meals and dishes

Meals & Dishes

Best Blueberry Smoothie

Our blueberry smoothie is so creamy and delicious. Depending on how ripe or sweet your fruit is, you may need to add a little extra honey, so add based on your taste. I prefer frozen blueberries over fresh ones since they blend into a creamier smoothie.

Meals & Dishes

Perfect English Muffins

With our recipe, you will make the best English muffins! The recipe uses simple ingredients to create a light, airy texture and so many nooks and crannies. I especially love the tangy flavor, thanks to the sour cream. The dough takes a while to rise since we do it slowly in the fridge. This slow rise makes the English muffin dough easier to work with and the flavor vastly improves with the extra time. To make things easy, I like making my dough on one day, proof overnight in the fridge, and then form and cook the next day. See the tips below for how to make these in one day.

Meals & Dishes

Easy Buttery Drop Biscuits

These drop biscuits are ridiculously easy to make. Once you make them, I just know you’ll be itching to make them again and again. The entire process can be done in under 30 minutes and they taste fantastic.

Meals & Dishes

Perfect Roasted Mushrooms

Roast mushrooms to perfection with this easy recipe. Roasting mushrooms is one of the easiest ways to cook mushrooms. Our method gives them a head start in the oven before stirring garlic, salt, and pepper. This way, the mushrooms brown, and the garlic does not overcook.

Meals & Dishes

Best Everyday Oatmeal

We love this oatmeal and enjoy it almost every morning. The best method for cooking oatmeal is our stovetop method. It takes about 10 minutes and is simple. However, we understand that even a few minutes saved in the morning can be a game-changer, so we have also shared our method for cooking oatmeal in the microwave. You can make this oatmeal recipe with water, milk, or a combination of the two. For our everyday oatmeal, we stick with water, but for an extra creamy bowl of oatmeal, use 50% or all milk (dairy or non-dairy milk both work).

Meals & Dishes

Easy Cauliflower Chickpea Salad

Thanks to a light lemony dressing and lots of fresh herbs, this simple raw cauliflower salad recipe tastes surprisingly delicious and lasts in the fridge for days. The pickled onions are an optional ingredient, but they take the salad to the next level. Here’s our recipe for pickled onions, so you can see how simple they are to make. We break the cauliflower down into tiny florets, but another option is to use a food processor and make a chunky cauliflower rice. Take a look at our cauliflower rice recipe to see how we do it.

Meals & Dishes

Best French Onion Soup We’ve Made

This recipe makes the best French onion soup we’ve ever made at home, and to be honest, it knocks the socks off most that we’ve had at restaurants, too. Take care to caramelize your onions, as that’s where the rich onion flavor comes from.

Meals & Dishes

Easy Broccoli Salad

In this easy broccoli salad recipe, we toss broccoli with bacon, dried cranberries, red onion, and a tangy dressing made with mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, and apple cider vinegar. We do not add sugar to the dressing, but if you prefer sweeter salad dressings, add a pinch of sugar, honey, or maple syrup.

Meals & Dishes

Easy Roasted Tomato Soup

Whether you have an abundance of peak summer tomatoes or the less flavorful ones found in winter, this roasted tomato soup with garlic and basil is the perfect solution. Roasting transforms even lackluster tomatoes, bringing out their sweetness and creating a delicious base for the soup.

Meals & Dishes

Tahini Kale and White Bean Salad

This easy kale and bean salad is packed with good-for-you ingredients, is crave-worthy, and can be made in advance. Since kale is such a hearty green, it can be hard to digest when served raw. We massage the kale leaves with salt and lemon juice to prevent this. Some of the kale’s structure breaks down by rubbing the salt and lemon into the leaves, making the kale a deeper green color and much more tender than if left raw. For the dressing, we use our favorite tahini sauce recipe. It’s very simple to make. I also love this tahini salad dressing, which is less creamy but still delicious.

Meals & Dishes

Chopped Cucumber Tomato Salad

This easy chopped cucumber, tomato and onion salad is reminiscent of tabbouleh made with diced tomatoes, cucumbers and lots of parsley. For the dressing, use vinegar or fresh lemon juice. Since we add raw onions to the salad, the sweeter your onions, the better. If you can find them, try Walla Walla onions or Vidalia onions.

Meals & Dishes

Lemon Turmeric Lentil Soup

This is our favorite lentil soup recipe. I make it whenever we need some healthy comfort food. It’s savory, satisfying, and utterly delicious. I like fresh lemon in this soup and serve it with slices of lemon. You don’t eat the lemon slices. They are there for more flavor and show lemon has been added to the soup.

Meals & Dishes

Easy Three Ingredient Tomato Soup

This is the easiest and tastiest tomato soup I’ve made. I love serving with grilled cheese sandwiches, but this is also wonderful with crusty bread or homemade garlic bread on the side.

Meals & Dishes

Easy White Bean Soup

This hearty vegetable and white bean soup recipe is healthy, easy to make, and tastes fantastic. It’s also vegan when you use a vegan-friendly broth! Since vegetables vary by seasonality, feel free to swap or add different vegetables for the ones listed below. Both cooked and canned beans can be used in this recipe. When using canned beans, we prefer to drain and rinse them before adding them to the soup.

Meals & Dishes

Perfect Tomato Bruschetta

This traditional bruschetta recipe is best when you use fresh, room-temperature tomatoes. It’s also important to set aside a little time to allow the tomatoes to sit with salt. As the tomatoes sit, they become extra flavorful and release some of their juices, perfect for spooning onto the bread later.

Meals & Dishes

Easy Flatbread Pizza

Flatbread pizza is perfect for busy mealtimes. Make this quick and easy pizza with homemade or store-bought flatbread. We have two flatbread recipes on Inspired Taste: no-yeast flatbread made with baking powder and this homemade garlic flatbread made with yeast.

meals and dishes

BY CATEGORIES