How to store groceries to reduce food waste and cook faster
Most people could cook faster, waste less money and time, and be less stressed if they handled their grocery haul differently. How should you store groceries to reduce waste and make cooking faster? Try these four strategies and share yours in the comments. Clear your...
Cooking dry beans from scratch: the complete guide for whole foods plant-based home cooks
Everyone, vegan or not, should eat at least a cup of cooked beans every day. And what’s the best way to stock your pantry with wholesome beans? In my opinion, nothing beats cooking dry beans from scratch. In this post I will: explain why I consider it better to...
Workshop: Plant-based Nutrition Hacks
Plants have all the nutrients we need to sustain good health and prevent disease. How can we make the most of what they have to offer without spending our whole days in the kitchen? How can plant-based eaters increase their odds of getting all the iron, calcium,...
Homemade vegan pizza (workshop)
Making vegan pizza is much easier than you think and, just like everything else, it gets easier as you practice. It’s definitely not something you need to outsource to the pizza guy across the street! In this 60-minute workshop, I will take the mystery out of...
UPDATED: How to make super healthy vegan blender waffles with only whole foods (also gluten-free and zero-waste)
When you have a power blender (Vitamix, Blendtec, or similar), there’s no need to use packaged ingredients like plant milks and ground flax seeds. You can make these super healthy vegan blender waffles using just whole pantry ingredients and no oil. The start of...
Two plant-based pantry organization hacks to make whole foods cooking easier
Having the right plant-based staples in your pantry is important, but how you organize them makes a big difference in whether you’ll actually use them, and how fast you can prepare really good food that uses them. Setting aside a half-day or two to improve your...
10 vegetables I never fail to put on my vegan grocery list
When you have these vegetables in the fridge, plus a few vegan pantry staples, you can improvise a delicious and nutritious meal in minutes. Read about my vegan grocery list picks and get recipe inspiration to use them.
How to make vegan pizza – it’s easier than you think!
Just because you went vegan doesn’t mean you shouldn’t eat pizza ever again. In fact, your pizza universe is just about to explode with so many new flavors to discover! Check out this easy and lazy process for the best vegan pizza.
How to make satisfying vegan salads (with my warming curried couscous salad recipe!)
Fresh produce year round is not a bounty I take for granted. Maybe it’s showing my age but, growing up, a “salad” in the winter meant a few chunks of iceberg lettuce with, maybe, slices of cucumber and halved cherry tomatoes. Today’s global...
How to make vegan soup (with my rustic bean soup recipe)
Soup is part of the solution to every problem worth solving in the world: hunger, of course, but also sickness, loneliness, anxiety, conflict, income inequality, fiber and vitamin deficiencies, and animal agriculture (among others). And the best thing about it is that...
Vegan pantry staples: 75 plant-based ingredients to stock to cook healthy dinners every night
What if you could cook improvise practically any dinner, with just pantry ingredients and some fresh produce? It’s absolutely possible with a well-stocked selection of vegan pantry staples. I compiled the list of the most frequently used ingredients that go into...
Quick Friday Night Vegan Dish: Coco-peanut Noodles (or how to hack a quick vegan dinner)
We all need a quick Friday night vegan dish idea in our back pocket. The kind we’ll pull out when our day has been flipped upside down due to unpleasant surprises (leaky toilet, web site break down, tantrum over lost toy…). The kind of recipe that, once we...
Minimum viable meal prep: basic plant-based batch cooking you should do every week (even when you are too busy)
Eating a steady diet of unprocessed, home-cooked plant-based meals takes more time than dishing out processed foods from a box. (Duh!) It doesn’t have to take a prohibitive amount of time: 4 to 7 hours of cooking per week should yield very enjoyable meals. If...
How to improvise a balanced vegan meal from pantry ingredients (even when you are too exhausted to cook)
It’s 6:34 p.m. and you just got home. You are hungry. Maybe you had planned something based on a new recipe, but you do not feel the energy to follow through. You don’t have a prepared meal ready to reheat and gobble up. The temptation to pick up the phone...
