Holiday Cook Along With Chef Del Sroufe
Prepare a delicious six-course plant-based holiday feast from the comfort of your own kitchen!
November 15, 2025—Noon to 3:30 PM ET
Join Chef Del for Holiday Cook Along With Chef Del Sroufe, a festive one-day event designed to take the stress out of holiday cooking while helping you create a wholesome, satisfying plant-based feast. This hands-on, interactive class invites you to cook in real time with Chef Del as he guides you step by step through a six-course holiday meal using only whole food, plant-based ingredients. There are no oils or highly processed foods. Just pure, nourishing flavor.
Whether you’re planning to host a large family gathering or a cozy dinner for a few, this cook along will help ensure that you’re ready. You’ll learn techniques for timing, prepping ahead, and building flavor, with a special focus on seasonal produce, grains, and legumes. You’ll finish the class with a full menu ready to serve and the confidence to recreate the meal on your own. With tips for presentation, substitution, and using leftovers, this cook along is perfect for anyone looking to bring health, joy, and ease to their holiday table.
Class Overview
One online
live cooking session
Six delicious
holiday recipes
Bonus holiday
e-book
Inside the Class
- Hands-on, step-by-step guidance
- The role of seasonal produce
- Plant-based cooking fundamentals
- How to work with seasonal staples
- Troubleshooting common plant-based cooking challenges
- Holiday recipes made entirely with WFPB-compliant ingredients
- Bonus digital recipe e-book
Who should enroll?
- New cooks hoping to confidently prepare a multicourse plant-based holiday menu from scratch
- Anyone looking to discover how to balance flavors and textures for festive plant-based dishes
- Cooks who want to learn how to schedule cooking and reheating of dishes on the day of the holiday to make maximum use of their kitchen
- Cooks seeking practical tips for shopping and organizing the kitchen for large meal preparation
Class Sections
The Role of Fall Produce in WFPB Nutrition.
Fall produce, like apples, pears, cranberries, squash, parsnips, cauliflower, green beans, onions, and leafy greens, provides fiber, complex carbohydrates, and essential nutrients that support immune function and overall health in a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) dietary lifestyle. Mastering the versatility of these seasonal ingredients, you can create flavorful, nutrient-rich meals without added fats or processed ingredients.
Basic Ingredients Used in Fall Cooking.
A fall kitchen is abundant with hearty vegetables, crisp apples, sweet pears, and earthy root vegetables like parsnips, ingredients ideal for creating comforting, nutrient-dense meals. Staples like onions, garlic, mushrooms, nuts, dried fruits, warming herbs, and spices make it easy to build rich flavor and texture in WFPB dishes without highly processed ingredients.
The Importance of Organizing Your Kitchen.
An organized kitchen is essential when preparing a large meal. It ensures efficiency and reduces stress during cooking. Having ample storage containers and enough space in the refrigerator for prepped ingredients and finished dishes helps keep everything fresh, accessible, and ready to serve on time.
Class Recording.
If you are not available to cook along with the live class, you can watch the recording at your convenience.
Meet Your Instructor
Chef Del Sroufe
Del Sroufe is a Culinary Specialist with the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies (CNS) and the host of CNS Kitchen, a supportive group for those looking to adopt a whole food, plant-based lifestyle. Del has owned and operated several plant-based businesses, worked as a plant-based personal chef, and written four cookbooks, including the New York Times bestseller Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook.
Register
Discover how easy it is to create a healthy, wholesome holiday feast. You don’t want to miss this!
Can’t make it live? Don’t fret! This class will be recorded and made available to all registered participants by noon (ET) on Sunday, November 16th allowing you to watch at your convenience.