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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

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Peach & Plum Tea Cake

This stone fruit tea cake is a tender, buttery shortbread-style cake layered with juicy peaches and plums, bright lemon zest, and a touch of floral rose water. Perfect for late summer, this easy dessert bakes up golden with a caramelized turbinado sugar topping.

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Stone Fruit Molasses Upside Down Cake

This Ginger Peach and Plum Upside-Down Cake blends the best of late summer fruit with warm fall spices. A moist, spiced ginger cake topped with caramelized peaches and plums makes the perfect dessert to transition from summer to autumn.

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Brown Butter Zucchini Bread

This moist and tender zucchini bread is the perfect balance of sweet and spiced, made with browned butter and fresh grated zucchini. This scaled-down version yields just one loaf—ideal for smaller households or when you're craving just enough to enjoy and share.

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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.