- [Morena] I'm Morena Baccarin
and this is everything I eat in a day.
Well, usually I get woken up by one of my kids
and I just eat whatever's leftover off their plates
cause I'm making them breakfast for them to go to school.
So, if somebody asks for a toast with butter and jam
and they don't finish it, I'll eat the rest of that.
I'm usually packing lunch or scrambling to get them ready
and I will just sort of pick at whatever.
If I'm making myself breakfast, if it's like a weekend
and there's a little bit more time, I'm a really big fan
of eggs over easy and toast and coffee.
If I were to have anything that I wanted, I, I mean
I love breakfast.
It is my favorite meal of the day.
So, I make a mean oatmeal.
I just love it.
I make it with butter, with salt, coconut milk sometimes.
And just like really zhoosh it up with coconut flakes,
maple syrup, berries, cinnamon, whatever's around.
I love that on a cold, cold day.
I really love a simple, you know,
if I've baked bread then just like a nice warm bread
with butter is heavenly with a cup of coffee.
I have this love hate relationship with coffee.
I love the smell of it.
I love the taste of it, but I'm very sensitive to caffeine.
And the kind of buzz that I get
from coffee is not often good for me.
So, I often have coffee
but I try to have black tea.
Good old fashion Earl gray
or PG tips with the special milk in it.
Usually for lunch I'll have whatever's left over.
We cook dinner a lot here at the house.
There'll typically be some things that are leftover
from like a night or two ago.
So it'll be anything from like a chick pea curry and rice.
Some leftover Turkey meatballs.
And I will try to have it with greens.
If I'm on the go, I'll have a green juice, a smoothie,
a salad that I've ordered somewhere
and I eat kind of running down the streets of New York City,
which just doesn't make for a very good digestive situation.
And I like, you know, if I'm making a salad, I really love
you know, a simple arugula salad with anything in it.
It could be whatever was in the fridge.
Like if there was stir fry, I'll stick it on a salad
and I'll just put some lemon, coarse salt and olive oil
and that'll be my lunch.
I'm not a huge snacker.
I often don't have time.
I'm often moving from meetings, either doing that
and picking kids from up from school and planning the day.
And I will like maybe grab an apple or forget completely
to eat something and realize I'm starving.
Or if I'm at work, I try desperately not to snack
on all the crap that's around on set.
There's a lot of unhealthy things, chips and things.
And, and if I'm on set, you know, the day is very, very
very long and I try to eat mostly carb free,
try to keep my protein intake high so I have more energy.
I get very sleepy if I have a ton of carbs.
I'll try to snack on fruit or nuts.
A typical dinner, I use the New York Times cooking app a lot
and just see if there are, you know,
relatively easy but interesting meals to be made.
We'll buy the ingredients for the week
and then dinner is often cooked by me
or by my amazing nanny who is able to keep up
with all our demands.
I get bored quite easily of having the same thing a lot.
So I'm always looking for new, interesting dishes.
A typical dish is probably like some sort of braised chicken
with olives or an interesting sauce or spices.
I'm a fan of a rub that you can just put on whatever protein
you're having and stick it in the fridge
and then you just pull it out
and air fryer is my friend, stick it in the air fryer,
cut the sweet potato fries up, done, dinner.
I am definitely somebody who gets hangry.
I tend to eat smaller meals.
And when I forget to refuel I get really tired
and really irritable and I don't know why.
And it happens almost daily.
My favorite meal to cook is something
that doesn't require a lot of your attention.
Like a lot of steps and a lot of like looking at a recipe.
I love cooking moqueca, which is a Brazilian seafood stew.
I know that by heart so I can put all the ingredients
and things together.
I love cooking ossobuco.
I love making like a slow cook of ossobuco in the oven,
drown it in a bottle of wine,
just let it simmer in there for five, six hours.
I enjoy cooking meals that are not labor intensive
but take a long time so the flavors really melt,
but you're not actively cooking it the entire time.
My beverage choice at dinner these days is sparkling water.
But if I'm feeling like a drink,
my go-to is a glass of red wine.
And then my other go-to is a martini.
And I like them bone dry with an olive or a cocktail onion.
I will do either a Gibson, which is gin or a vodka.
When I'm feeling naughty,
a little late night snacking is in order.
My favorite is a bar of like really good chocolate.
So if I'm having wine, I love a little bit
of chocolate with my wine late at night.
I'm not a fan of dark chocolate.
I know it's shocking, but milk chocolate with hazelnuts,
I would say is my absolute favorite.
What is my favorite food city?
Anywhere in Italy, probably, but truly New York.
I would say New York.
It has absolutely every cuisine you could ever want.
And sometimes in one neighborhood.
And this is everything I eat in one day.
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