Plant-Based Holiday Celebrations

December 1, 2020 by maitridojo Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever wanted to try a Canadian-American-style holiday meal that doesn’t have turkey or ham in it, here’s what we’re cooking up this holiday season. I’d also love to hear about any traditions your family follows, to help spread the joy of a plant-based holiday.

Crusted tofu
Mashed caulipots (cauliflower and potatoes)
Miso lentil gravy
Sesame green beans
Lemony collard greens
Coconut pumpkin pie
Chocolate apricot torte
Chocolate marshmallow teacakes

Wishing you much peace, ease, and love during this holiday season and all year long. You are in our hearts. ❤️🤗

#1: Crusted tofu, mashed caulipots, and lemony collard greens

We learned recently how to make one of the best dinners you can imagine. You make a satisfying crusted tofu and pair it with cauliflower mashed potatoes, rich white bean gravy and a lemony collard salad. It’s a bit of effort but totally worth it. The tofu really tastes like chicken or fish when prepared this way, and mashed potatoes with gravy are always comforting. Full recipe is here, plus credit to Isa.

#2. Miso lentil gravy

When transitioning to a plant-based diet, it can be helpful to have some meat-like meals to soften the change. This recipe tastes like a rich beef stew, thanks to a hearty lentil miso gravy and some chopped up Field Roast plant-based meat. We enjoyed it for a comforting dinner with baby broccoli over quinoa. Full recipe is here, plus credit to Isa.

#3. Sesame green beans

Crispy, sesame green beans. So good! This one we got from Cooking Muse.

#4. Coconut pumpkin pie

A luscious pumpkin pie that holds its own, without the eggs and cream! This one’s from Sam.

#5. Chocolate apricot torte

I’ve never put olive oil in a cake before, but this came out as just about the moistest, most flavorful chocolate cake we’ve ever eaten! We spread apricot jam between the layers, and the hints of vanilla-almond-chocolate-coconut really make it a cake worth having third helpings. Thanks to Isa for inspiring this wondrous vegan chocolate cake! Full recipe is here.

#6. Chocolate marshmallow teacakes

Lovely digestive biscuit coated in homemade marshmallow and chocolate. So decadent and delicious!

Happy plant-based holiday everyone!!

Lots of love from our kitchen to yours ❤️🤗

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When we were both working long hours, the last thing we wanted to do when we finished a tiring day was think about what’s for dinner. Especially with hungry kids bouncing around the house!

So I came up with a rotating two-week meal plan, including shopping lists, to make family dinners more about connecting conversation and less about stressful decisions.

These meals are optimized for:
• High confidence that kids of all ages will find them tasty
• Easy and quick to prepare for parental sanity
• Nutritionally balanced to keep everyone healthy

From our family to yours… I hope you enjoy the Family Meal Plan for Busy Parents. Bon appetit!

I was meditating on life and death earlier this year, and I asked myself, if I only had this year left to live, what would I have to do before I pass?

The answer was simple and immediate.

Write down all the hard-won lessons I’ve learned in life to pass on to my kids.

Like a ninja-level guide for them.

How to master emotions, build strong relationships, and impact the world. (Or at least what I’ve learned about how to do that.)

And so this guide was born!

It includes:
– an emotional toolbox to support you through anything
– insights and experiments to get you where you want to go
– quotes, poems, and art to inspire your day

I hope Learning to Shine helps you with whatever is happening in your life right now.

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