Jess Rowe reveals the sneaky way she impressed Peter Overton
Jess Rowe has shared the sneaky way she impressed her now-husband Peter Overton when they first met.
The presenter and self-professed “crap housewife” sat down with Today Extra to talk about her new cookbook in collaboration with the Australian Women's Weekly, Everyday Not-So-Crap Family Meals, when she shared the lengths she went to in order impress the 9News presenter when they first started dating.
"This was before I owned my crap housewife title, when I felt I had to be perfect," Jess said.
"I think for some of us we feel like we have to have it all together all the time, so Pete was having a bit of a work dinner and he wanted to impress his 60 Minutes colleagues.”
"So they came around to dinner and I thought 'what am I going to cook? I can't just serve up spag bol for something completely different.'"
Rather than setting an unreasonable challenge for herself, Jess enlisted the help of her sister, a qualified chef, for the evening.
"She cooked up a tagine, I still don't know what that is, but she made it for me with all of these other things," she said.
"It was so delicious, but the problem was everyone thought it was so wonderful, they wanted the recipe."
Jessica managed to fudge her way along telling them "a bit of this, a bit of that" when they asked what was in the meal, but they were persistent and really wanted to know how she did it.
"I had to get my sister to email me the recipe the next day and I forwarded it on," she said.
Now, after 19 years of marriage, the mother-of-two has improved slightly in the kitchen: enough to release Everyday Not-So-Crap Family Meals.
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