Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

What Is Top Chef Melissa King’s Best Bite of the Week? Plus, Two Vegan Desserts We Are Making on Repeat!

25 Sep 2025

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What’s a Top Chef's go-to recipe for hosting friends?This week, we’re not only sharing our best home-cooking bites, but we’re also asking Top Chef Melissa King about her favorite bite of the week!By the end of this episode, you’ll discover two vegan desserts that use a surprising ingredient, plus a few new ways to bring miso into your weeknight cooking. Chef Melissa King also reveals her go-to date night dish from her new cookbook: Cook Like A King.Tune in for a quick dose of home cooking inspiration!***Links:Find out more about Melissa King, follow her Instagram, and check out her new cookbook: Cook Like a King Recipes discussed in this episode from “Cook Like A King”: Shaighainese Lionhead Meatballs, Miso Baba Ghanoush, Miso Caesar Salad, Miso Marinated Fish, and Hong Kong Milk Tea TiramisuOther recipes discussed: Sonya’s grandmother’s Tefteli (meatball) recipe, and another of our favorite miso-marinated fish optionsMelissa's "Best Bite" was from House of Prime Rib in San FranciscoOur Cooking a Steakhouse Dinner at Home episode has more steakhouse-inspired recipesOur best bites of the week:Silken Tofu Chocolate Mousse from the Conscious Plant Kitchen – this would be great with the addition of espresso powder, and topped with macerated berries!The “Co-op Tofu Brownie Cookies” can be found in Nicole Rucker’s Fat & Flour***Got a cooking question? Leave us a message on our hotline at: 323-452-9084For 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!

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Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

What Is Top Chef Melissa King’s Best Bite of the Week? Plus, Two Vegan Desserts We Are Making on Repeat!

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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

13:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

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