Gluten-Free Steel Cut Oat Granola Bars with Almonds & Coconut (Contest Alert!)

Oats. The bane of many a celiac’s existence. Can you eat them, can you not eat them? Are they all junked up with flour, or are they totally cool? Why so complicated, oats? This is why when Bob’s Red Mill serves up the gluten-free quick cooking oats, and the delicious steel cut oats, it’s time to get your oat on. Like I did last year when I made up some gluten-free Monster Cookies and gluten-free oatmeal muffins and entered Bob’s Spar for the Spurtle Oatmeal Recipe Contest which includes a trip to Portland, Oregon and potentially, Scotland.

All this for enjoying some delicious oat treats.

So you’ve got to grab some of these gf steel cut oats and get to recipe making, because duh, Portland. But also you can bring much pride to the good people at Bob’s Red Mill if you are chosen to represent them in the great Spurtle race across the pond. That was a really fun sentence, yes?

Last year I entered the contest too, and for some crazy reason I totally didn’t win. Redonkulous, no? But this year, I’m going all granola bar and let’s see if this is a winner. Thus far, these gluten-free bars are a hit in my house, since I just ate three of them for breakfast. Fast, easy, and super yum.

Now, go enter that contest! And see how you can make a lovely granola bar your own selves.

Ham & Corn Chowder For the Cold Yet Lazy Celiac + Another Giveaway!

Gluten-Free Challah Courtesy of The Sensitive Baker

Dang it’s been cold this week in Southern California. While I can hear all of you in Canada snickering at me right now, it’s barely busted out of the 50s, you guys! Which means, I need a light jacket and some hearty soup.

Luckily a brand spanking new cookbook , The Naptime Chef: Fitting Great Food Into Family Life landed on my doorstep and I have a zillion yummy options to choose from, that are naturally gluten-free. Wheeee! My first stop was right on the Ham & Corn Chowder recipe that took me less than half an hour to make, and about 15 seconds to slurp up into my chowder hole. Kelsey Banfield has this cooking thing figured out, and if you’re the lucky winner of my next giveaway — you can see her beautiful, super easy, yet fancy, new cookbook with your own two eyes.

I first discovered Kelsey’s delicious blog when I was an editor at a parenting site and was tasked with pulling together a food blog. Since I immediately bookmarked three recipes on The Naptime Chef, I knew she was onto something that I was loving, and everyone else would as well. And now the Gen X Martha Stewart has a whole book full of delicious, and easy (she makes them during her daughter’s naptime — get it?) recipes that make you feel happy inside.

The weather (I know, I’m a total wuss) was the main reason I chose this naturally gluten-free chowder recipe, but let me just throw some other names of Kelsey’s amazing options in her new book that are gluten-free, or easily tweaked: Baked Cheese Dip, Sweet Potato & Lentil Stew, Creamy Parmesan & Chive Polenta, Mint Chip Meringues, and Dutch Oven Pulled Pork. I’m going on a mad cooking spree this weekend with The Naptime Chef, and you can too!

To get your own copy of The Naptime Chef: Fitting Great Food Into Family Life, head over to my Facebook page, and tell me what your favorite cold weather gluten-free food happens to be. And how cold it is where you live, so I can feel vastly superior about my own weather. Thank you, and good luck!

Now for the recipe. YUM.

Most Incredible Giveaway & Gluten-Free Muffin Recipe of ALL TIME

Want to win a trip to Portland, Oregon? (Who doesn’t?) How about Scotland? How about a bag of Bob’s Red Mill Steel Cut Oats and a spurtle? Now I’ve got your attention.

I admit it, I’ve got a thing for Bob’s Red Mill family of flours and grains. So much so it’s freaking my husband out, and if he ever meets Mr. Red Mill, he might just challenge him to a duel for my affections. So it is with great pleasure that I invite you, my gluten-free readers to enter a contest that has multiple prizes sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill. And all you have to do is demonstrate your favorite recipe using Bob’s Red Mill Steel Cut Oats. Videotape your efforts, and you can win HUGE.

You see, last year the Bob’s Red Mill team won the Golden Spurtle in the world porridge making championship in Scotland. They’re competitive like that, and they want to win again so they’re looking for your help. Got a great recipe you make with Bob’s Red Mill steel cut oats, or gluten-free oats, like I do? Shoot a video, upload it to the Spar for the Spurtle site, and you could win a trip to Portland, Oregon for the cook-off! If you kick some steel cut oat butt there, you’ll be asked to join the team and travel to Scotland for the championship. I want to go to there, don’t you?

But wait, there’s more! For being a fabulous reader of Gluten Is My Bitch, you also get your very own prize just for entering the contest.