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Going back to my original question, I took Julia Child's advice and served a couple of beautifully roast chickens. Salad, steamed asparagus and roasted potatoes rounded out the meal. The gno dairy gluten lady offered to bring desert and I gladly accepted. It tasted awful. Dry as dirt.
Well, it's finally happened. Somebody answered my question about food preferences and allergies with a problematic result.
Gluten and cow dairy free. She's already offered to bring desert, which I quickly and gratefully accepted.
I'm not that familiar with gluten free. Cow dairy means no milk, cream, yogurt or cheese, I guess?
So I'm not making lasagne, huh? Am I really limited to plain meat, plain vegies and roasted/baked potatoes? PS - there will be 8 people at this little dinner party!
Omg. There are like a thousand things you can make.
And remember, you can have bread/dairy as a side for the other guests. Like cheese for the baked potato. Serve with steak and spinach and garlic bread. Make a nice tossed salad.
How about beef borguignon? Roast a chicken. Skewers? Salmon?
Yesterday, I had no dairy (not on purpose)...I had grass-fed ribeye steak thinly sliced and cooked with veggies in teriyaki sauce served over brown rice. I had lentils for lunch. My kids eat meat with steamed veggies practically every meal, btw, so it's not torture or weird.
If you insist on pasta, gluten-free noodles abound.
Going back to my original question, I took Julia Child's advice and served a couple of beautifully roast chickens. Salad, steamed asparagus and roasted potatoes rounded out the meal. The gno dairy gluten lady offered to bring desert and I gladly accepted. It tasted awful. Dry as dirt.
I agree. But there is a difference between having celiac disease and being gluten intolerant. The latter has been overused by consumers (often thinking it's a way to lose weight), over diagnosed by physicians (who give up trying to figure out why the patient keeps co,playing of feeling bloated), and overplayed by restaurants in an attempt to get business from all those people who suddenly develop a gluten problem
Celiac is a SERIOUS disease. Gluten intolerance CAN be very uncomfortable. But the real, properly diagnosed cases are few and far between.
My husband is one of these. Went diagnosed for many years. It wasn't as common back then. (2007)
And he had weird symptoms. Finally ended up in the hospital severely anemic, because he wasn't absorbing any iron. Also border-line osteoporosis, didn't absorb calcium either. NOR the synthroid medication that was keeping him alive.
My niece is allergic to all things in the onion family. It's very difficult for her to eat in restaurants, because there are onions, garlic, shallots, etc., in EVERYTHING. She can't ever get pasta, because no one makes sauce without garlic and onions.
Your poor daughter. This allergy would really get to me, since everything I make has onions and/or garlic in it. it'd be like when I was a kid and my doctor wanted me to get rid of our cats because I was so allergic. I refused and was just miserable until I went off to college.
Only 1% of the U.S. population has Celiac disease.
I don't know who has celiac and who doesn't, but the fad to eat gluten-free has been great for me. I used to have to cook everything from scratch and now there is all sorts of gluten-free prepared food to buy and restaurants are offering gluten-free options.
Unfortunately, most of the gluten-free items aren't any good, so I still have to cook from scratch, but I've found a few gluten-free items that are delicious and I can buy those for occasional convenience.
The gluten-free fad has to be great for the people who are allergic to wheat. Anything labeled "gluten-free" is wheat free and it used to be impossible to buy wheat-free prepared foods. Now there is good selection available.
Be prepared to redirect the conversation if it devolves to leaky bowel syndrome.
Hysterical.
I have seen this happen !!
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