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Naturally Gluten Free Links #11 – November

by Jenn on November 30, 2012

Paleo Turkey Hash by Elana of Elana’s Pantry (used with permission)

Happy November!

As you may or may not know, last month over Halloween a superstorm hurricane named Sandy ravaged the northeast coast of the United States. My friend Barb and I held an event earlier in the month to call for donations to the Red Cross and other organizations that would help out the victims, asking you all to post about comfort food and ways to help donate. I was humbled beyond words as I read each of your stories (yes, all 100 of them!) outpouring your emotions and experiences, seeing the generosity of spirit and heart of so many who were willing to help out the victims of this storm.

So for this month’s naturally gluten free links, I wanted to continue the theme of comfort food – whether it be posting comforting recipes from the Support for Sandy event, tasty holiday dishes or ways to use your Thanksgiving leftovers, this month is about comfort, dedicated to all those who have suffered/are suffering from that deadly storm. While the news stations may have moved on to tales of Black Friday and holiday trimmings, there are many still suffering who lost literally everything they own in the flood. I’ll be leaving up the donation badge to the Red Cross in the sidebar of my blog for a while, please consider donating to help out over the holiday season. I want to thank each and every one of you who participated in some way, whether that be making a post to encourage donations, making a donation towards Sandy relief efforts yourself, or even simply sending thoughts and prayers out to those in need.

If you are new to my monthly links event, at the end of each month I make a post highlighting my favorite naturally gluten free recipes that I find from across the blogosphere. The blogs may not all be gluten free, but these particular recipes are. So on to the great looking food!

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DMBLGIT November 2012 – Meet the Judges

by Jenn on November 21, 2012

in Photography

Thanks so much to everyone who participated this month and sent in their entries for November’s edition of DMBLGIT (Does my blog look good in this)! We received a total of fifty-six (56!!) entries, which is just fantastic. If you haven’t heard, DMBLGIT is the web’s oldest running food blog photography event, starting back in 2005 by Andrew of Spittoon Extra. All the details, past events, and hosting guidelines can be found on Andrew’s site – the event needs future hosts for the 2013 year, so if you are interested in hosting, please contact Andrew.

But enough about administrative issues, let’s meet our judges! An extremely talented and passionate group of photographers, I hope you enjoy learning more about this month’s judges

Tim Clinch

Tim Clinch has been a photographer all his working life. He spent five years assisting in London, then ran his own studio in Clerkenwell. In the early 90′s he moved to Spain, where he lived and worked for eight years, five years in Madrid and three in the province of Cadiz followed by many years in South West France. These days, he’s still a nomad, dividing his time between England, France and Bulgaria. Tim says: “It doesn’t really matter where I ‘live’ as I’m always travelling.” His latest passion is discovering Eastern Europe, especially the fascinating country of Ukraine.

Tim works for a wide variety of magazines all over Europe and America, including CN Traveller, Forbes Life, Town & Country, Food Illustrated and House & Garden, and has had many books published, the latest being ‘England’s Hideaways’, a guide to the best secret hotels and castles in the UK (pub. Rizzoli). Tim is currently working on a new publishing project with food writer Kate Hill about the food and food producers of South West France, called ‘Food Stories from Gascony‘ Tim was chosen as an exhibitor in the prestigious Food Photo Festival in Tarragona, Spain in 2011, and this year was an award winner at the Food Photographer of the Year awards in London.

Alongside his commercial work he runs food photography workshops in France.

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Vanessa Rees

Vanessa Rees is a commercial photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the owner/operator of V.K.Rees Photography. She loves to blog about her own recipes in her spare time. Vanessa lives in an apartment with her boyfriend and fat yellow cat above the best bagel shop in all of NYC.

Ilva Beretta

Ilva Beretta is a Swedish food blogger, writer and professional photographer living in Tuscany. As well as creating food, travel and lifestyle photography for leading magazines and food brands, she is one of the co-founders of Plate to Page food photography and writing workshops. You can see her work in her website at www.ilvaberetta.com, follow her blog Lucullian Delights, follow her on Twitter @Luculliandelights and @ilvaberetta and like her on Facebook.

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Alessio Fangano

I was born in a sunny little town in Sicily back in the day. My life was happily divided between my scientific studies and practicing the decorative arts until I moved to Florence for my University studies. Here, for the first time ever, I was left free and responsible to cook for myself. Long story short, I soon was catering to all my housemates. Once I obtained my Master Degree in Physics I moved to Bonn, Germany, to follow up with a PhD. It wasn’t long until I realised what a tight fit a life of pure research was for me. In the period that followed, I started my blog “Recipe Taster” as a way to reach out into what was still a mysterious world to me.

Little by little though, what seemed at the beginning as a complete shift in career became more like a natural evolution of myself. My scientific studies have in fact empowered me with the knowledge and attitude that I find essential for developing new successful recipes that work. I now manage my activity as a freelance Gastronomical consultant, private chef and photographer, embracing both my artistic and scientific side with wholeheartedly passion.

