Be A Plant-Based Woman Warrior: Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious

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That's from the Engine 2 Cookbook, but the Lightning Dressing, all recipes have to be new in a new cookbook, but you can carry over less than 10% of recipes that are kind of thread through. Whereas I was this crazy fit, nationally-ranked swimmer for the University of Michigan, and I would wake up and just be overwhelmed with like, what the heck am I going to be able to eat today so I can swim and perform and be fed and also be satisfied and also not keep growing and getting these curves that I'm not feeling comfortable in? You just have portobello mushrooms and you take the stems and you literally pull them apart so it looks like the strings of pulled pork kind of stuff and put in a little liquid smoke and cook so the smokey flavor's in them, and then some barbecue sauce at the end just to coat them. Jane graduated from the University of Michigan, where she competed as an All-American swimmer and varsity rower. Obviously, it's part of this book, it's part of you sharing that experience and I applaud you for it.

Well, I learned from a neighbor of mine, who does not have the same politics as I do, that there's a soup at the Senate every day for the last 150 years or something. And we were fortunate enough that we all kind of convalesced at the Esselstyn family farm a few weeks ago, and I'm sure you know what that means. Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior includes more than 125 recipes made for women on the go, from Apple Flax Flapjacks and Black Ramen Bowls, to Portabella Sliders with Green Goddess Sauce, to Mint Chip Outta Sight Brownies. I feel that the biggest gift, which my husband originated, the biggest gift that we have passed on to our four children, and then to our 10 grandchildren and they're all children's spouses, is plant-based eating and I feel that it is the gift that we hope we can pass on to everybody out there. Here we all are decades later and I’m so proud to sit with Jane and Ann and share some of the inspiration and recipes with you today.

I've got to give you all a big kale to the yeah, because I want you to get fired up because today I'm going to sit down with two of the most amazing women that I know, and we are going to live fierce, stay bold and eat delicious, with none other than my mother, Ann, and my sister, Jane. Through the pages we read about other woman journey to the plant based diet, the impact and change it brought to their lives. And so at one point we were gathering together at this location, at actually our house in Cleveland, to go somewhere and watched one of their friends.

My husband had been speaking there relating to the thyroid, parathyroid world of his, and we had had rice and beans and loved it. We must unite in battle against our common enemies: Heart Disease, Stroke, Diabetes, Alzheimer's, and Cancer. It’s always a party with these two and I’m fortunate to have had the opportunity to be with them in person just a few weeks ago when we were all together at the Esselstyn Family Farm.

The one thing I feel strongly about is that everybody today is at such a disadvantage, and we were so lucky back there then, because there was no vegan junk food. Because salsa, obviously, is just chopped up vegetables and herbs, something herbaceous, something sort of onion, garlic. It changes up dinner recipes everyone already knows and adds things like balsamic vinegar and miso for new flavor profiles. Like any cookbook you own, not every recipe works with your family but I have to say this cookbook is one of the best cookbooks out there! I mean, I just was salivating because I knew that Jane was coming with another version of her brownies for us to try.

Jane brings her infectious energy and straight forward message to her presentations, cooking demonstrations, and cookbooks with clarity, hilarity, and a can-do attitude. Full of life, captivating energy, and delicious dishes, this cookbook brings readers to the Esselstyn family table, where plants and joy are at the center. And it is a world of difference for those patients who can really stick on those guidelines of no meat, no oil, no dairy and no nuts and avocado if they have heart disease. So I put in tiny little cubes, I mean, not minced watermelon, but just micro-cubed watermelon with all the other sort of typical salsa stuff.Even better than the recipes is the attitude of enjoyment and satisfaction around food that purveys this book.

I feel that it's common for people to see a plant-based diet as a deprivation, but it's clear that the Esselstyn family doesn't feel that way! Well, I think it's probably out there, people making it, but it's this pancake batter that you have pancake batter and then you take an apple and you slice it, not how you would think, but you slice it kind of horizontally. This, we have scones in the Engine 2 Cookbook, which we love, then there's kind of a basic like, "Hey, make these scones and add some chocolate chips or maybe add some raisins or whatever you want.I just want to go through quickly the different chapters of all the food, because I think you guys have done a brilliant job putting this all together. Because people are going to be checking out what you're eating because these Checkin Nuggets are so delicious. It can get a little nutty when the three of us are together because that Esselstyn feistiness is alive and well. Because I think that, while I've been here, probably every lunch has been an open-face sandwich that you have prepared.