I made 90% of my daughter's food. Stage one we just cooked the safe veggies and blended them with water or formula until SMOOTH. As she got ready for more texture, I just used a food processor instead of a blender. Once she could eat chunks I would give her petite peas, chuncks of squash or sweet potato, tofu, cooked beans, bananas, basically anything mushy. Just be sure the fresh stuff is organic when you buy it, and cook with distilled water.
My daughter LOVES all fruits, and many vegetables, Bread, and most regular table foods as long as they're easy enough to chew (just getting our first molar). Everyone is amazed at how well she eats, but all I did was make sure I didn't feed her junk foods. I kept her diet vegan vegetarian, now she eats whatever we do (we're lacto-ovo vegetarian) and loves fresh stuff.
As far as recipes go, you just need to cook the vegetable until its tender and then mash, chop or fix however you'd like them to eat it. There is quite a bit of natural sugar in the foods already, so they'll probably think its a sweet treat. :)
Best wishes