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Glorified Rice is a vintage Upper Midwestern dessert salad that's perfect for holidays and potlucks! This old-fashioned recipe is made vegan and gluten-free with white rice, coconut whipped cream, crushed pineapple, mini marshmallows, and maraschino cherries! This allergy-friendly version is quick and easy to make, with just 5 ingredients, and 5 minutes of prep!

It’s that moment in the middle of the summer

When the coolers have to be stocked up, paper

Plates and aluminum trays need to be bought,

And you need to come up with an outfit more patriotic

Than Captain America’s suit. Time for cookouts with

Playlists dipped in nostalgia and giving birth to unforgettable

Moments on the dance floor or patches of grass that’s trying

Not to get ripped apart by your frantic feet. However the grill  

Master is the DJ of the evening with them needing to make sure

Every hot dog and hamburger is cooked just right like they're  

Playing a mobile game, but a burnt dog here will lead to a ruined  

Night for someone or even worse, spark for family drama with it  

Taking more than an upbeat song to turn it around. Reconnection  

And reunions are sprinkled out through the partying with stories of  

The past, finding audiences and wonderment on the fates of family  

And friends finally being revealed, yet the day can’t be over until we  

See fireworks in the night sky illuminating the faces of people who

Are well fed and relaxed with worries taking a temporary vacation  

Even if it’s only until tomorrow morning, but while we might all see  

The red, white, blue in as many different views as the states that make

The stars, we should be grateful for the many freedoms that we have  

In this country, but also use this holiday to remind us that the list is far

From complete and we must continue to fight for it to expand like a choir