Science-based Comfort Food for Taste, Health, and for Life
(Formerly known as Plant Based Pleasures)
I make, mostly, “junk food,” and comfort food, from scratch, with only the healthiest, most common, ingredients — according to the latest medical and scientific research — but still with the same great taste of your most loved comfort foods. I want to teach you what I’ve learned from my experience working for years in professional kitchens alongside amazing cooks and chefs from all over the world, as we shared ideas and broke the rules of cooking.
Why choose my recipes for your next meal?
- Accessible & Easy: Simple techniques and terms with no fancy equipment required, not even an oven — just a common stovetop/hotplate/burner; as well as a pot, sometimes a pan, a knife, and a spice/coffee grinder (a blender or food processor will work if you don’t have a spice grinder).
- Affordable & Tasty: Common ingredients — no expensive or exotic nuts, fruits, or strange-looking veggies.
Most of the recipe’s ingredients cost around $2.50 CDN / USD 1.85 (usually to feed one to two people, or more) — some are much cheaper, especially per person, and everything should be at your local grocery store or already in your pantry. - Quick & Healthy: Most take under or around 20-35 minutes from scratch to table, including prep time. Using only whole plant-based ingredients, to fight disease — according to the latest scientific and medical peer-reviewed data on humans (not animals or cells in a dish).
I use misunderstood and forgotten cooking techniques, plus some secret tricks, to make easy mouth-watering full-flavored food to help fight disease! The truth is…
I Hate Vegan Food!
This next part might offend you, but honestly: I hate vegan health foods! They don’t taste good!
Sure, when your healthy vegan meal is loaded with processed vegan cheese, cashew yogurt, and vegan butter, it’s all then deep fried and comes on the whitest bread you’ve ever seen in your life!
Well, then it better taste great! Mostly because it’s just as unhealthy as an “unhealthy diet,“ possibly even worse 12.
When most people think of an actual healthy vegan meal they think of a bowl of dry veggies, a piece of fruit, or some concerning-looking bowl of lumpy beige-green sludge.
Hopefully, my recipes will bridge the gap for you, as they have for me, where I get to eat the tasty foods I’ve always loved, but with only the healthy and the positive effects!
All that being said, health is a journey, and I want you to get there on your own terms — feel free, if you need, to start slow and adapt the recipes to include the ingredients you can’t give up just yet, or let me know what foods you can’t live without and I’ll work with you to adapt the recipe to your needs.
Dietary Restrictions? No Problem!
My recipes all fit many dietary restrictions:
No Dairy, no eggs, no wheat, no gluten, no nuts, no tree nuts, no shellfish, no seafood, no soy, no coconut, no added salt, no added oil, no added sugar.
Often referred to as a Whole-Food Plant-Based & Salt, Oil, and Sugar-free lifestyle, or just WFPB & SOS free diet.
They are also tailored for people who want to fight, or have:
Obesity, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, Chronic Respiratory Disease, Alzheimer’s/Dementia, Kidney/Liver Disease, and other non-communicable diseases.
I avoid coconut, as suggested by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.
Feel free to reach out and I’ll offer alternatives if you’re still having trouble with your allergies or food restrictions/needs. Nightshade allergy? Sesame? Lentil? Let me know and I’ll make or modify something just for you 🍲Message Plant-Based Pleasures
My recipes are also high in (complete) protein, fiber, antioxidants, and too many other good things to mention here!
What’s On The Menu?
Here are a few items:
- Dinner: Pepperoni Pizza, Pasta, Pierogies, Quiche, Mac & Cheese, Burgers & Fries or Chips, Tacos, Bolognaise, Butter Chicken & Roti.
- Lunch: Buffalo Wings, Gyros, Jalapeno Poppers, Nachos, Quesadillas, French Onion Soup, Swedish Meatballs.
- Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs & Sausage, Waffles & Syrup, Oat Flake Cereal Granola Cereal, Breakfast Sandwiches & Wraps, Bagels with Cream Cheese, Veggie Benedict.
- Snacks & Desserts: Banana Split, Apple Crumble & Ice Cream, Cherry Pie, Cheese Cake, Chocolate Bars, Brownies, Fudge, Caramel, Chips, Crackers, Cookies.
