Recipes I’ve made and would make again.
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Breakfast / Brunch
Pancakes
Smitten Kitchen
The Pancake Princess
Modern Eats Farmhouse
- 3-week old discard is too old
- Makes 10-12 pancakes — feeds two adults with no sides

Coffee cake + muffins
Garlic and Zest

Little Spoon Farm
- used Greek yogurt
- added 6T buttermilk
- could probably reduce sugar because the topping is quite sweet

Eggs
The Kitchn
- 3 eggs – 1.5c dairy
- 350 degrees for 40-50 min
- Protect crust during main bake

- 1/23 – used 3 Tbsp cream
Budget Bytes
Serious Eats
- I usually use jalapenos or green bell pepper
- Grape tomatoes are fine, the skins are marginally annoying
- Serve with pita bread
Snacks
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
Minimalist Baker
Scones
Smitten Kitchen
freezes OK, though I have had some issues with butter melting out from frozen
King Arthur Baking

Smitten Kitchen
- 5/23
- 12/25 – added orange zest, used 1/3c cranberries (uncut), cut into 8 wedges, baked 14 minutes

- 8/24 – lighten up on the vanilla

Quick breads
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


Foragers of Happiness

Dinner
Mains
Quick / light dinners (30-45 min)
👉My version
Smitten Kitchen
- Absolutely double this if you make the original! My version has doubled quantities
- The sizzling oil with fresh chopped rosemary is *amazing*
- takes about 30-45 minutes to make depending on prep
👉My version
Dassana’s Veg Recipes
- Serve with buttered white toast and chutney
- Grate the ginger and garlic

Diana Marie Home
- 3/25 — used cheddar, jalapenos and red onion — a little bland, husband suggests adding a slice of ham

A Couple Cooks
Spicy peanut noodles
A Beautiful Mess
- 4/23 – kind of blended these recipes
Dishing Out Health

Easy Cheesy Vegetarian

Soups
The Kitchn
- Two 8-oz packs of tortellini
- Could try one pack plus another pasta, or serving with grilled cheese
Love and Lemons
- 11/24 – upsized with 16c water, 3T better than bouillon, 3 cans chickpeas, 1c orzo, and 3/4 jar red peppers
The gremolata adds so much flavor, I make a huge batch
Minimalist Baker
- 2/25 — used green lentils, added bay leaves and thyme
- serve with ciabatta bread
The Mediterranean Dish

Sugar Love Spices
- 12/24 – added an extra cup of water and 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/25 – doubled the barley which was a mistake
- The fresh rosemary makes it
- White beans better than cannelini
- Green cabbage better than savoy cabbage
- Diced tomatoes may work better than halved cherry tomatoes
- Serve with ciabatta bread
Baked Dishes
Food Network
- Sheep’s milk cheese is needed for it to emulsify properly
- Need TWO pints of cherry tomatoes
- OK with either basil or parsley as the herb


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
adapted from Mark Bittman
I used to make this all the time but it’s kind of a lot of work
Love and Lemons
Meal ‘salads’
👉My version (farro salad with delicata squash)
Smitten Kitchen
- may need to add more water or put lid on farro towards the end

Fish
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
Natasha’s Kitchen

Baked tilapia with tomatoes and chickpeas
- 7/25 – only had 1 pint tomatoes and would have liked more, included chickpeas, served with rice
- 9/25 – two packs of tomatoes was better

Stovetop meals
👉My version
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
- 12/24 — used beluga lentils but the green/brown lentils work better because it turns into a paste

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
Smitten Kitchen
Budget Bytes
- Double it!
- Green lentils need extra 1c water and 10-15 minutes cook time
- I usually double or triple the spices and add juice from 1/2-1 lime
- Serve with rice, flatbread and mango chutney
Budget Bytes
Bowl of Delicious
Minimalist Baker
- 3/24 – added carrots, seasoned with an extra dash of balsamic, used cow milk, used fingerling potatoes but found the skins annoying
The Mediterranean Dish
An Oregon Kitchen
- 3/25 – used carrot, green cabbage, yellow onion and rutabega
- 9/25 – used carrot, green cabbage, white onion, golden beet, diced orange bell pepper and cheddar cheese — too many veggies and not enough batter to really hold it together (pictured)
halve the recipe for 2 people

Sides
Component sides
Mexico in My Kitchen

Chickpeas from scratch in tomatoes
- 6/25 – omitted fennel, added bay leaves, took 1.5-2 hours to cook iirc
‘Meal’ sides
The Mediterranean Dish
made as a main but husband suggests it would be better as a side
Beluga lentil middle eastern salad
- 6/23 — made with carrots and castelvetrano olives, omitted tomatoes
New Feast
Creamy Orzo with Garlic, Parmesan, and Blistered Tomatoes
made as a main but husband suggests it would be better as a side

Veggie sides
Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter
Sauces and toppings
Fresh Coast Eats
Dessert
Brownies
Nora Cooks Vegan
Fruit Desserts
Apples
adapted from Rose Levy Beranbaum
Berries
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

The Easy Veg Kitchen





















One reply on “Recipes”
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I’ve gone through many phases of cooking and food over my adult life, including a number that I’m quite happy to have moved past, ranging from my college era “salt is bad for you so I just won’t use it” 🤦♀️ days of flavorless food to attempting a zero waste locavore diet (easier today than in 2008, I suspect, when I created a wiki for finding bulk food) to the exhausting fiasco of “whole food is healthier therefore I must make everything from scratch” 😒
At the start of the pandemic, I gave up on cooking dinner altogether, switching to mostly ordering takeout / delivery (a very expensive habit, but what I was mentally up for at the time). I also started working with a nutritionist to address digestive issues and medication that suppressed my appetite, so my eating habits changed some.
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