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
Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler with Ginger
Sweet, Tart, and Bubbling with Spring Flavor
Strawberry and rhubarb is one of those pairings that just feels like the turning point into spring. The sweetness of ripe strawberries balances the sharpness of rhubarb, and here a little fresh ginger adds just enough warmth to round everything out.
Topped with tender buttermilk biscuits and baked until bubbling, this cobbler is rustic in the best way.
Strawberry Cornmeal Cake with Sorghum
This cornmeal strawberry cake is a simple spring dessert made with fresh strawberries, lemon zest, and rich sorghum syrup. Moist, lightly textured, and topped with jammy berries, it’s perfect for brunch or an easy seasonal bake.
Strawberry & Burrata Salad with Arugula and Tarragon
This fresh strawberry burrata salad combines peppery arugula, sweet macerated strawberries, creamy burrata, and fragrant tarragon with a drizzle of olive oil and white balsamic. A simple, elegant spring salad perfect for entertaining.
Rhu-BBQ Sauce (Rhubarb BBQ Sauce)
Rhubarb might not be the first ingredient you think of for barbecue sauce—but it should be. Its natural tartness creates the perfect balance against rich, smoky meats.
In the photo, this sauce is paired with smoky pulled pork, and it absolutely shines. The acidity cuts through the richness, the sweetness rounds everything out, and the pepper gives just enough bite to keep things interesting. It’s one of those combinations that makes you go back for another bite immediately.
This is also a great way to bring rhubarb out of the dessert world and into something savory, bold, and deeply satisfying.
Baharat Coffee Cake
This Baharat coffee cake is layered with a warm spiced brown sugar filling and topped with a buttery crumb, finished with powdered sugar and a final dusting of Baharat for a beautifully aromatic twist.
Cardamom Lime Pie with Swiss Meringue
This cardamom lime pie features a silky condensed-milk lime custard brightened with citrus zest and warm spice, all baked in a flaky blind-baked crust and topped with billowy Swiss meringue. A fragrant twist on classic key lime pie.
Warm & Toasty Ginger Granola
Warm, Toasty, and Perfect for Late Winter
Granola is one of those recipes that feels almost too easy for how satisfying it is. The scent alone — warm cinnamon and ginger mingling with toasted oats and almonds — fills the house in a way that makes everything feel softer and slower.
This is the time of year when winter starts running out of steam but spring hasn’t quite arrived. That’s when we lean into grain-forward breakfasts and start reaching for the jams and preserves we tucked away last summer. A bowl of yogurt topped with this granola and a spoonful of homemade jam? Absolute perfection.
Chicken & Dumplings
Cozy, Hearty, and Made for Cold Nights
This is the kind of meal that fills the kitchen with the smell of simmering herbs and makes everyone wander in asking when dinner will be ready. Tender chicken, sweet root vegetables, and pillowy dumplings come together in one big pot of comfort. The dumplings steam gently over the simmering broth, creating that classic fluffy texture that makes this dish unforgettable.
A Valentine’s Day Chocolate & Wine Pairing Guide
Chocolate and wine are a classic Valentine’s Day duo—but pairing them well takes intention. This chocolate and wine pairing guide explores thoughtful matches using Valrhona chocolate and beautifully made wines, focusing on balance, flavor, and craftsmanship. Perfect for a romantic night in or an elevated solo treat.
Lemon Ricotta Pie with Whipped White Chocolate Ganache
This Lemon Ricotta Pie is a bright, creamy spring dessert with a delicate whipped white chocolate ganache infused with orange blossom. The ricotta-yogurt filling bakes until lightly set in a flaky blind-baked crust and is topped with an airy ganache that tastes like a floral cloud.
Butterscotch Budino
This butterscotch budino is a luxurious Italian-style pudding, deeply caramelized with brown sugar and finished with just enough Scotch to round out its warmth. Whisked egg yolks and a touch of cornstarch give it that signature budino texture—silky, glossy, and rich. The moment the sugar starts to smoke and turn spotty is when the magic happens: a smoky edge that gives this comforting dessert a grown-up twist.
Wine Pairings for Super Bowl Snacks: Wings, Chili, Nachos & More
Forget just beer — wine can elevate your Super Bowl spread with fresh, bold pairings for all your favorite snacks. From spicy wings to creamy spinach dip, we’ve got a game day wine for every bite.
Rutabaga Cacio e Pepe
A cozy low-carb twist on the Roman classic
This rutabaga cacio e pepe is a wintery, root-vegetable take on a Roman classic. Spiralized rutabaga stands in for pasta, offering a sweet-earthy bite that pairs beautifully with a creamy, peppery Pecorino sauce. It’s simple, fast, and deeply satisfying—perfect for weeknights or light winter dinners.
Vanilla Bean Pound Cake
A simple, elegant classic with rich vanilla flavor. This vanilla bean pound cake is tender and deeply aromatic, thanks to real vanilla paste and rich cream. The method keeps the crumb light and fine—whipping the eggs and sugar to a ribbon stage before folding in flour and emulsified butter. It’s the kind of cake that’s perfect with a cup of tea, layered with fruit and cream, or simply dusted with powdered sugar.
Citrus Olive Oil Cake
This citrus olive oil cake is light and moist with lemon, orange zest, and a bright lemon glaze. A perfect Italian-inspired cake for brunch or winter baking.
Cumin, Coriander & Caraway Roasted Carrots with Tahini Yogurt and Honey
Roasted carrots tossed with cumin, coriander, and caraway, served over creamy tahini yogurt and finished with honey. A flavorful, spice-forward vegetable side dish.
Apple Salad with Hakurei Turnips, Walnuts & Yogurt Sauce
This apple salad with yogurt, thyme, and kohlrabi (or hakurei turnips) is creamy, crisp, and refreshing. A simple, tangy side dish for fall or spring meals.
Snickerdoodles
These classic snickerdoodle cookies are soft, buttery, and coated in cinnamon sugar—no vanilla, no fuss. Just pure cinnamon-forward cookie perfection.
Scandinavian Butter Cookies (Spritz Cookies)
These Scandinavian butter cookies are soft and buttery with almond paste and vanilla, perfect for piping into spritz shapes using a star tip or cookie press.
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.
