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1Watermelon and Mozzarella Salad with Blackberries6 cooked · incl. 3 by the maker · 15 min · Serves 2 · 7 ingredients

Early counts include recipes we cooked ourselves, marked "incl. N by the maker". Every other cook is someone else's kitchen. We don't invent the numbers.

From the Makmak kitchen

Written and cooked by us, photographed on the plate. Full method on every page.

Cedar-Plank Salmon40 min · Serves 4 · 7 ingredients

Cedar keeps the fish moist and perfumes it with smoke. A whole-plank centerpiece.

Smash Burger Tacos30 min · Serves 4 · 11 ingredients

A smash burger and a taco in one crispy, saucy handful. The lacy edges are the whole point.

No-Churn Strawberry Ice Cream390 min · Serves 8 · 7 ingredients

No machine, five ingredients. Stir, swirl, freeze — summer in a coupe glass.

Classic Beef Tartare20 min · Serves 2 · 10 ingredients

Cold, hand-cut, and dressed simply — the animal-based classic.

Steak & Eggs in Tallow15 min · Serves 1 · 5 ingredients

The ancestral breakfast: fatty cut, real fat, two eggs.

Grass-Fed Ribeye Seared in Tallow20 min · Serves 2 · 4 ingredients

One great cut, real beef fat, salt. Nothing else needed.

Braised Elk with Juniper and Winter Roots210 min · Serves 6 · 12 ingredients

Lean game wants low heat and time. Juniper is the classic partner.

Roasted Roots with Toasted Hazelnut Butter50 min · Serves 4 · 10 ingredients

Oregon hazelnuts and brown butter over roots roasted hard enough to go sweet.

Huckleberry Preserves45 min · Serves 3 · 5 ingredients

Small, tart, and worth the picking. Set is judged on a cold plate, not a clock.

Salmon Bone Broth with Nettle120 min · Serves 6 · 9 ingredients

A clear, savory broth. The whole trick is a bare simmer and honest skimming.

Razor Clam Chowder50 min · Serves 4 · 12 ingredients

Razor clams turn to rubber if you cook them. Two minutes at the very end.

Smoked Paprika Roasted Salmon25 min · Serves 4 · 7 ingredients

Smoked paprika and brown butter do the work of a smoker, in one oven tray.

Garlic Butter Weeknight Pasta20 min · Serves 4 · 7 ingredients

A 20-minute pantry dinner — buttery, garlicky, and just spicy enough.

Sheet-Pan Lemon Herb Chicken45 min · Serves 4 · 7 ingredients

Crispy chicken and potatoes on one pan — minimal cleanup, maximum flavor.

Five-Minute Overnight Oats5 min · Serves 1 · 6 ingredients

Stir tonight, eat tomorrow. The easiest breakfast you'll ever make.

Grilled Lemon Garlic Shrimp Skewers25 min · Serves 4 · 11 ingredients

Ten minutes on the grill, one lemony butter bath. Weeknight-fast, cookout-worthy.

Grilled Peach & Burrata Salad20 min · Serves 4 · 9 ingredients

Charred peaches, cool burrata — peak summer on a plate.

Lemon Blueberry Ricotta Pancakes25 min · Serves 4 · 9 ingredients

Ricotta keeps them impossibly fluffy; lemon keeps them bright.

Grilled Corn with Chili-Lime Butter15 min · Serves 4 · 5 ingredients

Charred, buttery, and gone in five minutes.

Honey-Soy Grilled Chicken Thighs30 min · Serves 4 · 5 ingredients

A sticky-sweet marinade that does all the work.

Grilled Flank Steak with Chimichurri30 min · Serves 4 · 8 ingredients

A quick sear and a bright chimichurri — the whole thing sings.

Grilled Halloumi & Vegetable Skewers25 min · Serves 4 · 9 ingredients

Halloumi holds the grill like a champ — no flipping anxiety.

Garlic Butter Shrimp Pasta20 min · Serves 4 · 6 ingredients

Dinner on the table before the water's even cold.

Black Bean Quesadillas15 min · Serves 2 · 5 ingredients

Pantry staples, ready in minutes.

15-Minute Sesame Noodles15 min · Serves 4 · 9 ingredients

Pantry noodles that taste like takeout, in 15 minutes.

Caprese Chicken Skillet20 min · Serves 4 · 7 ingredients

One skillet, melty mozzarella, a balsamic finish.

Slow-Simmered Beef Bone Broth780 min · Serves 8 · 4 ingredients

Roast, simmer low and slow, skim. Deeply savory and gelatinous.

Beef Liver & Onions25 min · Serves 2 · 4 ingredients

The most nutrient-dense organ meat, done the classic way.

3-Ingredient Carnivore Meatballs25 min · Serves 3 · 4 ingredients

Beef, egg, salt. Crisp outside, juicy in — zero filler.

Slow Butter Scrambled Eggs10 min · Serves 1 · 4 ingredients

Low and slow in real butter — custardy, not rubbery.

Whipped Raw Honey Butter5 min · Serves 8 · 3 ingredients

Animal-based sweetness: raw honey folded into whipped butter.

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