The Gluten Free Guest

[OakLeaf]

It's really easy with a holiday meal when you're making everything from scratch anyhow! Desserts are hardest, but you could do a crustless pumpkin custard, or an apple crisp thickened with tapioca and a corn and/or rice streusel.

I would think that you could do any press-in tart crust with rice or corn flour. It's only when you break out the rolling pin or the yeast, that you really miss wheat flour.

Didn't Martha Rose Shulman just do some quinoa fruit crisps in her column in the NYT? I honestly am not a huge fan of quinoa, but I've never had it in anything resembling a fruit crisp - it's actually the sweetness that I don't much care for in savory dishes, so it might make a terrific dessert.

If you're having turkey, make your stuffing with Southern cornbread, rice, or chestnuts. (Chestnuts are my favorite, but they are a PITA to shell.)

Then with your turkey soup, if you usually make it with noodles, use rice instead.