For some reason, spammers love my post about Sharon Palmer’s cookbook Plant-Powered for Life – Cooking with Lentils and Buckwheat Groats. That Weekend Cooking post from 2014 attracts so many spam comments that I took a look to see if I could figure out why.
I couldn’t, but I had lentils and buckwheat groats in the (figurative) pantry pantry; my husband gave up meat and dairy for Lent; I’m trying to eat healthier, lighter meals; and I was already planning to make a recipe from Sharon Palmer’s e-newsletter to use sorghum, which I bought and didn’t know how to use. So I was inspired to pull out her cookbook.
Author Sharon Palmer is a registered dietician and author of The Plant-Powered Diet. Maybe, like me, you want to eat a mostly plant-based diet, but the term “vegan” makes you think of buying expensive plant-based meat substitutes; having to make your own cashew milk; liking the texture of chia seeds; or using the liquid from draining a can of beans in your next round of baking.
If so, Plant-Powered for Life: Eat Your Way to Lasting Health with 52 Simple Steps & 125 Delicious Recipes is the cookbook for you! You can ease your way into eating more whole grains and plant-based (aka vegan) meals without having to run out immediately for plant-based or vegan cheese/meat/egg substitutes.
Plant-Powered for Life has a new cover now.
The other great thing about this cookbook is that every recipe is either gluten-free or provides gluten-free alternative ingredient suggestions. See my 2014 post for a full review!
The recipe I used for Tex-Mex Chili with Sorghum is included in Sharon Palmer’s list of 50 Plant-Based Light & Lean Comfort Food Recipes on her blog at Sharon Palmer: The Plant-Powered Dietician.
And…in researching this post, I found out Sharon has a new book (!) coming out next month, called California Vegan: Inspiration from the People and Places of the Golden State (Globe Pequot, 2021).
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