10 Spring Cookbooks for Creative Cooking
Celebrate spring with recipes and food that support a healthy and creative lifestyle. Here are 10 spring cookbooks for creative cooking.
Spring is a season full of good eating. With nature springing back to life after a cold and barren winter, there are many fresh things to eat that boost creativity and support a healthy lifestyle.
Do you want to stay energized and support your spring creative habits and activities? Discover creative recipes that support a healthy lifestyle. Whether you’re planning a party or picnic or want to learn creative recipes to cook? There’s a spring cookbook for you.
Discover more healthy recipes and unique and creative cookbooks to support your creativity in the kitchen year-round.
Goodreads Rating: 4.28
Greenfeast: Spring, Summer by Nigel Slater features 110 vegetarian spring and summer recipes to support your creative mind and healthy lifestyle.
This spring and summer cookbook is a comprehensive collection of recipes perfect for creatives who want to eat healthier this spring and summer. Nigel Slater, food writer, journalist, and broadcaster, shares quick and easy recipes to make from your pantry as well as new and creative ingredients, such as Asparagus, Broad Beans & Eggs; Ricotta, Orange Blossom & Cherries; Halloumi, Melon & Chile and provide a plant-based guide for those who wish to eat with the seasons.
Ten years ago, this breakthrough cookbook made vegetarian cooking accessible to everyone. Today, the issues surrounding a plant-based diet—health, sustainability, and ethics—continue to resonate with more and more Americans, whether or not they’re fully vegetarian.
This new edition has been completely reviewed and revised to stay relevant to today’s cooks: New recipes include more vegan options and a brand-new chapter on smoothies, teas, and more. Charts, variations, and other key information have been updated. And, new for this edition, the recipes are showcased in bright full-color photos throughout. With these photos and a host of recipes destined to become new favorites, this already classic vegetarian cookbook will continue to be more indispensable than ever.
After suffering for a decade from a range of ailments like Lyme Disease, Hypothyroidism, and Leaky Gut Syndrome, Amie Valpone, creator of TheHealthyApple.com, healed herself through clean eating and detoxing. In Eating Clean, Amie provides guidance on how to fight inflammation and reset your body, including a 21-Day Elimination Diet, instructions for food reintroduction, a 2-week meal plan, and an extensive pantry list.
The book has over 200 recipes that are vegetarian and free of gluten, dairy, soy, corn, eggs, and refined sugar to keep tummies healthy and satisfied. With this book, readers can get the support they need on their path toward wellness.
Get your whole family excited about eating healthy!
Veteran cookbook author Dreena Burton shows whole food, plant-based diet can be easy, delicious, and healthy for your entire family. In Plant-Powered Families, Burton shares over 100 whole-food, vegan recipes—tested and approved by her own three children. Your family will love the variety of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts, and snacks.
Burton shares advice and solutions from her own experience for everything from pleasing picky eaters and stocking a vegan pantry to packing school lunches and dealing with challenging social situations. Plant-Powered Families also includes nutritionist-approved references for dietary concerns that will ensure a smooth and successful transition for your own plant-powered family!
On her wildly popular recipe blog, Tess Masters—aka, The Blender Girl—shares easy plant-based recipes that anyone can whip up fast in a blender. Tess’s lively, down-to-earth approach has attracted legions of fans looking for quick and fun ways to prepare healthy food. In The Blender Girl, Tess’s much-anticipated debut cookbook, she offers 100 whole-food recipes that are gluten-free, vegan, and rely on natural flavors and sweeteners. Many are also raw and nut-, soy-, corn-, and sugar-free.
Smoothies, soups, and spreads are a given in a blender cookbook, but this surprisingly versatile collection also includes appetizers, salads, and main dishes with a blended component. Best of all, every recipe can be easily adjusted to your taste. Add an extra squeeze of this, another handful of that, or leave something out altogether— these dishes are super forgiving, so you can’t mess them up.
