Dinner Sisters
A fresh take on dinner: every week real-life sisters Kate and Betsy search out, cook, laugh and compare notes on three new recipes from top food bloggers and websites like Food52 and Epicurious and chat about life in the kitchen. Kate lives in Providence, Rhode Island and cooks for a family of 2 (no kids); Betsy lives in Atlanta and cooks for a family of 5 (three kids in elementary school).
Episodes
251 episodes
[The Great Food Truck Race] FAQs about Life on The Great Food Truck Race
The Dinner Sisters are competitors on The Great Food Truck Race, airing summer of 2022 on the Food Network and Discovery +. In this short episode Betsy answers listener FAQs about the experience including: where did you sleep? How did you pick ...
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Episode 231: Pancake Deep Dive
Turns out we've made quite a few pancakes in the last three years. You certainly can't blame us. A pancake for dinner can be quick comfort food, whatever you're craving. In the mood for an extra treat? Make Rye and Bacon Pancakes. Or maybe load...
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Episode 230: Summer Celebration Dinner Party Menu + Pie
Every 10 episodes we celebrate with a dinner party! This time we traveled to the Atlantic coast with a Gullah-Geechee red rice dish, Atlantic Beach pie and a German inspired mustard and beer pork loin on the grill. We made a quick pickled cucum...
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Episode 229: The Great Food Truck Race Preview
Remember when we went away on that "special project"? Turns out we were on Season 15 on the Great American Food Truck Race! Us, Tyler Florence, and eight other food trucks driving around California. This was the hottest season ever, and boy do ...
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Episode 228: To Asia, With Love Cookbook Review
You all know the Dinner Sisters love a vegetable forward dinner. We can't get enough of platter salads, or noodles, or dumplings, or dessert for that matter. Hattie McKinnon's newest cookbook, To Asia, With Love, serves us all of our favorites....
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Episode 227: Rice Noodle Salad
Cold Thai Noodle Salad from the Modern Proper, Rice Noodle Salad with Steak from What’s Gaby Cooking, and Rice Noodles with Shrimp and Coconut-Lime Dressing from Bon AppetitSomething about a rice noodle that lends itself to a cool, r...
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Episode 226: Super Fast and Easy Dinner
Gyeran Bap, Sausage and Vegetable Skillet, and Priya Krishna’s DalWhen the weather warms up, our schedule does, too. Three meals this week. All of them get food on the table with minimal effort and no chopping! Make a comforting bowl...
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225: Grilling Deep Dive
Grilling seems to be one of our favorite topics. We just didn’t know until we did a deep dive. Whether you’re making pizza or burgers, try one of our recipes or tips we’ve picked up along the way. After four episodes and an in-depth interview, ...
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Episode 224: Two Salmon and a Side
Seems like we see the same old salmon recipes in the search engine. You have so many choices, if you like lemon or teriyaki sauce. Luckily, we were able to find a couple great salmon recipes that got us out of that rut. Plus a bonus side dish p...
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Episode 223: Salad Deep Dive
Salad season is here! We’re declaring it…even if you’ve got snow in your neck of the woods. (Our deepest sympathies.) Believe it or not, this is our fifth episode devoted to salads. Apparently our love for greens and vegetables and crunchy thin...
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Episode 222: Chinese Stir Fry
We’re back and ready to do some stir fry! While we had a great time on our special project, it is so good to be back “home” on the podcast. This episode we dug a little bit into some Chinese-style stir fries: tofu, chicken, and beef. Trying som...
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Episode 221: Soup Deep Dive
This is our fourth, no wait FIFTH, episode about soup. Which we think is just about the right number of episodes. There’s nothing better to eat when it’s cold outside. Or any other time of year. Soup is the food we eat when we’re under the weat...
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Episode 220: Momables with Laura Fuentes
Sometimes you just need some real talk...and some pancakes. Our interview with Laura Fuentes of Momables managed to do both. Laura let us in on a few of her favorite and effective ways to keep up with a gro...
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Episode 219: Tinned Fish: Anchovies, Tuna, and Salmon
Continuing our theme of pantry items from a couple weeks ago, we’re talking all about tinned fish. Which, despite our experience growing up, is way more than Starkist. Having a can of tuna is a lifesaver sometimes, but what if we made a bigger ...
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Episode 218: Prep, Cook, Freeze with Caroline Fausel
Caroline Fausel of Olive You Whole joins us to share all of her tips, tricks and well-earned wisdom about freezer meal prepping. Whether you're Paleo, thinking of dipping a toe ...
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Episode 217: Deep Dive: Pantry Staples
Deep diving into the pantry this week, we have some throwbacks, advice, and some true life confessions. Our favorite pasta dish and pantry lifesaver, Pasta with Chickpeas from Smitten Kitchen is a highlight. But so was the Thai Noodle Sal...
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Episode 216: Winter Stew and Salad
Warm up this winter, no matter how cold it is, with any of our three recipes this week. Vegetables are always our favorites for dinner and these recipes all hit it out of the park. The couscous salad could really use any of your favorite hard s...
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Episode 215: 2021 Year in Review + What's coming Up Next!
We're wrapping up 2021 here at the Dinner Sisters, and put together an episode of our favorites. I (Betsy) picked three recipes for my family favorites, including:
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Episode 214: Baking Chat with Tara
It's no secret that Kate and Tara both love to bake. With the holidays behind us, you would think we'd be all out of baking conversation. Hardly! Join us for a fun chat about all things baking, some of Kate and Tara's favorite recipes and cookb...
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Episode 213: Cookbook Review Round Up
Sometimes we miss the mark a bit and frankly, that happened with the cookbook we intended to review this week. But we were not deterred. Between Betsy, Kate, and Tara, we found a whole slew of cookbooks. You can detox, try Mediterranean cooking...
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Episode 212: Sena Wheeler of Sena Sea: Fishing, Family Recipes & Sustainability
Our tagline: "learn a little more about food" isn't just for show. We get such a kick out of digging into all things food. Whether an amazing rice tip from Andrea Nguyen, or protips from friends, we love to pass it all along to you as wel...
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Episode 211: Out-of-the-Box Sandwiches
This week on the Dinner Sisters we made three sandwiches that were completely new to us: a meatball banh mi, a Swedish sandwich cake and a chicken fried tofu sandwich. We appreciate a good sandwich for dinner, especially around the hol...
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Listener Pro Tips: Using Recipe Generator Sites and Frosting the Perfect Cake
A double header pro tip from longtime listeners and friends of the pod, Tyler and Emma! First up, advice on how to use recipe generator websites for using the odds and ends you have left in the fridge. Second up, a few genius tips for fro...
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Pro Tip: Check the Freezer aisle for Fresh Food!
This week, we have a pro-tip from impact investor, entreprenuer and freezer aisle expert, Tyler Mayoras. Tyler co-founded Cool Beans in 2018 with a few other like-minded investors. During the next 18 months the group developed the products, set...
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