Sugar Free Vegan Sorbet Recipes

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Get ready for frosty bliss with these fabulous sugar free vegan sorbet recipes. Prep is quick and easy in most cases and the flavor variety is endless. Sorbets make the most of whatever fruit is in season. In summer, that means plenty of citrus and melons down at your local farmer’s market. You can even satisfy your chocolate cravings with a creamy sorbet, without milk or sugar. So grab your chocolate, fruit, freezer and blender and fall madly in love with your spoon over the sugar free vegan sorbet recipes below.

Blueberry Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Spark People)

Cherry Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Good Food Channel)

Chocolate Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Heal With Food)

Cranberry Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Fat Free Vegan)

Mango Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Sugar Free Mom)

Watermelon Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Easy Sugar Free Recipes)

Need more sugar free vegan recipes? Our Recipe Index is loaded with them.

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Gluten Free Tuesday: Vegan Carrot Salad Recipes

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My dad enjoyed carrot raisin salad. I remember watching Mom preparing her not quite vegan Carrot Salad Recipe: peeling the carrots by hand at the sink; plumping the raisins and draining them; adding in the salad dressing and stirring it all together. Besides snacking on raw carrots and a box of raisins, one of my favorite things as a child was playing waitress and serving his bowl of orange sunshine to him at his orange recliner. Not only was it the 70s, he probably had gotten a good deal on orange Naugahyde. As I was mulling about what recipes you might enjoy today, that memory of Dad came up, thus our menu du jour is Gluten Free Vegan Carrot Salad Recipes.

Carrot Nutrition Facts

According to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, “there are about 6 to 8 medium carrots in 1 pound. One medium carrot is about ½ cup of chopped carrots. For a 2,000-calorie diet, the daily recommendation is about 2 ½ cups of vegetables. ½ cup of carrots provides more than one day’s worth of vitamin A.” The National Institutes of Health (NIH) states that “vitamin A is involved in immune function, vision, reproduction and cellular communication. Vitamin A also plays a critical role in the normal formation and maintenance of the heart, lungs, kidneys and other organs.” So there you have it. Our bodies heart carrots. Bon appetit!

Vietnamese Noodle Salad w Chickpeas and Rainbow Carrots (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Vegetarian Times)

Black Bean Quinoa Salad w Carrots & Cilantro (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (One Hundred Dollars a Month)

Beetroot, Carrot and Apple Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Grown to Cook)

Cumin-Roasted Carrot Avocado Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Camille Styles)

Fall Detox Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Oh She Glows)

Raw Kelp Noodle Chili Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Eating Vibrantly)

Visit our Recipe Index for more mouth-watering Gluten Free Vegan Recipes.

Dairy Free Vegan Bread Recipes

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Indulge your lust for cheesy biscuits and cream cheese on pumpkin bread with these dairy free vegan bread recipes. The recipes in this post reveal mystery binders, dairy substitutes and flavor exponentiators that you would never guess if you tried. And kids will love helping with the Farmhouse Seed Bread. So settle in with a cup of coffee or tea and read on.

Let’s begin with savory breads. Don’t you just LOVE a good crispbread, aka cracker, especially a whole grain, for spreads and dips? Gluten Free Vegan Girl’s Whole Grain Crispbread is great to keep on hand for lunch boxes, snacks and appetizers. Play with herb and vegetable add-ins.

From Ali and Tom at the Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen comes Farmhouse Seed Bread, a megahit with their readers. The comments feature an abundance of substitution trials and results. My favorites are for that Honey Wheat flavor and shaping into bagels, bread bowls and pitas. This is a perfect recipe for kid chefs to learn how to knead.

Shirley Braden at Gluten Free Easily did a little leftover experiment and came up with this brilliant dairy free vegan bread recipe for Brazilian Un-Cheese Rolls/Biscuits. You will not believe her secret ingredient for the cheesy flavor in these low carb, three-inch-wide, easy drop biscuits. The secret ingredient is also the flavor variable, with reader recipes in the comments.

