Book blog tour week - bonus blogging!

What a treat! Today Amanda of the blog inmyveganlife  wrote about Rabbit Food Cookbook too! She just made a batch of my lentil soup recipe this week, and, hey, so did I! ...Actually, 1 full recipe makes so much that Darren and I have been eating it all week, and there are still a few more servings left! But! It is soup season! Plus, my new work site has no cafeteria, so the abundance of soup is working out just fine.

It's fall now. Although I love the warm air and late evening light of the summer, and always think I just can't get enough of it in the brief summer season in Oregon, there are so many things I always love about the approach of fall: apple cider, big batches of soup, seasonal silk nog and westsoy mint chocolate drink (mmmmmmmm!), holiday tofurky and tofu pot pie, fire flickering in fireplaces, and bright red and yellow fall sweet gum tree leaves!

Blog book tour for Rabbit Food Cookbook - day four!

Day four in the blogosphere! Today, a review by Carrie of CarrieOnVegan.com! Carrie tried out my chana masala recipe (spicy chickpeas)! I developed the recipe to be flavorful and simple, and I think Carrie agreed.

I do have a confession to make, though. I love my full recipe, but I also sometimes bypass my list of spices, oil, and tomato paste to make a variation of my chana masala using a great prepared spice mix that includes all three. It's called Patak's Original Mild Curry Paste (Cilantro and Cumin) imported from the UK. It's my favorite short-cut version since it saves some steps in the cooking process. You can find it in health food stores and grocery "ethnic foods" aisles. Not all jars of curry taste the same, but this one is very similar to the spice combination in my recipe! Enjoy!

Rabbit Food In the newspaper

Had a nice surprise to find my book and author event mentioned by Chris Peterson in the local Corvallis Newspaper food section on Wednesday!

Blog Book Tour for Rabbit Food Cookbook - day three!

Day three of the blog book tour! My friend Agnes Barton-Sabo came over a couple weekends ago for a tofu pot pie baking extravaganza! We had lots of fun making two pot pies. Agnes wrote all about it for her friend's blog bake and destroy! They're even giving away a copy of my book!

The results of our Tofu Pot Pie extravaganza!

Blog tour for Rabbit Food Cookbook - day two!

Day two of Sasquatch's virtual book tour via blog! Very exciting! Today Lindsay of cookveganlover.com has taken the time to try several of the recipes, including some of the new ones for the 2011 edition. Check out here blog post here.

Rabbit Food Blog Tour Kickoff | Cake Maker to the Stars--Vegan and Gluten-Free

My book is taking a fun little "blog tour" on the internets this week. Check out the link!
Rabbit Food Blog Tour Kickoff | Cake Maker to the Stars--Vegan and Gluten-Free

Rabbit Food Cookbook now available!

With an October release date, Rabbit Food Cookbook 2011 Sasquatch Books edition is now available and in stock in a number of bookstores, with more to come! Want to get a copy and also support an independent bookstore? The book is already available from Powell's Books! xoxo, Beth

Fall feature

There's a new vegan-oriented quarterly online magazine called Chickpea that just came out with their fall 2011 edition. Nice recipes, and a fall shopping guide that includes (handmade 2007 edition) Rabbit Food Cookbook!

Rabbit Food Cookbook - new Sasquatch Books edition!

Sasquatch edition of Rabbit Food Cookbook

In less than a month, the new edition of Rabbit Food Cookbook will hit the real and virtual bookshelves! On my own, I produced 230 copies of micro-editions 1-4 and 1000 of the 5th edition in 2007. This will be the first Sasquatch edition, but the 6th version of this little book, now a more standard 5.5x7.5 inch size. This time around, the book will be nationally distributed and available in all sorts of stores and websites, and I don't have to do any of that distribution work myself. Phew!

As you can see, it still has wire-o binding this time around, since the practical matter of using a cookbook in the kitchen is always an important detail to me!

Also new for this Sasquatch edition: I added some new details in the food timeline! There's a new reference section on dry beans and grains and how best to cook them! A new pattern for making mesh produce bags! Tips and drawings of essential kitchen equipment, that I recommend! Bigger margins around the recipes so you can more easily pencil in your notes! 12 new recipes and a few tweaks to and better descriptions for several others! And of course, some new illustrations to go with all of that!

Aren't you excited!!? Tell your friends!

2011 Card

It has been a while, since the year began now, but it's not too late to enjoy my card illustration. I know it's the year of the rabbit, but I ended up being in the mood for cats. :)