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Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger for August … I’m Hosting!

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This month, I’m so excited to host the terrific Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger event! Originated by the delightful Sea at Book Of Yum, the event has been going on for a few years now and, just as Sea intended, it’s a wonderful way to meet fellow bloggers, introduce others to new bloggers, and, of course, try new gluten-free recipes.

We all leave comments on others’ blogs in response to recipes and photos that make our mouths water. Comments like: “Oooh, yummy. I sooo want to make that!” or “I’m definitely making that soon.” But, then life intervenes and months pass and we still haven’t made that recipe that we truly wanted to make. This event gives you an excuse to take a break from your daily routine and do just that! If I hadn’t participated in Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger, I would not have made Pete and Kelli’s (No Gluten, No Problem) Pasta with Shrimp Marinara and Brownies; Kate Chan’s (Gluten Free Gobsmacked) Cheese Rolls and Pizza Crust; Melanie’s (Gluten-Free Krums) Avocado Artichoke Salsa;  or Wendy’s (Celiacs in the House) Savory and Sweet Crepes. It would have been a shame to miss out on making any one of those recipes and getting to know each of those bloggers just a little better.

To sign up for this month’s edition of Adopt A Gluten Free Blogger, leave a comment letting me know which blogger you plan to adopt. Here are the guidelines on how you can join in … nothing complicated.

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

Notes:  The blogger’s recipes must all be gluten-free or there must be a way to sort and read ONLY gluten-free recipes. A different blogger should be selected each time you participate. And, ideally, each blogger should only be adopted once.

2) Choose 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. Link back to this event announcement in your post.
Notes:  Follow the recipe as written, as closely as possible. And, please don’t print the blogger’s recipe on your post—just provide your reader a link to their original recipe.

4) Email me at [email protected] 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.

5) After your post is published, submit 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 idea is to make this a truly interactive event.

Deadlines:
Sign up BEFORE August 27 (loose deadline; late sign-ups are ok).

Post your review and email me by September 3rd (firm deadline—no kiddin’). (IMPORTANT: If you sign up and cannot complete this event by September 3rd for any reason, please email me at [email protected].)

**If you don’t have a blog, you are still welcome to adopt a gluten-free blogger. Sign up here 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 happily post your reviews and photos as part of the roundup in September.**

If you’re stumped on who to adopt, you can take a look at my sidebar for ideas or visit Sea’s Gluten-Free Blogroll. Let’s make this a mass gluten-free adoption!

Adoption Sign-Up Sheet:

1. Iris at The Daily Dietribe (adopted by me)

2. Nancy at The Sensitive Pantry (adopted by Kim of Cook IT Allergy Free)

3. Me, here, at Gluten Free Easily (adopted by Iris of The Daily Dietribe)

4. Ricki at Diet, Dessert and Dogs (adopted by Valerie of City/Life/Eats)

5. Ali and Tom at The Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen (adopted by Hallie of Hallie’s Daily Bites)

6. Amy of Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free (adopted by Zoe of Z’s Cup of Tea)

7. Karina of Gluten-Free Goddess (adopted by Tia of Glugle Gluten Free)

8. Zoe of Z’s Cup of Tea (adopted by Maggie of She Let Them Eat Cake).

9. Alta of Tasty Eats At Home (adopted by Amy of Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free)

10. Jenn of Jenn Cuisine (adopted by Wendy of Celiacs in the House)

11. Linda of The Gluten-Free Homemaker (adopted by Alea of Gluten-Free Flavor Full)

12. Lexie of Lexie’s Kitchen (adopted by Heidi of Adventures of a Gluten-Free Mom)

13. Wendy of Celiacs in the House (adopted by Alta of Tasty Eats At Home)

14. Shauna of Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef (adopted by Lydia of At Home with Real Food)

15. Cheryl of Gluten-Free Goodness (adopted by Ricki of Diet, Dessert and Dogs)

16. Vanessa of Celiac Princess (adopted by Thomas of The GFCF Experience)

17. Kelly of The Spunky Coconut (adopted by Jen of Gluten-Free Life with Jen)

18. Karina of Gluten-Free Goddess (adopted by Kirstin of Our Gluten-Free Family)

19. Raj and Sonia of Flip Cookbook (adopted by Tracee of Mrs. Ed’s Research and Recipes)

20. Jeanine of Baking Beauties (adopted by Kathleen of I Made Toast)

21. You (and your adoptee) are next! (Yes … a few late entries would be great. Choose someone who has not yet been adopted, please.)

Shirley
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Comments

    • Hey fit bee–Welcome to gfe! 🙂 Got my wires crossed there for a moment and thought you were commenting on another post (multi-tasking doesn’t always work!). Anyway, just read the post rules and adopt another gluten-free blogger. Your gluten-free recipes don’t come into play until someone decides to adopt you. 😉 If you click on my links in the post, you can see where I’ve adopted others and how it worked exactly. 🙂 Please let me know if you have additional questions after giving one or two of those a look.

