Giada de laurentiis says that love has been challenged to ‘sauce away’

Giada laurentiis know he was in the kitchen, as in love, he always helped add a little spice – something he put in place promptly when he met love Shane Farley.

“It’s been 10 years now with Shane (AC) He was a pretty good cook before he met me,” said De Laurentiis, 54, Weekly US Only in promoting her partnership with Peroni Italian Beer Ice. “I think he did things a little different than me. But his mother was in Italian.”

The Giada in my kitchen Star explained that Farley, 52, had asked her to compete in a “sauce away” with him during the early days of their romance.

“(It’s) something he used to do with his friends,” he remembered. “I’m like, you don’t really want to make a sauce with me. ‘ And it’s, ‘No, I’m really doing that. “

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De Laurentiis eventually agreed, admitting “I had to a doctor up his sauce because the thing that people lose a lot was seasoning. He didn’t season it.”

The couple met back in 2013 while working at Food Network before triggering romance two years later. Now, almost a decade to their relationship, De Laurentiis said they had come a long way in the kitchen together.

“Over the years, in the sweetest way, I’ve been able to teach him a few things and makes amazing sauce now,” said the chef Us. “The powerful thing for me is when people come over and I work and I can’t make a full lunch because I’m not at home, it does, and it feels so good for it. It has become so good at it.”

Just like building a relationship, Delaurentiis said Us Helping a partner with their cooking skills takes time and patience.

“You have to eat maybe some meals they’re not so, you know,” he said. “But we arrived there and now I have someone who can help me in the kitchen and she is very good at it and it feels very empowered. It’s been a very fun journey.”

This summer, De Laurentiis and Farley will toast their meals with Italian beer ice Peroni Treeate Bozy Frozen, who created the TV personality in partnership with the Italian Lager.

“I loved Granita as a child, we eat a lot of granita in the south, in Naples and Sicily. I thought we could combine the beer and ice together and kind of bringing the cocktail with the dessert all for the summer,” he said Us from the new drink. “I think it’s clever and I think people haven’t heard that before, and he has less alcohol than the wine does, so it’s a way for us to enjoy ourselves without having too much fun and having a terrible big head the next day.”