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
Baharat Apple Butter
There are few things that signal the beginning of fall quite like a kitchen filled with the smell of apples and warm spices. This apple butter starts with plenty of tart apples and apple cider, which are cooked together before being puréed and slowly concentrated in the oven.
Instead of traditional apple pie spice, I use sweet baharat. Its warm, aromatic spices are beautiful with apples and give the finished butter a little more depth without losing everything we love about classic apple butter.
I already have a Sweet Baharat recipe on the blog, so this is a perfect place to cross-link it. You can absolutely use a purchased baharat instead, but read the ingredients carefully. Many traditional savory baharat blends contain cumin, which is not what we're looking for here. Choose a sweet, baking-friendly blend without cumin or make the sweet version linked above.
The technique is also a little different from simply simmering apple butter on the stovetop all afternoon. Once the apples are tender, they're blended until smooth and spread into a shallow baking pan. Finishing the purée in the oven allows moisture to evaporate steadily, transforming it from applesauce into something darker, richer, and noticeably more buttery in texture.
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.
