Valerie's Home Cooking

Valerie welcomes Kelsey Nixon to join her for a spring menu of baked vegetable spring rolls and grilled boneless chicken thighs with scallion ginger sauce.

Valerie Bertinelli celebrates a new book by making some of the recipes. She cooks sausage and peppers and a butter lettuce salad with zesty green goddess dressing.

Valerie pays homage to her mother's Irish roots by making healthier stuffed cabbage, an Irish pub salad and Irish soda bread with cheddar and chives.

Valerie is making an elegant, fancy breakfast for dinner. The menu includes soft scrambled eggs, roasted garlic mushrooms and bacon jam with toast.

Valerie invites her friends, chef Jet Tila and his wife Ali, for an evening around the fire pit. She makes pimento cheese dip and veggie chilli.

Valerie uses herbs from her garden for lunch and makes a summer wreath with guest George Lopez. The menu includes salmon kabobs with herb sauce.

Valerie makes lunch with a few twists for friends. The menu includes grilled lamb pita sandwiches with Mediterranean salsa and Mediterranean grilled veggie orzo salad.

Valerie is updating her favourite restaurant dishes. She makes clams casino, focaccia pizza, a Beverly Hills chopped salad and a top-shelf Cadillac margarita.

Valerie cooks her dad's favourites to honour his Italian roots and passes down some family secrets to her nephew. The menu includes beef braciole and burrata caprese.

Valerie celebrates the summer bounty from all over the USA. The menu includes a shrimp boil and green bean casserole salad. Plus, Valerie makes cherry pie.

Valerie treats herself and her animals to a hearty meal, including homemade bird food and honey mustard chicken thighs with cipollini onions, mushrooms and peas.

Valerie prepares a beach picnic for her producer's birthday. The menu includes a ham caprese sandwich, cauliflower "potato" salad and chili lime fruit salad.

Valerie's book group is celebrating their 25th anniversary. For the party, Valerie makes antipasti skewers, shrimp scampi zoodles and herby snap peas salad.