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.

[Irulan]

I would ask them for a list of what they do eat, and some of their own recipes.

[TsPoet]

I would also ask if he is Celiac or Gluten Free.
My mom is celiac - any gluten and she is very very ill. You'd be amazed what has gluten in it. The biggest issue I had for Thanksgiving last year was gravy, rare to find any packaged anything without gluten in it - they use flour to keep machinery working smoothly in many places that process foods - for my mom that trace gluten used long long ago in the packaging process is enough. For example she can't have steel cut oats, because of flour used in other parts of the process. Even the good companies like Mcwhatever don't work because they farm out packaging and the packagers often use flour elsewhere in their plants.
I'm gluten free just 'cause it make me feel better, and I don't worry about things like that. So, it's 2 different things.

[moonfroggy]

if he likes pumpkin pie this recipe is super easy to make and really yummy
http://glutenfreeeasily.com/crustles...e-pumpkin-pie/

and if he does not or cannot eat eggs this recipe is equally easy but the ingredients are less easy to find
http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.co...worthy-of.html

[Flybye]

Thanks - he is coming next week and these ideas will help a great deal

[ny biker]

I could happily eat just corn, peas and potatoes and call it a meal. I'm not gluten-free, just weird. Just add butter, mmmmm.

[Roadtrip]

I actually found Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Flour as I have a friend who has allergies and I was "going" to attempt a cookie or bread with this flour. I just never got around to it and ended up buying some GF crackers and called it a day.

http://www.bobsredmill.com/gf-all_pu...ing-flour.html

Contains garbanzo flour, potato starch, tapioca flour, sorghum flour, and fava flour.

Recipe for cookies and Banana Bread using this GF flour on the site.

[Trek420]

I would ask them for a list of what they do eat, and some of their own recipes.

I would ask them to cook