Recipe creations from plants for the home cook (and the never-cooked-in-my-life reader)? That’s Lisa’s niche and she loves sharing her knowledge, skills, and personal adventures in the kitchen with readers! Lisa has been writing and studying the art of cooking for over 30 years. She attended pasta-making classes in Italy, completed the intensive Forks Over Knives plant-based cooking course, and completed her Vegan Chef Certification with the Vegan Gastronomy Culinary Academy, the world’s leading vegan cooking school and training services company. She loves having friends over for dinner, or better, going to a friend’s house, and impromptu cooking a meal with what is available in their pantry and fridge. How much fun could that possibly be? TONS!
Lisa’s 2021 cookbook, Food ELEVATED, 100 Recipes for Colorful Cooking from the Colorado Front Range, received a Gold Medal Award from the Colorado Independent Book Publishers Association competition in August of 2022.
As a professionally trained speaker, Lisa’s presentations focus on Eating Well and Living Well.  Over the years, she has been featured in The Coloradoan, Advance Magazine, Medical Office Today, Mainstreet, The Ladders, and ICU Medicine and has written for regional magazines about life in Northern Colorado and of course, food! She was also a speaker finalist for the 2024 Vegan Women Summit in Hollywood!
For those who need a bit more on the corporate side, Lisa has over 40 years of experience in healthcare (OMG that’s a lot!) including disease prevention and management, performance improvement, and leadership development, and a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management.  Lisa loves leveraging this varied experience to help bridge the world of health and the expansive culinary world of a plant-based lifestyle and level the cooking approach so all can enjoy the fruits of the Earth.
Do you have to want to be a full-on vegan to be with Lisa? Absolutely not! 😊 Her motto? Let’s just eat more plants!
Join Lisa at:
Substack: https://lisaboesenveganchef.substack.com/
Cooking Videos – Click here!
Plant-Rich Podcasts – Listen here!Â
Books and Products available on the website store or Amazon:
Veg Around the World – released 2022. A Plant-based Collection of 50 Global-Inspired Recipes. Softbound only.
My Plants-First Workbook – released 2022. An 85-page journal of self-exploration and discovery to help you eat more plants! Softbound only.
Food Elevated, 100 Recipes for Colorful Cooking from the Colorado Front Range   – released in 2021. Hardbound and softbound.
Plant-based Test Drive -released 2021. A 44 –page self-guided tour and examination of testing a plant-based lifestyle. Paperback and e-book.Â
21 Days of Cruciferous Vegetables Recipes: Simply Eating Well – Want to eat more vegetables? Interested in learning about cruciferous vegetables and how to enjoy them in a variety of dishes and cuisines? Then this cookbook is for you. Soups, salads, wraps, stir-fries, and more – learn to enjoy the beauty of these nutritional powerhouses to enjoy daily – or more!
Recipes include:
Spring Rolls
Colcannon
Fennel Ginger Pear Salad
Frittatas
Saffron Orzo Soup
Compassion Mantra Cards – Need a lift? Lisa shares 14 thoughtful compassion mantras for daily use
Home Emergency Preparedness Guide – home and estate management organizing tool. Hard copy and e-files.
Managing the End….to Bridge the Beginning  – caregiving tips for end-of-life care and estate management. Ebook only.
Local Writings and Featured In….
Lisa Boesen, vegan chef and cookbook author, celebrates plant-based eating for health – Greeley Tribune, Nov 11, 2022
Community Supported Agriculture – NoCo Style – Bounty, Spring 2022, pgs 6-7
Let’s Dance! Swing, Jive, and Sway to Better Health! – Fifty & Better, Spring 2022, pgs 24 -26
Plan Your Staycation – Fifty & Better, Winter 2021, page 24,25
The Versatile Squash  – Bounty, Fall 2021, page 4,5
Dance of the Pollinators Bounty – Spring 2021, page 4
Chef it Up – Live Naturally Magazine – Nov 2021
Lisa has provided health and wellness speaking services and/or tastings to the following organizations, among others:
- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) CSU –Â presentation/workshop
- Longmont Senior Center –Â presentation and tasting
- Morgan Stanley Financial Services –Â presentation and tasting
- Rocky Mountain Olive Oil Company – presentation and tasting
- Spice and Tea Exchange Fort Collins – presentation and tasting
- Gardens at Spring Creek – plant-based workshop and virtual cooking class
- Fort Collins Senior Center – plant-based workshop
- Illinois WIC.  State Conference – Springfield, IL. Keynote Speaker
- ECCLPS – Sterling, CO. Self-care workshop
- USDA – APHIS. Fort Collins, CO. Guest speaker
- Arvada Senior Living – Arvada, CO. Guest Speaker
- Greater Houston Area Red Cross
- National Association for Dermatology Administrators and Managers. National Meeting
- Georgia Society for Respiratory Care, State Meeting
- Texas Society of Medical Assistants, State Meeting
- Oklahoma Society for Respiratory Care, State Conference
- Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy – National Conference
Popular Workshops and Seminars
Spices and Herbs and Plants – Oh my!  How to begin a primarily plant-based life.Â
A Plant-Rich Trip to Provence – Learn easy travel tips while traveling through the Southern French countryside enjoying plant-rich Provencal cuisine
Veg Around the World – Explore new cooking techniques, spices, grains and produce to demonstrate exciting plant-based recipes
The Bees and Me – learning from the earth and its wonderful resources
 Put some PEP in Your Life! – expecting the best while preparing for the worst. How to create your own emergency preparedness home management
 Perfect for –
Women’s Groups ♦ Health and Wellness ♦ Community-based Programs ♦ Retreats
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