All posts tagged: Louise Penny

Muffin Topper: Celeriffic Chickpea Salad with Cranberries

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This week I begin a new job that has everything going for it, including great colleagues, beautiful setting, and a spacious yet cozy office. The one major adjustment I have to make is planning to pack a lunch. At my previous job, I could walk to any number of eateries, including the cafe at the local Whole Foods. Although I aspired to bring my lunch on a regular basis, I knew I never really had to. So this week I’m getting my act together. A couple of weeks ago, I had hankering for a vegan version of egg salad, which is odd, because I never really ate egg salad before I became vegan, and it wasn’t something my mother made often when I was a kid. She did make a very mustardy macaroni salad, though, which I think of as quintessentially Midwestern, and sometimes I mimic her recipe with my own veganized version, using lots of dill relish, yellow mustard, and vegan mayonnaise. I usually buy Nasoya’s light mayo, but used Just Mayo for the first time …

Ovenbird’s First Flight: No-Cook Chia Pudding

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For some time now I’ve been toying with the idea of a plant-based food blog. I already write (fitfully) a blog about, well, stuff, but mainly about writing and nature, called Thoughts Like Birds. In one post about cozy mysteries, my love of home-cooked comfort food was revealed: I featured a recipe for dahl that has received rigorous and repeated taste-testing in the Thoughts Like Birds kitchen. This past weekend, while browsing the wonderful Healthy Slow Cooking blog, I discovered that September is Vegan Mofo–a NaNoWriMo-esque month of intensive vegan food blogging. While it was too late to register for the 2014 Vegan Mofo, I decided to take it as a sign that it was an auspicious time to launch Ovenbird. So what’s it all about, this new blog? Pretty, pleasing, plant-based eating that’s not too hard on the wallet or the watch. I work full-time and have a young child and an elderly dog to look after, and in my “free” time I blog and write fiction and creative nonfiction. I want to make time to make …