This week has been quite a lot of work behind the scenes on the site. I switched to self-hosting the blog in order to gain more flexibility and control over what the site has to offer. However, this was WAY more involved than I had anticipated. I am still working out a lot of the kinks (broken links, uploading recipes to the new recipe page, repopulating the email list, etc). If you were an email subscriber to the blog, the email subscriptions were lost in the move. I sent out an email to the email subscribers informing them, but if you’d like to subscribe to receive the posts by email, there is a link in the right hand column on the main page (also where you can find the RSS feed sign-up if you’re interested in that). Overall, hopefully the blog has remained more or less the same in appearance. The most exciting change for readers is that I signed up for a program called Recipage, which will organize my recipes so that they are easier to search. For instance, if you go to the recipe tab on the site, you can browse by ‘occasion’ and click ‘Thanksgiving’ for recipes specific to Thanksgiving, or you can browse by ‘key ingredient,’ etc. I am still in the process of uploading all of the recipes that are already on my site (each one needs to be uploaded individually to Recipage). Please bear with me and let me know if you run into any problems using any aspect of the site. Are there any features you would like to see incorporated into the site? Let me know!
The Week:
Monday November 7, 2011: A recipe for a super delicious mushroom gravy.
Tuesday November 8, 2011: Roasted red potatoes recipe, perfect with the mushroom gravy from Monday.
Wednesday November 9, 2011: A heads up about changes to the site, and a Veganize Thanksgiving Recipe Challenge. So far we’ve had a request from Anne for vegan mashed potatoes. Lucky for you, I made a trial run recipe of garlic mashed potatoes last night, which were spot on (if I do say so myself) and I will be posting the recipe this week. I also received a request from Holly for a vegan pumpkin pie. That is my project for today, and assuming the recipe I’ve developed turns out like I’m hoping, I will post that this week as well. What other Thanksgiving recipes would you like to see veganized?
Friday November 11, 2011: No post on Thursday because I spent the whole day (I mean from 9am-9pm with my dear friend Tish making vegan lip balm and vegan candles). Admittedly, the active craft time was more like 4 hours–we did eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and run all over town acquiring the necessary supplies. A successful day, resulting in a fabulous recipe for vegan lip balm–pieced together from a bunch of different recipes online.
Saturday November 12, 2011: A recipe for a fresh cranberry, orange, ginger relish. Yum!!
This coming week will most likely be heavy on the Thanksgiving recipes. I’ve been cooking like crazy, trying out new recipes and photographing the food with my trusty little phone. You can expect mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, cranberry orange bread, stuffing, and any last minute requests you might have for vegan versions of old favorites. By the time Thanksgiving rolls around, I think I will have eaten my fill of Thanksgiving foods! Happy Sunday and I hope this has been a good week for you all.
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