From gluten free baked items, to household pleasant dinners, and straightforward breakfast concepts — these are the highest 10 reader favourite recipes in 2023!
Completely happy (almost) new 12 months — I hope you had an exquisite and magical vacation season!
2023 has been an unimaginable 12 months stuffed with very high-highs, and a few lows as nicely. We actually hunkered down in 2020 and far of 2021, so this felt like our first 12 months of getting again into the swing of issues travel-wise, which was an actual spotlight. As a household we visited San Diego, Vail, Denver, Albuquerque, Minneapolis, and the Gulf Shores (take me again!) Professionally, I used to be fortunate sufficient to journey to Austin, Washington DC, Nashville, and the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.
This was the primary 12 months we’ve been in a position to journey with out plenty of further “stuff” that comes with having infants and toddlers (pack ‘n’ performs, diapers, bottles, and so on.) which felt very unusual (“why do now we have a lot further trunk area?!” — me after packing the automobile up for a highway journey, lol) and liberating.
That mentioned, to my Mamas of itty bitty ones — time FLIES and earlier than you understand it you’ll be buying and selling 2am feedings with 2pm coastal-mountain hikes. Dangle in there! <3
In 2023 we mentioned goodbye to beloved members of the family, and are on the brink of meet new members of the family in 2024. All of us bought Covid for the primary time this previous spring (10/10 don’t suggest) and I labored via some debilitating well being points this fall which might be fortunately, lastly, resolving. I enter 2024 decided to by no means take good well being as a right.
As a good friend not too long ago mentioned, well being is wealth!
All that mentioned, I’m so excited to enter a brand new 12 months and see how my children be taught and develop, the place life takes us, and naturally dish up one other scrumptious 12 months of straightforward gluten recipes utilizing on a regular basis substances right here on Iowa Lady Eats!
Which brings me to my favourite publish of the 12 months — a recap of YOUR favourite new recipes as decided by clicks, views and shares! These embrace wholesome spins on heavier recipes, my boys’ favourite breakfast, my private favourite recipe from 2023, and this viral recipe.
As we head into 2024, I need to hear from you: what sorts of recipes are you searching for? How can I assist?
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Prime Recipes from Earlier Years
Prime 10 Reader Favourite Recipes in 2023
#1 Crock Pot Buffalo Rooster Dip
This present recipe bought a a lot wanted picture improve in 2023 and it exploded in reputation afterwards (what can I say, photographing orange meals could be very, very onerous!) Equal components spicy, tacky, and creamy, it’s addictingly scrumptious.
#2 Baked Rooster Thighs
There’s at all times a recipe that goes viral on IGE every year, and in 2023 it was Baked Rooster Thighs. (In 2022 it was the Jennifer Aniston Salad, in 2021 it was Gnocchi Rooster Pot Pie, and in 2020 it was Cheeseburger Quesadillas, ICYWW!) I make this recipe virtually weekly as a result of its insanely straightforward and my household demolishes your complete pan with rave opinions every time.
#3 Excellent Gluten Free Pancakes
Any time I get a brand new evaluation on my Excellent Gluten Free Pancakes I do some dance. It’s unusual {that a} non-savory recipe cracks the highest 10 hottest recipes every year, which is a testomony to how unbelievable these pancakes are.
#4 Excessive Protein In a single day Oats
2023 was the 12 months of protein. In every single place I turned — whether or not or not it’s social media, magazines, or the information — the advantages of protein-packed meals have been being touted. Excessive Protein In a single day Oats form of seems like dishonest as a result of they’re filled with protein but style like cake and require zero protein powder or unusual substances. Actually essentially the most excellent breakfast or snack concept.
#5 Mini Egg Bites
Mini Egg Bites have been one other loopy fashionable, high-protein breakfast / snack recipe in 2023. This recipe additionally incorporates an ingredient that had itself a complete MOMENT in 2023. Are you able to guess what it’s?
#6 Chickpea Rooster Salad
Cheap, stuffed with plant-based-protein, wholesome, crunchy, and contemporary are all phrases I’d use to explain the sixth hottest recipe in 2023. Chickpea “Rooster” Salad tastes like common hen salad besides it’s utterly vegan. My Dad — who I’m undecided had ever appeared at a chickpea earlier than this recipe — makes it each single week for lunch, if that tells you ways tasty it’s!
#7 Gluten Free Pizza Crust
The feedback I routinely get on my Gluten Free Pizza Crust recipe are why I do what I do. Studying: “Thanks for saving pizza evening!!” or “My husband checked out me and mentioned, “This tastes identical to actual pizza!””, and “I’m in tears … these little wins imply the world” thrill me to listen to. Meals is so emotional and to have the ability to assist my fellow g-free-ers with a pizza crust recipe that tastes like “common” hand tossed pizza was positively a spotlight of 2023.
#8 Gluten Free Cornbread
I grew up consuming Jiffy cornbread combine and this home made Gluten Free Cornbread recipe is a lifeless ringer — I’m so glad it cracked the highest 10 in 2023 regardless of being shared only a month or two in the past! The right factor to pair with chili, soups, and BBQ.
#9 Gluten Free Focaccia
Gluten Free Focaccia is your ninth favourite recipe from 2023, and my private favourite recipe from 2023. Phrases can’t describe how significant it’s to have a recipe for smooth and fluffy gluten free bread that requires a handful of on a regular basis substances. If there’s one recipe I urge you to make from this listing, it’s Gluten Free Focaccia!
#10 Gluten Free Strawberry Muffins
I’m not an enormous sweets lady so belief me once I let you know that the recipe for Gluten Free Strawberry Muffins is utter perfection. Simply the correct amount of sweetness, smooth and fluffy — I misplaced observe of what number of batches I made this summer season throughout peak strawberry season. Be at liberty to swap in different berries, as the bottom muffin recipe is simply unbelievable!
Wishing you a cheerful, secure, and wholesome 2024 — thanks from the underside of my coronary heart for visiting me right here at Iowa Lady Eats, and cooking my recipes!
