Book of Yum

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the Blogher Food ‘09 food blogger’s conference in San Francisco and meeting some of my favorite gluten-free bloggers, including Ali, Diane, Karen, Jean, Shirley, Stephanie, Allison, and more.

At the event, they fed the glutenoids frozen and prepared meals, thanks to our very corporate sponsors, and the gluten-free vegans got a salad (quite a nice one), a mushroom risotto (tasty but gave me tummy issues later), and berries in powdered sugar. There were samples of various foods given out, including a lovely chocolate gift bag. If only I was eating chocolate these days!

The intrepid Diane of The Whole Gang has a sensitivity to rice, so the chef kindly prepared a vegetable stir fry for her. Yum!

By far the best food was provided by Elana of Elana’s Pantry who had brought a batch of her deliciously gluten and dairy-free almond-flour-based chocolate chip cookie recipe. They were the last bit of chocolate I consumed and shortly after I ceased for Baby Yum’s elimination diet… but I digress. These cookies were awesome, and you couldn’t even tell they didn’t have any processed flour. Since all of the foods at the cocktail party following the Blogher conference contained gluten (gee thanks Campbell) the gluten-free folks at the party fell on Elana’s cookies like starving wolves. Shortly afterwards I ordered Elana’s book from Amazon The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook and then went nut-free for… you guessed it, the elimination diet. Doh. But I highly recommend her cookbook, as well as the recipes on her blog.

The Blogher Food ‘09 event was my first day away from Baby Yum, and I was happy when the DH came early to pick me up so I could introduce her to my new blogging friends. The Blogher conference was interesting, and I just wish I had more time to incorporate what I learned at the lectures into my blog… but the best part was definitely getting to meet other food-inspired bloggers. Here’s hoping I’ll get to attend more in the future!

Here are some other perspectives on the event:
Shirley’s comprehensive review of Blogher Food ‘09 part I
and nice writeup about her fellow bloggers part II
Elana’s post about Blogher Food ‘09 (with cutie pie picture of the “sea-baby”)

The Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger Event started over one year ago and the response has been very positive. Participation in recent months has been terrific, so let’s keep it up! I hope you will join me in adopting a gluten-free blogger and trying their recipes this month.

Participation is simple.

1) Pick a gluten-free blogger whose recipes you admire and adopt them by commenting on this post with your name, blog name and their name and blog name.

*Blogger’s recipes must all be gluten-free or have a way to sort and read ONLY gluten-free recipes
*Please pick a different blogger every time you participate

2) Pick one (or two!) of your gluten-free blogger’s recipes to try.

3) Make the recipe, photograph it and write a post in your blog introducing the blogger and their recipe.

*Follow the recipe as written, as closely as possible. And, please don’t print their recipe on your post- just provide your reader a link to their original recipe.

4) Email me at adoptaglutenfreeblogger[at]gmail[dot]com with your photo of the recipe, the URL of your post, name of the recipe and the URL of the original blogger’s recipe post.

*Note: This is a new email set up just for this event. Hopefully this will make it easier to keep track of entries. If you have general questions, please don’t email me at this address but post them here so everyone can read the question (and answer). Companies are NOT welcome to email me at this address, unless a representative is planning to adopt a blogger and write about it. ;)

5) Post YOUR POST’s URL in a comment to this post, and if possible please try to visit two other blogger’s posts that are posted here (and comment!).

*The goal is to make this event more interactive and fun!

Deadlines:
Sign up BEFORE March 25th (loose deadline; late sign-ups are ok)
Post your Review and Email me by April 1 (firm deadline, no foolin’)

If you don’t have a blog, you are still welcome to adopt a gluten-free blogger. Sign up to “adopt” a blogger, write a review of one of their recipes, including your name (or pen name), the recipe URL and recipe title. Then take a photo of the completed recipe (if you can) and EMAIL ME the review and photo. I’ll create a special page just for our non-blogging participants and post it for you.

I’ll start the adoptions by adopting Jill Elise at Hey, That Tastes Good.

Adoption Sign-Up Sheet:
1) Jill Elise of Hey That Tastes Good, adopted by Sea of the Book of yum
2) Manda of Asparagus Thin, adopted by M-Elle
3) Sea of Book of Yum, adopted by Cheryl of GF Goodness
4) Cheryl from Gluten Free Goodness, adopted by Ricki from Diet, Dessert and Dogs
5) Karina from Karina’s Kitchen, adopted by Emily
6) Jessie from GlutenFree4Goofs adopted by Wendy
7) Ali Segersten at Gluten Free Whole Foods adopted by Diane from the whole gang
8) Life Gluten Free adopted by Trish of Gluten-Free SLC
9) Liz the Good Eatah adopted by Thomas of the GFCF Experience (entry will be postponed)
10) Elana’s Pantry adopted by Gluten Free Anna
11) You pick!

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
If you sign up and cannot complete this event by April 1st for any reason, please email me immediately at adoptaglutenfreeblogger[at]gmail[dot]com and let me know. Please ONLY use this email account for Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger relevant emails.

Can’t find a blogger to adopt or looking to meet some new gluten-free friends?
Visit my Gluten-Free Blogroll

Example of an Adoption Post