Chocolate cashew butter bars cut into squares on parchment, dark chocolate tops finished with flaky sea salt.
Desserts

Chocolate Cashew Butter Bars

A thick cashew butter base, dark chocolate on top, flaky salt to finish. No baking, and a pan lasts the week.
Creamy mushroom stroganoff over wide noodles in a shallow bowl, finished with chopped parsley.
Dinner

Creamy Mushroom Stroganoff

Deeply savory mushrooms in a silky sauce over wide noodles. No dairy, forty minutes, and browning the mushrooms properly is the whole recipe.
A wide bowl of rainbow Thai crunch salad with red and green cabbage, carrot, bell pepper, cucumber, edamame, fresh herbs and roasted cashews.
Lunch

Rainbow Thai Crunch Salad

Shredded cabbage, crisp vegetables, edamame and fresh herbs under a creamy cashew-lime dressing. Twenty minutes and no cooking.
No-bake chocolate oat energy balls stacked on a small plate, one broken open to show the chewy date and oat center.
Plant-Based

No-Bake Chocolate Oat Energy Balls

Dates, oats, almond butter and cocoa. Fifteen minutes on a Sunday, and the mid-morning snack is answered for two weeks.
A thick tropical berry smoothie bowl topped with sliced strawberries, blueberries, banana, granola and coconut flakes.
Breakfast

Tropical Berry Smoothie Bowl

Frozen berries, banana and mango blended thick enough to eat with a spoon. Five minutes, no cooking, and the amount of milk is the whole trick.
Rounds of firm plant-based cheddar on a wooden board, one sliced and fanned
Cheese

Sliceable Cheddar

A firm plant-based cheddar that actually slices and grates, and holds its shape in the refrigerator. Cashews, red pepper and agar — with a trio of dried herbs stirred in at the end.
Homemade ketchup with fresh tomatoes
Condiments

Ketchup

Four minutes, no cooking, and tomato first rather than sugar first. The easiest swap in the collection and the one that surprises people most.
Loaf of gluten-free bread cooling on a wire rack with two slices cut
Breads

Gluten-Free Bread

Everything goes in a blender, then into a pan, then into the oven. No kneading and no bread machine. Includes the teff and sorghum flour mix that makes it work.
Block of homemade plant butter in a white dish with a knife and a slice of bread
Dairy Alternatives

House Butter

Firm out of the refrigerator, soft on the counter, spreads on warm bread and creams for baking. Made with refined coconut oil and a plant buttermilk you stir together in two minutes.
Scoops of homemade cashew ice cream in a white bowl with an ice cream scoop
Desserts

Cashew Ice Cream

Not blended frozen fruit — the other kind. Churned, rich and scoopable straight from the freezer, from four ingredients, two of which you can make in a blender.
Five-minute cashew parmesan sprinkled over pasta
Cheese

Five-Minute Parmesan

Four ingredients and about the length of time it takes to find the lid. Ground fine — closer to a flour than to crumbs.