About

🌿 Where Healthy Meets Delicious

Real Chefs & Real Experience

🌿 WHAT YOU’LL FIND HERE

• Plant-Powered Meals highlighting fresh, seasonal produce. Over half of our recipes are vegan or vegetarian!
• Adaptable Meals. One meal, two ways—with both meat/plant options for households with mixed diets.
• Easy Weeknight Dinners. Healthy meals ready in 30 minutes or require minimal hands‑on time.
• Entertaining Recipes & Cooking for a Crowd – Lean on our experience in the restaurant and catering business with our helpful tips.
• Comfort & Nourishment—seasonal, soulful cooking that heals, restores and grounds.

Contact us 📧

Have a question, collaboration idea, or just want to say hi?
I’d love to hear from you—reach out anytime at sylvia@feastingathome.com.

My Personal Food Philosophy

I like to eat organic, seasonal, whole foods— grown locally, if possible. As a chef, I’m inspired by fresh, local produce, picked at its peak of flavor. Cooking and eating with the seasons is very grounding- and will immediately elevate your meals.

Though I had a vegetarian restaurant for 10 years and often eat plant-based during the week, as a chef, I love experiencing everything— so I don’t like to box myself in with a label.

There are many paths to health. The food scene has become extremely tribal, dogmatic, and preachy, almost with a religious fervor. I will never try to convince you to eat one way or another. We are all different, and our bodies have varying needs. My husband does better with a plant-rich, higher-protein diet,  but I do better with a lower-fat, high fiber Mediterranean diet. I love sharing things I stumble upon, but there’s never any pressure! I have no agenda here. I just want your food to taste good!  Haha! 😉 

Globally Inspired Recipes

I was raised in Los Angeles by immigrant parents—my Finnish mother and Egyptian father— right “off the boat”. They loved to travel and this allowed me to experience many different cuisines. When it came to cooking, they were extremely frugal, made everything from scratch, and wasted nothing. They taught me how simple, humble ingredients could become a feast. Today, my husband Brian and I continue that spirit—traveling often, always in search of new flavors, cultures, and cooking traditions to bring back home.

Cooking is Comforting

Sometimes, the most nourishing food isn’t the “healthiest” on paper. When my mom passed away, my dear friend, Sonna, brought over her Four-Cheese Macaroni and Cheese—it was the only thing I could get down. It was exactly what I needed, and I’ve never forgotten it.✨

Some days call for slow, soulful cooking—recipes that nourish more than just the body. Even after long, stressful catering days, I’d find myself back in the kitchen, making a pot of soup or baking bread, simply because the act restored me.

Cooking can ground us, quiet our minds, and bring joy. It’s a creative, loving act—and the energy we put in truly matters. My hope is that you experience peace and presence in your own kitchen. 💛

Comments from our community members!

It’s become a fun joke in my family that Feasting at Home saved my parents’ marriage.  When my dad decided to buckle down and commit to being a wonderful husband, one of his first steps was regularly cooking delicious meals for my mom.  For over a year now he has been cooking multiple times a week exclusively from Feasting at Home recipes.  While my Dad has done all the hard work, I think my whole family is grateful and glad for the role your website has played.  Now the whole family has started using your website and sharing pictures of the results. 

Nicholas

I LOVE your recipes so much that I don’t even use my cookbooks anymore!

Kerry D.

I have two small kids, a crazy busy work schedule, and I rely on your recipes to feed my family – literally! I have used many different sites to inspire my cooking, but yours has been consistently the BEST. I just wanted to thank you – you keep me going!

Christina

Sylvia!  My husband needs to lower his cholesterol- your veggie-leaning recipes are absolutely the way we want to eat. He has recently embraced tofu and the extra veggies in our meal rotation – many of them from your delicious recipes. 🙂 I know I’ve thanked you many times, but thanks again for your talent, creativity, beautiful photos, and generosity in sharing it all with us!

Lori Decker

My biggest challenge in the kitchen is diversity.  I eat clean 90% of the time but tend to prepare the same meals over again and get into a rut. I LOVE your healthy Bowls and the recipes included in the Plant-Based Guide.  I am excited to find another source for very interesting and not too complicated recipes that are exactly what I prefer to eat. Keep up the good work, you are appreciated!

Elizabeth

Your recipes have helped change the way I cook, shop, and eat. I used to love overly complicated French cooking—expensive, time-consuming, and a little risky when guests are coming. Now life is simpler, healthier, and far tastier! It’s a thrill to prepare really healthy dishes and watch people I care for scrape their plates clean and marvel at flavors and combinations they never expected to like, let alone crave. That’s thanks to you!

Your blog has been most helpful in the following ways: Sheet pan meals are a revelation! The sauces make all the difference in the world. The versatility and adaptability of your recipes are a dream. The new flavors are exciting, like Indian and Asian. You make it so easy to use tofu, which I love but used to have difficulty preparing in a way that tasted as good as at restaurants. Your turmeric broth is a staple. I make it at least once a month.

Susanna

I found you online 18 months ago and I love, love, love all the recipes I have tried so far and my husband can’t be happier.  My husband and our guests thank you over and over. Who thought I would get goosebumps from reading your recipes!  P.S.  I’m 71 years old and never enjoyed cooking until I found you! Love at the first recipe❤

Thank you for giving your recipes life and bringing your creations out into the world! They bring back a new-found joy for cooking and I feel extremely inspired to try out many more and come up with new ideas myself.  May you keep on inspiring others along with you. You surely did with me.

Caroline

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Questions Or Feedback?

I always love hearing from you.  So feel free to email me at sylvia@feastingathome.com, or simply hit “reply” when you get your Saturday morning emails and tell me your thoughts on how to better serve you! Seriously!

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