TOSSED APPLE-SPINACH SALAD

1 pound fresh spinach

1 ½ cups cored diced apples

1 small red onion, thinly sliced

2 Tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp salad oil

¼ tsp seasoned salt

¼ tsp Worcestershire sauce

 1 tsp sugar

Remove stems and large ribs from spinach,; tear larger leaves. Wash and drain. Place in large covered saucepan and stem 1 to 2 minutes or just until slightly wilted. Use no additional water. Drain off any liquid from spinach. Place in salad bowl with diced unpared apples and onion rings. Combine remaining ingredients pour over salad and toss lightly. Yield: 6 servings

(no one was given the by-line for this recipe from © Southern Living 1968)

·        I don’t get the need to wilt the spinach. I’d do this with fresh raw leaves.

Gluten-free and Vegetarian/Vegan Recipes

To meet my needs of being “gluten-free”, there are no ingredients that have wheat in them. Since one out of one-hundred people now have problems with the way the United States processes their foods, there are plenty of brands which are marked GF Gluten-free. However, read all the way around the label and determine if there might be traces of wheat or if the product was processed in a plant or on machinery that also handles wheat. (These statements are usually NOT found near the list of ingredients.) If this is the case and you are gluten-sensitive or have a wheat-toxicity, don’t use it!

I also deleted recipes which called for hidden gluten – like shrimp, frozen mangoes and parsnips.

Vegetarian foods allow the use of milk, honey, eggs, and other non-kill animal products; vegans do not. I have endeavored to post only recipes with vegan-appropriate ingredients. If I really liked something, though, that was vegetarian rather than vegan, I will note it.

Whenever possible, use non-GMO products (non-genetically modified).  If you think gmo’s are ok for you, you haven’t read any science fiction books, let alone Charles Darwin.

These recipes are not an attempt to substitute wheat or animal ingredients with something else. These recipes are “naturally” or originally gluten-free and vegetarian/vegan.