Three Kitchens Podcast

ThreeKitchensPodcast

Tired of cooking the same old things? Same! So, let's get inspired for our next cooking adventure! Whether you enjoy cooking or just like good food, join us every Tuesday as we share recipes and ideas for making food we love in our own home kitchens. 

  1. S6 E13: Tofu Meatballs in a Lemongrass Curry

    5D AGO

    S6 E13: Tofu Meatballs in a Lemongrass Curry

    Send us a text In this episode we explore the challenges of cooking with tofu as a meat alternative when Erin tries to make tofu "meatballs." We discuss various recipes, cooking techniques, and the importance of flavour and texture.  These tofu meatballs are baked, which does make the process super simple, but Erin ran into trouble with the lemongrass curry. The recipe said to blend the ingredients into a paste, and let's just say that lemongrass didn't blend well!   But the flavour was great and we have thoughts for improving our experience with this recipe. Join us on the socials and let us know your lemongrass tips and tricks!  There is no recipe to share this week, because Erin found this one needed some work. We don't ever share a recipe we wouldn't want to make again ourselves.    Chapters 12:38 Exploring Meat Alternatives: Tofu Meatballs 14:57 Cooking Techniques and Ingredient Challenges 16:31 Flavour vs. Texture: The Lemongrass Dilemma 18:44 Feedback and Adjustments: Learning from Experience 21:14 Final Thoughts and Future Experiments Three Kitchens Podcast - a home cooking show Check out our website where you can listen to all of our episodes and find recipes on our blog: www.threekitchenspodcast.com You can support the show with a small donation at Buy Me A Coffee. Want to be a guest? We want to hear from you! Join us on our socials! Instagram @three_kitchens_podcast Facebook @threekitchenspodcast YouTube @threekitchenspodcast TikTok @threekitchenspodcast Rate, review, follow, subscribe and tell your friends!

    28 min
  2. S6 E12: Food for Thought - How Human Diet Influenced Evolutionary Changes in Our Teeth

    2025-12-23

    S6 E12: Food for Thought - How Human Diet Influenced Evolutionary Changes in Our Teeth

    Send us a text Get ready to nerd out with your favourite podcast hosts in this Food for Thought episode! Erin explores a study showing that early humans were eating carbs before their teeth were able to chew them. What impact did the food early humans ate have on the teeth we have today?  The carbohydrates (grains) available at the time required a lot of chewing, which means these early humans recognized this as a high-energy food source, despite not having teeth to properly chew them. The study shows it actually took about 700,000 more years before the size and shape of human teeth were actually suited to eating this food. Cool, right?  Erin, with her background in science, helps tell the story of this research by explaining evolution. Then she goes down a bit of a rabbit hole about wisdom teeth and changes we see in present day humans and our teeth and jaws today.  Learn more in the studies Erin has referenced in this episode:  How Human Diet Influenced Evolutionary Changes in our Teeth Why we Have so Many Problems with our Wisdom Teeth Wisdom Teeth and Genetics: Why Some People do not Have Wisdom Teeth Three Kitchens Podcast - a home cooking show Check out our website where you can listen to all of our episodes and find recipes on our blog: www.threekitchenspodcast.com You can support the show with a small donation at Buy Me A Coffee. Want to be a guest? We want to hear from you! Join us on our socials! Instagram @three_kitchens_podcast Facebook @threekitchenspodcast YouTube @threekitchenspodcast TikTok @threekitchenspodcast Rate, review, follow, subscribe and tell your friends!

    24 min
  3. S6 E10: Chocolate + Mascarpone + Coffee...  You Need This Cookie Recipe In Your Life!

    2025-12-09

    S6 E10: Chocolate + Mascarpone + Coffee... You Need This Cookie Recipe In Your Life!

