Tia Mowry cooking healthy ‘at Home’

Tia Mowry is a wife, mother, actress and TV producer who can whip up a batch of low-fat turkey meatballs or cauli-crusted pizza with the best of them, and she’ll show busy working moms and dads how they can to do it, too, in her new Cooking Channel series “Tia Mowry at Home.”

“I run into a lot of people who are working moms,” explains the now-36-year-old former child star of the 1990s sitcom “Sister, Sister,” “They’re wives and they’re burning the candle at both ends of the stick but healthy food is a priority to them or it’s something that they want to provide to their family but they don’t know how to.

“I want to help encourage other women or just people who enjoy great food and enjoy healthy dishes that it can be done. I mean, look at me. I’m a mom, I’m a wife, I’m an entrepreneur, I’m an actress, and healthy food is a priority to me. And if I can do it, I know you can, too.”

In six half-hour episodes that start tonight, Mowry creates tempting and healthy meals for her husband, Cory, and 3-year-old son, Cree, while balancing her hectic work schedule and fitting in time with family and friends who include actress Natasha Marc (“Bones”) and former NBA star Metta World Peace. The menu is imaginative – witness the low-carb pizza crust made from ground cauliflower – and the tips are practical (for inexpensive fresh veggies, grow your own or hit the farmer’s markets). And as a former Army brat who has lived in South Korea, Hawaii and Italy, Mowry brings eclectic influences to her kitchen.

“Just tasting such great food and learning about the different dishes that you enjoy or that you experience, it’s very kind of orgasmic for me,” she says. “I know that’s kind of like a crazy word to use but I’m sorry, there’s no other word to express it. … I loved learning about other cultures.”

Q&A

What book are you currently reading?

“As it stands, right now I have not been into a book lately. I’m reading loads of scripts (laughs) and am busy writing them.”

What did you have for dinner last night?

“I ate very healthy. I had broccolini with some carrots and it was saut