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About her cooking

What her photos show

I reviewed all 240 posts on @erinsharesherfood (July 17, 2024 to October 16, 2026) from the photos alone, since the posts have no captions. I left out restaurant plates, takeout, packaged snacks and drinks. The recipes in her recipe box are my versions of what each photo shows, not her exact recipes.

What she cooks

Pasta leads, with Tex-Mex and eggs close behind

Home-cooked posts sorted by type. Hover over or tab to a bar to see examples.

Pasta & Italian

32Rigatoni with red sauce, pappardelle with meat sauce, shrimp alfredo, spaghetti and meatballs, carbonara, chicken parm, gnocchi, tortellini, pasta salads

Tex-Mex

25Taco salads, steak tacos, burritos, quesadillas, chili with cornbread, cowboy caviar, chicken and black bean bowls, Mexican rice with guacamole

Eggs & savory breakfast

21Fried eggs on avocado toast, egg salad on toast, egg muffins, egg bakes, hash brown and egg plates, breakfast sandwiches

Fish, rice bowls & stir-fries

20Poke bowls, seared ahi tuna, salmon over rice with scallions, egg fried rice, chicken and broccoli stir-fry, lettuce wraps, ramen stir-fry

Salads & vegetable sides

9Caesar salads, cucumber salad, balsamic asparagus, a ham, feta and tomato salad

Sweet breakfast bowls

8Chia pudding with blueberries and pepitas, chocolate chia with raspberries, yogurt and granola with berries

Loaded potatoes

8Baked potatoes with bacon, sour cream and scallions, twice-baked potatoes, buffalo chicken potato, sweet potato with ground beef

Simple proteins & sheet pan

8Pork tenderloin with green beans, baked chicken, wings with ranch, steak bites with sweet potato fries

Sandwiches & burgers

8Avocado burger, caprese burger with balsamic, grilled cheese, quesadilla-style wraps

Soups & stews

7Beef stew (twice), squash soup with pepitas, corn chowder, slow-cooker soup, tomato soup with garlic bread

Baking & desserts

3Frosted bars, a lemon dessert, cinnamon rolls

I sorted these by eye from the photos. The posts have no captions, so the counts are approximate.

Her style

Habits that show up again and again

Sauce piped in lines across the top

Mayo on the poke bowls, sour cream on the chili and taco salads. She finishes a lot of dishes with a sauce zig-zagged across the top.

Scallions to finish

Scattered over poke bowls, salmon and rice, loaded potatoes and egg dishes.

Avocado on a lot of things

Toast, bowls, tacos, chili, burgers, seared tuna.

Shredded parmesan on pasta

Almost every pasta gets a pile of shredded or shaved parmesan, and garlic toast often comes on the side.

Bowls, with toppings

A base (rice, lettuce or grains), a protein, then layers of toppings. This is the most common shape of meal across all two years.

Runny eggs

Fried or jammy eggs on toast, hash browns, English muffins and avocado.

avocadoscallionseggsparmesansour creamJapanese-style mayowhite ricesalmonahi tunaground beefblack & kidney beanscorncherry tomatoespotatoes & sweet potatoesbaconpepitasberriesbalsamic glaze

Shopping list

Six pantry items to try

These are the pantry items behind most of the new flavors above. Each one keeps for months.

Item	What it does	Try it in
Chipotle in adobo	Smoky heat; a little goes a long way	Loaded sweet potatoes, burrito bowl chicken, birria, mixed into mayo or sour cream
Ponzu	Citrusy soy sauce with no cooking needed	Seared tuna, poke bowls, a dressing for cucumber salad
Furikake	Sesame and seaweed seasoning	Sushi bake, salmon and rice, avocado toast, popcorn
Red curry paste + coconut milk	An easy Thai curry base	Squash soup, a quick shrimp or chicken curry
Berbere	Ethiopian chili spice blend	Misir wot, roasted sweet potatoes, eggs
Gochujang	Sweet-spicy Korean chili paste	Mixed into mayo for poke, bibimbap, glazed salmon