Angela Kinsey\u2019s new cookbook You Can Make This! celebrates family recipes, love and granola.The Office star shares her daily wellness habits, from morning hydration to regular tennis sessions.Kinsey opens up about aging, perimenopause awareness and embracing each stage of life with gratitude.<\/p>\n
When Angela Kinsey talks about food, you can\u2019t help but picture her The Office alter ego Angela Martin, who has a picky palate and is known to \u201ceat like a squirrel\u201d on the show. The latter statement isn\u2019t too far from the truth, Kinsey tells me.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI always have almonds or nuts,\u201d she laughs. \u201cMy husband makes amazing granola. We call it \u2018Josh\u2019s granola.\u2019 In [our] cookbook, it\u2019s called Bakery-Style Granola, but it\u2019ll always be Josh\u2019s granola to me. It\u2019s so good! He’ll make a Tupperware full of it, and I\u2019ll put a handful of it in my yogurt.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The cookbook she\u2019s referring to is You Can Make This!, co-authored by Kinsey and her husband, Joshua Snyder. Released this week, the book features more than 100 family recipes. The book came naturally, as Kinsey and Snyder share a love for the same foods as well as for each other. One ingredient you should expect to see sprinkled through the savory recipes in this collection? Cheese, in all of its forms.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI really can\u2019t get through a day without eating cheese. I love cheese,\u201d Kinsey confesses. \u201cIf I show up at your house and you\u2019re like, \u2018Do you want some cheese?\u2019\u2014that is the way to my heart.\u201d When I asked her to name her favorite type of cheese, she was delightfully torn: \u201cI love all cheese. I love stinky cheese [but] fontina with crackers and a little bit of honey? Please, I\u2019m in heaven.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Since her time as a sitcom regular, Kinsey\u2019s routine has evolved in ways that reflect her stage of life and a shift to focus on wellness. At 54, Kinsey is focusing on healthier rituals, from her lunch choices to her go-to exercise.\n<\/p>\n
How Lunchtime Has Changed <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was younger and it was just me, I would eat out a lot,\u201d she reflects, sitting in her home that she shares with her husband and their blended family of five. Now, if she\u2019s going to record an episode of the Office Ladies podcast with Jenna Fischer, she takes dinner leftovers or brings a packed lunch, which may be a salad with grilled chicken or a cup of lemon orzo soup<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u201cBefore, I would have just grabbed something from the drive-thru or from the deli counter,\u201d she confesses. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of funny because when you\u2019re really young, you take a packed lunch from home that your mom or dad made you, then in your 20s it\u2019s kind of a free-for-all, and now I\u2019ve gone back to the beginning where I make myself a little lunch and I have a little lunchbox.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Morning Rituals <\/p>\n With three kids at home, mornings are a blur, but Kinsey still carves out a few grounding moments for herself.\n<\/p>\n