It breaks our heart to tell you that our hands-on cooking classes have been cancelled due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Please stand by as we regroup so we may offer you more virtual ways to cook good, clean food at home. In the meantime… don’t forget to follow our Instagram feeds justsimplycuisine, justsimplycuisinenorth and…
Living Off the Land
We’ll be stepping up and sharing kitchen and garden tips and tricks to help you weather through COVID-19! See our recent video and link here as we take you through our garden and talk about herbs, garden structure, spring pruning, self-seeding wild flowers and our arch enemy… the squirrels! Don’t forget to poke us if…
Gourmet Getaway
Experience an entire weekend of delicious fun exploring the region’s best flavors with Executive Chef Martin Galloway and Chris Coppola Leibner of Washington’s Just Simply Cuisine, along with friends from The Cornucopia Café and FireFly Farms.
Marrying the Seasons…
Farm markets are a great way to learn about what’s “in season” and “where food comes from”. And colorful flavor is everything in a dish. Here we married spring and summer by prepping asparagus with zucchini and tomatoes to make a deliciously vibrant “Pasta Primavera”. One of our favorite class sayings is “what grows together…
Heading North
As many of you know, since 1995, Just Simply… Cuisine has pioneered the DC “good food” movement in home cooking, eco-friendly kitchens and organic, edible teaching gardens. We are pleased to announce that our mission “to change the way we eat” is on its’ way to Chevy Chase DC as a new affiliate, Just Simply… Cuisine North….
Introducing… Mise en Fridge
Just Simply…Cuisine recently launched Mise en Fridge, a platform to share tips and resources for prepping the kitchen. As part of this series, we’re reaching out to our friends and home cooks for their “mis en fridge” ideas. JSC Contributor… Tory O’Kane Our weekdays are pretty busy, so anything I can do ahead of time…
The We’re Cookin’ Foodcast: You Can Do It!
On our final episode of our first season, we’re bringing back our co-host Radell to wrap up our first season with some real home cooking stories. Chris is also joined by Just Simply… Cuisine’s beloved apprentices Kelly Hart and and Kelsey Macdonald and cooking student Joe Vealencis to share everything from their favorite home cooking…
The We’re Cookin’ Foodcast: Learning, Shopping and Cooking with Our Favorite Farmers
Have you visited your neighborhood farmers market lately? Chris is joined by Mary Ackley of Little Wild Things City Farm, Megan Day of FRESHFARM Markets, and Marty Jolin of Twin Springs Fruit Farm to discuss everything from farmers’ markets to farming disasters. They share how they got interested in farming, how to roast vegetables, and…
The We’re Cookin’ Foodcast: Spring Gardening with Niraj Ray of Cultivate the City
It’s that time of year: we’re getting excited about spring gardens! Chris is joined by Niraj Ray from Cultivate the City. Cultivate the City is committed to transforming urban food deserts into thriving, vertical, organic gardens. Niraj shares his passion for vertical farming, fixing the food system, working with elementary school gardens to spread healthy eating,…
The We’re Cookin’ Foodcast: Drinking Locally with Don Ciccio e Figli Artisanal Spirits and Rodman’s Gourmet Grocer
Cooking and drinking go hand in hand! Chris is joined in our foodcast nook by Jonathan Fasano of Don Ciccio & Figli, a D.C.-based Italian liqueur distillery using traditional techniques straight from the Amalfi Coast, and Nolan Rodman of Rodman’s Gourmet Grocer, a family-owned and operated store that has been a shopping destination for international…
The We’re Cookin’ Foodcast: There’s Always a Fix!
Our co-host Radell Peischler is back in the kitchen with Chris this week to talk about what we can do when we make a mistake or forget an ingredient. Sometimes, whether we’re new to the kitchen or experienced professionals, things happen while we’re cooking that we don’t expect. What can we do if a dish…
The We’re Cookin’ Foodcast: Bread Baking and Cheesemaking with Fresh Baguette and FireFly Farms Creamery
This week in our recording nook, we’re joined by Mike Koch and Pablo Solanet of FireFly Farms Creamery and Vincent Mathieu of Fresh Baguette, two local artisan foodmakers who are producing some of the finest cheese and bread this side of the Potomac. Mike, Pablo and Vincent tell us about how they found their crafts,…
