Recipe: Creamy Gnocchi Soup with Rosemary Bacon

Creamy Gnocchi Soup with Rosemary Bacon

HalfBakedHarvest.com
5 stars

Delicious, hearty, healthy, relatively low calorie soup. Loved the flavor and everything about this dish! It's filling, but did serve it with a slice of toasted sourdough bread. This is similar to some of her other soup recipes but loved the twist with gnocchi in it. Easy to make.

Ingredients: potato gnocchi, broth, bacon, yellow onion, kale, carrots, celery, garlic, thyme, basil, rosemary, fennel seeds, milk,  red pepper, flour, extra virgin olive oil, salted butter, Kosher salt, black pepper

Serve with grated parmesan or asiago cheese

Tips/Notes:

• Served with toasted sourdough bread

Recipe: Butter Beans alla Vodka

Butter Beans alla Vodka
Food & Wine Magazine, Sep 2026, p, 49
4.8 stars

Well, the first time we made this was a fail because we were trying to use Northern beans that had been in our pantry for YEARS. (Had to throw it out.)

But we made this again, and it was GREAT! Super flavorful and a bit rich because of the heavy cream.

Ingredients: butter beans, marinara sauce, yellow onion, vodka, heavy cream, tomato paste, garlic, red pepper, extra-virgin olive oil, Kosher salt

Serve with Parmesan cheese, basil, crusty bread

Tips/Notes:

• Used cannellini beans

Recipe: Mushroom Steaks Over Polenta

Mushroom Steaks Over Polenta

Justine Doiron
4.7 stars

I like this dish, but there's not much protein so we will need to eat something else with it next time. Good flavor! Would make this as a side, but file it under entrees in my binder.

Ingredients: polenta, mushrooms, garlic, olive oil, red wine, heavy cream, balsamic vinegar, butter, rosemary, oregano or sage, thyme, red pepper, Kosher salt, water; parsley, scallions or chives

Tips/Notes:

• Didn't use large mushrooms that it calls for (Lion's Mane, oyster, or maitake) as we wanted to make sure the recipe was good with less expensive mushrooms -- used baby bellas and shiitake
• Made quick cook polenta

Recipe: Gochujang Tofu Mince

Gochujang Tofu Mince

Justine Doiron
4.8 stars

Super easy dish where we were trying to figure out what to make without having to go to the grocery store -- we had everything in the pantry/at home except for the scallions.

Ingredients: rice, tofu, gochujang, garlic, soy sauce, brown sugar, rice wine vinegar, extra-virgin olive oil; scallions, lime

Had this with broccoli, edamame, and egg rolls. Added sriracha.