1. Meal prep

   6 bean and lentil lunches

   Beans, lentils and chickpeas are the backbone of a lunch that is still good on Thursday. They soak up sauce instead of going soggy, and a tin costs less than a coffee.

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2. Sweets

   6 desserts rich in protein

   A dessert can be a dessert and still do some work. These all have at least 12 g of protein a serving, without tasting like a protein bar.

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3. Meal prep

   6 big-batch stews

   A good stew is mostly waiting. The work is a short stretch of chopping and browning at the start, and then the pot does the rest while you do something else.

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4. In season · November

   What to cook this month

   Pumpkin and squash, apples, mushrooms, cabbage and leeks are at their best and cheapest now. Here is what to make with them.

   Pumpkin and squashSweet Potato Salad · Pumpkin Carrot Soup · Pumpkin Feta Pasta7 dishes → ApplesApple Carrot Salad6 dishes → MushroomsCreamy Pesto Pasta25 dishes → CabbageMinestrone11 dishes → LeeksGerman Potato Soup3 dishes →
5. Beginners

   6 easy dishes for beginners

   The first dishes you learn should be short, forgiving and good enough that you want to cook them again. These are the simplest beginner dishes in Cookpath, the ones with the fewest ingredients.

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6. Breakfast

   5 pancake recipes

   Pancakes are the weekend breakfast everyone already loves. Here are all of the ones in Cookpath, from a tall fluffy stack to a savoury kimchi pancake for dinner.

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7. Beginners

   6 egg dishes for beginners

   An egg is the cheapest thing in the kitchen that can be cooked a dozen ways. These are the egg dishes to learn first, and each one teaches a different skill.

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8. Beginners

   6 dishes to learn searing

   The brown crust on a steak or a chicken thigh is where most of the flavour is. These dishes all depend on a good sear, quickest first.

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9. High protein

   6 dinners rich in protein

   Dinners with real protein in them, and a real plate of food around that. These are the highest-protein dinners in Cookpath, sorted by the grams a serving.

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10. High protein · the lead story

    8 cottage cheese recipes

    Cottage cheese is one of the cheapest ways to add protein to a dish, and most people only know it as a sad tub next to the salad. Blended or baked, it disappears into pasta, eggs and even brownies.

    The Cookpath kitchen · 11 min read
11. Sweets

    6 chocolate desserts

    Chocolate desserts that do not need a special trip to the shop. A few are quick, a few take patience, and all of them are worth it.

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12. Sweets

    6 desserts in 20 minutes

    Dessert does not have to be a project. Every dish here takes twenty minutes or less, and the shortest ones are done before the kettle has boiled.

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13. Quick dinners

    6 one-pan dinners

    One pan to cook in and one pan to wash. These dinners go from raw ingredients to the table without a second pot in sight.

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14. Quick dinners

    6 pasta dinners in 30 minutes

    The sauce cooks while the pasta boils. Every one of these is on the table in 30 minutes or less.

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15. Seasonal

    6 pumpkin and squash dishes

    Pumpkin and squash are the cheapest way to make a plate feel like autumn. These are the dishes in Cookpath that use them, from soup to pasta, bowls and a dip.

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16. Just added

    10 new dishes in Cookpath

    Frika (Potato and Cheese Hash)40 min · 35 g proteinCreamy Paprika Chicken30 min · 36 g proteinChicken Pesto Pan Bread3 h 50 min · 16 g proteinHungarian Mushroom Soup1 h 10 min · 41 g proteinCreamy Chocolate Lovers Oatmeal15 min · 16 g proteinHoney Sriracha Chicken30 min · 30 g proteinCreamy Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta30 min · 27 g proteinFried Cheese Curds1 h 30 min · 28 g proteinChicken Au Poivre Skewers40 min · 24 g proteinChicken Parmesan Meatballs45 min · 45 g proteinFrika (Potato and Cheese Hash)40 min · 35 g proteinCreamy Paprika Chicken30 min · 36 g proteinChicken Pesto Pan Bread3 h 50 min · 16 g proteinHungarian Mushroom Soup1 h 10 min · 41 g proteinCreamy Chocolate Lovers Oatmeal15 min · 16 g proteinHoney Sriracha Chicken30 min · 30 g proteinCreamy Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta30 min · 27 g proteinFried Cheese Curds1 h 30 min · 28 g proteinChicken Au Poivre Skewers40 min · 24 g proteinChicken Parmesan Meatballs45 min · 45 g protein
17. Seasonal

    6 apple and cinnamon desserts

    Apple, pear and cinnamon are what a kitchen smells like when the weather turns. These are the sweet dishes in Cookpath that use them.

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18. Breakfast

    6 oat breakfasts

    Oats are the cheapest breakfast in the shop and one of the most flexible. These are the ways we cook them in Cookpath, hot, cold and baked.

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19. High protein

    6 high-protein lunches

    A lunch that keeps you going until six has two jobs: enough protein to stay full, and few enough calories that you are not asleep at your desk by three. Every dish here does both.

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20. Quick dinners

    6 quick dinners

    Twenty-five minutes is the time it takes to decide on a takeaway, wait for it and find a plate. These are dinners that are on the table in the same time, start to finish.

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21. Breakfast

    6 breakfasts rich in protein

    A breakfast with real protein is the difference between being hungry at ten and not thinking about food until lunch. These all have 20 g or more a serving.

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22. Seasonal

    6 warm soups and stews

    November is for pots that sit on the hob while the windows steam up. These stews and soups are the slow, warm ones, and most of them make enough for tomorrow too.

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23. Meal prep

    Mealime closed. Here is how to keep planning your week.

    What to cook on Sunday, what keeps until Wednesday, and one shopping list for all of it.

    8 min read