Five vibrant plant-based recipes from Heidi Swanson s Super Natural Simple cookbook
Heidi Swanson
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Los Angeles-based food writer Heidi Swanson says she s watched dietary trends come and go, including low-carb, paleo, keto and turmeric-everything. But when you cut through the claims and look at long-living communities around the world, nutrient-rich, whole-food, plant-based meals is probably where you want to settle . Her latest cookbook,
Super Natural Simple, is a collection of vibrant, approachable whole-food vegetarian recipes pared down for quick, crowd-pleasing weeknight cooking.
Som tum noodles
Sweet, sour, salty and spicy – this colourful noodle dish uses techniques and flavours of the Thai dish som tum (or som tam, or green papaya salad) as a jumping-off point. Turmeric noodles are combined with a rainbow of vegetables, then tossed with a puckery sour ( som ), pounded ( tum ) salty-sweet dressing.
May 8, 2021
Joe Yonan
THE WASHINGTON POST – Sometimes, it seems impossible to find the time to cook the very things that your body and spirit need. You are rushing from task to task, juggling work and family and maybe school, and the stress starts to compound until you find yourself worried about being worried, tired of being tired, and in the mood to do anything other than the work required to get a healthful meal on the table.
Heidi Swanson knows the feeling. Her latest book Super Natural Simple comes “from a busy time in my life,” she wrote. She and her husband Wayne Bremser moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles while she was working on the book, and they bounced from one Airbnb kitchen to another while looking for a home. Then the pandemic happened, and last fall her mother died and her father fell ill shortly thereafter.
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