Dinner
10-Minute Honey Soy Garlic Chicken Breast with Leftover White Rice
Chicken breast scored in a crosshatch, rubbed with a dark soy, honey, garlic and mirin glaze, seared and served over leftover white rice.
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Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Strawberries dipped in semisweet chocolate melted with a little oil, optionally rolled in coconut, pistachios or sprinkles.
Sides
Watermelon Caprese Salad
Watermelon balls, mini mozzarella, cucumber and strawberries with lemon juice, basil, balsamic vinaigrette and roasted pecans.
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Breakfast
Avocado Toast with Egg on Sourdough
The fluffiest avocado egg toast on sourdough. A simple, healthy breakfast with protein, healthy fats, and an amazing fluffy texture. The secret is a potato ricer.
Breakfast
Pumpkin Muffins with Lemon Farmer Cheese & Dark Chocolate
Soft pumpkin muffins with a dark chocolate center and a creamy lemon-vanilla farmer cheese topping, made with Lifeway Kefir, Farmer Cheese and Kefir Butter.
Snacks
Crispy Cheese Jack-O-Lantern
One pan. 2 cheeses. Zero flour. Cheddar and Parmesan make the crispiest snack, a gluten-free, low-carb, high-protein way to celebrate Halloween.
Dinner
Halloween Pasta with a Protein Boost
An easy Halloween dinner idea: spooky, colorful pasta topped with adorable egg-white skulls, steamed in a skull-shaped mold for a protein boost.
Breakfast
High-Protein Jack-O’-Lantern Pumpkin Pancakes
A high-protein Halloween breakfast: easy pumpkin pancakes made with real pumpkin and kefir, with a cocoa jack-o’-lantern face drawn in the pan.
Snacks
Baked Pumpkin Polenta Chips
The easiest healthy Halloween snack for kids: baked pumpkin-shaped polenta chips, crispy outside and soft inside. Gluten free.
Dinner
Cheesy Jack-o’-Lantern Stuffed Onions
Sweet onions carved into jack-o’-lanterns, filled with cheesy pasta, topped with cheddar and baked. Easy to double for a larger group.
Breakfast
Chinese Garlic Chive Kuku
A golden, Kuku Sabzi-inspired herb frittata made with fresh Chinese garlic chives (Jiu Cai) and finished with chili crisp. A Persian twist on eggs.
Family dinners
Dinner
Crispy Rice Paper Salmon
Salmon with hoisin, chili crisp, garlic and jalapeño, wrapped in rice paper and pan-fried until golden and crispy. Dip in sweet chili sauce.
Dinner
Gluten-Free Potato Noodles with Broccoli
Homemade potato noodles tossed with broccoli in a sweet, savory, slightly spicy sauce.
Dinner
Easy Gluten-Free One-Pan Black Cod Dinner
Tender, flaky Black Cod with roasted sweet potatoes, regular and purple potatoes, shallots, garlic and fresh rosemary, all made on one sheet pan.
Dinner
15-Minute One-Pan Steak Noodles
Protein + veggies + carbs in ONE pan. Steak, noodles, mushrooms and snap peas tossed in a hoisin and honey sauce. No extra dishes.
Global flavors
Snacks
Chinese Five-Spice Boiled Peanuts
Chinese spiced boiled peanuts simmered with five-spice, star anise and cinnamon bark. A new favorite healthy snack that freezes well.
Snacks
Mediterranean Labneh Cheese Balls with Lifeway Farmer Cheese
Drained farmer cheese blended with olive oil and salt, rolled into balls, coated in za’atar, sesame or paprika and stored in olive oil.
Dinner
Kubbeh Hamusta
Bulgur and semolina dumplings filled with ground beef and parsley, cooked in a lemony turmeric soup with carrots, celery and chard.
Snacks
Keto Mediterranean Rice Paper Kebab Dumplings
Spiced ground beef wrapped in doubled rice paper, shaped like flowers, pan-fried until crisp on the bottom and then steamed through.
Gluten-free
Snacks
Citrus Carpaccio
A colorful citrus plate of grapefruit, blood orange, clementines, oranges and sweet lemon, finished with olive oil, fresh herbs and chili flakes.
Desserts
Frozen Apple Donuts with Pumpkin Cream
No-flour, no-bake frozen apple slices piped with a pumpkin and farmer cheese cream and dipped in dark chocolate.
Snacks
2-Ingredient Kefir Gummies
Strawberry kefir set with bloomed gelatin in silicone molds: a fun treat with 5 minutes of prep and 2 to 3 hours in the fridge. Makes about 40 gummies.
Snacks
Sweet Chili Chip Crunch
Gluten-free potato chips pan-fried with maple syrup and chili flakes until glossy, then cooled and broken up as a salad topping.
Easy desserts
Desserts
Farmer Cheese Lemon Almond Bites
No-bake bites of drained farmer cheese blended with maple, vanilla, butter and lemon zest, firmed up with almond flour and rolled into balls.
Desserts
Orange Crème Brûlée
Crème brûlée custard flavored with orange juice and zest, baked in a water bath inside hollowed-out orange halves and chilled.
Desserts
Halloween Strawberry Coconut Skeleton Sorbet
A frozen dessert layered in a skeleton mold: coconut cream, blended strawberry sorbet and a strawberry whipped cream layer.
Desserts
Stuffed Apples with Farmer Cheese
Baked apples filled with a cheesecake-style mix of farmer cheese, honey, cinnamon and citrus zest, with a cinnamon stick stem.
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