    Send us a text This week on the podcast, Heather discovers one of the best cookies we've ever eaten. That's not an exaggeration. Let's get into it.  These Chocolate Mascarpone Coffee Cookies are so easy to bake - measure all your cookie dough ingredients in one bowl with a kitchen scale and stir with a wooden spoon. You then just chill, scoop and bake. Easy peasy. The unique ingredient (in our experience) is mascarpone cheese in the cookie dough.  The filling is the key here - mascarpone cheese, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and espresso powder makes this the most delicious frosting ever put between two chocolate cookies. So. Damn. Good.  Have we adequately expressed how much we love these cookies yet?  We also get into a discussion about natural vs Dutch processed cocoa powder, because the recipe specifically says to use natural cocoa NOT Dutch processed. It's a whole thing and we do try to sort it out. But at the end of the day, we believe you can use whichever cocoa powder you've got on hand. You just cannot fail with these cookies.  Get the recipe! Chocolate Mascarpone Coffee Cookies  Three Kitchens Podcast - a home cooking show Check out our website where you can listen to all of our episodes and find recipes on our blog: www.threekitchenspodcast.com You can support the show with a small donation at Buy Me A Coffee. Want to be a guest? We want to hear from you! Join us on our socials! Instagram @three_kitchens_podcast Facebook @threekitchenspodcast YouTube @threekitchenspodcast TikTok @threekitchenspodcast Rate, review, follow, subscribe and tell your friends!

    32 min
  4. S6 E9: Baking Beautiful Pies with Laura Klynstra, & A Festive Raspberry Linzer Tart!

    2025-12-02

    S6 E9: Baking Beautiful Pies with Laura Klynstra, & A Festive Raspberry Linzer Tart!

    Send us a text This episode is dedicated to the art of baking beautiful pies and tarts, just in time for the holidays! We welcome Laura Klynstra, author of The Homemade Pie Cookbook, to share tips and ideas for kicking our baking game up a notch.  We get straight into asking Laura all our many questions about achieving the perfect base for our holiday desserts. Whether you love to use butter, shortening, or even lard, the important thing is to leave your fat a little chunky to create those flaky layers in your pie crust.  If you prefer a rustic look and feel, a galette might be more your style. Hot tip: bake it in a cast iron skillet to avoid the mess if the filling leaks out of the pastry.  When it comes to decorating the top of your pies and tarts, prepare your toppings in advance but wait to finish it off just before you serve it. Try adding cookies, fruit, caramel sauce or piped whipped cream to design your beautiful creations.  We made Laura's recipe for a Raspberry Linzer Tart. This delicious dessert is based on a Linzer cookie, and is a beautiful tart to serve this holiday season.  Get the Raspberry Linzer Tart recipe.  Find Laura's book here: The Homemade Pie Cookbook Follow Laura on Instagram @spiceandsugartable Three Kitchens Podcast - a home cooking show Check out our website where you can listen to all of our episodes and find recipes on our blog: www.threekitchenspodcast.com You can support the show with a small donation at Buy Me A Coffee. Want to be a guest? We want to hear from you! Join us on our socials! Instagram @three_kitchens_podcast Facebook @threekitchenspodcast YouTube @threekitchenspodcast TikTok @threekitchenspodcast Rate, review, follow, subscribe and tell your friends!

    36 min
  5. S6 E8: A Tamarind Extravaganza -- Four Creative Recipes!

    2025-11-25

    S6 E8: A Tamarind Extravaganza -- Four Creative Recipes!

    Send us a text This week on Three Kitchens Podcast, we do one of our favourite things: explore an ingredient we've never used before. This time it's the Tamarind fruit. Erin uses it to make four fun recipes:  Tamarind Spiced Muffins - these required a second batch, as the first time around we didn't love them. But you can count on Erin to get back to the kitchen and sort out this recipe. We LOVED them! Tamarind Chicken Wings - hoo boy, did we love these wings. They're now making a regular appearance at Erin's family wing night. SO. GOOD.  Tamarind & Red Onion Rice - This recipe makes it easy to take your rice side dish to the next level. While you're cooking your rice, create this delicious mixture and combine everything right before you serve it. Pineapple & Tamarind Mixer - Up your mixed drink game with this sweet & sour mixer that will refresh and delight your tastebuds. Make the components ahead of time from fresh ingredients and keep them in the fridge to stir up this tasty drink in a jiffy. Heather confirms it's fantastic with tequila too.  Get the recipes:  Tamarind Spiced Muffins Tamarind Chicken Wings Tamarind & Red Onion Rice Pineapple & Tamarind Mixer Three Kitchens Podcast - a home cooking show Check out our website where you can listen to all of our episodes and find recipes on our blog: www.threekitchenspodcast.com You can support the show with a small donation at Buy Me A Coffee. Want to be a guest? We want to hear from you! Join us on our socials! Instagram @three_kitchens_podcast Facebook @threekitchenspodcast YouTube @threekitchenspodcast TikTok @threekitchenspodcast Rate, review, follow, subscribe and tell your friends!

    33 min
  6. S6 E7: Tortière Canadienne -- Delicious French Canadian Meat Pie!

    2025-11-18

    S6 E7: Tortière Canadienne -- Delicious French Canadian Meat Pie!

    Send us a text This week on the show, Heather makes a family-favourite, a Tourtière Canadienne. This delicious French-Canadian meat pie is something we enjoy at Christmas, but you can make it any time you like.  Heather combined a couple of recipes -- one from the cookbook, Eat Alberta First (Karen Anderson), and a recipe handed down to her by her mom. This recipe, which you can find on our website (link below!), makes two full pies. If you don't want to eat two full pies, you can prep one and freeze it to bring out later (just thaw before baking).  The key to a Tourtière, in our opinion, is the spice combination:  ground cinnamonground clovescelery saltdried summer savourysaltwhite pepperfreshly ground black pepperOne other note about a fantastic Tourtière is the pie crust. Heather made this one with lard and even Erin, pie baker extraordinaire, thought it was a damn good pie crust. We call this a win all around!  Tourtière Canadienne recipe.  Three Kitchens Podcast - a home cooking show Check out our website where you can listen to all of our episodes and find recipes on our blog: www.threekitchenspodcast.com You can support the show with a small donation at Buy Me A Coffee. Want to be a guest? We want to hear from you! Join us on our socials! Instagram @three_kitchens_podcast Facebook @threekitchenspodcast YouTube @threekitchenspodcast TikTok @threekitchenspodcast Rate, review, follow, subscribe and tell your friends!

    27 min
  7. S6, E6: Diabetes Friendly Salmon Recipe with Chef Colleen Cackowski

    2025-11-11

    S6, E6: Diabetes Friendly Salmon Recipe with Chef Colleen Cackowski

    Send us a text In this episode Erin and Heather chat with Chef Colleen Cackowski, co-author of the book, The Diabetes-Free Cookbook and Exercise Guide. Colleen shares her approach to creating delicious and satisfying type two Diabetes-friendly recipes, and her tips for introducing changes to our diet that can contribute to healthy blood sugar levels.  We also try one of the recipes from the book - Dijon Salmon with Capers. This recipe is so easy you can add it to your busy weeknight dinner rotation. Serve with a generous helping of veggies to satisfy even the picky eaters (the kids in our families ate this up).  Whether you're interested in learning more about cooking for Diabetes or simply being as healthy as you can be, this book offers great recipes and lots of helpful information on healthy diet and exercise.  Please remember, we are podcasters talking about food, and sometimes, how it relates to our health. Don't take anything we or our guests talk about as medical advice. Always consult your doctor.  Make the Dijon Salmon: here's the recipe Find the book here or wherever you like to buy books.  Learn more about Chef Colleen's co-author, Dr. John M. Poothullil, on Instagram: instagram.com/DrJohnOnHealth  Three Kitchens Podcast - a home cooking show Check out our website where you can listen to all of our episodes and find recipes on our blog: www.threekitchenspodcast.com You can support the show with a small donation at Buy Me A Coffee. Want to be a guest? We want to hear from you! Join us on our socials! Instagram @three_kitchens_podcast Facebook @threekitchenspodcast YouTube @threekitchenspodcast TikTok @threekitchenspodcast Rate, review, follow, subscribe and tell your friends!

    37 min

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Tired of cooking the same old things? Same! So, let's get inspired for our next cooking adventure! Whether you enjoy cooking or just like good food, join us every Tuesday as we share recipes and ideas for making food we love in our own home kitchens.