Gluten Free Verrine of Smoked Salmon Mousse with Avocado Guacamole

  Do you see that up there? That dainty little dish? I made that. I know, I'm as shocked as you are. Well, I'm probably more shocked than you. While I love being in the kitchen, it's always so rushed. Having a two year old to feed means I can't do everything at a leisurely stroll. And when I'm making food for the blog, it's always a race against the clock this time of year because the sun starts setting around 3:30 pm here in the UK. That means I'm the crazy lady cooking dinner at 1 pm just so it can be done in time to get good photos with natural light. I'm used to cooking at breakneck speed, so when I was approached about reviewing the recipe in Franck Pontais' amazing cookbook, Terrines & Verrines, I gulped and panicked before I said yes.

Valentine's Red Velvet Petit Fours Recipe

These four ingredient Red Velvet Petit Fours are perfect bite-sized treats for Valentine's Day. They're easy to make and don't scrimp on chocolate flavor!

Yield a dozen

Valentine's Red Velvet Petit Fours 

These are the most perfect, moist and moreish Red Velvet Petit Fours ever. They're so easy to make and they only require four ingredients! Talk about the perfect, lazy person's #Valentinesdessert!

Are you tired of Valentine's recipes from me yet? I can't help myself! I'm a big, romantic sap and I love the lovey-dovey nature of Valentine's Day. I always have. And this year, while we were visiting my parents over Christmas, I had loads of time to play around and create lots of yummy love day treats! Petit fours are perfect bit-sized treats for tea time. All you need is a strong brew and you're in business.

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Anyonita Nibbles is a food blog obsessed with providing recipes for flavorful food, like these triple chocolate eclairs.

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5 Quick SEO Tips for Busy Bloggers

Are you ready to improve your SEO in 2014?

I'm guest posting as part of Plucky's Blogging Tips and Tricks Series Part 2 and I'm sharing 5 quick and easy tips for busy bloggers for boosting your SEO!

Go check them out! And if you find the tips helpful and want to know how to apply them to your blog, leave a comment! When I get 50 comments, I'll release the information :)

Gluten Free Triple Chocolate Eclairs Recipe for Valentine's Day

These triple chocolate eclairs are made with chocolate choux pastry, filled with Nutella cream and dipped in milk chocolate then topped with red and pink fondant hearts. Happy Valentine's Day to you!

Yield 2 dozen unfilled eclairs; a dozen filled eclairs

Triple Chocolate Eclairs Recipe

There's a soft spot in my heart for eclairs and these triple chocolate eclairs are no different. I'd been toying around with the idea of making chocolate pate a choux (choux pastry) and thought Valentine's would be the perfect opportunity, what with chocolate being the ultimate aphrodisiac, food of love. And there's certainly no shortage of chocolate in this recipe!

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Gluten Free Valentine's Strawberry Chocolate Mousse Crunch Recipe

Chocolate mousse and a crunchy biscuit base get covered in strawberry chocolate and topped with a white chocolate drizzled strawberry for an indulgent gluten free Valentine's dessert!

Serves 4

Valentine's Strawberry Chocolate Mousse Crunch

This is one of those desserts that has more than meets the eye. Underneath that coating of strawberry chocolate is a crunchy gluten-free cheesecake-style biscuit base topped with Nutella chocolate mousse. The finishing touch is a white chocolate drizzled strawberry for an impressive dessert that it super easy to make!

Waiting for the mousse to set is the most difficult thing about this dessert. If you make them late in the day and give them all night in the fridge to set, they'll be ready for pouring over the chocolate and topping with strawberries in the morning. Depending on the size of the mold you use, this recipe will make six to ten mousse crunches. Enjoy them after a special Valentine's Day dinner for a rich, aphrodisiac treat!

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Gluten Free Zuppa Toscana Olive Garden Copycat Recipe

Made with sausage, dark kale and potatoes, this rustic Italian soup makes a comforting and delicious winter dinner!

 Serves 4 to 6

Zuppa Toscana Olive Garden Copycat Recipe

Zuppa Toscana is rustic Italian soup influenced by the flavors of sun-drenched Tuscany. It's made with big chunks of tender potatoes, sausages (generally Italian, though you could use whatever you had on hand) and leaves of kale. I used cavolo nero, my favorite type of kale because it has an intense, earthy taste.

If you reduce the amount of potatoes and sausage called for, this soup would be perfect for a light lunch. Keep the amounts I've specified and it'll be filling for dinner, too. Serve with good, chunky bread for dunking and tuck in for a delicious and easy soup you'll make again and again.

I am entering this recipe in a winter warmers competition at The Co-operative Electrical Shop! For more details on the competition and so that you can enter too, go here.

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How to Embed Pinterest Boards into Blog Posts

Written by: Anyonita Green on 1/30/2104

Pinterest is one of the most reliable traffic sources for many bloggers, so finding new ways to utilize its benefits is important. Embedding a Pinterest board into your blog post is an easy way to show readers some of the diverse boards they can find on your Pinterest account.

With many users having hundreds of boards, it can be difficult for followers to wade through all of them to to the important ones. This can especially be an issue when your blog's Pinterest account doubles as your personal account.

If this is the case, you might want to consider doing some obvious hint-dropping and showing your readers exactly what they want to see: relevant Pinterest boards!

In this tutorial, I'll show you in 7 easy steps how to embed a Pinterest board into your blog post. And if you'd like to check out some more tutorials and tips for food bloggers, be sure to follow this board:
(See what I did there?)