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.

Recipe: Vegan Lentil Tortilla Soup

Vegan Lentil Tortilla Soup
eatwithclarity.com
4.8 stars

Such a hearty soup that is super healthy and easy! Yet another great recipe from eatwithclarity.com!

Ingredients: yellow onion, red bell pepper, fire-roasted crushed tomatoes, red lentils, black beans, corn, vegetable broth, cashew cream, tomato paste, garlic, jalapeno, chili powder, cumin, oregano, brown or coconut sugar, olive oil, lime juice, salt

Serve with: tortilla chips, avocado, lime, cilantro

Tips/Notes:

• Added red pepper
• Used a little half and half instead of cashew cream
• Used a serrano instead of a jalapeno
• To make it thicker, used 3 cups of broth instead of 4
• Next time, use 1/2 the amount of lime
• Definitely needs avocado
• Added cheese

Recipe: Honey Sriracha Salmon Bowls

Honey Sriracha Salmon Bowls

eatwithclarity.com
5 stars

Easy and delicious! See the simple ingredient list!

Definitely restaurant-worthy -- each of our bowls would've been at least $30 (due to the amount of salmon) in a restaurant!

Salmon ingredients: salmon, soy sauce or tamari, honey, sriracha, garlic, water

Bowl ingredients: rice, cucumber, edamame, sriracha mayo, avocado, sesame seeds

Tips/Notes:

• Even though it seems like a lot of sriracha, add red pepper flakes
• Made our own sriracha mayo using sriracha, mayo, lemon, garlic salt
• Served with vegetable egg rolls

Recipe: Thai Noodles with Beef and Basil

Thai Noodles with Beef and Basil
Food & Wine Magazine, Aug 2026, p.64
4.9 stars

This was so easy and so delicious -- but note that adding the basil and also Sriracha to taste is critical. Loved the leftovers!

Ingredients: wide rice noodles, flank steak, yellow onion, Thai basil, cornstarch, garlic, thai chiles, ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, fish sauce, sugar, canola oil

Tips/Notes:

• Added tofu so made 1.5x the sauce
• Had steamed broccoli on the side

Recipe: Okinawan Taco Rice

Okinawan Taco Rice

Food & Wine Magazine, Jun 2026, p. 73
4.8 stars

So good and flavorful but a bit acidic! Still really liked it! It's a fun Asian take on a Chipotle bowl. We made quite a few modifications.

Ingredients: sushi rice, beef, pepper Jack cheese, pico de gallo, Kewpie mayonnaise, ketchup, tamari or soy sauce, mirin, Worcestershire sauce, Japanese curry powder, cornstarch, water, extra-virgin olive oil, Kosher salt

Topping Ingredients: lettuce, Mexican-style hot sauce, tortilla chips

Tips/Notes:

• Used Impossible Beef
• Couldn't find Japanese curry powder so used 1 tsp curry powder + 1 tsp togarashi
• Used regular mayo instead of Kewpie mayo

Recipe: Power Cookies

Power Cookies

Food & Wine Magazine, Jun 2026, p. 92

4.6 stars

These were good -- I liked them (great flavor), but they were soft, like falling apart soft so because of that I'd rather make other cookie recipes instead of this one again.

Ingredients: almond flour, natural nut butter, maple syrup, egg, whole-milk Greek yogurt, hemp seeds, baking soda, vanilla extract, butter, salt, add-ins like chocolate chips, raisins, pumpkin seeds...

Notes:

• Used chocolate chunks
• Made 15 cookies

Recipe: Green Pesto Pasta with Whipped Ricotta

Green Pesto Pasta with Whipped Ricotta

Food & Wine Magazine, Jun 2026, p.91

5 stars with modifications

This was delicious -- but we would make it differently next time as we didn't like their pesto recipe nor steps. The addition of the ricotta mixture was a nice addition.

Ingredients for next time: pesto, pasta (bucatini), ricotta, heavy cream, sugar, butter, salt; top with pine nuts and Parmesan

Tips/Notes:

• Basically, we're not going to follow the recipe's pesto instructions using mixed greens and will make our own homemade pesto
• Didn't mix in the ricotta mixture with the pasta but will next time, 
• Served with salad and Beyond Sausage