Let’s start off the sweet dairy free vegan bread recipes with Blueberry Banana Pancakes, from Jeanine and Jack at Love and Lemons. I’m a big pancake fan with a weakness for blueberries and bananas. Jeanine discovered that bananas have magic in them beyond their renowned nutritional value. They can actually make pancakes practically levitate. My favorite tip in the comments is not to make your batter the night before.

I saved the superstar for last: Allyson Kramer’s Cinnamon Swirl Pumpkin Bread. You won’t want pumpkin bread any other way once you try this dairy free vegan bread recipe. Be sure to make extra batches upfront, so your family will get a chance at it. The best comments are those on cutting sugar and adding apples. Store bought pumpkin rolls can’t hold a candle to this! 

  

Whole Grain Crispbread (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Gluten Free Vegan Girl

Farmhouse Seed Bread (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

The Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen

Brazilian Un-Cheese Rolls/Biscuits (SF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Gluten Free Easily

Blueberry Banana Pancakes (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Love and Lemons

Cinnamon Swirl Pumpkin Bread (DF, GF, V, VG)

Allyson Kramer

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more delicious Dairy Free Vegan Bread Recipes. Bon appetit!

Do you prefer savory or sweet breads? Do you like kneading dough?

Gluten Free Vegan Bread Recipes

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Going gluten free can wreak havoc with your carb addiction, but these Gluten Free Vegan Bread Recipes will put you back in the saddle in no time. The key is in discovering the wide world of alternate flours and xanthan gum. This revelation will open the door to incredible flavors, textures and kid fun, too.

A big concern is sandwich and side breads for lunch and dinner. Garlic, pumpernickel and rye quickly come to mind. Karina, the Gluten Free Goddess, feels the same way and developed a delicious Ryeless Rye Bread using her Breadman. Imagine, a gluten free cycle on a bread machine, right where you need it. She also includes regular oven instructions, until your bread machine comes in.

For pumpernickel, Responsible Eating And Living/REAL offers a gluten free vegan bread recipe using a home blend of flours, including brown rice, garbanzo and tapioca flours. Megan, the Gluten Free Vegan’s Italian Garlic Breadsticks go well with soup, salad, pasta and all things Italian. I love her readers’ comments and vote for adding olive oil to the plastic bag before adding the dough and snipping a smaller hole. Kid chefs can pipe it onto the sheet and add the garlic and parsley.

Your family needs a healthy breakfast that leaves them full, smiling and on schedule. Keep a big batch of sweet and hearty Buckwheat Banana Nut Muffins from the Detoxinista in the fridge for convenient breakfasts on the go and handy after school snacks. Scroll down the comments at Detoxinista for tips on coconut oil, pre-ground versus home-ground buckwheat groats and add-in variations and results. When it comes to gluten free vegan bread recipes, you can learn a lot from the comments section.

Chocolate cupcakes are a must, for desserts, special occasions, tailgating, holidays, lunch boxes, you name it. And what are cupcakes without a good buttercream frosting and plenty of chocolate? Hollie, Annie and Chelsea, the three sisters at Natural Sweet Recipes, bring it all together for you.

When switching to gluten free vegan bread recipes, which cupcake flavors do you prefer? Which savory breads are your flavor faves?

Ryeless Rye Bread (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Gluten Free Goddess

Pumpernickel Bread (DF, GF, V, VG)

Responsible Eating And Living/REAL

Italian Garlic Breadsticks (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

The Gluten Free Vegan

Buckwheat Banana Nut Muffins (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Detoxinista

Chocolate Cupcakes (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Natural Sweet Recipes

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Natural Sweet Recipes

Be sure to stop by our Recipe Index for more Gluten Free Vegan Bread Recipes. Bon appetit!

Meatless Monday: Vegan Soup Recipes

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Even with Spring well on its way here in Zone 8B, a piping hot bowl of soup still hits the spot on a chilly day. The garlic and onions I just pressed into the soil are already marching around my raised beds with long, tall greens, but won’t be ready for these soups for several more weeks. Also, my seed potatoes have not yet leafed, nor have I started my bean and tomato seeds in the greenhouse. But I’m more than in the mood for these hearty Meatless Monday vegan soup recipes.

