Cottage Cheese Banana Bread (Moist, Less Butter, More Protein)
A moist cottage cheese banana bread made with regular flour. Blended cottage cheese replaces most of the butter: 197 calories and 6.4g protein per slice.
Starbucks Egg Bites Recipe: Easy Bacon & Gruyère Copycat
Copycat Starbucks egg bites at home: bacon, Gruyère and cottage cheese baked in a water bath, no sous vide. About 197 calories and 16.5g protein per 2 bites.
Easy Cottage Cheese Scrambled Eggs (Fluffy, 19g Protein)
Fluffy cottage cheese scrambled eggs in under 10 minutes: the best ratio, why to blend, how to stop watery eggs, and about 19g protein per serving.
High-Protein Pumpkin Spice Blender Muffins
These are pumpkin spice muffins built entirely in a blender, with 10 g of protein and 156 calories each and no protein powder anywhere in the ingredient list. You get 12 muffins in 30 minutes: 10 minutes of prep, 20 minutes in the oven. The protein comes from blended cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, whole eggs…
Cottage Cheese Bagels (12g Protein, 5g Fiber)
A standard plain bagel gives you 11.1g of protein and just 1.7g of fiber per 105g bagel (USDA FoodData Central, FDC ID 174899). Swap the water for blended cottage cheese, add two things nobody else adds, and you can roughly triple the fiber in about 35 minutes, with no yeast and no rising time. Here’s…
12 High Protein Snacks, Ranked by Protein per Calorie
Americans get roughly 75% of their protein at lunch and dinner. Fix mornings with 25 high protein snacks and breakfast recipes, 15g+ each, most in 5 minutes.
Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes (Tall, Light and Easy)
I’ve made pancakes every weekend for three years. Flat ones, rubbery ones, ones that looked perfect and tasted like cardboard. Then I figured out the three things that actually matter, and now I make the kind of stack that makes people think I went to culinary school. The thing is, pancake recipes have exactly…
The Ultimate Avocado Egg Toast With Pickled Onions & Feta: Ready in 5 Minutes
Photo: rawpixel (CC0 public domain) I’ve paid $18 for avocado toast at a brunch spot. Twice. And both times I sat there doing the math, this is four ingredients on bread. I could make this at home for under $3 and it would probably be better. Spoiler: it is better. Avocado egg toast with pickled…
Fluffy Protein Pancakes (With or Without Protein Powder)
Photo: Altered Reality / StockSnap (CC0) My first batch came out like rubber frisbees. I followed the recipe exactly and still couldn’t figure out what went wrong. Turns out, protein pancakes have two enemies that nobody talks about: overmixing and too-high heat. Fix both and you get a stack that is fluffy and golden. Fix…
