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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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Meat Dishes

High-Protein Chicken Alfredo

Fettuccine in a garlic-Parmesan sauce built with Greek yogurt instead of all cream. The yogurt is added off the heat so it doesn't curdle, and you can't taste it in the finished dish. Around 38g of protein per serving instead of the usual 22g.

30 min540 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🥑Keto

★4.4

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Meat Dishes

High-Protein Chili

Ground beef with kidney beans, black beans and a spoonful of Greek yogurt stirred in at the end. Gets better the next day. Freezes well. Around 40g of protein per bowl.

55 min480 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

★4.6

Homemade BBQ Sauce (Sweet, Smoky & Tangy)

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Sauces and Dips

Homemade BBQ Sauce (Sweet, Smoky & Tangy)

Barbecue sauce is the foundation of American pit cooking — a condiment that in its classic Kansas City form balances four fundamental flavors: sweet (brown sugar and molasses), sour (apple cider vinegar), savory (Worcestershire sauce and garlic), and smoky (smoked paprika). Unlike most sauces, which are built by reducing a complex stock, BBQ sauce is assembled from pantry staples and then simmered together for 15 to 20 minutes until the flavors merge and the raw edge of the vinegar rounds out. The result is a thick, glossy, mahogany-coloured sauce that clings to ribs, glazes chicken, and tastes of concentrated American summer. The key adjustable levers: more brown sugar for sweetness, more vinegar for tang, more smoked paprika (or a small amount of liquid smoke) for smokiness, cayenne for heat. This recipe makes approximately 480 ml (2 cups) — enough for one full rack of ribs with extra for dipping.

25 min55 kcal16 serves

⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

★4.5

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Beverages

Homemade Eggnog

Egg yolks cooked into a thin custard with milk, cream, nutmeg, and vanilla, then chilled until thick. Store-bought eggnog is sweet and shelf-stable; this is something different — rich from real eggs, fragrant from freshly grated nutmeg, and thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. The technique is exactly the same as making crème anglaise. If you've made that before, you already know how to make eggnog.

25 min320 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein⚡Quick

★4.7

Homemade Granola with Honey and Clusters

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Breakfast and Brunch

Homemade Granola with Honey and Clusters

Golden oat clusters held together by honey and egg white, baked low and slow until they shatter when you break them apart. The secret is pressing the mixture flat and never touching it in the oven — that's what builds those chunky pieces everyone fights over. Dried fruit goes in after baking so it stays chewy instead of turning into little rocks.

40 min320 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan

★4.8

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Honey Garlic Salmon

Salmon fillets coated in a sticky honey-garlic-soy glaze, baked until just flaky and finished under the broiler for caramelized edges. Four ingredients that matter, 20 minutes total — one of the most searched salmon recipes for good reason.

20 min340 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

★4.5

Honey-Glazed Ham (Easter Spiral-Cut Ham with Honey Mustard Glaze)

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Meat Dishes

Honey-Glazed Ham (Easter Spiral-Cut Ham with Honey Mustard Glaze)

Honey-glazed ham is the centerpiece of the American Easter table — a fully cooked spiral-cut bone-in ham, slow-warmed under foil and brushed with a sticky lacquer of honey, brown sugar, and Dijon mustard. The bone keeps the meat moist, the spiral cut lets the glaze seep into every slice, and a final blast under the broiler gives the signature caramel crust. Serves twelve, makes great sandwiches the next day, and the leftover bone goes into split pea soup. The technique is forgiving: low oven, foil tent, glaze in the last 30 minutes.

150 min330 kcal12 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

★4.6

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Meat Dishes

Hot Honey Bowl

Roasted sweet potato, taco-seasoned ground turkey, cottage cheese, avocado, and a generous drizzle of hot honey. A bowl that sounds questionable until you try it. Cold cottage cheese against warm sweet potato and meat, the sweet heat of the honey on top — it works in a way that is hard to explain before the first bite. One of the most shared high-protein meals on TikTok for a reason.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

★4.7

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Meat Dishes

Hot Honey Cottage Cheese Beef Bowl

Ground beef glazed in spicy-sweet hot honey, served over jasmine rice with a cold scoop of cottage cheese on top. The cottage cheese melts just enough from the heat of the beef to form a creamy layer. One pan. 25 minutes.

25 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

★4.5

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Jambalaya

Jambalaya is a famous spicy Creole dish from the American state of Louisiana — a flavorful mixture of rice, meat and seafood.

45 min500 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

★4.8

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Meat Dishes

Lemon Butter Chicken

Chicken breasts pounded flat, pan-seared golden, then finished in a quick lemon butter pan sauce. Done in 25 minutes. The sauce comes together in the same skillet.

25 min380 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

★4.8

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Meat Dishes

Lemon Marry Me Chicken

The original Marry Me Chicken gets a lemon treatment — zest and juice cut through the cream sauce and make the whole thing taste lighter than it has any right to. Sun-dried tomatoes, parmesan, garlic, a splash of white wine, fresh thyme. One skillet, one sauce, chicken thighs that stay juicy because they finish in the oven. Serve it over pasta, rice, or just with bread to drag through the sauce.

35 min550 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

★4.6

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