Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

About Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

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?

Publisher

Food Friends

Category

arts · arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Oct 2022

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

202 of 316 episodes have a transcript.

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   22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

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

   Hosts Sonya Sanford and [Guest Name] share their top 12 fall farmers' market recipes, offering inspiration for seasonal home cooking and utilizing fresh produce.

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   17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

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

   Host Sonya Sanford answers a listener's question about creative beet preparations, offering simple strategies and delicious ideas for home cooks.

3. 

   15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   8 Make-Ahead Salads for Fall

   Hosts Sonya Sanford and Deb Perelman share eight make-ahead fall salads, offering simple techniques for delicious, ready-to-eat meals and potluck dishes.

Inside a recent episode

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

Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] There's this recipe that I really like where you make a creamy tahini miso sauce. You also glaze your sweet potatoes and then you serve them topped with a bunch of herbs. So You get your sweet potatoes, you peel them, you cut them into cubes, you toss them with a little bit of miso, rice vinegar, soy sauce, a little date syrup, that's what the recipe calls for, but you could really use any sweetener that you want, and some red chili flakes. It's like savory, it's sweet, it's got a little bit of spice in it. And you can either roast this in your oven at 450 or you can add it to your air fryer if you want. […]

Who has been a guest on Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Maggie Hoffman
• Leah Koenig
• Omi Hopper

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

332 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

105 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

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Quality

76

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

91

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