Rachel Boston does the baking in “A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe,” but at home, Tolya Ashe whips up decadent dishes worthy of a holiday table in a Hallmark movie. Ashe is a personal chef who creates meals that are healthy and flavorful. “The right seasoning and preparation can turn a mundane food into something extraordinary,” he writes on his website. Ashe’s specialty once earned him the opportunity to cook for Jennifer Garner’s guests at an event for Once Upon a Farm, the actor’s line of organic foods for children.
Hallmark took advantage of Ashe’s skills by asking him to show their viewers how to cook one of his nutritious dishes, caramelized fennel with chiles and apples, on “Home & Family.” [0:30] Boston talked about their relationship as both she and her husband sautéed. She revealed that they live out Hallmark scenes in real life by picking their own apples to add to Ashe’s recipes, and she also said that the two of them did some long-distance cooking together via FaceTime when she was filming the holiday film “A Christmas Carousel.” According to Boston, being married to Ashe has improved her cooking skills immensely, so it sounds like he now has himself a competent sous chef.
For Boston, Ashe’s best quality actually isn’t his cooking ability. “What made me fall in love with him is that he’s incredibly joyful and kind,” she told Nuts for Fashion. “He listens, he cares, and he just makes life better.”
