Recipes

Recipes I’ve made and would make again.

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Breakfast / Brunch

Pancakes

Cinnamon pancakes
The Pancake Princess
Sourdough Pancakes (Sourdough Discard)
Modern Eats Farmhouse

  • 3-week old discard is too old
  • Makes 10-12 pancakes — feeds two adults with no sides

three pancakes covered in syrup

Coffee cake + muffins

Blueberry Coffee Cake
Smitten Kitchen

  • Can omit 1/4c sugar from filling
  • Omit walnuts

Cinnamon streusel coffee cake
Garlic and Zest

  • 7/22 – heck yeah so much topping
  • 12/23
  • 2024 – too rich for me 😢

coffee cake with massive crumbles topping

Pumpkin streusel muffins
The Novice Chef

  • 1/23 – made 17 muffins
  • 1/22 – baked 5+ extra minutes, made 17 muffins

Good without cream cheese icing

Tray of pumpkin muffins topped with streusel from above

Sourdough Blueberry Muffins with Crumb Topping
Little Spoon Farm

  • used Greek yogurt
  • added 6T buttermilk
  • could probably reduce sugar because the topping is quite sweet

tray of twelve muffins from above

Eggs

Leek and spinach eggs
Ottolenghi

Omit preserved lemon

four eggs in spinach in a skillet drizzled with herby oil

Foolproof quiche
The Kitchn

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

Cream eggs

  • 1/23 – used 3 Tbsp cream
Menemen
Budget Bytes
Menemen
Serious Eats

  • I usually use jalapenos or green bell pepper
  • Grape tomatoes are fine, the skins are marginally annoying
  • Serve with pita bread

Snacks

No bake oatmeal chocolate bars
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

Scones

Strawberry Cream Biscuits
Smitten Kitchen

freezes OK, though I have had some issues with butter melting out from frozen

Cream Tea Scones
King Arthur Baking

  • 4/23 – vanilla bean and experimental batch with rosemary
  • 3/23 – replaced vanilla with orange and cranberry
  • 9/21

scone on a plate with a cup of tea and baking sheet

Dreamy cream scones
Smitten Kitchen

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

tray of scones with dried fruit

Sourdough scones

  • 8/24 – lighten up on the vanilla

single scone on plate

Quick breads

Lemon blueberry bread
Nora Cooks Vegan

  • 8/23 – 80 minute bake time, still good with light glaze
  • 8/22
  • Made with dairy, not vegan
  • Don’t forget to rub the zest into the sugar
  • Dredging the blueberries does help with sinking

Ultimate zucchini bread
Smitten Kitchen

slice of bread with melting butter pats besides loaf in pan

Buttermilk cornbread
Sugar and soul

  • 2/25 – made with unsalted butter, needed more salt
  • 11/23
  • 4/23

cornbread wedge split on a plate beside a cast iron skillet of cornbread

Pumpkin bread
Smitten Kitchen

Biscuits

Southern-style buttermilk biscuits
The Kitchn

biscuits on cast iron griddle

Sour Cream Buttermilk Biscuits
J. Kenji López-Alt / The Food Lab

  • 11/21 – served with mushroom gravy

four biscuits on tray

Sourdough Buttermilk Biscuits
Foragers of Happiness

six puffy biscuits from above on a cast iron griddle

Dinner

Mains

Quick / light dinners (30-45 min)

Quick pasta and chickpeas
👉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

bowl of chickpeas and pasta topped with rosemary and garlic

Paneer Bhurji
👉My version
Dassana’s Veg Recipes

  • Serve with buttered white toast and chutney
  • Grate the ginger and garlic

paneer topping a slice of bread with a dab of mango chutney

Super easy sourdough breakfast wrap
Diana Marie Home

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

sourdough wrap with cooked asparagus sticking out

Easy peanut noodles
A Couple Cooks
Spicy peanut noodles
A Beautiful Mess

  • 4/23 – kind of blended these recipes
Tuna toast with olive relish
Dishing Out Health
olive relish scattered over tuna salad on ciabatta bread
this shows 2x tuna — stick to original ratio

holding up a sandwich so the filling is visible

Soups

Tomato tortellini soup
The Kitchn

  • Two 8-oz packs of tortellini
  • Could try one pack plus another pasta, or serving with grilled cheese

White bean soup with gremolata
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

bowl of brothy soup laden with chickpeas and spotted with dark green kale and bright red peppers

