https://www.jocooks.com/ Simple - Easy - Comfort Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:51:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.jocooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-favicon-32x32.png https://www.jocooks.com/ 32 32 https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/homemade-spaetzle/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/homemade-spaetzle/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:50:35 +0000 https://www.jocooks.com/?p=27985 Spaetzle are soft little German egg noodles, scraped straight into boiling water and tossed in browned butter. They take 20 minutes start to finish, you need 5 ingredients, and you don’t need a single piece of special equipment to make them. They are, I’d argue, the easiest fresh pasta in the world. The Easiest Fresh…]]> https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/homemade-spaetzle/feed/ 17 https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/beef-rouladen/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/beef-rouladen/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:13:45 +0000 https://www.jocooks.com/?p=26448 German Beef Rouladen are thin slices of beef spread with hot mustard, layered with bacon, onion, pickle and carrot, rolled up and braised for 3 hours until they surrender completely. The gravy that comes out of that pot would justify the whole afternoon on its own. This is proper Sunday dinner, and it’s been in…]]> https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/beef-rouladen/feed/ 12 https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/apple-galette/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/apple-galette/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:40:32 +0000 https://www.jocooks.com/?p=53225 An Apple Galette is apple pie without the pie dish, the crimping, or any of the anxiety. Sliced apples piled onto a round of buttery cornmeal pastry, the edges folded up over the top, baked until it’s deep golden and the apples have caught a little color. It’s meant to look rustic, which means every…]]> https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/apple-galette/feed/ 10 https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/hush-puppies/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/hush-puppies/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:40:35 +0000 https://www.jocooks.com/?p=68757 Southern Hush Puppies are little fried cornmeal fritters with onion through them, shatteringly crisp on the outside and soft in the middle. They take about 3 minutes in the oil and they’re best about 4 minutes after that. This is the plain, classic version, and it’s the one worth learning. The Best Thing To Come…]]> https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/hush-puppies/feed/ 3 https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/black-bean-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/black-bean-soup/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:19:34 +0000 https://www.jocooks.com/?p=67487 Black Bean Soup made with canned beans, on the table in 30 minutes, and thick enough that a spoon stands up in it. Half of it gets blended and stirred back through, which is how it turns creamy without a drop of cream going anywhere near it. This is a pantry soup that has no…]]> https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/black-bean-soup/feed/ 8 https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/slow-cooker-hawaiian-chicken/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/slow-cooker-hawaiian-chicken/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:49:04 +0000 https://www.jocooks.com/?p=102879 Slow Cooker Hawaiian Chicken is tender chicken thighs in a sweet and savory pineapple sauce that turns glossy right at the end, piled over rice with green onions and sesame seeds. It takes 15 minutes of actual effort and then the slow cooker handles the rest while you go do literally anything else. The Dinner…]]> https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/slow-cooker-hawaiian-chicken/feed/ 6 https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/baked-mac-and-cheese/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/baked-mac-and-cheese/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:09:52 +0000 https://www.jocooks.com/?p=16959 This is Baked Mac And Cheese with a sauce that stays creamy the whole way through and a top that goes properly golden under the broiler. It all happens in one cast iron skillet, which means one pan to wash instead of 3. I’ve been making it this way for years and the only thing…]]> https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/baked-mac-and-cheese/feed/ 77 https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/cranberry-coffee-cake/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/cranberry-coffee-cake/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:58:38 +0000 https://www.jocooks.com/?p=76899 This Cranberry Coffee Cake is a soft, tangy bundt loaded with whole cranberries and brightened with orange zest, then finished with a simple glaze. The cranberries burst as it bakes and leave little pockets of tartness all through it. Perfect with coffee, which is rather the point. The Best Cranberry Coffee Cake Cranberries and orange…]]> https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/cranberry-coffee-cake/feed/ 38