Prompt: FREE SPACE

[runpunkrun]

It's December and ANYTHING GOES* here at gluten_free!

Have a gluten-free question, comment, request, suggestion, update, victory, confusion, failure, or announcement? Have an article or resource to share? Just want to do a quick product recommendation? Just want to post a gluten-free link and flee the scene?

Pop into the comments and do your thing. Content can be about GF stuff or the comm itself. Feel free to chat amongst yourselves!

Or, if you had something you intended to share for one of our past prompts, but it just didn't happen, now's your chance!

*Some restrictions apply. Just follow the community guidelines and make sure your comments don't contain unsolicited medical advice or personal details about your health and you're good.

Here's what's going on in the comments:

• Small-Business Gifts for Alternative Bakers from runpunkrun
• Czech poppy seed roll from runpunkrun
• Great Bakery: Upper Midwest Edition from jesse_the_k

Comments

Small-Business Gifts for Alternative Bakers

[runpunkrun]

Alanna Taylor-Tobin (aka The Bojon Gourmet) has put together a gift guide filled with food, drink, specialty baking ingredients, handmade pottery, books, and other goodies, all from small businesses, several of them woman-owned. She only recommends products that she loves and uses in her own home, so everything has the Bojon Gourmet stamp of approval: Small-Business Gifts for Alternative Bakers.

Czech poppy seed roll

[runpunkrun]

ALSO, in today's Gluten Free travels, I came across this poppy seed roll, which is one of the few desserts I remember my grandmother making! Hers had wheat in it, and she was Hungarian, not Czech, but probably everyone in that region has their own version.

I haven't made this, and won't because I'm not a fan of poppy seeds, but I wanted to mark the occasion and say I understood that reference: Makový Závin - Czech Poppy Seed Roll

Great Bakery: Upper Midwest Edition

[jesse_the_k]

Marmalade Sky's desert goods are fabulous. Based in Iowa, Malak Nour sells in adjacent-state coops (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri) and they ship.

I stumbled on their Orange Seville Coffee Cake, baked in a mini loaf pan. It's so freakin' delicious. Very rich: one of six toasted slices goes very well with my tea.

gluten free flour (brown rice flour, sorghum flour, potato starch, tapioca flour, non-GMO xanthan gum), organic butter, organic sugar, organic eggs, ground almonds, organic brown sugar, orange juice, orange zest, baking powder (mono-calcium phosphate, cornstarch, baking soda), sea salt.

The pecan bar knocked my socks off (tho' I paid for the heavy cream). If you're a coconut fan, she's got your number in bars and cakes.