Coeliac Christmas

aare

Opening up a thread for gluten free Christmas suggestions by pointing out that marzipan (even in chocolate) should be a totally gluten free Christmas treat...but, as with all processed food, check the packing.

Nowhere is it written that turkey must be stuffed with bread, cold boiled brown rice would actually be easy to substitute in most stuffing recipes.

In the mid east they sometimes do "stuffing" the other way around, to get flavoured rather than give flavour. After rinsing it to removes excess starch, fry the dry rice (to seal it - it makes a kind of DIY easycook rice) and then boil it...fill chicken or turkey with rice to cook it...then when it is cooked you have the most wonderful flavoured rice to eat.

After gaining a stone in water weight on two small christmas puds last year (I LOVE Christmas pud) I strongly suspect that Christmas pud made with almond flour would be worth dying for.

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Zwillinge

Hey! Was recently diagnosed by the extended family and I'm joining them all as a coeliac!

Got some nice Gluten Free Mince Pies in Dunnes (thankfully, I thought I was going to explode without having them!) They have Christmas pudding there under the Gluten Free section, but when reading the ingredients it says Wheat Flour, so be careful! :eek:

aare

Hi Zwillinge,

I hope this Christmas pudding did not ALSO say "€19.99" under "price" like the one I saw in Wrights of Howth at the airport.

I'll be checking those pies out tomorrow...I reckon at least 2 of every other kind of mince pie have been put under my nose in the past few days...

It was TORMENT.

cozmik

Village Bakery have some gluten free stuff.

http://www.village-bakery.com/index.php?dietary_states%5B%5D=Gluten+Wheat+and+Dairy+free&Search=Search+%3E%3E&Itemid=45&option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse

RxQueen

superquinn do nice gluten free christmas cake..

never heard of the rice thing OP must check that out

my mam does stuffing with the gluten free bread lots of herbs and gluten free sausages, tbh it taste exactly like normal stuffing we make.

aare

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my mam does stuffing with the gluten free bread lots of herbs and gluten free sausages, tbh it taste exactly like normal stuffing we make.

Of course...and because it is so heavy and granular it might actually be nicer...(some supervalu's carry gluten free white pudding too - IMHO it is to die for).

Currently in the throes of multiple sensitivities and unable to handle complex carbs at any price (quite apart from the fact that turkey can go a very long way, as in, to July:(, for one person), still trying to, if not lose weight, then not gain it (as I so easily can do with carbs), I decided to "rip it up and start again" with Christmas Dinner.

Housekeepers cut of beef, which I will roast with slices of courgettes and whole mushrooms. Single bulb garlic sliced on top of the joint and olive oil drizzled around the joint and veg...

Cheese with cranberries and apricots for pud.

Let's see how it turns out. Might add in a few frozen sprouts I suspect of having survived from last year too.

PS. My Christmas dinner was LUVVERLY and left me with that traditional "so full I could burst" feeling.

Zwillinge

Had the gluten free stuffing (oh yeah) and all the vegetables (I'm a vegetarian as well as a coeliac now, hehe)

I had trifle without really thinking, from far too much wine, I suffered that night. Didn't realise there was wheat in the custard stuff Felt sleepy by 9 while making a jigsaw with the OH and was conked out until 10 this morning, slept through the 9am alarm and everything.

Has anyone else felt this type of tiredness?

aare

Oh silly one...

The wheat is in the cake stuff in the JELLY of trifle. Had to walk past racks of 'em "reduced for quick sale" in Tesco, and I LOVE trifle...

Still, if glutening yourself is the worst you do on too much wine then you are WAY ahead.:rolleyes:

The sleepy might be this appalling flu. Especially if you have a sore, or dry throat?

Zwillinge

I didn't eat the jelly in the trifle. I've a weird thing about jelly lately. It's all wiggly and like a tongue in your mouth that you swallow. This could go down a very wrong road, so I'll stop :eek:
Maybe I should of said I just had custard and cream (it sounds so gluttony that way!)

I was looking at the back of a packet of custard and it wasn't gluten tolerant, but there could be different varieties?
I had a terrible flu like that already in the last month, after a slice of toast! Bold Bread!