Katie Skiba

Some of our favorite things at Cirque have started with a question we probably ask a little too often: “Could we just figure out how to do that ourselves?” Spotlight Studio is the latest result. It started because we wanted better photos of our athletes. Not just the perfectly posed, everyone-look-at-the-camera kind. We wanted the moments that actually feel like them. The split second at the top of a drop. The expression they make when they know they nailed something. The costume, the lights,...

Everybody... yeah. Rock your salmon right. This month, Katie Cooks is bringing you one of the easiest dinners in our regular rotation: Bachan’s salmon. Because I Want It That Way, and apparently “that way” is covered in Japanese barbecue sauce and slightly charred under a terrifyingly hot broiler. Ingredients: 1 absolutely enormous piece of salmon from Costco Bachan’s Japanese Barbecue Sauce Salt Pepper Garlic powder Directions: Cut the salmon into literally whatever size chunks your heart...

Alright, stop... grab a pot and listen. Katie Cooks is back with a brand-new invention. Well... not exactly. It's rice. Plain old rice. But this recipe turned me from a "rice cooker only" girl into someone who can confidently make a pot from scratch, and honestly, that feels like character development. When I met Stephen, I was completely dependent on a rice cooker. If that little appliance wasn't involved, I wasn't making rice. Then, during our first move together, the lid shattered. We were...