Potluck Dinner Club: Red Foods (bonus Vegan Strawberry Swirl Ice Cream Recipe)

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Here’s another potluck for the books. Last month’s theme was red foods, one of the largest spectrum’s of color in the food world (and we included anything on the spectrum). It was partially in celebration of Valentine’s Day. It’s obviously a holiday forever connected to hearts, pinks, and reds which made decorating easy! We pulled out some pink and red stripped straws, red cups, strawberry themed plates, Valentine’s Day food markers of owls and hearts to label things gluten free, and pink and white checkered serving platters.

Food wise the possibilities were endless for this theme, there are just a multitude of delicious red foods! Strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, cherries, jellos, red velvet cakes, salmon; so many options! With eating anticipation high, this is what we had:

red food 2Main ‘Course’:
Sundried tomato hummus with red peppers and pita (non gluten free)
Beet salad (Modified to be vegan with vegan mayo)
Blood orange and fennel salad with olive oil and olives
Pepper salmon in a soy sauce and mayo marinade
Zucchini pizza bites
Buffalo cauliflower bites

Beverages:
Red wine

Acai berry ice tea
Cranraspberry Juice
Berry compote

red foods 4Desserts:
Red Delicious Apples
Chocolate covered strawberries
Vegan strawberry swirl ice cream
Cherry cheese cake
Red jello
Red fruit roll ups
Talenti roman raspberry sorbetto
Berry Salad
Strawberry syrup to top things off with

With the exception of the pita EVERYTHING was gluten free. The hit recipe of the evening was the vegan strawberry swirl ice cream. There wasn’t a person there vegan, gluten free, or otherwise who didn’t think it was fabulous. For a strawberry overload several of us had the ice cream with the the chocolate covered strawberries and berry salad. Amazing! Here’s the recipe.

35 thoughts on “Potluck Dinner Club: Red Foods (bonus Vegan Strawberry Swirl Ice Cream Recipe)”

  2. OK, I am just drooling over here.This looks delicious and I love the fact that is gluten free; I had so many skin issues because of it. I wish I had few spoons of this yummy strawberry swirl ice cream right now 🙂

    1. The hummus was great, my friend used peanut butter with sesame oil because she was out of tahini!

  4. Hmmm , thanks for sharing this , it looks and sounds delicious . Fabulous site all together , bookmarked for more inspiring receipes !

  5. I really need to get my mom on the internet. She is from Donegal (Lives in NJ now) and it took them 15 years to find out she had Celiac. She also LOVES strawberries. So I am going to print this and send it to her. 🙂 Subscribed.

    1. That’s great she is finally diagnosed, so many aren’t lucky to get a diagnosis. Hope she enjoys the ice cream, let me know what she thinks!

  8. That all must have been so delicious! I need to bookmark your blog since you are a fellow celiac. It’s so amazing to find others blogging about it. 🙂

  12. It all looks so delicious , I have never tried making my own ice cream before. I think I might give his ago when the weather warms up a bit!

    1. I was always hesitant of the process but got the ice cream maker as a wedding gift three years ago, it’s so simple!!

    1. It is so delicious, especially using Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo sauce. There are a few recipes out there for it including in Thug Kitchen.

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