
Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy
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One-Pot Braised Chicken Piccata + A Make-Ahead Chickpea Salad | Our Best Home Cooking Bites
What We Eat In A Day! What Chefs Really Cook At Home, Fall Edition
Cozy Kitchen Strawberry Brownies, Birthday Bundt Cake + More | Our Best Home Cooking Bites, with Adrianna Adarme
Fall Farmers’ Market Must-Haves: Our Top 12 Recipes for Seasonal Home Cooking!
What Do You Do with Beets? | Answering Your Home Cooking Questions
8 Make-Ahead Salads for Fall
Cookbook Club, Fig & Almond Cake + A Vegetarian Phyllo Pie | Our Best Home Cooking Bites
What to Cook on Busy Weeknights: 6 Dinners, with Maggie Hoffman
Easy Pickles, A Quick Way To Use Up Broccoli + A Surprising Carrot Cake with Leah Koenig | Our Best Home Cooking Bites
Hosting this Fall? Four Menus for Seasonal Cooking at Home
One-Pot Meatballs & Greens + Two Italian Cookies | Our Best Home Cooking Bites
Recipes We’re Really Cooking! A Summer Recap + The Best of Season 4
A Must-Try Pizza Recipe + A Favorite Breakfast Dish | Our Best Home Cooking Bites
Meatless Sheet-Pan Dinners for Easy Home Cooking (Re-Release)
Grandma’s Plum Crumb Bars + A One-Skillet Summer Dinner | Our Best Home Cooking Bites
Puerto Rican Home Cooking, with Omi Hopper
Too Hot to Cook? Easy Summer Dinner Ideas to Beat the Heat
Summer Corn! 10 Recipes for Cooking Easy Seasonal Meals at Home (Re-Release)
Two Salads You Can Make Once, And Eat Twice (or Three Times)! | Our Best Home Cooking Bites
Our Top 10 Best Bites of All Time! Celebrating 300 Episodes of Food Friends
A One-Bowl Berry Almond Cake + Homemade Chopped Cheese Sandwiches | Our Best Home Cooking Bites
Our Top 8 No-Bake Desserts for Summer Hosting! (Re-Release)
A 10-Minute Dessert from Cookbook Club + A Lemony Pasta with Greens | Our Best Home Cooking Bites
What Do You Do With All The Zucchini? Cooking Seasonal Summer Recipes
The New York Times' Most Popular Recipe + Fried Zucchini Blossoms | Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
A Food Person’s Summer: Cookbooks, Hosting, and What to Cook Right Now, with Adam Roberts (Re-Release)
A 30-Minute Korean Short Rib Dinner + A Citrusy Summer Salad | Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
What to Cook this Summer: Four Seasonal Menus for Hosting
Two Meatless Meal-Prep Friendly Meals! Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
Summer Farmers’ Market Must-Haves! 10 Recipes for Seasonal Home Cooking
What’s Your Ideal Brownie? + A Classic French Dish & A NYC Food Tour | Our Best Bites of the Week
Summer Berries! Cakes, Cobblers, No-Bake Treats & More
Two Hosting Menus: A Small Dinner Party + Feeding a Crowd | Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
Meal Prep like a Private Chef: Four Menus for Weeknight Dinners
Behind-the-Scenes Catering Tips + A Beef Noodle Dinner | Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
Weeknight Grilling! Easy Summer Cooking at Home
A Nigella Lawson Sheet-Pan Dinner + Strawberry Rhubarb Bars! | Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
What Do You Bring To A Potluck? Ten Recipes for Picnics, Beach Days, And Feeding A Crowd
A Banana Snacking Cake from Cookbook Club + An Easy Spring Soup | Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
What We Eat in a Day! What We Really Cook At Home, Spring Edition
A Turkish Pastry with a Buttery Dough + Jammy Sugar Cookies! Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
Sheet-Pan Meals for Easy Spring Cooking at Home
A Memorable Spring Menu, Seasonal Fried Rice & the Best Philly Sandwich | Best Bites with Special Guest David Page
Make it Mediterranean! Everyday Cooking with Yumna Jawad of Feel Good Foodie
A Chili Cook-Off + Cookbook Club Recap: Edna Lewis’ Taste of Country Cooking | Best Bites of the Week
Chickpeas! Cooking Easy Meatless Meals with Sarah Bond (Re-Release)
What to Do with Tahini, Gochujang & Miso | Answering a Listener Question
30-Minute Meals! Our Top 6 Recipes for Quick Spring Home Cooking

S4 Ep 271What One Ingredient Can Do for Your Cooking + A Standout Sandwich & Italian Pastry! Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
