Lucullian delights
You baked, I can almost smell it! It looks as super as the last apple cake recipe I made of yours. Oh, and I've been told I have to make more truffles for Christmas!
It's what keeps me coming back for more Ilva! Gooe discussion.
And the cake looks oh so good - gad I love the gooy look and I think I see the coconut - yum!!
I just got done reading it and all the comments people left. I have to disagree with most of his opinions and although I do not read his blog, and therefore can not really make a good judgement call on what he's like, if this post is anything like his others, I doubt I will ever read his blog again.
I've typed and deleted, typed and deleted my opinion of his post - but in the end, I've decided it's not worth the time or effort to acknowledge his suggestions.
I don't care how it came about.. I'm just glad I found you and your blog. Just as I am happy to have found each person and their blogs that I read every morning.
Oh and that cake? Heavenly - it looks so moist and delish!! :D
Ilva, if your blog was a book, I'd buy it!
But the best part about it being a blog is that I get to come back every day and read a new chapter.
I like your site I come back all the time to see your beautiful pictures and your yummy recipes.
I am THRILLED that you published a gluten-free cake recipe. THANK YOU! This one looks terrific. Have you tried bakign with quinoa flakes? It has a smoother texture more suitable for baking. Though I'm actually very excited to try using plain old quinoa for a recipe, since it's cheaper and I always have it on hand.
Can't wait to make this. BTW, did you use brown rice flour, sweet rice flour or white rice flour?
Wow, what a great combination of flavors. The quinoa and coconut, yum!
Ilva, I think you and I are of one mind on this topic for the most part. I decided not to leave a comment at AG, there were so many things I wanted to respond to that I didn't know where to start. What is boring or not boring depends entirely on your own perspective. Some of these hip bloggers who write mainly about restaurants where many of us will never eat or wines many of us will never drink have no idea how boring their blogs might be to some of us. The point is that every blog is boring to someone, and that's the way it should be. I laughed at the commenter who said blogs that mainly post recipes are so boring. (I guess no one told all the people who read my blog every day, most of whom look at several recipes each time.) And I agree completely that it's the feeling about the person writing the blog that makes you want to come back. (And if they take incredible photos like you do, that doesn't hurt either.)
Hi Ilva, haven't visited you in quite a while, I have been too taken by my work.I have not had time to catch up yet on all that I have missed but will do so post haste, I am so looking forward to all the recipes and beautiful shots I've missed it's almost like getting an early Christmas present.
I loved and agreed with your commentary. As far as I am concerned boring is in the mind of the reader. None of the blogs that I visit are boring, they open my mind and my heart to a whole other world, they educate and enlighten me. I love the people I meet and exhange a few words with. My job is solitary work, I am a translator, I have just finished a huge project for a major oil company on the world market, now how boring is that? the project was on a time schedule so I could not take time off to read all the blogs I visit, plus it is important for me to stay focussed when working on large projects like these.
Just a quick look see and I could tell that all is well and good at the 'Delights', that last cake looks like a winner to me! Boring? Never my dear, as long as you have people like me who can't keep away 
happy to be back and happy you are still here.
Roo-Thanks! Yes I did bake and I had to put away the cake because i ate too much...
Tanna-keep on coming back!
Lisa-well I do think that he has got some points but I think it's a bit too much from his own standpoint, but this thing that he's got a lot of success with his blog and that would kind of put him in a position to proclaim how to make a good food blog I find a bit doubtful. Apart from that, he makes a lot of reviews of restaurants and I find that BORING, I never read that type of posts, so I could just as well say that I find his blog boring when he does them but I just don't read them and that's it.
Cookiecrumb-What a wonderful thing to say! And hear! You are a bijoux (that makes it two in the family)!
Krista-Thanks, and I'm happy that you are coming back!
Glutenfree- But I have been doing that for quite a long time now, now and then I post about glutenfree cakes. And cookies too! I just use what I find around here and that is normal quinoa. And as I don't suffer from gluten intolerance, nor anyone in my family, I have never really pursued it further. I used white rice flour but you can use brown as well. I'm happy you like the cake, at least in this form!!
Dianka-Thanks!
Kalyn-I didn't leave any comment either, I don't really care for what he says but I like a bit of discussion about what we are doing. I don't like this concept of success giving some kind of right to judge others, To be successful you usually have to please too many people to be really personal somehow (there are exceptions), when I look at the really successful food blogs, I usually are left with a feeling that they are a bit impersonal and I like people who stick out and think and do things differently. Plus that I actually LIKE reading recipes. And cookbooks...
Connie-I have missed you! Thanks for popping in! And you are so right, boring is all in the mind of the beholder!
