Cook With Us
Good food starts with good ingredients — and the courage to step into the kitchen with an open heart. Cook With Us is where we share seasonal recipes, kitchen stories, and the techniques that help us create meaningful meals at home.
Whether you’re cooking for a crowd or making something simple on a weeknight, we hope these posts and videos inspire you to slow down, cook with intention, and fall in love with the seasons.
Resources for Learning Seasonal Cooking Techniques
These posts and videos help home cooks understand ingredients, build skills, and learn how to cook seasonally.
Seasonal Recipes & Kitchen Stories
Summer Vegetable Bake with Halloumi
This is one of those recipes that should change a little every time you make it. It's less about following an exact list of vegetables and more about using what's abundant at the farmers market, coming out of your garden, or simply waiting in your refrigerator.
The one vegetable I wouldn't skip is the tomato. As everything cooks together, ripe summer tomatoes release their juices and create the flavorful base that brings all of the other vegetables together. Eggplant, peppers, sweet corn, fennel, onion, and celery are what I used here, but zucchini, summer squash, different varieties of peppers, or other summer vegetables would be right at home.
Once the vegetables are tender, everything gets transferred to a baking dish and covered with halloumi. A few minutes under the broiler turns the cheese deeply golden while leaving that wonderfully chewy, salty interior intact.
It's simple summer cooking—the kind where really good vegetables do most of the work for you.
Eggplant Caponata
Eggplant caponata is one of those dishes that somehow tastes even better the next day. As it rests, the vegetables soak up the sweet-and-sour dressing, creating layers of flavor that make it equally at home as an appetizer, side dish, or even piled onto grilled bread for lunch.
Traditional Sicilian caponata relies on eggplant, tomatoes, celery, olives, capers, and vinegar for its signature balance of savory, sweet, and tangy flavors. While this version stays true to those roots, I also love adding a couple slices of bacon from time to time. It's certainly not traditional, but the smoky richness pairs beautifully with the sweet eggplant and briny olives. If you have it on hand, it's well worth trying.
Corn & Zucchini Cakes
Crispy, golden zucchini and corn cakes made with simple ingredients. Perfect as a side dish, snack, or light meal—ready in under 30 minutes!
Forget the Can—This Fresh Creamed Corn Is Next-Level
Skip the canned stuff—this fresh creamed corn is ultra-creamy, naturally sweet, and comes together in just 15 minutes with a few simple ingredients.
12 Easy, Late-Summer Recipe Ideas
Make the most of your late-summer CSA haul with these 12 fresh, seasonal recipes featuring peaches, tomatoes, corn, and more. From refreshing gazpacho to rustic desserts, these dishes will inspire your next meal and help you savor every bite of summer.
Cook With Us — Live & In the Kitchen
We host relaxed, seasonal cook-alongs on YouTube so you can cook right beside us — asking questions, learning techniques, and having some fun in the kitchen along the way.
We’ve taken a little break on creating new videos but feel free to explore past episodes below anytime the cooking mood strikes. We link our shopping lists in the show notes so you can shop for the video in advance.
