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American cooking

The full melting-pot inventory — Southern BBQ, New York slices, Californian bowls, Tex-Mex. Honest home cooking, not diner nostalgia.

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Salads

Coleslaw

Shredded cabbage and carrots dressed in a tangy, slightly sweet mayo-based dressing with a kick of vinegar. The secret is salting the cabbage first to draw out water — otherwise it turns soggy within an hour.

18 min160 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

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Breakfast and Brunch

Cottage Cheese Flatbread

High-protein flatbread made entirely from cottage cheese and eggs — no flour, no yeast, no kneading. This two-ingredient base blends into a smooth batter, bakes into a golden sheet with crispy edges and a soft, pliable center. Perfect as a keto pizza crust, a wrap for lunch prep, or torn into pieces and dipped into hummus. Each serving packs over 20g of protein, making it one of the easiest high-protein breads you can bake.

20 min220 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

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Meat Dishes

Cottage Cheese Pasta Bake

Rigatoni baked with ground turkey, marinara sauce and cottage cheese blended into the sauce — the cottage cheese disappears completely and most people can't identify it. Around 38g of protein per serving. Makes 6 portions, keeps 5 days, freezes well.

50 min480 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

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Meat Dishes

Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl

Taco-spiced ground turkey, roasted sweet potato cubes, cottage cheese, avocado, and kimchi or pickled red onion. The kimchi is not optional if you want the bowl to work — the acid cuts through the fat and sweetness and pulls everything together.

35 min510 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Crab Cakes

Crab cakes are an exquisite and delicious dish. Tender crab meat fried to a crispy crust conceals a delightful combination of flavors and textures.

55 min275 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

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Salads

Crab Salad

Crab sticks, hard-boiled eggs, and sweet corn bound in a light mayo dressing — a crowd-pleasing salad that comes together in ten minutes. Simple ingredients, but the combination of textures keeps everyone reaching for more.

18 min300 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Creamy Garlic Shrimp Pasta

Shrimp seared fast in butter, then a garlic cream sauce built in the same pan — white wine, heavy cream, parmesan, lemon. The pasta finishes in the sauce with a splash of its starchy cooking water. Twenty-five minutes. The only thing that matters is not overcooking the shrimp, which takes about 90 seconds per side and no more.

25 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

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Meat Dishes

Creamy Tuscan Chicken

Chicken breasts seared until golden, then finished in a Parmesan cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and wilted spinach. Looks restaurant-level, takes 30 minutes, uses one skillet. Around 42g of protein per serving.

30 min480 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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Salads

Crispy Cabbage Caesar Salad

Roasted cabbage Caesar salad with caramelized wedges, homemade anchovy dressing, crunchy croutons, and shaved parmesan. The cabbage goes into a screaming-hot oven until the edges char and the natural sugars turn to toffee — then gets the full Caesar treatment. A whole head of cabbage feeds four people for almost nothing, and it tastes better than romaine ever did.

25 min290 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Dainty Donuts

Light and fluffy yeast donuts with a golden-brown exterior and tender crumb, glazed in a honey-lemon syrup — a classic treat perfect for any occasion.

45 min450 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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Salads

Dense Bean Salad

Three types of beans, crisp vegetables, briny olives, crumbled feta, and a sharp oregano-garlic vinaigrette. This recipe went viral on TikTok in 2024 because it actually works as a full meal. About 13g of protein and 11g of fiber per serving. No cooking required, 15 minutes of prep, holds 4 days in the fridge — and tastes noticeably better the next day.

15 min330 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Deviled Eggs with Chipotle

Deviled eggs are one of the easiest appetisers to make badly and one of the most satisfying to get right. The filling needs to be smooth — not grainy, not lumpy — and seasoned assertively enough that you taste it rather than just fat. Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce do two things at once: they add smokiness and heat, and the sauce itself adds a tomato-tinged depth that plain hot sauce doesn't. The lime brings brightness. This is not a subtle dish, which is exactly the point at a table that also has glazed ham and couscous salad.

35 min110 kcal12 serves

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