YumUniverse Pantry to Plate: Improvise Meals You Love-from What You Have!-Plant-Packed, Gluten-Free, Your Way!

by Heather Crosby

Overview

What you crave + What's in your cupboard = Joyful cooking your way

Heather Crosby loves a good recipe, but most of the time, she simply cooks pantry to plate. What’s that? It’s taking stock of what you have on hand and what you’re in the mood for—and then, well, improvising!

For example: Do you have some veggies, a protein, a binder, and some herbs and spices for flavor? Mix it up and you’ll have veggie burgers . . . no recipe required. In this one-of-a-kind cookbook, Heather shares:

30 ingenious recipe templates to help you freestyle plant-packed, gluten-free meals and snacks on the fly: Breakfast Cookies, Bites & Tots, Tacos & Wraps, Hand Pies, and more.

Plus, 100 delicious recipes that show the templates in action, from Maple-Spiced Pear & Toasted Pecan Parfait (based on the Coconut Yogurt template) to Pesto Chickpea & Quinoa Scramble (based on the Scrambles template).

Are you a recipe renegade who likes to bend the “rules”? A health-conscious cook seeking more kitchen confidence? Are you busy or tired of going shopping for just one missing ingredient? With the flexible templates in YumUniverse Pantry to Plate, gluten-free, plantiful goodness is at your fingertips.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615193400
Publisher:	The Experiment
Publication date:	05/16/2017
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Heather Crosby’s first book, YumUniverse, was covered by HGTV.com, Reader’s Digest, and NPR’s “It’s Your Health,” among others. She is a lover of plant-inspired foods, and the recipe developer and photographer of her popular website, YumUniverse.com (100,000+ monthly visitors). She also holds a certification from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. She lives in West Virginia.

Table of Contents

Hello, from a Former Veggie Phobe 1

Pantry-to-Plate Cooking 2

Your Very Own Recipe Playbook 4

Tips & Tricks 6

Basic Cooking Techniques 11

The Little Things 14

Tools & Ingredients 16

Freestyling Flavors & Textures 18

Creating Rich Flavor with Aromatics 20

Herbs & Spices 24

Mix & Match Ingredients 26

Homemade Staples: Sauces & Dressings 28

Good Morning, YumUniverse! 35

Scrambles 36

Granola 45

Pancakes & Waffles 55

Muffins 63

Warm Cereals 73

Breakfast Cookies 83

Compotes & Fruit Butters 90

Coconut Yogurt 94

Dairy-Free Milks 101

Munch & Lunch 111

Crackers 112

Amazeballs 121

Probiotic Cream Cheese 128

Dips & Spreads 137

Crunchies 145

Fermented Veggies 153

Bites & Tots 159

Veggie Fries 166

Soups 175

Main Meals 185

Cheesy Comfort Food 186

Epic Salads 195

Mmmaki 205

Tacos & Wraps 217

'Banzo Bakes 227

Veggie Burgers 235

Hand Pies 243

Sweet Tooth 251

Cookies 252

Nice Crispy Bars 261

Sneaky Brownies 271

Nice Cream 279

Crisps & Crumbles 289

Resources 296

Measurements & Conversions 297

Acknowledgments 301

Cook-by-Ingredient Index 302

Recipe Index 306

About the Author 311

Editorial Reviews

07/10/2017
The second cookbook by Crosby, author of the book and blog YumUniverse, suggests ways to make healthy, plant-based cooking easier. The dairy-, meat- and gluten-free recipes she created for the book are meant to be flexible: home cooks with reasonably stocked pantries should be able to cook from the book without a trip to the grocery store (although they may have to make a trip to a specialty store for some ingredients, such as sucanat and psyllium husk). Crosby provides a helpful guide to newbie cooks on how to combine flavors, so they don’t have to feel bound by recipes. Each chapter opens with a template readers can use as a guide to create their own no-fail recipes. Crosby’s range of nutritious snacks and dishes is appealing, including banana chocolate chip breakfast cookies, gluten-free caraway swirl crackers, acorn squash fries, and warm Tuscan kale and artichoke dip. Crosby hasn’t forgotten the comfort foods of her childhood, either, and offers healthy versions, including sriracha mac made with squash-and-cashew puree, loaded nachos with a veggie nacho sauce, and strawberry-oat hand pies. Thanks to her simple, flavor-forward take on nutritious eating, Crosby’s book will appeal to both longtime vegans and vegetarians and those just diving into their first glass of almond milk. (June)

Publishers Weekly

One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine

“For whatever time of day, this cookbook is full of uncomplicated instruction and delicious advice for making everything from ‘crave-worthy, on-the-go’ snacks to heartier meals.”—Foreword

“A novel idea that just might transform noncooks into creative home chefs.”—Booklist

“Thanks to her simple, flavor-forward take on nutritious eating, Crosby’s book will appeal to both longtime vegans and vegetarians and those just diving into their first glass of almond milk.”—Publishers Weekly

“This title can help cooks to feel more comfortable modifying and improvising variations from recipes. . . . A fun, customizable collection of contemporary vegan and gluten-free foods.”—Library Journal

“Crosby is not dogmatic about her plant-based recipes . . . they make a good case for perfecting a dish that can easily be riffed on.”—Chicago Tribune

Praise for Heather Crosby

“Heather’s always been the queen of the plant scene, but with Pantry to Plate, she’s taken it to the next level—it’s the most comprehensive guide to plant-based eating I’ve ever seen.”
—Jessica Murnane, author of One Part Plant, host of the One Part Podcast
 
“Whether you follow recipes to a T, or you prefer to wing it most of the time, this intuitive guide offers plenty of inspiration for cooking and living well.”
—Laura Wright, author of The First Mess Cookbook
 
“Pantry to Plate will make you fall in love with whole foods all over again. That's a fact.”
—Ashlae Warner, founder of Oh, Ladycakes
 
“Pantry to Plate’s amazing choose-your-own-adventure templates give you the flexibility to work with what you've got in your kitchen right now, rather than stressing about missing one random ingredient. All the combinations are already Heather-approved, which means you can improvise with confidence, knowing that you'll end up with a delicious, plant based, nutrition-packed dish no matter what!”
—Laura Miller, author and host of Raw. Vegan. Not Gross

From the Publisher

04/15/2017
Crosby, the plant-based diet advocate behind YumUniverse.com, wants her readers to be able to choose between a structured cooking style and a more flexible, real-time approach. To that end, she organizes this cookbook around 30 everyday food categories such as pancakes and waffles, soups, epic salads, and veggie burgers. Each pairs a master recipe template with several exemplars; for instance, you can use the vegan, egg-free "scramble" template to invent a nutritious breakfast from the vegetables and spices you have on hand, or you can prepare one of three complete recipes. Like Woman's Day magazine's Recipe Remix and Mark Bittman's Kitchen Matrix, this title can help cooks to feel more comfortable modifying and improvising variations from recipes. Expect a few hard-to-finds from the whole foods pantry, including coconut aminos and ground psyllium husk. VERDICT A fun, customizable collection of contemporary vegan and gluten-free foods.

Library Journal