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Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

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 Do you love home cooking but hunger for better recipes that help you deliver quick and delicious meals to your dinner table? Two former personal chefs turned best friends share their expertise with each other and you! Kari and Sonya have been inspiring each other in the kitchen for over 15 years by swapping recipes, tips, and trade secrets in the pursuit of better home cooking. FOOD FRIENDS is a bi-weekly podcast inspiring home cooks to try new dishes in the kitchen by sharing trusted recipes, tips, and friendship. Every Tuesday, each host delivers 3 unique solutions to seasonal home cooking, like: how to make craveable soups with your farmers market haul, the easiest one-pot meals for busy nights, or what to do with leftover rotisserie chicken. On Thursdays, we serve up a pint-sized chat about our “Best Bite” of the week, pantry essentials we can’t live without, and more. Previous guests include Seth & Lauren Rogen, actor Randall Park & writer/director Evan Goldberg, and NY Times Recipe Developer, Sue Li! If you’re looking for a boost of fun in the kitchen by discovering recipes that will make mealtime easier and more delicious with a healthy dose of laughter, then you’ll want to dig in with FOOD FRIENDS! First-time listener? Tune into Episode 2: Don’t send flowers, send soup! and Episode 4: What do you bring to a potluck?Food Friends Podcast 2022 Art Food & Wine
Episodes
  • Double Strawberry Shortcakes, Peak Summer Fruit, and a Bean Dilemma Solved! Our best home cooking bites of the week

    Double Strawberry Shortcakes, Peak Summer Fruit, and a Bean Dilemma Solved! Our best home cooking bites of the week
    Jul 3 2025

    Have you ever wondered what to do with the bean liquid from a can or pot of beans?

    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 a strawberry-studded shortcake that’s easy, make-ahead, and party-ready. You’ll also get inspired to taste summer’s jammiest berries thanks to Sonya’s foraging and farmers’ market shopping tips.

    Plus: we answer a listener's question about what to do with bean liquid from the can -- what to keep, what to rinse, and how bean broth might upgrade your soups, stews, and even baking.

    Tune in for a quick dose of home cooking inspiration!

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    Links:

    Double strawberry shortcakes by Melissa Clark for NYT Cooking (unlocked)

    MFK Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf and Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal

    So many ways to use aquafaba! From Plant Based Folk, and a few more from America’s Test Kitchen.

    For aquafaba, typically 3 tablespoons is used for 1 whole egg, and 2 tablespoons for 1 egg white

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    Got a cooking question? Leave us a message on our hotline at: 323-452-9084

    For more recipes and cooking inspiration, sign up for our Substack here. You can also now find us on YouTube.

    We love hearing from you — follow us on Instagram @foodfriendspod, or drop us a line at foodfriendspod@gmail.com!

    Book a farmers’ market tour with Sonya in Portland!
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    15 mins
  • The Only Galette You’ll Need + A Salad That Feels Like Summer! Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week

    The Only Galette You’ll Need + A Salad That Feels Like Summer! Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week
    Jun 26 2025

    Links:

    Endive and snap pea salad with parmesan dressing from Bon Appetit – but we like to use our own creamy lemon parmesan vinaigrette

    Strawberry Hibiscus Limeade by Millie Peartree for NYT Cooking, that makes use of overripe berries

    Sonya’s “galette with any fruit” recipe, we love using Nicole Rucker’s pie dough technique from recipe in Fat & Flour

    Tube of marzipan for the bottom layer of your galette

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    Got a cooking question? Leave us a message on our hotline at: 323-452-9084

    For more recipes and cooking inspiration, sign up for our Substack here. You can also now find us on YouTube.

    We love hearing from you — follow us on Instagram @foodfriendspod, or drop us a line at foodfriendspod@gmail.com!

    Book a farmers’ market tour with Sonya in Portland!
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    13 mins
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