Welcome to my kitchen!
My name is Susan and can be reached at [email protected]. I’m a mostly vegetarian cook, blogger, cookbook author, and food photographer. I live in gorgeous Lake Tahoe with my mostly carnivore husband (Carnivorous Maximus) and our mini doodle (Carnivorous Minimus).
I'm so glad you're here!! I want to show you how to simplify vegetarian dishes so you can put healthy and delicious vegetarian meals on the table your family will love. Even if they love meat like my family does.
A little background...
I started The Wimpy Vegetarian in 2011 as a way to share vegetarian dishes I was experimenting with in my kitchen. I'd just graduated from a professional culinary school in San Francisco, and was full of newly learned techniques and a love for vegetarian food. And I had just announced to my meat-loving husband that I'd decided to move to a vegetarian diet.
While I explored all the farmers markets in the area, he stocked up on every cut of meat. He had incisors for a reason, said he.
I taught vegetarian cooking classes on farms and at the local community college for a few years, and won recipe development contests. This work in the community, combined with my blog, ignited a passion for food photography and writing, as well as a desire to teach others.
Over the years, my recipes were featured in Parade Magazine, the Huffington Post, Buzz Feed, The Food Network and Food52. And as life got busier, I began to simplify my recipes, and wrote a cookbook called Simply Vegetarian. It was awarded #1 Best Cookbook of 2023 for New Vegetarians by SpruceEats and ranked #2 as the Best Vegetarian Cookbooks by Chef's Pencil, an International Food Magazine featured in Newsweek, The Guardian, and CNBC.
Additionally, FeedSpot placed The Wimpy Vegetarian in their ranking of the Best 100 Vegetarian Blogs, at #23 in 2023. FeedSpot is a database that ranks thousands of vegetarian blogs by traffic, social media followers and freshness of content.
Today...
More and more people want to eat healthy vegetarian food, but we need it to be easy and quick. It needs to fit into our already busy lives. I'm gradually working through all of my earlier recipes to simplify them, so that you can have dinner on the table in 30 minutes or less.
I’m thankful you’re here to join my vegetarian journey. Nearly all the recipes on this blog are vegetarian, many are vegan, and several posts answer questions you may have as a new vegetarian, such as why you may feel Fatigue on a Vegetarian Diet and 5 Easy Ways to Boost Energy.
The new vegetarian section also includes basics you need to know, such as how to cook fluffy quinoa and ways to use it. Or the four foolproof ways to cook dried chickpeas.
Additionally, I have a lot of vegetarian meal plans.
I truly hope The Wimpy Vegetarian will be your first stop when you need a vegetarian recipe for any occasion. Now let's get cooking.
Veggie on-
Cookbooks where you can find my recipes...
- Simply Vegetarian - Fuss Free Recipes Everyone Will Love, by Susan Pridmore
- The Food52 Cookbook: 140 Amazing Winning Recipes From Exceptional Home Cooks
- The Food52 Cookbook II
- Food52 Baking: 60 Sensational Treats You Can Pull Off in a Snap
E-Books...
Included as a recommended vegetarian site in a free guide, How to Start a Food Blog, by FirstSiteGuide.com. This is a free guide packed with valuable information for anyone in the early stages of starting up their own food blog! Additionally, they have a blog full of tips for any food blogger, no matter how long you've been blogging.
Contact...
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