# What One Ingredient Can Do for Your Cooking + A Standout Sandwich & Italian Pastry! Our Best Home Cooking Bites of the Week Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/food-friends-home-cooking-made-easy-5775849/what-one-ingredient-can-do-for-your-cooking-a-standout-sandwich-italian-pastry-our-best-home-cooking-bites-of-the-week Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/food-friends-home-cooking-made-easy-5775849/what-one-ingredient-can-do-for-your-cooking-a-standout-sandwich-italian-pastry-our-best-home-cooking-bites-of-the-week.md Podcast: [Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/food-friends-home-cooking-made-easy-5775849) Published: 2026-04-09T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.foodfriendspodcast.com/episodes/ Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e08e639d-f1fb-4dc4-b828-d61e01bfa1e2.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/food-friends-home-cooking-made-easy-5775849/episodes/what-one-ingredient-can-do-for-your-cooking-a-standout-sandwich-italian-pastry-our-best-home-cooking-bites-of-the-week Duration seconds: 1157 ## Resource How can one ingredient completely change your weeknight cooking? In this bite-sized episode, we share delicious moments about the best things we ate this week to inspire each other – and you! By the end of this episode, you’ll want to make Ham El-Waylly's highly-rated Kung Pao tofu recipe that’s perfect for breaking out of a cooking rut. You’ll also want to try a loaded veggie sandwich that’s a fridge-cleanout hero, and you’ll discover a fresh take on a morning pastry. 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:  Kung Pao Tofu  by Ham El Waylly for NYT Cooking Ham El Waylly’s new book book:  Hello, Home Cooking: Do-able Dishes for Everyday  and  our episode with Ham   Raspberry Danish  with puff pastry video Sonya’s  blueberry cheesecake danish  recipe Kari’s Veggie Sandwich: Thickly sliced whole-wheat sourdough ( Adrian&nbs… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/food-friends-home-cooking-made-easy-5775849/episodes/what-one-ingredient-can-do-for-your-cooking-a-standout-sandwich-italian-pastry-our-best-home-cooking-bites-of-the-week/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/food-friends-home-cooking-made-easy-5775849/what-one-ingredient-can-do-for-your-cooking-a-standout-sandwich-italian-pastry-our-best-home-cooking-bites-of-the-week.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.