This is one of my favorite and oldest recipes. I created it three cities ago (that's how I keep track of time, based on where we were living) and I still love it as much today as I did back then. I'd wadger to say this was my first time using tofu as a sauce and now I'm always using tofu as a sauce. Funny how one dish can totally change your opinion about an ingredient, right?

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Back when I gave a copy of Vegan Comfort Food away, everyone who entered the contest was asked to share their go-to comfort food. A lot of people replied "pumpkin oats" and I found myself licking my lips and thinking "mmm... that sounds so good!" I'm not much of an oatmeal person but I do love oatmeal cookies! Why I never thought to put them together before escapes me but man oh man, these are some of the best …

I apologize for my lack of posting on happyherbivore.com recently. It isn't for a lack of not cooking, either. Quite the opposite in fact! I've been busy in the kitchen cooking my pants off. I've been flinging recipes right and left but not for happyherbivore.com --- for my cookbook! I am very excited to announce that BenBella Books, the kickass publisher of The China Study, will be publishing my first-ever cookbook!

The cookbook will be released probably a year …

Somehow I made it through childhood without ever making a gingerbread house. It's something I've wanted to do for a few years now and have never got around to it. Making everything from scratch seemed so... daunting. Plus I'd have to buy all sorts of ingredients I never use to make it (like oil and all purpose flour, to name a few). But, my friends, I'm about to check "build my own gingerbread house" off my bucket list. You see, …

This recipe is a long time coming. I first heard about it from my friend Jane last winter, but had trouble getting my hands on the correct root (I once bought fennel instead -- oops!). Jane's recipe uses olive oil, chicken broth and cream, which I substituted out for this recipe. It's surprisingly very filling and reminiscent of a potato soup or hearty chowder.