Win Herb, the Vegetarian Dragron!

In honor of Vegetarian Awareness Month, I’m giving away a copy of Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon.

How do you win Herb? It’s simple:

Go to my website, www.discoverbarefootbooks.com

I’ve hidden Herb on one the pages. When you find him, click on the “Contact Me” Link, fill out your name and e-mail and tell me where Herb is.

Your name will go into a hat or something and I’ll choose the winner at the end of the month.

Good Luck!

Farming Conference

A fellow Stallholder and I just shared a booth at the NOFA Conference held at Hampshire College. It was a fun event with lots of interesting exhibitors and lots of compost for sale. My kids were great staying with me in the pouring rain on Friday and joining me today on a beautiful summer day. My son spent the day climbing trees, eating apples off said trees, playing frisbee, making friends and reading books. Popular titles were Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon and The Giant Turnip.

I also got to have my first storytime. How did it go? I’d like to say practice makes progress. I had a little stage fright, 1 heckler, a clingy son and good books. I read Shrinking Sam and The Summer Queen and Winter King.

Eating Our Friends

In the past few months, our house has become vegetarian. I have toyed with the idea for awhile now and I would say that I cooked 75% vegetarian beforehand, so it has not been a shock to my kitchen.

How did it happen?

My husband, meat lover, had an epiphany after listening to a song by a rockin’ kids band called Lunch Money. We saw them perform live and they sang a song that included the lyrics, “We gotta watch out for our animal friends”. That was enough for my husband. Our son lasted a few weeks until he announced that he “wanted to eat his friends”. How about me? I’m thinking of eating meat as a special treat. If someone is serving it I may have some. It has been really fun to discover meat substitutes and grains like quinoa and red lentils. We also got a really great cookbook Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. We keep kosher in our house, so it’s made that easier as well.

Does Barefoot have a book about being vegetarian? You bet. Our brave hero is Herb the Vegetarian Dragon. His fellow dragons are Meat eaters and scare the local townspeople but not Herb. He peacefully tends to his organic vegetable garden and makes Leek and potato soup (yum!). He is an outsider in the Dragon world and at one point is pressured to eat meat to save his life. Herb stays true to himself and helps the dragons make peace with the townspeople.  The book is beautifully illustrated by Debbie Harter.

The web has been a great resource for vegetarian cooking. Do you know of any great blogs or websites about vegetarian cooking? Any recipes to share?