Every Tuesday, Aubree Cherie of Living Free posts a round-up of her favorite blogosphere recipes from the previous week. As she travels abroad for some time this winter, I’m happy to be holding down the Top Ten Tuesday fort with a handful of other bloggers and sharing my top ten recipe picks from last week.

Before I go any further, let me make this clear: I read a lot of blogs. I mean, a whole lot. As I sip my morning smoothie with one hand and click around to my favorite blogs with the other, I start most of my days with a big dose of culinary inspiration. New posts, old posts, doesn’t matter. I’m a voracious blog-worm!

So narrowing down my favorite recipes of the week to just ten was incredibly difficult. With last week being the first one of the new year, healthy and nourishing recipes—just my style!—dominated the blogosphere. In order to “narrow the playing field,” so to speak, and sort through the overwhelming amount of recipes I could have shared here, I decided to give myself a challenge: no gluten-free bloggers allowed.

In other words, I wanted to feature ten recipes from bloggers whose blogs aren’t exclusively gluten-free (or dairy- or sugar-free, for that matter). While I love my fellow gluten-free bloggers and their recipes, one of my goals this year—whether it’s through teaching cooking classes, writing recipes for Daily Bites, or simply talking with others about food—is to show even non-gluten-free foodies that naturally gluten-free food can be just as delicious and nutritious as “regular.”

All of the recipes you’ll find below are 100% gluten-free, even though the bloggers who’ve created them write blogs about food of all kinds. From hearty sausage and bean soups to roasted vegetables and whole grain salads to vibrant green smoothies, these recipes are chock full of produce and nutrients. Gluten-free, no-added-sugar, dairy-free…however you want to tag them, the common denominator is this: they’re based on whole, natural foods.

Top Ten Recipes from 1/2/2011 – 1/8/2011

Slow Cooker Tuscan Sausage and Bean Soup

Lori at Recipe Girl

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Quinoa Salad with Roasted Vegetables

Carrie at Deliciously Organic

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Lentil and Root Vegetable Soup

Aran at Cannelle et Vanille

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Yellow Split Pea Side Dish with Garlic and Ginger

Kalyn at Kalyn’s Kitchen

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Lettuce with Oranges, Fennel, and Pomegranate

Katie at goodLife {eats}

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Quinoa Turkey Meatloaf

Lydia at The Perfect Pantry

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Sweet Potato Chips

Amy at She Wears Many Hats

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Oatmeal in the Crockpot (use gluten-free oats)

Catherine at Weelicious

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Healthy Green Smoothie Cocktail

Donna at Fab Frugal Food

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Vegan Carrot-Ginger Soup

Lydia at Soup Chick