isn&amp;#039;t only about simple recipes and smiles. She also happens to be a homebody with an affinity for hip-hop rappers. Sara shares her New York City apartment with husband and hip-hop industry vet Bill Adler. With her eldest daughter, Ruth, 22, finishing college, and her youngest son, Sam, 18, heading to college this fall, Sara and Bill plan to enjoy their empty nest. DELISH: Describe your personal style in three words. SARA MOULTON: Airy yet cozy. D: What&amp;#039;s your favorite room in the house and why? SM: The living room. We have a loft apartment that looks out onto a courtyard. That sounds very fancy-schmancy, but it&amp;#039;s not.  D: What&amp;#039;s the one feature in this room you couldn&amp;#039;t live without?  SM: The windows looking out to the trees. It feels to me like a getaway. And the light is beautiful.  D: What&amp;#039;s your ideal day at home?  SM: Never to leave! I love to play around with my plants, putzing around my house, reading, cooking, and listening to jazz. Particularly when nobody else is around, I&amp;#039;ll blast music while I work on little projects around the house.  When not in the Gourmet magazine kitchen or on her TV kitchen set, Moulton is working hard in her home developing recipes for her upcoming cookbook, Sara&amp;#039;s Weeknight Meals. D: When you want to make something simple, quick, and delicious, what do you prepare?  SM: Fried rice. I make it a lot because everyone loves it. It&amp;#039;s a great vehicle for leftovers, and good in a down economy. I like to make a thin omelet and add peas, fresh ginger, soy, and garlic.  D: If you had an unlimited amount of money to spend on one kitchen item, what would it be?  SM: I feel very well equipped, but my building is not zoned for gas! So it would have to be an eight-burner gas stovetop.  D: What&amp;#039;s the one kitchen item you recommend every cook should have on hand?  SM: A really good chef&amp;#039;s knife, 10 inches, sharp, and a really good quality.  D: Is there a dish from your cookbook that originated in your home kitchen?  SM: The ideas come to me from everywhere \u2014 walking down the street, reading a magazine. Obviously in a culinary situation they come to you faster. Right now I&amp;#039;m in the middle of working on a cookbook, so I&amp;#039;m thinking about it all the time.  Sara prefers not to entertain at home: &amp;quot;I sort of feel like if I invite someone, they&amp;#039;re going to expect something special.&amp;quot; Though she still wouldn&amp;#039;t mind having a few famous guests to dinner when she&amp;#039;s not eating with her extended family.  D: What are some of your most memorable moments around the dinner table?  SM: My greater family, the Moultons and the Adlers, are all completely obsessed with food. It&amp;#039;s like our own mini Iron Chef. We have an old farmhouse in northeastern Massachusetts where we spent July Fourth. We have a garden and we grow a lot of our own stuff, including chile and heirloom vegetables.  D: If you were to invite a famous person to your house for a meal, who would it be?  SM: Ad-Roc, Adam Horovitz from the Beastie Boys. I would really love to have him over for dinner. Bill is in the hip-hop industry and Adam used to watch my show, so he was inspired to make a rhyme about Baked Alaska.  D: And what would you make for Ad-Roc?  SM: It&amp;#039;d have to be winter, as I would make braised short ribs of beef. It requires one bottle of red wine for every four short ribs. Wine is a conductor of flavor, so when you add it to a recipe, it gives it depth. When entertaining, it&amp;#039;s important that you&amp;#039;re not cooking when people are there. The short ribs are the sort of thing that benefits from being made ahead of time.  D: Who are your favorite people to host at home?  SM: My favorite people to cook dinner for are the four of us [Bill, Sam, and Ruth]. It just makes me so happy, I can&amp;#039;t stand it.  Check out chef Moulton&amp;#039;s bio. See recipe for Sara Moulton&amp;#039;s Fried Rice. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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