Gluten Free Healthy Food

This month we had a small but determined pair of Adopt-a-gluten-free Participants. I’m not going to give up on our little event, though, and this month I’m even going to join in and adopt someone! Now that the holidays are over, I hope everyone has more time to share the love with other gluten-free bloggers. Ultimately, that’s what this event is all about- getting to know your fellow gluten-free bloggers and highlighting their wonderful recipes. Hope to see you join us next time! (Sign up post coming very soon!)

Heather of Celiac Family has been a regular participant in Adopt-a-gluten-free Blogger, so I’d like to give a big hip-hip hurray for her and her continued participation! This time around the intrepid Heather adopted Diane of the Whole Gang. As a long time lover of pupusas, she just had to try Diane’s Pork-filled Pupusas, and she was inspired to finally make the traditional accompaniment of Spicy Slaw. Heather loved the ease of this recipe and found the results were really good eats, and very similar to the traditional pupusas that she can buy in California. Yay for another excellent recipe adoption!

A bevy of Yummy Gluten-free recipes:
Diane’s recipe for Pupusas
Diane’s recipe for Spicy Slaw
and just for fun
my recipe for gluten-free vegetarian Arepas

Amy of Life Minus Gluten joined in with her love of clam chowder and Cook’s Illustrated know-how, adopting Brian of Fire and Salt and making his clam chowder recipe to almost universal family approval. (Apparently her daughter “doesn’t like potatoes, clams, soup, celery,creamy stuff, etc so her opinion was not sought for this review.” Hee hee. Those crazy kids.) Anyway, Amy proclaimed the recipe fabulous, perfect for drizzly and cold winter weather, and not only was it thick, creamy, savory and salty, but she said it was some of the best chowder she had ever eaten. She would give it 5 clams- and I would give Amy 5 clams (or oyster mushrooms) for joining us with her lovey post and review!

Recipe for perfect gluten-free Oregon Clam Chowder

This month we had a small but determined pair of Adopt-a-gluten-free Participants. I’m not going to give up on our little event, though, and this month I’m even going to join in and adopt someone! Now that the holidays are over, I hope everyone has more time to share the love with other gluten-free bloggers. Ultimately, that’s what this event is all about- getting to know your fellow gluten-free bloggers and highlighting their wonderful recipes. Hope to see you join us next time! (Sign up post coming very soon!)

Heather of Celiac Family has been a regular participant in Adopt-a-gluten-free Blogger, so I’d like to give a big hip-hip hurray for her and her continued participation! This time around the intrepid Heather adopted Diane of the Whole Gang. As a long time lover of pupusas, she just had to try Diane’s Pork-filled Pupusas, and she was inspired to finally make the traditional accompaniment of Spicy Slaw. Heather loved the ease of this recipe and found the results were really good eats, and very similar to the traditional pupusas that she can buy in California. Yay for another excellent recipe adoption!

A bevy of Yummy Gluten-free recipes:
Diane’s recipe for Pupusas
Diane’s recipe for Spicy Slaw
and just for fun
my recipe for gluten-free vegetarian Arepas

Amy of Life Minus Gluten joined in with her love of clam chowder and Cook’s Illustrated know-how, adopting Brian of Fire and Salt and making his clam chowder recipe to almost universal family approval. (Apparently her daughter “doesn’t like potatoes, clams, soup, celery,creamy stuff, etc so her opinion was not sought for this review.” Hee hee. Those crazy kids.) Anyway, Amy proclaimed the recipe fabulous, perfect for drizzly and cold winter weather, and not only was it thick, creamy, savory and salty, but she said it was some of the best chowder she had ever eaten. She would give it 5 clams- and I would give Amy 5 clams (or oyster mushrooms) for joining us with her lovey post and review!

Recipe for perfect gluten-free Oregon Clam Chowder

We had a terrific turnout for the Adopt-a-gluten-free blogger event this month. Hope you enjoy the gluten-free yummies!

Rachel, The Crispy Cook, adopted Sophie of Flour Arrangements and made some scrumptious Gluten Free Honey and Flax Seed Rolls as well as gluten-free crackers.

Recipe Links:
Gluten Free Honey and Flax Seed Roll Recipe
Gluten-Free Cracker Recipe
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BabyFro at Living without Wheat adopted Nancy of The Sensitive Pantry and tried fennel in a tasty risotto recipe for the first time!

Recipe Links:
Caramelized Onion and Fennel Risotto
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Kalinda at WheatFree Meat Free adopted Carrie the Ginger Lemon Girl and made some toothsome Gluten-free, Vegan, and Soy-free potato and spinach enchiladas.

Recipe Links:
Potato and Spinach Enchilada Recipe
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Heather at Celiac Family adopted Linda the Gluten-free Homemaker and made some delightful gluten-free drop biscuits.

Recipe Links:
Gluten free Drop Biscuit Recipe
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I adopted Michelle of La Cocina de Michelle (or Cooking and Uncooking) and made a dairy free version of her coconut milk based quiche.

Recipe Links:
Coconut Milk Quiche

For this month’s edition of Adopt a gluten-free blogger I adopted Michelle, aka M-Elle, for her gluten free blog Cooking and Un-cooking. I’ve enjoyed M-Elle’s blog for some time now for her healthful recipes and innovative menus, as well as her interest in raw foods. The other day as I was reading her gluten-free menu of the week I happened to notice an intriguing recipe for a coconut milk based quiche. While the original recipe called for some cheese, Michelle suggested trying it without cheese. Since Baby Yum’s sensitive tummy has made it necessary for me to take a break from dairy (and soy, doh), I felt like she was speaking to me, and I just had to try the recipe with her suggested modification. It helped that I had some beautiful zucchini and heirloom tomatoes from the farmer’s market just begging to be used.

Because I am a lazy girl, I used a chebe mix for pastry instead of Michelle’s pastry recipe. To be honest, I intended to use a batch of homemade pastry dough in the refrigerator but found it had gotten rock hard and a bit… well, off, so I threw together Chebe out of self defense.

I filled the rustic Chebe crust with Michelle’s suggested alternate rows of zucchini and tomato rows for a colourful presentation, threw tons of fresh basil on top, and drenched the whole thing in the coconut milk egg sauce that I’d blended up.

The result? A fresh, summery, and fun quiche that took advantage of the harvest goodies so plentifully available this time of year.

Michelle has tons of lovely recipes at her blog. I’m currently eying the following:

Ginger Peanut Sauce Recipe, perfect with rice paper spring rolls.
Quinoa Black Bean salad in Zesty Dressing Recipe
and her plentiful collection of raw foods recipes,
including Ani Phyo’s recipe for Nori Rolls (printed with permission)

Wouldn’t you like to get to know this creative and healthy foods oriented gluten-free blogger better?
What’s your favorite recipe by M-Elle? Share in the comments!