Shocking Buffy fact number one: It's been 20 years since after Buffy The Vampire Slayer hit our screens (20 years!!).
Shocking fact number two: Sarah Michelle Gellar looks like she could still pick up a stake and go make put the hurt on evil. (Yes, we know, a actress is more than her looks. But still has that blonde, cute, YOUNG vibe.)
Shocking fact number three: It's a wooden spoon rather than wooden stake these days.
Yep, Buffy wrote a cookbook.
These days, Gellar is a mother of two (she married Freddie Prinze Jr in 2002). Food's been a bit of a thing for her - one of the charities she's worked with is Project Angel Food, nonprofit organisation in Los Angeles County which provides free meals for people too sick to shop and cook for themselves. And in 2014 she was a co-founder of Foodstirs, an organic baking mix company aimed at children.
But while she may have killed it as a slayer, the kitchen, well, not so much. As she succinctly puts it her new book, her relationship with food was mostly about finding the latest restaurants and making reservations. But as the kids came along, she learned to cook with them.
And now, along with Gia Russo, one of her co-founders at Foodstirs, she's written a book of food aimed at making food fun for kids - "food crafting" and encouraging them to be more adventurous in what they eat.
In Stirring Up Fun with Food, just released in Australia, there's lots of unexpected stuff on sticks (apple pies; dumplings)and in jars; and things cooked in muffin tins to make portions that suit small hands and appetites.
And while there are no steaks (stakes! Geddit? Oh come on, it's the joke that had to be made), there is a light saber snack mix - pretzel sticks dipped in white chocolate and then coloured sprinkles, and then added to a mix of dried fruit, wasabi peas and salty crackers.
Source: Hachette Australia
Those made an appearance for a theme Star Wars Day menu - along with Chewie cookies:
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The Slayer and her fam are apparently big Star Wars fans.
Cook the book
These make wonderful, filling snacks, lunches or light dinners.
Source: Hachette Australia / Amy Neunsinger
Perfect summer party cakes.
Source: Hachette Australia / Amy Neunsinger
