Hestia

Heart, Head and Hearth

A cookbook app for the one pot your family already cooks from.

We believe in the pot. One pot, a small pantry of cheap, good things, and dinner for everyone at the table, at a price you can live with. That is cooking that gets handed on.

What one cook learns, the next inherits. A swap that worked, the pot that fed ten for a few bucks: that is worth more to the next cook than anything we could write. Hestia lets you give your pots to the people you choose, and try theirs.

Your kitchen is your business. Hestia keeps count, remembers the way you make things, helps you mix it up, and nothing you put in it leaves your phone unless you hand it to someone yourself.

One evening

  1. You pick a pot your family already likes.

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    Made before

    Pots

    Chicken, Potato & White Bean Stew

    • Serves 4
    • 1 hr 20
    • About $9

    Pollock & Potato Chowder

    • Serves 4
    • 45 min
    • About $7

    Beef Heart & Bean Stew

    • Serves 6
    • 2 hr
    • About $8
  2. It's set like a cookbook. Your own notes stay beside it.

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    Stew · one pot

    Chicken, Potato & White Bean Stew

    • Serves 4
    • 1 hr 20
    • One pot
    • About $9 typical in the Northeast

    Tonight for Sarah, Alex, Dad and you

    Ingredients

    • 2 lbchicken thighs, bone in
    • 1 lbpotatoes
    • 1 cupdried white beans, soaked
    • 1 largeonion
    • 3carrots
    • ¼ headcabbage

      Alex has left cabbage twice.

    • 3 clovesgarlic
    • 4 cupsstock or water
    • 1 tinchopped tomatoes
    • 1 tspdried thyme
    • a handfulchives, to finish

    Method

    1. Brown the chicken in a little oil in a large heavy pot. Lift it out.
    2. Soften the onion and carrots in the same pot, picking up what the chicken left behind. 6 min
    3. Add the garlic and thyme, then the tomatoes, the beans and the stock. Put the chicken back.
  3. You swap potatoes for barley. It adds the stock.

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    Stew · one pot

    Chicken, Potato & White Bean Stew

    • Serves 4
    • 1 hr 20
    • One pot
    • About $9 typical in the Northeast

    Tonight for Sarah, Alex, Dad and you

    Ingredients

    • 2 lbchicken thighs, bone in
    • 1 lbpotatoes
    • 1 cupdried white beans, soaked
    • 1 largeonion
    • 3carrots
    • ¼ headcabbage

      Alex has left cabbage twice.

    • 3 clovesgarlic
    • 4 cupsstock or water
    • 1 tinchopped tomatoes
    • 1 tspdried thyme
    • a handfulchives, to finish

    Method

    1. Brown the chicken in a little oil in a large heavy pot. Lift it out.
    2. Soften the onion and carrots in the same pot, picking up what the chicken left behind. 6 min
    3. Add the garlic and thyme, then the tomatoes, the beans and the stock. Put the chicken back.

    Potatoes · what else would do

    • ½ cuppearl barley
    • ½ cuprice
    • 1 cupmore white beans

    With barley, 1 cup more stock.

    Use barley
  4. It keeps your version. You tap Cook.

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    Stew · one pot

    Chicken, Barley & White Bean Stew

    • Serves 4
    • 1 hr 20
    • One pot
    • About $9 typical in the Northeast

    Tonight for Sarah, Alex, Dad and you

    Ingredients

    • 2 lbchicken thighs, bone in
    • ½ cuppearl barley
    • 1 cupdried white beans, soaked
    • 1 largeonion
    • 3carrots
    • ¼ headcabbage

      Alex has left cabbage twice.

    • 3 clovesgarlic
    • 5 cupsstock or water
    • 1 tinchopped tomatoes
    • 1 tspdried thyme
    • a handfulchives, to finish

    Method

    1. Brown the chicken in a little oil in a large heavy pot. Lift it out.
    2. Soften the onion and carrots in the same pot, picking up what the chicken left behind. 6 min
    3. Add the garlic and thyme, then the tomatoes, the beans and the stock. Put the chicken back.
  5. One step at a time, large enough to read from across the counter.

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    Step 5 of 8

    Add the barley.

    Simmer until it is soft and the stew has thickened.

    28:14

    of 35 minutes

    Meanwhile
    Shred the cabbage. Wash the board and the knife.
    Next
    Add the cabbage for the last 12 minutes.
    Done
  6. You tap how it went. Hestia keeps who loved what, and when.

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    Chicken, Barley & White Bean Stew

    How was it?

    • SarahLovedGoodNot for us
    • AlexLovedGoodNot for us
    • DadLovedGoodNot for us
    • YouLovedGoodNot for us

    Left over

    • Servings2

    In the margin

    Done