When Jon and I first moved to Seattle we couldn’t afford cable. We ended up sticking our television in the closet, and then eventually selling it at a garage sale because we never used it. I don’t really miss having a TV set because we can still get DVDs of most of our favorite shows (Mad Men, 6 Feet Under, Sopranos) from Netflicks and watch them on our computer, but sometimes on a rainy afternoon all I really want to do is sit down, flick on the TV and watch a cooking show (or three).

So I’ve taken to watching online cooking shows and wanted to share two of my favorites with you: Plant. Grow. Eat and Cookus Interruptus.

Plant. Grow. Eat stars my Organic Gardening magazine colleague Abby Poulette and Tim Crowe, a culinary student and the host of his own online cooking show Eating Crowe. I love Plant. Grow. Eat. because it fits the mission of DigginFood (which incidentally is Grow. Cook. Eat) so well! Tim and Abby demonstrate how to make a simple dish using garden fresh ingredients, like pickled green tomatoes and stuffed squash blossoms. Tim has an easy going style and he is not exacting, which is so refreshing, because in my kitchen, cooking is not an exact science!

Cookus Interruptus is one part cooking show, one part sitcom, and wholly awesome. It stars Seattle nutritionist, author and actress, Cynthia Lair, and her fictional family, played by Matt Smith, Bhama Roget, and Frank Buxton. The show has the very serious mission of “educating viewers about how to prepare high-quality wholesome food in the context of busy family life” but they do so in a highly entertaining, super funny, addictive kind of way. It really is must watch TV, except it is on your computer.

I’ve embedded one episode of each of these shows below—Pumpkin Pecan Muffins from Cookus Interruptus and Compound Butter from Plant. Grow.Eat.—but you can put together your own cooking show marathon by watching back episodes at the Cookus Interruptus and Organic Gardening websites.