See the archives for all recipes
* Some dishes recipes may not be posted yet.
Food For Medicine
Fight Disease, Look Better, & Live Longer
All recipes will be packed with healthy ingredients that fight off the top Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), the same diseases that are responsible for 71% of all global deaths annually. That’s 41 million preventable deaths! 3
After the recipe I’ll quickly mention, and reference, how each ingredient targets the disease and other interesting “side effects” caused by the ingredients such as other miraculous health or longevity bonuses such as: anti-aging, body sculpting, sex, emotional & mental states, etc.
Join The Crew-munity
Be part of a community of people who share your interests, who want to eat and be healthier just like you.
We are all on different places on our paths of our health journies, but we can all get where we’re going with a little help and encouragement. Participate in the comments section, connect with me or other subscribers, and get support, connect with me directly if it’s private.
Also, please consider helping to support my work with a paid subscription — all NCD fighting recipes will always be free, but it takes time to research each ingredient, do the photography and editing, and to test and retest each recipe until it is perfected — I eat a lot of my own mistakes, and even then I often revisit and update old recipes to make them tastier, or easier, or more accessible.
I will eventually have more involved recipes with special equipment that takes longer than an hour to complete only for paid subscribers — including but not limited to things like hard or fermented cheeses, yogurts, vinegars, and many other surprising things, as well as recipes for equipment like air fryers, pressure cookers, sous vide, and others to make more upscale fair, but still following the same standards and ideals as my other recipes.
Food For All — A summary
Quick, Cheap, Easy, & Dietary Restriction Friendly
Affordable ✅
Allergy-friendly ✅
Quick & easy to make! ✅
Food restriction friendly ✅
Using ingredients shown to fight disease ✅
Most recipes take less than 30 minutes (start/scratch to finish), and can actually save you money at the grocery store, eating healthy isn’t a luxury just for the rich!
No fancy equipment is needed either just: a knife, a pot, possibly a pan, and a clean spice or coffee grinder.
All my tasty recipes are also:
- Unprocessed or minimally processed ingredients
- No store-bought plant milks, yogurts, cheeses, butters, margarine, or anything like that — we’re cooking from scratch here!
- No added salt
- No added oil
- No added sugar
- Gluten-free
- Nut free
- Dairy-free
- Meat-free
- Seafood free
- Help fight Non-communicable Diseases like:
- Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, Chronic Respiratory Diseases
- Please subscribe and share so I can keep researching, testing, and creating new exciting recipes and help to bring better health to those who think they can’t afford the cost, time, or sacrifice of eating healthy
I do however use the following because it’s what scientists use in placebo studies since they are easier to put in a pill than the whole food:
tomato paste, onion powder, garlic powder, cassava/tapioca starch, and nutritional yeast.
I also use baking soda for some items but you can easily replace it with carbonated water or one of the other suggestions.You can omit or replace these items with minimally or totally unprocessed alternatives (ask me if you’re not sure!) or if you just want other alternatives to what is in the recipes.
The recipes even have the added benefit of jumpstarting your metabolism so you can burn more calories! As well as many other health and vitality benefits that are all listed in the science/sources section for each recipe.
Come eat mouth-watering healthy food and live longer with me!
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Disclaimer
I am not a medical professional. Anything I write or publish is not to be taken as medical advice. Always consult with a medical professional before starting a new diet or exercise — especially when taking medications!
I am doing my own research as a concerned citizen in reputable medical research journals such as NCBI and doing my best to find only reputable, unbiased, and most applicable (e.g. focus more RCT and Meta human studies for food, as opposed to other studies on mice etc.) and making sure I understand as much as I can, but I’m not infallible and I can make mistakes, so again please consult a medical professional before undergoing any new diet, especially if you’re on medication or exercise. Many of these meals can lower your blood pressure 4, glucose 5, etc. sometimes quite quickly and dramatically so it could be life-threatening if you’re on medication like statins or insulin—ask your doctor to work with you.
Again, I’m not a doctor.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8838485/#sec5-nutrients-14-00601title
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35571958
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/noncommunicable-diseases