Book of Yum

In the recipe above, I made a Thai-inspired tofu and mushroom curry that I tried first as filling in Thai-style turnovers, and then as the filling for lettuce wraps for lunch. The lettuce wraps were our favorite, especially garnished with fresh squeezed limes. The recipes still isn’t perfect yet- but it was lovely and refreshing!

This week The Lilac Kitchen is hosting the Gluten Free Menu Swap with an ingredient of rutabega, or swede. Don’t forget that the new GF Menu Swap Headquarters are with Cheryl at GF Goodness! I always enjoy posting my menus with Org Junkie as well.

Monday: American Homestyle
Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Wild Rice and Brown Rice Pilaf
Baked Nutritional Yeast Tofu

Tuesday: Italian
Homemade GF Chipotle Sweet Potato Ravioli
Salad

Friday: Chinese
Vegetable Stir Fry
Rice

Saturday: Mexican
Homemade Corn Tortilla Enchiladas

Baked Goods of the Week:
Gluten-Free Vegan Carrot Eggnog Muffins, Gluten-Free Pina Colada Pancakes

This week saw a return of the Adopt-a-Gluten-Free-Blogger Event! You have ONE WEEK (give or take) to sign up to adopt a gluten-free blogger and their Thanksgiving or other holiday-friendly recipe… And then post a review before December first and send me the relevant info! Hope to see you participate.

I also reviewed the first allergen-free chocolate bar by Enjoy Life- without so much as soy lecithin to get between you and your choco-fix! Link to a super snazzy coupon included.

And finally, I reported on the Gluten-Free Pizza in regular restaurant chain phenomenon- this time in California’s Amicis Pizza Chain.

Next week you can expect lots more recipes, with a post on South American corncakes- Arepas with perico scramble, and a delicious and versatile recipe for cranberry muffins OR a delightfully sweet cranberry pecan coffee cake. We also have the first ever Book of Yum VIDEO in the works, so stay tuned!

For the dressing of the week, I took my inspiration from a Japanese restaurant side dish- perfectly blanched and still crunchy green veggies (Either broccoli or green beans) drizzled in a creamy and rich sesame sauce. Served cold, it goes well with almost any dish. Hope you enjoy!

And last but not least, a picture of the always adorable Maneki Neko, Neko for short- our Japanese-themed cat.

What’s that you say? What happened to the Adopt a gluten-free Blogger event? Good question! After a slight dip in participation, I needed to take a little break to get that “spark” of enthusiasm for the event back. I had a few ideas for modifying the Adopt-a-Gluten-Free-Blogger Event. I thought that it could be fun to set up a page open all year round where bloggers simply “adopted” a blogger on the spot and posted the URL of their adoption post. Then I could create a master-list of adopted bloggers and links to reviews of their specific recipes. Make sense? I thought that would be a nice resource to have, especially when you want to try a new recipe but aren’t sure which one to try… (If you simply love this idea, please let me know and I may try it in future months.)

But, at heart, I still believe the event format can work for us… So I want to give it one more try. It might be a bit late… but I think that with the Holidays coming up, there’s no time like the present to try a new recipe from your favorite gluten-free blogger. Here, dear readers, is your assignment.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find ONE RECIPE suitable for the (Thanksgiving or similar) holidays posted on a GLUTEN-FREE BLOGGER’S website. If they are not a gluten-free blogger, they must at least have a category on their blog allowing readers to sort and read JUST the gluten-free recipes. If you’re stuck- you can try browsing my list of gluten-free bloggers. Sign up in the comments for the post with your name, the blogger’s name that you are adopting AND [this is new, but important!] the name of the recipe you want to try, and its URL! Try the recipe and post about it, telling us a little about the blogger. Please don’t reproduce the bloggers’ recipe in your post- just link back to their recipe. Don’t forget to take a pretty picture! Also, you MUST link back to this event announcement in your post. Then Email Me at seamaiden399[at]gmail[dot]com NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1st with your name, blog name, the name of the recipe, and the url of your post. Don’t forget to attach your pretty picture!

Deadlines:
Please try to sign up to adopt your Blogger BEFORE November 24th if at all possible! Yup, you have ONE WEEK to find a recipe, starting now! If you read about this event AFTER that date, no worries, you can still sign up…
Post BEFORE December 1st and send me your URL POST no later than December 1st.
The roundup will be in the first week of December.

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.

Sound good? Ok! I hope to hear from you all soon- and I look forward to seeing the recipes you select for adoption!

These bloggers have been ADOPTED and the following recipe will be reviewed:
1) Jill from Hey! That Tastes Good- adopted by Kerrie
2) Karina from Karina’s Kitchen was adopted and her Pumpkin Chai Bread will be reviewed by Tovah of Gluten-Free Bay
3) As yet to be determined was adopted by Karen
4) As yet to be determined was adopted by Sea of the Book of Yum
5) Aylena of Gluten-Free South Africa was adopted and her chocolatey Panforte recipe will be reviewed by Rachel
6) Natalie the GF mommy was adopted and her sweet potato stuffing will be reviewed by Cheryl of GF Goodness
7) You pick!

You are welcome to include the following icon (or the large version) in your post: