Let me take you again for a second: It is the center of the COVID-19 pandemic and life is… bleak, to say the least. However as you scroll by your TikTok or Instagram feeds, one comforting, smiling face stands proud: the web’s favourite grandma, getting ready some delectable meal and completely radiating positivity that helps to remind you that all the pieces will be okay.
For me, Brunch With Babs, aka Barbara Costello, was a breath of contemporary air when she rose to fame on social media throughout the pandemic, due to her household recipes, smart recommendation, and total grandmother-like demeanor. It is clear she resonated with extra than simply myself—she boasts a powerful 3.4 million followers on Instagram and three.9 million on TikTok.
I can now attest that she is simply as heat and bubbly in individual, as I lately had the chance to satisfy her (and provides her an enormous hug of thanks) at QVC’s Q50 Summit. The primary-of-its-kind occasion introduced collectively 50 unimaginable girls over the age of fifty to rejoice ageing as a chance to dream in regards to the experiences they haven’t but had—an age of risk if you’ll, as a substitute of feeling “over the hill.”
“I am so honored to have been included,” Costello says. “I can attest that it’s an age of potentialities, as a result of I might have thought this is able to be not possible a couple of years in the past.”
Throughout our dialog, there was one burning query on my thoughts: What’s the one kitchen equipment she makes use of day-after-day that she thinks everybody ought to personal? After years of watching her churn out fabulous-looking recipes, I wanted to know her secret so I may channel my inner-Brunch With Babs within the kitchen, and he or she was type sufficient to present me the 411.
“I can’t bake with out my kitchen scale,” Costello says. “And even when I am making meatballs, I need to make all of them the identical on the surface utilizing my kitchen scale. I’ve gone by so many, I can not let you know.”
This revelation felt like an aha-moment. In fact she used a scale to make sure all her stunning creations regarded the identical (I simply thought she had the magic contact)—simply have a look at these completely portioned meatballs. Costello famous that it is actually not a device folks take into consideration, however she recommends it for any aspiring dwelling chef. BRB, grabbing one in royal blue so I can recreate her lemon bars ASAP.
