If you can’t go to Taco Bell because you’re on an all-carb diet, Jonathan Bennett has your fix. The “Mean Girls” star (he played Aaron Samuels and still looks sexy with his hair pushed back) and “Cake Wars” host co-wrote a cookbook based on the movie alongside “Food Network Star” finalist Nikki Martin, and it’s called -- brace yourself -- “The Burn Cookbook: Real Recipes to Feed Your Inner Plastic.” And Lacey Chabert (Gretchen Wieners) wrote the foreword.
Samuels and Martin aren’t just regular chefs, they’re cool chefs, and even though their fathers didn’t invent Toaster Strudel, they still pulled inspiration for all of the recipes from the 2004 film (now a Tony-nominated Broadway musical, BTW).
There’s Fetch-uccini Alfredo, You Go Glen (Hot) Cocoa and a Just Stab Caesar Salad. I’m sold, but there better also be at least four different cheese fries recipes.
On top of movie-themed recipes, Bennett included some of the recipes he grew up with as well, including his late mother’s stuffed shells, and you’ll also find trivia and behind-the-scenes commentary from the movie in the book.
The cookbook has officially hit shelves, and thank goodness, since today is unofficially known as Mean Girls Day, thanks to this clip that will probably make it into history books:
Bennett must have a fifth sense for this stuff, because he even planned ahead for the “On Wednesdays, we wear pink” crowd -- you did wear pink today, right? He teased the recipes for pink shrimp tacos and strawberry frosé ahead of the book’s release so that every Plastic out there could be fully prepared on Mean Girls Day.
Bennett has said he knows his ~fame~ is pretty singular, but he sure knows how to milk it.
“I equate it to being the Times Square ball on New Years Eve,” he said to Entertainment Tonight, “because once a year the whole world turns to the ball to watch it shine and glitter and fall down, and once a year, on October 3rd, everyone turns to me and is like, 'What day is it? What day is it? Ask us what day it is!'”
He also revealed that a friend sparked the inspiration for the book when they told him his guac wasn’t just any guac -- it was cool guac. I’m betting that the friend was someone from Betches Media.
If you’re a little too proud to purchase this for yourself (in which case, you can’t sit with us), luckily the holidays are right around the corner -- Yankee Swap, anyone?
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