How can one ingredient completely change your weeknight cooking?In this bite-sized episode, we share delicious moments about the best things we ate this week to inspire each other – and you!By the end of this episode, you’ll want to make Ham El-Waylly's highly-rated Kung Pao tofu recipe that’s perfect for breaking out of a cooking rut. You’ll also want to try a loaded veggie sandwich that’s a fridge-cleanout hero, and you’ll discover a fresh take on a morning pastry.Tune in for a quick dose of home cooking inspiration!***For more recipes and cooking inspiration, sign up for our free Substack here. And join us on our live monthly calls by upgrading your subscription to paid!***Links: Kung Pao Tofu by Ham El Waylly for NYT CookingHam El Waylly’s new book book: Hello, Home Cooking: Do-able Dishes for Everyday and our episode with Ham Raspberry Danish with puff pastry videoSonya’s blueberry cheesecake danish recipeKari’s Veggie Sandwich:Thickly sliced whole-wheat sourdough (Adrian Hale’s recipe), but any thick-sliced fresh bread would work!Spread hummus on one slice of bread (I love Little Sesame classic) and top with grated carrot and crumbled fetaMash avocado and a little kosher salt on the second siide, then top with thinly sliced cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced kohlrabi, and honey-mustard pickles (my family’s local fave Kaylin & Kaylin)Shred romaine, baby gem, or iceberg lettuce and carefully top one side, then close the sandwich, and cut in halfServe with your favorite chips!****Got a cooking question? Leave us a message on our hotline at: 323-452-9084For more recipes and cooking inspiration, sign up for our Substack here.Are you a local to Portland or planning a visit? You can now book a private farmers’ market tour with Sonya through Airbnb Experiences! Or order Sonya's cookbook Braids for more Food Friends recipes!

S4 Ep 270Spring Soups & Salads! Simple Recipes for Everyday Home Cooking
When the weather warms up, soup can feel like it should be off the menu – but we believe that soup season can last all year, and may even be best in spring!This week, we’re sharing 6 flexible soup-and-salad menus that celebrate seasonal ingredients while keeping home cooking unfussy. We’re relying on light, brothy soups with greens and herbs, silky vegetable purées, and bright seasonal salads packed with herbs that are as satisfying as they are colorful. By the end of this episode, you’ll:Rethink soup season with spring-ready recipes that feel both cozy and lightHave go-to soup and salad pairings for easy, complete meals for weeknights or entertainingFeel more confident turning farmers' market finds (or freezer staples) into vibrant dinnersWhether you’re cooking for one or hosting a dinner party, press play now to bring fresh, feel-good spring cooking to your table!***For more recipes and cooking inspiration, sign up for our free Substack here. And join us on our live monthly calls by upgrading your subscription to paid!***Links:Spring tortellini soup with peas and asparagus by Amelia Rampe +Strawberry kale salad from our Substack Lemony Carrot + Cauliflower Soup by Melissa Clark +Collard Green Salad with Ginger and Spicy Seed Brittle by Claire Saffitz for Bon AppetitSomen noodle soup with mushrooms and greens by Sue L for NYT Cooking + Vietnamese chicken salad from Food & WineLocro de Papas adapted from Anastacia Marx de Salcedo for Gourmet + Escarole salad with Horseradish and Capers by Ignacio Mattos for Bon Appetit Lentil tomato soup by Carolina Gelen + Alice Waters’ baked goat cheese with spring lettuce salad Stracciatella with Broccoli Rabe from Sunset Magazine +Little Gem Salad with Lemon Cream and Hazelnuts by Joshua McFadden, adapted by Michael Gradyon and Nikole Harriott for Bon Appetit Other mentions:Lee Bailey’s Soup MealsSpringtime Minestrone from our Substack ****Got a cooking question? Leave us a message on our hotline at: 323-452-9084For more recipes and cooking inspiration, sign up for our Substack here.Are you a local to Portland or planning a visit? You can now book a private farmers’ market tour with Sonya through Airbnb Experiences! Or order Sonya's cookbook Braids for more Food Friends recipes!