Cooking with Bruce and Mark

You don't have to make a holiday meal for a crowd.

This episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK was recorded during the COVID pandemic lockdown. We couldn't visit our families because we had immunocompromised family members before any vaccine was available.

Join us, veteran cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, for the first part of a two-part series on how to make a smaller holiday meal.

Join Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough on COOKING WITH BRUCE AND MARK as they talk about, well, NOT cooking. This is a show about Mark's other podcasts. Literary podcasts. One, LYRIC LIFE, is a small podcast about the pleasures of lyric poetry: Keats and Dickinson, modern and old-school, not and back then. The other is a much grander affair: a walk across the known universe with Dante in WALKING WITH DANTE. In this one, Mark is slowly walking through THE DIVINE COMEDY passage by passage. Catch up on Mark's non-food podcasts in this special episode of our cooking show.

Join Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough as they take a quick look at some of their favorite cookbooks. They're picking oldies and newcomers for the lists. We'd love to hear your favorites. Connect with us on social media! Who doesn't love a good chat about cookbooks?

A listicle! Of the top ten cooking mistakes. At least from our perspective. Join us, Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, on our podcast COOKING WITH BRUCE AND MARK as we talk through the top ten mistakes we've seen in the kitchen after thirty-five cookbooks, over 12,000 original recipes , and countless cooking classes both live and online.

We wrote another INSTANT POT book! We're calling it "the next generation," although we promise it doesn't have Picard's apple pie or Data’s chili in it. Instead, we're taking on a range of tools to expand how you use the pot: the pot-in-pot method (best rice!), egg-bite molds, springform pans, and more. We've got traditional braises, chilis, stews, and cereals, too! And much more--including a final chapter dedicated to the 10-quart Instant Pot. Two chickens! Two pork loins! Imagine that!

Sure, even we veteran food writers cut grocery costs. We grab sales. We look to stock up on frozen items. And the week after Thanksgiving? The turkeys at twenty-cents a pound!

But there ARE things at the supermarket that are worth the splurge.

Join us, cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbough, as we talk about our favorite splurges at the supermarket.

Fall may be the best season for grilling. Sure, we fire up the grill all summer, mostly to keep the indoors of the house cooler. But let's face it: It's hot work in the summer!

Join us, veteran cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, as we talk about the pleasures of grilling in the fall.

We've written lots of recipes for various grilling manufacturers. Even ghost-wrote a couple of books for one. And we've written a couple of grilling books under our own names, including PIZZA: GRILL IT, BAKE IT, LOVE IT! (which you can find here).

Come along for the fun as we offer ideas for keeping that outdoor fire hot this autumn. And if you don't want to cook outdoors, consider these ideas for a grill pan on the stove on a really chilly night. Join us at the grate!

Cranberry sauce isn't just for the holidays. Whether you make your own or buy it in the jar or can, cranberry sauce is a versatile culinary ingredient year round.

Join us, veteran cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, as we show you why cranberry sauce is not just a side dish at the holiday table. It's a terrific, full-flavored ingredient as well!

If you've got a bag of cocktail shrimp in the freezer, or if you spot those shrimp on sale at your supermarket, you've got a meal in minutes.

Join us, veteran cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough. We've developed over 10,000 original recipes. And a lot of them have used cocktail shrimp as an easy start to appetizers and main courses galore.

In this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK, we'll have lots of fun as we offer tons of ideas for cocktail shrimp. Join us for all the laughs and ideas.

Join us, cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough as we show you lots of ways to use canned black beans, way beyond the expected side dish.

Add canned black beans to all sorts of stews, braises, dips, spreads, and sandwiches.