Gluten Free Vegan Living

In keeping with our cool summer salads, I thought I would share my Sunshine Salad recipe.  Most of my recipes come together by accident. …. “Let’s see, what do I have in the fridge ….”

Sunshine Salad is a revision of a jello salad my Aunt made us when I was a kid.  I don’t eat jello anymore, but the ingredients mixed together just in the right amount make a nice, slightly sweet, summer salad.

Sunshine Salad

1 – 20 oz can crush pineapple
1 to 1 ½ cups of finely chopped carrots
1/3 cup raisins
1/3 cup coconut
1/3 cup pumpkin seeds

Mix all the ingredients together — including the pineapple juice.

If you let it sit in the refrigerator for a few hours before serving, the flavors blend.

Quick, easy, and good!!

I have taken this dish to potlucks and gotten very good reviews.

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The heat of the summer is here and who wants to stand in a hot kitchen cooking a meal?  Not me!!  So, to make your hot days a little more pleasant, I have accumulated a list of unique Summer Salads — great as a side dish or sever as a whole meal!!

• Watermelon and Berry Salad — watermelon, blueberries, strawberries, and baby mixed greens

• Brown Rice Salad with Apples, Walnuts and Cherries — rice, peas, apples, cherries and walnuts
• Gluten-Free Vegan Potato Salad — potatoes, onions, peppers and garlic
• Mediterranean Salad — garbanzo beans, cucumber, grape tomato and onion
• Pomegranate Kale Salad — pomegranates, kale, almonds, sunflower seeds and granny smith apples
•  Fresh Garden Medley — squash, cauliflower, broccoli, green beans and carrots
• Apple, Cranberry Almond Quinoa Salad — quinoa, onion,  garlic,  carrot,  apple, almonds and cranberries
• Pasta-less Salad Italian Style — zucchini, cherry tomatoes, olives, banana peppers and cucumbers
• Sweet and Tangy Beat Salad — beets (with tops), scallions, sesame, hemp or chia seeds

And don’t forget the salad recipes already posted on this site.  Enjoy!!