Sara's Weeknight Meals

Sara dives into Chinese heritage at Chinatowns on either side of the continent. In Vancouver, recipes for appetizers cooked with Chinese tea and Dim Sum made by an opera singing Chinese local. Then - a lesson in making Chinese dumplings. Back at home, Wok Queen Grace Young describes her efforts to preserve New York's Chinatown as she and Sara make a BBQ Pork and Yangchow fried rice.

Sara follows a trail in the Mississippi Delta that leads straight to where blues is born. She keeps going to some of the richest farmland on earth where space age tractors bring in the harvest. Here they eat what they grow, and she joins the farmers to make an easy rice casserole and Blackened catfish. Later - the mother of all hometown cookbooks - Charleston Receipts

Holidays are when Sara pulls out the stops when it comes to sweets and desserts. Try her Glazed Pears and shortbread pecan praline, or the surprising twist on potstickers filled with dried plum and apricots. On Ask Sara, tips on blind baking a pie crust. Then a favorite food gift in Sara's family - homemade Chocolate Peppermint Bark.

Chicken or eggs? Sara's got some amazing recipes to make them shine, starting with a chicken paillard, slathered in a compound date butter. Baked Chicken thighs are pointed up with the acid of homemade lemon pickles. Then a French chef shows Sara a simple galette of ham and eggs wrapped in pastry - perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Sara's in Barcelona to sip gin and tonics in the shadow of the iconic Sagreda Familia, then joins a food writer to make classic Iberico Pork with Romanesco sauce and Gambas Ajillo. At home, Sara whips up Fideo - Barcelona's take on Paella made with noddles instead of rice.

Sara's on the Spanish island of Mallorca, where an ancient olive grove tended by sheep is the magical setting for cooking a hunters stew over an open fire. Back home, Sara makes Seafood Gazpacho. On 'Ask Sara', she answers a viewer's questions about Lemons.

Fish is on the menu when Sara joins Greek Chef Maria Loi harborside near Athens to cook lemony, crispy skinned Branzino along with Beet, Beans and Feta Salad and Lemon Potatoes. Then it's off to Athen's Central Market to buy Retsina at a famous tavern for a rooftop mezze party in the shadow of the Acropolis. Back at home, Sara uses canned sardines for a quick and easy pantry taco.

Sara's wild food tour of Barcelona kicks off with fork breakfasts of snails and offal dishes and ends with wine literally poured into the mouth, plus vermouth bars and nut milk shakes. Then she joins a Catalon family to make a traditional fish stew Back at home, a quick and easy Spanish dish of Pork with Spanish Olives.

Sara visits the romantic Greek island of Santorini to sip local wine on the edge of the Caldera. Then she joins a local chef to make Greek salad, Tzatziki and Shrimp Saganaki. In Vancouver, Sara learns their secrets of the coveted Spot Prawn from a Vancouver fisherman, then joins a friend to make Spot Prawn Risotto.

A food tour of Tunisia's Sidi Bou Said with local chef Malek Labidi ends cooking Shakshuka in a beautiful garden overlooking thte sea. Later we dive into the Medina in Tunis to watch women hand make couscous. In Istanbul, a shopping trip with local TV chef Refika Burgul, ends in the kitchen making Salt Cured Sea Bass plus the addictive Turkish beef and French fry favorite, Kochertme.