Here are some of the tasty foods that came out of my kitchen this week:

Cheater Pad Thai (p. 117) with carrots and edamame. To be even more of a "cheater" I tossed the carrots and edamame in with the noodles when they were cooking! I was also all out of smooth peanut butter so I used chunky and I think the little bits of nuts really added to this dish!

A trio of recipes from …

Today's guest is one of my favorite friends in veggies: Tess. 

Last week Tess tweeted about a whole-grain, fat-free cobbler she'd made and within 5 minutes, I was making it. No joke. It's rare that I'm ever moved like that but once the idea of oven-warm cobbler hit me, I couldn't be stopped. 

The cobbler came together in minutes, baked to perfection and was absolutely divine! 

I asked Tess if I could share her recipe here on Happy Herbivore and …

During Monday's meal planning post, I hinted that a new feature was coming to happyherbivore.com to help you with meal planning and now it's here! (This was totally not planned, by the way, talk about planets aligning!)

Have you ever wished you could click on a few Happy Herbivore recipes and then a shopping list will print out? Now you can.

Have you ever wished you could view a recipe full screen -- like it would look in …

I read A Place of Yes over the weekend and it changed me. I really try not to throw grandiose statements around lightly, so believe me when I say this book was monumentally therapeutic for me. 

By sharing her stories, Bethenny made me realize things about myself -- noise (fear) that I wasn't aware I had necessarily, and how those fears were holding me back.

So what's my greatest fear?

That I won't be accepted. That no one will like …

Planning our week's meals before going to the grocery store has been one of those Do as I say, not as I do things for me. 

I recommend meal planning all of the time and truthfully, I've always wanted to meal plan. I saw the utility and value behind it, but for the past 5 years, Scott & I have always lived in walking distance to a grocery store. 

In Boston I lived across the street from Whole Foods, in …