Feast Recipes
Planet-friendly meals your family will actually eat — promise.
PS: We took these recipe photos ourselves — AI only fixed the lighting, not our questionable chopping skills. Details.
⏱ 45 min
Creamy Red Lentil Dal with Tomato and Ginger
This is the kind of dinner that quietly fixes the day: soft red lentils, sweet onion, ginger heat, and a coconut-tomato base that turns silky without much drama. It is cheap, filling, deeply practical, and mostly built from pantry logic rather than the usual supermarket performance art of twelve packaged solutions for one human problem. High in fiber and plant protein, lighter on environmental impact than meat-heavy stews, and still generous enough that nobody asks where the "real" dinner went.
⏱ 5 min
Homemade Spaghetti Spice Mix
A dry Italian-style seasoning blend for pasta nights when the sauce needs backup and the supermarket jar of "Italian seasoning" tastes like packaging dust. This one is bold on herbs, light on nonsense, and useful for spaghetti, tomato sauces, lentils, or roasted vegetables.
⏱ 65 min
Chili Sin Carne, for Nights When You Want Comfort Without Summoning a Cow
A hearty, plant-forward chili packed with brown rice, red onion, garlic, carrots, tomato passata, tomato paste, and a warm hit of cumin, smoked paprika, oregano, lime, salt, and black pepper. It is filling, family-friendly, budget-minded, and mercifully straightforward—because weekday dinner already can be difficult enough without requiring twelve pans and a personal life coach.
⏱ 10 min
Sweet Tikka Masala Spice Mix
A cozy, fragrant tikka masala-style spice mix with garam masala, cumin, coriander, paprika, and a small touch of brown sugar to round out the edges. It is sweet-leaning rather than fiery, which is handy when feeding children, spice skeptics, or adults who talk big and then reach for yogurt. Make a small jar once, and future dinners get dramatically easier with very little emotional labor.
⏱ 56 min
Half-Oil Whole Wheat Wraps
Soft whole wheat wraps with less Olive Oil and more Water, because water is life even though it's full of PFAS haaaaaa