Tune-In + Ground Fall Series to support the pre-holiday busy! Let's make your own signature festive chocolate bark! Think yummy, nourishing, balanced and loaded with your favorite holiday flavors. It’s unique, makes a show-stopping gift and is better than store-bought.

Join Mel to learn how to create Ponche Navideño and Roasted Poblano Soup just in time for the holiday season.

Join us for a cozy winter night in cook-along- perfect for when you are ready to settle in for an evening streaming your favorite movie or binge watching a new show with your family and friends. Cook right along with us or join us to watch. Everyone will receive a mini-recipe book that contains four of my favorite recipes including a Rustic Lentil Soup with Sausage, Greens, and Garlic, Stovetop Popcorn, Cookie Dough Bites and a Hot Toddy. After we cook, settle in for a cozy evening of delicious and nutritious foods that you made!

Let’s cook holiday recipes together! In this workshop we will be cooking together and making a few of my favorite recipes. We will talk about what ingredients to add, healthy substitutions that can be made, and how to make it all taste amazing. You will also receive a special-edition holiday recipe ebook to help inspire you for the upcoming holiday season.

The Trader Joes 5-Day Meal Plan Challenge is a week-long cooking challenge where you will receive a carefully crafted 5-day meal plan with a shopping list which will feed 2-3 people depending on appetites. All shopping can be done at Trader Joes with a $100 budget. (You are welcome to shop anywhere of course though.)

Please join us for the Information Session via Zoom on 9/22 for full details and to receive the meal plan pdf. We will then cook 9/26-9/30 and have a Wrap-Up Session via Zoom on 10/6. Each day via email you will get a cooking inspiration video to help guide you.

After completing the challenge you will be entered in a raffle to win a $100 Trader Joes gift card. This will be a fun way to hone your meal prep and cooking skills while enjoying health-supportive, home cooked meals all week!

Kitchari is a staple food in Ayurveda. It’s a dish made of hulled or split mung beans, basmati rice, a rotating list of seasonal vegetables, and a variety of spices. This complete, one-pot meal is both cleansing and nourishing, and also helpful in detoxification. Learn the basics to making this staple dish with me, then customize it with your favorite vegetables for each season.

It’s summer and it’s time for some picnic planning! Join us for this cook-along class all about how to make mason-jar based recipes great for a summer picnic. Grab some mason jars, your ingredients, and let’s get cooking.

This Mother’s Day Cook-Along is a time to either cook for moms, cook with moms, or cook to honor moms.

We will make:

• Creamy Pasta with Garlicky Yogurt, Peas and Basil

• Strawberry Almond Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing

• Dark Chocolate Brownies with Chocolate Chunks

The Stories of our Kitchens: An intimate and funny cook along class sharing stories of culture, music, childbirth, marriage, divorce and journeys of self love. Join Mel and Laleh in the kitchen. Laleh will teach us about Nowruz, The Persian New Year. We will make Ghormeh Sabzi(Persian Stew) and Tahdig ( Crispy Rice).

Join Brooke Wilson of Summer Thyme Wellness and Banyan Tree Women’s Collective for a Winter Weekend Brunch Cook-Along. We will be making my famous Sausage Sweet Potato Hash as well as a side of Stewed Cinnamon Apples. I will be walking you through the recipe as we cook together and discussing all the nutritional benefits of the ingredients. This will be a warming and fun experience for everyone and we look forward to seeing you there!

A workshop to learn how to reclaim power over our mental health + moods through whole foods. We will work together to do a current mental-health check in, review the top 6 nutrients that support mental health (and where to find them), and learn the top 10 mental health powerfoods. Walk away with actionable goals to reduce stress and feel better!

This is not your average everyday cooking class, this is a Valentine’s Cooking Extravaganza! Join us for this very special event whether you are on your own, cooking as friends or a couple, or cooking as a family. We are going to make a Valentine’s feast that will include the classic French stew, Coq Au Vin along with Buttery Mashed Potatoes, and a Simple Green Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette.

You will also receive recipes for an appetizer Harvest Board and Decadent Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting to complete your Valentine’s dinner. This class will be the day before Valentine’s day so you can choose to enjoy your special dinner immediately after the class or save it for the following day to make it an official celebration of Valentine’s Day. (Trust me, the stew gets better over time.) We will also have a contest and a giveaway so you will have the opportunity to win a Harvest Board Board and Harvest Board Tools.

If you are feeling the winter blues, join us for our cook-along workshop, Mood Food: Balance the Winter Blues. We will be making a Feel Good Three Bean Chili with energizing accompaniments to balance mood. While we cook, we will discuss nutrition and lifestyle strategies to brighten the blues this season. We hope you can join us in your home kitchen for this night of comfort and healing.

In this interactive food demo, taught by Certified Holistic Nutritionist Mukta Gadkari, you’ll learn how to make a simple lacto-fermented sauerkraut using two ingredients: cabbage & salt.

Fermentation is an ancient food preservation technique going back centuries and a fantastic way to not only store nutrient-dense food, but to also unlock its full nutritional power. Eating lacto-fermented foods like sauerkraut helps repopulate healthy gut bacteria in the body, improve digestion and support a strong immune system.

Chicken bone broth is incredibly healing, easy to make, affordable, and adds depth and deliciousness to your home-cooked meals. Join us for this cook-along class where you will learn how to make and store a savory and nutrient dense bone broth to enjoy throughout these cold months.

In this cook-along workshop you will learn how to stock a healthy pantry and cook a simple and delicious recipe using pantry ingredients. You will receive a "Stock the Pantry" guide as well as a mini-recipe ebook with pantry-friendly recipes so you will always have inspiration as to “what’s for dinner” during quarantine.

Want to add a little bit of healing to your holiday meal? In this workshop we will be cooking together and making a few of my favorite recipes, but making them with a little nutritional twist. We will talk about what ingredients to add, healthy substitutions that can be made, and how to make it all taste amazing. You will also receive a special-edition holiday recipe ebook to help inspire you for the upcoming holiday season.

Prep and cook a healing meal alongside Board Certified Holistic Nutritionists and Chefs Brooke Wilson and Megan Knipp as they demonstrate foods for soothing anxiety and supporting a healthy mood. We will make a delicious Coconut Salmon Curry with Cashew Rice, highlighting several seasonal ingredient variations to make it your own. There will be time at the end for Q & A to answer all of your Mood Food questions.

Fall is here and your root vegetables are begging to be eaten. Learn how to prepare dishes to enjoy root vegetables like beets, carrots, parsnips, and radishes. You’ll learn easy ways to enjoy them both raw and roasted. Family dinners will get a new boost of fall flavors!