Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy · Episode 209 · September 4, 2025 · 15 min

How to Cook Fresh Shelling Beans, and a Retro Fish Dish That’s Perfect for a Quick Weeknight Meal! Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Weekt

What’s the secret to cooking fish so that it doesn’t stick to the pan?  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 discover an easy way to turn seasonal shelling beans into a brothy, rustic meal, and you’ll find out why grilled fish with tropical fruit salsa might be the next thing you’ll cook up for dinner.  Tune in for a quick dose of home cooking inspiration!  ***  Links: Sonya’s style of cooking cranberry beans , and a similar recipe from Taste Space (just use fresh tomato and basil instead of tomato paste, and add stock to simmer the beans in) A recipe for grilled swordfish with mango-pineapple salsa from Kevin is Cooking blog The secret to perfectly grilled fish : mayonnaise! from The Kitchn Kari tried this dish at Bluewater Grill Avalon on Catalina Island  Nicole Rucker’s amazing banana bread recipe can be found in her book Fat & Flour *** 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 [email protected] ! Book a farmers’ market tour with Sonya in Portland, OR!