By Alisa Fleming - Yesterday we featured the dairy-free chocolate Easter bunny round up, including eight different brands in all shapes and sizes … all amazingly vegan (egg-free, dairy-free) and gluten-free (GFCF).  Yet even with this impressive array we seem to have overlooked two more fabulous bunny making chocolatiers.  While you may think that all chocolate bunnies are created equal, perhaps you haven’t yet seen a dairy-free white chocolate bunny …  or what about a vegan "milk" chocolate bunny?  Curious?  Read on ...

By Alisa Fleming - Just a few years ago I was sure that chocolate bunnies would never again enter my food radar.  Those symbolic Easter treats found in local stores have always been of the milk chocolate variety, and far from dairy-free. But … little did I know that seasonal sweets for vegans, GFCF, lactose intolerance, and even multiple food allergies were waiting just over the horizon.  It is true; and we are not talking about one single bunny variety here … I discovered eight, yes EIGHT chocolatiers who have each developed their own dairy-free bunnies (of various shapes, sizes and cuteness) and Easter / Passover chocolates for our nibbling pleasure …

Congratulations to Tisa Agloro and Craig Sawyer!  These two subscribers to the free Go Dairy Free e-newsletter correctly answered this month's question, and will each be awarded a $50 e-gift certificate from Namaste Foods via the newsletter's monthly giveaway.  Namaste Foods produces a wide selection of deliciuos baking and pasta mixes in a dedicated facility free from gluten, dairy, tree nuts, peanuts, soy, corn, and potato; and their new cookbook offers up over 60 recipes for using their products.  The Go Dairy Free March 2008 newsletter is now viewable online.  For the opportunity to win future prize giveaways, simply sign up for the free Go Dairy Free e-newsletter with your name and valid email. Emails are held confidential, and just one informational newsletter is sent out per month.

Compiling recipe after recipe, GoDairyFree.org has just hit 750 dairy-free recipes to become one of the largest special diet resources of its kind.  Catering to numerous special diets, nearly 400 of the recipes are also gluten-free (GFCF), and close to 500 of the recipes are vegan (dairy, egg, honey, and meat-free).  In addition, a special feature enabling comments was recently activated allowing readers to recommend substitutions, note their results for others, and ask questions about the recipes.  The recipe section of GoDairyFree.org is a collection made possible by various contributors ...

... Levana Cooks Dairy-Free! is all about good food ...  Levana cuts to the chase, heading straight into the recipes on page one.  Tips, notes, and substitutions are generously and strategically placed within the cookbook to offer ideas and assistance while actually creating each recipe ...  As I slowly worked my way through, earmarking numerous recipes to trial, I felt as though Levana was personally inviting me to think like a chef, pairing shitakes and portobellos with thyme and tarragon in a rich mushroom sauce and laying the apples just so to create an easily elegant apple tart.  Yet, she still recognized my cravings for comfort food with simplistic recipes for homemade crepes, chocolate chip cookies, roasted tomato soup, and really, what would a dairy-free cookbook be without lasagna? ... Read Full Review