The BetterDay kitchen
Recipes and stories from Calgary.
Ingredients
Fennel, the vegetable people walk past
It sits in the produce aisle looking like a confused onion. It is one of the best vegetables there.
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Recipes
Roasted soy curls with garlic and oregano
Marinate, roast, done. The chewiest, most useful plant protein in your cupboard.
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Recipes
The ones we make on repeat, written out properly so they work the first time.
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Roasted fennel with balsamic glaze and toasted walnuts
Roasting turns fennel from sharp and licorice-y into sweet and almost caramel. Different vegetable entirely.
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Coconut peanut butter fudge
Four ingredients, no oven, thirty minutes. The freezer stash you will not admit to.
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The best damn vegan pancakes
Whole wheat, no eggs, no dairy, and still tall enough to hold syrup. Took us a lot of flat ones to get here.
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Creamy peanut stir fry sauce
Make a triple batch. A jar of this in the fridge turns whatever is in the crisper into dinner.
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Balsamic tahini dressing
Five minutes, one jar, and salad stops being the thing you eat because you should.
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Fun-fetti birthday protein balls
Cake-flavoured, sprinkle-covered, and somehow a protein snack. Birthday optional.
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Carrot cake with cashew icing
One bowl, no eggs, and a cashew icing that genuinely behaves like cream cheese frosting.
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Vegan street corn
Charred corn, tangy lime mayo, and enough chili to make it interesting. Summer on a stick.
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BBQ roasted chickpeas
The snack that survives the drive home. The trick is when you add the sauce, not what is in it.
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Our signature vegan queso
Fifteen minutes, one blender, no cooking. The dip that disappears first.
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Vegan cashew spinach artichoke dip
Hot, bubbly, and gone in four minutes. Nobody at the table asks whether it is vegan.
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Holiday drinks, made plant-based
Vegg nog, gingerbread cocoa and maple mulled cider, all without the dairy or the egg.
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Building a plant-based holiday board
A grazing board without the meat and cheese, built so nobody stands there looking for the meat and cheese.
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Ingredients
What is actually in the things we cook with, and how to buy and use them well.
plant milk
A straight guide to plant-based milks
Six milks, what each one is actually good at, and which carton to reach for in coffee, in baking and on cereal.
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nuts
Our five favourite nuts, and what to do with them
Five nuts, what each is for, and the storage mistake almost everyone makes.
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leafy greens
Leafy greens, and what they are actually doing
Spinach, kale, chard, collards and arugula, what each one is best at, and how to stop them dying in the crisper.
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soy
The soy myths, and why we still cook with it
Soy spent twenty years being the villain of the health aisle. The human research tells a different story.
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nutritional yeast
The 101 on nutritional yeast
The yellow flake that makes plant-based food taste cheesy. What it is, what to do with it, and how to buy a good one.
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In the kitchen
Storage, waste, habits and feeding people who do not all eat the same way.
gut health
How to eat 30 plants a week without thinking about it
Thirty sounds like a lot until you find out that herbs, spices, nuts and grains all count.
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kids
Why toddlers make the best food critics
Brutally honest, entirely uninterested in your feelings, and right more often than you would like.
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habits
Making a food habit stick
January resolutions about food fail for a structural reason, not a willpower one.
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food waste
Seven ways to throw out less food
A third of the world's food gets thrown away. Most of the fix is storage and a list.
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plant-based
Going plant-based in a house that is not
The hard part is rarely the food. It is cooking two dinners and defending your choice over both of them.
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plant-based
A customer sent us photos to ask if her chicken was chicken
She had ordered the plant-based version. She could not tell. The reason is more interesting than the mix-up she thought she had found.
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Calgary
Local businesses, local parks, and the story of how Sprout became BetterDay.
betterday
From Sprout to BetterDay
Same kitchen, same chefs, same delivery. New name, and a reason for it.
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calgary
Our favourite parks to picnic in Calgary
Five parks, what each is actually good for, and where to eat afterwards.
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calgary
Calgary gifts worth buying local
Six local businesses we buy from, and what to get from each.
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recipes
Ten plant-based food blogs we actually cook from
Ten sites we go back to, and what each one is actually good for.
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