Bean and Tomato Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (BDunner/SparkPeople)
Broccoli Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Nakkeya/All Recipes)
French Onion Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Go Dairy Free)
Kale and Roasted Vegetable Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Simply Recipes/Yummly)
Lentil Dal Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Vegan Soup Recipes)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more Meatless Monday vegan soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Sugar Free Vegan Soup Recipes

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“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup,” said Beethoven. Whether you’re pure of heart, naughty but nice or what teachers politely call a rascal, there are times in life when you just need some good sugar free vegan soup recipes. Be it weather, a rough day, medical issues or simply a desire, soup has been a global go-to cure for centuries.

This course of a thousand flavors can be your best friend when you’re trying to drop a few extra pounds. According to Eating Well, two recent studies have shown that diners who start with soup tend to conserve calories, thanks to the water content.

The great comedian Milton Berle liked to joke about his wife, “She loves to make soup--especially cream of yesterday. “ Contrary to Mrs. Berle, you’ll want to include these sugar free vegan soups in your menu every day. With outstanding nutritional content, soup-erior flavor profiles and simple preparation, they’re just that good.

Quick and Easy Tortilla Soup (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (The Sugar Free Vegan)
Roasted Red Pepper and Squash Soup (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (Diet, Dessert and Dogs)
Rosemary Ginger Potato Leek Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Gluten, Dairy, Sugar Free)
White Bean and Kale Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Simply Sugar and Gluten Free)
Quick Chili (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (Choose Veg)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more sugar free soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Vegan Kosher for Passover Soup Recipes for Seder

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The green lifestyle and health concerns have growing numbers of Jews going vegan and/or entertaining more vegan guests at their tables. Interesting culinary challenges are cropping up as a direct result. I surfed the blogosphere for these vegan Kosher for Passover soup recipes to help out my Hebrew readers. I’m spiritual, non-religious and not of Jewish heritage. However, I’m striving to learn more about the Kosher diet in terms of veganism. If I do my job right, my readers can then relax and enjoy the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical pleasures of cooking, serving and eating according to their Kosher vegan beliefs.

A note to my non-Hebrew readers: P is an abbreviation representing “Kosher for Passover.” Kosher is a set of guidelines composed by rabbis thousands of years ago for spiritual and physical purposes. While people of Jewish heritage and faith don’t always keep Kosher throughout the year, many adhere to stricter guidelines during Passover, which occurs more than once a year. There’s also the increased complexity of living by a calendar loaded with cycles of holidays, feasts and fasts that differs significantly from the largely Christian calendar primarily used in developed Western countries.

General Kosher and Passover rules also vary between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews, who have different geological lineages and traditions. So keeping Kosher isn’t always the easiest lifestyle, but it’s worth learning a little about if you have Kosher friends or family. For them, it’s rewarding to continue traditions that have been handed down for a remarkable period of time, and some of the rules even make good health sense.

Kosher for Passover soup recipes cannot contain flour. Many vegan and vegetarian allegedly Kosher Passover soup recipes on the web contain these very things. Thus, Kosher home cooks and chefs must read potentially Passover web recipes with caution. The recipes below are free of flour, peanut butter and soy.

Most Ashkenazis are not allowed peanut butter or soy, due to their legume status. However, some Ashkenazi rabbis have accepted the consumption of tofu, which can be used in place of eggs in baked matzo balls. This is necessary, because the egg replacer commonly used by vegans and vegetarians to hold matzo balls together is not Kosher for Passover.

So browse below for your soup course and rest assured you’ll be good to go as you serve these vegan Kosher for Passover soup recipes to your family and friends. 

