Welcome to Teaching Tuesday!

This new series is designed to help make you the best home cook yet! Each week we will explore a new ingredient and how to use it! (Feel free to leave a comment on what you'd like to learn about below!)

The first "installment" is a real tearjerker. Yep, I'm talking about onions!

As you probably know, onions come in a variety of colors, which make them all the more confusing. Here's a breakdown of …

I think speeches -- quotes -- are a lot like art. We see in them what we want to see, what we need to see.

This was something I came to appreciate during my rhetoric course in college. (We spent the semester reviewing and analyzing famous speeches. It was fascinating!)

When we came to study Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, I remember feeling angry when other students shared their interpretation of it, and those interpretations had …

Can you believe it's the last Happy Herbivore Cooking Show episode of the season!? I hope you've loved tuning in every week!

(Due to my crazy schedule for the next few months the show is going on hiatus, but you can bet I'll be back later in 2014!)

Tonight, I'm going with a classic: cornbread!

(and due to my crazy schedule this week I pre-recorded!)

Not only is this cornbread super easy to make (just five ingredients! well, …

You've got questions...

Q: I've been making my own oat flour to use instead of white flour and to save money since it's cheaper than whole-wheat pastry flour. Anyway, my baked goods are coming out a little denser than they did with wheat flour. My instinct is to increase my leavening slightly, but I thought I'd ask someone with experience in this first!

A: You generally don't want to fuss with leavening agents (adding more baking soda or baking …

Lately I've been getting several emails asking if you can be plant-based (vegan) if you can't have grains.

The short answer is yes. You don't *have* to eat grains, but they are certainly a healthy option if you can include them.

(For more info on all the different kinds of grains, their cooking time, etc. see my "15 Great Grains" post.)

One of my meal plan clients can't have grains, and her easy solution is to …