Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

What Is Top Chef Melissa King’s Best Bite of the Week? Plus, Two Vegan Desserts We Are Making on Repeat!


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What’s a Top Chef's go-to recipe for hosting friends?

This week, we’re not only sharing our best home-cooking bites, but we’re also asking Top Chef Melissa King about her favorite bite of the week!

By the end of this episode, you’ll discover two vegan desserts that use a surprising ingredient, plus a few new ways to bring miso into your weeknight cooking. Chef Melissa King also reveals her go-to date night dish from her new cookbook: Cook Like A King.

Tune in for a quick dose of home cooking inspiration!

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Links:

Find out more about Melissa King, follow her Instagram, and check out her new cookbook: Cook Like a King 

Recipes discussed in this episode from “Cook Like A King”: Shaighainese Lionhead Meatballs, Miso Baba Ghanoush, Miso Caesar Salad, Miso Marinated Fish, and Hong Kong Milk Tea Tiramisu

Other recipes discussed: Sonya’s grandmother’s Tefteli (meatball) recipe, and another of our favorite miso-marinated fish options

Melissa's "Best Bite" was from House of Prime Rib in San Francisco

Our Cooking a Steakhouse Dinner at Home episode has more steakhouse-inspired recipes

Our best bites of the week:

Silken Tofu Chocolate Mousse from the Conscious Plant Kitchen – this would be great with the addition of espresso powder, and topped with macerated berries!

The “Co-op Tofu Brownie Cookies” can be found in Nicole Rucker’s Fat & Flour

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