Recipes I’ve made and would make again.
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Breakfast / Brunch
Pancakes
Tall, fluffy buttermilk pancakes
Smitten Kitchen
Smitten Kitchen
Coffee cake + muffins
Eggs
Foolproof quiche
The Kitchn
The Kitchn
- 3 eggs – 1.5c dairy
- 350 degrees for 40-50 min
- Protect crust during main bake
- 1/23 – used 3 Tbsp cream
Savory breakfasts
Menemen
Budget Bytes
Budget Bytes
Menemen
Serious Eats
Serious Eats
Snacks
No bake oatmeal chocolate bars
Sugar Apron
Sugar Apron
- 1/23 – made with Jif – didn’t do a swirl of chocolate on top which might have been nice – maybe needs a little something?
Watch the sugar mix, it goes from nothing to bubbling fast
Peanut butter coconut “fudge”
Minimalist Baker
Minimalist Baker
Scones
Strawberry Cream Biscuits
Smitten Kitchen
Smitten Kitchen
freezes OK, though I have had some issues with butter melting out from frozen
Quick breads
Lemon blueberry bread
Nora Cooks Vegan
Nora Cooks Vegan
- Made with dairy, not vegan
- Don’t forget to rub the zest into the sugar
- Dredging the blueberries does help with sinking
Biscuits
Lunch
Easy peanut noodles
A Couple Cooks
Spicy peanut noodles
A Beautiful Mess
A Couple Cooks
Spicy peanut noodles
A Beautiful Mess
- 4/23 – kind of blended these recipes
Dinner
Soups and stews
Tomato tortellini soup
The Kitchn
The Kitchn
- Two 8-oz packs of tortellini
- Could try one pack plus another pasta, or serving with grilled cheese
White bean and mushroom stew
Minimalist Baker
Minimalist Baker
- 3/24 – added carrots, seasoned with an extra dash of balsamic, used cow milk, used fingerling potatoes but found the skins annoying
Lebanese chickpea eggplant stew (fatteh)
New Feast
New Feast
White bean soup with gremolata
Love and Lemons
Love and Lemons
Mains
Fish
Toasted sesame ginger salmon
How Sweet Eats
How Sweet Eats
- 1/23 – halved the marinade for two salmon fillets — could make a half batch of the honey glaze
SCD / low FODMAP friendly
Salmon with dill cream sauce
Salt and Lavender
Salt and Lavender
Fish tacos
Natasha’s Kitchen
Natasha’s Kitchen
Beans
Vegan Lentil Sloppy Joes
A Couple Cooks
A Couple Cooks
- 1/23 – made half recipe with brown lentils, made 5 servings — added a dash of mustard to balance the sweet ketchup flavor — cooked lentils in water with no salt
- 4/23 – same as above, though more than a dash of mustard — also added a jalapeno and could have done more — made pickled onions but tbh I don’t think they’re needed — serve on buns with cheese for sure, mellows out the intensity
- 6/23 — adapted into my own version
- 8/23
Pizza beans
Smitten Kitchen
Smitten Kitchen
Tangy braised chickpeas
Smitten Kitchen
Smitten Kitchen
- 4/23 — made 1.5x batch (didn’t multiply sherry vinegar tho), served with egg noodles — try serving with roasted potatoes instead for texture — took ~45 minutes for two of us to prep and get in the oven
Note that this has a long oven time so needs to be started around 4
Quick pasta and chickpeas
Smitten Kitchen
Smitten Kitchen
Spanish chickpea rice pilaf
Budget Bytes
Budget Bytes
- 5/23 – used a jar of marinated artichoke hearts, served with eggplant and castelvetrano olives 🫒
Creamy coconut curry lentils with spinach
Budget Bytes
Budget Bytes
- Double it — allow longer cook time
- Serve with rice, flatbread and mango chutney
Chana saag
Budget Bytes
Budget Bytes
Fake meat
Spicy sloppy joes
Simply Scratch
Simply Scratch
- 12/22 – Made half recipe with 12oz Impossible Burger – took 45 minutes to an hour
- 8/23 – adapted into my own version with lentils
Vegetable mains
Eggplant layered with vegetables
adapted from Mark Bittman
adapted from Mark Bittman
Butternut & thyme galette
Love and Lemons
Love and Lemons
Sides
Beluga lentil middle eastern salad
- 6/23 — made with carrots and castelvetrano olives, omitted tomatoes
Beluga lentils with golden cream
New Feast
New Feast
Roasted spiced carrots and parsnips
Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter
Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter
Sauces
Dessert
Brownies
Peanut butter brownies
Nora Cooks Vegan
Nora Cooks Vegan
Fruit Desserts
Apples
Apple crumb pie with cream cheese pie crust
adapted from Rose Levy Beranbaum
adapted from Rose Levy Beranbaum
Berries
Blueberry Pancake Cobbler
Smitten Kitchen Keepers
Smitten Kitchen Keepers
- 8/23 – doubled, added 50% extra blueberries
- 3/24 – doubled with 5c frozen blueberries, added 1Tbsp cornstarch, 60 minute bake time
Peaches and pears
Poached pears with ice cream
The Easy Veg Kitchen
The Easy Veg Kitchen
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