Sonja Morgan made her debut on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of New York City” Thursday night, but the newest “housewife” already has something else cooking. Morgan, 46, tells The Post she’s working on a cookbook with her 9-year-old daughter about dishes you can cook in a toaster oven in under 20 minutes for under $20.
It’s an unlikely culinary concept from a woman who was once married to John Adams Morgan, great-grandson of financier John Pierpont Morgan, and before that worked as a hostess in Madison Avenue restaurants, but Morgan insists, “you could serve the meals out of my toaster oven to royalty, they’re delicious.”
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Morgan, started cooking again, and subsequently compiling recipes for the book, when, after she got divorced in 2008, she found herself without a personal chef (heavens, no!). She looked for easy ways feed her daughter and her au pair without firing up the Viking.
Still, $20 for one home-cooked meal might not sound like a bargain to those not collecting reality-TV paychecks, but Morgan says one of her $20 meals — like her favorite, a quick chicken Parmesan — can feed four to six, and notes that she’s quite frugal when it comes to food. “I am not the kind of housewife that throws out food,” she says. “I will cut the brown spot off of a tomato.”
Morgan isn’t the only “Housewife” with something cooking. Veteran “New York Housewife” Bethenny Frankel has three best-selling books on eating healthy and being a “skinny girl,” plus a bun in the oven — she’s pregnant and due to this summer.
The “Real Housewives of New Jersey” are also cooking. Teresa Giudice has a healthy cookbook of her own out May 4 —the not-so-originally titled ‘Skinny Italian: Eat It and Enjoy It: Live La Bella Vita and Look Great, Too!’ It’ll feature classic Italian recipes with healthy twists. If that sounds a bit tame, worry not. Giudice’s castmate, the incendiary Danielle Staub, has her own book out on May 25: “The Naked Truth: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewife of New Jersey — In Her Own Words.” It’s not a cookbook of any sort, but given Staub’s past — she was accused on the show of having been a paid escort and a coke head — we’re hoping they’ll be plenty of good dish.