Vegan Mock Chicken Soup for Passover (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Big Oven)
Potato Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Mrsspeevs/Food.com)
Ghormeh Sabzi (Persian Herb Soup) (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Café Liz)
Bay Leaf Beet Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (AllRecipes/Yummly)
Roasted Tomato Basil Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Jennifer McCann/Chow)
Vegan Kosher Resources: Big Oven

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more Kosher soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Gluten Free Soup Recipes

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Abraham Maslow quipped, “A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.” This collection of five gluten free soup recipes is absolutely first-rate. Start your family and guests off with a culinary masterpiece of tomato, potato, okra, black bean or celery. When you sip a cup or bowl of soup, you’re actually taking a trip around the world in a spoon. The term “soup” originally hails from Sanskrit, one of the many languages of India. In that tongue, it translates to “good nutrition."

Nutrition is exactly what you’ll get with these hearty soups. Tomatoes and potatoes both carry a whopping 60% Recommended DailyAllowance of Vitamin D. Hippocrates wasn’t kidding around when he said, “Let thy food be thy medicine.” In the ancient Indian healing system of Ayurveda, garlic and onions are both recommended for heart disease and high blood pressure, among many other ailments. So invite your family and friends to join you in a bowl of soup. It’s big enough for everyone. 

Quick and Easy Tomato Basil Soup (Cold ala Gazpacho) (About.com) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG)

African Peanut Potato Stew (Fat Free Vegan) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) 

Gumbo (Simply Gluten-Free) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) 

Black Bean and Vegetable Kamikaze Cook Soup (Spark People) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG)  

Curried Cream of Celery Soup (Vegetarian Times) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) 

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more gluten free soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Dairy Free Soup Recipes

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When winter chills your bones and cold and flu season’s got you sneezin’, dairy free soup recipes are just what the doctor ordered. I found these delicious bowls of dairy free perfection while toodling about the blogosphere. Laurie Colwin once wrote, “To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”  These soups will warm you right up, especially the spicy Chinese Hot and Sour Soup and Chunky Chipotle Chili. "Is chicken soup good for your health?" "Not if you're the chicken." Well, there’s no chicken in this “Chicken” Noodle Soup or any of the dairy free soups in our Recipe Index. According to SoupHoopla, all but 1% of American homes spend $5 billion a year on soup, altogether. Imagine how much you’ll save making your own at home with these savory, dairy free soup recipes.

“Chicken” Noodle Soup (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (Choose Veg)

“Cream” of Tomato Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Vegan Family)

Red Lentil and Vegetable Soup (DF, GF, SG, K, V, VG) (Good Housekeeping/Delish)

Chinese Hot and Sour Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (About.com)

Chunky Chipotle Chili (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Vegan Coach)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more dairy free soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Meatless Monday: Vegan Chocolate Recipes for Valentine’s Day

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“All you need is love,” sang the Beatles. Lucy in Peanuts by Charles Schultz added, “but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Whether your chocoholic sweetheart swoons to the tune of cocoa, cake, cupcakes, cookies or candy, you’ll find the perfect Meatless Monday vegan chocolate recipes for Valentine’s Day here. Your love muffin will be pudding in your hands by the time you’re through.

Start them off with a blissful cup of classic Hot Cocoa and a Black and White Muffin. Let the kid chefs loose with Flourless Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Chip Cookies. Turn up the heat with Chocolate Chipotle Cupcakes, an Iron Cupcake Challenge entry. Cool down with Chocolate Mint Cupcakes.

For the big finish, serve up dishes of Chocolate Chia Pudding with homemade Raw Chocolate Orange Truffles alongside. With these Meatless Monday vegan chocolate recipes for Valentine’s Day, you and your loved ones will be in endorphin overload. Perhaps you’ll even discover some new flavor favorites while showing Mother Earth some love. Happy Valentine’s Day and bon appetit!

Hot Cocoa (Calorie Count)

Black and White Muffins (Vegan Family)

Raw Chocolate Orange Truffles (Cocoa Heaven)

Flourless Chocolate Cake (WedMD)

Chocolate Chip Cookies (Oh She Glows)

Chocolate Chipotle Cupcake (Cupquake)

Chocolate Mint Cupcakes (Vegan Cupcake Recipes)

Chocolate Chia Pudding (Food.com)

Chocolate Quotes (Famous Quotes and Quotations)

Visit our Recipe Index for more Vegan Chocolate Recipes for Meatless Monday, Valentine’s Day and any day.

