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So I went to the Crafty Bastards fair yesterday (report here), and thus was at Union Market. Tasty, tasty Union market...
I have all sorts of ideas for Thanksgiving dinner, and it will be glorious!
This year, ellen_fremedom and I are co-hosting, with a roast, a chicken, a variety of soft drinks and starchy foods to be indulged in.
What we need now is a head count...
Right now it looks like it will probably be a gluten-free Thankgiving, but that's not a worry -- Thanksgiving is all about alternative starches! Sweet potato pie, pumpkin soup, and corn fritters for everybody!
I have all sorts of ideas for Thanksgiving dinner, and it will be glorious!
This year, ellen_fremedom and I are co-hosting, with a roast, a chicken, a variety of soft drinks and starchy foods to be indulged in.
What we need now is a head count...
Poll #12064 Thanksgiving dinner
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9
Thankgiving dinner, Nov 22, 2012
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I am coming; what should I bring?
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I am coming, but I am allergic/on dietary restrictions which I will detail in comments
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I'm out of town, but have a good time!
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I'm out of town/country, but please post the recipes
1 (11.1%)
something else, in comments
0 (0.0%)
Right now it looks like it will probably be a gluten-free Thankgiving, but that's not a worry -- Thanksgiving is all about alternative starches! Sweet potato pie, pumpkin soup, and corn fritters for everybody!
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(Note to self: make vegetable stock.)
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I don't know if I'll have any of the chestnut ice cream though, because I barely refrained from licking the freezing canister tonight, it was so good!
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- gluten (wheat, rye, barley). Sadly there is no wiggle room on this for me anymore. ;____;
- onions (I can't ingest them, but they can still be used for cooking if they're in large pieces that I can avoid and if they've been cut up an hour or two before I arrive as the fumes will give me a terrible headache. I know this one is rough, and I am happy to avoid pieces or dishes where the onion is necessary!)
- MSG, caffeine, and chocolate are all migraine triggers for me so sadly I must avoid them like the plague.
Those are the actual allergies; I also loathe cilantro, pumpkin, and just about anything bitter (kale, grapefruit, cabbage).
All that said (ugh--I miss the days when I was only allergic to onions SO MUCH), none of my reactions are anaphylactic, so any of these ingredients can be used, I just can't ingest them. Otherwise I'd basically never be able to leave my house again. /o\
Also, I would like to bring something that's not too hard to transport, as I think each of your new places are a bus + fair walk. I'm still dreaming of E's pavlova; I'd offer to make that but I'm not sure my oven wouldn't just incinerate it (it has two settings, off and FIRE). The only other idea I have is green bean casserole (gluten-free cream of mushroom soup exists!), which I would top with toasted almonds instead of fried onions. Any other suggestions would be welcome, dessert or otherwise!
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Is it just onions, or all aliums (shallots, leeks, garlic, etc)?
I was going to go a fancy crepe thing for the centerpiece dessert, but I will find something else. Do you have a GF bakery you suggest?
I have a couple of salad ideas that would require NO ability to use fire, if you'd like. One uses savoy cabbage, which I have found to be pretty tasty raw, but your sensitivity to brassicacae might be higher than mine.
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Though, making a stuffing that
Hmm. How do people feel about corn pudding instead of stuffing? I like corn pudding.
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I forgot that when giving the allergy rundown for actual foodies I get to be *specific*. Awesome. Yes, I'm allergic to the entire alium family, but to a lesser degree than onions. The theory is that I'm allergic to the sulfur in aliums rather than the plants themselves, and onions soak up more sulfur from the soil than their relatives. I avoid all of them, but onions cause the worst reaction (in this order: red onion, white, yellow, green), and the closer any of them are to raw the worse it is. I can tolerate onion and garlic powder, and pieces can be used in food so long as I don't ingest them. This means that stock made with onions is fine but anything with pureed onions is not.
My sensitivity to brassicacae is high, sadly--I am at the high end of the scale even for a supertaster (it is a crappy superpower). I'd be happy to see your salad ideas, but I do basically loathe all cabbage. Just not anywhere near as much as I hate brussel sprouts.
All this said, it is not at all necessary that I be able to eat everything anyone makes/brings--just some things! And I will bring at least one thing that is safe for me as well as tasty for everyone else. Oh, and I have a really nice toaster/convection oven that I use instead of the full-size stove since my roommate has been refusing to get it repaired. I can fit a full-size frozen pizza in it but nothing very tall, so sometimes its size limits my options.
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Also, I really like corn pudding! I could even potentially make it? I have a recipe that, iirc, is about 1/3rd butter.
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AWESOME. I vote for corn pudding instead of stuffing, in that case. Do you want to make it?
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I bought a copy of Blackbird Bakery Gluten-Free cookbook last week, because there has been some talk about putting my nephew on a GF diet. The recipes certainly look good, but the author generally puts three kinds of flour in every recipe, with only some overlap, so I'm going to have really plan things out.
The really sad thing is that Blackbird has an entire section on 'Dinner Party Showstoppers', but given the restriction on vegetarian and no chocolate, and the dislikes of bananas (ellen) and alcohol (me), there's almost no recipe in that section that would work. The pistachio bavarian cream charlotte might do, but it requires serious cakery skills like piping.
Okay, that's going to require some thinking re: onions. Does caramelizing help at all? I knew someone who was allergic who could tolerate onions if they'd been cooked for hours...
Hmm, I might leave the salad up to ellen, then. She's better at dark greens than I am.
Other, we'll have plenty of homemade ginger ale because I misread the amount of ginger, and wound up making a quadruple batch...
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Shame about the cookbook! GF is complicated, for sure, not to mention other restrictions we all have. Pistachio charlotte sounds awesome, but it also sounds complicated!
Re: onions, yes, carmelizing does help but I pretty much won't consume any onions I can detect. The further from raw they are the less sick I get, but I am likely to have some level of reaction from any onion flesh besides powder. But so long as I can avoid the actual onion parts, it's fine to use onion in things. I don't avoid, for example, soups with minor onion because it was probably cooked so long that my reaction would be minor--but I still try to avoid consuming any pieces.
Homemade ginger ale! My best friend from middle school makes it and I tried some when I was home in September. It was awesome! I've been thinking of making soda at home myself, but I don't know where to get bottles from...and space in my apartment is hard to come by at present. But I am sure we can help you with all that ginger ale!
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Or you could come over early and make corn pudding in my kitchen, or sous-chef for me while I make it. That might actually be the easiest thing.
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