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Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

Puerto Rican Home Cooking, with Omi Hopper

Aug 11, 2026 · 27m

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What if you could easily fill your kitchen with the comforting aromas of sizzling sofrito, fluffy rice, and tender stews? This week, we’re talking to Omi Hopper, TikTok creator and runner-up on Next Level Chef, and author of Cooking Con Omi: A Love Letter to Puerto Rican Home Cooking . She’s sharing her favorite weeknight dinners, meal-prep strategies, and the techniques she uses to build big Puerto Rican flavor at home. By the end of this episode, you’ll discover: How fresh sofrito and homemade sazón can transform even simple weeknight meals How to meal prep for flexibility, instead of a fridge full of repetitive leftovers Flavor-packed shortcuts to get dinner to taste special without…