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Announcing DMBLGIT – November 2012

by Jenn on November 9, 2012

in Photography

I am happy to announce that I am hosting DMBLGIT (Does My Blog Look Good in This) this month! I hosted before back in January, but DMBLGIT is in need of hosts, and I’m so excited to announce it again this month and help to continue its awesomeness. It’s the longest running online food photography contest, dating back to 2005, each month showcasing a wealth of talent from food bloggers all over the web, conceived by Andrew of Spittoon Extra.

The rules are simple – enter your photo by the deadline, and an amazing lineup of judges that I have chosen (who will be revealed later this month) will judge the photos and choose the winners, who will receive pretty shiny badges to put on their site

Details below:

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Chestnut and Sausage Stuffing

by Jenn on November 8, 2012

in Gluten Free,Meats

It’s here – today is the event that Barbara and I created in hopes to help raise awareness of the plight of Hurricane Sandy victims in the northeastern U.S. We asked you all to share your dishes of comfort and more importantly, we ask you all to donate to your favorite organizations that can help out those who are suffering. Even though the elections have become the main news headlines this week, we still need to remember that there are still people without power, people looking for food, and waiting hours for gasoline in order to run their generators. And now some have had to be evacuated again for the Nor’easter that came through this week, and are again without power in the cold. And there will be people who need assistance for quite some time. Every dollar we can send to organizations that will aid victims can only do good.

This list is by far from exhaustive, but some of the larger organizations accepting donations include:

Red Cross is providing food, shelter, and other forms of support to hurricane victims. You can donate directly to the Red Cross, you can also text the word “Redcross” to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
Salvation Army is also focused on providing food, shelter, and support to victims, and takes donations to storm relief.
Feeding America is providing food, water and supplies to those who need it as part of their disaster relief program.

If you are looking for gluten free donations, please refer to my previous post about the event, there has been some great info left by others in the comments.
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Gluten Free Ratio Rally – Blueberry Bundt Cake

by Jenn on November 7, 2012

in Desserts,GF Ratio Rally,Gluten Free

It’s gluten free ratio rally time again! If you aren’t familiar with the event, the gluten free ratio rally is a blogging event where several intrepid gluten free bloggers tackle a new baked good each month by using the ratio method of baking. Adina of Gluten Free Travelette is our host, and I think bundt cake was a perfect choice for ratio baking. Cakes don’t need gluten to work and so I think they are extremely well suited to direct substitutions by weight in order to convert to GF. And just what type of cake is a bundt cake anyways? The best information I could find is that bundt cake is merely pound cake (or any other dense cake) baked in a bundt pan, and so I went with a pound cake ratio as my base recipe. But really, I think any type of cake baked in a round pan like that could be called a bundt cake.

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Food Bloggers Support for Sandy

by Jenn on November 2, 2012

in Uncategorized

This post doesn’t have a recipe. It doesn’t have food, and it’s not about being gluten free. Instead it’s about community. As many of you know, last week, a crazy frankenstorm named Sandy hit the East Coast of the U.S. leaving millions without power, thousands evacuated from/lost their homes, several lost their lives, and it wreaked chaos and havoc across the northeastern seaboard, and affected people as far west as the Appalachians. What has occurred has been horrific for me to watch, but I’m sure nothing compared to what it was like for those who were in the wake of Sandy’s fury. There are so many of my friends still sitting in the dark and the cold, and many many more whom I don’t know who were touched by this storm.

So rather than make another post about our idyllic Autumn here en Suisse, far removed from everything, I had a conversation with my good friend Barb of Creative Culinary about what we could do. Food brings people together in good times and bad, and food can bring us together this time, to help those in need. We decided to create this event to bring the food blogging community together, so that we can join hands, and meals, and support for the victims of Sandy.

How can you help??

Thursday, November 8, 2012

– Create a post on your own blog sharing a comfort dish – something that you would make for someone in need, to help them feel at home. But more importantly, lets encourage everyone to donate to relief efforts. Feel free to grab the code for the badge below which links to the Red Cross disaster relief, and come back on Nov. 8th link up your post.

Don’t have a blog??

Please donate to help those in need. Who to donate to? Several organizations are dedicating themselves to helping the victims of hurricane Sandy. Some of the larger ones include:

Red Cross is providing food, shelter, and other forms of support to hurricane victims. You can donate directly to the Red Cross, you can also text the word “Redcross” to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
Salvation Army is also focused on providing food, shelter, and support to victims, and takes donations to storm relief.
Feeding America is providing food, water and supplies to those who need it as part of their disaster relief program.
For gluten free disaster victims, I’m afraid I’m not sure the best resources for hunger relief. However, others have provided links and suggestions in the comments to this post, so please check those out for ways to help. And if you have information, please feel free to add it in the comments below.

Follow hashtag #FBS4Sandy

to see everyone’s posts and encourage donations.

Grab the code below to add this badge to your post, which links to the Red Cross website to encourage donations. We’ll keep this up throughout November so feel free to join in even if you can’t participate on Nov. 8: