Entertaining friends and family can be a challenge when you’re vegan and gluten-free. It can be even trickier when you’re not, but a family member or close friend is. So what do you do when you want to prepare a gluten-free and vegan holiday dinner for eight? Turn to Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays for help! Jennifer Katzinger, author of the popular Flying Apron’s Gluten-Free & Vegan Baking Book makes celebrating the holidays simple and stylish with seventy delicious, satisfying recipes for our most cherished holidays. Here you’ll find both sweet and savory gluten-free and vegan menus for Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts, for a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner for two, for springtime Easter and Passover celebrations, a 4th of July picnic, and many more. Whether you’re gluten-free and vegan or not, you’ll please the ones you love with these simple yet sophisticated and pleasing menus.
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Katzinger's expertise sets this book apart. As founder of the Flying Apron Bakery in Seattle and author of Flying Apron's Gluten-Free and Vegan Baking Book, Katzinger bucks the stereotype of gluten-free baking as boring and tasteless. Her recipes...would be welcome on anyone's holiday table, whether the host is vegan, gluten-free, or just hungry. Katzinger also includes tips on where to source specialty ingredients (just in case your local supermarket doesn't regularly stock teff), and organizes her recipes into complementary menus for each holiday that make planning out your meal a breeze.
VegNews
Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays: Celebrating the Year with Simple, Satisfying Recipes and Menus (2011) is Jennifer Katzinger's healthy homage to holiday eating. Katzinger is the former owner of The Flying Apron restaurant in Seattle. Her book features 70 simple, stylish and satisfying recipes for the holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Fourth of July, Easter and Passover. "Birthday Cakes" and "Holiday Cookies, Cakes and Breads" are wonderful chapters that can be used year round. Favorite recipes include a matzo ball soup and coconut dream cake. Beautiful color photographs make this cookbook a joy to flip through.
Edible San Diego
This book is sure to impress the vegan in your life, or be useful to impress one. [Witch's Pumpkin Brew Stew] demonstrated how truly good a vegan dish can be.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jennifer Katzinger’s Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays contains some excellent baking recipes for those on both a gluten-free and vegan diet.
Culinate
Turn to "Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays: Celebrating the Year with Simple, Satisfying Recipes and Menus" by Jennifer Katzinger for help! Here you'll find both sweet and savory, gluten-free and vegan menus for Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts. Whether you're gluten-free and vegan or not, you'll please the ones you love with these simple yet sophisticated and pleasing menus.
Daily Pilot
This book is more than recipes for the cold weather holidays; Katzinger's included recipes for all the biggies, including Halloween, Hanukkah, and St. Patty's. Who else desperately misses Irish soda bread? Actually I could say that about dozens of holiday foods -- who misses Challah bread? Shortbread, stuffed cabbage, etc.--and this book covers all of those, plus plenty more "man, I really miss that [holiday food]!" dishes.
SuperVegan
Not only does Jennifer create foods without using milk, eggs, soy, wheat, or animal-derived ingredients, but her recipes retain all of the charm of traditional holiday offerings without one all too common ingredient: guilt... This particular book has found its rightful place alongside my other treasured gluten-free cookbooks. Now, when I'm inspired to start making those naughty holiday desserts, there is somewhere to turn for sensible, digestible guidance. I highly recommend this book for anyone living gluten free lifestyle, or cooking for anyone who is not able to enjoy foods containing dairy, soy, wheat, or eggs.
TopCookbooks.com
VegNews
Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays: Celebrating the Year with Simple, Satisfying Recipes and Menus (2011) is Jennifer Katzinger's healthy homage to holiday eating. Katzinger is the former owner of The Flying Apron restaurant in Seattle. Her book features 70 simple, stylish and satisfying recipes for the holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Fourth of July, Easter and Passover. "Birthday Cakes" and "Holiday Cookies, Cakes and Breads" are wonderful chapters that can be used year round. Favorite recipes include a matzo ball soup and coconut dream cake. Beautiful color photographs make this cookbook a joy to flip through.
Edible San Diego
This book is sure to impress the vegan in your life, or be useful to impress one. [Witch's Pumpkin Brew Stew] demonstrated how truly good a vegan dish can be.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jennifer Katzinger’s Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays contains some excellent baking recipes for those on both a gluten-free and vegan diet.
Culinate
Turn to "Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays: Celebrating the Year with Simple, Satisfying Recipes and Menus" by Jennifer Katzinger for help! Here you'll find both sweet and savory, gluten-free and vegan menus for Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts. Whether you're gluten-free and vegan or not, you'll please the ones you love with these simple yet sophisticated and pleasing menus.
Daily Pilot
This book is more than recipes for the cold weather holidays; Katzinger's included recipes for all the biggies, including Halloween, Hanukkah, and St. Patty's. Who else desperately misses Irish soda bread? Actually I could say that about dozens of holiday foods -- who misses Challah bread? Shortbread, stuffed cabbage, etc.--and this book covers all of those, plus plenty more "man, I really miss that [holiday food]!" dishes.
