Although Ayesha Curry is a cookbook author and Food Network celebrity, she sticks to the fundamentals on game day for her family (husband Stephen Curry, point guard for the Golden State Warriors, and their two daughters).
“We have pasta, and I make the same sauce every time,” Ayesha tells Bon Appetit’s healthyish about the sauce she always makes from the recipes in her booklet, The Seasoned Life, using San Marzano tomatoes and her own herbs and seasonings. Sometimes we’ll use ground chicken, sometimes ground turkey, sometimes ground beef, and occasionally we’ll go vegetarian, but for Stephen, it’s all about the carbohydrates. It’s only a matter of adding pasta.
Lamb chops, bacon-wrapped scallops, and her signature spice-rubbed chicken are just a few of the week’s other meals on the menu. The Currys place a premium on eating together as a family every night. “It’s such a dying thing, people sitting around the table and enjoying dinner together in their home,” adds the show’s leading lady. My goal is to maintain that.
Ayesha does the most of the cooking (“[Steph’s] not focused enough when it comes to his knιfe skills,” she teases), but the NBA star does have “one dish.”
The trutҺ is, “I’m a one-trιck pony,” as Steph puts it. The spaghetti only has five ingredients, Ayesha chimes in. He botched it once, but he’s come back strong since then. He erroneously purchased a tomato, thinking it was a bell pepper. ‘I don’t grasp why bell peppers taste like tomatoes when they’re peppers,’ he mused.
There used to be a lot of uncertainty regarding vegetables, but after serving as a taste tester as Ayesha created five to ten recipes every day (and even preparing a couple himself), things have settled down. He claims, “I can definitely shop in the produce section” at the supermarket.