      Thanks,
      Shirley

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  2. Count me in! I am adopting Nancy at The Sensitive Pantry. She has so many recipes I have been meaning to try. Now is the perfect chance. Especially since she just posted a vegan doughnut muffin recipe that looks so delish!

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    • Good morning, Kim–Thanks for being the first to jump on the Adopt a GF Blogger “bandwagon”! 🙂 This event is such a great way to get around to making favorite bloggers’ recipes, isn’t it? Nancy and I tweet together, but I haven’t read her blog enough. I look forward to your post, Kim! Vegan doughnut muffins? Yeah, baby! (Channeling the Austen Powers vibe, but no go-go boots in sight. LOL) 😉

      xo,
      Shirley

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    • Hi Gina–Looks like you are new to gfe–welcome! 🙂 Absolutely, you can participate. Just choose a blogger to adopt and go from there! Of course, email me if all any other questions you might have are not answered by the info in the post.

      So glad you’d like to join us this month!

      Best,
      Shirley

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    • Hey Iris–How very cool—thank you! Wouldn’t you call this a double adoption? 😉 I’m honored … this will be fun. I was looking at your recipes last night. It will so hard to choose one or two!!

      Hugs,
      Shirley

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  5. Shirley, please tell me where you get your endless energy from. I need a dose of that.

    You are such a trail blazer in this world of GF anything.

    If I’d have more time, I would adopt you every weekend!

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    • H.Peter–Oh, I draggggg at times for sure, but these kind of fun events enliven me like nothing else. Well, except for parties with real people in the flesh. LOL One day, my friend. 🙂

      You are such a great cheerleader for me and my gf efforts—thank YOU! It would be sooo much fun to be adopted by you every weekend/ I know you’d take me to visit your girls and their treats at GF Patisserie and Bruno, and tell me travel tales. Dreaming here … 😉

      Shirley

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  7. What fun! I’m going to adopt Tom and Ali of The Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen. I love reading through Ali’s posts, but don’t always get a chance to make the recipes. This will give me the perfect opportunity to try out a few of them!

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    • Hi Hallie–So glad you are joining in! Having made several of Tom and Ali’s recipes, I know you’ll enjoy trying out their recipes. So simple yet so amazing! 🙂

      Shirley

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  8. Hi Shirley, how wonderful that you’re hosting! The last two or three adoptions I fully intended to participate in but missed – so I’m making sure I get in this time. I’m adopting Amy of Simply Sugar and Gluten Free. Amy has so many great recipes I want to try (so it will be hard to narrow it down to just one or two), plus she’s wonderful and always generous, giving a hand to others and supporting them.

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    • Hey Zoe–Thank you! 🙂 I’m tickled pink you have signed up early, and I couldn’t agree more on Amy and her recipes. Good luck with choosing which ones … tough, but for a hard decision, it’s certainly a fun one! 😉

      Shirley

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  9. Hi Shirley,

    I found it early this time. (Not counting last month.) Not going to miss it. I am going to adopt Karina of Gluten-Free Goddess. Like everyone else, I’m not sure how I’m going to narrow it down. Wish I had the time to make them all.

    xoxo,
    Tia 😛

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    • Hi Tia–Yippee on participating and finding out early! It does make planning easier, but you will need that time to figure out which of Karina’s recipes to make. 😉 Not a bad way to spend one’s time at all!

      Hugsss,
      Shirley

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  10. How can I pass it up if you’re hosting? I wanted to adopt you, Ricki, and Amy. But I’m slow! So I’m going to gladly adopt Z from Z’s Cup of Tea. I really want to make marshmallows for Callum! It’s a crazy month here in She Let Them Eat Cake land but I’ll see what I can do! Thanks for hosting us.

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    • Maggie–I love it! I was thinking that I’d tease you about commenting and not signing up to adopt and then up popped your new comment signing up to adopt Zoe! 🙂 Oh, yeah, Zoe’s marshmallows look amazing. Can’t wait to see yours. It’s a crazy month everywhere. Don’t stress too much on this, Maggie. Last month when I adopted Wendy, I did it all in a few hours … making the recipe, taking photos, and writing the post. Do it now or do it later … whatever works, but make it easy on yourself. Adoption should be a pleasant experience!

      Hugs,
      Shirley

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    • Hey Amy–Well, boy, won’t you have fun adopting Alta?! She has so many incredible recipes, and I always love how she chooses non-traditional dishes and shares the history of those recipes with us, too. 🙂

      My pleasure to host … thanks so much for joining in!

