8 recipe creators bringing fresh ideas to your feed

Pizza dough wrapped around Reese's and marshmallows is a different proposition from pizza dough under tomato sauce. So is a tomato tarte tatin served with burrata. The eight creators in this July selection offer plenty of these small departures: a familiar dish or ingredient given another job.

There are less elaborate places to begin, too, including sardine toast and a jar of tuna, avocado, and nori rice. Below are four recipes from each account, with links to the original Instagram posts. Choose something you want to cook, then follow it back to the person who made it.

1. The Fit Feast (@thefitfeast)

Claudia Kent shares recipes as The Fit Feast. The sauce is the detail to notice in her sardine toast: lemon and parsley join mustard, giving a reader something more specific to consider than another suggestion to put fish on bread. The tuna, avocado, and nori rice jar takes fish in a different direction. Elsewhere in these four posts, lasagne comes in pots and a gluten-free almond cake supplies something sweet.

2. Courtney (@courtmakeshome)

Courtney Gordon's cold sesame noodles have cucumber and carrot ribbons as well as chili crisp. The Reese's marshmallow pockets make a much sweeter use of pizza dough. That range makes sense beside her account of feeding five children: she describes looking for food her teenagers and little ones will both eat, and sometimes letting them vote on what to make. The chicken Caesar below adds another possibility to the dinner vote.

3. Jemma Webster Loi (@jemmaloi)

Jemma Webster Loi's tomato tarte tatin puts a savory filling in a form familiar from dessert, then adds burrata. Her giant 99 Flake trifle goes the other way, borrowing its name from an ice-cream order. Maple-roasted carrot and white bean soup offers another use for sweetness, this time in a bowl of vegetables and beans.

4. Jacqueline Vignona (@spread.the.grub)

Jacqueline Vignona's garlic bread pizza begins with roasted garlic sauce and keeps going: sausage, mozzarella, peppers, onion, and pepperoni all appear in the recipe's name. It is the most crowded title in this selection, and a useful indication of what to expect from that dish. Her street corn pasta salad offers another meeting of familiar foods. For breakfast, there are smash tacos; for something to drink, whipped frozen lemonade.

5. Emily Rangel (@__emilyrangel)

Peach streusel muffins and pumpkin coffee cake make a baking pair in Emily Rangel's recipes below. You can also follow the fruit toward the freezer: her mango coconut sorbet names just three ingredients. The hibiscus lemonade takes the drinks in a different direction from the frozen lemonade above. Open its post if that is the glass you would rather have beside a muffin.

6. Erika Tennille (@erikatennille)

Erika Tennille's selection gives the oven two distinct jobs, shrimp scampi and chicken leg quarters, before turning to braised short rib rigatoni. These are substantial dinner ideas; sweet potato and ricotta waffles move the selection toward breakfast. Ricotta appears again in Sara Stewart's pasta below, so the same ingredient can send you toward either meal.

7. Cory Armstead (@letsplateitup)

Cory Armstead's slow-cooked Southern green beans are a place to start when you already have the main dish in mind. If you are still deciding what the meal will be, open his Thai curry sauce recipe and read how he uses it. The pineapple shrimp ceviche and key lime cheesecake cups bring fruit into two quite different dishes, with the cheesecake divided into individual portions.

8. Sara Stewart (@sara.haven)

Lemon appears twice in Sara Stewart's selection: with ricotta in rigatoni, and with dill in the vinaigrette for a roasted asparagus and kale salad. Those are two ways to follow an ingredient across her cooking. The salmon goes toward browned butter, honey, and garlic instead. Keep the croissant breakfast boats in mind if it is tomorrow morning's food you came looking for.

Take the recipe back to the kitchen

A title can make dinner sound settled before you have read the method. Follow the card to the creator's post and check the quantities, equipment, and timing, including any corrections they have added. Save the original post you intend to cook from so you can return to those details.

If you publish recipes yourself, notice what you wanted to know before choosing a dish. Those same details deserve a place in your own writing. Our guide to putting Instagram recipes on a website explains how to bring the caption and cooking notes together on a recipe page.

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