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Cookbooks & Recipe Blogs

I LOVE cookbooks. I love feeding people, I love thinking about delicious and interesting food combinations, and I love how cooking and baking can be practices of mindfulness that improve my mental and physical well-being. Plus at the end of the day, if my food isn’t relatively delicious it doesn’t matter how “healthy” it is—I’m not going to eat it. 

Focusing on the art and joy of food has been a primary way for me to find wellness and balance in my life, and perhaps it could be for you too!  You obviously don’t need shelves and shelves of cookbooks like I have, but here are some of my favorites.

If reading a cookbook or blog isn’t really your thing but you like delicious, nourishing food, I also love to share more specific recipes. 

We can talk about it in a 1:1 nutrition counseling session, and look out for recipe suggestions in my coming-soon-ish blog!

Cookbooks on My Shelf

• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

• Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine

• The Inspired Vegan: Seasonal Ingredients, Creative Recipes, Mouthwatering Menus

• Whole Food Cooking Every Day: Transform the Way You Eat with 250 Vegetarian Recipes Free of Gluten, Dairy, and Refined Sugar (currently my most-used cookbook!) 

• Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South

• Well Fed: Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat

• Alternative Baker: Reinventing Dessert with Gluten-Free Grains and Flours (features the cake we baked for our wedding!) 

• At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen: Celebrating the Art of Eating Well

• Cannelle Et Vanille: Nourishing, Gluten-Free Recipes for Every Meal and Mood (worth buying for the sourdough recipes alone) 

• Cook This Now: 120 Easy and Delectable Dishes You Can't Wait to Make

• Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week

• Veganomicon, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook (such a classic we named our cats Isa and Terry after the authors)

• Ripe

• Nourishing Traditions

• Vegetable Literacy

• Sprouted Kitchen

• Indianish

• Small Plates Sweet Treats

• Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking

Recipe Blogs

• Half Baked Harvest (so many good pasta recipes)

• smitten kitchen

• My New Roots (home of the best lentil salad in the entire universe) 

• 101 cookbooks (try everything, but maybe try the simple brown rice sushi bowl first)

• Green Kitchen Stories

• How Sweet Eats (if you think you don’t like salads, try some of these salads!)

• Nutrition Stripped Recipes

• The Bojon Gourmet: Nourishing recipes from a recovering pastry chef