Easy Pickles, A Quick Way To Use Up Broccoli + A Surprising Carrot Cake with Leah Koenig | Our Best Home Cooking Bites

Easy Pickles, A Quick Way To Use Up Broccoli + A Surprising Carrot Cake with Leah Koenig | Our Best Home Cooking Bites

From Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy by Food Friends

September 3, 2026 · 25 min · Season 5 · Episode 311

About this episode

This episode features quick recipes for pickles and a unique carrot cake, along with insights from guest Leah Koenig.

What do you do when you have more vegetables than you know what to do with? In this bite-sized episode, we share the best things we ate this week to inspire each other—and you! By the end of this episode, you’ll discover a quick refrigerator pickle that can be made with almost any veggie, and you’ll also find out about a restaurant-inspired broccoli crostini that makes a satisfying meatless dinner for busy nights. Plus! Author Leah Koenig shares her “Best Bite” too: An easy carrot-date cake that requires no special equipment, with an unexpected ingredient in the frosting. Tune in for a quick dose of home cooking inspiration! *** For more recipes and cooking inspiration, sign up for our free Substack here . And join us on our live monthly calls by upgrading your subscription to paid! *** Links: Leah Koenig’s new book is: The Dessert Table: 100 Joyful Jewish Sweets , which includes her recipe for Date-carrot cake with orange blossom frosting . You can find more recipes from Leah on her Substack: The Jewish Table , and on Instagram @leah.koenig **** Other links from today's show: Easy refrigerator pickles from Simply Recipes made with a crinkle-cut knife And here’s another fridge…

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