   

Kosher Vegan Chocolate Recipes for Valentine’s Day

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What do Kosher Vegan Valentines eat? Why chocolate, of course, and plenty of it! These Kosher Vegan Chocolate Recipes offer plenty of options for Valentine’s Day and other occasions. With Valentine’s Day just a few days after Shabbat Shekalim (Shabbat before New Month of Adar) and Rosh Chodesh Adar (New Month of Adar) and before the Ta’anit Esther (Fast of Esther), it makes sense to have plenty of Kosher Vegan Chocolate noshes on hand.

If your sweetheart is the traditional type, bribe them with Buckwheat Blintzes, Honey Cake or Chocolate Cheesecake. Taking Hamantaschen to vegan friends? Check out the chocolate version below.

Teaching children to keep Vegan Kosher at the most chocolate-full time of the year? Kid chefs will enjoy preparing Chocolate Chip Challah and Chocolate Chip Cookies.

For a fancier Valentine’s Day menu, whip up a Chocolate Mousse. A decadent batch of Chocolate Truffles will touch the heart of any chocolate-loving Kosher Vegan. These recipes will also add a finishing touch to the celebration of birthdays, weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs.

Hamantaschen (triangle cookies, chocolate option) (ShalomVeg)

Chocolate Cheesecake (Vegan Chef)

Chocolate Chip Challah (Climbin Vegan)

Buckwheat Blintzes (chocolate option) (Smarter Fitter)

Honey Cake (contains cocoa, no honey) (My Jewish Learning)

Chocolate Mousse (Healthy Shabbat)

Chocolate Chip Cookies (Style It Kosher)

Chocolate Truffles (Levana Cooks)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more Kosher Vegan flavors. Happy Valentine’s Day and Bon Appetit!

Other Resources:

Jewish Holiday Calendar

Kiddush

Keeping Vegan and Kosher

Hamantasch

15 Dairy Free and Gluten Free Recipes for a Thanksgiving Menu

Go for a blend of traditional and not-so-traditional dishes with these dairy and gluten free recipes for Thanksgiving. These sweet and savory delicacies comprise a full meatless menu: drinks, bread, soup, salad, starch, vegetable, meat substitute and dessert. Holiday flavors, such as carrot, apple, cranberry and orange, set a festive tone, while sweet potato and faux turkey take pride of place.

Substitution Quick Tips:

·        Milk = Soy milk

·        Eggs = Ener G Egg Replacer

·        Flour = Coconut flour

·        Sugar = Agave nectar

·        Meat = Tofu and/or tempeh (marinated in seasoning of your choice)

Savings Tip:

DollarTree carries WestSoy Plain Lowfat Soymilk Drink, usually on the top shelf, halfway down the grocery aisle. The Ingredient List states: “filtered water, organic soymilk, organic dehydrated cane juice, sea salt and vitamins A, D2 and B2”. At only $1 per quart, this is a significant savings over WalMart prices. Unfortunately, it’s not on their large order website at this time. Maybe if enough of us lobby them it may come about. J

 

Apple Orchard Punch (Yummly)

Pull Apart Dinner Rolls (Vegan Richa)

Curried Carrot Soup with Pan Toasted Cornbread Croutons (Gluten Free Goddess)

Cornbread Dressing (Weight Watchers Community)

Cranberry Orange Rice Pilaf (About.com> Vegetarian Food)

Sweet Potato Casserole (aka Yam Bake, Cooking Gluten & Dairy Free)

Faux Turkey Breasts (Ann Gentry, HuffPost> Food)

Spiced Cranberry Relish (About.com>French Food)

Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Crust (OhSheGlows)

Fudge-tastic Brownies (HealthfulPursuit)

 

Chocolate Chip Cookies (Elana’s Pantry)

Coconut Cream Truffles (Delicious Obsessions)

Visit our Recipe Index for more dairy and gluten free recipes for Thanksgiving, with easy to understand codes for your convenience. Bon appetit and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

Gluten Free Chocolate Recipes

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Got a gluten free chocoholic in the house? Pacify their cravings and make celebrations happier occasions with gluten free chocolate recipes. Also suitable for dairy free, Kosher, vegan and vegetarian diets, some are even sugar free, too!

