Adopt A Gluten-Free Blogger
This event is the brain-child of Sea Maiden at Book of Yum. She’s in Japan right now working on her dissertation while still being mom to a preschooler. She’s busy. Very busy. Several of us offered to host during the summer months.
I love reading through these posts because I’m introduced to bloggers I hadn’t had the pleasure of meeting before and I get to read about what others have made for the event and enjoyed.
The dips that Valerie from City-Life-Eats made from Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen both look delicious. When Valerie says the Creamy Herb Sunflower Dip Dressing has a mouth-feel that reminds her of cream, she’s speaking to me. I have to give it a try.
The Caramel Dip for Apples just sounds like fun. I’ll have to give it a try when the fall crop of apples starts coming in.
Rachel from The Crispy Cook also made two recipes, these from the low-carb, gluten-free blog of an opera singer - Until The Thin Lady Sings. Blueberry Lemon Bars with stevia are a great combination of flavors and, with no sugar, I may have to give them a try.
The other recipe she made is Coconut Flour Cheese Biscuits. I’ve made a similar biscuit before but not with all of the seasoning that this one has. It should be a show-stopper.
Dawn from Cuter Than Gluten made Gluten-Free Easily’s Coconut Blueberry Pound Cupcakes then turned them into Cookie Monster cupcakes with her own frosting on top. They’re adorable and Dawn says the taste of the cupcakes truly is like pound cake.
Heather from Gluten-Free Cat adopted Hunter’s Lyonesse and made some cookies that I put on my must make list as soon as I saw them. Grain-Free, dairy-free and refined sugar-free, these Flourless Pumpkin Pie Cookies will be a great addition to my list of recipes this fall when pumpkins seem to be for sale on every corner.
Alta from Tasty Eats at Home adopted Hope for Healing and also made two recipes. The Blueberry Cornbread is a slightly sweet version of an old favorite that Alta’s family enjoyed.
The maple syrup and cinnamon in the Cashew Summer Granola she also made gave it nice a pop of flavor.
Sunny of And Love It Too made Diet, Dessert and Dogs’ Easy No-Cook, Grain-Free Breakfast Porridge and says it reminds her of Cream of Wheat. I have to try this. No-cook and grain-free makes the recipe defy logic but I love the ingredients in it and it looks – and Sunny tells us is - delicious.
The Watermelon-Basil Cooler Sunny also made is a great – and refreshing - choice now that there’s an abundance of watermelons that are now in stores and soon will be in farmer’s markets in our area. (I haven’t seen any yet.)
I wrote about Alta from Tasty Eats at Home. With all of the fresh peaches available right now, I felt compelled to try a couple of her peach recipes. (She has more.)
I think of scones as a good breakfast food and her Peach Macadamia Scones definitely fit that description. Moist and soft like a big cookie, they were a treat. (Who doesn’t think a big cookie for breakfast is a good thing?) As a matter of fact, I froze some and had them with my breakfast this morning. My husband, a huge fan of peaches, has particularly enjoyed her Creamy Peach Popsicles. Picture a luscious frozen peach with a hint of creaminess and you have these popsicles.
Thanks to all who joined in! Want to be part of it next time? Bloggers and non-bloggers alike should check out July’s event which will be hosted by Sunny at And Love It Too. August will be hosted by Alta from Tasty Eats at Home.
Thank you for visiting. I've spent many, many hours reading blogs and books about the gluten-free life. I love research. Really love it. I'm a writer so this is part of what makes me tick. But I know not everyone likes it. My goal is to bring this wealth of useful information to you here through interviews with prominent people from the gluten-free community. I hope that each time you visit, you’ll walk away with a little something new, something that helps you enjoy your gluten-free life even more.
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Lovely round up, Shannon!! Thank you so much for hosting this month! I really need to try those popsicles!
Popsicles bring out the kid in all of us.
What a fabulous job you and everyone else did, Shannon! Lovely all the way around!
Shirley
I enjoyed hosting. It was fun working with all of the bloggers.
what a great event! they all look so yummy!
Everything does look good. I’ve put several on my must try list.
xoxo
I’m looking forward to joining in on the one you’re hosting this month.
Great round-up! And some new-to-me bloggers, too – which is my favorite reason for this event.
That and I think it’s fun to see the dishes everyone’s made. It highlights things I might not have noticed otherwise.
Awesome job hosting this fun event, Shannon. And your peachy adopted recipes are bookmarked for when our upstate New York peaches ripen up later this summer.
I’m definitely going to try the Blueberry Lemon Bars you made! One thing I’ve enjoyed about living in the South is the long peach season. We didn’t have any peach season in Alaska
What a wonderful intro to so many other gluten-free bloggers! I will book mark the peach recipes for next season as we get an early May crop from our trees.
I love this concept and will definitely keep an eye out for July’s round-up. I love how our gluten-free blogging community finds such creative ways to embrace and include one another.
Be well, clea http://www.EatInspiredToday.com http://www.cleashannon.com/blog/
Thank you for stopping by. Consider joining in July. It’s a lot of fun to immerse yourself in someone else’s blog.
Wonderful recipes. One of the lins brought me to a great blog with a nice young lady who talked about making gf shortbread. I can’t find my way back to that link! Does anyone know?
The Blueberry Lemon Bars Rachel tested had a shortbread crust. I did a search for you and found some possibilities:
If you like pecans, I’ve made these and they’re great. (I don’t use agave so used honey.)
http://www.elanaspantry.com/pecan-shortbread-cookies/
I’ve never made these but I have her cookbook so you can be sure this will work. (Also with pecans)
http://simplysugarandglutenfree.com/carob-dipped-pecan-shortbread-cookies/
I don’t know this woman but she has good credentials:
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/09/gluten-free-tuesday-shortbread-cookies-recipe.html
And this version has nutmeg. Shirley’s great and I’ve enjoyed making (and my husband’s enjoyed eating
other of her recipes.
http://glutenfreeeasily.com/home-for-the-holidays-gluten-free-nutmeg-shortbread-flats-recipe-giveaway-more-make-it-fast-cook-it-slow-totally-together-journal-wheat-belly/
I hope one of these works for you.
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[...] others are pinch hitting for her. Last month, Shannon (Enjoying Gluten-Free Life) hosted; here’s her June Adopt A Gluten-Free Blogger roundup. This month Sunny of And Love It, Too!is hosting. I haven’t been able to participate the last few [...]