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Melissa d\u2019Arabian, who lives in Kirkland (,WA) with her family, is our Next Food Network Star!\u00a0 This hometown hero cooked and battled her way through thousands of hopefuls \u2018til the season finale.\u00a0 Facing off against Los Angeles\u2019 Jeffrey Saad, she came out on top and now has her own show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa d\u2019Arabian<\/a><\/em> started its first season with six episodes and premiered on Sunday, August 9th<\/sup> at 12:30 pm.\u00a0 Blending culinary sophistication with her own home-style technique, Melissa promises gourmet meals at a fraction of the cost.\u00a0 She covers a lot of ground with her tried-and-true recipes from Moroccan and Parisian fare to revamping Pork & Beans.\u00a0 With the mantra of \u201cfour people, ten bucks, infinite possibilities,\u201d how can you go wrong that! Click here<\/a> for some of Melissa’s great recipes and clips from the show\u00a0and be sure to tune in…\u00a0The show will continue in January for the next season.<\/p>\n Growing up, she lived with her mother and sister in Tuscon, Arizona where she learned about budget-conscious cooking \u2013 life lessons that stuck with her.\u00a0 While earning her MBA from Georgetown University in 1993 (I\u2019m still saying WOW!!!!), she even worked several jobs to pay herself through business school, including working as a live-in cook for a family of seven.<\/p>\n This stay-at-home wife and mother of four continues to be passionate about food and all of her life\u2019s experiences.\u00a0 She blends her varied culinary adventures, business background, and life\u2019s experiences to provide food lifestyle solutions and simple recipes for all walks of life.\u00a0 To her, it\u2019s not about what goes on the plate, but who the plate goes to.\u00a0<\/p>\n Congratulations Melissa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Melissa d\u2019Arabian, who lives in Kirkland (,WA) with her family, is our Next Food Network Star!\u00a0 This hometown hero cooked and battled her way through thousands of hopefuls \u2018til the season finale.\u00a0 Facing off against Los Angeles\u2019 Jeffrey Saad, she came out on top and now has her own show.\u00a0 Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11760],"tags":[725,11857,726],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","tag-melissa-darabian","tag-recent","tag-the-next-food-network-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}