Details on the benefits of soaking, sprouting, and dehydrating; proper food combining; and eating raw, probiotic-rich, and alkaline ingredients round out this nutrient-dense guide. But you don’t have to understand the science of good nutrition to run with The Blender Girl—all you need is a blender and a sense of adventure. So dust off your machine and get ready to find your perfect blend.
Goodreads Rating: 3.58
Vibrant Food by Kimberley Hasselbrink is a healthy cookbook perfect for finding seasonal recipes to support your creativity. With a focus on wholesome ingredients and vibrant recipes, this cookbook offers a collection of plant-based dishes that are as nourishing as they are visually appealing.
Kimberly Hasselbrink, photographer and creator of the acclaimed blog The Year in Food, invites you to look at ingredients differently and let their colors inspire you. Thinking about produce in terms of color can reinvigorate your relationship with food. Beyond the recipes, Vibrant Food provides readers with practical tips on ingredient selection, meal planning, and maximizing the nutritional value of each dish.
Whether you’re a seasoned cook or a novice in the kitchen, Vibrant Food is a delightful cookbook that will inspire you to explore the world of seasonal cooking. With its emphasis on fresh, wholesome ingredients and its artistic approach to food, this book invites readers to savor the flavors and colors of each season and create vibrant and nourishing meals.
Food justice activist and author Bryant Terry breaks down the fundamentals of plant-based cooking in the Vegetable Kingdom. He shows how to make delicious meals from popular vegetables, grains, and legumes. The book is organized by ingredient, making it easy to create simple dishes or showstopping meals based on what’s fresh at the market. Bryant also covers the basics of vegan cooking, explaining the fundamentals of assembling flavorful salads, cooking filling soups and stews, and making tasty grains and legumes. With beautiful imagery and classic design, Vegetable Kingdom is an invaluable tool for plant-based cooking today.
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Pulp: A Practical Guide to Cooking With Fruit by Abra Berens is a new spring cookbook coming this 2023 that features more than 215 recipes and variations for using fruit in sweet and savory recipes to highlight seasonality and flavor.
Learn creative ways to elevate delicious meals you already love to eat with unique and new fruits you might have never tried before or thought to add. Unlike Abra Berens’ other cookbooks, Ruffage and Grist, Pulp is about regularly incorporating fruit to add variety and seasonality to main dishes. Learn everything you need to know about cooking with fruit to be more creative and healthy in the kitchen this spring.
Goodreads Rating: 3.93
The Picnic: Recipes and Inspiration from Basket to Blanket by Marnie Hanel, Andrea Slonecker, and Jen Stevenson is a creative summer cookbook that celebrates and teaches you how to plan the perfect picnic.
A picnic is a great escape from our day-to-day and a chance to turn a meal into something more festive and memorable. In the creative process, changing your surroundings is a great way to boost creative thinking and well-being. With a combination of delicious recipes, cozy artwork, practical tips, and creative ideas, this book is a guide to creating memorable picnics from start to finish.
This picnic cookbook is not only a practical guide but also a source of inspiration for creating special moments in nature. Whether you’re planning a romantic picnic for two, a family outing, or a gathering with friends, this book provides all the tools and ideas you need to make your picnic an unforgettable experience.
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Beautiful Boards: 50 Amazing Snack Boards for Any Occasion by Maegan Brown is the perfect fall cookbook to help you get creative with your food presentation for special holiday occasions and gatherings.
Learn how to make mealtimes, special occasions, and holidays extra memorable with these 50 delicious, inspiring, family-friendly, and easy-to-recreate snack boards. Using beautiful photography and helpful step-by-step guides, Maegan Brown (aka The BakerMama) can help you unleash your creativity to entertain and impress family and friends.
Artful masterpieces, including:
- Pancake Board
- After School Board
- Fall Feast Board
- Pumpkin Halloween Board
- Turkey Board
- Build-Your-Own Taco Board
- Football Board
- Dim Sum Board
- Birthday Dessert Board
Zach is an international writer, photographer, filmmaker, martial artist, and creator of Creative Enso, the Zen art of creative living. His goal is to empower and inspire creatives to live healthier, happier, and more creative lifestyles.
