Topic: Video

After Nashville we drove to Greenville, SC where my parents live, and Scott's parents also drove up from Hilton Head to meet us. It was a wonderful family reunion and the first time I've seen my parents since they went plant-based in January!

The grub: My mom made one of their favorite HH dishes for dinner: Andrea’s Puttanesca (pg. 201, EHH) with salad and whole-wheat Italian bread. 

Then for dessert she made HH Cheesecake (pg. 219, HHC) and …

HTLA will be streaming live all day here. 

The entire event runs from 9 to 5 (pacific time) but I'll come on around 3:45pm (6:45 EST)

I'll be making HH's chocolate zucchini muffins, carrot cake cupcakes with maple icing and the "instant" cookie dough from the Happy Herbivore Cookbook!

I hope you can tune in!

I'm always getting questions about how you can make the perfect bean burger a.k.a. one that doesn't fall apart. 

The secret is in how you shape it before baking and I've put together a little tutorial video:

To get my quick, 5-ingredient black bean burger recipe (see me make it on camera here).

May you always have perfect bean burgers! 

I've cut my fingers dozens of times with cheap kitchen knives. 

How many times do you think I've cut myself with a good chef's knife? 

Once. An it was because I let the knife get too dull.

Cheap knives have flexible blades and are generally harder to cut with. You much more likely to slip and cut yourself if you don't have a proper knife.

I really trust a chef's knife to slice through the veggies. When I use cheap …