Well, today was officially simply gluten free day when I got to prowl my way through Carol's gluten free blog and pull out some morsels to try. You see, I adopted Carol through the 'adopt a gluten free blogger' scheme for motherless celiacs who wish to be gathered up and comforted by another blogger in this little old world of gluten free blogging.
I love Carol's enthusaism, she just gets on and does stuff you know? As you read her witty and informative posts you can sense the smile playing about the corners of her mouth and the crinkle of an eye smiling with pleasure.
Her recipes are so full of flavour, spiced mexican chocolate cake,tomato soup spiked with tequila(arriva! arriva!)andgreen pozole, all sang to me off the page.
However, I have had some week this week and although I had wanted to attempt the mocha macaroons, sugar is most definately off the agenda at the moment, so no, not those. I was going to try the pozole, but realised I didn't have some of the ingredients and so I settled on Spanish mushroom tapas and red grapes stuffed with goat cheese. The tapas I chose because I love, love, love Spanish food and have been wanting to try some grilled polenta; the cheese stuffed grapes - well I was intrigued, but maybe I did it to irritate Nick, who rolled his eye and said, 'who has time to stuff a grape?'. Well I guess I do, although I think mine look a little less finished than Carol's.....
I love Carol's enthusaism, she just gets on and does stuff you know? As you read her witty and informative posts you can sense the smile playing about the corners of her mouth and the crinkle of an eye smiling with pleasure.
Her recipes are so full of flavour, spiced mexican chocolate cake,tomato soup spiked with tequila(arriva! arriva!)andgreen pozole, all sang to me off the page.
However, I have had some week this week and although I had wanted to attempt the mocha macaroons, sugar is most definately off the agenda at the moment, so no, not those. I was going to try the pozole, but realised I didn't have some of the ingredients and so I settled on Spanish mushroom tapas and red grapes stuffed with goat cheese. The tapas I chose because I love, love, love Spanish food and have been wanting to try some grilled polenta; the cheese stuffed grapes - well I was intrigued, but maybe I did it to irritate Nick, who rolled his eye and said, 'who has time to stuff a grape?'. Well I guess I do, although I think mine look a little less finished than Carol's.....
I'm not going to give you recipes as you can find them on Carol's blog. The only changes I made were with the tapas which I made the polenta for myself as I've not really seen the pre-cooked kind. I also managed to forget parsley at the green grocers... I used smoked Spanish pimenton in the mushrooms and they were really delicious.
Go check out Carol's blog and see what you would like to make yourself.
Go check out Carol's blog and see what you would like to make yourself.
8 comments:
Thanks for introducing me to Carol's blog! I love these gluten-free recipe blogs, not because I am on that type of diet, but because you people (sorry for lumping you into one category) often come up with very unique and creative recipes, not to mention white flour is nutritionally useless anyhow.
Oh, and this Nick didn't roll his eyes at the thought of stuffing grapes, especially since they're topped with nuts =)
I've never had polenta and I've been meaning to try it, grilled polenta sounds especially tasty. I've also seen flavored polenta's, I'll have to give it a try soon.
- The Peanut Butter Boy
OK, I am so impressed with you I can't stand it! I am franctically trying to do the one recipe I picked for my adopt a gluten free blogger post and here you have practically cooked up my entire blog! And you made the polenta from scracth!
If I didn't like you so much I might feel cranky for showing me up (and with my own recipes!)
My husband rolls his eyes at the stuffed grapes too but he always eats them!
Thanks so much!
xo,
carol
PS I forgot to mention that I could not have been adopted by a more generous, wonderful blogger. Thanks so much for bringing me into your home (culinarily speaking of course).
xo,
carol
The grilled polenta looks quite yummy. One of my favorite gluten-free staples. How fun!
Thanks so much for the sweet and encouraging words you left for me! I am sure that this will get easier for me over time.
Bless you Carol - you have an enormous heart.
x x x
Karina and Sondra- thanks for stopping by. Great to be part of this lovely little family of gluten free hopefuls isn't it? I can't wait to adopt someone else next month, there's no question of not having enough room, my arms just keep on stretching round.
x x x
Beautiful food. I love the adopt-a-blogger theme running around the blogworld--it takes away some of the harsher edges and makes it a lot of fun to meet new writers (and readers).
BTW, I'm catering an event for ~40 in a few weeks and am trying to find something that is a)gluten-free b)vegetarian and c)easy. Any suggestions?
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