Episode 31: Handheld meals are the best meals — Home cooking our 8 favorite recipes!

What are our favorite handheld meals? 
Empanadas! Samosas! Piroshki! Borekas! Burritos! (to name a few!)

This week we’re talking all about our favorite portable foods. We start with piroshki, the handheld pastry that Sonya recommended to Kari when she visited Seattle a few years back, then cross cultures to explore empanadas, samosas, onigiri, and borekas. We also explore the world of burritos, both the simple bean and cheese, and the overly stuffed breakfast burrito. As always, we’ll share our favorite spots, as well as tips on how to make our favorite dishes at home. Perfect handheld foods come in many forms, and this episode explores the ones we can’t stop cooking and eating. Tune in to hear more!

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Links to recipes and favorites from this week’s show:

How to make homemade Onigiri

Piroshky Piroshky Seattle 

Sonya’s recipe for cabbage piroshki 

Liz Alpern, of The Gefilteria, knish recipe

Zongzi rice ball recipe  

You can find Sonya’s favorite rice balls at Money Bowl in Portland

Our favorite burritos in LA: Yuca’s, Escuela, Tacos Villa Carona, and El Coyote

How to make flour tortillas at home via King Arthur

Yewande Komolafe’s breakfast burritos for the NY Times

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