I'm pleased (and excited!) to announce that The Happy Herbivore Cookbook is available for pre-order on Amazon.

This is the tentative cover.... What do you think??

The Happy Herbivore Cookbook is scheduled to be released in stores on January 4, 2011. For those of you who want to give it for gifts this 2010 Holiday season, don't worry! I have something in the works right now... I'm still working on the details, but I'll know more soon! In …

Fairly often I go bonkers at the fresh market and come home with more greens than I can eat by the week's end. I always feel a twinge of guilt when I find a wilting bunch of greens left in my fridge so it's been a goal of mine to develop a fool-proof recipe that makes use of them.

Behold the mighty vegan quiche!

This quiche recipe is so freaking easy to make it's wrong. It'll also work with any …

I pick all my winners randomly -- but if I went on comments alone, I would have had to pick Victoria L. who left this comment: "I toured the factory for my honeymoon! Top that..."

She's right! You just can't top that! However, random.org is a little more impartial than me (which is why I use it!)

Congrats to Michelle of The Vegan Kitchen! 

Thanks to everyone who participated! I'll try to host another contest again soon. If you want to …

Just in time for St. Paddy's Day! Traditional Irish soda bread is made with just four ingredients: flour, buttermilk, salt and baking soda. Since buttermilk is easily made vegan by combining 1 tsp lemon juice or apple cider vinegar to every 1 cup of non-dairy milk, I thought this would be an easy recipe to veganize and I was right!

I added a little raw sugar and raisins for my own personal preference but you can omit them or add …

Even though Emeril is on team meat he is still one of my idols -- someone I aspire to be, or to be like. I have always adored him (I even own all his cookware!), and now I may even love the man. Here's the story:

Earlier this week my friend Briana called saying she had an extra ticket to a taping of Emeril Lagasse's new show. Briana is a chef at one of Tom Colicchio's restaurants and …