Get Ready to Add Love & Stir! Compassionate Cuisine is Online!

Our award-winning Chef Linda is cooking up an array of guided virtual cooking classes that will inspire you to enjoy all that vegan cooking has to offer. Public, private, or group/corporate classes are the perfect way to dive into the delicious world of plant-based cooking while spending more time at home. Trained as a chef … Read more

Superfoods and You!

vegan cooking classes

Have you ever heard someone say that vegans don’t look healthy? Hogwash! While it’s true that you can be vegan and live on dairy-free pizza and processed foods and not be a picture of health, many vegans are, in fact, the picture of health because of the time and effort we put into creating well-balanced meals. Perhaps … Read more

Ethnic Cuisine Class: Indian Food

Ethnic Cuisine Class: Indian Food Indian food isn’t always on the radar screen when you’re thinking of what to make for dinner. Maybe it’s because we assume ethnic cuisines are best eaten out. Unfamiliar ingredients and techniques can scare away the best of us, but sometimes creating an unusual and unexpected dinner at home can be just as … Read more

Cooking Class: Vegan Family Meals

Vegan Meals for the Whole Family I hear from people all the time that one of the biggest challenges to eating vegan is that family members are often not on the same page. Mom might want to adopt a plant-based diet and cook vegan family meals, but Dad and the kids are sticking to their guns … Read more

Superfood Recipes Class

Our next Compassionate Cuisine vegan cooking class (Saturday, August 16 from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.) covers the important and delicious topic of superfoods. Superfoods are exceptionally nutritious foods that provide a host of benefits supporting health and well-being. They are not just a passing fad – if you know what these food are and can easily incorporate them … Read more

Ethnic Cuisine Class: Chinese Favorites

Scallion Pancakes

Compassionate Cuisine Cooking Class: Chinese Favorites One of the great joys of being a vegan chef and working at a teaching sanctuary is that not only do I get to create and cook wonderful, compassionate food…I get to teach other people how to do the same. Ethnic cuisine continues to be one of our most popular series … Read more

What Are You Hungry For?

Last week, powered by a generator up at the Homestead’s Judgement-Free Kitchen after the storms took down trees and power lines, I taught “Vegan 101,” an introductory class to help familiarize people with the wide variety of foods available in vegan cooking. After the first few minutes of facilitating the acquaintance of strangers in a … Read more