Recipe: Cheesy Spinach-Potato Egg Casserole

Cheesy Spinach-Potato Egg Casserole

Martha Stewart Living, Apr 2020, p.109
5 stars

Delicious! This is one of my favorite recipes of the year! It has everything I love about breakfast egg dishes -- eggs, potatoes, cheese, and spinach; and it was nice and fluffy. I may be making this every week!

Ingredients: eggs, onion, spinach, Yukon Gold potatoes, fontina, whole milk, unsalted butter, thyme, nutmeg, Kosher salt, pepper

Tips/Notes:

• Used sharp cheddar instead of fontina
• Make sure to reduce the salt by 30%

Recipe: Protein Banana Bread

Protein Banana Bread
https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/protein-banana-bread/
4.7 stars

Overall, for a healthy banana bread with protein powder in it, this was pretty good. It was moist but had a "different" kind of chewy texture to it vs. a bready crumbly texture. I think it needed more sugar, but it was fine!

Ingredients: 3 large bananas, old-fashioned rolled oats, whole wheat flour, vanilla protein powder, plain Greek yogurt, egg, vanilla extract, maple syrup (could use honey or agave), baking soda, baking powder, ground cinnamon, Kosher salt

Tips/Notes:

• We have oat flour so substituted that at the same weight as 3/4 cups of rolled oats
• Subbed all purpose white flour for the whole wheat flour it called for
• Used frozen bananas we kept for this purpose
• Used vanilla Greek yogurt
• Added chocolate chunks

Recipe: Southwest Tofu Scramble

Southwest Tofu Scramble

MinimalistBaker.com
4.7 stars

This is actually more of a breakfast recipe, but we had it for dinner with a side of a Japanese sweet potato. To be honest, I wasn't looking forward to this dish as the ingredients sound a bit boring (but healthy!), but it was really good -- you must have it with hot sauce. I probably will eat the leftovers in the morning with an overeasy egg on top.

Ingredients: extra-firm tofu, red bell pepper, red onion, kale, olive oil

Sauce Ingredients: turmeric, chili powder, ground cumin, garlic powder, sea salt, water

Serve with cilantro, hot sauce, salsa

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