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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, recipe developer Justine Doiron, #1 Food & Beverage Substacker Caroline Chambers, and more. 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?

Latest episodes

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Cozy Kitchen Strawberry Brownies, Birthday Bundt Cake + More | Our Best Home Cooking Bites, with Adrianna Adarme

#27 trending · Food

What do you make when you want to try something new but still want dinner to feel familiar? In this bite-sized episode, we share the best things we ate this week to insp

Sep 24
19 min

Fall Farmers’ Market Must-Haves: Our Top 12 Recipes for Seasonal Home Cooking!

What do you make when you come home from the farmers’ market with a bag full of beautiful fall produce, and no plan for what to do with it? This week, we’re sharing our

Sep 22
29 min

What Do You Do with Beets? | Answering Your Home Cooking Questions

Could beets become a family favorite if you just found the right way to make them? In this bite-sized episode, we share a listener's question with expert advice, simple

Sep 17
13 min

8 Make-Ahead Salads for Fall

What if your fridge were stocked with delicious fall salads, ready whenever you needed an easy lunch or a dish to bring to the next potluck Fall gets busy fast, and that

Sep 15
26 min

Cookbook Club, Fig & Almond Cake + A Vegetarian Phyllo Pie | Our Best Home Cooking Bites

What if using phyllo dough didn’t have to be difficult, and you could make a golden, buttery pie with a mountain of vegetables? In this bite-sized episode, we share deli

Sep 10
18 min

What to Cook on Busy Weeknights: 6 Dinners, with Maggie Hoffman

How do you make dinner happen every night without feeling like you’re starting from scratch? If you’re staring into the fridge at 5 p.m. with no idea what to make, this

Sep 8
36 min

Easy Pickles, A Quick Way To Use Up Broccoli + A Surprising Carrot Cake with Leah Koenig | Our Best Home Cooking Bites

What do you do when you have more vegetables than you know what to do with? In this bite-sized episode, we share the best things we ate this week to inspire each other—a

Sep 3
25 min

Hosting this Fall? Four Menus for Seasonal Cooking at Home

What do you serve when you want to host, but don’t want to spend the entire day in the kitchen? Fall is one of our favorite seasons for gathering, from back-to-school di

Sep 1
38 min

One-Pot Meatballs & Greens + Two Italian Cookies | Our Best Home Cooking Bites

What do you make when you have a package of ground chicken but no plan for dinner? In this bite-sized episode, we share delicious moments about the best things we ate th

Aug 27
13 min

Recipes We’re Really Cooking! A Summer Recap + The Best of Season 4

What if the best recipes aren’t the newest ones, but the ones you keep coming back to? This week, we’re revisiting some of our favorite summer meals and sharing the reci

Aug 25
28 min

A Must-Try Pizza Recipe + A Favorite Breakfast Dish | Our Best Home Cooking Bites

Can a mountain of zucchini turn into a homemade pizza you can’t stop taking “just one more” slice of? In this bite-sized episode, we share delicious moments about the be

Aug 20
14 min

Meatless Sheet-Pan Dinners for Easy Home Cooking (Re-Release)

What if your next vegetarian dinner could be packed with flavor - and made entirely on a sheet-pan in your oven? Whether you're trying to cook more plant-based meals, ac

Aug 18
29 min

Grandma’s Plum Crumb Bars + A One-Skillet Summer Dinner | Our Best Home Cooking Bites

What do you make when you want a homemade dessert that feels special, but takes almost no effort to bake? In this bite-sized episode, we share the best things we ate thi

Aug 13
14 min

Puerto Rican Home Cooking, with Omi Hopper

What if you could easily fill your kitchen with the comforting aromas of sizzling sofrito, fluffy rice, and tender stews? This week, we’re talking to Omi Hopper, TikTok

Aug 11
27 min

Too Hot to Cook? Easy Summer Dinner Ideas to Beat the Heat

What do you cook when it's too hot to turn on the oven (or even the stovetop)… but everyone still needs dinner? When summer temperatures climb, even the simplest meal ca

Aug 4
32 min

Summer Corn! 10 Recipes for Cooking Easy Seasonal Meals at Home (Re-Release)

Are you up to your ears in corn and scrambling for new ways to use up one of the best summer ingredients? If you’re looking for easy and inspired recipes to enjoy this

Jul 28
28 min

Two Salads You Can Make Once, And Eat Twice (or Three Times)! | Our Best Home Cooking Bites

What salads can really hold up for days and transform into multiple meals? In this bite-sized episode, we share delicious moments about the best things we ate this week

Jul 23
12 min

Our Top 10 Best Bites of All Time! Celebrating 300 Episodes of Food Friends

What recipes truly stand the test of time — the ones you make again and again because of their ease, deliciousness, and nostalgia? This week, we're celebrating our 300th

Jul 21
37 min

A One-Bowl Berry Almond Cake + Homemade Chopped Cheese Sandwiches | Our Best Home Cooking Bites

Can a humble pound of ground beef from your freezer turn into the best dinner of your week? In this bite-sized episode, we share delicious moments about the best things

Jul 16
13 min

Our Top 8 No-Bake Desserts for Summer Hosting! (Re-Release)

What sweet treats do you make when you feel like hosting, but temperatures are climbing, and you can't imagine turning on an oven? This week we're re-releasing a fan-fav

Jul 14
28 min

Chart trend

Position in the Food chart (US), last 90 days.

#10
all-time peak
2
days in the top 10 since Nov 2024

Chart positions

Where Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 27, 2026).

#112 ▼ 10 Arts US
#19 — Food US

What listeners say

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I love listening every week! Your podcasts inspires my creative thinking on what to make for food next week. Love hearing what was your favorite bite.

LSDILTs · Aug 2026

I just found this podcast in the last couple weeks and I love it! I’m always looking for meal inspo and these ladies have such great suggestions with seasonal ingredients. I love that the recipes aren’t too complicated and use easy-to-find ingredients. My only thing is I wish the podcasts were a little longer — maybe 2 meals each per episode?!

Samantha Rittenberg · Aug 2026

This is the most practical (and addictive) Food Podcast that I’ve found. I really look forward to each episode and especially appreciate how detailed the show notes are for each episode. I refer to the show notes every time and have found great information, recipes, and instruction. You can tell how much thought and effort they put into this. I’ve found my people!

MCG-Chicago · May 2026

The Food Friends podcast genuinely feels like having a conversation with friends, but not just any friends, friends who know so many useful tips and have so many recipes for me to try! The podcast has become a total comfort listen for me. I highly recommend this podcast!

lipgloss225 · Apr 2026

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