This week our gluten-free menu swap features olives. I’ve gone from the kid who would put the holiday olives on all her fingers, but would never eat them, to an olive fan as an adult. I love Greek olives and black olives top pizzas and tacos. Summer pasta or rice salads and Cheryl’s Quinoa Italiana wouldn’t be the same without the olives in the mix. I recently found a new olive to love at a food blogging conference where I was introduced to Lindsay Olives green ripe olives. These are buttery and creamy and not what I was used to in a green olive. I loved them so much that I asked Lindsay if they would be interested in having me and some of my blogging friends introduce their olives to our readers. Starting this week through the end of July, six of my gluten-free blogging buddies and I will feature Lindsay olives in gluten-free recipes. These are sponsored posts that are paid for by Lindsay Olives, but we are all olive fans and we can’t wait to share some fun, summer food just in time for grilling, parties, and picnics. If you’re an olive fan and can’t wait for our weekly posts, visit the Lindsay Olive recipe page for more ideas. If you have a great recipe using olives, there’s still time to enter their recipe contest and win $1000 (deadline is June 30). Follow @lindsayolives on Twitter and on Facebook for great recipes and contests.
My menu this week will feature plenty of olive love:
- Barbecued Chicken with Olive Relish
- Grilled Greek Chicken Salad Pizza using Udi’s crusts and leftover chicken and olive relish
- Salmon baked with San-J Thai Peanut Sauce, brown rice, broccoli
- Grilled burgers with olives on Rudi’s multigrain hamburger buns, coleslaw, baked beans, fruit salad, pasta salad for the 4th
- Stir-fried tofu and veggies over Tinkyada brown rice spaghetti and San-J Thai Peanut Sauce
- Leftovers
- Fish Tacos
I’m hosting the swap this week. Stop by on Monday afternoon to see what our other menu planners are cooking up this week. Visit Cheryl at Gluten Free Goodness for the headquarters of the swap. Laura at Organizing Junkie has her Menu Plan Monday links with hundreds of menu planners and great ideas on menu planning.
Heather of Celiac Family has a lot of olive love going on in her menu this week. There’s pizza, a Greek salad, rice bowls with shredded chicken and avocado salsa, burgers, and a wild rice salad in her plan.
Cheryl at Gluten Free Goodness reflects on the loss of a family friend and memories of his garden from her childhood. She serves up Quinoa with Kalamatas over sauteed mache , Curried Kale and Turkey, Herb Salad with Salmon and cassava crackers in her new home.
Claire from My Gluten Free Home is cooking up lots of summer flavors and stretching chicken with chicken salad sandwiches, a Greek salad, Mrs. Leeper’s Chicken Alfredo, and some hotdogs on the grill this holiday weekend.
Alta from Tasty Eats at Home joins the swap with a gorgeous Summer Squash Chicken Fritatta recipe and a week of salmon, pork chops, meatballs, and chicken– all spiced and grilled and brined. Alta also includes breakfast and lunch menus. Go see what she is serving this week.
Angela of Angela’s Kitchen is cleaning out her fridge and going camping, so she has olive envy. She will be cooking up some tempting salmon and sweet potato cakes, pulled pork sandwiches on homemade buns, and slow cooker chicken tacos.
Renee of Beyond Rice and Tofu jumps in a little late this week with her menu. After being distracted by her web surfing and recipe reading, she sticks to some old favorites like a pasta salad with goat cheese, sun-dried tomatoes and kalamata olives, a chickpea curry, a deep dish pizza and a Mexican salad.
Find more gluten-free menu plans in my posts from the last two years.
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Ok, so I made the tampenade yesterday and I’m pretty sure it will be all gone today. Can’t wait to get the post up!
Can’t wait to see what it!
thanks for finding my post, Wendy! and yes, Quinoa Italiana would lose so much flavor without olives. they’re such a wonderful way to spark up any meal. Thanks for sharing the info about Lindsey olives!
Thank you for one of my favorite recipes!
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Just posted a menu plan (I’ve been slacking these past few weeks!). I’m curious to see how your BBQ chicken with olives turns out. I made that recipe as written before we swapped, and it needed some tweaking, IMHO! I just never did any tweaking.
Do tell. What kind of tweaking do you suggest?
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Thanks for hosting! My post is up: http://angelaskitchen.com/2011/06/27/menu-plan-monday-june-27-2011/
No olives for me this week this week, got to get ready for a camping trip. Can’t wait to check out the olive links. I love me some olives.
Yum, that olive tomato mozz salad looks delightful! I can’t wait to debut my quinoa olive recipe.
I also hated olives as a kid and can’t get enough of them now. Baby Yum is more savvy than I was- she loves a good kalamata olive. 
-Sea
Thanks, Sea. I needed a pic for my post and I found two kalamata olives in the entire house. I can’t seem to keep them around long enough to make a recipe. I made that little salad with mozzarella pearls and grape tomatoes with basil from the garden and a little balsamic vinaigrette. It did look pretty and then I ate it. That Baby Yum is one smart girl. Can’t wait to see your contribution to the Lindsay olive project.
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My menu is super late, but thought I would link up anyway…
http://beyondriceandtofu.com/2011/06/28/meal-plan-monday-or-tuesday-june-28-2011/
Thanks for hosting!
Better late than never. I’m happy to add you to the swap. Have a great week, Renee.