More Food Blogs

When I found out I had to drastically alter my diet, I immediately looked to the Internet. I searched and clicked, reading and discovering everything I could, about Gluten-Free eating. I spend hours looking at recipes and reading articles, sometimes I feel like I've found so much wonderful information, there can't possibly be more. But there is more. There's always more. A new keyword to search, a link from a friend or a blog, or sometimes sheer luck. Regardless, I consistently find new GF discoveries hidden throughout the Internet.

You may notice, I updated my sidebar, with a couple of new food blogs - I'm not sure how I've managed to miss a few of them for so long.

Elana's Pantry is full of delicious recipes, in fact I've already made two of her recipes - in the last 3 days. I made her power bars only I used almonds AND cashews for my base, and melted unsweetened chocolate (with a handful of chocolate chips) to top my bars off. They were so delicious, I had to pack a few up and throw them in the freezer for fear I would eat them all before the weekends end.

My house is filled with the sweet aroma of vanilla, almonds and raisins, as I made my first batch of Elana's granola just this morning. I used 3/4 cashews and 1/4 pine nuts in place of the macadamia's, added a 1/4 cup of coconut and drizzled with brown rice syrup. Now cool, I tested the granola on some plain probiotic yogurt - delicious!! Next time I may add some fruit, or even try applesauce instead of raisins, but for now, I will just enjoy.

I will warn you now, if you are allergic to nuts, Elana's Pantry may be a disappointment. Elana and her family can obviously tolerate nuts - the majority of her recipes call for almonds or blanched almond flour. Personally, I can eat nuts, the recipes I've tried have been delicious and I'm eager to try many more of her recipes...

I also found Heidi Swanson's 101 Cookbooks, her site is well organized making it easy to find her very full listing of 101 Cookbooks: Gluten-Free - I can't wait to try the recently posted, amazing black bean brownies...

new links - CLICK THEM!

I had a friend send me some very cool enviro-links.

I really like this website, lots of pictures, little information blurbs and overall a very user friendly site.  I particularly liked the green gift giving guide for the holiday season.
http://www.inhabitat.com/ 
 

This site has a lot more reading and lot less pictures, but since I don't mind reading so much I don't mind this site so much. :)
  http://www.lazyenvironmentalist.com/ 

 

This site "Connecting Environmental Professionals" is for a local group (there are also groups in Toronto, Calgary & Edmonton) that has monthly meetings/gatherings for networking purposes and also has an excellent job posting listserv.

http://www.yepcanada.ca/vancouver.htm

That's all for now.  I've been sick and haven't had much time to think let alone write and blog...but C'est La Vie!

 

Did you click them?  What did you think? I dream that one day people will leave me a comment...