Recipes

Recipes I’ve made and would make again.

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Breakfast / Brunch

Pancakes

Coffee cake + muffins

Blueberry Coffee Cake
Smitten Kitchen

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

Cinnamon streusel coffee cake
Garlic and Zest

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

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

Savory breakfasts

Menemen
Budget Bytes
Menemen
Serious Eats
Paneer Bhurji
Dassana’s Veg Recipes

Serve with buttered white toast or flatbread

 

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

  • 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

tray of scones with dried fruit

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 pars besides loaf in pan

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

Lunch

Easy peanut noodles
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

  • 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

  • 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

toasted pita strips on chickpea stew

White bean soup with gremolata
Love and Lemons

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

Mains

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

Beans

Vegan Lentil Sloppy Joes
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

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

Pizza beans
Smitten Kitchen
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

bowl of chickpeas and pasta topped with rosemary and garlic

Spanish chickpea rice pilaf
Budget Bytes

  • 5/23 – used a jar of marinated artichoke hearts, served with eggplant and castelvetrano olives 🫒
Leftover Mujadara ish
Whole Foods

  • 1/23 – made with leftover rice and brown lentils

Bowl of mujadara

Slow cooker pinto beans
The Pioneer Woman

Creamy coconut curry lentils with spinach
Budget Bytes

  • Double it — allow longer cook time
  • Serve with rice, flatbread and mango chutney
Chana saag
Budget Bytes

Fake meat

Spicy sloppy joes
Simply Scratch

Vegetable mains

Eggplant layered with vegetables
adapted from Mark Bittman
Butternut & thyme galette
Love and Lemons

whole galette with well folded over crust

Sides

Beluga lentil middle eastern salad

  • 6/23 — made with carrots and castelvetrano olives, omitted tomatoes
Beluga lentils with golden cream
New Feast
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

Parmesan cream (milk) sauce
A Couple Cooks

  • 3/23 — served with salmon ravioli, tasty! Easy and quick

Dessert

Brownies

Peanut butter brownies
Nora Cooks Vegan

Fruit Desserts

Apples

Apple crisp
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

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