MBWM Potluck and Meet Rip tonight at Whole Foods Cedar Center

I heard it on pretty good authority (his sister Jane) that Rip Esselstyn is going to be at the Whole Foods Market at Cedar Center tonight, May 21st, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. I'm guessing he and Jane will be signing books and giving a talk. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun, as it always is when us like-minded people all get together.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it due to a prior commitment, but I'm still flying high from a party with like-minded people that I attended this past Sunday. Jane Esselstyn organized a My Beef with Meat potluck for her friends and family that had contributed recipes to the book. 

I happily agreed to take photographs.

Winners Announced! My Beef with Meat

I've got some good news and I've got some bad news.

Which one do you want first?

The good news? I thought so.

This delicious and super easy chocolate cake with frosting is an Engine 2 recipe! The recipe developer, Betty Speer, named it "Adonis Cake." So for all of you reading this who are Plant-strong, you now know exactly what you are going to make for every party, holiday, pot luck and special occasion from here forward! Yeah!

Rip Esselstyn's New Book: My Beef With Meat and Giveaway!

My copy of Rip Esselstyn's new book, My Beef with Meat arrived last week. It was hand delivered by Rip's sister Jane, one of the funniest, most passionate and most memorable people I have ever met. Jane was the mastermind behind the recipe section of this new Engine 2 book. I've eaten her dishes on a variety of occasions and I am always blown away by her food. No one eating Jane's food would ever feel deprived on a Plant-strong diet.

I've known about this book for a really long time. It was a few years ago already that I was asked by Jane to submit a recipe or two for it. But what I had thought was going to be a cookbook turned out to be so much more (but it is full of recipes--145 new Plant-strong recipes to be exact!). It's really a book about all of the possible questions and concerns a person might have about eating a completely Plant-strong diet, and then the current scientific answers to all of those questions.