by Brigitte | January 6, 2021 | blog, essentials, grocery shopping, meal planning, nutrition, pantry cooking, strategies
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.
by Brigitte | December 11, 2020 | blog, how-to, meal prep, pantry cooking, recipe
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.
by Brigitte | December 2, 2020 | blog, how-to, meal prep, pantry cooking, 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...
by Brigitte | November 26, 2020 | blog, how-to, pantry cooking, 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...
by Brigitte | November 18, 2020 | blog, essentials, meal planning, meal prep, pantry cooking, strategies
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...
by Brigitte | October 9, 2020 | blog, how-to, pantry cooking, recipe
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...
by Brigitte | May 21, 2020 | blog, meal prep, nutrition, pantry cooking, strategies
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...
by Brigitte | May 7, 2020 | blog, pantry cooking, strategies
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...
by Brigitte | April 17, 2020 | blog, pantry cooking, roundup, strategies
Need inspiration to keep on cooking from what you have in the pantry? Eight vegan bloggers shared their best vegan pantry cooking tips to make use of plant-based ingredients, along with their favorite pantry cooking recipes. Just pick one, follow substitution suggestions as needed, and make it happen!
by Brigitte | April 9, 2020 | blog, grocery shopping, guest appearances, meal planning, pantry cooking, strategies
Local vegan radio show Animal Voices invited me to speak about grocery shopping and pantry cooking during the weird and uncertain times of this coronavirus pandemic. What plant-based ingredients should we always have on hand in the pantry? How do we use what we have...
