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  • Wooden salad bowl filled with romaine lettuce, green onions, hard boiled eggs, bacon, chicken, croutons, tomatoes, blue cheese, and avocado.

    California Cobb Salad with Bacon Croutons and Basil Vinaigrette

  • The Best Blue Cheese, Walnut, and Pear Salad, made with leafy lettuce, toasted walnuts, blue cheese crumbles, sliced pears, and a sesame dressing.

    The Best Blue Cheese, Walnut, and Pear Salad

  • A single serving of Berries and Cream in a glass cup. The fruit are mixed with a honey lemon syrup and topped with a dollop of mascarpone cream, a strawberry slice, and some mint.

    Berries and Cream with Mint and Honey Lemon Syrup

  • A round serving dish is topped with pan roasted vegetables and an herby sauce. This skillet potatoes and fennel recipe includes potatoes, fennel, red onions, and a bright chermoula sauce.

    Skillet Potatoes and Fennel

  • Close up of a hand holding a tortilla chip dipped into a bowl filled with Classic Pico de Gallo. The pico de gallo is made with tomatoes, onions, cilantro, jalapeño, lime juice, and salt.

    Classic Pico de Gallo

  • Close up of Shrimp Salad with Tartar Dressing in the sunshine. The salad picture shows lettuce, tomatoes, shrimp, avocado, red onion, cucumbers, crispy panko, and fresh dill.

    Shrimp Salad with Tartar Dressing

  • Glass bowl filled with 10 Minute Cucumber Avocado Salad. The salad includes sliced cucumber and red onions, cubed avocado, a sesame soy dressing, and sesame seeds.

    10 Minute Cucumber Avocado Salad

  • Bowl filled with Sauteed Kale with Pan Fried Paneer, set on a wooden background.

    Sautéed Kale with Pan Fried Paneer

  • Quick and Easy Persimmon Salad with Burrata and Mint

    Quick and Easy Persimmon Salad with Burrata and Mint

  • Bowl full of guacamole chicken salad surrounded by tortilla chips.

    Guacamole Chicken Salad (Quick and Easy)

  • A large serving bowl rests on top of a striped mat. In the bowl is the Barbecue Chicken Ranch Salad, full of lettuce, chicken, veggies, black beans, crispy shallots, and topped with barbecue sauce and ranch dressing.

    Barbecue Chicken Ranch Salad

  • White platter filled with Tropical Fruit Salad, which includes pomelo, mango, dragonfruit, coconut, shallots, fresh mint, and a sweet umami dressing.

    Tropical Fruit Salad with Sweet Umami Dressing

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    This cake is what lemon curd was made for 🍋 Soft This cake is what lemon curd was made for 🍋

Soft lemon cake with cream cheese frosting and swirls of lemon curd in every bite. It's a single tier cake with rustic, swoopy frosting so it's beginner friendly and easy to put together. 

You can use store-bought lemon curd, or make our homemade version for extra fresh and bold lemon flavor (linked at the end of this reel!). 

Save this for your spring garden parties. 🌼

Full recipe is on the blog!
    Green foods season ☘️🥑🥬 St. Patrick's Day is comi Green foods season ☘️🥑🥬

St. Patrick's Day is coming, spring is unofficially here, and we've been craving fun fresh foods lately. Here are 10 green recipes we're loving right now. 

Emily's current pick 👉🏼 #6
Rachel's current pick 👉🏼 #7

And we're making turkey burgers with #10 tonight! 

Which one are you choosing? 

All recipes are on the blog. Let us know if you want one and we'll send a link to your inbox!
    This cake is what lemon curd was made for 🍋 Soft This cake is what lemon curd was made for 🍋

Soft lemon cake with cream cheese frosting and swirls of lemon curd in every bite. It's a single tier cake with rustic, swoopy frosting so it's beginner friendly and easy to put together. 

You can use store-bought lemon curd, or make our homemade version for extra fresh and bold lemon flavor (linked at the end of this reel!). 

Save this for your spring garden parties. 🌼

Full recipe is on the blog!
    Stop buying lemon curd🍋 Homemade takes 10 minutes Stop buying lemon curd🍋
Homemade takes 10 minutes to cook and tastes like sunshine.

It sounds fancy, but homemade lemon curd is just lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter whisked together for about 10 minutes then chilled in the fridge until set. That’s it.

The result? A jar of bright, velvety lemon curd that instantly makes toast, yogurt, pancakes, or cake taste like spring. It’s tangy, sweet, and one of those recipes that makes you feel like you know what you’re doing in the kitchen.

Tag a friend who always buys lemon curd at the store. They need to see how easy this is to make at home.

What would you eat with lemon curd first?

Full recipe up on our website!
    Unpopular opinion: peas don’t belong in shepherd’s Unpopular opinion: peas don’t belong in shepherd’s pie (because they’re gross). We said what we said.

Instead, we use cabbage cooked down with ground beef, carrots, and onions in a rich savory gravy, then top it all with creamy mashed potatoes and grated parm.

It’s cozy. It’s hearty. It’s weeknight-friendly. 

Are you Team Peas or No Peas? Tell us below ⬇️

And save this for St. Patrick’s Day or your next cold night dinner (full recipe on our blog).
    Want the recipe? Let us know which one! These ar Want the recipe? Let us know which one! 

These are a few things we’ve cooked recently. Some are on the website, some are just living their best life in our camera rolls.

Not everything we make becomes a reel or official recipe on our blog. Sometimes we’re just testing, tweaking, or throwing dinner together on a Tuesday.

If one of these catches your eye, tell us which one and we’ll let you know if the recipe’s live (or if it needs to be!).

We’re always cooking. Even when the tripod’s not out. It's our happy place!
    Did you know that you can put instant ramen on sal Did you know that you can put instant ramen on salad? Now you know.

This crunchy cabbage salad is fresh, simple, and spunky enough to keep you going in for more, bite after bite. Crisp veggies, easy soy dressing, and the crunchy ramen topping we can't get enough of. 

Easy steps and no fancy techniques. Recipe on our blog. Follow along for more fun and easy recipes!

Who wants some? 👀
    Did you know that you can put instant ramen on sal Did you know that you can put instant ramen on salad? Now you know.

This crunchy cabbage salad is fresh, simple, and spunky enough to keep you going in for more, bite after bite. Crisp veggies, easy soy dressing, and the crunchy ramen topping we can't get enough of. 

Easy steps and no fancy techniques. Recipe on our blog. 

Who wants some? 👀
    Super easy chickpea salad with avocado. It's healt Super easy chickpea salad with avocado. It's healthy, mayo free, and ready in less than 20 minutes. Eat it up with crackers or put it on bread and eat it as a sandwich. It's versatile and delicious! 

As always, our tips before you start: 
- read the full recipe first
- prep ingredients ahead of assembling 
- don't stress, doesn't have to be perfect!

Save this recipe to make for lunch this week and follow @cookingwithconks for more recipes!
    This is us: Cooking with Conks. Two sisters (not t This is us: Cooking with Conks. Two sisters (not twins), always distracted by dogs, and very serious about good food.

We started as young kitchen helpers and turned into recipe creators who post about food we actually eat. If we say “it’s easy,” it’s because we’ve tested it, rewritten it, and of course over-explained the important parts.

We share bright, California-inspired recipes with clear, step-by-step guidance so you don’t have to guess your way through dinner.

If you want bold flavor, approachable recipes, and two slightly nerdy sisters who care a lot about good food, tap follow and cook with us.

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