SuperVegan
Not only does Jennifer create foods without using milk, eggs, soy, wheat, or animal-derived ingredients, but her recipes retain all of the charm of traditional holiday offerings without one all too common ingredient: guilt... This particular book has found its rightful place alongside my other treasured gluten-free cookbooks. Now, when I'm inspired to start making those naughty holiday desserts, there is somewhere to turn for sensible, digestible guidance. I highly recommend this book for anyone living gluten free lifestyle, or cooking for anyone who is not able to enjoy foods containing dairy, soy, wheat, or eggs.
TopCookbooks.com
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By indiana cook
Format:Paperback
I am an avid baker and cook, gluten free for 10 years, and vegan on-and-off for 15. I was so excited to see my library had this gf, vegan book with baking recipes, by the owner of a bakery nonetheless.
Good points:
I love that she avoids margarine. I use it only for pie crust, and finding icing recipes without it is so tough. And I appreciate the lower sugar content of the recipes (so many cookbooks say "low sugar" but mean "lots of maple syrup instead"). I also like the use of healthful flours. And she limits the use of gums. All of these are things I incorporate in to my own recipes.
Not so good: the three recipes I've tried have not worked out.
1. vanilla roll out cookies' dough was so goopy, it couldn't even suffice for drop cookies. I needed to add *cups* more flour.
2. Apple tart was okay, good for serving to my kids, but not high-quality enough for company. The crust was a little too healthful-tasting and crumbly (and rock-solid when cold).
3. Seedy baguette was certainly dense as promised, but in no way chewy. I liked the flavor, but even fresh out of the oven it was crumbly. Perhaps some other binder (gums, flax meal, tapioca) would have helped while not greatly destroying the nutritional value.
I'd still be willing to try her bakery's cookbook, since I think she has innovative ideas, and, well, hopefully her bakery's goods were tasty, but I'd pass on buying this one.
Good points:
I love that she avoids margarine. I use it only for pie crust, and finding icing recipes without it is so tough. And I appreciate the lower sugar content of the recipes (so many cookbooks say "low sugar" but mean "lots of maple syrup instead"). I also like the use of healthful flours. And she limits the use of gums. All of these are things I incorporate in to my own recipes.
Not so good: the three recipes I've tried have not worked out.
1. vanilla roll out cookies' dough was so goopy, it couldn't even suffice for drop cookies. I needed to add *cups* more flour.
2. Apple tart was okay, good for serving to my kids, but not high-quality enough for company. The crust was a little too healthful-tasting and crumbly (and rock-solid when cold).
3. Seedy baguette was certainly dense as promised, but in no way chewy. I liked the flavor, but even fresh out of the oven it was crumbly. Perhaps some other binder (gums, flax meal, tapioca) would have helped while not greatly destroying the nutritional value.
I'd still be willing to try her bakery's cookbook, since I think she has innovative ideas, and, well, hopefully her bakery's goods were tasty, but I'd pass on buying this one.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By O2Kuhl
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book contains recipes that are great for me:
1) no eggs
2) no gluten
3) alternate sugars
4) healthy oils
5) no soy
The author uses mostly buckwheat flour, which contrary to its name, has no wheat and no gluten in it. It is a dark grain. It has taken some getting used to, and now it doesn't bother my tastebuds (I suppose the mind deletes what tastes funny). I made the buckwheat shortbread with coconut oil and they were very crispy and not terribly sweet. I am nearly 50 and just went allergy free due to an asthma diagnosis - here's what happened medically:
I dropped 10 lbs of edema (lost my cankles) and my skin cleared up and the post nasal drip also stopped - asthma doctor reduced the Advair to the lowest dose a whole month sooner, and is contemplating maintaining me on Singulair (which has him puzzled). The High Sensitivity C Reactive Protein test dropped from 12 to 7. Still some follow up on that number because it *should* be lower than 3 (my cholesterol and triglycerides are awesome, as usual).
My head cleared and I can think far more clearly and have far more energy. I am grateful that while making this change in my life now that there are so many tools like this book and all the wonderful grocers who carry the ingredients. This would have been so much harder even 10 years ago. I made this commitment and have seen so much - however, I am comforted by the work of those who have gone before me to make this easier for me now. Thank you to all who brought these tools to the rest of us!
1) no eggs
2) no gluten
3) alternate sugars
4) healthy oils
5) no soy
The author uses mostly buckwheat flour, which contrary to its name, has no wheat and no gluten in it. It is a dark grain. It has taken some getting used to, and now it doesn't bother my tastebuds (I suppose the mind deletes what tastes funny). I made the buckwheat shortbread with coconut oil and they were very crispy and not terribly sweet. I am nearly 50 and just went allergy free due to an asthma diagnosis - here's what happened medically:
I dropped 10 lbs of edema (lost my cankles) and my skin cleared up and the post nasal drip also stopped - asthma doctor reduced the Advair to the lowest dose a whole month sooner, and is contemplating maintaining me on Singulair (which has him puzzled). The High Sensitivity C Reactive Protein test dropped from 12 to 7. Still some follow up on that number because it *should* be lower than 3 (my cholesterol and triglycerides are awesome, as usual).