Keep plenty of Chocolate Chip Biscotti and Chocolate Chip Espresso Muffins in countertop canisters for crazy mornings, coffee breaks and gifts for preachers, teachers and everyone else on your list. Let everyone eat their fill at your next event with German Chocolate Cupcakes. If you know or suspect you'll have a diabetic guest or two, serve up Chilled Double Chocolate Torte or Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge. You could also substitute agave nectar or stevia in any of the other gluten free chocolate recipes. Bon appetit!

Chilled Double Chocolate Torte (DF, GF, K, SF, V, VG) Oh She Glows
Chocolate Chip Biscotti (DF, GF, K, V, VG) Spark People
Chocolate Chip Espresso Muffins (DF, GF, K, V, VG) Gluten Free Diva
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge (DF, GF, K, SF, V, VG) Elana's Pantry
German Chocolate Cupcakes (DF, GF, K, V, VG) Simply Gluten-Free

Bookmark our Recipe Index for all your gluten free recipe needs, birthdays, holidays and year-round. Share us with your friends, too.

Gluten Free Tuesday: Purple Heart Menu

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In honor of our fallen and returning veterans, many with injuries, and the anniversary of the Purple Heart, I've gathered a menu of gluten free recipes along a purple theme. Enjoy sharing the history with your family and friends, along with the yummy goodies.

On this day 230 years ago, the Badge of Military Merit was conceived by then-General George Washington, future founding father and first President of the United States of America. Only three Revolutionary War veterans received the simple cloth commendation. It then languished for 150 years until it was revived, renamed and a redesign commissioned by General Douglas MacArthur, who received the first Purple Heart. Elizabeth Will, an Army specialist in military awards, created the redesign in accordance with orders and archives.

World War II saw civilians being awarded. Posthumous awards were approved in 1962. An Executive Order dated 1984 permitted peacekeepers injured since the Spring of 1973 to be awarded. In 1985 it received a promotion which caused it to outrank the Meritorious Service Medals, up from Good Conduct. It was then approved for those wounded by friendly fire. 1998 saw the disqualification of American civilians wounded while attached to the military.

Due to the government's surplus of World War II-issue Purple Hearts, which was not fully utilized despite the Korean and Vietnam Wars, members of our military sustaining qualifying injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan receive these vintage awards without delay.

For more information, click here. Now, how about some purple gluten free recipes?

Grape Juice Crush (DF, GF, K, V, VG)
Maqui Bread (DF, GF, K, R, SF, V, VG)
Slow Cooker Borscht (aka Beet Soup: DF, GF, K, SF, V, VG) *Kids love it!
Purple Cabbage Salad with Currants, Carrots and Almonds (DF, GF, K, V, VG)
Purple Potatoes with Onions and Mushrooms (DF, GF, K, SF, V, VG)
Ube (Purple Yam) Ice Cream (DF, GF, K, V, VG)

See our Recipe Index for more Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Sugar Free, Kosher, Raw, Vegan and Vegetarian  Recipes for everyday and special occasions. Visit our Articles page for information on food travel and food facts. Bon appetit!

Dairy Free Vegan Easter Recipes

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It’s time to celebrate rebirth.  Spring and Easter are here!   Fresh fruits and vegetables fill this menu of absolutely scrumptious dairy free vegan Easter recipes.  Your family and friends won’t miss the dairy or the meat.  Their forks will be full of satisfying course after course.  The bright flavors, representations of the cross, disciples, birds and bunnies, international dishes and traditional ham will touch every heart.  Happy Easter!

Ginger Lemonade

Babka (Poland, Easter Bread)

Fanesca (Ecuador, Easter Soup)

Veggie Easter Salad (cruciferous vegetables)

Pineapple Glazed Ham (contains gluten)

Carrot Cake

Chocolate Nests with Tiny Eggs (contains wheat)

Visit our Recipe Index for more fabulous Easter recipes.