Announcing My New Cookbook: The 28-Day Pescatarian Meal Plan & Cookbook
The 28-Day Pescatarian Meal Plan & Cookbook is officially available for pre-order!
I WROTE A COOKBOOK!!!! Like a real, published, will be in store shelves COOKBOOK!!!
The 28-Day Pescatarian Meal Plan & Cookbook will officially hit shelves on April 14, 2020, but it’s available for pre-order NOW!
Get your copy >>> HERE!!!
I’m SO excited to take you behind the scenes to learn more about my book…
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About The 28-Day Pescatarian Meal Plan & Cookbook
My book is not a diet. I repeat, my book is not a diet! Yes, there’s a month-long meal plan included, but that’s to make it easy for you to include the pescatarian lifestyle into your current life.
The 28-Day Pescatarian Meal Plan & Cookbook walks you through…
- The principles of the pescatarian diet
- Preparing your pescatarian kitchen
- The 28-day pescatarian meal plan
- Delicious, approachable, and EASY recipes
Some of my FAVORITE recipes are included in my book, including:
- 7 delicious breakfast recipes, like oat flour blueberry pancakes and a smoked salmon scramble
- 10 soup and salad recipes, including cauliflower clam chowder and shredded brussels sprouts slaw
- 12 vegetarian mains (with no fish or seafood), including lentil “meatballs” and roasted red pepper rigatoni
- 17 fish and seafood mains, like sheet pan jerk fish tacos, 30-minute mussels marinara (the sauce is to DIE FOR!), and healthy baked fish and chips (seriously SO GOOD – pictured below!)
- 13 snacks and sides, like zesty crab and avocado bites (great for entertaining) or crispy miso-glazed brussels sprouts (the best brussels sprouts ever)
- 7 delectable desserts, like an indulgent s’mores cookie skillet (!!) and a healthier mocha-avocado pudding
Why Pescatarian?
Without giving away too much (you can grab the book HERE!), the pescatarian lifestyle is a plant-forward way of eating that includes fish and seafood as the primary animal protein source.
When following the pescatarian diet, you don’t have to eat fish everyday, but instead, focus on including it in your weekly rotation to boost your intake of omega-3 fatty acids.
Fish and seafood are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are anti-inflammatory and help reduce the risk of chronic diseases, like heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and more. Even more, followers of the pescatarian lifestyle often effortlessly maintain a healthy weight.
The Process of Writing a Cookbook…
Do you want to learn more about the process of writing a cookbook? If yes, I’m happy to go into more detail, but let me just say, it was intense… but also so much fun!
As soon as I signed my contract, the first thing I did was brainstorm recipes.
I was FLOODED with ideas and it was SO hard to narrow it down to 65ish recipes. I really tried to balance the recipes by the types of fish used, the ease of the recipe, and the specific global flavors I used. For instance, I came up with about 15 Mexican-inspired recipes (because who can ever have enough tacos?!), but I didn’t want the book to use the same spices and flavors over and over, so some of those turned into blog recipes instead.
Then, I did tons of research and writing.
The first few chapters are about the health benefits of the pescatarian lifestyle, choosing high quality fish at the market, and stocking your pantry. I spoke to TONS of fish experts. I even went to a sustainable seafood event hosted by the Seafood Nutrition Partnership at Crave Fishbar while I was writing, which was so inspiring!
I wanted to be sure to include information about SUSTAINABLE seafood because there’s a lot of overfishing that occurs. Choosing high quality seafood is important in following the pescatarian diet. Luckily, there’s lots of create “aquaculture” and wild fishing of sustainable species in this country (and abroad).
I was sure to include fish recipes that features the most sustainable species that are also accessible to most.
And then it was time for recipe writing and testing…
I wrote the recipes first, then printed them out and brought them into the kitchen to test. I live in a small New York City apartment, so being efficient and organized was essential when testing over 65 recipes!
At the end of the week I would make a shopping list for the following week. Most of the time I had all of the ingredients I needed, but there were definitely a few emergency trips to the supermarket. When I was testing the seafood recipes, I also made a trip to the supermarket the day before or the morning of, because fresh is best!
I tested about 3-6 recipes a day. Most of the recipes in the book were tested more than once too! Friends, family, my son’s nanny, my husband, and I tasted all the recipes to make sure they’re PERFECT for you!
Now I can’t believe you’ll have the book in your hands in a few short weeks!
***PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY HERE!***
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XO