People get tattoos for all different reasons: some people love beautiful art and see their body as a canvas for an evolving masterpiece. Some people need their outside to reflect or symbolize what they feel on inside and others need reminders, markers, a memento. I've also witnessed the healing power of tattoos and it's their emotional value that attracted me.
Tattoos have always been a way for me to mark an important event in my life.
I have a few …
I hope everyone is looking forward to a 3-day weekend. Since we're ex-pats, we don't get Monday off... but that's okay, I still plan to make my beloved mushroom burgers (p. 89), baked beans (p. 199) and potato salad (p. 189) from my cookbook this weekend!
What are your plans this Labor Day weekend?
Last week I asked Facebook and Twitter what questions you guys wanted answered- embarrassing questions, nutrition questions, personal, what did you want to know from me? Ask Happy Herbivore will be a new feature on Wednesdays. If you'd like to submit a question, just email me at lindsay@happyherbivore.com!
This week's question; Can you share a day or weeks worth of no soy/tofu ideas?
Side note: I always find it interesting that people think you need to eat soy products to …
I get a lot of emails asking for tips how to get published, get a book deal, make a living at being a blogger, or a recipe maker, or something like Happy Herbivore.
My advice, above all else, is that, it has to be about passion. You have to do what you do because you'd do it even if you never made a single penny (and in the book business, you make pennies).
I'm not in it for fame or …
September 1st is my new favorite holiday. What holiday is that, you ask? The first day of National Biscuit Month, of course! What? You aren't enamored with biscuits? I've never visited anywhere more South than Chicago (and that's not very South at all!) but I have a romanticized idea that in the South everything is comfy, cozy, and warm. And people sit down to warm family dinners that always include piping hot biscuits..and there's a fire place. Don't make …