What if cooking a dinner party with your closest food friend could make hosting easier, more fun, and even more delicious?

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 our menu of some of our favorite all-time recipes, like a hosting-friendly vegetarian casserole, crispy chicken cutlets that you can make-ahead and reheat like a dream, and a fruit-filled dessert that gets better with time.

Plus you’ll discover what we love to send our guests home with!

Tune in for a quick dose of home cooking inspiration!

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Links:

Starters:

Thin toasted small slices of homemade sourdough bread using the Communal Table Bread recipe, by Adrian Hale

Baba ghanoush by Maureen Abood made with charred eggplant + tahini

Marinated olives

Salad course:

Sonya’s rainbow salad recipe from her Substack

Mains:

Farro cauliflower parmesan by Sarah DiGregorio for NYT Cooking (unlocked)

Chicken schnitzel, like this one from Smitten Kitchen

Dessert:

Cake parfaits made with strawberry sheet cake with passionfruit buttercream by Zoe Bakes for the cake layer, with a layer of our favorite fruit salad, and labneh whipped cream (like the one from this Adeena Sussman recipe)

Gift bags:

Loaves of sourdough

Slow cooker apple butter from Family Food On The Table

Chocolate chip cookies

Plum jam bars

Cookbook gifted to us:

Talisman Cookbook

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