      Shirley

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  12. Count me in Shirley. I met Jenn from Jenn Cuisine at a Twitter party in Columbus last year before she fled the midwest for Switzerland. I have loved her recipes and photography and want to explore her blog more and actually make some of her recipes. I do love this Adopt a Blogger because I feel so scattered trying to visit all the great GF blogs and this gives me the time to really concentrate on one blogger and make time to try their recipes. You did such a lovely post on me last time-hope I can do the same for Jenn. Guess I better get started before Seattle. I’ll be there visiting friends until the 1st and I hear this deadline is firm-no kiddin’.
    Wendy

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    • Hi Wendy–I had read that you and Jenn had met before, but had forgotten how—how lucky for both of you! I am always blown away by Jenn’s photos and recipes. 🙂 Great point on the Adopt a Blogger Event. I think we all feel scattered and don’t feel like we can give great gf blogs their due. You’re right … this event is certainly a good way to focus and sort of make up for that. 😉 I’m sure you will do a fabulous job adopting Jenn! Yes, Seattle is coming soon (so exciting, but much to do before then)! LOL on the firm deadline. I’m following Sea’s rules and sort of her wording on that one. 😉 I’m sure it will all work out well. Like I advised Maggie, don’t stress … just choose a recipe or two and “roll” with it.

      Shirley

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  13. I am adopting Linda from The Gluten-Free Homemaker. She has several recipes that I have been wanting to try and this is the perfect excuse!

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    • Hi Alea–Thanks so much for adopting Linda! Love that this event gives us all great excuses to make each other’s recipes. 🙂 Linda definitely has a bunch!

      Shirley

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  14. I’m jumping in…finally!! 😀

    I am going to adopt Lexie from Lexie’s Kitchen. She has quite a few wonderful recipes that are gluten-free, dairy-free and egg-free that I am excited to try, especially now that Luke is 100% dairy-free (and thank you Maggie for introducing me to her blog!).

    xo,
    Heidi

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  15. I’m going to actually jump in on this one before it’s too late! I seem to be forgetting about this Adopt a GF Blogger thing lately – shame on me! I’m going to adopt Wendy at Celiacs in the House. Just discovered her blog just a few days ago and I need to really spend some time getting to know her better!

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    • Hi Alta–So glad you are jumping in! Still lots of time, but if you’re like me, you usually need some time to process and come up with a game plan. 😉 Remember … you’re the one who got me started with your lovely adoption of me, so it’s especially great to see you joining in on what I hope will be a big event. 🙂

      Can’t wait to see which recipe(s) you choose of Wendy’s!

      Shirley

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    • Hi Lydia–Welcome to gfe and thanks so much for wanting to join in! 🙂 Karina’s summer peach cake sounds divine, but now I have to be a party pooper and tell you that Karina has already been adopted this month. I checked with Sea and the intent is to not have the same blogger adopted more than once each month. (I’ve updated the rules in my post to state that more clearly.) Would you be willing to choose another blogger to adopt and save Karina as your adoptee for next month’s event? I hope so, because I’d love to have you participate! You could still make her peach cake now (I sure wouldn’t wait on that!), but just save your post for later. What do you think?

      Must check out your blog. Love the title—At Home with Read Food! 🙂

      Shirley

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    • Ricki–You adopt and get your post up in the same day! Can you say overachiever? LOL Thanks so much for joining in! I just took a look at the photo of Cheryl’s recipe you made (with your Ricki tweaks) and it looks amazing. Off to investigate more on your blog …

      Hugs,
      Shirley

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    • Hey Alta–Thanks so much for reporting back! Loved your post and photo. 🙂 The Adoption event is fun indeed … always nice to get motivated by making someone else’s recipes. 😉

      Shirley

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    • Hi Kirstin–Welcome to gfe! I’m so glad you want to participate in Adopt a GF Blogger this month. Normally, each blogger can only be adopted once as I replied to Lydia. Because it’s late in the game, you have already published your adoption post, this is your first time participating, etc., we’ll make an exception this time. We’ll be sure to make that intent more clear next time around. Anyway, so glad you are participating! 🙂

      Best,
      Shirley

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    • Hi Tia–Thanks so much for joining in! Hey, you did much better than I did on the deadline. 😉 Can’t wait to check out your post and include it in the roundup! 🙂

      Shirley

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      • LOL! I just left a super long comment on your Adopt a GF Blogger post. Checked my email. And was wondering how you answered me so fast. Seriously hit “submit comment”, two seconds later checked my email. And there you were. I thought you were psychic for a minute. Reading my mind.

        xoxo,
        Tia 😛

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        • Oh, Tia, I’m definitely clairvoyant. 😉 Well, not really, but often I find that a friend and I will be thinking about each other at the very same moment. An email, a phone call, or a comment will “pop” up to let me know! Just like mine did for you and vice versa. 🙂

          Hugsss,
          Shirley

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