My Culinary Playlist!💥

Cookbooks on heavy rotation.

If you are anything like me, I’ve purchased many cookbooks over the years that are currently tucked far away in the back of my pantry collecting dust. Why?

• The ingredients are hard to find.

• The recipes are too complicated or confusing.

• The recipe takes too long, too many steps.

• The result doesn’t look like the picture and taste lousy.

Then, I participated in an 8-month certification course with Divya Alter’s Ayurvedic Nutrition and Culinary Training (ANACT) program and my relationship with food was forever changed as did my cookbooks! 🍃

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These 8 coveted cookbooks will take you from curious to capable:

1. What to Eat for How You Feel, by Divya Alter

   Featuring 100 seasonal plant-based recipes, this best-selling cookbook introduces you to the foundations of Ayurvedic cooking: Intuitive eating based on your personal body-type (dosha) and digestion, essential techniques, and daily staples for a nutritionally complete plant-based diet.

2. Joy of Balance, by Divya Alter

   In her trademark approachable style, Divya teaches you 80 globally-inspired recipes and the knowledge you need to choose, prepare and eat the foods that are healthiest and most balancing for you. The first Ayurvedic cookbook that’s organized by ingredient—including properties, uses, compatibility and preparation—Joy of Balance presents a new way to think about cooking, eating and achieving health through food.

3. Living Ayurveda, Claire Ragozzino

   Nourishment comes in many forms—it’s the food you eat, how you breathe and move your body, and the way you establish your daily routine. Living Ayurveda weaves together the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga in a modern, accessible way to provide a season-by-season guide for living a vibrantly rich year. Part cookbook, part lifestyle manual, each chapter includes simple vegetarian recipes, seasonal rituals, and self-care practices to cultivate your inner wisdom and feed your body, mind, and spirit.

4. My New Roots, Sarah Britton

   My New Roots is my first book baby. It opens with the techniques and processes I use in my kitchen every day, which form the foundation of all plant-based cooking: how to cook beans and grains, and how to make nut and seed butters are just a few examples. With detailed yet easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, you’ll master these simple methods in no time and be well-equipped to cook the recipes from the book as well as have the confidence to be creative on your own.

   The recipes follow, with 100 all-new, never-before-seen recipes with a few of the most popular ones from the blog, just because I thought it would be handy to have them in print!

5. Ayurveda Cooking For Beginners, Laura Plumb

   I believe Ayurveda is the greatest, safest, most nurturing science of health and healing in the world, and that it truly teaches us the art of living – to be an artist in our relationships, our work, and in our kitchens, and I want to make that easy for you.
   The book has 108 recipes for every season, tips to adjust recipes to each dosha, a 5-step guide to Ayurvedic eating, 4 seasonal 7-day meal plans, an overview of Ayurveda principles, and graphs and quizzes to help you learn more about what foods are best for you.

6. The Happy Pear 20, David & Stephen Flynn

   Celebrating some of the most popular recipes we’ve created in the last 2 decades! ds are best for you. With recipes from the most requested dishes in our cafe, our most viral recipes on social media, as well as what we love to cook up at home, we can’t wait to share our favorite dishes with you!

7. The Happy Pear Recipes for Happiness, David & Stephen Flynn

   Though they have written two No 1 bestselling vegetarian cookbooks, David and Stephen Flynn, the twins behind the Happy Pear cafés and food business, know it can be challenging to juggle everything and still feel inspired! And being busy dads themselves, they also know the pressure of getting delicious healthy meals on the table every day. So, Recipes for Happiness is very close to their hearts. And it does what it says on the cover: it is crammed with recipes to make you happier – including a huge section of economical easy dinners that can be rustled up in 15 minutes (chickpea tikka masala, Thai golden curry, one-pot creamy mushroom pasta); gorgeous hearty dishes (goulash, Greek summer stew, an ingenious one-pot lasagna that’s cooked the hob); a selection of plant-based alternatives to family favorites (burgers, hotdogs, nuggets, kebabs), and irresistible treats (summer fruit Bakewell tart, double choc brownie cake). For nearly 15 years David and Stephen’s mantra has been Eat More Veg!.

8. Eat Like a Girl: 100+ Delicious Recipes to Balance Hormones, Boost Energy, and Burn Fat, Dr. Mindy Pelz

   In Eat Like a Girl, Dr. Mindy teaches how to use food to enhance these benefits. With over 100 recipes for both plant-based and omnivore diets, she shows you how to eat for your hormones and use food to support your fasting lifestyle, while enjoying delicious recipes that reflect the latest nutritional science, including:

   • Quick and easy “fasted snacks” to sustain you while fasting

   • Nourishing choices to break your fast and stabilize blook sugar

   • Meals designed to support hormonal production and balance

   • Recipes that keep blood sugar levels steady and support a healthy gut

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Cooking has become a form of moving meditation for me with a reward of infusing love and nourishment for my family and friends. In the future I may offer cooking workshops if the interest is there. If you need help one-on-one, I offer cooking lessons for $75.00/hr. Message me if interested.

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May your kitchen be filled love & laughter!

All my best,
💜Tracey