Italian Lentil Soup
Minimalist Baker

  • 2/25 — used green lentils, added bay leaves and thyme
  • serve with ciabatta bread
Italian Lentil Soup
The Mediterranean Dish

bowl of thick soup with lentils, chunks of carrot, and wilted kale

Barley and White Bean Soup
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

Baked Feta Pasta
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

plate of creamy rigatoni pasta with basil and cherry tomatoes
big pan of rigatoni with feta and roasted tomatoes

Tangy braised chickpeas
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

bowl of chickpeas and pasta

Eggplant layered with vegetables
adapted from Mark Bittman

I used to make this all the time but it’s kind of a lot of work

Butternut & thyme galette
Love and Lemons

whole galette with well folded over crust

Meal ‘salads’

Butternut squash farro salad
👉My version (farro salad with delicata squash)
Smitten Kitchen

  • may need to add more water or put lid on farro towards the end

chickpeas scattered atop pile of farro salad with slices of pickled red onion next to a pile of roasted diced beets

Fish

Toasted sesame ginger salmon
How Sweet Eats

  • 1/23 – halved the marinade for two salmon fillets — could make a half batch of the honey glaze

Indian-spiced fish curry

SCD / low FODMAP friendly

bowl of bright orange curry with green beans, red peppers and fish

Fish tacos
Natasha’s Kitchen

fish tacos topped with corn and salsa with margarita in a can

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

plate with a bed of rice topped with a piece of tilapia, cooked tomatoes, two slices of bread

Stovetop meals

Vegan Lentil Sloppy Joes
👉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

cheese melted on lentil sloppy joes beside an enamel cast iron skillet

Spicy sloppy joes
Simply Scratch

Pizza beans
Smitten Kitchen

half loaf of bread next to cheesy tomato saucy veggies and beans

Creamy coconut curry lentils with spinach
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

bowl of rice, lentils and greens mixed together

Chana saag
Budget Bytes
Red lentil curry
Rainbow Plant Life

Serve with rice and naan for texture variety

White bean and mushroom stew
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

Those fried pita strips were rockin

toasted pita strips on chickpea stew

Lablabi (Tunisian Chickpea Stew)
The Mediterranean Dish
Sourdough vegetable fritters
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

four fritters on a cast iron skillet next to bowl of batter

Sides

Component sides

Slow cooker pinto beans
The Pioneer Woman

Mexican Rice
Mexico in My Kitchen

mexican rice with baked tilapia, corn kernels, and black beans

Air fryer tofu
Pinch of Yum

I’ve added this to the peanut noodle salad

Chickpeas from scratch in tomatoes

  • 6/25 – omitted fennel, added bay leaves, took 1.5-2 hours to cook iirc

‘Meal’ sides

Mediterranean-Style Toasted Orzo with Parmesan and Sundried Tomatoes
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
Beluga lentils with golden cream
New Feast

Creamy Orzo with Garlic, Parmesan, and Blistered Tomatoes

made as a main but husband suggests it would be better as a side

pile of creamy pasta sprinkled with Parmesan

Veggie sides

Roasted spiced carrots and parsnips
Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter

a plate with roasted carrots and parsnips topped with crumbled paneer beside black lentils and some torn flatbread

Asparagus and carrot chop
Smitten Kitchen Keepers
(recipe not online)

Three dishes -- white beans, snow peas, and veggie salad in Heath dishes

Sauces and toppings

Parmesan cream (milk) sauce
A Couple Cooks

  • 3/23 — served with salmon ravioli, tasty! Easy and quick
Nut-free pesto
Fresh Coast Eats

Dessert

Brownies

Peanut butter brownies
Nora Cooks Vegan

Fruit Desserts

Apples

Apple crisp
👉 My Version
The Kitchn

  • Omit vanilla
  • Serve with vanilla ice cream or lemon greek yogurt

bowl of oaty apple crisp with scoop of vanilla ice cream

Apple crumb pie with cream cheese pie crust
adapted from Rose Levy Beranbaum

baked crumb top pie fresh out of the oven

Berries

Blueberry Pancake Cobbler
Smitten Kitchen Keepers

  • 8/23 – doubled, added 50% extra blueberries
  • 3/24 – doubled with 5c frozen blueberries, added 1Tbsp cornstarch, 60 minute bake time

bowl with serving of cobbler next to 8x8 pyrex with sheet sugar crust on cobbler

Peaches and pears

Peach cobbler
The Kitchn

bowl of cobbler beside pyrex dish

Poached pears with ice cream
The Easy Veg Kitchen

poached pears with scoop of ice cream and pecan shortbread cookie

Citrus

Phoenicians’ key lime pie
All Recipes

  • 11/22 – used store-bought crust

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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