My head cleared and I can think far more clearly and have far more energy. I am grateful that while making this change in my life now that there are so many tools like this book and all the wonderful grocers who carry the ingredients. This would have been so much harder even 10 years ago. I made this commitment and have seen so much - however, I am comforted by the work of those who have gone before me to make this easier for me now. Thank you to all who brought these tools to the rest of us!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By KT
Format:Paperback
As a vegan who has recently learned I am also Celiac, my mind shifted ahead to the holidays and how much more difficult this would be this year. I was really excited to find this book! I love that the recipes use seasonal ingredients for each holiday and they are easy to find at the local health food store. There is a great section on holiday baking and the pictures are fantastic! I enjoy that these recipes are simple and most don't require a lot of time or massive amounts of prep. There are a lot of recipes in here that I will start to incorporate to my everyday meals! My favorites so far have been the Pumpkin Stew and the Polenta cookies! I am very thankful to have found this book and I highly recommend it!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By L. R. Miller
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The author's first cookbook was wonderful, and this one is equally amazing! I have been longing for a vegan recipe book that pairs dishes for special occasions! Our family made the entire Thanksgiving menu and (now don't be shocked) we made a turkey on the side for those meat lovers at our table. It was a hit! We are planning to make the Christmas menu as well, and I know we won't be disappointed as the track record is of star quality = D !
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By shelfishness
Format:Paperback
Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays is a wonderful cookbook with a delicious assortment of recipes ideal for all holidays ranging from Christmas to Birthdays and Halloween to Passover. This cookbook is ideal for vegans, vegetarians and omnivores who must face the challenges of a gluten-free diet. With entrees like Porcini Mushroom Risotto, side dishes like Stuffed Tomatoes with Basil, and desserts like Brown Sugar Cake with Blackberry "Buttercream" Frosting, these are recipes which will likely be incorporated into your daily repertoire - they are simply too good to save just for the holidays.
Each of these recipes has a little bit of a story which Jennifer Katzinger shares, and many of the recipes include no more than three steps. They are easy to prepare and delicious to eat. The biggest challenge may be finding xanthan gum or specific flours, but these are relatively easy to find with the increased awareness of gluten-free diets. This cookbook is amazing - between the delicious recipes and the appealing photos, it is hard to put this book down. While it doesn't have a large quantity of recipes (there are about sixty unique recipes), they are all approachable and ideal for a gluten-free vegan (or anyone that loves food).
Each of these recipes has a little bit of a story which Jennifer Katzinger shares, and many of the recipes include no more than three steps. They are easy to prepare and delicious to eat. The biggest challenge may be finding xanthan gum or specific flours, but these are relatively easy to find with the increased awareness of gluten-free diets. This cookbook is amazing - between the delicious recipes and the appealing photos, it is hard to put this book down. While it doesn't have a large quantity of recipes (there are about sixty unique recipes), they are all approachable and ideal for a gluten-free vegan (or anyone that loves food).
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Most recipes turn out FANTASTIC!
I have made 10 recipes from this book. Some have become family favorites and only 2 didn't quite turn out. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Sean Frederick
5.0 out of 5 stars
JK - you ROCK!
The recipes are easy to follow and come with well illustrated directions. The focus is mainly on carb intensive dishes that would traditionally be made with flours. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Grrly1
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Yummy!
I made a ginger cake with yummy frosting for Christmas Eve. It was moist, loaded with flavor and beautiful on a cake stand. Read more
Published 4 months ago by amy wright
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great food
As a newly minted vegan, I was in search of a recipe book that was easy to follow and produced tasty meals...I found that in this book. A great buy.
Published 5 months ago by Angie
3.0 out of 5 stars
Gluten free recipes need serious work....
So far I have made three things from this cookbook: twice baked sweet potatoes - very good, made them for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Sabrina K
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well worth the effort required!
I've had this book for a little over a year now and feel like I've cooked from it enough to give it a review. Overall, I'm really impressed with the book and the recipes. Read more
Published 6 months ago by BK
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Cookbook - one of the best!
It's really hard being gluten free and vegan, especially when you want some good comfort food. I have made most of the recipes in this book and they have all been fantastic and... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Loren Alexanian
5.0 out of 5 stars
Delicious treats make this book my new holiday baking bible
Fantastic book! I got this just in time for Thanksgiving. I had an entire menu at my disposal, which helped make my cooking tasks much easier to plan for and execute. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Devra Densmore
5.0 out of 5 stars
impressed with creativity, flavors and presentation
I pull this book out on more than just a few occasions a year. I went gluten free and so did a few of my friends. Read more
Published 10 months ago by V. Segall
5.0 out of 5 stars
Three Cheers!
In her book "Gluten Free and Vegan Holidays" Jennifer Katzinger outdoes herself. She must be a superb chef. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Valerie B. Lull