I felt like you wouldn't agree with him...
He made some good points, he made me wonder about some stuff...
But what I didn'y like at all was his tone, like if HE is the ultimate food blogger and he can say all that in this "I'm your teacher and master" kind of style...
And anyway I agree to everyone that is saying that boring is in the mind of the reader...
And with Kalyn!!! Completely!
Wow! This looks really good! I've been looking for a spicy, gluten free apple cake for ages .... now, its here
I read AG's post and, like you and most of your readers and fellow bloggers who left comments, I disagree with his advice and am annoyed by his condescending tone and his pretentious omniscience. I don't read the "famous" food blogs, I checked out several of them a while ago and I don't find them as interesting as the ones I read regularly; besides, I don't like their complacency. Some of the blogs he mentions I was reading for a while and then stopped because I didn't find them engaging or generous enough. I don't have so much time; I read several blogs but yours is the only one I check every day and regularly leave comments on.
And thanks for the quinoa cake recipe!
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Excellent cake, Ilva. I'm reading a book about a cure, and millet, quinoa and anything gluten free is coming out as preferred above cereals strong or less strong in gluten. I'm really getting into it, even placing soy aside. I often think that posting my recipes should make me blush according to standards, and perhaps I am doing it all wrong. But I am not afraid to learn and second totally your opinion that one should blog because it is fun, and the yield of new contacts spontaneously is fun. Blogging is a tangible form of what the worldwide web becomes on an ever changing daily basis. (And I see it as a way to attribute to world peace). As to your blogging pleasure: ad multos annos!
Those pictures are great!!
I do think that you should experiment qith quinoa flakes as well. Thank you for this great contribution to my collection of quinoa recipes! I will direct some quinoa fans to your blog.
-Sergio
Thank you for writing this post. It means a lot to me: I recently started a food blog and am thoroughly enjoying taking pictures and sharing about life in my kitchen. I agree it is so nice to know when people read and enjoy your posts. And I have read lately about people's opinions about being bored by blogs---it is nice to hear your perspective that each blog will appeal to and be appreciated by different people. Anyway, I would just like to say that on this first visit to your site: it is nice to meet you.
I agree with your comment about blogs 100% I have friends that perhaps I would not if I had passed them in the street...
just fantastic!
Pip-I don't feel much that he is writing anything on the nose as we would say in Sweden but I resent the categories boring and successful, they don't really enter into my world view. Not in that way anyway.
Dianna-I did actually think about you when I made it!
Magda-I'm really flattered! I feel much the same about the big food blogs as you do and how lucky we are that we can choose what to read!
samu-I have adjusted it! It took me some time to understand what you were going on about but then I got it!
Aagje-I like the world peace concept, I'm afraid I'm turning into an old hippie over here...Make blogs not war! Blog on!
Sergio-Thanks! I will keep my eyes open but where I live it's not easy to find these things. Not yet anyway!
Janelle-Thanks and I hope you will come back! Soon!
simon-exactly!
Wonderful points about blogging - in particular, I think that the food blogging community is wonderfully friendly and supportive, and it's definetely fun to be a part of!
Thank you for supplying this recipe - a friend of mine is a coeliac and I'm forever on the hunt for good gluten-free recipes for her!
what a fascinating way to use quinoa, id like to try this sometime... also a polenta lemon cake someday lol ohh the list is endless!! lovely as usual Ilva
Ellie-I am thoroughly enjoying my food blogging experience too!
catesa-thanks! Yes there is an endless list of thing to try out which is good, life never gets boring in that way!
that unpolished apple says it all...the beauty in just being yourself
t-i-c-polished or unpolished!
hello ilva, i just came across your blog while looking for quinoa desserts. i'm amazed! i tried this cake replacing apples with nectarines, leaving out the water in the fruit and using the remaining alcohol-syrup to cook the quinoa. thanks for the fascinating recipes. i'm recently obsessed with quinoa and very excited about what you're doing with it!
melisa-Thanks a lot! And what I great idea, I'll have to work on that!
I just made your fantastic recipe in cupcake form! I loved it! Thanks so much for sharing it.
http://www.cupcakeproject.com/20...quinoa-
for.html
Stef-oh, that's great-thanks!
We bought a bag of Quinoa and we hated it! But i hate wasting food, and then i found your recipe. I figured, well, what doesn't taste good slathered between eggs, butter and sugar? I still don't like Quinoa, but i think we'll at least get rid of our bag this way Thanks for the recipe!
Jules-I hope you will like it in this form!
this looks absolutely delicious - i love quinoa and simply have to try this cake in the form of a cupcake...yummy!
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