Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy · Episode 172 · April 24, 2025 · 13 min

A 15-minute vegetarian main and a classic French salad! Our best home cooking bites of the week

What if your next favorite dinner took just 15 minutes—and started with a humble can 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 creamy, vegetarian butter bean recipe that you can whip in 15 minutes, but feels luxurious enough to bring to a dinner party. And you’ll discover a classic French bistro dish that will transport you to Paris with its topping of warm goat cheese – it makes for an effortlessly elegant starter or even an enticing Tuesday night dinner! Tune in for a quick dose of home cooking inspiration! *** Links: Salade de Chèvre Chaud (Warm French goat’s cheese salad) by Recipe Tin Eats  Ina Garten’s take on salad with warm goat cheese Justine Doiron’s spicy tomato beans with hot honey *** 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.  Order Sonya's cookbook Braids for more Food Friends recipes! We love hearing from you — follow us on Instagram @ foodfriendspod , or drop us a line at [email protected]!