Valentine’s Day & Mardi Gras inspired recipes! We’ve got lots of chocolate and peanut butter recipes coming at you this week, plus a few Cajun & Creole-inspired meals such as Cajun Potatoes (both plans), Creole Black-Eyed Peas (both plans), Cajun Corn Soup (both plans), Mardi Gras Tofu Scramble (family), Mardi Gras Beans & Rice (family), Strawberry Parfaits (both). Plus a few other sweetheart faves like Chocolate Granola, Chocolate Berry Bliss Oatmeal, Spinach Love Wrap and PB Cup Quinoa.



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Well my students, this is our last class! I hope you have enjoyed the Herbie 101 series! If you missed any of the previous posts, here they are:

Herbie 101: Nutrition

Herbie 101: Soy & GMO

Herbie 101: Allergies and Medical Conditions

Herbie 101: Pregnancy, Kids & Bodily Functions

Herbie 101: Baking, Cooking & Ingredients

Now for your general and miscellaneous questions!

Is it safe to juice lemongrass?
I've never seen lemongrass juiced at a juice bar, so I'd say …

We all know that saying, "the early bird gets the worm." I've always been what you might call a morning person. Even when I try to "sleep in," I'm still rousing by 7:00 a.m.

Sunrise in Nevada. I was driving from Tahoe to SLC last week for a HH Meetup! It was amazing to watch the sun come up in the dessert/mountains.

In college and law school, I opted to wake up early, rather than stay up …

If you don't already follow @janasooter on Twitter, you should. Over the last few weeks, Jana & I have become Twitter friends — tweeps, as the lingo goes. In fact, I've already told her we could never meet in person because her kids are so dang cute, I worry I might try to steal and adopt them as my own ;)

Anyway, I found Jana by a happy accident. Unbeknownst to me, Jana decided to create a challenge — cook …

You've got questions...

Q: I would like to get one of your cookbooks, but I don't know which one to buy. Help!

A: I recommend HHC, EHH, and HHA equally. If you can only purchase one of them, I suggest looking through the table of contents of each on Amazon to see which one speaks to you most — fits your tastes and personality, then you can expand from there.

If you're brand-new to a plant-based diet (or …